Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juliene Berk

Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way -- by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.

Colin Clarke

He is a good player. We've seen him grow, we knew of his career and we're sure of his ability. We had to give him the opportunity to play in our team. He is one of the best players in the north of Texas. Now that he's already returned, we know that we've acquired greater experience and we're going to see it in action. He'll be able to help us in our cause.

Donna Dubinsky

I mean, they sort of refused to come to the table with any incremental capital. They would have loved for us to be acquired just get their money out and be gone.

Ulrich Wilhelm

The claim that the two BND officers had acquired Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital and handed it to the U.S.A. one month before the war's outbreak, as is stated in The New York Times, is false. The BND, and with it the German government, were unaware of such a plan until now.

Jim Gillespie

The baby boomers have acquired more wealth than any previous generation. Now their children are moving into adulthood, and they're looking to their parents for help in buying a home. And they're getting it.

Ulrich Wilhelm

The New York Times allegations are wrong in all their details. The claim that the two BND officers had acquired Saddam Hussein's plan to defend the Iraqi capital and handed it to the U.S.A. one month before the war's outbreak, as is stated in the New York Times, is false.

Wolfgang Gerhardt

The U.S. has found peace with India and Pakistan, both of whom acquired nuclear power status through their contempt for the Non-Proliferation Treaty,

Lee H. Hamilton

The U.S has acquired reservoirs of goodwill around the globe over many years. But it is clear - from polling data and ample anecdotal evidence - that America is losing its allure in much of the world.

Robert B. Parker

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way.

Uday Kotak

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

Mark Thompson

I don't have the assets to back up one these homes.

Jane Greer

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

Trent Duffy

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

Jim Hankinson

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

Matthieu Giuliani

Investors are confident, and there's a reallocation of assets in favor of stocks. Earnings have been better than expected.

Alan Greenspan

investing Social Security trust fund assets in equities compromises the efficient allocation of our capital -- which?is so essential to raising our standards of living.

Eric Maskin

In various countries around the world, assets that had previously been in the hands of governments were sold off to the private sector in the hope that this would lead to a more efficient allocation, that these assets would be put to better use.

Michael Shapiro

Intangible assets are not subject to taxation in Michigan.

Larry Freed

The downward trend is due to consumers' increased expectations during the holiday season, a much larger influx of infrequent visitors that may not know how to navigate a site and shipping costs, and the unavailability of prominent items like the Xbox 360 due to low inventory.

John Cridland

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one,

Peter Beaven

This could have a downward impact on the final export figures.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

A land of streams! some, like a downward smoke,/ Slow-dropping veils of thinnest lawn, did go.

George Buckley

February might prove a more contentious decision, especially in light of possible downward revisions to the Bank's inflation and growth forecasts.

Paul Kurtz

Since then, we've really been on a downward slope. There are some places where we see some limited progress, but the overall strategic level of leadership -- someone who is there full time, all the time making sure programs are in place and properly funded -- that's what's lacking.

Lara Rhame

Markets initially seem to be focusing more on the downward revision in growth than the upward revision to the deflator.

John Tuccillo

We expect a gradual downward turn through the year as economic growth slows, but we're still looking for very strong numbers,

Richard Rathge

We've been on a downward trend for births since 1981, except for the last two years. Hopefully, that has bottomed out and the trend will reverse.

James Farrior

He had a lot of drops today. I don't know what it was. Maybe Joey got in his head. His game plan all week was to try to get in Stevens' head and I think he might have done that.

Doug Johnson

Our main focus right now is our D zone coverage. Hopefully when the puck drops we'll be ready.

Annalee Newitz

'Interstellar' is a thematic sequel to Christopher Nolan's last original film, 'Inception'. It drops us into a dark future full of otherworldly landscapes and time distortions.

Thomas Hardy

And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I

Don Zilverberg

One day the market can be very good, and then you have an outbreak of something like BSE and the market drops tremendously.

Aaron Rodgers

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

George Shiffler

You're seeing price drops and government-sponsored initiatives in many countries, in an effort to get PCs in. But you're still facing low per capita income and an immature economic structure.

Robert Brown

Though Rome's gross yoke / Drops off, no more to be endured, / Her teaching is not so obscured / By errors and perversities, / That no truth shines athwart the lies.

Saddam Hussein

I am trying to extinguish the fire with few drops of water.

Ric Keller

The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.

Martin Nissenbaum

In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.

Stephen Baldwin

All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier.

Karl Marx

A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

John Kenneth Galbraith

No solution [to the problem of poverty] is so effective as providing income to the poor. Whether in the form of food, housing, health services, education or money, income is an excellent antidote for deprivation. No truth has spawned so much ingenious evasion.

John F. Kennedy

A technological revolution on the farm has led to an output explosion--but we have not yet learned to harness that explosion usefully, while protecting our farmers' right to full parity income

Louise Slaughter

Many poor and low-income women cannot afford to purchase contraceptive services and supplies on their own.

Joel Slemrod

Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.

John Kessel

Kafka is not interested in documenting the manners and mores of any particular place; he is not interested in probing the psyche of individual characters.

Len Lichtenfeld

I suspect that there will be a significant interest in getting better tests into the mainstream.

Lisa Presley

Having kids was the smartest thing I've ever done. They're little sponges who come into the world with a clean, shiny slate and such pureness. I'm interested in having more kids.

Ron Hilliard

He should have a big year. He's been rated by Dennis McCarty as one of the top linemen in the state. Michigan State, Penn State and Rutgers are very interested in Dan.

Charles Davis

I think the perception is out there that FOI is a special interest of the press.

Eddie Campbell

I thought about this, I thought these people are ringing me about horror. I don't think I like horror, I don't think I'm interested in horror.

Sufjan Stevens

I think you should be suspicious when there's a lot of interest in what you're doing,

Sean McGowan

The people who are obviously most interested in it obviously went out and did it already. He doesn't even talk about it.

Iker Casillas

I thank Manchester for their interest but I want to remain here.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

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.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Robert Orben

Inflation is the crabgrass in your savings.

Emo Philips

I'm not a Republican... but I am saving up to be one.

Patrick Ness

Sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Saving the virtues includes all other advantages

Rainbow Rowell

If you can't save your own life, is it even worth saving?

Joan Robinson

It is the rate of investment which governs the rate of saving, and not vice versa.

Dan Ariely

What reminds you in your environment about saving? Nothing.

Amy Tan

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

Richard Thaler

A company invites their employees to sign up for a plan where every time they get a raise, some part of that raise goes to increasing their contribution rate to the 401k plan. In the first company we convinced to adopt this plan, saving rates tripled.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

John Corcoran

We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the stock has been under pressure.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

William Devane

The business is built on slowing or even stopping the aging process.

Shaul Goldstein

Our battle, ... is to try to stop it all.

Randy Kortokrax

If you want to win at the Coliseum, you've got to stop penetration, penetrate yourself and play half-court defense.

Frank Williams

I'm trying to be lenient here, ... but I've told you before to stop testifying.

Samuel Fuller

I'm trying to be a voice of reason. I'm not trying to stop them from developing.

Saina Nehwal

I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just stopping, is a radical act of sanity and love.