Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Moyle

Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely. Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.

Dan Bartram

Lucy came out ready to play. But it was a good, balanced effort for us.

John Winters

Maintaining strong fiscal performance combined with balanced investments provides a catalyst for the private sector to continue to grow.

Mike Stock

(Lewis) wants to win so bad. He felt like he had to take over the game himself. But the reason we were here is that we've been much more balanced offensively lately.

Jack Bicknell

Last year, we really just put it all on his shoulders. This year, we're not going to do that. We've got to be more balanced with the quarterbacks, the receivers, and of course, the running backs. They all have to kind of pick up the slack.

John Fontanella

Several market makers have given oversight responsibilities to their marketing organizations. That way the cost and benefit will be recognized, giving the company a balanced view of progress.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, there is no royal road to a balanced budget. If there is, I have never discovered it in all the time I have been dealing with the millions of little figures that come to us in what looks like an unexpurgated mail-order catalog but what we call the budget of the United States, which contains some 1,100 pages.

Julian Illingworth

My game has become much more consistent, and I have become a lot more powerful and strong around the court. I was a lot skinnier when I was a freshman and so I was really fast and quick, but it was more of a scramble around the court. Now I am more balanced and in control.

Steve Kimbro

Neoga is a very good team. They take a lot of pride in their defense just as we do. They are very balanced and very interchangeable. They can shoot from the perimeter or post up. They are very athletic. They remind me of a typical Teutopolis or Effingham St. Anthony team.

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.

Rick Perlstein

Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new Democrats for another seventy-five years or so.

Charles Kennedy

Let no-one be in any doubt - the Liberal Democrats are not about to cede our emphatic, sincere and long-standing green credentials for some spray on aerosol version.

Julian Castro

Seven presidents before him - Democrats and Republicans - tried to expand health care to all Americans. President Obama got it done.

Howard Kurtz

McCain has always been a conservative, anti-abortion, pro-military Republican who took more moderate positions on a few key issues. If he runs, he could well win the White House, shutting out the Democrats for the third straight election. And that is rallying the pundits of the left.

Ken Mehlman

Maybe he was responding to James Carville, who warned the Democrats that the public wanted reform. The Democrats seem stuck in concrete.

Timothy Noah

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Timothy Noah

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Timothy Noah

Democrats view elections as a means to an end, while Republicans view an election as an end in itself.

Charles Kennedy

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively.

Robert Wilson

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

Jacqueline Novogratz

Leaders can get stuck in groupthink because they're really not listening, or they're listening only to what they want to listen to, or they actually think they're so right that they're not interested in listening. And that leads to a lot of suboptimal solutions in the world.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Akifumi Uchida

Many market players already think the ECB will raise interest rates in March and then several more times later this year.

Doug Booth

Many times I go to professional venues and it's just the pros playing with very little involvement or interest by the community. I didn't see this here.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Kenji Johjima

Seattle had interest in me first. Out of respect for them, I wanted to sign here.

Kathleen Harrington

so it's in the interest of our success to do this and to label everything appropriately.

Andre Heerden

Modern people are interested in modern media, like DVDs.

Danny Davis

like a dance: how low can you go.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

LAZINESS, n. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

David Davis

Morale is at the lowest point since I've been here.

Lyle Gramley

Mortgage rates haven't been significantly lower than the rates we have today since the 1960s.

David Lagercrantz

My father was highbrow: writing long biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low.

Safa Rashtchy

Obviously, it will mean a wider ownership of the stock and potentially lower volatility. We've seen that with other stocks that have been in the S&P 500.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Bob Schnorbus

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Sven Kramer

Me and Carl skate well together and twice before one of us has set a world record when we raced together.

Miikka Kiprusoff

Of course, I want to win games, but I don't think about records too much.

Tom Scholz

No one was more surprised that that first Boston record took off than the record company itself.

Arthur Vint

Now we have more recordings of us playing, which is great.

John Owen

After hearing the evidence, I will record a verdict of natural causes.

John Edward

Frankly, senator, ... you have a record that's not very distinguished.

Alexander Ovechkin

For sure, Pavel Bure was my hero. I was very young, but I remember this moment. I recorded the game.

Wayne Patterson

From all of our records and correspondence with EPD, they have done that.

Jack Straw

If and when Turkey does become a member, it will be after years of structural reforms and with a long track record of sustained and stable growth,

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.