Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Martin

Our mission is to provide every last opportunity for a person to turn his or her life around. We don't give up easily. These men exemplify the true spirit of Christmas - looking inside yourself and finding hope.

Tim Smith

(Spring break) is getting to be another Christmas.

John Heavener

Some of the upscale retailers and those who sold electronics were way up - some 30 percent. Some of the traditional department stores and low-end department stores may not have even made 5 percent. The week before Christmas may have made the difference for us (in Georgia).

Caroline Sunshine

Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.

Britt Beemer

Overall, the moderate-priced stores such as J.C. Penney, Sears and Wal-Mart had good traffic levels. We think luxury sales were probably flat this past weekend because more people said they decided to go away on vacation before Christmas this year than last year. So this could have impacted spending on other high-end items.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Ed Perkins

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Kurt Barnard

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

Tatsushi Shikano

Reflecting solid consumer spending, the real estate and retail sectors are likely to lead the improvement in the overall non-manufacturing sector.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

Howard Archer

Relatively subdued consumer spending, intense domestic and international competition, and high input costs continue to dampen ... the sector.

Britt Beemer

Our research on holiday gift returns shows that it's only three percent of Americans who are real jerks and they indulge in consumer fraud and return abuse. The rest of us have to deal with the consequences.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Stephen Baker

Part of the problem Sony has had in the past couple of years is that as the consumer electronics market has changed, ... A lot of it has been about lower prices and distribution and neither have been Sony's strong points.

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

O. Henry

Our mission has been to enable the service providers and network operators to deploy uninterrupted video throughout the home without interfering with other consumer devices and networking environments already in place.

Greg Romano

Our goal is to serve God, and it's harder to do that when you're in debt.

Jeff Green

Our goal is to keep our debt level from rising. But as revenue rises, the debt will be less of a burden.

Howard Dean

Rising interest rates, rising debt and fewer good-paying jobs are making it harder for America's families to make ends meet, ... The president should use his Texas vacation to spend time overhauling his economic policies, not staging photo-ops.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Remember this: debt is a form of bondage. It is a financial termite.

John Tysoe

I think the worry for investors is that they can't see an end to this process. They see that the level of debt has risen and risen yet BT seems not to be doing anything about it.

Alan Greenspan

Large deficits will result in rising interest rates and an ever-growing ratio of debt service to GDP (gross domestic product),

Bill Vaughan

In the midst of life we are in debt.

Ellen Miller

I'm so glad I'm not paying off loans to the bank, ... If you get into debt, you can get creamed real fast.

Sam Brownback

Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.

Tariq Altaf

Our position is quite clear...our response will be in keeping with the threats we are facing and with our national security interests.

Yasser Arafat

Peace is a one-way road, ... Let us together remove the obstacles facing us.

Johann Lamont

Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

Bob DuPuy

Overall the first round-robin was a success. The winners of Pool B will have their hands full next week facing rested Korea and Japan teams.

Zach Duke

Just facing Maddux. That's greatness, ... Any time I'm on the same field with greatness, that's something I'll always remember.

Prince Ranariddh

I think that to see Pol Pot facing a trial does not please Hun Sen very much.

Howard Davidowitz

I think the advertisers are going to go away. She's tarnished. And in looking to the future will she plead guilty? If you're an advertiser, you're facing a woman who may go on trial.

Peter Ward

It doesn't surprise me -- gold is facing some big problems.

Kevin McDonald

I stunk as a player, ... Facing those guys, I knew what a pro player looked like, and I knew I wasn't going to be one.

George Shiffler

PC vendors have succeeded in increasing the unit share of higher-margin mobile PCs. But this has resulted in a significant sacrifice of desk-based revenue as vendors struggle to maintain the value proposition of desktops at the low end of the market.

Wilferd Peterson

Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.

Terry Chapin

I think that (packed byline) is an increasing trend when you get real large-scale issues like this. No one person knows how to put it all together.

Larry Beets

He's been effective, and his speed is increasing because he's getting used to the rotation.

Brian Hill

He needs to work on increasing his strength and stamina. He needs to do more (lifting weights) to become more of a presence in the low post.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

Chris Burns

She had been suffering increasing amounts of pain.

Steve Frank

Minnesotans don't know him. And so he will have a problem in terms of increasing his name recognition and visibility.

Gail Kelly

I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

Michael Hirst

People offer me loads of stuff, and some of it I like, but I just can't do it because I can't write it all. So I might get in the position where I have some sort of company and just write maybe the first episode, but these are love projects, in a way.

Russell Jones

Linemen come in and get their trucks loaded up and away they go.

Carol Bruce

I think people need to put in a driveway, load it up and get it out of there.

Andrae Crouch

I write just knowing that I enjoy writing. But if I have to write, it seems like nothing comes. But when I go there for my own pleasure, the Lord might just give me loads of stuff all at once.

Andrew Buchan

I'm not a booky actor, I don't go away and do loads of reading up on a part, generally. I'm more interested in what the people we're portraying do physically, and looking at their sentence construction.

Brian Stewart

It can load any standard truck on the roads today with any standard ramp.

Alison Goldfrapp

I was clear that I wanted to do music and I wanted to write songs. But I wasn't clear about how I was going to make that happen. I wrote loads of songs but didn't want to show them to anyone.

Mike Fratello

I don't think it's any secret that we're a different team when we make shots. We have to make shots on the perimeter when they load up on Pau down low.

John White

From there, we load it into our security reference system.

C. S. Lewis

I came alive when I started loving you.

Jason Richardson

I was always getting the short end of the stick.

Bret Michaels

I will deliver, rain, snow, anything short of a tornado,

Tom Parker

I don't have a worry he'll be short of words.

Princess Anne

I didn't like netball... I used to get wolf whistles because of my short skirts.

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Justin Young

The only thing that's different is that now I'm the short guy,

Sam Cassell

I don't think he tipped it. I just shot it short. I shot it short over a 7-foot guy.

Thomas Evans

He's done great. He's come a long ways in a short time.