Famous Quotes & Sayings

If only the world remains wedded to free trade, there seems to be nothing to prevent China's export juggernaut from continuing to rumble on.

If I was mistaken in some way, please forgive me, but stop with this constant philosophy of forgiving and forgetting.

If I was in (my teammates') shoes, I know what I would have been thinking. I knew I hadn't done what I could have done ever since I've gotten here. I just wanted to show them. It's not that I didn't think they had confidence in me before, but it feels good to see how their confidence and trust in me has grown.

Jack McMahon

I found out (Sunday) and I was shocked. Then, I heard today that he was in critical condition after the surgery. That didn't sound good. It's terrible. He's 45 years old. He's one of the nicest people I've ever met in or out of baseball.

Great teams always have superstar players scoring goals or on defense. They always seem to have marquee players. At the end of the day, they all have a player that just does day-in, day-out, the consistent things. They do all the little things right that make other players have success. Kerry was like that when I (first) saw her.

Great shooters sometimes miss shots. The good thing about him is he's a sophomore. And even after that first half, he kept confidence in himself.

Great second half. If you look at the details and you see they only got three field goals in the second half and we held them to 11 percent shooting, you have to win games. I told them they'd better play defense and they did. We played much harder and contested every shot.

Growth isn't fast enough that the Fed has to brake the economy, and at the same time it isn't slow enough that the Fed can stop and watch. Inflation pressures can still gain a foothold as the economy continues to take up slack resources.

Growth is extremely good and will probably continue to be so. That will provide some protection for the currency.

Anne Meara

Growing up, I loved drama and fantasies. I hated the Marx Brothers. I took all that confusion seriously.

Growing pigs is not a difficult thing to do--being able to do it profitably and make a living, however, is much more difficult. This course will provide independent producers as well as contract growers with the tools and know-how to most effectively manage and operate their finishing facilities.

Robert Barry

Growing fleet sales, increasing competitive pressure in large pickups and escalating risk of weaker consumer spending is likely to hurt pricing and revenue.

Mark Hudson

Growing and developing fields performed as well as expected for this time of the year ... The warm growing conditions made it more difficult for these fields to have optimum growth and development.

Given fears of weakening consumer electronics sales, ... a strong sales performance is very creditable in these market conditions.

Given a strong concern that (politics) would plunge into huge confusion if the prime minister pushes with revision, there is a view that the pregnancy actually rescued him and he is still in luck.

Jason Varitek

Given all the people's contracts that are up, we've got to get somebody in there. We've got to find a way to right the ship. And we've got to start from the top down.

Given all the initial concerns that we had ... we're guardedly optimistic that the program has gotten off to a decent start.

Give Moorhead a lot of credit for their effort. They played a great game under these conditions at our place with our crowd being so loud. And give our kids credit for hanging in there.

Given the jawboning we have had from the Fed about concern of inflation, I think the market is just playing it precautionary before the Fed meeting,

Given the intensity and the path of Katrina, damage to oil infrastructures in the Gulf of Mexico is forecast to be more serious than Ivan. With current production losses, the gasoline market will continue to be tight in the short run as summer driving season comes to an end.

Given the huge decline in consumer confidence, this (gain in spending) does not seem unreasonably weak, especially with consumers' real after-tax income growth slowing too.

Given the fact that prices of perishable foods already started to rise and an imbalance in supply-and-demand continued to narrow thanks to economic growth, the fall in GDP deflator will be smaller in January-March.

Given the developments of the past few days, the president has decided to take direct control of this issue.

Given the demand and the demographics in California, it will continue to push prices upward over time,

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Given the current market conditions we wouldn't be doing an IPO right now.

Given the continued improvement in labor and wage conditions of late and the likelihood that that will be sustained, consumer spending is most likely to lead the current economic growth until the present cycle ends.

Given the concerns internationally, I'm not so sure that's the right thing to do.

Given that we're at least a couple of months away from turnaround in the labor market, the fact that consumer confidence is not doing much worse than treading water is actually a good-news story.

J. Taylor

Given that there is very little interest rate impact -- and that is the market's concern right now -- you are not seeing a huge move yet.

Given that the expected pace of the recovery has been scaled down over recent months, sharp declines in stock prices are having a negative effect on consumer and investors confidence,

Given that producer prices have risen more than 2 percent over the past few months, we have to consider that in Japan's corporate environment inflation is already mounting. Producer price inflation is highly likely to translate into consumer price increases.

Given that it is a highly contagious disease, we were sure it could spread from one region to another, either through wildlife or through trade and movements of products. So this happened and we are not surprised at all.