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consumers energy high higher lost oil pay prices though
The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost. David Joy
consumers expect general gentle happier housing market pickup recovery retail sales seeing stronger wealth
We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.
consumers huge positive revision wages
While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.
consumers customer department issues resolve seem service telephone
We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.
consumers tried
We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,
consumers gain share
We're going to gain a lot of share here. We're going to make a lot of consumers happy. Bill Gates
consumers forget found items operators store talking
We found out, from talking to consumers and store operators all over the country, that low-dollar items went very fast. Forget about high-end items.
consumers gotten pay reluctant services using willing
We find consumers very reluctant to pay for new services at all. Corporations are more willing to pay for new services. And from corporations, come consumers who have gotten used to using the services at work.
consumers data holiday season since spending spent strongest year
Year over year, the data shows, this will be the strongest holiday season since 1999. But because consumers have been spending since September, there's not much pent-up demand. Consumers have already spent up demand.
deceived deception outward shows
So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament. William Shakespeare
deceived things-are-not-what-they-seem seems
Things are not what they seem. A. S. Byatt
deceived deception himself knows
He is not deceived who knows himself to be deceived
deceived torment trust
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough
deceived men rock
Look! Don't be deceived by appearances -- men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea! William Booth
deceived suspects
Who naught suspects is easily deceived. Petrarch
deceived-us deceiving deceived
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
deceived this-day
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. Flannery O'Connor
deceived ill obviously
The world has been deceived because he is obviously not as ill as we were made to believe.
decision our-actions regression
We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide Alan Watts
decision understanding manipulation
It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making Alan Greenspan
decision looking-forward life-is
Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment? Al Pacino
decision further law matter personal privileges prompt serious thank
We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment. John Bolton
decision explained therefore understood
We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody. Javier Solana
decisions early
We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few. Mark Shapiro
decisions-we-make splits life-is
Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds. Chris Cleave
decision mind world
Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind. Chris Colfer
decision may littles
There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making. David Allen
ensure help whether
Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,
ensure markets security
When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy, Tom Vilsack
ensure
You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory. James Larkin
ensure growth increase lives rural stable urban
Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve. Li Keqiang
ensures exercising improves levels morning time
Exercising first thing in the morning ensures that you'll have the time for it, and it improves your self-control and energy levels all day long.
ensure pope visit
The pope is our guest. ... We will do everything to the hilt to ensure that the visit will be historic, Fidel Castro
ensures frame freedom guarantee happiness hopeful individual laws maximum minimal social
To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. John Updike
ensure fidelity smooth
Fidelity does have a succession plan in place to ensure a smooth transition. Edward Johnson, III
ensure needed receive
It is not enough to receive support, no matter, how needed it may be. It is fundamental to know how to receive this support and ensure that its result is exponential.
fda years creating
Over the years, HIV/AIDS activists and their allies have been pioneers in creating new frontiers in the medical establishment. Through their efforts, the FDA drug approval procedures were reformed so promising new therapies could reach desperate patients quicker. David Mixner
fda managers
My manager says we've been working with the FDA on this. Carlos Gonzalez
fda meant
If you go to the FDA with a drug that's only meant to treat 50 people, and it's a 95 percent cure rate, you'll get your drug approved. Leroy Hood
fda hope learn letter status
We hope to learn more about the status of the FDA letter on Tuesday.
fda judgment properly public regarding
The public properly relies upon FDA classification of drugs as nonprescription as a reflection of the agency's judgment regarding the safety and proper use of a drug without a doctor's prescription. Loretta Lynch
fda follow meeting signs
We still have to see if the FDA will follow this recommendation, but the signs from the meeting are positive. Ian Hunter
fda government guess involved literally people period spent
My guess is the government has spent at least that much themselves, ... and there have been literally hundreds of FDA people involved in this over a four-year period of time.
fda people pregnancy social teen
I don't think people want the FDA to say what should be done about teen pregnancy or other social issues,
fda vegetables firsts
For the first time since 2007, the FDA Has approved a new device to treat obesity. The amazing breakthrough is called a vegetable. Conan O'Brien
guilty clinton american-history
It's a deal that will lead to a nuclear Iran, an Israel that will be less safe and secure, and a much more dangerous Middle East. Let's ask it: Hillary Clinton, as an inept negotiator of the worst nuclear arms deal in American history. Is she guilty or not guilty? Chris Christie
guilty innocent ability
This backlog affects not just the ability to identify and convict the guilty, but it also affects our ability to identify the innocent. Chris Asplen
guilty feels frivolous
I am frivolous. Then I feel guilty. Catherine Deneuve
guilty party point technical
We are a guilty party from a technical point of view. Gideon Gono
guilty glory crime
Glory grows guilty of detested crimes.
guilty hate hour lying minutes people telling tend truth worth
Unfortunately, as much as I am gullible, I also hate lying. I tend to tell the truth a lot... lying just isn't worth it. But I think I'm guilty of telling people that I'm 5 minutes away when really I'm about 45 or an hour away. Monica Raymund
guilty people walking
There are people walking around guilty of murder. Jim Talent
guilty
We're not conceding anything. We haven't pled guilty to anything.
guilty innocent should
It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die Brent Weeks
matters
We won. That's all that matters to me.
matters people reinforced september stories whatever
September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.
matters solid
The only ranking that really matters to us is how we feel about this class, and we feel like we have another good, solid class. Dennis Franchione
matters middle night serious solve
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. Philip Dick
matters sort statistic voters
One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more. Mark Zandi
matters none supposed
None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to, Jorge Posada
matters peers
I'm an All-Star in my mind, and I'm an All-Star to this city, my peers and this organization. So that's all that matters to me. Gilbert Arenas
matters
I don't even think like that, ... Why wouldn't you want me? I went out there and did what I had to do today. That's all that really matters to me right now.
matters stage whether work
The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film. Sally Field
might stairs lorry
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord. Charles Dickens
might use disaster
But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny... Charles Stuart Calverley
might god-bless bless
God blesses us so that we might bless others! Charles Stanley
might wells ifs
I thought, "Well if I'm gonna react might as well overreact! Alan Moore
might quiet
Dead … might not be quiet at all. Chris Bohjalian
might outcomes infinity
For every action, there's an infinity of outcomes. Countless trillions are possible, many milliards are likely, millions might be considered probable, several occur as possibilities to us as observers - and one comes true. China Mieville
might naked world
Alan Zweibel is the funniest writer in the world. He might be even funnier when he's naked, but I'm afraid to find out. Dave Barry
might tools ifs
If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.
might ruins bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. Buenaventura Durruti
neglected project turn
we have neglected that area. And it will take a big project to really turn it around.
neglected
She did not look like she was neglected in any way.
neglected proposals
The president's budget proposals have neglected water infrastructure. Sue Kelly
neglected nourish quite small state
Now they're really disillusioned with him because he is doing the opposite. They feel quite neglected because the state used to nourish them. But at the end of the day, they are a small hard-core. Ariel Sharon
neglected
I like to give a voice to others, especially things neglected or despised. Edwin Morgan
neglected support work
For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have to go to work to support the family,
neglected
There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.
neglected
Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. L. Ron Hubbard
negligence resign respect self
If he has any self respect he would resign over this matter. The negligence is so gross. Kevin Rudd
negligence
(They) will look to see if there was any kind of negligence on anybody's part.
plain vanilla
When you think of Kraft's portfolio, it's plain vanilla right up the middle.
plain
I am not a fancy cook or an ambitious cook. I am a plain old cook. Laurie Colwin
plain powers tendency washington
Washington has a tendency to hold other powers to standards that it routinely flaunts - plain and simple.
plain work
We've got a lot of work to do, plain and simple. Brian Billick
plain shroud time
We don't have time for plain friendships, to go out or have fun. The shroud comes first.
plain record stumbling
The Book of Mormon, the record of Joseph, verifies and clarifies the Bible. It removes stumbling blocks; it restores many plain and precious things. Ezra Taft Benson
plain
Yes, I have over the years done a lot of the audio books, which are just plain reading. Robert Rankin
plain
One of the sublimest thing in the world is plain truth.
plain wonderful
I have more flexibility, more stamina, I just plain feel better. It's a wonderful thing.
safety ignorant lightning
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. Charles Caleb Colton
safety painful imagine
What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.
safe basements universe
It's actually safe to create a universe in your basement. Alan Guth
safety gold saving
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
safe-haven thinking california
It's a coup by the GOP to grab the governorship to California to make this place a safe haven for George W. Bush in 2004. It's incredible when you think about it. The recall cost the state $100 million Al Jardine
safe drivers highways
The driver on the highway is safe not when He reads the signs, but when He obeys them. Aiden Wilson Tozer
safety knees resistance
Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
safe fulham wales
We can't feel safe because we are not safe. (on Fulham, 2004-5 season) Chris Coleman
safety priorities important
We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
thinking vanity
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
"As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking words-of-wisdom secret
Don't you think that any secret course is an unworthy one?