Famous Quotes & Sayings

The trade balance was narrower than expected, so that should push most (U.S.) GDP forecasts toward 5 percent in the first quarter,

David Johnson

I see us on the threshold of a great economic boom in most of our markets. I see our balance sheet growing. I see viable loans grow. I see customers who have taken it on the chin get right back up and are going to work.

is laced with Darwinism. It's OK to teach Darwin, but you have to balance it with something else, like creationism.

Scott Kazmir

I've been trying to beef up a little bit, mostly my legs, trying to get those stronger. It seems like it's helping out a lot, making it a lot easier to stay balanced and stay real strong on my back side. Going through the first full season, you know how much it breaks you down a little bit, so I think it's good to get stronger and have a little more weight on there.

Billy Donovan

I've been in this league a long time and I never feel like the SEC is given its due. If you look around the country right now, there are leagues out there that are very top heavy, but there are not many out there that have the balance that our conference has. If you look at what some of our teams have done to quality opponents outside the league, it's pretty impressive.

I've been in the league seven years, and I don't think I've ever seen any conference, period, that has had this kind of balance and competition.

David Leadbetter

It would be impossible for her to keep improving at the rate she has in the last two or three years, so her goal at this stage is to improve steadily, in smaller increments, ... She already has a great golf swing, and she's going to get stronger, her balance will improve, her shot selection will improve.

We like Waters Corporation, ... It's a company that specializes in equipment for biotech research, great balance sheet, firm fundamentals. In financials, we would throw in Wells Fargo, TCF Financial Corporation, and Citigroup.

Jon Daniels

Both have been very impressive. It's a balance between their development and recognizing they've gone out there and performed.

Both 'Freaky Friday' and 'Mean Girls' were movies, not unlike this, that you went into with low expectations, but I was delighted by. Romantic comedy is delicate, in developing the story, in casting, getting the right two people together, and directing it. In this one, even more so, because it deals with life and death, too. It could be melodramatic in the wrong hands, and (Waters) needed to balance these elements. I think he was able to let both things live, and that it had an emotional reality but it never let go of its comic heart.

Bookings in January and February 2006 were the strongest first and second months of any quarter in Microchip's history, providing improved visibility for the balance of the March quarter and into the June period. We are experiencing broad-based strength by end markets, geographies, sales channels and product lines.

Alexis Herman

Both are averaging about 2 percent, ... That's the kind of balance we're looking for in the economy.

(Briggs) and (Papp) both do a great job. They are two guys you don't see a lot of who stepped right in, and that is where we get our balance and depth. Those guys were ready when they were called upon. Those are the qualities we need to see.

Brett was the kind of person that one sought to emulate. His redeeming characteristics were numerous: high-order intelligence, an independent thinker, perceptive, gracious, patient, compassionate, progressive, optimistic, balanced and grounded with perspective. What more could the students of Morgan hope for in a teacher and a mentor? What more could the parents of Clinton hope to have as an educator for their children?

We're trying to maintain a balance between all parties.

George Russell

The real question for us as public managers is, 'How do we manage and balance all of the effects?

The real profit in the credit card business is the revolving balances. Commerce has calibrated what balances they need to be able to make this product profitable without charging the fees that some of the other credit cards charge.

The real profit in the credit card business is the revolving balances, ... Commerce has calibrated what balances they need to be able to make this product profitable without charging the fees that some of the other credit cards charge.

The real payoff has been in finding a healthy balance between family and career.

Danielle Panabaker

I feel like it does get busier professionally, but personally, I think I choose how I spend my time more carefully, so it balances it out in that sense.

Holly Madison

Like, if you look at Heidi Montag, who got 10 surgeries she didn't need, I think that's unfortunate. I've always been voluptuous with a big butt, but didn't have boobs, so I wanted my body balanced out. My nose was fine in real life, but it didn't photograph well, so I had it tweaked for my line of work. I'm very happy with it.

Henry Petroski

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable.

Ian Axel

We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

All the states are required, either by constitution or by statute, to have balanced budgets - they're not able to print money. So they have to focus on establishing priorities.

Steve Jobs

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Richardson

President Clinton will, I think, lift everyone's spirit. He was a good president, an economic, balanced budget president. And President Obama, I believe, has been a very good president, too, and we will get reelected. You watch.

Steve Chabot

Even with not having a balanced budget at this time, I support tax cuts. That will help limit spending.

Idina Menzel

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

Gary Johnson

Marriage equality - I think that it's a constitutionally guaranteed right. Let's end the drug wars. Let's balance the federal budget, and that means reforming the entitlements - Medicaid, Medicare.

LZ Granderson

Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.

Owain Yeoman

I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.

Gail Sheehy

Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

Summer Sanders

I tried piano, acting, and a bunch of things. My family let me do what I wanted to do; they made sure I had balance in my life because I was self-driven. Listen to your kid, encourage them, and make it fun.