Famous Quotes & Sayings

Floyd Hall

Kmart's sales for November were slightly below plan due to continued warm weather, which slowed sales of seasonal apparel. Categories showing particular strength for the month included home appliances, seasonal goods, home decor, jewelry, consumables and pharmaceuticals.

John Silvia

Job gains were clearly below expectations and trend. There may be some bounce back next month in specific sectors. Slower job gains may also reflect the impact of higher oil prices and uncertainty in the spring.

Jim McCamant

There are stocks that are so cheap and many of them are trading below their cash value.

Jack Baker

There are so many clouds over the market. I don't see any short-term way out of this mess. Some people are calling for not only a test of the October lows, but for possibly falling below the October lows once we start shooting.

Brian Billick

Haven't seen much of you in a while, ... We're just sitting here kind of below the radar screen.

Royal Bank

Having said this, the rise in U.S. rates overnight does suggest there is scope for another test below $1.20 in the euro today, but we would look to square shorts at $1.1950.

Peter Lai

HKEX is viewed as a good company as the exchange's turnover is expected to rise. Its shares have room to move higher as they are trading at slightly below some of their counterparts.

Craig Pennington

There is an increasing challenge for OPEC next year. If you look at what people expected last year, non-OPEC supplies have disappointed and demand has been stronger. The result has been in OPEC's favor. But next year will be tougher. And they will not want prices to drop below $50 a barrel. They will need to cut production.

Tevester Anderson

He's played below expectations at times, but he's also played well at times. I really like the way he's playing now, though. If he can continue to play like that, it would be big for us.

Ken Hill

I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing.

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Kenneth Miller

Half of the current rise ... was going on anyway. But that means half of what's going on is not background. It's human induced.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Seth Shostak

It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contradicted by the data. Of course, scientists would say the supreme being hypothesis is faith, and outside the realm of science - that it's not amenable to experiment. But we currently have the same problem with the notion of parallel universes.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Ralph Norris

We're probably in a situation where interest rates will stay somewhere around the current levels.

Dick Cheney

To date, that hasn't happened, and therefore has been no meeting currently scheduled.

Drew Matus

I think what this does is ratify the Fed's current stance --- moving at a measured pace seems to be the prudent course.

Rep. Lawlor

There is going to be a public hearing, and there is going to be a vote, and, more likely than not, he is going to be confirmed.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Herb Kohl

Well, you're likely to be confirmed, as we all know.

Robert Hill

He'll more than likely have to go to counseling, get parenting classes.

Himanshu Patel

The market is likely to be reassured that management is now putting firmer parameters around 2006 performance.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

John Schneider

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

Georgeanne Bender

There will always be people who line up in the middle of the night for those specials, but it's much better to offer people a coupon that allows them, say, 50 percent off on any one item. That way they're much more likely to come in.

Wes Walz

He was about 90 percent sure, and I said those are numbers I want to hear.

James Wicklund

There are so many variables to watch. With the API numbers on the way, everyone is in a wait and see attitude.

Charles Steinberg

What we have not seen in any significant numbers is people who refuse.

John Lindsey

Here, we're running into the problem of specific numbers again,

Mike Favero

His numbers speak for themselves and he's well-deserved to be a PARADE All-American.

Anthony Fauci

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

Bob White

I don't feel that their numbers and 'facts' are very accurate.

Kyle Whittingham

I don't know what his numbers were. But they weren't good.

Steve Tisch

I'd be shocked if the suggestion internally to recommend two teams ever comes up. I think the numbers are too big. I think it would be an overwhelming suggestion. Over time, possibly.

Peter Greene

I think traders are quick to take profits right now, because what else is there that stocks can do for an encore in the short term? We're still in an uptrend, but the probability right now, from a technical standpoint, is that we're going to have a little more selling.

Ursula K. Le Guin

The counsel of the dead is not profitable to the living.

Yvon Chouinard

Profit is what happens when you do everything else right.

Mahatma Gandhi

In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed.

James Cook

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.

David Carey

It's a very profitable side of the business.

Noam Chomsky

Education is not for profit. If you're not in education for profit, it's not going to be a fair critique for education.

Deutsche Bank

Excluding this, pretax profit should be up 9 percent.

Pliny the Elder

The best plan is to profit by the folly of others.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

John Cheever

Everything outside was elegant and savage and fleshy. Everything inside was slow and cool and vacant. It seemed a shame to stay inside.

Ovid

Alluring pleasure is said to have softened the savage dispositions (of early mankind). [Lat., Blanda truces animos fertur mollisse voluptas.]

Leonardo da Vinci

Savage is he who saves himself.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Torture is senseless violence, born in fear... torture costs human lives but does not save them. We would almost be too lucky if these crimes were the work of savages: the truth is that torture makes torturers.

George Bernard Shaw

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

David Gemmell

Do not expect help.' 'One should always hope.' 'Then hope for a handsome savage with kindly ways.

Robert McGrath

Somehow society shifted and took these things seriously.

Brad D. Smith

The world has shifted to the palm of our hand, or a tablet. We hadn't been investing in 'Quicken' that way.

Libba Bray

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Rachel Caine

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Tim O'Brien

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

Lydia M. Child

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

Gloria Moore

I wish he would've heeded the warning and left, but he didn't and we hurt,

James Buchan

Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning .