Famous Quotes & Sayings

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Michael Mayo

The one issue, the one question that comes to mind, is we need to quantify where the (buyers) are coming from. Some of these units are $1 million and up. Can our work force afford these? We have a crisis of affordable housing in that area already.

Glen Lewinski

The rule is, you can afford a house about 2 1/2 times your income. Well, you'd be hard-pressed to find a $140,000 house around here anymore.

Cory Miller

I've seen students check out anywhere between $250 up to $1,200. The fact that we are a rental (school) can make a difference. Some kids just aren't going to be able to afford those books.

Carl Pohlad

It was tough, but you've got to pay what the market is. It wasn't easy because this sort of thing really isn't our policy. But there's an exception to every rule, and Santana is exceptional. We couldn't afford to lose him.

Ryan Getzlaf

It was a little frustrating to give up a two-goal lead, but we had to win. We couldn't afford to lose tonight.

Lise Buyer

These stocks are for speculators more than investors. The average individual should be very careful that the money they are putting into these stocks is money they can afford to lose. This should be play money.

David Lucas

The zero percent is real effective on those (U.S.) models. Customers shop the monthly payment, so zero percent is what moves the vehicles. As long as they (automakers) can afford to offer zero percent, they're going to be there with it.

David Lucas

The zero percent is real effective on those (U.S.) models, ... Customers shop the monthly payment, so zero percent is what moves the vehicles. As long as they (automakers) can afford to offer zero percent, they're going to be there with it.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

Source Unknown

The wise man says it cannot be done, but the fool goes and does it.

Russian Proverb

The riches that are in the heart cannot be stolen

Steven Kaplan

This is a whole new era. This is a whole new day. We cannot be stopped. No one can hold us back,

Michael Flanagan

This is an orderly belt-tightening. Expense growth has been overshadowed by strong revenue growth, ... What is really driving the issue here is that even the most optimistic firms cannot expect to sustain revenue growth at these levels.

Brent Sadler

This is a tremendously large crowd, the size of which is unprecedented in Lebanon's modern history, ... It is truly massive and cannot be ignored.

Ian Shepherdson

This is a surprise but it cannot last. We think the other elements of the report give a better indication of the strength of the market, with supply of single-family homes up to 5.3 months, compared to just 4.0 a year ago. Price gains have slowed to 7.8 percent year-on-year, down from 10.4 percent in Feb and a 19-month low. Much lower sales will follow.

Matthew Parker

This issue needs to be addressed immediately, ... since many students cannot graduate without these classes. That's why many come back for a fifth year.

Mike Hooper

This is subject to a police investigation so I cannot comment on that.

Sue Feldman

There is a welter of information today, and it's only increasing. Search firms recognize that knowledge workers and even consumers need better ways to sort through information. That's what's driving innovation, and we'll continue to see better and better search capability because of it.

Maryann Mitts

Marina has that capability to spark us. When she's on, when she's focused, this team will follow her lead.

Edilberto Adan

For every $100,000 of ransom that is given to these terrorists, that means much more capability and recruits to the movement,

Manny Acta

We have big stars in our country, and it's tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we're going to fulfill them.

Fergie

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Demi Lovato

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Bruce Feiler

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

Brian Regan

I would have been a lot better off if I’d studied more when I was growing up, y’know. But you know where it all went wrong was the day they started the spelling bee. Because up until that day I was an idiot, but nobody else knew.

Charles Spurgeon

If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.

Brit Marling

One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.

Gloria Allred

Some were told that the reason they had to stand in a particular spot was to make sure that construction workers passing by the trailer would not be able to see them.

Tom Sneddon

We have a cooperative victim in this particular proceeding.

Martin Lee

There's one particular woman who does a lot of cooking.

Chris LeDoux

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

David Lee

All these things were on her mind, stewing and stewing. And all these things boiled to the surface in one particular moment.

Kyle Williams

At a meet, if you need him in a particular event, he's there to step up and get points for you when you need them.

Tim Johnson

They seem to be targeting this particular group.

Scott Anderson

I try to find time to umpire and referee, but have had to reduce some of that, in particular the basketball.

T. S. Eliot

I can connect Nothing with nothing

Thomas Love Peacock

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

Plautus

To waste one's breath; to pump into a sieve.

John Piper

God doesn’t waste anything for those who are yielded to him.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Don't waste your time on life.

David Hawkins

He told me not to come here to waste anybody's time; he told me to make the team,

Bobby Lee

If I had abstained, we would have had to go through it all over again. And it will be the same thing all over again. I'm too old to waste my time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Eternity: what a waste of time.

Joel Osteen

You spend your time like you spend money. You can waste it or invest it.