Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter took a bang and it's affecting his leg so he's a bit of a doubt for the game. We'll just see how he wakes up. He didn't respond too well. We are hoping it would be a bit better this morning so we'll give it every bit of time we can.

John A. Logan

Policy choices affecting who can return to which neighborhood, and with what forms of public and private assistance, will greatly affect the future character of the city.

Ongoing protests are affecting investor sentiment negatively. Investors are now concerned whether the crisis will affect government economic policy.

David Satcher

One of the major concerns we have about the AIDS epidemic is that increasingly it is affecting communities that tend to be left out of the health care and public health system, ... We know that in order to be successful we have to find a new way to reach these communities.

Mr. Doolittle is not concerned about the media's irresponsible speculation affecting his leadership position.

My job as a teacher is to challenge students to think critically about issues that are affecting our world and our society.

Only 20 percent of children are getting optimal sleep, and nearly half are getting insufficient sleep. This is affecting all areas of their life.

Julia Glass

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

Jim Jarmusch

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

There is a smaller margin for error today in hiring and promoting people into key positions, and a greater need to target development efforts to ensure that they really make a difference. A bad senior-level hire or promotion can severely damage a company's external brand, affecting customer trust and loyalty, and resulting in lost commercial opportunity.

William Congreve

Careless she is with artful care, / Affecting to seem unaffected.

Basically, the biggest thing was this team is going to be together for the next two or three years. Things that we're doing wrong now are not only affecting this game but the next game after that and for years to come. Coach is saying if you're not going to do the right things now, what's going to make you do them in the future?

Charles Barkley

Because of the opportunities I've had in life, I feel I have an obligation to speak up about issues affecting our communities, and one of those issues is the health status of African-Americans and how to raise their level of health,

Harold Ford, Jr.

My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

Obviously there are some risk factors with the end to quantitative easing and whether oil will start affecting global growth but the picture is pretty rosy for this year.

Obviously, the cost of health care is affecting every business in the country, and we're not immune to that. But when you look at what we've offered in total, we think it's a good contract.

Jay Heaps

I don't think it's affecting their play, but it's definitely not letting them be as loose as they would. They worry about injury, because they don't want to get hurt and take themselves out of contention.

Tony Raines

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing. He was driving kind of aggressive all night. I think I had less to do with affecting the outcome of the Chase than he did. We'd been struggling with the brakes, and he checked up in front of me. I had no intention of wrecking him.

I bet it's really affecting the smaller schools.

Greg van Eekhout

Middle grade fiction, to me, is really about emergence of self. It's about expressing the idea that the world is going to start affecting you more, and your parents' influence is going to wane. Middle grade is when a lot of kids discover their passions - art, music, sports, what have you.

Magic Johnson

I have to tell you, I'm proudest of my life off the court. There will always be great basketball players who bounce that little round ball, but my proudest moments are affecting people's lives, effecting change, being a role model in the community.

The criteria are: How much snow fell, over how large an area, affecting how many people.

Journalism is about results. It's about affecting your community or your society in the most progressive way.

I think it's a general malaise and it's affecting all parts of the (Michigan) economy. Tourism will be affected; I think people are being hit and in winter, they will be hit more than their paychecks have grown. I see nothing that will help this economy, short of big tax cuts.

I think it is affecting the scores. I think all the pitchers are going to get hit this season, so I believe the key to winning this year is a strong defense.

It can be minimized. Once people look in their own backyards and see that it's affecting their neighbors.

I think it's already affecting his play. He's hitting a bigger ball, he's taking the ball earlier, he's attacking more. We worked out individually today for about an hour, he and I, and I see a difference in the balls he's hitting.

Troy Vincent

It is a concern, and it's not just the NFL that's getting bigger, America is getting bigger. We have an opportunity in our sport to protect those men because it's not just affecting you while you play, the true effects happen when you're retired. The guy who isn't out there participating in physical activity, burning calories, he's just going to be bigger, and we've seen it.

I was definitely not satisfied with my performance. I think the jet lag from the World Baseball Classic is still affecting me.

He came in with a chest infection originally but now that has spread to his kidneys and it is affecting his other organs. He's got internal bleeding. He's seriously ill - at this point, he's fighting for his life. It's about as bad as it can get.

Whatever is causing the declines must be something that is affecting the whole of our country.

There is no allegation that it's affecting his performance on the bench. It really is truly only about his private conduct.

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