Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen F. Lynch

We were really looking at specific issues of security that affect our troops. While we were in agreement in terms of things that needed to be improved there, we all saw gaps and areas that needed greater protection. The morale was very good under the circumstances, but we all felt we could be doing more to protect the troops.

David Taylor

Those with a rounded cabochon cut and bezel setting share an affinity with the U.S. and U.K. Arts and Crafts style.

We don't need to keep the shades drawn on these important events that affect so many of us.

We don't need more meetings, more photo-ops, ... What we need today is a serious process that will affect the lives of the people, that will give them hope that we are finally on the road towards ending this long-standing conflict.

We don't need him there to know he is a part of this team. He thinks he can't do anything to help us, but with him in our minds it affects our game more than he knows.

Alan Greenspan

We don't look at stock prices and say, 'If they are rising we have to raise interest rates,' ... To the extent that the stock market affects the economy, we will respond to that.

John Ensign

We as a Congress, need to get a better handle on the money being spent. We have an obligation to those affected by the hurricane as well as to those Americans we are asking to help pay the costs of relief.

We are working with federal officials to make sure affected seniors will not face an interruption in their EPIC services because of federal or state deadlines.

We are working very hard to keep those affected in school.

John Franklin

We can't undo this part of our heritage. But what we can affect is where we are headed. I want to talk about multiculturalism, because I think that's where we are headed.

Wendy Kopp

We collaborate with other countries on issues like public health and climate change because we understand these issues affect our collective welfare.

We are coming off our worst defensive effort in my five seasons here. We don't expect our press to get a lot of turnovers. But we normally see that it affects shooting percentages late in the game and wears on people.

We are closely monitoring the situation, making contact with parents and students affected and offering any and all assistance we can, ... We are grateful so many were able to escape this terrible fire and pray for a swift and complete recovery for those who were injured.

We can't allow someone else's style to take us out of what we want to do, and, first and foremost, that starts defensively. We've got to board to create easy opportunities for us in the transition game, and we've got to have poise in our half-court game. If we get rushed out of that, or we're making good decisions, then that has a tendency to affect everything else that we do.

Richard Holbrooke

We don't want this in any way to affect our mission, ... I think you are going to see the international community prepare for a very strong and swift response against those responsible, and we all know who they are.

We have been in direct contact with the Department of Management Services and have been assured that there is no evidence of a potential breach affecting university faculty or staff.

We have been here before, with these types of conditions. Sometimes we end up with a normal to below-normal fire year that doesn't affect people's lives a whole lot. Other times, we have extreme fire seasons. It's too early to call.

We have found a very common determinant of obesity that's present in populations of different ethnicity ? affects men and women equally and also children.

David Perry

When people think of the diseases affecting children most frequently, they often think of things like obesity or asthma. But dental disease is now the single most common chronic disease of childhood, and is seriously impairing the quality of life for thousands of children in California each year. That not only hurts our children, it hurts all of us.

When people start to find out what Casey believes, it will affect his support.

We will distribute it broadly in outdoor-related stores. Here in the Rocky Mountains, that could mean in convenience stores. Whirling disease affects anyone who's in the water-it threatens their recreation.

We will continue to help with reconstruction and we join with the people in all the affected countries in observing and remembering the tragic events of December 26, 2004.

Gary Pinkel

We wouldn't have made the changes we did if it would have affected him,

We would like to specify that the threat only concerns the embassy and does not affect any US citizens in the country.

We had a couple guys that we were missing, so I hope this won't affect our confidence. When you don't play with intensity the whole game, someone is going to get you.

We had a tough time shutting down their offense. And we missed a lot of foul shots the first three quarters. When you do that it affects your offensive execution.

We got information gradually as the details came out and people understood what had happened and how it was affecting the country and the rest of the world.

We believe that Alcoa's earnings will begin to reflect the strong aluminum price beginning with its 1Q 2006 earnings - particularly since several of the headwinds that affected Alcoa over the last two years, whether it be input costs or foreign currency, have stabilized.

Paul Otellini

We believe PC growth rates have moderated over the course of the past few quarters, leading to slower chip-level inventory reductions at our customers and affecting our revenue in the first half of the year.

We are seeing the economy slowing down, and that is affecting same-store sales.

Weather affects everything we do. We have a live radar that monitors everything from rain to lightning.

E. B. White

To this day it still bothers me because I can hear it in my nose. I can hear a little bit of the nasally thing. I remember that time was very difficult for me. It didn't affect the fate of the record, but I can still hear it.

Ben Bernanke

To the extent that bank panics interfere with normal flows of credit, they may affect the performance of the real economy.