Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Olver

Our gasoline prices are hovering at $3 a gallon, and that causes a serious problem for a lot of our commerce and a lot of our families.

Our view is that we get above-trend growth and that will cause the Fed to raise rates to 5 percent.

David Trimble

Our view is that the review should be tightly focused on something -- that is, focused on the key issues that have caused the difficulties, primarily on decommissioning and also on the question of devolution,

We need something maybe that could kind of cut through that and actually cause people to think and listen.

Carl Sagan

Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us.

Ashley Tisdale

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal.

Anthony Rapp

I think the most important cause for me is to try to represent honesty. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but it's about trying to be true to who you are.

Manmohan Singh

It is a struggle for the minds of the people.... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

It is a powerful storm with the potential to cause a great deal of damage, but it looks extremely unlikely that this storm will threaten the offshore oil and gas producing regions of the Gulf.

Josiah Royce

It is an evil cause in so far as, despite the loyalty that it arouses in me, it is destructive of loyalty in the world of my fellows.

Daniel Barenboim

I think there were people in the press who knew the truth, but who regarded Jackie as a national treasure - quite rightly - and didn't want to cause her any distress.

Just cause you feel it, doesn't mean it's there.

James Grant

Japan is the perfect living laboratory for the proposition that massive fiscal stimulus is not necessarily going to cause interest rates to rise.

January marked an end to the economic concern caused by the hurricanes ... and the related increase in oil prices.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is so grateful to the many friends from around the world who so generously contributed to this cause to help rebuild the Crescent City.

Geoffrey Nunberg

Language doesn't so much cause divisions as it symbolizes them. I don't think using 'evacuee' or 'refugee' will change people's minds, but it will signal differences about how we think about class that has always been there.

I see it as something that's going to expand the pie. It's going to cause somebody who's 3,000 (or) 4,000 miles away to look hard at spending the weekend in Kansas City. ... Ideally, it will combine with existing tourist possibilities and cause people to extend their stay for three or four days.

I say to you in the name of the president that we (Palestinian factions) have no way other than dialogue. Our cause is one.

Wes Craven

I said, 'I don't know how to write a scary movie,' and he told me, 'Just pull all the skeletons out of your closet,' ... Over the weekend, I wrote The Last House on the Left , and those guys (in Boston) loved it. We shot it in 16 mm. It caused a firestorm of controversy, and off I went.

I said I'd do anything to help this cause and the students at this university.

I said, 'Please, you don't have to offer me a million bucks. I want to do this cause it's right for the Olympics,'

Ironwood Ridge worked hard and caused some turnovers. Luckily we were able to hang tight and not let it get to us.

People look and see what's happening with worldwide oil supplies and it is a cause for concern. People realize the era of cheap oil is over.

Gerald Cohen

That could cause the Fed to raise rates faster.

That causes very hard talk, and people get anxious.

That causes us to have some problems with implementing.

That caused the dollar to fall and gold to rise.

That caused some orders to be pulled forward into December that might have normally occurred in January or February,

That blockage was caused by adhesions and was not a result of a surgical error.

That first game we had 26 turnovers and their defensive pressure caused a lot of problems.

That 5-furlong race is kind of the reason I wouldn't run him (Monday) if he wasn't at his best. It would cause a tailspin and prevent him from making the sprint. It's the kind of thing that makes you pull your hair out and scratch your head.

My son Alessandro was always so terrific with his sister, and the three of us-Alessandro, Allegra and myself-made the highs as high as we could, and mostly tried to laugh at the lows. I have written about some of the difficulties a learning disability can cause a family, but there is always an up side to everything.

My opinion, ... ... is it was not caused by somebody's fingernail.