Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Joy

The persistence of high oil prices can't be lost on the Fed. Consumers have to pay for higher energy even though it's volatile. It is a real cost.

Gary Campbell

We are positive on stocks, especially those that are benefiting from very strong U.S. consumer demand.

Alan Ackerman

There are continued uncertainties, ... The U.S. economy is slowing and commensurate with that is slowing consumer spending and corporate spending.

Scott Brown

There are some encouraging signs in retail sales, but if you look at what the source of consumer spending is, it's really income growth, and wage growth has been lackluster, suggesting the consumer will not be robust going forward.

Bob Brown

We want to provide unfiltered and unbiased consumer education about the impact of what life insurance does, rather than how it works.

Marshal Cohen

Until they're able to prove that consumers are going to respond to the changes, the Street is very nervous. It's a very big undertaking to convince the country that a national Macy's is better than regional department stores.

Steve Stanley

While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.

Janet Jenkins

We've become a customer service department for some of these companies. So many consumers can't seem to resolve their issues with telephone companies.

Michael Gallelli

We've always tried to give consumers what they want, not what we feel they need,

Bob Zelnick

the potential to inflame is greater than the value of the piece itself.

Richard Segal

We are seeing a market that has experienced extraordinary rates of growth. We are seeing those rates moderate. That pace of moderation has been slightly greater than we expected.

Lucio Tan

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Noreena Hertz

I'm really looking at questions of power, navigation, and spin. Then I am also looking for real-world stories that give me greater insight into smart and new ways of thinking.

Tom King

With this size pond, we get a greater dilution factor, so we will be able to meet those standards.

Bill Johnson

Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

William Wordsworth

We feel that we are greater than we know.

Joseph Fiennes

Yes, in a way. Film is a by-product of my love of theatre. Theatre is for me the greater challenge. In many ways it requires more skill.

Vaughn Cordle

They don't want to go that deep. Hence the strike threat.

John Cleveland

Strafford who was hurried hence / 'Twixt treason and convenience.

John Pearson

First, learn from hence to meditate upon your own Mortality, and be now assured, by this neer and home example, that your self shall die.

Terry Pratchett

The place looked as though it had been visited by Gengiz Cohen (footnote: hence the term "wholesale destruction")

O. Singh

Maybe, the West also knows about our nuclear resources and wants to weaken our capabilities and hence this nuclear deal.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new building material is the first prerequisite.

Andrew Marr

Interviews, and hence interviewers, are there to help shed light, and to let viewers judge for themselves. We are not judges, juries, commentators or torturers - nor friends, either.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The higher you go, the fewer women there are.

John Winn

We have to get students rising to that higher standard.

David Goodwin

Until they can get that higher rent, they aren't going to build.

Patrick Mason

We're going to see more software acquisitions at higher valuations. Stocks naturally will trade higher when you raise the bar.

Bill Donabedian

We are getting more submissions so, on the law of averages, we are going to end up with higher quality bands. Those who didn't submit in the past now know this isn't some rinky-dink festival.

Ned Riley

A lot of these stocks were much higher a year ago than they are today. Clearly, the bottom-fishing issue is important and real.

Jerry Cooper

They may want to make a higher offer, but they haven't contacted us yet.

Beth Givens

They may not really know who is working for them. There could be a higher risk for fraud.

Stan Heath

They play at a much higher level at home. I have to make sure our players understand that and that we're prepared for that.

Mitt Romney

We're going to need to find, in many cases, permanent housing for these individuals. Jobs, housing, transportation and the like,

Bonnie Adams

We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.

Carl Guardino

It's fascinating that housing was No. 1 in all three of those categories.

Nina Holland

They (organophosphates) can be tracked from outside in because some of these people in our study live in housing just next to the fields.

Gray Swoope

It ranges from housing interest to retail development interest to warehouse and manufacturing interest.

Nariman Behravesh

Of that 8.9 percent, maybe a third of it was weather-related. The rest of it is underlying trend of weakness in the housing market. You are seeing pervasive signs of weakness.

David Fields

a full-range of housing for all incomes and all people who wish to live in the neighborhood.

Steve Allen

Public housing units in New Orleans were huge,

Judy Burkett

The statistics show that 30 percent of the housing inventory is spoken for, but that's not accurate. There's not that much inventory.

Hiroshi Arano

Worldwide, inflation is going to be the big story next year. For Japan, that's going to be a big positive.

Bruce Alston

We're seeing a tickling of inflation in the pipeline but it's not going to be passed on to the consumer.

Adolf Rosenstock

They've been wanting to tackle upside risks to inflation for a long time and now they're seizing the opportunity.

Anirvan Banerji

There will be a time when inflation will turn around.

James Bianco

There really isn't anything in this report that suggests that inflation numbers are going to turn for the worst.

Bill Cheney

There really is no inflation at the wholesale level.

Cameron Bagrie

The risk profile for inflation is just too significant to ignore.

Stephen Halmarick

First-quarter inflation won't trigger a near-term rate hike. But the bank's statement on monetary policy in May will reinforce their inclination to raise rates, maybe even harden it up a little.

Glenn Miller

There's no question that inflation has occurred, and $75 million is not the same today as it was then. That said, from where we sit, what's past is past.

John Morley

Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least

Dennis Washington

I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.

Bill Callahan

He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week.

Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

Martin Heidegger

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

Scott Bisbe

I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.

Henry Charles Carey

In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient.

Cory Booker

The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility.

Rex Stout

As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter.

Alan Moore

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

Al Ries

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Al Ries

Marketing is what a company is in business to do. Marketing is a company's ultimate objective.

Al Ries

Marketing is not selling. Marketing is building a brand in the mind of the prospect.

Al Ries

A branding program should be designed to differentiate your cow from all the other cattle on the range. Even if all the cattle on the range look pretty much alike.

Akio Morita

All you need is the best product in the world, the most efficient production in the world and global marketing.

Henry McVey

We still like the equities market and think the S&P 500 could potentially go through 1300 this week.

Bernard Ebbers

I was a pretty good coach and working with marketing was like coaching.

Celso Senise

There is no money in the market and the pressure to sell is very great.

Betty White

It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.

Jon Lea

It's the kind of year we like to see. And if everything holds, the water supply outlook is pretty good.

Derian Hatcher

That's how he does it. That's the outlook of the team, and it starts with him.

George Benson

The outlook for Georgia, I'm pleased to say, is good.

Aubrey Plaza

I've had experiences in my life where I've met certain people that have opened up something in me and given me hope and a new outlook on life.

Dorothy L. Sayers

There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.

Matthew Settle

Since I've been in an actor, I've lived in Italy, in London, in Stockholm - I had the fortune of working in different locations. If you live someplace long enough, you acquire slightly different systems of thought, and it influences your outlook on life. I just slowly adapted the way I speak.

Mark Leyner

I dont walk around chuckling all the time. My outlook is very bleak. Its worse than bleak, its apocalyptic.

Marilyn Manson

My fans make me feel as young as they are. We share the same spirit and I share their outlook on life

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Bogan Durr

They need to put the receptacles back in until the university is ready to back up the policy with some enforcement.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Donald Trump

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

Donald Trump

The media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Dolly Parton

For me, these songs are not really political, but more a sign of the times, ... I see them as songs of hope, songs with strong messages, songs that take on a new relevance today.

Tom Stoppard

Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

Gore Vidal

I'd like to see a revival of state legislatures, in which I am a true Jeffersonian.

Paul Meeks

We don't know when (that revival will be) and that makes it very worrisome.

Terence McKenna

The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Murray Walker

Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.

Doug Harvey

You can't know what it's like to be a major league umpire unless you were a major league umpire.

Larry Ammons

Do you really know the commissioners wishes unless we vote on something?

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Elizabeth Peyton

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Corey Koskie

It's just here until I find a place for it. It's not a donation.

Benjamin Netanyahu

Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats.

Edgar Friedenberg

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

Barbara Tuchman

If power corrupts, weakness in the seat of power, with its constant necessity of deals and bribes and compromising arrangements,corrupts even more.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Richard G. Scott

The Lord sees weaknesses differently than He does rebellion.

Brene Brown

There's no evidence that vulnerabilty is weakness.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not weakness.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.