Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brent Thill

Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues.

Greg McBride

Pay your bills on time, and pay your debt down over time. Together, those factors account for 65 percent of your credit score.

Susan Thomson

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

Shirley Norton

Our new city administrator has been great, because I had no experience as a finance director. I am an accounting person, which is a bean counter and finance is a little different than being an accountant. Accountants are more exact and finance people have more vision. He's got the vision. He's been a good compliment to me and has helped me a lot and I really appreciate that. He's a little more involved... For the most part everybody has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

David Markowitz

People often use Internet trading accounts to try to conceal their trading activity. People don't realize with that there are different types of evidentiary trails being left behind.

Ken Worthington

Such fees help to get rid of non-profitable accounts or turn them into profitable ones.

Michael Harrison

Stern as a property is far more expendable to Clear Channel than to (Viacom), taking into account the money involved and the politics of dealing with the FCC.

Gary Ambrose

Splitting up the portfolio is more than an accounting measure. I've handled cases where the portfolios were really diverse. If I hadn't stepped in, the wife would have been stuck with capital gains that she had no clue about.

Louise Lippincott

Someone like Landseer, for example, painted (animals) like they were human, which is why we can relate to them. Landseer combines an acute observation of animal behavior with qualities more human in nature.

Edward Hirsch

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away.

David Frost

Manufacturing has persistently failed to sustain recovery and, in spite of the modest fourth-quarter improvement, faces acute threats.

James Rothman

I might have been just as happy to have been a practicing primary-care doctor. But as a medical student, I had interacted with patients suffering from neurodegeneration or acute clinical schizophrenia. It left an indelible mark on my memory.

Marshall Lichtman

We need replication in other studies but, if it is verified, it means there would be another approach to conditioning a patient that would greatly minimize acute GVHD but lead to the same beneficial effects,

Gary Lewis

It is an excellent treatment for acute promyelocytic leukemia, and has dramatically improved the cure rate and survival rate for patients with this disease. It also appears to prevent recurrence of head and neck cancer in those patients that have been treated with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy,

Phil Davies

It is nothing short of a scandal that at a time of acute housing need not a single new social dwelling was started to be built in 116 English councils.

Stanton Glantz

It doesn't take much to cause big effects. If you already have compromised coronary circulation and go into a smoky environment, there is a substantial increase in your risk of an acute event.

Rich Bond

I don't think anyone is hitting the panic button. But there is an acute recognition of the grim environment that both parties are operating in.

Greg Gibbs

Recovering equities and still overall strong commodity markets suggests that there is little broad-based concern that central bank policy tightening will curtail global economic growth and there is still adequate global liquidity chasing higher risk assets and capping risk premiums,

Richard Ptak

Recent trends are such that 'reasonable prudence and responsibility' are no longer adequate to protect executives from liability in the case of security or performance breakdown. You need to show extraordinary efforts are taken to ensure policies exist, are applied consistently and that rigorous searches to look for, identify and resolve vulnerabilities are made regularly.

Frederick Jones

Our position is that we did plan adequately for the postwar period.

David Pringle

Our position is that basically there is adequate competition in the market, which is already bringing these prices down.

Michael Osterman

Organizations of all sizes need to understand that the nature of IM-borne threats is substantially different than the threats that enter a network through email. A tool that protects against email threats is critical, but won't provide adequate protection against the growing array of threats that enter networks through IM clients.

David Riley

Our members and many of our newer members are having trouble finding adequate housing. This is in response to that.

Joe Moore

People more familiar with state government have questioned how we can guarantee that our state appropriations will be adequate to guarantee tuition.

Paul Wolfowitz

Some of the poorest developing countries lack the resources, for example, to pay farmers adequately to get rid of sick chickens.

John Fahey

Someone once said that war is God's way of teaching geography, but today, apparently war or even the threat of war cannot adequately teach geography,

Frank Graziano

Our season was never in jeopardy, ... Rebecca is a graduate assistant. She said some things out of context and with emotion. She said some things that she regrets.

Tom Daschle

Our goal is to make sure that it's done within the context of fiscal responsibility. We've got to recognize that we didn't get here by accident,

Peter Wilson

Malloway's statements were made in the context of formal police interviews. She understood she had an obligation to be truthful. The fact she was willing to take a polygraph test supports her reliability.

Andrew Heyward

Just as the enormity of Katrina has created a new context for Rita, it has also done so for us,

Richard Wilbur

That's what (Hill) died for, the right for people to protest. But I don't think a funeral is the right place or context in the way they are protesting. It's not something the family needs to hear, that we're glad your son's dead and that your minister is a whore.

Arlen Specter

I think that it would be very, very difficult for the president to explain that, in the context of information leading up to why that would be so,

Bill Callahan

I thought it was an opportunity to go for it all. I never thought in any vein or any context that it was too big. I never felt that. Never sensed that. But I did know that I had nothing to lose.

Paul Tagliabue

Guaranteed contracts, within the context of a salary cap, takes it away from a player who is playing and gives it to a player who is not playing.

Drew Gilpin Faust

I think the most important leadership lessons I've learned have to do with understanding the context in which you are leading. Universities are places with enormously distributed authority and many different sorts of constituencies, all of whom have a stake in that institution.

Barbara Moore

Statistically, they face significantly increased risk, not only of heart disease and diabetes, and hypertension and stroke, but they also face an increased risk of dying prematurely,

Salim Yusuf

Our findings suggest that substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world.

Mary Moran

Research in neglected diseases is happening and partnerships are working away on new products.

Benjamin Rush

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

Pam Finkelstein

It goes to someone that has that disease where they lose all their hair. And it goes to people who have went through chemotherapy because wigs are very expensive.

Steve Gibson

I think that some people looked for a scapegoat because we lost to Sunderland, and thats one of the diseases in football,

Charles Hennekens

Lipids are strong predictors of heart disease; CRP is a strong predictor of heart disease, and these predictors are independent of one another,

Julie Hall

It does show how one person, one case, can potentially spread the disease to a considerable number of people,

Thomas Mettenleiter

It has nothing to do with the spread of the disease or the threat of an epidemic.

John Devenanzio

Paula was so effective at what she did. I just thought she was being mean, but she was doing everything in her power she could do to make sure she didn't see me with other girls.

Jim Cain

People need to realize it can't and won't last forever. It's been effective for us and it sets us up well to introduce some new models. At this point, our plan only goes through Labor Day.

John Engler

Susan Schwab is an excellent choice. She will be a strong and effective voice for leveling the international playing field.

Lynn Miller

That could be one reason. We have always been in the top 15 percent of counties. We are very effective getting families into work activities, ... There are others variables that also come into play.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Our goal is to be effective, and the only way to be effective is to work with the Israeli government.

Jia Youling

Our vaccines are the most effective in the world.

Daniel Perez

Right now, that is the only tool that is effective in controlling avian influenza.

Steve Owens

Recycling is one of our most effective tools to protect our environment. We are glad to support efforts to increase recycling in the Nogales community.

Brenda Johnson

We need participation from the residents because this is their neighborhood and they know it better than anyone. We want them to share that knowledge with us so we can be as effective as possible.

Loesje

Recent research has proven: Trains do not run on time but on electricity

Derek Jeter

Player-wise, we just try to make it another game. But it?s kind of hard to do that when you have the electricity at the stadiums. The fans play a huge part in setting the tone for the series.

Joerg Haider

Jewish shopkeepers can do what they want, if they want to save electricity, they can do that too.

Greg Panter

That's water we're not going to generate electricity with.

Jane Krakowski

I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.

Judith Yaphe

I think for most Iraqis it's not a big issue. The big issues are water, electricity and security.

Greg Walden

I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.

James Lancaster

Basically, the electricity in my heart wasn't working correctly.

Alex Young

Imagine if your hair was to stand up from static electricity, that's kind of what the corona looks like all around the sun.

B. B. King

What we're doing right now is working with our school officials, making sure students are isolated and stay out of school during the infectious period, which is nine days.

Rousas John Rushdoony

Some people are by nature slaves and will always be so.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation."

Barry Lopez

When we enter the landscape to learn something, we are obligated, I think, to pay attention rather than constantly to pose questions. To approach the land as we would a person, by opening an intelligent conversation. And to stay in one place, to make of that one, long observation a fully dilated experience. We will always be rewarded if we give the land credit for more than we imagine, and if we imagine it as being more complex even than language. In these ways we begin, I think, to find a home, to sense how to fit a place.

Berthe Morisot

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Lloyd Carr

Obviously, there is a sense of urgency about this week that's very special, that perhaps is different.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Alexander McCall Smith

You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures.

Doug Tygar

We probably don't want to be relying on passwords as we do.

Michael Young

I just want to be a little more consistent. I've been relying a lot on instincts.

Mary Chapman

They are relying too much on first impressions

Tom Daschle

I think that it is important for us to have an independent commission, as I've said now on several occasions, but it truly should be independent,

Rob Kardashian

I won state cross-country competitions several times during high school.

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Hilary Clinton

he could have made that statement several weeks earlier, in time for the holidays.

Edward Gramlich

I think it is more than several weeks for me!

Brian Archer

It could be several weeks before we know the damage,

Matthew Lillard

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Mayor Hassig

There are several threads here of futures you can choose.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Jamie Shea

Part of our strategy is to be able to effectively encircle Yugoslavia for 360 degrees.

Bill Toohey

Our strategy with someone like this is ... surround and talk. And we will talk for a long time.

Sam Bhavnani

One thing that is challenging Dell is its strategy towards higher-end products,

Patricia Grogan

We need to put a clear, structured suicide preventions strategy in place,

Don Frye

My strategy is just to attack, attack and attack.

Donald Trump

And whereas [Donald] Trump let two or three hanging curveballs go by, [Mike] Pence will not, unless they have a strategy to let them go by.

Charles J. Givens

Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

Lauren Cercone

We're going to set our strategy and do what we think it takes to win. It won't be cheap.

Bill Gates

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it.

Behati Prinsloo

I eat healthy and stay active and drink plenty of water.

Bill Engvall

I've never read a kayak manual, but I'm pretty sure page one says 'Use in water.'

Cecil Beaton

What is elegance? Soap and water!

Bethany Hamilton

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

Benjamin Rush

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Bill Burr

I never wanted to spend a month away from my life. One time I was out on the road for three weeks in a row and I when I came back someone had broken into my apartment and the water had evaporated from the toilet.

James Oliveira

He didn't wipe the water off the doors.

Deke Thompson

I already know I'm about to be a waterfall of tears.