Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Johnson

We're particularly looking at the John Paynter scholarship, which was initiated several years ago, ... It is in the foundation account currently without enough money to award, and we want to begin awarding that on an annual basis.

Jonathan Raymond

Why do I have an issue with banks? They have their greedy fingers in everyone's money. No other industry has the power to deduct a bill or fees directly from your own bank account without so much as a notice.

Tom Daschle

Why does their proposal exclude over 100 million Americans from its limited number of protections? ... They're slicing this issue as thin as they can and hoping the American people don't see through their strategy. Why do they include a poison pill -- unlimited medical savings accounts that could make health insurance unaffordable for many Americans? Well, my guess is they really don't want legislation to pass this year.

Wayne Smith

You have got to take into account the intensity of the game. We get a feel after the game, the physical toll it has taken on the players. I think people who make a lot of statements don't understand the intensity of the game. Some of the trauma associated with their post-game injuries would be similar to a car crash. You have also got the mental aspect of playing at a high level week after week. It is a totally different environment that we are talking about.

We also help families open savings accounts and manage their money. Our case managers help them find child-care opportunities, take care of their medical needs and address domestic-violence concerns. It is a support system to help people stabilize themselves.

We were shocked to find so many credible accounts of torture and severe ill-treatment by police officers.

We were warned that a lot of the victims needed to tell their story again and again. To be able to hear their accounts was very emotional.

We have been requesting for details of accounting transactions but have not got satisfactory answers.

We have been improving our performance in every election and we are very confident of opening the account this time.

We have been advised of suspect transactions on a small number of Bank of New Zealand customer accounts which suggest that fraudulent transactions were conducted offshore.

We have been able to show what accounts for that insignificant presentation discrepancy in the video. The government's changes to Windows 98 result in a product that is not good for consumers.

Billy Tauzin

We have found that Enron's financial statements violated numerous existing accounting rules,

Bob Coleman

We put the extra cash into a separate account and use it on renewable (power sources) in Florida.

We will continue to report on the disaster and its aftermath in order to explain how the actual situation varied from the accounts made by these sources.

Yoshiro Mori

We will continue to carefully watch progress made regarding nuclear non-proliferation, including signing of the CTBT, and take into account various factors, including our bilateral relations.

Phil Parkinson

We wouldn't have enjoyed it if we hadn't given a good account of ourselves and we did that. If we'd pulled it off, it would have been the all-time up upset.

When a company announces an accounting restatement you ask no questions. You sell immediately. You don't have to wait to see how much worse it's going to get. It's not going to get better.

George Clarke

We believe Mr. Cappetto's work is a unique and limited opportunity to compile the stories of these great American veterans, and to communicate to subsequent generations the first- hand accounts of their service to our country.

We believe it is a conflict for us to have our money with BB&T given its stance and it's likely a conflict for BB&T for our accounts to be with them.

John Piper

Not all single women want to be married. Not all boys like football. Not all homemakers like to cook. Not all messy people are lazy. And not all the obese are gluttons. There are glands and diabetes and a dozen conditions you never heard of that may account for things. Put your sermon through the counter-stereotype sieve.

Isabel Gillies

Accounts of eating Christmas sweet potatoes baked in ashes and jackrabbit stewed with white flour dumplings are testaments to pioneer resilience and pleasure - and they help inspire my own best scratch cooking.

With over half the accounting investigation completed without discovery of material impropriety, much of the risk of an accounting fraud would appear to be greatly diminished,

There are several factors weighing on the dollar, among them the weak retail sales data and the feeling that Alan Greenspan was backtracking from his recent optimism on the U.S. economy. Greenspan's mention of the U.S. current account deficit has focused market attention on the problems associated with a strong dollar policy, particularly given the recent imposition of tariffs on U.S. steel imports.

Sauli Niinisto

The president in Finland has to understand that there are many different thoughts and opinions and that they must be taken into account so that he could be the president of the whole nation.

This segment will account for the largest number of tags and labels from 2005 through 2010.

Jeffrey Lurie

The question of the fire, the motivation, the discipline, it's all there. What you can't account for is what happened in Carolina last year.

Hilary Mantel

I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out all the background details and the biographies of the people involved there, and I try to run up all the accounts side by side to see where the contradictions are, and to look where things have gone missing.

Suze Orman

I want to be clear here: It does not matter what you say in your will or trust; the beneficiary document attached to your IRA accounts and your life insurance policy overrides what you say elsewhere. If you want to change the beneficiary, you must change the beneficiary document.

Suze Orman

Money you know you need or want to spend in the next few years is savings. Money you keep handy for an emergency belongs in savings. Money you hope to use soon for a down payment on a house belongs in savings. And all savings belong in a low-risk bank savings account or money market account.

Barton Gellman

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

We call on the Chinese government and Yahoo to provide a full explanation of the circumstances that led the company to provide account holder information,

Michael Chertoff

We owe the American people a full accounting from all levels of government concerning what went right and what went wrong with the initial Katrina response,

While overall rates have decreased, several communities account for a disproportionate share of infant deaths,