Famous Quotes & Sayings

The proposal is an exercise in financial engineering and does not take into account McDonald's unique business model. While we remain open to ideas, we simply will not jeopardize the long-term health of our company, nor our relationships with customers, franchisees and suppliers for such a financial engineering exercise.

The only reason we didn't go on and win it today is because we weren't physically strong enough and good enough to do so. When I don't get three points I'm always disappointed so although I can take into account the circumstances behind it, it's not going to send me home a happy bunny.

Track accountability is the best way to describe it. You're looking to see which dog accounts for the most tracks in the smoothest manner.

Toy breeds are very fashionable at the moment, with celebrities such as Paris Hilton unable to leave the house without them, but I am not so sure that the professional judges will take this into account when the winner is announced.

Jeremy Jackson

We're not going to continue to sit back and watch them under perform, ... We're going to take action, terminate those accounts and bring the money back to the passive index fund until we find somebody who is capable enough to manage the monies for us.

Minnie Pearl

I can always remember that experience in Hawaii pleasantly on account of Elvis.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.

Nassau William Senior

Our object in these remarks has been not only to account for the slow progress which has as yet been made by Political Economy, and to suggest means by which its advancement may be accelerated, but also to warn the reader of the nature of the following Treatise.

Nandan Nilekani

Privacy is a vast subject. Also, remember that privacy and convenience is always a trade-off. When you open a bank account and want to borrow some money, and you want to get a very cheap loan, you'll share all details of your assets because you want them to give you a low interest rate.

Cliff Stearns

My legislation, the Simple Savings Tax Relief Act of 2005, simply eliminates the taxation of interest earned in savings accounts, such as passbook savings accounts or bank certificates of deposit.

Paul Ricoeur

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.

Sean M. Carroll

A full understanding of what happens in our everyday lives needs to take into account what happened at the Big Bang. And not only is that intrinsically interesting and just kind of cool to think about, but it's also a mystery that is not given much attention by working scientists; it's a little bit underappreciated.

Ben Mendelsohn

It's a tougher gig than what people think it is. The proper, real, genuine, worldwide movie stars don't get a lot of downtime from the world outside. That's a tougher price, I think, than what people's fantasy of fame account for.

I came up with the idea for what later became Paychex in 1970 when I was working for Electronic Accounting Systems, a company that sold payroll processing to companies with 50 to 1,000 employees.

Taissa Farmiga

I'm on Twitter. I created my account for my fans, and I do respond back once in a while, because they're so great.

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

I think that my job is more to set direction, define objectives and develop strategies for reaching them, ... One takes account of the various constituencies in both shaping that agenda and persuading people about it, but if the primary goal were just balancing off the different interests of people, that would make the job pretty uninteresting.

I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,

I think along with the awfulness of the incident has come a real desire to condemn a lot of the Duke students because they are people of privilege, maybe. I just hope people kind of take into account that there is ... more than meets the eye.

John Sullivan

We release earnings before we have every account reconciled.

Peter Orszag

We're not fully using those accounts and they're not working as well as they could. Let's take those accounts we already have and make them work better, rather than creating a new system of accounts.

John McLaughlin

we still cannot account for all of North Korea's plutonium.

Aaron Klein

Was Sen. Barack Obama a Muslim? Did he ever practice Islam? The presidential candidate officially rejects the claims, but the issue of Obama's personal faith has re-emerged amid conflicting accounts of his enrollment as a Muslim during elementary school in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.

Tomorrow's 30-year bond auction should attract large accounts and nostalgia buffs that have quietly politicked to get the bellwether back.

We are looking at the many, varied needs of a vast society in India. We want to take into account not only the appropriate technologies, but the economic, cultural and social factors that determine value for our customers.

Warren Rudman

We are looking at all the accounting issues we have looked at all along, and at this point, we don't have any conclusions. We are still hoping to wrap up the investigation by the end of December, and if we don't make it we'll do it in January.

Fred Thompson

We should ... hold them to account in the realm of public and world opinion, at least for starters. I think there's all kinds of things below the scene that an administration can do along those lines.

Sun Tzu

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Stephen Hawking

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

Breyten Breytenbach

Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

Donald Cargill

I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.

Henry L. Stimson

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on account of the pressure you have been under.

With consumption accounting for about 70 percent of GDP, the extra strength should add about 0.7 point to total GDP growth.