Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tang Shuangning

The purpose of engaging strategic investors in the shareholding reform is not to collect funds to raise the capital adequacy ratio of the state-owned commercial banks, but to learn from the expertise of our foreign counterparts in service, management and internal control to improve the competitiveness of China's banking sector.

Arlen Specter

Before I can evaluate the adequacy of these changes, I have to know a lot more about the specifics of the problem. It doesn't do a lot of good to move names around on organization charts if there aren't substantive changes. What's going to happen to the next Phoenix memo? Where's it going to end up?

John Koskinen

We think the adequacy of health care will be fine. You'll get good treatment wherever you go.

Sheila Garrard

The operating trend is as I expected, although revenues are of slightly better quality. But it's disappointing that they haven't made progress in dealing with the capital adequacy position at this stage.

E. Stanley Jones

Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

Albert Bandura

The adequacy of performance attainments depends upon the personal standards against which they are judged

Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

Adam Osborne

Adequacy is sufficient.

Michael Morrison

You can?t look at the charts and say because it?s never happened it?s never going to happen.

Grace Potter

We want it to be small-time. We're not going for charts here. We're just looking for people in Minnesota to be able to go into a store and find us.

Matt Mullenweg

Quantcast combines powerful web analytics with easy-to-read charts and data.

Paul Maechtle

Do you go? In some cases, a kid explodes off the charts . . . and now you have your name out in front of people. On the other hand, someone can go there and just fall flat on his face, and people may get turned off completely.

Jack Power

The Tigers' time of 8:39 is the second-fastest time so far this season by a Division II team, with Pearl River running 8:35 last weekend. The effort definitely put the Tiger distance runners on the charts as one of the top contenders for state honors later in the year.

Carolyn Strauss

Rome. It is a series that charts entirely new ground in terms of scope and ambition.

Larry Rice

That's high. It's tough to justify. So let's look at the charts -- I'll feel better.

Walt Whitman

When I heard the learned astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much a

Jim Laughlin

Everything from Spain is kind of flying off the charts lately. They're finding decent growing regions all over the world now. Spain seems to be hot.

Andy Greene

Guys look at you, see your size and are quick to evaluate you sometimes. That's just part of the game.

David Lee

I think you really have to evaluate and see how things are going and be honest. That goes back to having people around you that are not going to tell you what you want to hear. Instead they give you true advice.

Todd Jones

I think you evaluate where you are at and what kind of team you are on. If you are on a good team, you want more than 30. It's not Sept. 1, and I'm sitting on 30. That's good.

Mike Shanahan

I think this will be the true year to evaluate Jake Plummer.

Lazarus Long

Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.

Russ Ortiz

I'll throw off the mound and see where it's at. . . . We're going to evaluate it. Keep throwing and see how it feels.

Larry Brown

I'm going to play guys and see what we have. What better time to evaluate your guys?

Bobby Bowden

The better the competition, the better you can evaluate them.

Jerry Angelo

That's a lot of money, but that's a unique offense. A receiver in that offense is obviously of more value than, maybe, a running back is. That's what each team has to do. They have to evaluate the positions.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Mark Edwards

I would think they will have some pretty good success at leasing the building, especially with the amenity of on-site parking.

Denny Green

I would think he's going to be out at least two preseason games. We're just happy that it's not real serious -- there's a lot of pain, obviously. And he should be as good as new.

Jeb Bush

Knowing what we know now, I think it would be inappropriate to sit back and say something is going to happen and it will all work out,

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $US805 million ($A1.08 billion) is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Daniel Toole

I would stress that the $805 million is enough to cope, to meet the minimum requirements of these children. It's not luxury and it is also not emergencies that happen after today.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Erik Zabel

I actually have no idea about what can happen on Sunday,

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Dick Armey

He's been so apologetic. He's been promising that this will never happen again.

S. Hughes

I would take a pause and see how it goes. I think the big move has been made already.

Dale Shull

I wrestle him and he's a lot stronger. Then the same moves I try to put on him I put on the other guys, and it's a lot easier.

Bob Peck

I think it is the right time for me to move on,

Emeka Okafor

I think I stepped on somebody's foot. I'm not in too much pain, but I really can't move (the ankle).

Marty Barnes

I also haven't moved anything on my desk. Nothing has been touched.

Corey Kline

He can't show any moves until the semifinals.

John Woodring

He's done, so we have to move on.

Stone Gossard

I think when you put a new record out, everyone has a song or two that they feel people will be moved by so much that radio will be forced to play it.

Dan Evans

We just have to get the president to move it up on his priority list.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Richelle Mead

Your boyfriend and Micah will both be speechless." I unfastened my seatbelt. "That's the third time I've heard 'your boyfriend.' What's going on about that? Why won't anyone say Brayden's name?" Neither of them answered right away. Finally, Jill said sheepishly, "Because none of us can remember it." "Oh, come on! I'd expect that from Adrian but not you guys. It's not that weird of a name." "No," admitted Eddie. "But there's just something so...I don't know. Unmemorable about him. I'm glad he makes you happy, but I just start to tune out whenever he talks.

Richelle Mead

My name's Jet Steele.

Richelle Mead

The problem with having so many people call me by nicknames was that when someone called me by my actual name, it usually meant something serious was happening.

Umberto Eco

The most interesting letters I received about 'The Name of the Rose' were from people in the Midwest that maybe didn't understand exactly, but wanted to understand more and who were excited by this picture of a world which was not their own.

Rick Riordan

This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Raymond Chandler

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Monica Crowley

Just when you think you've heard it all from Team Obama, the next day brings another jaw-dropper.

Meredith Ostrom

John Casablancas was saying, 'You will be the next Claudia Schiffer!' But I said, 'Actually, I have to go to college.'

Stephen Colbert

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Erin Dethloff

Having a season-best performance before the Big 12 (conference meet) is really huge. We are just going to keep practicing next week.

Nick Price

He's a little older than me and out of respect he should be the next one to be asked,

Ted Ligety

I think it's kind of stupid to make him do it if he isn't going to be in the next run.

Carl Poston

It could be (today), it could be next week. It's all up to him.

Ned Riley

I think by the first quarter of next year you're going to see a much better profits picture and that's what the market's telling us here.

Steve Reynolds

I think a resolution like this is important to transition us to the next point.

D. James

I don't know my situation right now. I'll find out when I get to Phoenix or when I get back from Phoenix.

River Phoenix

It still strikes me as strange that anyone could have any moral objection to someone else's sexuality. It's like telling someone else how to clean their house.

Cab Calloway

A phoenix ain't nuthin' but a burd.

Javier Rodriguez

Sometimes, we give them a ride from Phoenix over here, but we never smuggled them.

Ann Coulter

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Ambrose Bierce

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

Neil Gaiman

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.

Mike Butters

Phoenix is a tough team. It'll be a tough game. They're ranked second in the nation, so we're going to have to work.

Famke Janssen

Jean Grey, the Phoenix … she finds a way to reincarnate herself constantly, so one never knows.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Robert Aitken

The Universal is always the same, the specifics are always different.

David Washington

We just wanted to make sure we understand the specifics of what happened. We want to go over everything. We'd like for this thing to be remedied.

Michelann Ooten

I don't really know specifics on when it will all be back to normal. It's going to take a while.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.