Famous Quotes & Sayings

Phil Cook

Make sure the distribution of your assets is right for your particular goals, that your risk versus return is an appropriate tradeoff, and that the same people are managing your mutual funds.

George Goncalves

Let's take it one step at a time. Let's take the 30-year and see how that goes. We haven't had such long- duration assets in five years, so let's not go from one extreme to the other.

Louie Gohmert

Many communities, faith-based entities and the state of Texas have drained assets to save lives and help with the enormous multi-state national emergency, and they will need reimbursement to avoid massive financial failures,

Adrian Darley

Selling assets to reinvest in expensive companies is not normally a sound strategy.

Tom Borelli

Mr. Paulson seems to have gotten the message that shareholder assets ought not to be used for his environmental interests that he has previously acknowledged to be purely personal. But we still want to know what happened on the Chilean land deal.

Albert Lin

MCI's problem is it has to bundle its services using other companies' assets so it will never enjoy the types of economic returns that other telecoms can,

Harold Vogel

My impression is that Mr. Murdoch has been in a phase of building assets for most of his career, 25 years or so, and he has reached the point where most of the key pieces are in place,

Cara Black

One of my assets is my fitness. My fitness around the net and my movement: that's my defense to the power.

Jean Chatzky

One way to make sure you don't lose assets in the future is to streamline your accounts. Consider using one bank for all your banking needs and one brokerage firm for all your investments.

Mark McCutcheon

We're not convinced about the Rentokil story. Even if he comes in, I don't think there's much upside so there's risk to the downside. There's not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there's not much upside to it." ()

Jacques Rogge

Madrid had a very good bid and was only two votes short of reaching the final round of voting.

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Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Larry Walker

Softball Canada wants us to bid on the next one right away,

Allen Smith

MBD has been in business for 16 years. We have bid over 1,000 other jobs, I'm certain, and in all that time, we have only withdrawn one other bid that I know of. We have a history of being a very professional bidder, and we made a mistake.

Robert Herrick

Only a little more / I have to write, / Then I'll give o'er, / And bid the world good-night.

David Vincent

Now we're all working toward putting a solid bid before the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) as soon as possible,

Gary Thayer

Now that we're in a more open economy, and there's a lot more opportunity to get goods from overseas, if manufacturers are operating at full capacity, there's less likelihood that somebody will bid up prices at a domestic producer if they can get it somewhere else.

Charles Bradford

I can't recall, in the 40 years I've been following the steel industry, ever seeing a bid that was raised after already winning.

Liu Zhengrong

Major U.S. companies do this and it is regarded as normal. So why should China not be entitled to do so?

Evan Osnos

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Jamie Smith

Secretary Albright was in China with government officials and people in the private sector to help them better understand DP World's interests in China.

Sha Zukang

So it is in that connection I can tell you China will not sit on one hand.

Herbert Lau

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Daniel Basse

Much of the run-up this year has to do with a smaller-than-expected crop in China due to excessive rains.

John Snow

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Fernando Alonso

McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.

Alex Wong

Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

Ed Pien

So far, the Chinese who have seen my work tend to see a mix of Eastern and Western cultures.

Richard Boucher

So it's an open question as to whether one will be able to say that they got a fair trial or not, particularly given what we know about the Chinese legal system.

Wen Jiabao

So long as there is still a glimmer of hope, ... the Chinese government will not give up its efforts for peaceful reunification and for a peaceful settlement of the question.

Ben Simpfendorfer

Momentum has been consolidated at quite a high level with strength coming mainly from mainland Chinese demand. This should be sustained through the first quarter of next year.

Tess Gerritsen

Mom and I often talked about the trip we'd someday take together to the 'city of eternal spring' where she was born. In Kunming, she said, the fruits are sweeter, the mountains look like Chinese paintings, and the weather is always perfect.

Michael Moschen

My form is more on the lines of a Chinese porcelain-jar juggler. They learn it as a child. They learn, learn, learn, learn - but not with a porcelain jar. Then, when they're ready to perform, they're taken to a museum, and they're given a porcelain jar for a lifetime to use. When they're done, it's returned to the museum.

Rose George

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

Lu Houyuan

No one has tasted them. They resemble the La-Mian noodle, a traditional Chinese noodle that is made by repeatedly pulling and stretching the dough by hand.

Reporters Borders

Now we know Yahoo works regularly and efficiently with the Chinese police.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Richard McGinn

Lucent is focused on the fastest growing markets in communications networking, and professional services and support is clearly one of them,

Susan Brown

Madonna and Guy are clearly very much in love.

Mitchel McLaughlin

liberating impact. ... It may take some little time but clearly the way is now clear for people who wish to see politics replace conflict on our streets to take up their responsibilities.

Larry Sabato

Lott has clearly recovered from the incident that lost him the leadership.

Helen Hudson

Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled

Adrian Edwards

Security remains a paramount concern for the elections. It is very clearly difficult for any government to deliver the services it needs in an environment where security is a problem.

Eric Benhamou

So far we seem to be off to a very good start. Clearly the two companies have different cultures but these cultures are proving to be compatible.

Michael Wilson

Softwood lumber is clearly at the top of the heap. The fact we don't have a resolution there is impacting the entire relationship.

Robert Wilson

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Towson Fraser

Obviously, they've got an incredibly compelling story to tell.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Mike Easley

Given the facts and circumstances of this case, I find no compelling reasons to invalidate the sentences recommended by the jury and affirmed by the courts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Howard Levine

New-store growth is a significant contributor to our goal of making Family Dollar a compelling place to shop and invest. As we have indicated, this year we are focused on improving our new-store opening processes and increasing our new-store productivity to drive better returns to our shareholders.

John Roberts

On the other hand, simple disagreement about whether it's an appropriate issue for the public to see would not strike me as a very compelling governmental interest,

David Johnson

Letting it spiral out of control is a public-relations nightmare. They should have done damage control. For an administration known for its rapid responses and e-mails, this one looks like they were tone deaf.

Joel Walton

Lewis was a team effort. It takes everybody doing their part on defense. You've got to make pretty good defensive plays and it allows us to go in and control play from start to finish.

Ben Bernanke

Low marginal tax rates are supportive of economic growth. I would submit that we would want to look very hard at government spending - make sure it's controlled - before we raise taxes, which, in turn, would have negative impacts on the economy.

Julie Roberts

Leadally, we won the game in two areas. We controlled the speed of the game. Panmure like to play it very fast but we worked hard to settle that down and we won it in the goal circle.

Cathy Nelson

Lebanon controlled the match, was putting us on our heels. We couldn't stop them.

Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

Pink Floyd

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

John Myers

Security has to be obvious and send a no-nonsense message that this is a controlled zone that is under surveillance. You want people to know that it's not an easy target.

Sathya Baba

Mind is the overall instrument which controls and directs the senses.

Cy Thannikary

Legislators failed. We decided to take the process out of Trenton. If we leave it to legislators, it will never happen.

Lee Miller

Last year was the first year we did this. We started talking about it four years ago, ... Last year, we decided to head it up and make it a project.

Jim Haslett

Last year was a hard year on myself and all the coaches, and really the whole city. So I decided that if I didn't get a job, or the right job, that I would probably sit out a year and see if I could get back in the next year.

Brad Soderberg

Last year, we played 12 games that were decided in the last 90 seconds, and we lost 11 of 12. If we win a game when we're not playing well, it's a step in the right direction.

Frank Guzzetta

Many of our guests have expressed a need for more time to decided if their purchases are right for themselves or their gift recipients.

Raekwon

So for me, I had to get something going to promote the new project that I got. I decided to come with the 'Lost Jewelry' EP, which is a mixtape but it's more sexier because it's all fresh music.

Tina Shipp

So many left when Dennis came, and then not much happened, so a lot of people decided to stay this time.

Jim Haslett

My kids enrolled here, but we've decided they're going to go back with my wife. They're going to go back around the first of October, when school starts.

Edwina Ashe

My first year at Salem State, 1998-99, I decided I needed to get used to my surroundings so I didn't play basketball.

Dave Messing

Mainly, we have to look at the demand in the marketplace and have the right number of seats to meet that.

David Brainerd

Madison Marquette is expanding Festival at Waldorf to meet the community's increasing demand for high quality retail destinations.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life demands from you only the strength you posses. One feat is possible -- not to have run away.

Soichiro Monji

Lenders can make plenty of money as long as there is demand for loans. That's what we are starting to see. Real estate developers are also benefiting as demand increases.

Tracy Mullin

Many retailers are expecting high demand for toys and are recommending that people shop early,

Jerry Starkey

Many communities are refocusing growth back on the urban center. Land is scarce in these locations. High demand drives the price of land through the roof. To be affordable, it forces housing to go vertical. You have a need for 10-, 20- and 30-story high-rises.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

Share prices for property stocks are high and it's getting difficult to push them higher. Semiconductor demand is picking up and Japanese chip-related companies, as global players, will benefit.

John Frame

Scripture nowhere divides worship up into a series of independent 'elements', each requiring independent scriptural justification. Scripture nowhere tells us that the regulative principle demands that particular level of specificity, rather than some other.

Hidenori Karaki

Sentiment has not weakened significantly, and there's plenty of demand out there for stocks like Teijin.

Richard P. Feynman

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries - and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

Dirk Bauermann

Man, he really took over that fourth quarter. His energy was tremendous. That helped us to the win.

Viktor Khristenko

Major projects lead to a variety of reactions in the beginning, but once they are launched the reactions become positive. Infrastructure is a key part of energy security.

R. Robinson

Luckily, we grossly underestimated the money and energy required to refurbish the home and surroundings. With more wisdom, we might have passed!

Danny Grieves

Luther plays with so much energy and he's tenacious on his rebounding. Luther's not a great leaper, but he's a quick leaper.

Helene Lagerberg

Love is like the sun: has its inner energy source that shines on you

Dan Colen

Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

Jorge Zamacona

Lee has exploded. He's exactly the energy the ensemble needed.

Sathya Baba

Less talk - more work! There is too much talking going on. Because of excessive talking, spiritual energy is being wasted.

Kurt Barnard

Sears is now giving evidence that its new marketing strategy and new slogan work very effectively.

Pip Coburn

So far there's very little evidence of excess inventory and 1Q 04 expectations seem reasonable to us relative to historical norms.

Jack Straw

So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings.

P. J. O'Rourke

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

Alexandra Sanders

My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases.

Michael McGrath

No one was there to say anything for him. If we're just to take him at his word when all the evidence points to the contrary, that's not very much to go on.

John Sherman Cooper

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

H. Hunt

I feel we have sufficient evidence to prosecute the case.

Nicholas Kristof

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.

Robert Palmer

The music I heard growing up, since there was no TV or cinema or record covers, I didn't know if it was black, white, hip, square, male, female... whatever. I'd hear melodies and things and got intrigued on that level.

David Watson

Make your day what you want it to be. What's special is loving each other and growing as a couple.

Michael Fitzpatrick

Mild weather and growing stockpiles can't be ignored much longer.

Robert Reischauer

Medicare spending has slowed dramatically in the last year. It's now growing at less than 2 percent, which is the slowest rate of growth since the program started in 1965.

Glenn Walters

Media is growing rapidly in our world. Job opportunities are increasing as well.

Noel Maye

One of the things we're seeing in the profession now is that a lot of practices are growing from one-person firms.

John Lasseter

Of all bugs, growing up I just loved the pill bugs. They roll up, you play with them, you wait for them to open up, and then when you touch them they roll up again. I just love that.

Jack Vaughn

More and more people are shopping online. I know some students are doing that. Our Web sales are growing every semester.

Ella Henderson

My grandfather was a massive influence in my music. Growing up, he would play a lot of old-school records to me. A lot of jazz and swing music, actually, growing up.

Kay Granger

Seventy-five percent of the airports will meet the deadline, ... Most airports can make it. For those who can't, what is the solution for them? This is the solution.

J. J. Johnson

Mr. Duncan will be meeting with our investigators tomorrow.

John Ashbrook

Mrs. Schmidt had a meeting with Mr. Tancredo about his support for her. We understood it to be an endorsement.

Michael Brown

meeting the needs as they are communicated to us.

Sabrina Carpenter

My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Joe Gottfried

None of this was a reaction to the situation with the University of Mississippi. Our meeting with him as the result of it being the end of the season.

Alexander Bunegin

Next Sunday, I go to the camp, I meet her and that was it. We stick together until today.

Mike Castle

Obviously, they need some votes. Otherwise, they would not meet with us for 45 minutes.

Phil Esposito

When you're an athlete, you meet a lot of people.

Thomas Bangalter

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.