Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Hobbes

The power of a man, to take it universally, is his present means, to obtain some future apparent good; and is either original or instrumental.

We believe that shares reflect significant optimism about the future of the combined NYSE/Archipelago model, and . . . challenges will only become apparent as the hybrid system and Regulation NMS are implemented during 2006.

We believe that more concrete evidence of this re-acceleration should become apparent by the end of (the first quarter,) yielding a considerable catalyst for future share price appreciation for most stocks in the sector.

There are certain apparent violations, basically, of people giving in the name of another in the video industry. We have been investigating this for a year.

Fred Thompson

We've got assistants to assistants to assistants to deputies to assistants to deputies to assistants, ... Who in the world is accountable for what? Mr. Richardson apparently thinks all you have to do is appoint a new czar.

We've tried to emphasize that a little bit in some of our communications materials -- apparently not enough. We have plans to get that message out.

We have never had this much depth on the women's sprint side. We have very healthy inter-team competition and the results have been apparent at the meets.

Steny Hoyer

What the panel seems to offer with one hand, it apparently wants to take away with the other.

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

We've apparently struck a reasonable middle ground and will continue to try to meet the needs of all the authorized purposes.

Kent Beck

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

When we found out you could register extended names, it became apparent to us that there were a lot of missed opportunities,

The refs decided to let the kids make the plays down the stretch. We're not going to dwell on (the apparent non-calls), and the refs probably took the right approach (to the end of the game).

Lester Holt

When we run out of them upstairs, I've been known to appropriate some from our greenroom, pocketing a few with one hand as I smile and greet our guests with the other. One time, Dave Zinczenko of 'Eat this, Not That!' fame, busted me in the act. The cookies apparently fall in the 'not that' category. I made a note of it.

With the NBA thing, I can understand safety issues. But (the student) was not challenging the coach or coming on the floor. He apparently was stating his opinions on the game.

We've spoken to them and apparently their house wasn't too badly hit.

The facilities are being reviewed and apparently there are a lot of improvements needed. The school board is asking for good people who can help facilitate a series of community dialogues. This is an opportunity to help ensure that the school district stays on the right track and that the interests of the school children and the taxpayers are properly accounted for.

Thomas Mallon

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.

Thomas Pogge

It's easy to complain that pharmaceutical companies place profits over people and apparently care more about hair loss than TB. However, many in the pharmaceutical industry would be glad for the opportunity to reorient their research toward medicines that are truly needed, provided only that such research is financially sustainable.

Loren is hurting, and he was apparently hit below the belt. If that happened, it's a shame in a game played at such a high level.

Lay had some excellent attorneys working with him. It is apparent to me that Lay wanted to say what he wanted to say, regardless of who was doing the direct examination. I don't think that, ultimately, it would have made that much of a difference.

So far, what I see of Preval, he is clearly reaching out to other factions. And there are plenty of people in the business community who apparently made peace with him.

She was trying to walk in this terrible heat, and she apparently was so exhausted the babies were half falling out of her arms.

She was apparently coming over to meet up with her husband. It now looks like a routine smuggling case and trying to reunite a family.

She was apparently badly in need of money.

She said she needed help balancing her check book. And, there was the lady who apparently had a clock that didn't work very well. She called every day for a while, asking what time it was so she could reset her clock.

Silver Lake has been unquestionably the most successful of the current wave of tech buyout groups. They have shown that despite the apparent risks of these deals, considerable money can me made.

Short term, there are various cross currents in the markets, and it will be hard to get a read on where prices will go this week. There apparently is still more firepower that funds have at their disposal to move markets even higher.

She does not entirely fit in. She comes out of the French tradition and a classical tradition that's apparent even in her Spanish Colonial revival work, which is not considered Arts and Crafts as such.

She has the most experience on our team, and she is pretty clear under pressure. It was more apparent that she knew what to do.

Ben Bernanke

Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.

She put her arm around the young driver and reassured her the important thing is everyone is OK and cars can always be repaired. The girl apparently told her that she had hoped to meet the governor someday, but not under those circumstances.

Lisa Randall

The best science frequently combines an awareness of broad and significant problems with focus on an apparently small issue or detail that someone very much wants to solve or understand. Sometimes these little problems or inconsistencies turn out to be the clues to big advances.