Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's some selling of the dollar on what appears to be a little weaker demand in the U.S. economy.

There's no doubt the market is on the defensive and is preparing for what appears to be inevitable. A rate hike at the August policy meeting later this month.

There's lots of cash around, but it appears everybody has discounted the half-percent increase.

There's nothing that appears to be fatal in terms of what (the Conservatives) are proposing to bring in. If the opposition decides they want to take the government down on these issues, they've got a lot of selling to do to Canadians.

The tomb-sweepers' feelings are understandable. But burning these messy things -- not only is it mired in feudal superstition, but it just appears low and vulgar.

The tilting of the playing field in favor of their hometown corporation makes Pennsylvania an unsafe place for investors. The whole purpose of law is to provide predictability, and what the legislature appears to be doing is to change in the middle of the game the rules that everyone was playing by.

John Edward

I've been looking forward to the time when this is a two-person race and people will focus on Senator Kerry and myself, ... It now appears that we're very close to that place, and maybe even there.

When a man is small, he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. But at six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appears before him. His throat will close, and spots of nausea and rage swim in his vision.

The problem existed before the hurricanes. But it appears that the hurricanes tipped it over the edge. The attention is giving us more momentum.

The pullback appears to be due to profit-taking, which is not surprising considering prices have really surged in the past few days. The decline will not be large because the Iranian issue is keeping a high floor under prices.

Dick Cheney

We are very concerned with the loss of life now on both sides. The level of violence appears to be escalating. That's clearly not in anybody's interest. We need to find some way to try to cap the violence and get some process started to rebuild confidence.

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.

The Fed appears determined to wait until it is clear that consumption growth has cooled before halting its rate-tightening campaign.

The FDA on occasion will find those drugs admissible for personal use or when it appears to be a personal use quantity. The issue at hand is it's illegal, and the recipient never is assured that the same quality is going to arrive at their door step or that the drugs from the same manufacturer will arrive.

The Canadian dollar appears to be the North American play, and the proxy for all things that are good in a North American economy with a commodity add-on.

I'm glad we're getting good pitching right now. Our offense appears to be in a funk. We're getting just enough offense to win games, but I'll take that instead of a loss.

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.

It's premature to kill it at this time, ... It appears to be viable, subject to some things.

Domestic demand appears to be improving significantly, especially in the construction sector, as well as for retail sales, where expectations are very positive.

Consumer spending is growing only modestly. So, it appears the easing of interest rates has helped the consumer only somewhat ... not a lot.

The nightmare we thought might happen before the hurricane hit appears to be developing.

Eddie Cibrian

You think you know something and you really don't. It appears to be one way and it's really another. All that's true with this show.