Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Ayers

I think their desired stance is to stand pat for an extended period of time rather than cut rates, unless they are confronted with an external shock to the global financial system.

John le Carre

I don't know the literary world; I was scared of being confronted with famous names, not knowing what they had written. It was occupied territory I was entering.

Hubert Vedrine

Resorting to force is not desirable in the current situation, and would not solve the problems we are confronted with.

Robert Crawford

They learn social skills and deal with language impediments. A lot of these are cognitively impaired students who have real-life scenarios they're being confronted with here.

Mark Fulghum

They were confronted by three men. The man was hit over the head and they were robbed.

David Horowitz

There was England. And then there was the United States. If the pacifist betrayers of the West had not been so powerful in the 1930s and Western governments had confronted Hitler early, 70 million lives would have been saved. Americans would do well to remember this now.

Sam Buell

They're going to be confronted for the first time with lots of detailed questions that they didn't face before because the questioners didn't know all the facts yet.

John Tate

Raymond had a .22-caliber rifle with him when he confronted Betancourt, and shot him.

Ken Starr

After an extensive investigation, the office produced a report that addressed the many questions that confronted the difficult issues, it laid out new evidence, and it reached a definitive conclusion.

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.

James Cox

He didn't go very far. The currents there tend to pull you under and keep you there.

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.

Bruce Cleveland

I think you could expect that by the end of the year we'll have a strong understanding of how we're going to integrate our current products with Oracle's, and an understanding of the product road maps that lead into Fusion.

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.

Barbara Schneider

It isn't just a problem of the employee, it's a workplace problem that requires people to work together to make flex-time a real option that doesn't have negative repercussions with respect to job security and promotion. Rearranging work schedules to make people's lives more reasonable should be a desirable option.

Gore Vidal

The individual's desire to dominate his environment is not a desirable trait in a society which every day grows more and more confining.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Why is anything intrinsically so valueless so obviously desirable?

David Tarantino

For however long the plant operates, we have sufficient room to store things, but that's not the desirable option.

Mark Zandi

It's at the top end of what's desirable for the Fed policy-makers and investors. Inflation is low, but it is rising.

John Tyler Bonner

The reason for natural selection's great success is that it provides a satisfying explanation of how evolution might have occurred: individual organisms vary, and if those variations are inherited, the successful ones will survive and propagate and pass down their desirable traits to succeeding generations.

David Richards

When you talk about integrating the two audits - doing it once, rather than twice - that's easier said than done. It's desirable to do it that way, but when you get down in the weeds and try to figure out the specific steps that you're going to coordinate... a lot more has to be thought through. The objectives of the two audits are totally different.

Neal Soss

As long as the economy is growing at such a good pace, it is appropriate and desirable that the FOMC acknowledge that with somewhat higher rates.

Rod Nielsen

Stress is not a desirable state and it may lead to the development of other disease, particularly cardiovascular disease,

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Cato June

I take my hat off to our D-line. They force a lot of quarterbacks to throw under pressure. They'll make any quarterback nervous.

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Margo Lewis

He'd been ill for a while and was forced in 2005 to take a hiatus from performing.

Glen Hanlon

He keeps on doing stuff like this. Just when I thought I've seen it all, he does something else. He did a lot of things tonight that were pretty impressive. I think you got a pretty good idea of what a force he is.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Doug Heller

The only thing more shocking than these profits is the prices that motorists are being forced to pay at the pump. It's hard to imagine that these numbers won't rattle the cages pretty severely.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Judy Orihuela

He's been very cooperative. We've had no problems with him whatsoever so far.

Timothy Fisher

The range of a vehicle on one tank should be about the same as what we have today, 300 to 400 miles. And the fueling process should be about the same as what we're used to, it shouldn't take much more time than it takes today. And there are some serious problems with that.

Bob Bowlsby

I never would have taken the first step if I thought I was going to risk problems at Iowa. That was an important part of this process.

Christopher Hill

Clearly, they have some problems with the draft, but we have some problems as well.

Jeff Murray

I'm surprised they rejected it because we didn't see any problems with the proposal.

David Brewer

If there are problems, we'd like to know about them.

Russell Crowe

If there are any problems and you do get up here and go on too long, ... Then 'hello' to my little friend.

Roberto Heras

I had no problems, it was a routine stage.

Roberto Heras

I had no problems at all, the team had everything under control.

Nancy Verderber

It is not completely solved yet be we are still working on it but I think it will be.

Rand Paul

You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.

Billy Beane

It's a necessity. We've got to get it done. It's not something that's going to solve itself.

Megan Smith

It's very difficult to solve a lot of problems from the top down.

Satoshi Ogiso

For a long time, we couldn't solve that. It was very difficult.

Steve Roberts

They are doing nothing, nothing to solve this case.

John Mockler

This is the state of California. Let's solve the problem.

Michael Gove

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.

Nestor Kirchner

We will learn together how to solve the problems of the country.