Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doug Macdonald

Legislators and voters confirmed that they are willing to invest in highway improvements to help alleviate traffic bottlenecks and enhance safety.

Kofi Annan

Libya has confirmed its seriousness and readiness to find a solution to the Lockerbie problem,

Norm Coleman

senior Iraqi officials have confirmed that you, in fact, received oil allocations and that the documents that identify you as an allocation recipient are valid.

Saint Stephen

May those who witness the miracle be confirmed in their faith, and may you and your idols be forever disgraced!

John Cornyn

no obligation to tell us how you will rule on any issue that might come before you if you're confirmed to the Supreme Court.

Justin Pitts

One thing that I have learned lately is that every second of the day has an influence on the rest of your life; so get out there and use your God-given abilities to His glory. The Lord has really confirmed that now is the time He wanted to use me.

Jay Haines

Obviously, the savings vary depending on the home's location, as well as its construction type, its orientation to the sun, surrounding shade features and so forth. But the DOE tests confirmed a measurable and significant difference in the energy required to cool the home in all instances.

Suresh Kalmadi

Nineteen countries have already confirmed to take part in the meet and Qatar is also expected to send in the entry.

John Miller

If we have all the specifics, we have a mandate to run them down until it's either confirmed or washed out.

Alexandra Adornetto

There was that half-smirk again, playing around his lips, as if he was deciding whether the situation was amusing enough to warrant a full smile.

Douglas Adams

Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have a half a one for breakfast.

French Proverbs

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Mike Mastroianni

Making the playoffs last year is a huge part of our success this season. We played very well the second half of the season and managed to get in as the fourth-place team. I think that was really the beginning.

George Santayana

Love is only half the illusion; the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Karen Coyle

Less than half of our households have a computer. Only a third of those log on. So most people see this as being mysterious technology.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Seventy-four points at the half - that's like being at the South Pole for us.

Paul Biancardi

Second half turnovers really did us in. I think that was the real difference.

David Wood

Mineral Wells picked it up in the second half and made it a much better game.

John Benson

Mr Blunkett has also always said he is proud of his working-class background, so we hope that has not been drummed out of him by New Labour and he can find a way of helping working-class people.

Gary Jacobson

One of the ways you do that is by traveling around and helping candidates.

Tom Amstutz

Obviously, there's going to be more than one opinion. It's kind of a controversial situation. But when I look at everything, I think about helping people first. To me, no matter what someone says, it's still worth helping a young man.

Jim Cramer

When I come to work each day, whether as a commentator for TheStreet.com or a host of Mad Money With Jim Cramer, I have only one thought in mind: helping people with their money.

Charles Spurgeon

God helps those who cannot help themselves.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Dick Van Dyke

Somebody asked what I wanted on my gravestone. I'm just going to put: 'Glad I Could Help.'

Dennis Potter

A writer helps to show you things you knew but didn't know you knew.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind.

Joseph Tan

One to two percent inflation is still very tolerable.

Alice Rivlin

No one's really worried about inflation right now.

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Michael Moskow

If inflation expectations did become unhinged, this might require a stronger response,

Mark Zandi

The overall CPI does not reflect the inflation most seniors face.

Stephen Jen

With the strong labor report, strong retail sales, and the strong inflation report, market expectations of a sustainable U.S. recovery have increased.

Ludwig von Mises

Inflation is essentially antidemocratic.

Ludwig von Mises

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

Tim Bishop

Inflation outstripped real wages for people who work for pay from others.

Paul Chan

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

Lyle Gramley

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

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.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Gypsy Lee

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little lower

Edwards Deming

The result of long-term relationships is better and better quality, and lower and lower costs.

Donald Trump

I want to lower taxes for the middle class.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Deng Xiaoping

Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.

Scott Weiland

When you become a television personality, it's difficult to maintain your musical credibility.

Dirk Benedict

I maintain you can make a film/TV star out of a can of sardines.

Cate Blanchett

I find that the skills and the muscularity required to be on stage, you need to keep those up - I do, personally, in order to maintain your ability to perform on screen. You don't want to always be working in the one medium.

William Lamb Melbourne

It is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

John Messina

The point was to maintain no on-street parking spaces in the neighborhood,

Fred Tomaselli

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Jay Weatherill

I don't think the AAA is an end in itself; we will maintain prudent financial management with or without the AAA.

David Wimhurst

We have all our security people out there to maintain order. When you get thousands of people on the streets, things can get unpredictable.

Efren Barajas

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

Chris Vos

Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Jim Steiner

We still have some very serious negotiating to do between now and March 3.

Jason Lee

When I first turned pro, it was March of '89-a month before my 19th birthday.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

Masayoshi Yano

Share prices here rebounded ... after the market succumbed to profit-taking for a second straight day (on Wednesday).

Michael Carty

Sentiment, generally, is the big problem now. Even as market fundamentals are starting to improve, people are reluctant to buy,

John Yap

Sentiment around IPO stock reflects market sentiment, especially on the first day.

Corey Ostman

Semiconductors are not what the market wants to see right now.

Loren Loverde

Maybe we can't keep up the pace, but the market is healthy.

Mark Mahaney

Maybe the market wants to pay that, but I wouldn't want to do that,

Hideyuki Suzuki

Now, the market is in panic but we will see it settle down after a while.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

Next week's market is going to be big for tech companies. As long as the Nasdaq powers ahead, we're going to see more and more filings.

Timothy Noah

Markets can do many wonderful things, which is why I'm glad to live in a capitalist country.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Magic Johnson

I think that there are always goals for me to try to achieve, and I'm going to work toward those goals.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.