Famous Quotes & Sayings

These are smaller brands, and their divestiture would not affect the long-term success of the merger.

John Chen

The risk of having no ICT people on the board is that ICT continues to be an afterthought, which will ultimately affect competitiveness,

The rising cost of fuel affects the NASCAR industry the same way it affects everyone else. Whether it's our transportation needs getting from track to track or the impact it has on our fans, there's a price to pay.

Richard Gephardt

The right way includes an immediate tax for those Americans most affected by the economic slowdown and a budget that leaves enough money to pay off the debt, invest in the needs and priorities of the American people, and keep interest rates low and our economy strong,

There won't be that many people affected because a lot of the bank's members already work on the base.

There will be some people who see it as an asset, ... There are going to be a lot more people who see it as a potential risk to the area. That fallout is going to affect corporate thinking.

The Salvation Army is preparing to respond to two of the largest natural disasters in our nation's history, simultaneously, ... Our sole focus is to ensure that our resources are safe and in place to meet the immediate needs of people affected by Rita, and to ensure that our care for Katrina survivors continues unimpeded.

We sincerely apologize to those guests whose vacations have been impacted by these voyage cancellations, ... This inconvenience ... will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.

We tried to get as much input from the public to make this decision as we could. Which I felt like its gonna be something that's gonna affect everyone, its gonna affect everyone in the future.

We just lost to two great teams ... but I think people are looking at our record thinking we're on a downslide. Because Maryland is such a great team, I don't think it should affect our seeding.

We just want the kids to play as hard as they can. It doesn't matter if we're playing the New York Yankees or the Bad News Bears. We can't let the opponent affect the way we play. Anybody who comes in here is going to want to beat us.

We weren't getting some calls, and I think that bothered us in the first half. But we didn't let that type of stuff affect us in the second half.

We were pretty banged up with injuries and sickness at the Hawkeye 10 and against Creston. We needed the rest to get everyone healthy. Having wrestlers out of the line-up has affected our team mentally. We have addressed that with the team and we expect to wrestle well Saturday.

What the FAA is doing is responding to a congressional request for performance-based air traffic operations. It affects air traffic management in regional offices and technical operations management in regional offices.

John Goodwin

What that tells me is that Sonoma County was much less affected than the rest of the Bay Area by the decline in the high-tech industry.

What's unique about this study is because we have such detailed information on the population, we could say on any given date who was available to any given female and how that affected how she chose.

When a husband is embraced without affection, there must be some reason for it.

When a guy goes on injured reserve, he does not count against the cap. So if a guy is making $700 a week and he's out for two weeks, and then you bring in a guy to replace him for $400 a week, you're actually saving $300 a week on the cap. You still pay (the first guy) his full salary; it just doesn't affect the cap.

We lost two one-point games this week. I think we may have let that affect us.

We missed a lot of shots and it was a classic case of letting our missed shots affect the rest of our game.

We miss a lot of shots, and you can't let that affect (the game). We miss a shot, we hang our head for a minute and they're gone. That was the crux of it. I don't think we took poor shots. We took shots that were within the scheme of what we were doing. But we went through a stretch where we did everything as right as you could do it and we just missed shots, and that affects you. Whether it should or shouldn't, it does.

What's happening now is that the market remains trading at very thin volumes and that can affect prices, even when just a handful of shares are traded. The decision of any fund to pull out from certain stock hits the price.

What's going on in the waters of their neighbor to the north, whatever Virginia decides to do in the future vis-a-vis development ... in their coastal waters, will affect North Carolina.

Karl Hobbs

We had the ball inside and they took it from us. Pops had a couple of shots inside -- dunks he usually makes and he missed them. That really affected our shooting percentage. A large part of that had to do with their defense.

We will not be surprised if we see more people affected either in college context or as students spend time with their families or with their community friends. We will continue to see an extension of this outbreak into the community level.

George Eliot

We women are always in danger of living too exclusively in the affections; and though our affections are perhaps the best gifts we have, we ought also to have our share of the more independent life -- some joy in things for their own sake. It is piteous to see the helplessness of some sweet women when their affections are disappointed -- because all their teaching has been, that they can only delight in study of any kind for the sake of a personal love. They have never contemplated an independent delight in ideas as an experience which they could confess without being laughed at. Yet surely women need this defense against passionate affliction even more than men.

Richard Gephardt

We will work to make the broken places right again. We will rebuild New York. We will work on a bipartisan package to strengthen the economy, ... will help unemployed workers in the airline, aerospace, tourist and other industries affected by the attack.

We show our empathy and sympathy for those guys, ... but at same time we have a game to play Saturday and can't let that affect us.

We understand and are very sensitive to the fact that it affects commerce and business.

Barney Frank

When I spoke to him, the first thing I did was tease him, saying I thought this was a ploy because he wants to run for Congress. It's not anything that's fun to do, sharing with people intimate things about himself, but it's important and unimportant at the same time. It's something important for him to be honest with people, but it doesn't affect how he does his job.

We are certainly at the part of the sun's cycle where flares are popping off more frequently and affecting us more frequently.

We are calling off any trial test runs scheduled at the end of the month until such time that we are fully assured of the safety, not only of the area affected by the collapse, but of the entire terminal.

Steve Williams

We got some key pieces of legislation passed that will help school districts affected by Katrina, ... We're happy with what was accomplished given the volume of issues taken up in that short period of time.