Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Faber

Recreation produces better economic benefits than barge traffic.

Jim Lowe

Regardless of economic conditions, employers should have severance and separation benefits updated to remain competitive.

Chris Tomlinson

Our research proves, very clearly, that onshore wind will deliver, bringing major benefits to the economy and the environment while securing our energy supplies.

Hal Joseph

Part of my objective next year is to make a tally to see who is not using the zone benefits so I can go out and knock on their door. We still have a vast majority of our land that is still underdeveloped and unused. We have a long way to go.

John Salazar

Our number one priority should be to guarantee that all American worker get the benefits they have earned -- everyone should get back what they worked so hard to put into the system. Changing the Social Security system to drain the trust fund and cut benefits simply does not make sense,

Chuck D.

Our main message to employees is Dana is open for business and will continue to operate in the normal course of business throughout the reorganization process. Dana expects to provide its employees wages, healthcare coverage, vacation and sick leave and similar benefits without interruption.

John Salazar

Our No. 1 priority should be to guarantee that all American workers get the benefits they have earned -- everyone should get back what they worked so hard to put into the system. Changing the Social Security system to drain the trust fund and cut benefits simply does not make sense,

Joe McInerney

Our new site is a one-stop resource, where users can find information about the competitive wages and generous benefits that hotels provide to employees as well as information on UNITE HERE's real goal - to use upcoming labor negotiations to grow its declining membership. So whether you are a reporter working on a story, a meeting planner organizing a conference, or a guest planning your next visit, we hope you use our new Web site as a resource for information.

Brian Duscha

People need to know: even without losing weight, you are getting significant benefits by exercising -- you're improving your fitness level, decreasing fat and increasing muscle and improving your lipid panel -- so don't stop exercising.

Orrin Hatch

Regenerative medicine is pro-life and pro-family. It enhances, it does not diminish human life. ... If encouraged to flourish, it can improve the life of millions of Americans and could lead to new scientific frontiers not now in sight. So I urge my colleagues in the Senate and the American public to support this bill that opposes human cloning but promotes regenerative medicine using nuclear transplantation.

Hiroyuki Hosoda

Regardless of when the vote takes place, the government will continue to make the greatest efforts in getting the bill through, ... Whatever happens, it's only a matter of days.

Tim Johnson

President Bush has stated that the patients' bill of rights legislation ... is dead on arrival, ... If the president can't bring himself to sign a true patients' bill of rights, then he should let it become law without his signature just as he did when he was governor of Texas.

Dick Gephardt

President Bush has not yet lived up to his promise to be a reformer with results, ... During the campaign, he said he would fight for bipartisan bills with strong support from all Americans. But instead of putting people first, too often he has put special interests first.

Bob Bennett

President Bill Clinton has less rights than any citizen of the United States,

Manuel Pangilinan

Our net profit number is likely to lie north of 30 billion pesos -- another historic high for PLDT and for any other Philippine corporate.

Marsha Blackburn

Our nationwide hearings made it clear that Americans considered border security a matter of national security and this bill reflects that fact.

Jim Cooper

Our nation suffers when Congress fails to pay America's bills on time.

Tom DeLay

Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate, and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December,

Joseph Dunn

Price caps are not a solution to a dysfunctional market. However, they are a damage control measure until solutions are developed,

Brian Breese

Stay focused. Make sure that the Caps that you wore this year can fit you next year. Make sure that the heads don't get too large. This is one of the problems that we have in our cricket, when you taste success it goes straight to the head and you don't keep a very steady head on your shoulders.

Jack Wagner

Our weakness right now is overconfidence. Just because we haven't lost a game in two years, doesn't mean every time we put our caps on and get in the water everyone is going to roll over for us.

Ted Parrish

Large caps have the most leverage and will perform better on the earnings front, which should translate into better price performance.

Zhou Ji

Large caps are showing signs of correcting their earlier gains, indicating that the recent rally may be nearing its end.

Ronnie Bottoms

I think they're a top-five team in our region, and we want to get there. We told them it'd be nice feather in our caps to get this one.

Peter Ueberroth

If elected, I would impose stiff spending caps to rein in the out-of-control spending.

Danton Cole

I don't think our thinking caps were on to start. We took a couple dumb penalties and with their power play they make you pay. All of a sudden it's 3-0.

Brian Tora

I would of thought Dubai could come in with a higher offer that caps the PSA bid. The share price suggests Dubai may come back.

Trevor Hoffman

Regardless of how the outcome happens, it's how you get over the failures that matters more than anything else in this role, ... If you do screw up, 24 hours later, there's a chance the ball's going to be in your hand again.

Mark LaTurner

Rebounds just killed us in the first half. When you give a team two, three chances at scoring, it's going to hurt you.

Gene Rasmussen

Rebounding and second chance opportunities were a big key for us.

Aaron Harberts

Rebecca is tripping over stuff and we're just humiliating her every chance we get.

Jose Maria

Real Madrid created their chances and we couldn't have done anymore. I had the feeling we were going to be struck by an avalanche,

Li Zhi

Regulators have picked out two points this year: encouraging fund inflow to the market and revving up studies of new derivative products. The index has a good chance to test 1,300 this week.

John Barrow

Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

Dragan Cavic

Our positions are considerably different. We shall see today whether there is a chance for creating a middle ground.

John Bunting

Our players know this dismantled us in the second half, ... I think they also knew we had a chance in the first half.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

Attorney McKenna

Our mission is to make Washington the safest state in the nation for consumers and their personal information.

David Marra

People like lower prices if they can get the same quality, but convincing Japanese consumers of the quality takes a lot of time.

Marshal Cohen

Sports footwear usually is also the first place urban consumers will spend money to endorse a celebrity. As we've already seen, people will pay over $100 for the G-Unit or an S-Carter Reebok if it creates the right image for them.

Randall Baumberger

Our store should be like CES; it should be like the toy store. Our consumers are willing to try new products.

Anthony Noto

Our survey results reinforce our outlook for a continued slowdown in e-commerce sales. At this early juncture of the holiday season, consumers are not shifting a significant share of spending online from offline.

Ken Goldberg

I think there's a fantasy around technology, that technology is being promoted and envisioned as larger than it really is. I try to make people think about the limitations of technology in a way that isn't obvious or didactic.

Don Cooper

I think this is what the Yankees envisioned when he was there. I just don't think he was prepared, at that point in his life, for what he was facing there.

Jasmine Harrington

He just always envisioned a world where people respected each other.

Scott Moore

I envisioned myself as one of those guys who spent 20 years flying the same aircraft. I didn't plan on flying several types of helicopters, it just kind of worked out that way.

John Wade

I envisioned having a nice reunion, but I had no idea how great it would turn out.

Paul Mainieri

He's been a great lead-off hitter for us, just like I envisioned he would be.

Brittany Murphy

I always envisioned her looking like a spindly blonde, but she looked like me.

Kevin Rahm

I loved comedy, but I never saw myself as a sitcom guy. I envisioned myself doing an hour drama or doing movies.

Tim McGuire

My initial take is our development is well under what was envisioned in the master plan.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Damon Galgut

Literature at its fullest takes human nature as its theme. That's the kind of writing that interests me.

George Fleming

Keep your references up to speed on your job search and its results. By communicating what's going on with you and your job search, you're using your references to the fullest capacity.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Masi Oka

Even as we get older, we get in these routines - and routines are nice and comfortable - but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Savvas Halikas

I think he was, 'I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this' and he hyperventilated and passed out.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Philip Gonsalves

Some of the showers could be a little heavy, but only for short periods of time.

Andrew Ference

Our second period was awful. We started to play too much of their style.

Edmund Phelps

I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

Gwen Stefani

I was ... writing that song (with) tears streaming down my face. To me it'sa snapshot of (a) time period of my life, and ... that's the song that kind of took us around the world.

Kofi Annan

Guatemala is going through the most promising period of its recent history,

Keira Knightley

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

George Gwozdecky

I thought he did well. We didn't put a lot of pressure on him after the first period but he made some big saves.

Rick Vernon

Going back to the '60's, we're one of the only schools that plays them year in and year out. When you play somebody for that period of time you're going to have that rivalry.

Uwe Reinhardt

Price (in the Swiss system) doesn't matter, because it's set by these negotiations.

Toni Simonetti

Suffice it to say that the price of the stock is an important part of the equation.

Kate Joncas

Some of these prices are pretty hefty. Who are these people?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Although human life is priceless, we always act as if something had an even greater price than life... but what is that something?

Ashton Kutcher

I learned what a Birkin bag is from the price tag. You'll never forget what it is once you've paid for one.

David Briggs

I think (stock) prices have run up anticipating a recovery but I don't think the recovery's here yet,

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Jack Cox

I feel sorry for the (homeless) people. But what price do we pay?

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Jill Markowitz

I was a little intimidated at first. But once we started playing, I realized I could play with them, so I just tried to do my best.

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Alexander Milinkevich

It is important that the Russian authorities realize that we are sincerely willing to respect Russia's interests. But we are not going to sacrifice our interests, either.

Stephen Hill

Later, we realized if we don't get some supplies, we're going to starve,

Lynndie England

I was used by Pvt. Graner, ... I didn't realize it at the time.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Hugh Godsey

I think they realized if they didn't do that they we were going to the house.

Zack Greinke

I don't even realize how long it's been,

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.