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beginning despite low maintained percent pleased prices since strong
We are pleased with the quarter's results. Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings. Paul O'Neill
beginning despite low maintained percent pleased prices since strong
We are pleased with the quarter's results, ... Despite low aluminum prices - which are down 14 percent since the beginning of 1998 -- we have maintained strong earnings.
beginning believe decline fact growth increase major number rate replace resulted win
We believe that our growth and PeopleSoft's decline resulted in part from an increase in our competitive win rate over PeopleSoft, and the fact that we are beginning to replace PeopleSoft at a number of major accounts, Larry Ellison
beginning stages
We are at the very beginning stages today. Glenn Nick
beginning human improve learn pass responsibility thousands time
We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on. Richard P. Feynman
beginning
We are at the beginning stages. Are we going to be successful? Yes. Bob Peterson
beginning ran struggled time
We struggled at the beginning and I think we just ran out of time at the end.
beginning carry games half intensity next second
We still need to come out with intensity at the beginning of games. We need to carry the second half of games into the first half of the next game.
beginning chinese companies ethical helps operating people phase starting survive
We're in a phase where Chinese companies are beginning to think with a longer-term perspective. People are starting to see that operating in a good, ethical and well-mannered way helps you survive in the long term.
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.
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.
costs decides
The person who decides is dictating why the costs are what they are.
costs finding profits requests
When you take all those costs out you're not finding unreasonable profits for everything we have to do to get (gasoline) to consumers. These requests are just unfortunate.
costs general growth hard helped limit pace pump rises worked
We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.
costs decisions design elements people understand
We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.
costs forward good ideas learning open past people product vision wholly
We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation. Andy Burnham
costs good money seriously wholesale
Yeah, it costs more money to get to a show, but this is a seriously good show for the wholesale market.
costs higher
We're going to see higher construction costs anywhere.
costs money sure system works
We're going to find a different system that works for us, even if that costs us some money to do that. You want to make sure you know what you have in the classroom.
costs demand lack nobody problem situation skilled
What we're having here isn't a demand constraint. It's a situation that nobody predicted. The No. 1 problem is construction costs and lack of skilled labor.
delta pounds reason size wear weigh
W called me 'the young Delta Burke.' It's so silly. I weigh 105 pounds and wear a size two, but for some reason I'm a heavyweight. Christina Ricci
delta earnings quite
With the Micron earnings quite a disappointment and the Delta outlook, technically we were very overbought on a short-term basis.
delta extremely listening management pilots telling tired
The pilots are telling us they are extremely disappointed in Delta management and are tired of listening to management?s demands.
delta engineers gulf land louisiana planet sinking southern stop unless
Unless engineers can stop southern Louisiana from sinking into the Gulf - the Mississippi Delta is the fastest-disappearing land on the planet - even post-Katrina's modernized levees will be overwhelmed.
delta express hates issue needs pay proving
I think the Delta Express issue is proving to be intractable, ... ALPA hates the two-tier pay scale. Delta needs that, and needs more of it, if it's going to compete.
delta harder legitimate name race run thompson
The race in the Delta is going to be a legitimate wire-to-wire race. The Espy name is big over there. Thompson will have to run harder than he has in the past.
delta hesitant protection seek
That Delta attitude, it's been there a long time, it's what made them great, and its what made them hesitant to seek protection long ago.
delta five weakest
As a stand-alone carrier, Delta is the weakest of the Big Five (American, United, Delta, Continental, Northwest).
delta grasp northwest raises sale seems
Northwest seems to have a better grasp on what it's doing than Delta does. Delta raises fares and announces a sale at the same time. Northwest is making the adjustments they have to.
monopoly should states
The most urgent necessity is, not that the State should teach, but that it should allow education. All monopolies are detestable, but the worst of all is the monopoly of education. Frederic Bastiat
monopoly-power owners certain
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe. David Harvey
monopoly months position six
They've got about six months before they won't have the monopoly position on EV-DO,
monopoly-power rights growth
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills. Emanuel Celler
monopoly exception has-beens
Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. Lawrence Lessig
monopoly
You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly, and then quickly expand. Sam Altman
monopoly knows
I don't know what a monopoly is until somebody tells me. Steve Ballmer
monopoly terrible terrible-things
Monopoly is a terrible thing, till you have it. Rupert Murdoch
ontology logic mathematics
Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions. Charles Sanders Peirce
onto rehearse
I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens. Terri Blackstock
ontology logic certainty
To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought. Alfred North Whitehead
onto poor punishment pushed services street wife
If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.
onto player since stepped
He is the ironman. He's been a player for us since he stepped onto our campus.
onto stepped
L.A. is... I always feel sort of abducted when I'm there, like I've stepped onto another planet where everyone looks the same. Mamie Gummer
onto
Stuntwork... once, I've really only done one thing, which is take a punch and transport myself into the air onto a mat. Ciaran Hinds
onto people
My favorite actors are people who I don't know anything about, and I can project any character onto them. Matt Bomer
onto people pictures sort type
You can get pictures into what people are sort of thinking about others. Just go onto Google and type 'Why are Indians' and then look for the autocomplete. Sendhil Mullainathan
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Charles Caleb Colton
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stanley
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ. Charles Spurgeon
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
shifting side twitter version
We're on Twitter with one side of our personality, and Facebook with another, and LinkedIn with another side of our personality, and we're toggling between them. That's just a version of what an impostor does: shifting from one side of their personality to another with lightning speed. Walter Kirn
shifting tides sucker
I'm a sucker where I love shifting tides. John Krasinski
shifting arbitrary truth-is
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. Ken Wilber
shifting easy planes
I'm 33 now and I seem to have hit a fitness plane. Shifting the wobbly bits isn't as easy as it used to be. Matthew Rhys
shifting produce consuming
Value is shifting from those that produce the content, to those that deliver the experience of consuming it. Saul Berman
shifting
That is death - shifting from "is" to "was. Veronica Roth
southern desire pieces
The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states. Charles Dickens
southern said southerner
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. Charles Kuralt
southern election certain
The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election. Belle Boyd
southern comfort world
I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone. Brad Paisley
southern heritage dialect
I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from. Brad Pitt
southern gentleman southern-gentleman
I'm a southern gentleman. Jamie Foxx
southern flying towns
Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies. Bill Hicks
southern
We really have no idea what is going on now in southern China.
southern
Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.
true-love heart men
My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.
true-friend ambition character
A high character might be produced, I suppose, by continued prosperity, but it has very seldom been the case. Adversity, however it may appear to be our foe, is our true friend; and, after a little acquaintance with it, we receive it as a precious thing - the prophecy of a coming joy. It should be no ambition of ours to traverse a path without a thorn or stone.
true-friend sharks blood
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. Alan Clark
true-knowledge sustenance
True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance David Mitchell
true-friend thinking knows
The WORK 1.Is it true? 2.Can you absolutely know that it's true? 3.How do you react when you think that thought? 4.Who would you be without the thought? Byron Katie
true-friend love-you opposites
You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
true-identity people acting
I've scammed so many people throughout my whole life who never learned my true identity until I started acting. Charlie Bewley
true-love home causes
Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home. Billy Joel
true-friend select
True friends are families which you can select. Audrey Hepburn
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding sides stories
If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all. Chinua Achebe
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
understanding joining magnificence
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
unfair
Yes. As a non-smoker, I think it's very unfair that smokers go off and have a break, when I just can't.
unfair
No one is untouchable, it would be unfair to say that. Sven Eriksson
unfair yeah judged
Yeah, it's unfair that you can get judged by something you didn't do, but it's also unfair that you can inherit money that you didn't work for. Chris Rock
unfair
It is unfair for him and us that he comes in on a one-off.
unfair
We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages. Hillary Clinton
unfair
They were put in a position, in my opinion, that was unfair to them,
unfair fairs
It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is Neil Gaiman
unfair hard
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. Marianne Moore
unfair reviews unreasonable
I can get very depressed by a review that is unfair, unreasonable, and totally destructive.... John O'Hara
using-people gay evil
One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can. Alan Chambers
using-your-talents giving bird
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. Bernard Meltzer
using whether
I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact. Aerin Lauder
using
The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. George Wald
using
This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics. Tom Jenkinson
using work
When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt. Lucy Liu
using
We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.' Ban Ki-moon
using
Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.
using
It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done. Allison Tolman