Famous Quotes & Sayings

With one side of his mouth the Prime Minister Gonzi tells the Leader of the Opposition to take his questions of corruption to the Police Commissioner. With the other side he denies the opposition the proper working of the mechanism of the Public Accounts Committee.Something's beginning to rot, somewhere.

Without fresh good news on the U.S., the current account worries come back to the fore so people worry about the dollar. With stocks it's a question of how much good news is already priced in.

With the American and US Airways alliance, miles can be pooled so you can use miles from both accounts to claim an award on either airline.

With the 2004 and 2005 fire season having been relatively less active than normal, surplus funds sit in this account and can be rescinded without hurting the program,

Sidney Blumenthal

The president shared his account of the Lewinsky matter with me, ... He did so unguardedly and freely under the assumption that we were speaking in complete privacy. What I told the grand jury under oath supports completely what the president has told the American people and is contrary to any charge that the president has done anything wrong.

Under the old world order, senior executives of companies that were most aggressive were the ones that won most often, ... We have to be able to convince the senior executives at companies that the world has changed and that under the new rules you are going to consistently lose if you are using accounting tricks.

There have been accounts that have been cash-rich, sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the FOMC to decide when and how to invest. We're seeing a bit of that going on.

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

Fabiola Gianotti

From a scientific point of view, our mission is to seek answers to the fundamental questions about the universe. Many are open - we don't know about dark matter, which accounts for a quarter of the universe's matter, nor do we know why there's antimatter.

Something often neglected in popular accounts of the Wild West is the extent to which its dramas were colored by the politics and personal resentments left by the Civil War.

William Boyd

We have criticized these, but the real problem, the really irrational part of what is proposed, is the material on internal accounting control.

We have confirmed that there was entry to our server by a hacker. Not all the accounts were affected. We know which ones were affected and we notified the customers and the issuing bank immediately after (we had) confirmation of the (security breach).

We have concerns New Zealand will be able to fund its current account deficit so we see the New Zealand dollar weakening further.

There are many research reports that try to compare the number of vulnerabilities between Linux and other operating systems but none take into account the severity of the issues. ... This report shows there are relatively few critical issues affecting users of Linux-based operating systems. However, we believe even one is unsatisfactory, and our strategy is to rapidly respond to fix these issues whilst innovating new technology to reduce the risk of future issues.

Henry Petroski

The paradox is that when we model future designs on past successes, we are inviting failure down the line; when we take into account past failures and anticipate potential new ways in which failure can occur, we are more likely to produce successful designs.

Alan Greenspan

People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have made are just awesome. There is no number large enough to account for that.

But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.

Ken Ham

While the Bible's account of the flood is one of judgment, it is also one of mercy and salvation.

Bill Simmons

I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I'd have so much fun tweeting. It's become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

Barton Gellman

We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

Barton Gellman

Suppose a bad guy guesses the password for your throwaway Yahoo address. Now he goes to major banking and commerce sites and looks for an account registered to that email address. When he finds one, he clicks the 'forgot my password' button and a new one is sent - to your compromised email account. Now he's in a position to do you serious harm.

Barry Ritholtz

Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.

Antonia Fraser

I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

Anthony Horowitz

My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

The only thing that the Fed can do to correct the current- account imbalance is to slow the U.S. economy. If you are adding up reasons for why the Fed will keep on tightening, the current-account deficit is on that list.

This really was an accounting decision, ... The reality doesn't change because of the accounting.

There are a few ways to get into health administration. One is to graduate with a bachelor's degree in health. The other is to get a business degree in accounting or finance, and just happen to land a job in health care.

There are lots of other background costs. That doesn't take into account all of the people who have to replace them...and our carpenter's shop.

There are lots of eBay account information and names and addresses of the people owning those accounts. Names, passwords, all matched up.

Federico Fellini

When you live with another person for 50 years, all of your memories are invested in that person, like a bank account of shared memories. Its not that you refer to them constantly. In fact, for people who do not live in the past, you almost never say, Do you remember that night we...? But you dont have to. That is the best of all. You know that the other person does remember. Thus, the past is part of the present as long as the other person lives. It is better than any scrapbook, because you are both living scrapbooks.

This sure as heck makes my life easier because we are going from a famine to a feast. Money will go for everything else we need to get such as a reflective vest and a tracking harness. We are going to set up a separate account for canine food.

Julie King

There have been various accounts of an incident that occurred on one of our flights, and I have issued earlier statements about that. We can confirm that there are no remaining issues between Continental and those passengers. ... Both parties feel no further comment is necessary.

Chan Gailey

We're not able to account for the extra people up there. We're not physical enough to do that yet.