Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is important to record that the Minister made it clear that the brief we got was a position taken by government at that stage of the process and we would like to believe that as we progress with the process and further input is received by the authorities, the substance of the current position as briefed may be amended to take into account the additional inputs.

It is important for central and local government to hold discussions for the good of the country, taking into account the interests of local residents.

I was able to setup the system so that I get a full set of account numbers and contact information for each payment. It used to take me hours to reconcile all of the receipts. Now it is basically automatic.

I think they'll be concerned, but ultimately supportive, ... Look, an accountant might have looked at actuarial tables and said it wasn't cost-efficient to have levees to protect against a Category 5 storm because the odds of that hitting the area were slim, and the odds of it overtopping levees even if it hit were slim as well.

John Miller

I think they have ignored some of the remarkable leaps and bounds that have been taken by the FBI. A lot has been done that they don't seem to account for in their assessment.

Mike Leach

I think they have a really good running back, and they have a few quarterbacks that both offer a variety of things. The quarterbacks have different skills that account for a wide variety of things. But then the running back is a really good player.

Mike Bailey

People who use tools at large institutions, at Fidelity and Vanguard, are in fact more likely to open an account there.

Really there's no news that would account for the lift,

Regardless of the outcome, we still believe Oracle's current financial health remains intact. We do not believe there are hidden accounting issues.

Pay your bills on time, and pay your debt down over time. Together, those factors account for 65 percent of your credit score.

Part of the idea was to help our financial consultants focus on their bigger accounts, the ones that are more labor intensive, ... This also gives smaller accounts the service they need. They can call three or four times a week and have all their needs met and not have to split their attention and time with financial consultants who have $5 million accounts.

Our new city administrator has been great, because I had no experience as a finance director. I am an accounting person, which is a bean counter and finance is a little different than being an accountant. Accountants are more exact and finance people have more vision. He's got the vision. He's been a good compliment to me and has helped me a lot and I really appreciate that. He's a little more involved... For the most part everybody has been great and I have enjoyed every minute of it.

Henry David Thoreau

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.

We'll be better equipped to meet the diverse and changing needs of our U.S. customers - particularly our major accounts which clearly want to go direct - increasing our potential for growth.

With this accounting treatment, aimed at disposing bad debt, we are now bracing for a turnaround.

We're seeing cases of accounting improprieties that are being prosecuted criminally today that would not have been prosecuted that way 10 years ago.

We're seeing basically complete distrust in financial accounting in the Western Hemisphere. People are going to pack it up and go.

David Steinberg

We're saving consumers money three ways. We save them an average of $125 on the phone itself. We save them 20% to 40% by mapping their usage patterns to rate plans available in the market. And we save them by setting up accounts in under five minutes.

Jim Ross

We're satisfied that the pleas entered today will allow the court to hear a full account of Mr. Nottingham's crimes.

Today, to compete anywhere, you have to be everywhere. Wal-Mart and Target have joined Amazon and eBay as the most heavily trafficked e-commerce Web sites, and chain retailers account for about 40% of online sales, compared to just over 25% for pure-play Internet retailers.

Time is of the essence. It is vital that if you have cash languishing in any account and have not made use of your ISA allowance, then you should do so immediately. What is the point of paying tax on your savings if you don't have to?

Three accounts are also popular ? a 'household' account and two personal accounts. Just because you're married doesn't mean you have the same spending habits.

'Triple Agent' is a different kind of read because it is, at its core, a pure narrative, the story of an intelligence operation that unfolds over the course of a year and then goes badly wrong. There's a lot of 'news' in the book, including an account of drone warfare that is as detailed, in my humble opinion, as any in the open-source arena.

We needed that. We got a good performance out of John (Flanagan) on both accounts and our hitters just did a great job today. We had good at bats and we're capable of doing that. Today was a good day to break out.

Howard Mumford Jones

Emerson was the chief figure in the American transcendental movement, a fact that complicates all accounts of him in literary or cultural history.

Peter Thiel

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

We went into Iraq because Saddam Hussein refused to account for his weapons of mass destruction, consistently violated UN resolutions and in a post-9/11 world no American president could afford to give Saddam Hussein the benefit of the doubt.

We have also been in a position drawn a portrait of the assailant from the account of the eyewitness and I would be giving in few minutes. We are making more copies. We will give you that portrait with a request to publish this requesting people to look for such a person. And if found or noticed anywhere, then inform us anyone of us or our police control room.

We need to have these kids in school as many days as we can. I'd like to see us try and account for 180 days.

We can't hand out the food free, much of it is very heavily federally subsidized and provided through federal food sources, and we have to account for that.

We have tried to reach a settlement through good faith negotiations and regret that our efforts have been in vain. Despite very clear provision in our contracts, EMI persist in ignoring their obligations and duty to account fairly and with transparency. Apple and the Beatles are, once again, left with no choice but to sue EMI.

Brian Rose

We have trained staff who will screen the call to determine whether there has been an account takeover, a true identity theft or simply a possibility of identity theft, and put the person in direct contact with whoever can help them.

Michael Arrington

I'm nearly certain that Google accessed my Gmail account after I broke a major story about Google.