Famous Quotes & Sayings

John W. Snow

We are seeing a tremendous outpouring of the American spirit, ... That is our indication that this program will be utilized and have a desirable effect.

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

When you talk about integrating the two audits - doing it once, rather than twice - that's easier said than done. It's desirable to do it that way, but when you get down in the weeds and try to figure out the specific steps that you're going to coordinate... a lot more has to be thought through. The objectives of the two audits are totally different.

Like all freshmen, you have to pay your dues. You don't get the nice office space. You don't get the most desirable committees.

Lenders are selling properties at market value, especially if it's a desirable property. The lender who owns the property is not under any obligation to sell at any great discount.

Aldous Huxley

The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable.

It increasingly seems that the U.S. is going to go it alone, which is the least desirable outcome.

I think you're going to see a lot of heavy things come in because of gas, ... The prices on the big SUVs and the heavy trucks are going to have to go down. They're just not as desirable anymore.

I think it's one of the most intact of O'Neil Ford's houses remaining in Dallas. John has been very protective of this home. Many others would have torn it down to rebuild on such a desirable site.

Richard Greene

If they're (cities) desirable places to live, ... it can explain a sustained high house price for years to come.

Tupelo would obviously be desirable for manufacturing in the life sciences field.

It is desirable for us not to take too much time.

It isn't just a problem of the employee, it's a workplace problem that requires people to work together to make flex-time a real option that doesn't have negative repercussions with respect to job security and promotion. Rearranging work schedules to make people's lives more reasonable should be a desirable option.

It is highly desirable that policy practice be formalized to the maximum possible extent,

It is incumbent on us to develop an executable option, or face the risk of a less desirable option being imposed upon us,

Orison Swett Marden

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

as I have always said, it is desirable for dollar-yen rates to trade in a stable manner.

Mark Zandi

It's at the top end of what's desirable for the Fed policy-makers and investors. Inflation is low, but it is rising.

Eastman Kodak in its heyday might have paid more, but there are different benefits, including tuition remission, which often make it a desirable place.

Stress is not a desirable state and it may lead to the development of other disease, particularly cardiovascular disease,

The more desirable the merchandise, the more desirable it is to be shoplifted.

As long as the economy is growing at such a good pace, it is appropriate and desirable that the FOMC acknowledge that with somewhat higher rates.

The issue is how quickly we can resolve the nuclear dispute, and it is not desirable to place various obstacles before that.

For however long the plant operates, we have sufficient room to store things, but that's not the desirable option.

It's desirable that foreign exchange rates reflect fundamentals,

John Kenneth Galbraith

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

Gore Vidal

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

Susan Sarandon

I'm happy to be considered desirable. I love it!