Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Gephardt

While Dean counts the Vermont prescription drug program as an accomplishment, the truth is he put it on the chopping block four separate times. When the chips were down and Dean had to choose between balancing the budget and cutting prescription drugs for seniors, Governor Dean chose budget gamesmanship. That is not the type of president I would be.

One of the challenges we'll have is balancing response and recovery. I've always seen us as a recovery group, but we're getting pushed to response.

Philip Treacy

The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don't listen to those rules about face shape.

We are balancing the need for continued investment to ensure the success of these new products while at the same time delivering continued earnings growth.

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.

John Kasich

When Governor Romney was out here, I told him, I said, 'we are following the formula of streamlining regulations, being job creating friendly, balancing budgets, cutting taxes, and, you know, using common sense. And if you get to be president, we are going to do more of that.'

Aaron Patzer

I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.

Kelly Preston

We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.

We're not anti-development. We're for balancing development with open space. Developers realize this aligns them with the people who are moving to our community. I think they realize how important this is.

We believe we will be in the black, ... What I'm trying to do is a balancing act. The more money we make, the more we put in the field. That's the goal.

Aimee Bender

Novels are so much unrulier and more stressful to write. A short story can last two pages and then it's over, and that's kind of a relief. I really like balancing the two.

We were expecting a kind of balancing out between rising business sentiment and consumer confidence, which we thought would slip, but in fact we have improved on both fronts.

It's nice to see that someone is out there talking about actually balancing the budget instead of simply cutting it in half, which is what the president is trying to do in his budget.

Conor Oberst

I keep drinking the ink from my pen, and I'm balancing history books up on my head, but it all boils down to one quotable frase; if you love something, give it away!

Charlie Sexton

I love the word 'juxtapose,' ... I like balancing words together like cruel and gentle, sad and beautiful. Life is not all black and white -- it's shaded.

There's signals for just about everything from balancing your stroke, to getting a swimmer more into their turns, to just yelling so they know to get going.

Ultimately it comes down to balancing their needs with the budget. It's just a constant process of give and take.

I know dancers who can do the dancing but there is no passion in the character. They can have the flawless lines, the technique and the steps. But the character isn't there. And that looks terrible. It's a balancing act that needs to be done right.

Grace Lee

In the past, vaccination programs were cost-saving and life-saving. However, newer vaccines are now focused on reducing morbidity, rather than mortality, and we need to carefully weigh the risks and benefits of vaccination. By balancing the costs of a vaccination program and the potential impact of alternative vaccine policies on reducing disease morbidity and improving quality of life, we can optimize decision making regarding vaccine use in the US.

I had been going to school at St. Michael's for six years since Grade 7 and schooling and playing for the Buzzers (of the Provincial Jr. A league) was a good mix that I wanted to keep going. Balancing hockey and school at a place like St. Mike's, I did not know anything different.

I had been going to school at St. Michael's for six years since Grade 7 and playing for the Buzzers (of the Provincial Jr. A league) was a good mix that I wanted to keep going. Balancing hockey and school, I did not know anything different.

Rand Paul

If you refuse to acknowledge that there is any waste that can be culled from the military budget, you are a big-government conservative, and you cannot lay claim to balancing the budget.

Aaron Gray

He's really coming into his own. He has such high expectations coming in. He has surpassed everyone's expectations. It's his team. He's making his own coaching decisions, balancing a 9-, 10-man rotation -- which not a lot of guys can do -- and keep everyone happy and focused on winning.

His jobs were to make money, but his career was the band. It was quite a balancing act.

Roberto Aguire

The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.

Steve Scott

All year, there has been evidence of a two-speed UK economy with house prices, consumer spending and low unemployment balancing a stuttering manufacturing sector, sub-target inflation and weak international economies.

Mark Helprin

The trick in nuclear strategy is to maintain stability by balancing potentials and thus to discourage events from converting the hypothetical to the actual.

Michael D. Barnes

Spectators who witnessed that concert, ... still recount his fearless attitude, innate stage charisma and striking technique -- balancing on toes, slapping the floor with the sides of his shoes, releasing cascades of musical sounds while powering off the boards with both legs kicking.

Jason Kilar

At a macro level, it's balancing the needs of consumers, advertisers and content owners. And if you talk to any one of those three customer sets in isolation, often times you won't delight the other two. So the hurdle we faced with Hulu Plus was, how can we thread this needle in a way that delights all three customer sets?

John Spratt

This budget is not going to put us on a path to balancing the budget. Not in five years, not in 10 years, not in 20 years. It would put us on a path to endless deficits and a Mount Everest of mountainous debt.

First we did our primary workout. Then we worked mainly on the mechanics of the exchange because we pretty much have our steps down. All this year we have been balancing relay work with the work needed for the individual events, so we are prepared.

FEMA has a substantial challenge in balancing the need to get the money out quickly to those who are actually in need and sustaining public confidence in disaster programs by taking all possible steps to minimize fraud and abuse.

Joe Williams

We're very excited about it, ... We hope to use the pulpit in the future in balancing spiritual, mental and physical health for an overall healthy Christian life.