Famous Quotes & Sayings

While it may be reasonable to expect that prices will, in due course, ease from the exceptional levels of recent months, I have little doubt they will remain above their long-run averages for a number of years. As a consequence, the outlook for 2006 is very encouraging.

With oil at above US$67 per barrel, this is likely to once again raise investors' concern over the impact on global economies and earnings of corporates.

William Cowper

Without one friend, above all foes, Britannia give the world repose

Without him you cannot even raise your head above the water of the vast, impassable sea of Maya

When the first frosts come there, late September and October, it's absolutely tremendous. The larches just turn golden and the hillsides around them -- just above the larch forests -- they're absolutely sparkling with color because of all the shrubbery.

When we look at the economic fundamentals in Japan, and how they've unfolded in the last six months, we're clearly seeing an economy that is growing above potential.

When we listened to the third-quarter earnings (report), their credit card business was performing above expectations and they felt that that was going to mitigate the negative impact they were experiencing from their retail operation.

We will confirm that consumer prices will stabilize at zero or above before taking action.

We've played a tough schedule, including six teams in the top 20. South Laurel is a good team. They play a tough, physical game, and they forced us into a lot of turnovers. But I like my team. Southwestern and Lincoln County are rated above us. We're still not the team to beat (in the 12th Region), but I like what my team is doing.

We had some young guys with their backs against the wall. We got a bad call that never should have happened. They were not going to let someone come in here and steal the national championship, which is what the referee tried to do. We had several guys perform above what was expected and they showed a lot of heart.

We had some positive earnings reports, but I think the fact that we had jobless claims that were above and beyond what was expected derailed some enthusiasm,

We are entering spring with near-record levels of inventory. A recent cold spell notwithstanding, few people now care about surprises in this release, seeing as how total inventories are nearly 70% above average.

Under these conditions, policy makers will want to maintain a continued period of very low interest rates and highly accommodative financial conditions to propel aggregate demand well above the upper end of reasonable estimates of potential growth,

Bob Moore

Under the right conditions the areas above Crystal Bay and Third Creek present serious hazards.

Albert Einstein

Two things inspire me to awe -- the starry heavens above and the moral universe within.

Two people among them a tourist were killed at around 6:30 a.m. this morning. The two were among the 12 people who were board while viewing animals above the park.

Two of the three recent months are above the midpoint line that divides the average layoff performance in recessions from normal layoff periods. This suggests the job market is getting to be more like it is in bad times than in good times,

Eddie Murphy

There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.

Ursula K. Le Guin

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

The relationship between renewable energy sources and the communities we expect to host them must be appropriate and sustainable and, above all, acceptable to local people.

Elif Safak

I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.

Elias Hicks

Then, certainly, to be a Christian is to love God above all, and our neighbour as ourselves.

Max Beckmann

On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

Theo James

I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures.

We're trying to put a bright picture on the State of the Union address. We're well above the losses we saw several hours ago.

We're looking at a continuum of clear, dry, warm weather with temperatures above normal next week. We're definitely above normal and precipitation has been non-existent around here. It's real good weather to go to the beach.

Alan Dundes

They do not merely collect texts; they must also gather data about the context and the informant and, above all, write an analysis of the items based upon the course readings and lecture material on folklore theory and method.

Blake Bailey

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

Bindi Irwin

When you lose someone whose life was so extraordinary like my dad's, you have two options: You can curl up in a dark corner... or rise above it and dust yourself off and continue with their work. He will always be with me.

Eleanor Catton

There are a lot of people of my generation in New Zealand literature, young writers on their first or second books, that I'm just really excited about. There seems to be a big gap between the generation above and us; it seems to be quite radically different in terms of form and approach.