Famous Quotes & Sayings

You get this local culture that develops in the legal system, these tough-on-crime judges -- usually former prosecutors -- who won't consider alternatives. Well, guess what, they end up with an alternative anyway, and that's letting them walk through the door early because of overcrowding. How is that tough on crime?

Ronald Coase

You get more irrationality within the family and in consumer behavior than you get, say, in the behavior of firms in their purchases.

Marianne Williamson

You get enough people agreeing in consciousness that Mexico is a dangerous place, and that dangerous thought will make it so.

Ferdinand Marcos

You even have tourists visiting the site which is great. It would make people more conscious about the availability of alternative power sources.

Peter Cullen

As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.

The constitution is for us all to live together, a common life, we need each other.

Phil Lesh

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.

Mel Odom

I think we're experiencing a resurgence of fantasy-type conventions in general because people want to get out around kindred spirits. Cons are a great place to meet people you've been tweeting and FB'ing with, and since you've had an online relationship with them, it's not like meeting for the first time.

Simon Newcomb

A suggestion had been made to me looking toward a professorship in some Western college, but after due consideration, I declined to consider the matter.

You can say you wrestle, but if you lose all your matches you're not really a wrestler. I didn't consider myself a wrestler until my sophomore year, but now, I do.

The markedly reduced mortgage equity withdrawal since its fourth-quarter 2003 peak has undoubtedly weighed down significantly on consumer spending since mid-2004.

The major problem weighing here this morning is Dell, ... They missed revenue projections by a lot, and their earnings were also at the low end of the target, so that is reminding market participants that there may be a consumer slowdown taking place.

The manufacturers have polled consumers on this issue and we get conflicting answers.

Barry Long

The man-machine will crucify any conscious man who tries to help him; and convert his wisdom into an empty, mechanical dogma that suits his own understanding.

The man who sees consistency in things is a wit; the man who sees the inconsistency in things is a humorist.

Bailee Madison

When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

The key was them making their free throws (14-for-18). We've been consistent all year, but tonight we were having trouble finding the basket.

The key variable here is the consumer. As of now, consumer spending is way down so that may be the most critical thing they'll look at,

The jury considered things other than the instructions they were given, otherwise, they wouldn't have reached this verdict.

The key problem is his lack of consciousness.

John Rutherford

The key message for consumers is that they should continue eating fish,

The key is for product manufacturers and developers is to maintain as much of the essential functionality that consumers find in the larger products and to introduce new and relevant functionality.

Jeffrey Steingarten

The ingredients today don't impress us, but back then they were much more expensive and difficult to find. The Caesar, when it was first introduced, was considered exotic.

The underlying trend of consumer spending has been quite solid recently due to the improvement in the job and wage market. Consumption was strong last quarter and played a key role in supporting growth and we can expect further growth from consumption this year.

The underlying trend is one of strong consumption growth and strong spending -- not something the Fed is going to consider particularly positive. The Fed's series of interest rate increases have not yet been enough to significantly deter the consumer from spending.

The underlying state of consumer demand is rather lackluster.

Paul Valery

The ultimate ""computer,"" our own brain, uses only ten watts of power -- one-tenth the energy consumed by a hundred-watt bulb.

The typical U.S. consumer may not see much of a difference when they go to the pump.

Jim Brown

The typical elected official is constantly surrounded by crisis. We don't act, we react. We don't typically look at the big picture. You need time to think in the big picture. It is hard for us to do.

These are important contacts for us. Greenville is home to some of the industry's top consulting firms, while several of the national firms have regional offices in Charlotte.

These are considered funds of last resort. Within that framework, we can be creative with how the funds are used. It doesn't say you can do this, you can't do that.

These are common-sense initiatives that will make Illinois a healthier place to live, and will save consumers money at the gas pump.

These kids are paying for gas and being more conscious of it.