Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

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.

Al Rosen

The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.

Maxim Medvedkov

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

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

The plus reading will definitely pave the way for an end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy monetary policy and the market has not factored this in yet.

Don Horner

We are proud to be the only bank servicing the Sand Island community and are pleased to provide an expanded facility to all of the customers in the area.

Gerhard Schroeder

We want to send a clear signal that the region can very much rely on the fact that we are not just talking about providing assistance, but that we really want to help, and will help,

Chogyam Trungpa

Things get very clear when you're cornered.

Lorraine Toussaint

I love to see how a character unfolds off the page in a project. I don't always know how the character is going to turn out, even with the script being there. It's not always clear where that character is going to take me. Or where I will take them.

Douglas Altabef

The potential is that there could have been a surprise that could have influenced the Fed next Tuesday, and clearly that hasn't happened. But employment is a lagging indicator. So the report is not a reflection of where the economy is going, but where it's been.

Peter Varney

The position remains as we have clearly stated it on many occasions.

Erik Friedly

The people who were involved in this, it's still pretty clear in their minds. Jim Sullivan is one of the big ones.

Barbara Ryan

The only company which is a clear growth vehicle in our view is Schering-Plough.

Grover Cleveland

Unswerving loyalty to duty, constant devotion to truth, and a clear consciencewill overcome every discouragement and surely lead the way to usefulness andhigh achievement.

Sean Tipton

We are pretty clear that egg freezing is a pretty experimental technology and should only be offered to patients in that context. We think there might be a rush to offer this service before it's completely reliable.

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

Gary Campbell

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

James Carrick

We are seeing a gentle recovery going on in retail sales at this stage, which I expect to get stronger going forward. The pickup in the housing market should have a general wealth effect, making consumers happier to go out and spend.

Alan Ackerman

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Steve Makein

We always feel good going into any match. We're focusing on individual match-ups and scoring as many points as we can.

Sen Hooser

Working with my colleagues, we're focusing on making that a reality.

Matt Smith

We're focusing on what our program is going to be rather than what it was.

Scott Sandelin

We're focusing on Thursday and to hopefully play three games there. We're not satisfied just to get there.

Mark Groesbeck

We're focusing on preservation of capital. I'm telling them to be happy with modest returns.

Emily Cochran

We're focusing on ourselves -- our plays, not their plays.

Tim Adams

We're focusing on open markets ... we're focusing on a successful Doha (global trade) round,

David Gray

We're focusing more on the botanicals as opposed to more the fruit-driven infusions.

Suzanne Isidor

We're really focusing on the things that worked and keeping them going.

Charles Stanley

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

Alan Clark

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Mike Harris

We want them to understand we're here to help and do everything we can,

Javier Solana

We want to see how we can help organize the transfer.

Chogyam Trungpa

Helping others is a question of being genuine and projecting that genuineness to others. This way of being doesn't have to have a title or a name particularly. It is just being ultimately decent.

David Shuster

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime.

David Schwimmer

I love helping someone else tell their story, but I like being the storyteller sometimes.

David Koechner

All of those measures of relationships that you have in your life help feed your and inform your ability to act.

Dave Barry

Seriously? You won’t help me?” “Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

Dave Chappelle

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Charles Holliday

Ultimately, it will be higher prices for the consumer.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Mark Richt

We're just trying to get better down there, ... We just need to get more (touchdowns). We're not going to get a touchdown every time, but we need to get a higher percentage of them.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Alan Rickman

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Al Pacino

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

Childe Hassam

I do not always find the streets interesting, so I wait until I see picturesque groups and those that compose well in relation to the whole.

David Minge

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

David McCullough

The most interesting people are never perfect.

David Korten

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

Kemal Dervis

Turkey could not have obtained loans under better conditions.

Ben Bernanke

All the Federal Reserve can do is make loans against collateral.

Jean Chatzky

I've never been a fan of loans between relatives or friends. They can divide relationships.

Mark Milner

These non-traditional loans transfer risk to the borrower.

Scott Hoyt

It just suggests that consumers, particularly lower-end consumers, are going to be more stretched when these loans reset, with potentially negative implications for spending growth.

Dave Barry

Smee! Raise the Ladies!

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Tom Rogers

What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.

Isabella Rossellini

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.

Matt Zito

Lucent is trading at around $10 so how in the world are they going to raise capital?

The Mighty Hannibal

I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.

Justin Trudeau

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

Barbara Ehrenreich

I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.

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.

Sam Bhavnani

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

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.

Bill Toohey

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

Jamie Shea

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

Bill Gates

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

Patricia Grogan

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