Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Zille

We cannot use the full budget to build just one stadium.

We want to nip this in the bud so that Chuck's directive can be changed. We are meeting with the Pueblo Lodging Association next week and we want to make sure we do everything we can to maintain our relationship with CHSAA.

Together with the Weinstein Company we have been able to show these designers' passion for creativity and incredible talent to an ever-growing audience. We can't wait to get back out there and give another crop of budding designers the opportunity of a lifetime.

You may have very strategic knowledge of what's going on. You may have good knowledge of budget or budgeting process. It doesn't mean when someone structures the transactions, you get there and roll the sleeves and sharpen the pencil, do the pricing and negotiate the derivatives and sales. That is what the issues seem to be, and nobody expects the CEO to do that.

They are about to move into their budgeting year and so we typically see a prediction of better hiring as soon as they open up their budget, especially with a new government. There's a lot of optimism in public administration in terms of hiring.

Sandra Tsing Loh

The very success of the modern American family - where kids get punctually to SAT-tutoring classes, the mortgage gets paid, the second-story remodel stays on budget - surely depends on spouses' not being in love.

The SBA lending environment has been active, and we expect it to continue as such. In the short term, the budget decisions are going to mean very little, if anything, and I presume the same thing will hold over the long term.

I've seen Buddy and the way he handles the (father-son) situation, and I think he does an excellent job.

I've said before, and I'll say it again: we can do better. We must do better. And we would do better, if we made better budget choices.

I've read about the budget and the need for matching funds. I would be willing to see the money better allocated in the city budget. The library is pretty important and it was pretty well neglected last year.

I've probably got 20 phone messages from my buddies back home. They were probably getting drunk at 7 a.m.

It was very significant that ... former President Clinton would have his office located here in central Harlem. His being here helps to budget the economic fiber of urban America.

The top priority of course will be to put a budget together this year that ensures quality but lives within the limited tuition guidelines that we've got.

Paul Gillmor

The time has come for us to close our nation's wallet, reverse our deficit spending and treat the government's budget like we would our own.

Jade Jagger

I sometimes clean my ears up to five times a day. Even having buds in the same room makes me want to have a go. When I'm in India, the cheap ones freak me out because I worry they'll drop off inside my ear. In the U.K., I like Johnson's.

I slept inside the plane, ... My buddy slept on the concrete underneath a wing.

I understand that Buddy and Danica are two of our most popular drivers. I'm sure people want to see them, but they need to have respect for the race team due to the circumstances that happened Sunday morning.

I understand when you have to look at cutting budgets. But when you look at one program and you take one thing out of it, you eliminate participation. It counters what has been a statewide move to provide more opportunities.

I understand we have a lot of streets to repave and not a lot of money in the budget.

I understand there is no good answer. But I don't want the budget cut to change optimal education time. 4:15 is very late to get out, but 7:45 or 7:30 is the other extreme.

What the delinquencies tell us is that there are more people who are under financial stress. The rise in energy prices is sucking up much more of households' budgets than they ever did.

We try to budget at least as much as we've paid the prior year.

We help them do things that are just not in their budget.

We could be continuing until March 2003 under this year's budget.

We are trying to make things as pleasant as we can. We got a roof on so it doesn't leak anymore. We are ripping up and replacing damaged floor in the utility room. We will do a little kitchen work putting in a new kitchen counter and sink. We will put a new vanity in the bath, and I think that will run our budget out. We will come back and do the outside work during the week.

We're going to try to nip this in the bud right away instead of getting sold on something that's not realistic within our budget.

We're very pleased, ... We think this is a very sound budget. It does keep the tax rate the same.

Marilyn Ferguson

Mystical experiences nearly always lead one to a belief that some aspect of consciousness is imperishable. In a Buddhist metaphor the consciousness of the individual is like a flame that burns through the night. It is not the same flame over time, yet neither is it another flame.

Maria Bamford

I do some compassionate mindfulness every day. It's like a Buddhist thing. I tell myself that I'm doing a good job, that kind of thing. It makes me feel better.

Jay-Z

Gotta keep it peace like a buddhist Nobody gonna Wesley snipe me It's less than likely, Move back, Let I breathe Jedi knight, The more space I get the better I write, (Oh) Never I write, but, if, ever I write, I need the space to say whatever I like.

Jay Griffiths

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

John Green

You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down, memorized it, and was now reciting it. "But while you were looking out the window, you missed the chance to explore the equally interesting Buddhist belief in being present for every facet of your daily life, of being truly present. Be present in this class. And then, when it's over, be present out there," he said, nodding toward the lake and beyond.' ~Dr. Hyde, pg 50

Paul Bowles

The Hindus are busy letting themselves be seen riding in Cadillacs instead of smearing themselves with sandalwood paste and bowing in front of Ganpati. The Moslems would rather miss evening prayer than the new Disney movie. The Buddhists think it's more important to take over in the name of Stalin and Progress than to meditate on the four basic sorrows. And we don't even have to mention Christianity or Judaism.