Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenny Marchant

In our Nation, approximately 22.5 million children ride school buses to and from school each day, which accounts for 54 percent of all students attending grade school.

In Ontario, job losses in manufacturing have accelerated in recent months alongside announced layoffs in the key auto sector. However, Ontario's economy is well diversified and strength in the service sector, which accounts for more than 70 percent of overall employment and economic activity, should support vehicle sales of about 590,000 units in 2006 - in line with the average of the past two years.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Alan Greenspan

In principle, stock-option grants, properly constructed, can be highly effective in aligning corporate officers' incentives with those of shareholders, ... Regrettably, the current accounting for options has created some perverse effects on the quality of corporate disclosures that, arguably, is further complicating the evaluation of earnings.

In previous analyses, researchers did not account for differences in species abundance. As a result, they dramatically undercounted.

I just think there's nothing that's come out over the last couple of days that counters the primary issues (that) the market has been punished for over the last couple of months, which is loss of investor confidence over corporate malfeasance, accounting and terrorism,

I really do believe that investors have to have a diversified approach. It will be very tough to pick stocks unless you have a big amount of money in your personal account so you can diversify on your own. So I would think you'd pick the premier technology funds and I'm not trying to sell myself, but I do think that it helps. And I also think that you need to have tech in your portfolio. Tech right now is about 30 percent of the weight of the S&P 500. I think investors are going to put themselves at substantial risk if they get too carried away with some of the companies and have too much in their portfolio. The appropriate weight in your portfolio is 30 percent, which is neutral the benchmark.

I record the account of the Lord s Name, and I shall not be subject to death again.

I recommend that 529 account owners take care to withdraw 529 funds in the same calendar year as the payment of college expenses. Otherwise the taxpayer assumes the risk of IRS challenge by trying to tie this year's withdrawals to prior-year or future-year payments of qualifying expenses.

I know he's a great runner and I know he's a guy you can't account for,

I know our judges here will be practical and take into account that there's only so much a lawyer can do to make certain his client is being complete and truthful.

I plan on keeping the doors open for donations as long as there's a need. We're planning on keeping the account at Ennis State Bank open as well.

By inflating their estimated 'losses' as much as 66 percent, medical malpractice insurance companies have misled regulators, lawmakers and the public and overcharged physicians and other health care providers. Because all insurance companies use the same flawed accounting practices, it is likely that the insurance industry is responsible for several billion dollars in premium overcharges over the last few years, a period during which premiums have soared. The nation's economic stability and security demands that the insurance industry's accounting practices be investigated, and reforms put in place such as those that were made after widespread financial fraud was uncovered at Enron, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen and other corporations.

Clearly there's been a relative reduction in the foreign currency debt burden because of the sharp rise in exports, the increasing integration between the Mexican economy and those of Canada and the United States, which has had a very powerful effect on the Mexican economy and resulted in the current account deficit being heavily financed by direct investment inflows.

Clearly, people are anticipating recovery. There's pretty consistent selling from a variety of accounts and very little buying.

Aldous Huxley

Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

Jonathan Zittrain

Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.

Chinese people say Marco Polo brought noodles from China back to Italy and Italians say they had noodles before that. All this has been based on documentary material, on personal accounts and menus. But we've been unable to find any actual material until now.

Mark Hughes

child support did not take into account the lavish lifestyle that was provided to Alex by his father when Mark was alive and had custody of Alex. This lifestyle included vacationing with Mark at his lavish beach home, cruising on Mark's yacht, driving in Mark's fleet of luxury cars and attending events of extraordinary prestige, lavishness and extravagance.

Calibration Manager 4.2 was developed with feedback from our customers and taking into account new trends and regulatory changes and extends our best-in-class functionality with significant new productivity enhancements.

By using Co-Op Network exclusively, a single report is now generated for both PIN and debit transaction settlements, making life a lot easier in the accounting department.

Ben Bernanke

can account for the bulk of the recent increase in the real price of gold.

By the way, to this day no one knows what happened to the two horses that ran from the fight. There's no account in the papers. There's no account of anyone ever bringing the horses back. So who knows? Maybe the horses ran off to Hollywood and told their story.

Theodore Tilton

But I account it worth All pangs of fair hopes crost All loves and honors lost, To gain the heavens, at cost Of losing earth

I bought Inter for reasons of passion and I have handled all these years with the desire to sell the club after winning a lot of trophies. Unfortunately the team has faded in the face of the big challenges. I need to take that into account and have the duty to do so.

I am very disappointed that the commission failed to take into account the amount of information that we provided them and the quality, experience and expertise of the Air National Guard personnel who have served our country in Ohio and in many combat operations. They have flown thousands of C-130 combat hours for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and have received hundreds of Air Medals. They are truly American heroes, and the commission made the wrong decision.

Certainly, banks make mistakes as do customers and that's why it's important for consumers to make sure no unauthorized charges have been made and all deposits are credited. Consumers should review their account balances as soon as they get the statement and contact the bank as soon as they discover any errors or discrepancies,

Janet Yellen

Certainly, analyses do indicate that house prices are abnormally high --- that there is a 'bubble' element, even accounting for factors that would support high house prices, such as low mortgage interest rates. So a reversal is certainly a possibility.

CDW is undertaking an extensive sales force realignment to position its account managers along geographic territories. While we agree with the logic behind this initiative, transitioning accounts in a relationship-intensive business is likely to be disruptive to sales momentum.

But there was good news coming out of last year. Retail sales of Mattel products at our top U.S accounts were up 12 percent, and yearend retail inventories were down 30 percent, positioning us well for 1999.

But there could be other areas we simply don't know about yet. In fact, we're already beginning to receive feedback from additional witnesses of milky seas. Some of these accounts occurred in regions we had not thought to look before, and we're currently working to find matches with the satellite data.

this indicates possibility that there could be other accounting control issues.

This (impeachment) is the only way left to MPs to call the prime minister to account over his conduct in the war against Iraq.