Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rose George

'MaerskKendal' is a rarity with its British flag, the 'LONDON' home port painted on its bow, its two British chief officers, and its portrait of the queen in the mess room, apparently common courtesy on British ships, but a little alarming to me.

Grant Teichman

My first reaction is that the students weren't a part of this process. It is very alarming that we were not involved. But we look forward to working with a permanent president and seeing how they deal with the separate constituencies on campus.

Gayle Osterberg

Most alarming is the apparent disregard for the potential impact on the French cinema industry, which will be hardest hit if this vote is upheld. We are hopeful as this bill works its way through the legislative process, those with an eye toward fostering French cinema will prevail.

Larry Jackson

I feel safe for the most part, but it is kind of alarming that people is shooting other people and stuff like that these days.

Sharon Stone

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, and then I had this voice like I spend my life in a bar, and I said things that were alarming and had ideas that didn't make sense.

Zadie Smith

That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain - they cannot be otherwise.

Susan Mazer

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that these species face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

Susan Mazer

The pattern raises the alarm, however, that species in species-rich regions face two challenges that increase the risk of extinction: habitat destruction, which is occurring at alarming rates in the tropics, and reduced pollinator activity.

Michael Crawford

I'd be totally exhausted by mid-afternoon, and I could barely climb the stairs at home. It was particularly alarming because all my life I'd enjoyed doing all my own stunts in shows, taking on every physical challenge. Yet suddenly, I'd become like a very old man. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea what.

Kurt Schrader

At the end of the day, if it looks like you're not going to get paid, you might be willing to compromise to make sure that budget actually comes out. It's not all about your extreme point of view.

Peter Lynch

We're not budgeting for it to do that. We think that it is possible that into our coffers you could probably push 8 or 10 million (euros) EBITDA ...but I think it's probably not the right thing to do in this period of consolidation.

Greg Robinson

Making decisions all the time leaves less time to reflect. At the time I'm knee-deep in budgets, so today I just walked . . . through classrooms. I see the faces of the kids to clear my head. It helps them to be visible to me.

Alan Greenspan

Lower budget deficits are the surest and most direct way to increase national saving. Higher national saving would help to lower real interest rates, spurring spending on capital goods so as to put cutting-edge technology in the hands of more American workers,

John Petterson

Many companies are very conscious about budgets today. So the $35 to $100 price points are very popular with corporate accounts.

Ed Loyd

Securing farmers' and ranchers' viability is always a top priority for the USDA. We'd need to find budget offsets.

Clay Richards

Sen. Menendez has a 6-point lead in his race for re-election mainly because New Jersey is a Democratic state more fed up with the Bush administration and the war in Iraq than it is with high taxes and the budget crisis at home.

Gail Wilensky

Medicare is growing at a rate of 8.5 percent per year, the federal budget at 5.2 percent and the gross domestic product at only 4.8 percent,

Peter McKenna

Net revenues for the year are up on earlier budget predictions by more than 2 million.

John Hamilton

like I'm going to be in debt now for the rest of my life.

Zeng Jun

Leveraging on debts is definitely a useful method for gaining more wealth. The issue is, do you have your own set of risk management system to ensure you do not take on more debts than needed?

Brian Rothenberg

One-hundred-year-old debt or 50-year-old debt is one thing, but 10 years is a pretty short window. Somebody with deep pockets can hire lawyers and play some legal games.

Alex DeCroce

New Jersey is drowning in a sea of debt.

Dave Ramsey

There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.

Dave Ramsey

Debt is normal. Be weird.

Kevin Buttigieg

I would really like to see what they're going to do about the debt,

Ben Holmes

I would have liked to have seen more of the proceeds go to reducing their debt load.

James McCormack

So if the effective interest rate on Philippines government debt goes up, it just takes more of their revenues to service their debts, so these are issues that really do need to be addressed." ()

Alan Greenspan

Lowering the deficit further in the near term, however, will be difficult in light of the need to pay for post-hurricane reconstruction and relief,

Joe Barton

Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction.

Ian Shepherdson

If this is sustained we can be more hopeful the trade deficit will not rise further,

Doug Mirabelli

If we can't make up a half-game deficit over the last 10 games, it wasn't meant to be anyway.

Julie Rousseau

I don't know what the largest deficit was, but I think that everyone got to really enjoy what I've had an opportunity to enjoy all year, and that's just how tough our women really are, how strong they are, strong in character. They showed a lot of fight and I'm very proud of them.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

India's trade deficit is because of excess of import over exports.

Howard Archer

The overall trade performance was dragged down by a fifth successive deficit in oil trade and a reduced surplus in services.

Richard Kogan

The path of large and permanent deficits on which the government has embarked is unsound public policy and should be reversed as soon as the economy permits.

Peter Morici

The outlook remains poor. Production cutbacks at Ford and GM, mediocre personal income growth and record trade deficits all bode poorly for economic growth and jobs creation.

Harry Reid

Like all compromises, it includes provisions that are not supported by everyone in this body,

Debbie Ford

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Chris Taylor

The project includes signs of every possible type.

Vicky Rideout

While many parents have used the ratings or the V-Chip, too many still don't know what the ratings mean or even that their TV includes a V-Chip.

Elliott Abrams

Palestine, as Icelanders see it, includes the Western Wall of the Second Temple, Judaism's holiest site.

Chuck Hagel

Why in the world they're doing that, I don't know. You've got 90 senators out of 100 and that includes many Republicans opposed to it,

Todd Solondz

To be honest, I am often unsettled by the responses some people have had to my movies, and that includes many people who like them.

Chuck Logsdon

We have been negotiating for a process that includes some parameters that should keep us on that timeline.

Skip Rutherford

The recipes are good, but the stories are also good, ... It includes all ranges of Clinton's life.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Julius Wellhausen

Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence.

Bill Halter

Minimum wage was last increased in 1997. It?s wrong that people that work full-time can?t support their families.

Yajur Veda

May all the radiance unify and increase in magnitude.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Akira Takei

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.

Alfred Neuman

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Masao Nakamura

Next year is going to be the peak year in many different ways. We're seeing a steep increase in 3G users now, so we have to keep the momentum going next year.

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

Shannon Burns

We don't have mountains and aquariums and polished wood flooring,

Scott Kaden

Our resorts have all had a very strong March, a very wintry March. The mountains are still getting significant snowfall.

Harvey Mackay

We will move mountains to keep the team here.

Doug Reid

We don't own the mountains, the mountains own us.

Mike Ferguson

We did a survey and pilots said they still used the lights. We just use the beacons as a visual navigation aid. When you can see the beacon, you know the weather through the mountains is clear.

Jack Hughes

This park was not set up to preserve the mountains and the glaciers, it was set up to preserve the elk herd. It was originally Mount Olympus National Monument, to preserve the Olympic elk.

Charlie Crisafulli

They're like very steep, peaked mountains -- and only the tops are vegetated,

Tony Haffer

For rain fans, it's going to be a nearly perfect day.

Gary Roberts

Nearly all our blokes are locals, but a lot of them work out of town during the week,

Clive Sinclair

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

Romola Garai

There are people who you see on screen and think, 'Wow, that's a slim person,' and in the flesh they look nearly dead.

Mychal Williams

Kendra stepped up and played a solid game, nearly getting a double-double.

Paul Gillmor

To date, every American citizen has nearly $27,000 in public debt riding on our backs.

Thomas Powell

What you do is not nearly as important as who you are.

Mark McKinney

It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.

Tony Prentice

Our whole team wrestled really solid. It was a tough tournament. There were state placers in nearly every weight class.

Johann Lamont

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Terry Abbott

We are investigating whether HISD policies and procedures were violated in the way the search was conducted.

Uzo Ohaebosim

We have a situation where the policies and the way we're being treated... it's not favorable. He's not necessarily doing anything about it.

Jacques Chirac

What is at play here is respect for the law, but also the success of our policies of integration,

Steve Stockman

In Texas, conservative policies win over stabbing fellow Republicans in the back.

Michael McCaul

I think a lot of programs, policies have been put in place since 9/11, have prevented a 9/11-style attack. On the other hand, I think the threat has become greater, not lesser.

Wesley Clark

I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.

Richard Doherty

We are still working out the policies for that.

Mikhail Fradkov

On inflation, the president took note: things are bad.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dee Dee Myers

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eliot Spitzer

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Elena Kagan

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Abdul Kalam

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Debbie Smith

No one should be doing this to another person, regardless of whether they're students.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Luke Hudson

I didn't want to get better any more just because I was out of the rotation. I wanted to get better regardless of where I was.

Tim Tebow

Regardless of whatever I do, I know what my purpose is: to make a difference in people's lives.

Donald Johanson

Regardless of what we look like on the outside, genetically, on the inside, everyone is an African.

Jeffrey Fieler

Regardless of the (earnings) metric, they're on the right path.

Ichiro Ozawa

I will do my best, regardless of whether I would be running at the top or at the bottom.

Edward Witten

Regardless of any deviations, it was clear I was supposed to end up in math and physics.

Sean Kline

They always play us harder. It always seems like they come out and give us a game, regardless of the way the rest of the season is going.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.

Patrick Ford

She didn't say anything, but you could tell it got to her. She didn't say anything about it, but Tuesday night, in the Cedar Ridge game, you could see it. At the end, she was unstoppable.

Denis Norden

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good - we want it Tuesday.

Dick Cheney

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

Charles Krauthammer

Tuesday's victory was big. But it did nothing more than level the playing field and give you a shot. Take it.

Devon Sawa

For instance, when I go to the premiere on Tuesday I probably won't watch the film at all - I'll be watching the audience just to see their reaction to different moments, what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong, stuff like that.

Amy Poehler

In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a tearful Saddam said, 'Ah, good times.'

A. A. Milne

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

A. A. Milne

You can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right; but spelling isn't everything. There are days when spelling Tuesday simply doesn't count.

David Cook

I live for Tuesdays, and die by Wednesdays.