Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Davis

It is no wonder that bank capital is regulated. When borrowing and lending is profitable, it is tempting for banks to scale up their operations and to borrow and lend too much in relation to their capital, in effect reducing the effectiveness of the potential capital cushion.

Buzz Aldrin

Certainly, you can't participate in such a momentous program and not have the reminders of it have an effect on your life. What a wonderful gift for a person to receive.

Can you tell me which is the most effective treatment for smallpox?

But I don't think people saw it, because it was well disguised. To me, effects are only successful when you don't see them (as effects).

Andrew Zimbalist

But in terms of the competitive balance, that's very problematic. It's not likely it's going to have any significant effect at all. We still have a highly significant correlation between payroll and performance. That's really all we're talking about.

I never saw a more effective lobbying organization,

In effect they purchase influence through these contributions. And while most industries give money in one way, shape or form, tobacco is very good at it and they're very good in cashing in on it.

I'm not surprised they filed (the request to dismiss). I think we will be able to show that (the development) will have a negative effect on their property value and that will be enough to provide them with standing.

If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You know. But two years later to be gaining ground and making real progress? Thats far from a placebo.

If the past is any guide, the effect of rising interest rates is likely to be felt most visibly in housing markets.

I only wish we had a hundred of them. They make terrific investments that have a flow-on effect in terms of how people perceive the health of the game.

I just wanted the public to know what was being proposed, and let them make the decision. I think it's something that would effect the timber industry. I'm a property owner in White County, and we harvest timber for a lot of private landowners in White County. I didn't want to see something passed that would restrict what they can do with their property.

I really was pleasantly surprised at how much effect the vaccine had.

Ben Bernanke

In the shorter term, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina will have a palpable effect on the national economy.

Dan Shechtman

I hope that I have had some effect on the fact that Israel is a start-up nation.

High and prolonged levels of stress have negative effects particularly on the memory system,

Housing prices have been an important source of keeping wealth and have dampened the effects of the weak stock market. If they turned down in value that could jeopardize recovery.

Mark Fox

I don't know how much film they had. I would say it had zero effect ... Yeah, we were prepared for them, We just didn't execute the things that we wanted to do. There were too many breakdowns.

It will have an effect on some people.

It will have a devastating effect on values of homes and people's lives. You'll have semis going in front of million-dollar homes.

It will have a big effect in the U.S. as well as the Far East, because you are going to be seeing a lot more films with international flavor, instead of geared toward the U.S. and European markets.

It's a case-by-case process. It could have no effect at all.

It's about the same as we had last time. The same shortage of manpower. I don't see an effect to the overall schedule.

It's a disaster. They told us three months ago that Y2K isn't going to have any effect on them at all. They miss this quarter, now they're saying the next quarter is going to be even worse and that the first quarter will have even more losses.

Mark Shapiro

It's an undesirable side effect of a good trade.

It's too soon to write off the secondary effects of higher energy costs. We maintain the view that the Fed is going to keep raising rates.

Wendy Wright

Is this safe for women, when in fact there have been no studies done on the long-term effects on women who take the morning-after pill, and there are no studies that have been done on multiple use -- if a woman uses it more than once.

It will be swamped by the job losses that come out of Ford, GM or Delphi. Theoretically, everybody would say it's got to have a negative effect, but in the end it's going to be such a small effect most people wouldn't notice.

Henry Cisneros

The truth of the matter is, whatever the possibilities between New Orleans and San Antonio, that may have been once upon a time, but that's all pre-Katrina. With the effect the Saints can have on the people of New Orleans and Louisiana, I think they will make every effort to keep them there.

The use of Microsoft's .NET also has Web-services implications within an organization because it provides an effective way to integrate Microsoft applications together.

Terry Stotts

They went to him four or five times in a row, and when he makes that jump shot, it opens up everything else for them. He was effective and they took advantage.

They were more physical and effective on the power play. I wish I had another answer, but it's old-fashioned hard work.

They were trying to get Sammy tired so he wouldn't be as effective offensively, so we had to lock in and help.