Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Al Rosen

The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.

Maxim Medvedkov

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

The plus reading will definitely pave the way for an end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy monetary policy and the market has not factored this in yet.

Don Horner

We are proud to be the only bank servicing the Sand Island community and are pleased to provide an expanded facility to all of the customers in the area.

Ken Salazar

There are two strong factors happening right now, ... Supply and demand are those factors. We have to really deal with the demand side of the issue, and I strongly encourage Americans to conserve more by driving less.

Gerard Houllier

We deserved to win this match. Even though Real Madrid had a lot of possession in the second half, we were able to conserve the score. It's a good start for us and for the fans.

Bob Taft

I encourage all Ohioans to conserve motor fuel use whenever possible until the state's supplies are fully restored,

Kim Brown

I always conserve energy. My husband likes to leave things on, but I go around and shut everything off, the lights we don't use in every room anyway.

Rick DeLisi

To continue to conserve on operating expenses, we are reducing the overall number of flights as well as service to these four markets.

Paul Jepson

Hopefully this highlights the need and desire to conserve whale species in general.

Catherine Rossi

If we each try to conserve gas, collectively we can reduce the demand for gas.

Steve McCormick

This really represents conservation in the 21st century. To conserve globally important natural habitat worldwide on a scale that will be meaningful, we have to contemplate human use." ()

Gloria Arroyo

While we conserve energy and seek cheaper, more stable sources of oil, we must at the same time nurse our foreign exchange reserves by increasing inflows and curbing dollar expenditures,

Robert Gleitz

We are seeing an incredible growth in demand for wind turbines as more countries seek to expand their renewable energy production to help reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and improve their energy security.

Jeremy Hobbs

We are potentially in the final throes of this round of talks at the World Trade Organization, which was meant to help poor countries but has gone way off track. What is needed from Europe now is not self-interest and intransigence but genuine concessions that will put trade at the service of development.

Robert Smith

There are countries where the organizers don't know what they're doing or what's going on - but I wouldn't name Italy and Spain!

Chris Rudge

There are countries that want only gold. We may move to that at some point.

Dick Marty

There are countries that have collaborated actively, and there are others who have tolerated. Others have simply looked the other way.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are countries like Paraguay and others, their neighboring countries, they're all interested in being able to grow and function in a manner that's free of external influence and to do things in ways that fit their history and their circumstance,

Paul Nelson

There are countries I've never heard of that have like 20 people playing,

Yang Jiechi

We stand ready to hold exchanges with other countries on the question of the exchange rate.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When we got back to the U.S., I wanted to kiss the ground after seeing what people in other countries are denied or don't have.

Ian Shepherdson

There are currently more than a million displaced people, and I don't expect many of them to be back at work by the time of the September payroll survey.

Wang Li

There are currently many problems at the policy level, the technical level and the administrative level.

Ed Churchwell

We're incredibly excited about this. No one, on my team at least, and no astronomers that I know, could ever in their wildest dreams have expected to find a single region like this with so many stars currently in the process of being built.

Ross Norman

Were it not for that we might have expected gold to be $10 or even $15 higher than it currently is.

Thomas Woods

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Robbie Freeman

Most vessels of this size currently must leave our state for service.

Rick Ross

We're having a little trouble with him currently doing a closing. We're having a little difficulty with Wilfred.

Tawnya Gurney

We're always trying to find something to go with the personalities we currently have here.

Christopher Knight

It may part of a one way evolution... or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.

Alan Greenspan

While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.

David Puttnam

What is certain is that plurality and diversity are not, and never can be, a natural 'byproduct' of unregulated market forces.

Cary Fowler

At the Global Crop Diversity Trust, we work to conserve the diversity that will allow the adaptation and evolution of our agricultural crops in the context of climate change and other challenges.

Cary Fowler

Perhaps it matters little whether the international community chooses to celebrate crop diversity, but it profoundly matters that the international community takes action to conserve it.

Cary Fowler

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species.

Carter G. Woodson

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

Bill Kurtis

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.

Earl Warren

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

David Twohy

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Charles Caleb Colton

If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?

Charles Simmons

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

Alan Watts

What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is.

Alan Watts

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

Al Stewart

Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.

Chogyam Trungpa

Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.

China Mieville

You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.

David Miliband

...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better

David Rakoff

In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me.

Chogyam Trungpa

You do not have to force yourself to do anything at all. There is a continual exchange, a continual dance. It is similar to the sun shining and plants growing. The sun has no desire to create the vegetation; plants simply react to sunlight and the situation develops naturally.

Mark Ploger

The plants are in a weakened state. Moisture is the key. We need rain.

Mark Wiley

I wouldn't be putting out young plants just yet.

Jim Leonard

There aren't very many hydro plants we can upgrade left.

Vince Green

When they say plants are closing, they're going elsewhere. And it's not just China; it's Tennessee, Texas, more business-friendly states.

Paul Anderson

We never thought or suspected that these plants would have a problem. Somebody should be doing time for this; that's the way I look at it.

Henry Ward Beecher

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Elaine Nash

Rare plants are rare because they've got strange habits.

Roger Schagrin

A lot of plants will shut down if there is no relief.

Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.

Byron Katie

You’ve never reacted to someone else. You project meaning onto nothing. And you react to the meaning you’ve projected

Ato Essandoh

Never would I have thought that I would meet Mick Jagger, much less be working on the same project.

Carlos Fuentes

My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

Roy Cooper

While many of the projects may have been worthy of consideration, the way they were funded makes them suspect in the public's mind,

E. P. Thompson

We feel that this is a win-win for the foundation, so we need to make sure we're selling the project on all fronts.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

Evangeline Lilly

A creative project is a moving target. You never end up where you start.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

Clara Blair

She planted the seed about two years ago.

Ben Howland

We're a two or a three seed and I think that's pretty certain.

E. B. White

Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.

Deepak Chopra

In every perceived failure or setback is the seed of success.

Jay Wright

There is pressure. You don't want to be the first one seed to go down to a 16 seed.

Vandana Shiva

When you control seed you control food

Anthony Chan

I think the seeds are in place for a soft landing.

Michael DiSanto

I think he has a shot to be a No. 1 or 2 seed at the districts.

Chief Seattle

This We Know. All Things Are Connected

David R. Brower

We cannot go on fiddling while the earth's wild places burn....

Denis Waitley

Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

Cheryl Strayed

You can't replicate walking 94 days through the wilderness by yourself with a really heavy pack until you do it.

Baltasar Gracian

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Brigitte Bardot

My wild and free side unsettled some, and unwedged others.

Edward Abbey

If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

Edward Abbey

Wilderness. The word itself is music.

Aldo Leopold

Wildlife administration, in this respect, is not yet a profession.