Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the course of our negotiations, Premier Rugby made it quite clear they will settle for 50 percent of the Lions money. We thought it appropriate to use the rest of the money to help players whose lives were badly affected by injuries.

Ulrich Beck

In their daily lives, people can see they are affected by questions that do not only relate to one location, but affect civilization as a whole.

Instead of refreshing the whole page or the entire application, only the part that is affected by the user making a change gets refreshed. This makes Web interactions much faster.

Steven Pinker

Intellectual life was enormously affected by an understandable revulsion to Nazism, with its pseudoscientific theories of race, and its equally nonsensical glorification of conflict as part of the evolutionary wisdom of nature.

In softball we always preach and preach to pitchers that the mark of a good pitcher is to win when you're not throwing well. We haven't been in this situation very much this year where we haven't been playing well where the game's still close. In the first half we did struggle and I think mentally it affected us a little bit.

In spite of this increase, manufacturing confidence remains the lowest of the five sectors surveyed, indicating that it is still the sector most affected by the strong rand.

In response to the shortage of supplies and the desperate need for aid in the affected areas, Kroger and the American Red Cross are thankful for this opportunity to lend a helping hand. It is only through the generosity and caring of the Kroger customers and employees that these donations are made possible.

Robbie Robertson

I remember from my earliest years, ... people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

George Fisher

Clearly, our underlying growth this year has been very much affected by increasingly difficult economic times and a tough competitive environment. Neither of those conditions is likely to change in the near-term,

Being affected by this law is not something people are looking to advertise.

High interest rates have affected car and motorcycle sales. The high interest rate climate has affected consumer demand; retail sales have been affected.

His answer? Pressure. Every time he would line up to kick an extra point or field goal, there were so many lives affected by the outcome.

But it affected his right side. It affected his speech. He was diagnosed with short-term memory. He had seizures a lot.

I am recovering from a head cold, which affected my hydration level. And hydration has a big effect on hemoglobin levels.

Jo Bonner

I am very aware that there are many of you who have friends and loved ones in the areas affected by this storm who have been displaced or who have not yet been accounted for.

Stuart Rose

I am the largest market shareholder of clothing in the U.K. and I am not a destination shop for food. If the clothing market is affected - and it has been - and I hold my market share mathematically, then fine, I am doing no worse than the market is doing, which is exactly the case, but I'm losing revenue.

Certainly, affected employees are encouraged to look for positions here in San Diego and elsewhere where Sony operates.

CEQA requires that all affected agencies should be contacted for comments on proposed projects if there are any anticipated impacts, ... We requested the documents on Nov. 18, 2004, from county planning director George Robson. We did not get the document until March 30, 2005, and then it was a revised negative declaration.

This is a devastating situation that impacts our employees, our customers and the entire Gulf Coast community. Our thoughts go out to those who are in crisis. Our goal is restore wireless service to affected areas as quickly as possible. We are dedicated to our employees, our customers and our community.

This inconvenience to our guests will provide desperately needed housing for thousands of individuals affected by this tragedy.

Thaksin Shinawatra

This has affected the reputation of the Cabinet, because the news went around the world. I don't want the people to think the Cabinet members are obsessed with this kind of thing,

They've been moving in ... and we'll continue to converge on the affected areas as soon as we can,

Craig Fugate

The damage identified in the requested counties is not beyond the combined capabilities of the state and affected local governments,

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The history of slavery and the complication of slavery is that it is an international concept. It is something that affected people who were our people. For example, there were people from the west of Nigeria who were taken by the hundreds of thousands and brought to Louisiana. I'm Igbo; my family is Igbo. So it is a story that I'm connected to.

You can sort of think of it as a tide going out. Gold isn't affected by the tide, because it isn't a fiat currency. So when the value of currencies drops, it emerges as a big rock.

You can see that they've all been affected very deeply by their brother's life.

The ham operator will contact the ham operator in the area affected and try and determine where these people may be .

The Health Ministry has prepared a 'National Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan'. This is an international requirement for any country affected by bird flu,

The idea was to hear from the students - those who would be affected the most, ... We also invited a few school officials to give us their view.

Carol Bartz

The difficult economic climate affected our business more than we anticipated late in our April quarter, ... Our business in Asia fell below our expectations and Discreet continued to experience selling pressure. Despite the shortfall, we remain confident in our strategy to help customers gain greater value from digital design data and look forward to providing more details on our results call.

The doctor is not from the affected region and neither was he exposed to dead birds, but we didn't want to take a chance.

The divestitures required by the department will ensure that competition at movie theaters in the affected parts of Chicago, New York, Boston, Seattle and Dallas is preserved.

You've got limited impact so far for any of the insurers. When people are affected by it, it's a great buying opportunity shortly afterwards.