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.

Edward M. Lerner

One of the bedrock principles of physics is the conservation of energy. In this universe, energy can be neither created nor destroyed.

Nativo Lopez

We are here to make a tough statement right in the bedrock of the anti-immigrant movement.

John Sprague

Now, the railroad is in the top five employers in the city. They pay very good wages for employees, they're stable. When you look at our portfolio of businesses and diverse business activities, this is one of our bedrock companies.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, we're going to head down the hill, looking for bedrock and heading toward Home Plate,

Ivan Seidenberg

From our perspective, our (service) job is never done. Service is our most important issue. It's the bedrock of our company.

Bill Ackman

Preserving the 30-year prepayable fixed-rate mortgage - it's like the bedrock of the housing system - is critical.

Shelley Fabares

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

Lynn Flewelling

Setting is the bedrock of your story. If you choose a real-world backdrop, be certain you get your facts straight.

Jim Steets

When they blasted the bedrock in the late 1960s to early 1970s for the construction of various facilities, they created seams. Do they know exactly where those seams are? I don't think they do, but the seams created flow paths toward the river.

Ken Schwarz

We've seen other dinner theaters in Central Jersey come and go, but I'm confident we're doing it right because we're still going strong.

Jim Holt

The problem with this program is its premise that the state's central bureaucracy should control all facilities construction.

Scott Shane

Mr. Ford's decision to pardon Richard M. Nixon for any crimes he might have been charged with because of Watergate is seen by many historians as the central event of his 896-day presidency.

Thomas Lennon

There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house can be recognized by its steep roof, massive central chimney and utter porchlessness. Some of those houses have a second-story overhang, emphasizing their medieval look.

Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center. We've become a real central donation place.

Barbara Morgan

We've already taken several truckloads of donations to the convention center, ... We've become a real central donation place.

William Bass

We've already got 13,000 homes planned in Central Oahu, and traffic is just unbearable. We'd like to see some requirements put on the development, now. Maybe they will have to make more concessions.

Charles Sims

We have no plans to convert to an income trust.

Hines Ward

We started off fast. And for the most part, we made plays when we needed to make them, but we didn't convert third downs and were in too many third-and-long situations.

Bob Stoops

When we did protect him, we didn't convert our opportunities.

Mark Boyd

Many of these ships still have 20 or 30 years of life left in them and can accommodate several hundred passengers in great comfort. We will take a retired cruise ship and convert every two to three cabins into luxury suites and sell them to investors.

Bryant McGill

Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.

Mike Drass

We made a lot of mistakes and have to learn from those mistakes. They converted four fourth-down conversions. We have to play better in those crucial situations if we are going to keep playing for the next 10 games and hopefully further.

John Morley

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Samantha Shannon

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.

German Proverbs

Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Valentino Castellani

We have resolved all the financial problems. The venues are pretty much all ready,

Neil MacKinnon

There is a whiff of stagflation here that will be disconcerting for financial investors.

Brady Corbet

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Timothy Johnson

We have to go to the gold mines to dig. If we do not do that, we will not survive.

Alan Kay

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Byron Katie

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Buddy Hackett

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Carlos Santana

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Alan Greenspan

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

John Russell

We're in a much more stable construction market now, no longer impacted by those market pressures.

Rhoda Katz

We live in a place where there are a lot of people who started out with us that are no longer here. But this is so different, to lose all of these wonderful, vibrant people at once. There is just a pall over this place.

Brandon Boyd

I've been painting and drawing and taking pictures as long as I've been writing music - and I've actually been drawing longer than I've been writing music.

Kevin Tynan

Whether longer term that actually makes a difference, I have questions about that.

Eric Schmitt

We're going to see a longer PC lifespan,

Susan McDermott

Since she's no longer competing, we won't be using that ad. It doesn't make sense.

Ron Gardenhire

Sit him out any longer and you're going to have to send him out on a rehab. We need to get him in the lineup and let him play.

Irving Layton

Since I no longer expect/ anything from mankind except/ madness,/ meanness, and mendacity;/ egotism,/ cowardice,/ and/ self-delusion,/ I have stopped/ being a/ misanthrope.

Lee Peterson

Since he is innocent, we don't want him sitting there any longer than he has to.

Lauren Kellin

We usually get it done somehow. We've always been a third-period team. As soon as we put all three periods together, we feel there will be no stopping us.

Sugar Ray Leonard

When you're a boxer, there is a lot of downtime and long periods of inactivity.

Timothy Bottoms

Even though I was concentrating on that two-week period from September 11th to September 20th, I was seeing the policy for real, happening, that we were talking about in the film.

Richard Donnell

Vendors are going to have to be more realistic about prices. We are going to see a prolonged period of underperformance.

Tim Finchem

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth.

Steve Salwei

We started out real flat. Once we got that first period out of the way, we started playing a little better.

Bill Clinton

We have had the most unbelievable relationship over a very long period of time.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

Billy Donovan

We've got a very quick turnaround. We're going to have to get a lot done in a very short period of time.

Susan George

What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

Mark Constant

Merrill Lynch is still quite profitable in a very tough year.

Clive Beddoe

We'll be profitable in the third quarter. There's no question about that.

Keerti Melkote

We recently turned in our first profitable quarter.

Prakash Karat

Disinvestment of shares in profitable public sector units is not the proper way to raise resources.

Jeff Wright

It's been better than we expected. We're profitable after only two months.

Nancy Bell

It's important to have documentation that it is going to be a profitable business,

Kevin Cox

They can test this marketplace, ... They don't have to sign a long-term lease. If they would take such a chance, they'd find it to be quite profitable and beneficial, as would the traveling public.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Carolyn Beck

We're trying to reduce that and save lives.

Jeff Miller

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.

Leila Janah

Most of us working on poverty alleviation simply want to know, 'How much poverty can I reduce for every dollar I donate?'

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Bruce Douglas

We are required to do it. We have to do it.

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Beck

I hadn't done much rapping in a while. I really wasn't sure I was going to do that any more. For a couple years I thought I was done with that. It wasn't really required of me.

Evan Osnos

To Confucius, harmony was consensus, not conformity. It required loyal opposition.

Asia Argento

Most of the time nothing much is required of directors, which is a pity.

Winston Churchill

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required

Leo Kipfstuhl

It required us to put on more workers.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Nicholas Burns

We're just going to reserve any kind of commendation for the Belgrade government.

Michael Callahan

We always reserve the right to get better.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Elizabeth Warren

If Federal Reserve loans are subsidies, it doesn't show up in the federal budget.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.