Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

Daniel Rosen

Our overwhelming problem is our representatives are voting according to how the moneybag supporters want them to vote.

O. Singh

Peace and happiness shall fill your mind deep within, if you act according to truth and self discipline.

Shaukat Sultan

Our men returned fire after being attacked by the miscreants, and according to our information between 15 to 20 terrorists have been killed in the retaliatory fire.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Adam Smith

Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.

Tim Danson

Steve Moore had no control over the timing of the incident. This was our (legal) limitation period. We had two years from the date, according to our theory of the case.

Ed Epping

Statistics tell us that when you have 10 medical incidents ? then you're going to have a lost-time accident. We're up to 13 or 14 medical incidents, so we're overdue for a lost-time accident, according to statistics. That's why we must be more cautious than ever before, because statistics tell us we're overdue for one.

Katie Hafner

Spurred by the unlimited texting plans offered by carriers like AT&T Mobility and Verizon Wireless, American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the Nielsen Company - almost 80 messages a day, more than double the average of a year earlier.

Idotha Neal

Rehab is occurring all around us. However, there is a significant funding gap keeping the buildings from being financially viable for high capacity developers.

Joey Spatafora

Reliable power to this building is a chronic issue.

Shelley Smith

Our players have taken more ownership of the team and responsibility for improving their play. They are doing what it takes to get better, working hard physically and improving their mindset of the game. With that they are building confidence and that will help as they try to maximize their potential. Our team knows that we were stronger last year then the results showed and understand the importance of consistent play.

Ron Mosby

Our objective is to ensure the building is occupied -- that it just doesn't sit vacant.

Ruth Luban

People have to know that just because the refugee has landed in a new job, they're not necessarily safe, ... It's about building resilience, holding your boundaries, not giving 80-100 hours a week to the job and not losing your identity to the job.

Robert Whiteley

People often forget about management tools when they're building a new network or looking at the one they have. Most hardware vendors provide management software with their products these days, but there is a whole tier of software that can give visibility into the network as a whole.

Joan Claybrook

Such lavish travel gives lobbyists an inside track with lawmakers ... and could even be interpreted as building the groundwork for legislative favors.

Tony Boyle

Staying away for the weekend is an excellent way of building team spirit.

Bill Hogan

Stan Buchanan (a starter on the 1955 NCAA champion USF team) surprised me when he mentioned a few years ago that the team had always wanted rings but did not receive them, so we started a process of building an event to honor this distinguished group.

Sam Tilley

Referring the issue to the UN Security Council moves Iran a step closer to possible sanctions, which despite Iran's claims otherwise could lead to Iran halting its oil exports.

Jim Brady

Passport Health has been a competitor for many years and we are honored that they selected us as the claims management partner for their customers. We are excited about having the opportunity to serve the Passport Health customer base, and look forward to meeting their claims management needs with our comprehensive solution.

Adam Ereli

Such violence is inconsistent with LTTE claims to be committed to the peace process.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Loren Smith

Statistically, it's hard to judge on numbers as low as 100 from year to year. A better yardstick is the overall number of claims that were investigated.

Tom Gallagher

Our priority now is to get any outstanding hurricane claims paid as quickly as possible.

Geoff Mulgan

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

Lara Rhame

It is a modest dollar negative; the trade data combined with the claims data, but the focus this morning is very much on digesting the BOJ and on payrolls tomorrow.

Mario Cuomo

People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.

John Davidson

It is a certificate company. They really give you part of the security for the Internet and the certification is really an important part in the security. I think as you go forward and do more commerce on the Internet they'll continue to be very strong.

Claudia Jones

The people in Englewood should not suffer because they have a congressman on the Energy and Commerce Committee.

Thomas Jefferson

Money, not morality, is the principle of commerce and commercial nations

Sonja Rudd

New home sales surprised the experts. The Commerce Department said that new home sales were up by 13.8% for March, and last week used home sales were up as well. One economist says that the housing market still has a lot of room to maneuver and that a slump is more like a 'soft landing' for 2006. The 30-year mortgage is averaging 6.49% nationwide.

Steve Ballmer

Today's announcements underscore our commitment to executing decisively and rapidly in the online services space by forming a seasoned management team that is dedicated to improving and facilitating commerce for consumers,

Jodie Bernstein

We don't intend to let a handful of rogues erode consumer confidence in Internet commerce or Internet auctions.

Aydin Tuncer

When some kind of major hiccup occurs in the U.S. market, these companies will be the first to take a hit. These companies are 1 percent of the electronic commerce industry right now. They're a small piece of the pie they're all trying to get a slice of.

Walter Ulbricht

The more you participate in our common endeavors, the more successful your work in the factory, mine, wharf or village, in an economic institute or in the arts, in commerce or administration, the sooner we will be where we all want to be.

Bob Ulrich

Our sales for the month of December were at the upper end of our expectations, driven in part by a higher mix of promotional sales,

Philip Turner

Our goal is that we will have 18 graduates in December 2006 and they will stay in the community.

David Greenlaw

Overall retail sales growth in December should be robust.

Marshall Cohen

Retailers have recognized that December has 31 days.

Douglas Porter

Manufacturing posted a solid rebound in December from weakness the prior month, but it is far from out of the woods.

Charlotte Jones

I think there has been a pick-up in the last three months of the year, even though December is not yet done and dusted.

Jim Press

I think December is going to be a great month, ... There is a lot of inventory coming, new products. We will have a December to remember and forget October.

John Ryding

I think it's much more likely that Greenspan gives us a quarter-point cut, and then comes back at the November or December meeting with another quarter-point cut.

Richard Foreman

I think that should set up a very positive picture for the December quarter, subject to execution.

Claes Thorson

Our last request was suspended by the State Department until further notice.

Tasia Scolinos

O.P.R. routinely looks into issues of this kind. They will not be making a determination on the lawfulness of the N.S.A. program, but rather will determine whether the department lawyers complied with their professional obligations.

Andy Agle

People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.

Mark Rubin

Susan Robinson was the first of the co-defendants to provide a truthful statement that helped the Duluth Police Department solve the case,

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Jerry Woods

Really just taking a look at each department individually and making sure it is up to the standards that we expect out of any one of our homes.

Edward Rhine

We've tried hard to communicate, to keep the number of rumors down. We've sent home a letter from the department of health. We just hope we've done a good enough job.

Dave Marmon

I was just trying to take your mind off things. A guy with the Missoula rural fire department was working with your husband, and you heard him say 'critical' on the radio, and I was trying to take your mind off that.

Cecilia Zalkind

I think there was a sense that children's services needed to be a greater priority and that organizing under one department might ensure that that happens.

Charles Grassley

Some of the things they're recommending were hot issues in the 1990s, and they were dropped after being pushed by predecessors of mine very strongly and just didn't get anywhere.

Kevin Yates

I think the meet went better than planned. Most dropped time. Some who weren't even tapered for sectionals dropped time.

Romeo Crennel

That would have helped if we would've made that play. He just dropped it, it looked like to me.

Brad Kassell

That was probably the key to the victory. Every time they dropped back to pass he was getting harassed. Those guys up front dominated.

Sarah Graham

I was pretty horrified about what I was seeing. So I looked up and started screaming at the guy, and that's why I dropped the camera.

Tom Higgins

I was pleased that he dropped the pass and we went right back to him and he got in sync.

Lynn LaFree

I was originally going to run the 100, the 220 and the 440. But there were going to be heats for the event and I didn't think I could run all three with all the heats without being exhausted. So I dropped the 220, which I probably could have won and ran the 440. As it turned out, had I won the 220 as well, I would have won the team state championship by myself.

Henry Ward Beecher

It gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun

Caitlin Rose

I went to community college for about a year but I'd started taking music seriously by then so I dropped out.

Stan Heath

Steven fell awkwardly and tweaked his back. He had a sharp pain.

Ron Mason

Some of these people fell through the cracks.

Bob Good

Some of the fellows say they don't remember that, but I remember a lot of it.

Rose Johnson

Someone kept me from drowning, when I fell into the water.

Bryant Hilton

Our financial footing just fell out from under us.

Tom Collen

Out of the shoot, we fell prey to a team that was fired up. When I watched them lose to Temple the other night, I knew we were in trouble.

Julissa Ventura

I went to visit the school and just fell in love with the campus.

Arron Afflalo

I was just trying to mainly guard the 3-point shot. But, he's (Steele) so quick, he made a sudden stop and gained enough space to get a look. Fortunately, it just fell short.

Sidney Crosby

That was a nice goal. I don't know why he fell over. But he did a good job of putting it in.

John Prescott

Refurbishing I've done in the first three years and I'm still giving housing money, of course, to the north.

Jay Speer

People who live in higher-cost housing markets are really hurting.

E. Hicks

We never (talked about) housing because we thought it was too much of a hurdle.

Carl Brown

I think the spike in permits, in retrospect, should have been somewhat predictable. But the strength of the housing market throughout the year was surprising.

Ariel Sharon

It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,

Jeff Neal

It is my understanding that the housing in Middletown is privately owned and managed. It is not owned or managed by the state of Rhode Island.

S. Hughes

I think it will be considerably more. The way housing is, it doesn't matter who you market it to.

Anthony Chan

I would say that momentum (in the housing market) probably will not continue, since you don't see the same strength in permits that you do in construction,

Jeff Jones

Basically, what it means is we have a jobs to housing imbalance in the area,

Ian Shepherdson

Overall, the labor market is improving, but progress is still slow,

James Campbell

Get us the cargo, and we'll get you the labor.

Michael Wasserman

I think it's a tremendous help. You've got people of all walks of life who are represented by labor unions. I think that's tremendous when you have that kind of support.

Paul Gurgol

I have labor pains right now -- I'm pregnant with all this stuff.

Adam Smith

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

Source Unknown

Labor is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art.

Harley Shaiken

Labor is in some pretty tough rapids right now.

Ella Wilcox

Here, on this side of the grave,Here, should we labor and love.

Tim Heekin

I don't think we're going to be able to see anything much until we at least get past Labor Day,

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Steve Hutchinson

He's been thrown into the fire. It was the lowest of the lows. In my rookie year, he was getting booed off the field. Of anybody, I'm proudest of Matt.

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.

David Davis

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

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.

Richard Daley

A newspaper is the lowest thing there is.

Dave Dasgupta

Traditionally the first and second quarters have the lowest losses.

Vijay Singh

Tomorrow I've got to do it again, I have to shoot the lowest round I possibly can.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Bob Bowlsby

They called and notified me they'd like to talk with Steve and I noted their interest. That's all there was to it.

Mark Williams

Probably Adelaide (deserve it), they're on top. It's a noted thing to win the McClelland Trophy.

Alcee Hastings

It pains me to report that progress noted in the pre-election period was undermined by significant deficiencies in the count.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

C. S. Lewis

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

C. S. Lewis

The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them.

Cecelia Ahern

Age is just a number, not a state of mind or a reason for any type of particular behaviour.

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Brian Collins

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Maurice Cheeks

I think it starts tomorrow. We have to start evaluating and find out where we are and see what it takes to get better.

Lauren Bacall

There were times, sure, I wanted my career to go better. But once it starts to go downhill, you can never get back, or only to some degree.

Jay Hopson

It all starts with him. He can do it all.

Sven Eriksson

He showed he is important even if he starts on the bench.

Joan Van Ark

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

Leslie Sloane

She's OK. She starts work in about two weeks.

Jack Smith

We are going to take it to them. Zero-zero starts the game.

Mo Ibrahim

If Sudan starts to crumble, the shock waves will spread.

Tim Ritchey

We will know more after he starts galloping,

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.