Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ezra Taft Benson

Young people especially sometimes feel that the standards of the Lord are like fences and chains, blocking them from those activities that seem most enjoyable in life.

David Feider

The overriding issue remains that our grain export activities are at a standstill.

Tamara Gaffney

The overall growth in cell phone data usage is a boon for carriers. The popularity of mobile activities such as text-messaging is a solid revenue driver, with bundled pricing for data packages averaging $20 a month or 10 cents per message on pay-as-you go plans, in addition to the costs consumers already pay for their voice minutes.

Barack Obama

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Mark Jones

The activities overnight have undoubtedly caused some concern to people at the Greenacres caravan site,

Junichiro Koizumi

The activities of Japan's Self Defense Forces overseas are highly regarded by the international community, and the mission (to the Indian Ocean) must continue,

Sarah Hines

The activities kind of keep it off our mind. If there's anytime at all, you think of food.

Kevin Johnson

We know that there are illegal activities and that terrorist groups are financed there,

Rebecca MacKinnon

Facebook is not a physical country, but with 900 million users, its 'population' comes third after China and India. It may not be able to tax or jail its inhabitants, but its executives, programmers, and engineers do exercise a form of governance over people's online activities and identities.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

Tina Brown

Movie stars today are as greedy for additional kids as bankers are for bonuses. It's the new badge of authenticity.

Ice Cube

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

Idina Menzel

I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself.

Isobelle Carmody

The best fantasy does not offer an answer to our lives, it is an offering that acknowledges enough of the truth to resonate and add to the understanding about the human condition.

Giraldus Cambrensis

Not addicted to gluttony or drunkenness, this people who incur no expense in food or dress, and whose minds are always bent upon the defence of their country, and on the means of plunder, are wholly employed in the care of their horses and furniture.

Giles Foden

Foreign students add cultural value to their British peers, who need an international outlook.

Gina Bellman

Many American TV actors employ agents, managers, business managers, publicists and stylists, and are now adding digital media manager to the list. Their job is to reach out to the fans, managing websites, Twitter feeds, Facebook and Wikipedia.

Zoe Kravitz

I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.

Tina Brown

The 2008 financial crisis is usually attributed to vampire squid greed. There was certainly a lot of that. But it was also just as likely to have been caused by the chaos of process created by those big, sexy bank mergers when, in the name of 'economies of scale,' critical members of the trust and responsibility chain were cavalierly eliminated.

Timothy Noah

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have been a worldwide depression.

Warren Stephens

What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.

Warren Stephens

We've always been modestly leveraged, and we've never believed in a great deal of leverage on either our private equity business or on our investment banking business. And I think it really goes back to my uncle and dad growing up in the Depression and just seeing what happened to people who were overly levered.

Warren Stephens

We don't think of ourselves as a regional investment bank. We think of ourselves as merchant bankers with clients all over the country.

William Kirby

The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.

Zubin Mehta

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

Elizabeth Warren

I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.

Elizabeth Warren

Consumer banking - selling debt to middle class families - has been a gold mine.

Timothy Noah

The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Ice Cube

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

Zubin Mehta

I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.

Christo

And the most unusual and surrealistic place in New York City is Central Park.

Bill Cosby

Comedy Central is what these young people are viewing. The network speaks to their audience, which is saying, 'Give me fast jokes. Give me party stories and party language.'

Noah Feldman

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

Chris Nelson

The 1980s was the last decade of large suburban expansion. The '90s were a re-sorting era, with the central city gaining population after decades of decline. Now we're in a decade trending toward a fairly large-scale re-sorting of the housing market away from the far reaches of suburbia.

Stephanie Dietz

That was a good redemption game for us. The girls knew that they played poorly the night before and wanted to show Central what we are really made of.

Mark Shand

In the central Indian state of Orissa, mining has scarred the landscape, and it is already too late to secure most of the traditional elephant corridors.

Todd Edwards

Mexico's stocks and currency did not lose as much as other markets in the region on news that the Argentine government's plan may be in trouble.

Brian Kelley

You'll see very shortly a plan to generate a currency that can generate that value for Ford shareholders.

Colen Garrow

Manufacturing will be under pressure because of currency strength. It will hold the sector back and (keep) growth from reaching its potential level.

Laurence Godfrey

We get a wide range of responses (to our phone inquiries and visits). Some people are surprised there is a fee to pay. Music is a part of the fabric of society and people forget that it is a currency - the finished product of someone's creativity. Others understand that this (music creation) is a business.

Craig Chan

From the currency perspective, there's definitely been a search for yield. The general weakness in the equity markets hasn't provided any support to regional currencies.

Rupert Stadler

For this year, there is actually no risk (from currency effects), that matches with our hedging rate.

Frank Vargo

What we want the government to do is to make it plain that currency values should reflect economic fundamentals, and governments shouldn't interfere with that.

Andrew Pyle

(It) comes down to watching the data, and data reflecting the impact of this move in the currency is not going to come out until we get into the summer.

John Faucher

We think given guidance is roughly in-line despite the negative currency impact.

Donald Trump

I went to the Wharton School of Finance, the toughest place to get into. I was a great student.

Clint Eastwood

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it's a success.

Gordon B. Hinckley

How grateful I am for the law of tithing. It is the Lord's law of finance.

Bill Price

We have ample liquidity to finance the turnaround. We have sequential growth last quarter and have strong results from service providers.

Tim Smith

We have a lot of strength in our finance department, and I'm sure we will be looking at all of our possibilities.

Diep Kiet

We have called on enterprises with big resources in terms of production as well as finance to join the case.

Ruben Hinojosa

For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.

Peter Schuyler

To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.

Jack McCann

I was told they would need at least one officer at the shelter 24-7, ... I was told the state (Department) of Finance and Administration would send us packages and that our officers would be paid every two weeks.

Francois Arnaud

Today, the Pope is only a religious figure. At the time of 'The Borgias,' he was also a political leader, a financial leader, and the head of an army. I think popes are much less relevant today than they were then.

Ted Waitt

We have the liquidity and financial resources necessary to forgo short-term profits to regain long-term growth and sustainable profitability,

Jim Adams

We have the financial resources to move quickly.

Robert Kiyosaki

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

Robert Kiyosaki

Everyone has the ability to build a financial ark to survive and flourish in the future. But you must invest time in your financial education to build an ark with a solid foundation.

John Sargent

Members may find themselves in a worse position if they focus only on quick solutions to their financial problems. We?re pleased to offer positive alternatives to our members that can help relieve their immediate problems and help position them for long-term success.

Lamar Alexander

will they do well enough here on Saturday that they can go back to financial supporters and say, it's a worthwhile investment.

Bob Rossiter

While we regret having to suspend the dividend program, management is focused on preserving the company's financial flexibility in a very challenging industry environment.

Bill Turner

I think this is a solid group with a solid developer. I think they have strong financial backing.

Jeff Ramsay

I don't know about that, the relevant ministry would be better positioned to tell you about the retirement.

Sam Wright

Freddie Edwards of The Sanctuary called and said the ministry will do what it can.

Beth Moore

Ministry to an individual is as mighty an act of God as is ministry to the masses.

Gholamhossein Elham

The government's reading is that a new three-month period has been established and there is no problem about the Oil Ministry being run by a caretaker.

Kevin Cramer

I really see the vocation of politics like I see every vocation - whether its being a reporter or serving in public life or being a plumber - as an extension of ministry.

Mark Batterson

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.

J. K. Rowling

The Ministry places a rather higher value on my life than yours, I’m afraid.

J. K. Rowling

The ministry has fallen. Scrimgeour is dead. They are coming.

Katie Price

Places like Ministry of Sound are too druggie for me. Smaller, local places are where it's at for me.

Kathleen Bergen

Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system.

George Allen

I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Bob Castellini

We operate it. We don't own it. That's a big difference.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Jim Frederick

Our restaurant is operated by our family, for families.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

Carl Forti

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

Lara Rhame

It erodes the relative interest-rate support for the dollar.

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

E. Hurley

On having children: Up until they go to school, they're relatively portable.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Jon Favreau

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

Joy Harjo

When explorers first encountered my people, they called us heathens, sun worshippers. They didn't understand that the sun is a relative and illuminates our path on this earth.

Charles Caleb

Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, and wants more

Kevin Huck

We have a relatively young team with Keith Overton (160-pounder) the only senior starter.

Dick Durbin

We need to know as much as we can and as much as he will tell us about his values and beliefs,

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Charlize Theron

We value some lives more than others.

Brian Tracy

Nobody values your time but YOU.

Robert Gerhardt

We thought we could get it out before May 1, but because the values for some of the neighborhoods were out of whack, we had to go back and fine-tune those.

Demi Lovato

When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently.

Heather Brooke

The values of WikiLeaks have been completely overshadowed by Julian Assange.

Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Gloria Steinem

We can tell our values by looking at our checkbook stubs.