Famous Quotes & Sayings

An average 90-year-old patient arrives with a half-dozen diseases and a half-dozen medications. Many of those patients end up spending 10 to 15 hours in the emergency room while tests are done and we keep watch on them.

The employment index was sharply higher this month, and the average hours worked improved. Firms continued to report higher prices for inputs and for their own manufactured goods.

The emphasis isn't on companies' outlook for future growth. Rather, investors are picking stocks with low (price-to-earnings) ratios, or companies that averaged safe revenue growth over the last five years.

Shashi Tharoor

The episode of the 'shoe bomber,' Richard Reid, has suddenly meant more feet being bared at airports than at the average Hindu temple. My solution has been to replace my customary lace-up Oxfords with a pair of slip-on loafers when I fly. Generals are always fighting the last war, and security screeners are the same.

The headline number probably isn't as important as the wages and average hours worked. Earnings are still the main driving force, and the jobs number is just a hurdle in our path.

The height-weight charts you see in doctors offices are determined right here by the people who participate in this study. Monroe County was selected because the government tries to get an average picture of Americans in the country, and the county seems to be a good representation of the national population.

The hardest thing is trying to keep everybody happy. We're sharing minutes, and that means some scoring averages go down. But the bonus is having that depth, which we didn't have last year.

The hardest thing for us is to build is lasting consumer loyalty. The average consumer shops at three sites; we want to be two of those three sites.

The growth that the state is experiencing requires us to pursue increased investment. Given our obligation to serve, there isn't another option. Electric rates are still an excellent value and will remain so even if the company gets the full effect of the increase. Rates on average will still be lower than they were 20 years ago.

Darin Strauss

A good writer knows that if her style and perceptions are really cooking, she can bring anything off. It's okay, of course, for novelists to depict bland, average families living bland, average lives in bland, average towns. But it isn't okay when those novelists don't outshine their bland, average subjects.

You will save an average of 35 percent on generic medication and 15 percent on name brand medication. ...This way it reduces their out-of-pocket expense.

Henry Hazlitt

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when people who earn less than average have the deficiency , or the greater part of it, turned over to them in hand-outs and doles, the production of all must sharply decline; for the energetic and able who lose their incentive to produce more than the average, and the slothful and unskilled lose their incentive to improve their condition.

Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

John C. Maxwell

The average for entrepreneurs is 3.8 failures before they finally make it in business.

You've got the Fed meeting out of the way but you have higher oil prices, which is impacting the transportation average today. As far as oil is concerned, you're coming into the heating oil season and inventories are down. I think that weighed upon (Fed chairman) Greenspan's cautionary bias.

Jeff Green

You've got Lowry, who is willing to go in there and get rebounds. He averaged at least six a game. So I don't think that will be a big problem for them. Florida will have to keep Villanova from getting offensive rebounds, because that's a big thing for them.

Gene Simmons

And in music, it's the great aphrodisiac that says that even though I'm short, fat, ugly, bald, and... and I'm hung like a second-grader, but if I'm in a rock band, I've got a better than average chance of bedding you down than if I was a dentist.

The gap lower below the 200-day moving average is noteworthy since the market has not been below this.... since 2002.

The GDP growth differential probably widened to a full two percentage points last year, while final domestic demand expanded nearly four points faster on average than on the continent. While this gap might narrow somewhat in 2006, we think that the country will continue to outperform by a wide margin; our current GDP forecast for this year stands at 3.3% versus 2.1% for the euro area.

The dollar's average break-even level for Japanese manufacturers is estimated at 115.32 yen for the current business year. So if the dollar slips to around 115 yen, that should be pretty negative to Japan's corporate earnings and its economy.

The Dow Theory says when correction lows are established, you want to see a retest of the highs, and if the retest of the highs in both averages fails and the market goes below those intermediate lows, that is under definition of the Dow Theory, a bear market.

The Dow Jones industrial average is not a trendy index. But it's an index that's proven over time -- in recent years and over the long run -- that it is highly correlated with other indexes, the broader market and the economy.

The Dow Jones industrial average is not a trendy index, ... But it's an index that's proven over time -- in recent years and over the long run -- that it is highly correlated with other indexes, the broader market and the economy.

The early indication is that its an average type of year with good rain and snowfall. If things keep progressing as they are now, we should have near normal stream flows this summer.

The easing in economic growth over the past year, together with a ratio of house price to average earnings that remains historically high, is expected to curb housing demand, and therefore prevent a renewed surge in house prices.

The form of entertainment is no problem. There are individuals who are going to react abnormally to normal material, but it's not a problem for the average person.

Chuck Schumer

The fundamental weakness in the Tea Party machine is the stark difference between what the leaders of the Tea Party elite - plutocrats like the Koch Brothers -want and what the average grassroots Tea Party follower wants.

The current average price of $1.90 a gallon is still about 40 cents higher than the level a year ago. So the effect of higher prices will be felt for some time.

This is my ninth year to sing with the chorus. I joined after I retired and I certainly enjoy singing with them. Our average age is 72 and we have a great time together. We practice each Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Our performances begin around the middle of April.

This is likely to lead to a lower-than-expected average selling price for Intel's overall MPU (microprocessor) portfolio.

Harry Caray

This has been the remarkable thing about the fans in Chicago, they keep drawing an average of a million-three a year, and, when the season's over and they've won their usual seventy-one games, you feel that those fans deserve a medal.

This is a great Happy New Year from the governor, and we thank him. What that will mean on average is a $90 bump for our families.

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