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.

Paul Richards

If they say they've been with someone abroad and describe some gruesome symptoms, they'll get seen straight away.

Charles B. Rangel

Since the Korean War, U.S. and South Korea have established an enduring friendship with shared interests, such as denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, combating aggression abroad and developing our economies.

John le Carre

SIS, the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6, also has no executive powers and operates abroad on CIA lines, but with a tiny percentage of the budget and a tiny percentage of the personnel.

Rachel Platten

I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in choirs and loved to perform, but when I was in college, I went on a study abroad to Trinidad, and while I was there, I sang backup at my first concert.

Jack Straw

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

Susan Bro

Because these liver problems are significant and somewhat idiosyncratic or unpredictable, the FDA is evaluating the use of this medicine in both the U.S. and abroad where it is used and marketed to determine whether additional warning guidance is merited.

Julie Andrews

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in,

Liya Kebede

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

J. K. Rowling

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Chairon Isenia

As a player, you feel good when someone remembers something like that.

Kurt Thomas

As long as I set a good pick and roll, get to the open spot, it's about me knocking down the shot. He knows when to find you.

Jared Bernstein

Our expectations have been pretty diminished. A good month used to be 300,000 more jobs and now it is 200,000.

Tim Parmeter

Offensively, if we don't turn it over, we're going to score, and we did a good job of that in the first half. We can shoot, so when we get a shot at the basket, good things are usually going to happen for us.

Fran Dunphy

Defensively, we were just about as good as we could be. Offensively, when the separation occurred, it was because we did some things out of character.

Erik Anderson

Defensively, we're as good as we have ever been.

Quincy Douby

Defensively, they did a good job overplaying my side and putting two guys on my side, trying to get the ball.

Stan Gundy

Defensively he's not there yet because he's still got a ways to go conditioning-wise, ... but he's a very good defender.

Brent Faurote

Deke (Nelson) has Urich (46-6) of Perry Meridian, a kid who placed third last year. There are just so many good kids.

Gary Sheffield

This is nothing to be talked about, to be honest with you. Turn the lights on and I'll be ready.

Ayn Rand

There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his choice of the happiness which that tool must proceed to achieve--Self-esteem, as his inviolate certainty that his mind is competent to think and his person is worthy of happiness, which means: is worthy of living. These three values imply and require all of man's virtues, and all his virtues pertain to the relation of existence and consciousness: rationality, independence, integrity, honesty, justice, productiveness, pride.

Benjamin Bratt

I've always felt that acting is acting at the end of the day, so whether you're doing comedy or heavy drama or anything else in between, you always have to bring a semblance of honesty to it. It's all make believe.

Al Yankovic

Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

Jane Addams

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

Bob Dylan

You say you've lost your faith But that's not where it's at You have no faith to lose and you know it

Ben Glasgow

We had Republic, Marshfield and Ozark in a row, and honestly we wanted one win out of those games. Two was going to be icing. We got two.

Ani Difranco

Taken out of context I must seem so strange.

Stephen King

...practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable...

Sean Penn

I've always operated under the notion that audiences don't always know when they're being lied to, but that they always know when they're being told the truth.

John Cummings

Right now, we can comfortably shelter about 257,000 residents on island. Now when we talk about shelter space, we plan for a 3-by-5 space, just enough for you to lie down and get in.

Imron Cotan

We will be telling lies if we said there has been a genocide.

Bill Clinton

If a president of the United States ever lied to the American People, he should resign.

Nathaniel Smith

He that would woo a maid must feign, lie and flatter, but he that woos a widow must down with his britches and at her

Dan Castellaneta

Marge, it takes two to lie. One to lie and one to listen

Robert Byrne

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Blake

I know a lot about you, and what I don't know I can lie about,

John Rzeznik

All we are is what we're told and most of thats been lies.

Scottie Somers

A wise man once told Me that an overnight success takes 10 years. But I may not have 10 Years. I might have to settle for a naptime success.

Tommy Lapid

Ross Perot was a rich joke, ... I am a very poor man but serious. We are in serious business.

Edward Fitzgerald

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

Channing Pollock

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Ted Turner

I think George Bush is the most dangerous man in the world.

Bo Schembechler

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

Bernard Baruch

Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Baltasar Gracian

At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

Seth Rogen

To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Assadullah Khalid

We have sent a team to investigate the matter. If what residents say is true, then the culprits will be punished.