Famous Quotes & Sayings

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Steven Wood

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Peter Dixon

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

Bruce Rohde

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

John Silvia

Employment and wages are stronger and therefore, consumer spending is stronger. Housing is slowing, but not as much as we would have expected, and the price of oil is so far not having that big an impact on the consumer.

Elizabeth Edwards

If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

J. G. Ballard

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Shlomo Yosef

The situation is still serious, but it's stable. All the parameters ... are as expected following this type of surgery. Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

O. Winston Link

I never expected that. I didn't aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.

Daniel Barcelo

While the refining outlook is expected to remain highly profitable through 2007, the equities have for the most part priced this in.

Hector Ruiz

We had a fourth quarter that was better than most people expected and, frankly, a little healthier than we expected.

Douglas Anderson

She wasn't expected to live the first week.

Jay Haas

No. 4 really turned things around. I never expected to make four there.

Rosemary Mahoney

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and peaceful place. Well, it's quaint and mysterious in some respects, but not in the ways I had thought. The people are mysterious. They don't often tell you what they feel.

Paul Bell

No one expected us to be on top. I still wish we didn't lose the game. I was hoping to win for me and the people back home. Big for us, really big for us. They thought we couldn't have done it.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Mark Foster

We first flew it, after a 12-year restoration, in 1994, ... It is fairly stable but ... it tends to wander because it doesn't have a vertical surface. It goes straight, but yaws a lot. It has fairly good cruising speed, 160 miles per hour or so.

Ric Ocasek

People tell me all the time that I look forbidding or aloof. That doesn't bother me much - I am fairly private, withdrawn, and... distant, I guess. But, um, I think that's okay.

John Koskinen

That will actually look fairly interesting on a T-shirt.

David Dukes

We do this to recognize individuals who report fairly and accurately.

A.J. Allmendinger

I thought my TV performance actually went fairly well.

Jerome Jenkins

He played on a fairly good team last year.

Aaron Ruell

I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Hernan Cortes

This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling.

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Deepak Chopra

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Andrew Denton

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Sue Barker

It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us!

Mark Ruffalo

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Jim King

Several of us are nervous about turning (a fund) over to another group.

Lisa Presley

She has big plans- she is making me a nervous wreck. She wants to make her own money, which I totally respect but she is still my baby.

Rod Stewart

I have never had such a nervous day in my life,

Jeff Koons

I'm always working. If I'm not in my studio I become quite nervous.

Kevin Kerr

The switch is not going to be that smooth. Within the next 14 days, I think we are going to see prices steadily climb.

Joni Pitkanen

Now I know how he wants me to play. This is a big year for me. I want to step up to the next level.

Gordon Hamilton

This is something that we could see in the next decade.

Barbara Kingsolver

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Bashar al-Assad

This is the Middle East, where every week you have something new; so whatever you talk about this week will not be valuable next week.

Arianna Huffington

I'm pulling out, and I'm going to concentrate every ounce of time and energy over the next week working to defeat the recall because I realize now that's the only way to defeat Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Susan B. Anthony

I expect to do more work for woman suffrage in the next decade than ever before.

John McKinley

Ultimately, you get to a point where you want to take the next hill. I really wanted to get back to a role in a technology organization.

Anja Thiessen

We skipped classes, so we have to get back next week.

Efraim Zuroff

Up to a quarter of the Latvian legion were volunteers.

Scott Davis

We know the quarter is going to have EBITDA down 20 percent, but that will not be a surprise to anybody,

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alfred Adler

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Angela Merkel

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

Anthony Bourdain

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Edgar Allan Poe

Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger.

George H. W. Bush

even better and stronger than before the storm.

Adolf Hitler

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right a thousand times over, to be defeated by a stronger opponent or a stronger coalition.

Albert Camus

what doesn't kill you make you stronger and stronger

Thomas S. Monson

We learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass.