Famous Quotes & Sayings

While there appears to be some signs of the beginnings of a recovery in the housing market and more positive news of Christmas trading from retailers, it is clear that companies are still finding it difficult to forecast in the current economic climate.

While the penalty appears excessive, we cannot quantify the exact exposure with certainty,

While the market continues to be weak in comparison to last year, it appears to have stabilized, which on the margin this is good news for Cisco.

So far, it appears they may be a new family group to the Many Glacier area.

Pat Roberts

At the request of my colleagues, ... I have directed staff to examine Undersecretary Bolton's use of intelligence and after careful review, the Senate Intelligence Committee continues to find no evidence of abuse. I am prepared to assist in any reasonable effort to examine the facts, but an examination of upwards of 40 names appears to be an effort to preserve the issue, not to resolve it.

At the present moment, with little or no detail to hand, it is difficult for me to make any comment, beyond the expression of horror at the shameless haste with which the government appears to be pressing for our liquidation.

At this time it appears those funds were given appropriately.

Christopher Galvin

At this stage, it appears that the momentum from our accelerated profit improvement effort will continue in the second quarter.

Richard Boucher

At this point we're not planning an evacuation of official or non-official Americans, but we do have these concerns about the safety of American citizens who in parts of the country are located where there appears to be fighting.

Martha Coakley

At this time, the motive -- if there is one -- appears to be financial,

That's a pretty sizeable reduction, and it appears to be working. So they knew that to be right, they had to be very, very right.

The labor market appears solid heading into 2006, which could have bolstered the confidence reading in January.

The judge has taken responsibility for finding the facts. He doesn't have confidence that the Justice Department will do so because it appears they have stonewalled for at least three years.

Carl Honore

The journey that 'In Praise of Slowness' has made since publication shows how far this message resonates. The book has been translated into more than 30 languages. It appears on reading lists from business schools to yoga retreats. Rabbis, priests and imams have quoted from it in their sermons.

The investigation is continuing, but it appears they are different from the others in that they were not inside the home.

Their voice launch appears to have boosted results in other areas as well.

The insurance market understandably appears a little unsettled by the massive hurricane losses of 2005. However, risk managers may experience further softening in the casualty market. Barring more major catastrophes, premiums should fall further this year.

There used to be a time when you felt there was a conscious effort to get the top teams. Now, it seems to be much more political than it used to be. It appears we we're not getting much credit for the quality of teams we're playing in ACC. There's a formula out there that seems to be flawed.

The 'new era' economy, wherein strong growth and low inflation have coincided remarkably for several years, appears to be under duress in ways not seen in some time,

Tom Daschle

The new compromise appears to have the votes, so we will vote on it,

In Iraq they zeroed in on oil, and this appears to be a creeping process, since it is happening in Saudi Arabia.

India appears poised to grow rapidly in the future but such an outcome is by no means assured. Moving faster with reform in the current optimistic environment will have large payoffs.

Increasingly, consumer confidence seems to be driven by the price of gasoline. The rise in confidence last month appears to have been a lagged reaction to lower gas prices in February. But we have more than made up for those drops in the last two months, and gas prices are headed upward as the summer traveling season approaches.

In both those cases, you see members go from a party vote on the board to a more business-friendly vote behind the scenes. It appears that they want to make the party happy on the board and make the businesses happy in the long run.

Brian Thompson

In a world where time appears to be measured in terms of the last trade,

I'm not at liberty to say, except that he appears to be a victim.

Dave Freudenthal

I'm not as convinced as the Republican leadership appears to be that we should provide no assistance for businesses, particularly small business in the state because who is it that provides jobs in the state, ... It's the small business. If they go out of business and we don't have work for people, we've compounded the problem instead of solving it.

Edward Kennedy

I'm deeply troubled by a narrow and cramped and perhaps even a mean-spirited view of the law that appears in some of your writings, ... It appears you did not fully appreciate the problem of discrimination in our society.

I'm very concerned that he appears to believe strongly that the group were given warnings and ignored those legal warnings, something which the families of those in jail strongly repudiate.

Infinity is a player of great significance who appears on the stage only when the crucial questions of existence are raised. Infinity offers its services when we seek to know if the Universe began or whether it will ever end, whether life will always be part of its landscape, and whether there are tasks which can never be accomplished. Infinity challenges us to contemplate the duplication of ourselves and all that we hold dear, and to ponder the cogency of all possibilities, potential and actual. It undermines our sense of the precious by suggesting a randomly infinite universe will eventually conjure up the works of Shakespeare, somewhere, as if created by a regiment of monkeys armed with typewriters. Infinity also seeks to guard us from taking the wrong path in our quest to unravel the deepest of Nature's secrets about the ultimate structure of mass and energy.

Inflation in the U.S. appears to be well under control, ... The only real economic concern I have is that oil prices will erase improvements in employment and real income for an important portion of our customer base.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretoken opinions; else, whatsoever is done or said will be measured by a wrong rule; like them who have the jaundice, to whom everything appears yellow

Cesare Beccaria

No man ever freely surrendered a portion of his own liberty for the sake of the public good; such a chimera appears only in fiction. If it were possible, we would each prefer that the pacts binding others did not bind us; every man sees himself as the centre of all the world's affairs.