Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard DeKaser

We have seen and I expect will continue to see a softening of demand for single-family housing that has been unmatched by a decline in construction. Eventually builders get with the program.

Joe Marsh

We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.

Samuel Palmisano

We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.

John M. Smith

We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.

Dave Lutz

What these seniors have done is impressive. I told these guys that it used to take, eight, nine, 10 years for T.J. to win 29 games, but these guys have helped build a foundation.

Anthony DeFazio

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Capt. McDonough

Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.

Arthur Stein

Whenever you build an institutional use, like a hospital, or a courthouse, there is going to be expansion, and the uses that relate to that institution are going to expand as well,

Marv Levy

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

Ronald Coase

There is no doubt that the recognition by economists of the importance of the role of the firm in the functioning of the economy will prompt them to investigate its activities more closely.

Paul Mendelsohn

Most traders will really be positioning for the October employment report. Economists are expecting that non-farm payrolls rose by approximately 50,000 during the month, providing evidence that with two straight months of employment growth, the jobs picture is finally turning around.

James Glassman

Usually economists are figuring things out after the fact, especially the Fed chairman.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.

George Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Edmund Phelps

In the 1960s, and stretching back to the 1930s, it was felt by many economists that easy money is a reliable way to increase employment.

Ha-Joon Chang

Indeed, willingness to challenge professional economists and other experts is a foundation stone of democracy. If all we have to do is to listen to the experts, what is the point of having democracy?

Tom Daschle

I think it is fair to say that there is a growing number of economists that question the stimulus,

Joe Wilcox

What these services do differently is protect the messaging environment.

Agnes Smedley

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

Philip Baggaley

The external environment is still very difficult, and we expect that they're likely to report a loss this year.

David Suzuki

Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

David Suzuki

We all live downstream

David Suzuki

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

David Suzuki

The fact of the matter is that today, stuff-selling mega-corporations have a huge influence on our daily lives. And because of the competitive nature of our global economy, these corporations are generally only concerned with one thing - the bottom line. That is, maximising profit, regardless of the social or environmental costs.

David Suzuki

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.

David R. Brower

There is no place where we can safely store worn-out reactors or their garbage. No place!

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Verna Rutherford

We are hoping and expecting all of the people who signed the petition will go vote.

Eric Ross

We are hearing the back-to-school season was good and that notebooks were particularly strong. We are expecting they are going to see normal seasonality for the industry into the fourth quarter.

Bob Derr

With this system we're playing, we're expecting that we're going to have to sub quite a bit, especially with the forwards and midfielders because they're playing the full field. They're playing up-and-down.

Carolyn Kwan

We're still expecting one more rate increase and I think this probably should not have too much of an impact overall.

Timothy Noah

You know what isn't class warfare? Progressive taxation, as in, say, expecting billionaires to pay at least as much in taxes as their secretaries. Ideally, in fact, they should pay more.

Edgar Gonzalez

When we got here, we were expecting to win and we wanted to win. Right now, we are just trying not to finish in last place. Maybe we can get (a win) out of this.

Thomas Finlan

We are also expecting several teachers to retire.

Cai Luoyi

Most traders are expecting that the bull-run in the market is unchanged. But with prices at these higher levels, and now that stability has returned after the recent volatility, traders are taking a more wait-and-see approach.

Richard G. Scott

I witness that as you gain experience and success in being guided by the Spirit, your confidence in the impressions you feel can become more certain than your dependence on what you see or hear.

Alan Greenspan

If we allow terrorism to undermine our freedom of action, we could reverse at least part of the palpable gains achieved by postwar globalization. It is incumbent upon us not to allow that to happen.

Richard Wallace

The potential returns for BHP are enormous, even after the gains recently.

Kim Rupert

The post-auction gains were used as a selling opportunity.

Elvis Picardo

This rally looks sustainable because the gains are smaller. It is not like you have a 250-point gain in one day, which is hard to keep up.

Juvenal

To gain a livelihood at the expense of all that makes life worth the having.

Bill Hybels

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Charles Spurgeon

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Qian Qichen

We won't haggle with the U.S. over a day or two's worth of gains or losses.

Lillian Gordy Carter

Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

James Rubin

Mr. Karadzic has no place to run and no place to hide, ... The noose is gradually tightening around his neck.

Lindsay Bowen

We're getting better, for sure. It's just going to keep gradually coming. We have a lot of talent, a lot of potential. It's just a matter of putting it all together to get to that higher level.

Richard P. Feynman

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

David Briggs

Maybe today is a sign that we can gradually move modestly higher without getting crazy.

Edmund Phelps

It was gradually learned that acceptance of a somewhat higher inflation rate would not really bring somewhat higher employment.

Iain Sinclair

If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

Shlomo Yosef

This treatment will last anything between 48 and 72 hours and then we will try to gradually wake the prime minister.

Steve Dunn

We are gradually showing people the value of our technology, but it is a tough market.

Peter Rice

Whenever we can, we like to improve the situation.

Travis Bradberry

Taking time to contemplate what you're grateful for isn't merely the 'right' thing to do. It also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%.

Cary Grant

I improve on misquotation.

Sue Miller

This will not only replace what you have now, it will drastically improve what you have now.

Clayton Wilcox

We did not make the kind of leapfrog improvement we need to. While I wasn't ecstatic, I'm pleased with the trend lines.

Jared Diamond

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Michael Dell

We are seeing a substantial improvement in the availability of flat-panel screens (from) two months ago,

Kevin Toney

The reason for his improvement was the work he put in in the weight room during the off-season.

Mark Lee

We still want to try and improve our playoff standing. We've got two next week so we'll have to come ready to play and see if we can't get two wins.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Stan Heath

We've seen some zones this year, but Texas-Pan American will play zone about 80 percent of the time.

Greg Sullivan

We've seen discounts up to 50 percent off, but those are not the norm.

Larry Matheis

We've seen a stabilizing of the market. We're not seeing 80 or 100 percent increases.

David Winters

What we do is quite different from 99.9 percent of Wall Street.

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Richard Hartley

We have to have a plan in place to know what we're going to do in 2006-2007.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Mullah Dadullah

We have plans for more of the same.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

John Devine

very challenging, but we plan to get it done.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

David Morrissey

Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

Jane Bryant Quinn

hindsight is not a strategy.

Tim Tebow

I think sometimes when things are taken away, then you don't realize how much fun it is to come out here and play this game. You can't play it forever, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Khloe Kardashian

I didn't realize I was the 'fat' sister until I went on TV and the media started saying that about me.

Joel Madden

When we were 15, my brother and I were getting really into Nirvana, Green Day, and The Beastie Boys. We started going to shows and realized we really wanted to be on stage.

Matt Mullenweg

When I first got into technology I didn't really understand what open source was. Once I started writing software, I realized how important this would be.

David Berry

She makes me have fun. I don't even realize I'm learning, but I am,

Bob Elek

We are getting better the more we work on this. We realize we have a lot of work going on out there.

Burmese Proverb

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old

Tim Ferguson

But we didn't realize that it was going to be that temporary.

Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.

Sergei Udaltsov

The harder they resist us, the tougher will be our response.

Billy Mayfair

Nah. It's tougher to travel with. Besides, they're dorky.

Ethan Dschaak

I think this (setback) will make us a tougher team.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Bob Henriquez

I truly have never, ever had a tougher kid. His toughness is, for me, legendary.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Brent Norberg

We did a lot defensively. We made them take some tougher shots.

Daniel Gibson

We want an up-tempo game. When we go out and we're the aggressor, we're tougher to handle.

LaDainian Tomlinson

I don't know if there's a tougher place to play.