Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Lazear

On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.

Chen Xingdong

China's trade surplus will remain a sticking point between China and the U.S.. It's hard to close the trade gap because there's very little China can buy from abroad that it doesn't already make.

Jay Bryson

I guess if there's any surprise it's that I would have thought exports would have grown a little more than they did. But in the second quarter everyone else had weaker economies, although more recent signs are that things abroad are picking up. So maybe June was too soon to look for an increase.

Jack Straw

I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad

Paul Mackel

Japan is signaling that they're not concerned about the pace of the decline in the yen, so people are going to continue to push the yen lower. Japanese investors are continuing to buy bonds abroad and we see more scope for yen weakness.

John O'Donoghue

I also believe strongly that capping this exemption would send out a message internationally that we do not encourage success in the arts ... We will force our young talent to go abroad as soon as they become successful. This is wrong.

Shashi Tharoor

Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend's sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that.

Kelly Corrigan

I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.

Noam Chomsky

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Jack Rogers

I've been asked for a list of things that these folks need, ... They need everything.

Bobby Charlton

I've been asked about that goal every day for the last 40 years. We didn't have the technology back then to show whether it was a goal or not, which led to the controversy. I'd like to think one day we'll have the technology to show whether or not it was a goal.

Bryn Terfel

I've asked Tom in the past, but I don't know what was wrong with him as Tommy boy didn't return any of my calls,

Drew Davis

Some buddies from church went out playing and they asked me to come.

Aaron Stockstel

One day I took a visit and my mom asked me how I liked it. I said it wasn't too bad. She said good, you're going there next year.

Carol Booth

One customer told me he asked his wife if she wanted to go out to dinner, ... She told him, 'No, let's just go down to the Cafe.'

David Storrie

Rather than debate it in public, they've asked me to postpone it so we can discuss some unresolved issues.

Eric Kohen

I've never really worn this out much. I did do a favor for a friend once and wore it to his 5-year-old's birthday party. One kid came up to me and tugged on the robe and asked if I was a real Jedi. It was cute.

John Oliver

I've said yes to everything that Jon Stewart has asked me to do. That's been a pretty good career decision, I think.

Aretha Franklin

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

Bernie Sanders

Message to the billionaire class: You can't have it all!

Bernie Sanders

In the 1980s and 1990s, Jack Welch, the CEO of General Electric, laid off over 100,000 employees. His reward? When he retired from GE, he received a golden parachute of over $400 million dollars. This is the kind of corporate greed and irresponsibility that is destroying the middle class and must be ended.

Bernie Sanders

The greed of the billionaire class has got to end and we are going to end it for them.

Heath Kramer

You have to have a Class B Commercial Drivers License with a passenger restriction. That means the only thing you can drive is a bus.

Lisa Richardson

This year, 215 million bushels of corn will be leaving the state. We are a landlocked state with one (Class 1) railroad. Competition is what we're looking for.

Mike Schneiderlochner

There is so much competition from 52 schools (in Class AA) and four people go into each event. There are 220 girls and that is a lot of competitors. We have the largest swimming district in the United States and that includes Florida, Texas and California.

Mary Conroy

Various people on campus, literally people from every class, said congratulations,

Randy Mooneyham

We had a great showing with the Legends last season. They're a great class to work with and they always put on a great show for the fans.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Burt Rutan

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries

Carson McCullers

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

The issue of Palestine has been there since more than 60 years. But more important since 1967 when the war was, ended in the defeat of some Arab countries.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Some countries, like Saudi Arabia, where the population growth is very high, whereby you don't have the mortgage low yet. Still the demand outstrips supply by much.

Al Franken

If you control the flow of information, you can control the conversation around important issues. If you can control the conversation, you can change this country.

Charles Kelley

I feel like fans who like old Southern rock and country, and more lyric-driven songs in general, have come to country radio. I think that's why you see country radio growing and albums selling: People are craving a little more of the singer-songwriter stuff going on in country.

Mark Mobius

We were investing at this terrible time when emerging markets were all going down, some by 90-odd percent, and we are now benefiting from that, ... You had one crisis after another. You had Russia, Brazil, Thailand. We were investing in all of them.

Jefri Sirait

Maybe they're waiting for the situation to stabilize. But, whatever the reasons, the electricity crisis puts us at risk.

David Healy

If it wasn't GM in crisis mode and the whole feeding frenzy going on in the media, a small restatement like this wouldn't get any attention.

Piero Fassino

Acknowledge your crisis, resign, ... and let's go to the polls.

John Bolton

This is a moment of crisis for the United Nations. If we don't get serious reform, it's going to put us in a very difficult position, It's now two months since the end of the September summit and we have essentially not made progress since that point. We've got a lot of work to do and there's not a lot of time to do it

Jacques Chirac

This is a crisis of meaning, a crisis of reference points, a crisis of identity,

Helio Ozaki

It is quite a big relief, showing that a solution to the Argentine crisis is close.

James Thurber

Whether it's a crisis or not depends on how long these high prices are sustained.

Robert Gordon

We're not talking about any crisis. There's always a way out.

Goolam Ballim

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Mike Wilson

This is a practical, rational restructuring of the debt.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Martin Luther

Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.

Carlos Samano

The market is already pricing in that (the debt upgrade) is coming. That improves the country's (economic) perspective.

Hamish Linklater

I invested all my money in debt.

John M. Ford

We're all living on borrowed time. The trick is to come up with works of sufficient interest to pay off the debt.

Chuck Hill

It puts you in a precarious spot where you have to worry about further losses pushing you into situation where you wouldn't meet the debt covenants.

Terry Teachout

Whether they know it or not, most American playgoers owe an incalculably great debt to translators. Were it not for their work, comparatively few of us would be able to enjoy the plays of Chekhov, Ibsen or Moliere.

Morris Gleitzman

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Lori Wada

You must register. Otherwise, you will be facing this kind of prison term.

Geoffrey Smith

We don't want people to panic, but they need to realize we're facing a very grave situation.

Brian Dawkins

We mixed it up. When you're facing that kind of coverage, maybe (Moss) doesn't go out and run like he usually would run. In his mind, he's thinking, well, I can't get past. It takes a weapon away from that offense.

Pat Robertson

I apologized and I said I will be praying for him, but one day we will be staring nuclear weapons and it won't be (Hurricane) Katrina facing New Orleans, it's going to be a Venezuelan nuke.

Andruw Jones

It's going to be nice, but we're still facing Pedro tonight.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Gary Bardini

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

Allan Houston

Even though I wasn't practicing twice a day, I was still doing some stuff, ... So it just really didn't have any time to recover. I don't think it's fair to judge it off training camp, though.

Henry Hyde

We think it would be helpful to hear from the president and we'd like to participate in any fair examination of him,

Terry Wilczek

We had our hands full with him last year. He's a good player. But it looks like they have a fair number of playmakers.

Sonya Hartnett

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

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.

J. R. R. Tolkien

For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?

Gilbert Brule

I don't think it's fair to compare. I play a totally different game than he does. I'm a lot more physical and gritty and I like to stand up for myself on the ice. I think his game is a little different than that.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

Dr. Denny

All are home now, and are recovering or have recovered.

Barbara Pym

The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.

Billy Connolly

I'm a big fan of the Mars Bar Diet. You don't eat the Mars bar, you stick it up your arse and let a rottweiler chase you home.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Tom Odell

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Willie Geist

Do whatever you want to do in the privacy of your own home.

Clyde DeSouza

Don't leave home without your visor, it's an ugly world out there

James McGovern

Don't go home and tell your constituents you did anything for them. In truth, you haven't,

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Michael Ignatieff

I distinguish, between nationalism and patriotism.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Rumi

Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.

Steven Cojocaru

I'm not getting paid right now. No pay, no critique.

Sue Grafton

Pay minimum wage, you get minimum work. Nobody seems to get that.

Sue Grafton

Pay enough for anything and it passes for taste.

Sue Monk Kidd

We become what we pay attention to.

Michael Arrington

Everyone wants the rich to pay more in taxes.

Sinead O'Connor

I could stand in the street and sing and get enough to pay the bills. I don't need millions of dollars.

Nina Simone

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

Paul Reid

We don't want to share it. We want to win it outright.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Denis Diderot

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Dikembe Mutombo

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Anwar Sadat

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Edmund H. North

The world only remembers the winners.

Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Edward Abbey

Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.