Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard DeKaser

Taking it at face value, the hurricane played a big role in contributing to the weakness. Consumer spending was abysmal in October and November. It's an extremely weak report overall.

Jim Presba

It's abysmal safety record is there for anyone to see. We just don't know why it's been ignored and overlooked by all the federal agencies that are supposed to protect us.

Daniel Loeb

Notwithstanding the sorry state of the company, the apparent lack of financial controls, the consistently disappointing results and the abysmal investor relations, we estimate that the value of Ligand's assets far outstrip the current enterprise value,

Christopher Low

These are abysmal numbers, suggesting a deeply pessimistic consumer in the first half of September.

Sen. Hanabusa

No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.

Dennis Hastert

Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

Ken Duckworth

Some good things are happening even in abysmal states.

Robert Hayes

The (poll) numbers suggest an abysmal program. This benefit was designed to make it impossible for consumers to understand it.

Pat Riley

We came in here and that team just took it to us and took it away from us. It was an abysmal night.

Corey Held

Here I thought we were in good shape because Tyson's my ace. I ended up starting (Matt) Wagner and he had a great game, but he just got tired (in the sixth).

Jon Sundvold

It could have ended in one day if Mike Alden had said here's what happened, why it happened and what he could have done differently.

Spencer Scharff

I thought about traveling, but I ended up limiting the scope of my thesis to local resources.

Luke Wilson

I went back to my high school in Texas about a month ago. I ended up spending five, six hours at the school meeting different kids.

Stromile Swift

He's been known to hit big shots his whole career. We just tried to switch all the pick-and-rolls they set. I ended up on Jalen, and I was able to make the play, stop him from getting the shot off.

Ned Yost

When they got the big inning in the third, it ended up costing us the game. That's something we'll work on all year.

Matt Kujovsky

We made too many mistakes and missed too many opportunities. It just ended up lop-sided.

Tom Kelly

I don't know where I would have ended up if it weren't for Kirby Puckett. He was not just a great ballplayer. He was a great friend. Everybody is taking it hard.

Arthur Smith

I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at one and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.

Andre McGee

I think it did have to be this way, so he could get the ending he deserved.

Ronald Utt

I think as a consequence you are ending up with a program that is excessively costly and socially destructive.

Randy Sherman

I think that served as a lesson to them. Every thing ending up alright.

David Raskin

In this phase you learned who some of those extraordinary people were and you learned about the pain, all the never ending pain, their loved ones still feel.

The Vikings

I just saw the shot, did my routine and it worked out. I'm very glad we finished before the rain and storms came. It was just really nice to have a good day and it was a good ending to the official season.

Heather Williams

I just do not want to be a part of ending that life.

Patrick Sullivan

I'm hopeful as I can be that we can reach a solution before ending up in court. While I can't predict how things will work out at this time, the parties are still working together to reach a solution.

Folarin Campbell

I know it. We wanted a better ending to our story, but it had to end some way.

Jeff Katz

Nothing less than qualifying for the postseason will satisfy us. We have had disappointing endings the past two years when we just missed moving on.

William J. Clinton

One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.

Sarah Parker

I liked the idea of this epidemic of not-so-young men still living at home.

Morgan Fairchild

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

Terry Bennett

Its an epidemic in the United States, and its croaking us,

Margaret Chan

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

Rachel Cusk

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

Katha Pollitt

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Kurt Vonnegut

That specific remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues.

Huseyin Sahin

There is no need for panic. This is not an epidemic spread from human to human.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

Kate Philips

He is waiting on the folks from New Jersey to move forward with the dredging project.

Ben Crump

What you all have done in the last 48 hours, that's history. It is history because it's the young folks who are doing the leading today.

Ken Jackson

I think it's hard for new businesses, especially younger folks who could make more money somewhere else.

Matt Kleinschmit

It is a first. It will be interesting to see whether or not folks pay for this content.

Andrew Hudson

What we are trying to do is meld these folks back into a community, rather than putting them in a big pen,

Andy Graham

We take the mobile phone with the GPS capabilities and turn it into a lifestyle recorder for those who run or cycle, or even walk. A lot of folks want to see how well they're doing on a mile-to-mile basis.

Lynn Franco

I think what we're seeing here, ... is that wages, overall, have always been seen as being at the low end of the totem pole. People are never quite satisfied with their wages. We don't find many folks who say they're overpaid.

Tom Ferguson

I'm hopeful some good folks will step forward and help us here. But I don't think there's enough time.

Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

William Petersen

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Bill Nighy

I'm always happy when actors get rich, because the odds on it are so long!

Charlie Munger

I won’t bet $100 against house odds between now and the grave.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.

Bruce Feiler

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

Bruce Kovner

The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout

Seth Shostak

The planets and moons of our solar system are blatantly visible because they reflect sunlight. Without the nearby Sun, these planets would be cryptic and dark on the sky.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Fred Williams

I ain't got no plane money. I just stayed... this is all I got right here.

Tricia Helfer

We only have this one planet; we got to figure out how to live on it without destroying it.

River Phoenix

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.

Jonathan Schwartz

I want to see most of the planet online.

Randall Munroe

The universe is probably littered with one-planet graves

Emily Oster

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

Marla Gibbs

When I get on a plane these days, I go first class.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Michael Stipe

The future's ours, and you don't even rate a footnote now

Richard Bernstein

At the rate it's going right now, profitability will accelerate, but at a very, very slow pace, ... much slower than what's implied by valuation in the market.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Jamie Rappaport

An astonishing success rate of more than 99 percent.

Scott Berry

And as rates go higher, that should go higher, too.

Robert Brusca

It's a surprise -- we thought the unemployment rate would be edging up.

Tim Shaw

Rate has to be part of the solution for Florida.

Dusty Baker

He can wait 'til Monday. The Padres are the team he's had his most success against.

Sarah Brown

The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.

Kim Brown

It could be synergistic, to buoy the success of that program,

Fred Wilpon

I think it's progress. I'm not sure success is unless you are in the playoffs.

Jim Beattie

He's getting away from what made him a successful pitcher.

Justin Timberlake

I think people sometimes don't pay enough attention to what they do. I've done well, but the reason is pretty simple: I've worked my ass off. The toughest thing a performer can do is make it look as if it comes easy.

Kevin Criswell

We have to be. If we want to have any success in this tournament we have to do it. We're probably a little under-talented, but we'll play better as a team.

John Gibbons

He does all the things successful lefties do,

Robert Collier

You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.