Famous Quotes & Sayings

Quincy Krosby

There is competition for customers, and banks are sweetening the yields.

Paul Xiradis

The outlook for the banks has improved substantially in the past six months. Housing lending has held up better than expected and business lending has been very, very strong.

Eric Maskin

A contingent bailout policy - implicit or explicit - must be coupled with some regulation of what banks can and cannot do. For example, a ban on lending to uncreditworthy customers might well make sense.

Lou Jiwei

In 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed, we anticipated that Europe was going to have a very different bailout scheme than the U.S. because of their different political systems and different relationships between the central banks and the fiscal authorities.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Maxim Medvedkov

The position on banks and insurance has not changed. We consider their opening as impossible.

Yoshihisa Okamoto

We are possibly facing one of the worst periods, with profit warnings likely to come out some more, and banks and corporations are stepping up unloading of cross-held shares into September,

Rakesh Mohan

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

Tim Mazanec

There are continued expectations of more Fed rate increases, whereas with other central banks we may only see a one- off move here and there. The reasons to be in the dollar outweigh any other currency.

John Banville

When you're writing there's a deep, deep level of concentration way below your normal self. This strange voice, these strange sentences come out of you.

Brandon Burks

We've shot below 300 the last few rounds. It's just a matter of finding the right guys.

Rep. Bentz

We have had a great deal of Katrina issues. It was a big learning curve for us and people in the utility industry. The most important thing we need to do is ensure people have reliable electric, phone, gas and water services and keep the rates at or below national averages.

Rob Gould

The fact is that since the passage of the Maryland electric industry restructuring law in 1999, BGE residential customers have benefited from a substantially lower rate structure ... well below the market rates paid in other parts of the country. BGE has no choice but to procure power at prevailing market rates. Every dollar deferred is a dollar that might not be invested in infrastructure for the utility.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.

Barry Hyman

The productivity numbers today (Thursday) and tomorrow's (Friday's) report do nothing to support a bullish market. I would be concerned if we saw the unemployment drop below 4 percent because that would show the economy is not slowing down.

Tempestt Bledsoe

'Cosby' opened up so many people's vision to something that they had never seen before or really contemplated before and exposed them to things that were going on that were completely below their radar.

Mohsin Hamid

Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island, that the grass below we was an ocean, that the leaves were the fins of sharks. Perhaps unlike many people, I never really stopped. I still have a childlike predisposition to fantasise and share my fantasies.

J. Hoover

We are pleased with our results in a challenging 2005, even though the 4% improvement in diluted earnings per share from operations was below our goal to increase those earnings 10% to 15% per year over time.

Dan Bartlett

What the public wants is back-to-basics governance and decision-making. This is not a situation in which it changes overnight or that there's a 'Hail Mary' pass that changes the dynamic. . . . There's not a magic bullet.

Dale Dutt

We've seen some changes in testing, I can test a sample of hay--after I get it to the lab -- in as little as ten minutes, if I do a wet test.

Ralph Edwards

We've seen many changes and enjoyed them all, ... I still find 'live' the most exciting, particularly for my type of shows.

Marta Koesling

The fact is, (we have) a very dynamic place. It changes to meet provider needs, and the staff is really good if people want and need help.

Donna Brazile

The process continues to be wide open. But ultimately I think we will make some changes. We don't know yet exactly how those changes will be done.

Jim Bianco

The problem with the Greenspan Fed is that it has been a 'make it up as you go along' Fed. There is no philosophy with Greenspan. He changes his mind about all of this stuff.

Francis Baron

There is no doubt that the performances of the England team since the 2003 Rugby World Cup have been unacceptable and that changes have to be made if we are to turn things round.

Carl Steidtmann

The process is slow in happening. The level at which the consumer starts making changes is pretty inelastic, In other words, it takes a high threshold of pain before they start making changes.

Eddie Jones

Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Edwin Soeryadjaya

We know our responsibilities to our investors, and one of our challenges has always been preventing foreign investors from thinking that Indonesia is not a good place to invest.

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Jose Rizal

Perhaps the great American Republic, whose interests lie in the Pacific and who has no hand in the spoliation of Africa, may someday dream of foreign possession.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Tim Jones

She is representing this trend of foreign students or people who are visitors to the province who are running into problems.

Achmad Faisal

We want our prices to better reflect the fluctuations taking place in the global market.

Lou Jiwei

There are three main pillars of China's economy. One is export, which is limited by sluggish global demand. The second is investment. In many sectors, there is already too much investment and overcapacity. The third is consumption.

Rob Hughes

We are a true globally distributed work force.

Kate Bush

As we become this one global culture, in some ways it's things like the weather and nature that still hold our culture as unique to where we are.

Kathleen Sebelius

In many ways, human health is the great global connector.

Thomas Friedman

Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain.

Ertharin Cousin

Unfortunately, the world pays attention when the media shines a light on those in need, which is why it's so important that we maintain the global public will that is necessary to meet the needs of those we serve.

David Bowers

The reflation trade is back on. We are seeing more optimism about the global economy.

Donald Fagen

September 11, on a global scale, and my mother dying, on a personal level, were the two major things that got me thinking about all of this.

Goran Persson

We stand for improved unemployment benefit, they stand for worse. So people can choose.

Shirley Pogue

We have improved the quality of life for so many people.

Rich Bahner

We're still playing young, but we've improved a lot these last two weeks.

Natalie Taylor

We're getting to know one another. We've really improved from last week to this week. We worked as a team and communicated a lot more.

Joseph Nye

She has enormously improved the Wilson School, ... I've said to my successor, you've got to look over your back.

Simon van der Meer

Since then, I have worked with the group that commissioned and improved the ring and that is now preparing the construction of a second ring to increase the p stacking rate by an order of magnitude.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Lehmann, Kahn and Hildebrand have all improved this season,

Nathan Watson

Last year we improved our times at every meet. As long as we can do that I will be pretty satisfied.

Jay Freese

She's improved a lot from last year and is in a new role. Autumn's inside this year instead of being out on the wing.

John Updike

For some of us, books are intrinsic to our sense of personal identity.

Al Jarreau

I'm saved every day by the intrinsic value of the work I do, which I truly enjoy.

Adonal Foyle

You have to start making those an intrinsic part of what you do. I think the more we do that, the better we're going to be as a team.

Eugene Fama

In an efficient market at any point in time the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Kim Il-sung

I am sure you have seen for yourselves and sensed how the Korean people feel towards the United States here in our country.

Inbee Park

There are calm Korean players and not calm. There are calm Western players.

Clint Eastwood

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

Brian Tee

I've always been a fan of Korean cinema but never really pursued it, as I wanted to pave my way here in the States. I figured, once I established myself here, Korea might take notice. And it did.

Jay Lefkowitz

We will be in a position relatively soon to welcome North Korean refugees in the United States.

Chuck Feeney

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Kim Young-ha

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

Donald Sterling

I like Korean employees and I like Korean tenants,

Min-sik Choi

Western ghosts are evil, but Korean ghosts are about making peace. That is part of our Korean psyche.

Michel Brunache

We have no objection that he travel if ultimately this is what needs to be done for him to get treatment.

Alan McCoy

We have needs for people with specific backgrounds and training." ()

Alan Sugar

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Roy Blunt

The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,

Brian Cox

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Brian Eno

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Boomer Esiason

Small businesses no longer need to feel like a deer in the headlights when considering constructing or updating their Web sites. With ClickThings what you see is what you get, unlike some other competitive Web-based Website building tools.

Diane Wood

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Dee Brown

When he got back in, he made his presence known.

Odette Annable

Richard Gere's got this very old-school Hollywood charm. He has a presence that when he's in a room you just feel him. I mean, I'm married, but he's sexy!

Jane Austen

She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Nancy Young

We're still going to have a significant presence in Alabama.

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Ira Glass

There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.

Pam Smith

Without that presence being out there, we are not stimulating new business.

Jeff Fisher

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

Charles Dickens

There is no substitute for thoroughgoing, ardent, and sincere earnestness.

Thomas Steinbeck

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Kris Kristofferson

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

John Hull

We started giving presentations at practitioner conferences in 1986, and since then all of our derivatives research has been stimulated by contact with practitioners.

Kristin Gore

I've seen some version of 'An Inconvenient Truth' since I was born.

Charles M. Schulz

How can we lose when we're so sincere?

Benny Hill

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Neve McIntosh

I've been a 'Doctor Who' fan since I was a wee girl.

Lindsay Lohan

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Carole Bouquet

When you're young, all the accidents, all the pain you take them; but at least you're very strong. In fact through time, it's just adding more and more pain; more and more loss, and it makes you more fragile.

Carlos Boozer

Too strong for that Bron Bron.

Carlos Castaneda

Fright is something one can never get over. When a warrior is caught in such a tight spot he would simply turn his back to the ally without thinking twice. A warrior cannot indulge thus he cannot die of fright. A warrior allows the ally to come only when he is good and ready. When he is strong enough to grapple with the ally he opens up his gap and lurches out, grabs the ally, keeps him pinned down and maintains his stare on him for exactly the time he has to, then he moves his eyes away and releases the ally and lets him go. A warrior, my little friend, is the master at all times

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same: they lead nowhere. ... Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't, it is of no use. Both paths lead nowhere; but one has a heart, the other doesn't. One makes for a joyful journey; as long as you follow it, you are one with it. The other will make you curse your life. One makes you strong; the other weakens you.

Agnetha Faltskog

I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow.

Agnes Smedley

There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

Agnes Varda

The story of a couple is always very fragile, especially over more than thirty years. People know it's not easy, and even though you have strong feeling and desire and endless love, it doesn't always happen.

Agnes Varda

I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to war and not recovering from it. People have been robbed and beaten. A lot of people have had strong events in their life, which I didn't.

Agnes Varda

You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.

Jane Addams

The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.

Jane Austen

She was stronger alone…

Janet Jackson

When you hear bad things about yourself, just put your energies into something else; it's no good crying about it. Just put it into your music - it'll make you stronger.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Jane Goodall

You better not mess with chimps. They are much stronger than humans.

Bob Marley

I went deep inside myself. I had time to explore my beliefs and because of that I'm stronger. Bob Marley (March 1981)

Adam Pine

We've always had it in us. The men's team will keep getting stronger and stronger.

Ai Weiwei

If you don’t act, the danger becomes stronger.

Bill Richardson

Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, our nation is stronger when we are respected throughout the world

Wendell Perkins

We know how to value companies. And we go where the value is.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Michael Cloherty

Yields have cheapened up, but if the Fed's going to go further, they still may not have value at that level.

Tom Kuefler

We see the value of having our dealers involved.

Roy Blunt

This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.

Christine Callies

We think there's a lot of value in semiconductors.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,