Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Al Rosen

The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

The plus reading will definitely pave the way for an end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy monetary policy and the market has not factored this in yet.

Don Horner

We are proud to be the only bank servicing the Sand Island community and are pleased to provide an expanded facility to all of the customers in the area.

Rakesh Mohan

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

Firas Askari

We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone is talking about the election. We expect continued strength in the Canadian dollar.

Fisher DeBerry

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Peter Cardillo

The perception is turning toward the fact that the economy is slowing and we can still continue to grow even if the economy grows at 5 percent.

Scott Kessler

The point is that Yahoo continues to invest very, very significantly in this area, and is doing good things, and will continue to do good things, which steps up the pressure.

Adam Ereli

Until and unless we can be sure the food we give is really going to those who need it, then we can't continue to provide aid.

Peter Kelly

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation's trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

Mark Guibert

We are precluded by law from discussing the substance of that exchange. RIM expects to continue communications through that channel.

Jim Bush

The possession of a controlled substance was an off-white rock-like substance,

Dusty Baker

There are some guys who have the nod because of experience. There are some guys who have demonstrated better control and better stuff than others. We'll see how they do the last couple weeks of spring and how they do when they go to Triple-A or Double-A.

Bayan Jabr

There are some forces out of order, not under our control, and not under the control of the Ministry of Defense.

Jake Delhomme

We still want to control the clock. Hopefully we're a smarter team now.

Rafa Benitez

We started off by controlling the game and were well organised and in the second half they did put some pressure on us but then we controlled the game at the end of the game,

Sharon Allen

We started covering their inside. We really wanted to control that at the end. When that happens a smart team does what? They go outside, and that's exactly what they did.

Zach Day

We spent most of the night trying to control the water from damaging our room,

Mark Richt

When you start talking about national implications, we really don't have much control over that at all.

Brad Boyes

We're not going to stop until it's official. If it is, that's when we stop. But for us, anything can happen. We just have to go in and control what we can.

Steve Walsh

A lot of times they're the only one in the store and we're not trying to hinder that. we just want to let them know we're out here trying to curb underage drinking by making it hard for the minors to get alcohol.

Jackie Smith

This is the section that goes down the hill past Carey Junior High, which is getting pretty deteriorated. Sidewalk, curb and gutter is really bad.

Robert Freeman

The most we can do right now is just to push it back to the curb and hopefully the residents will stay off the street.

Karl Shapiro

I see slip to the curb the long machines, Out of whose warm and windowed rooms pirouette, Shellacked with silk and light, The hard legs of our women.

Kin Hubbard

The woman that tries t' keep up with the' procession don't see near as much as her husband who stands on the' curb

Dave Young

this is not a new element of the ordinance, that the property owner maintain the curb and sidewalk and kept it free from debris.

Kevin Nealon

Curb Your Enthusiasm, ... is not so much about Hollywood. It's more about Larry's weaknesses.

Wu Guanzheng

As the governing party in China, the CPC welcomes supervision from non-Communist parties. We try to explore ways to curb corruption.

Martin Indyk

to take steps to curb the incitement, curb the violence.

Shahab Jalinoos

There are some fears that the post-war U.S. economy still finds it hard to go back into full gear.

David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story.

Helen Sharman

The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.

Doug Porter

We have seen a string of numbers that suggest the U.S. economy is losing some momentum, which really is a perfect environment because it's not as if growth is grinding to a halt.

Stephen Toplis

There is no question the economy is slowing.

William Teets

We're going to do what we can to turn our economy around.

Joseph Battipaglia

What happens with Iraq is very important in January and February to pretty much set the tone for how the economy will fare for the rest of the year. So when we have that answer, then you can get your market direction. In the meantime, you essentially move sideways.

Michael Howard

would be a huge gamble with people's jobs and mortgages, putting the whole economy at risk.

Sung Sohn

We're still losing jobs, but the rate of loss is expected to slow, ... That, hopefully, will be viewed that the economy is starting to improve.

Alan Ball

I will say that the environment I grew up in was not the most progressive.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have a private plane. But I fly commercial when I go to environmental conferences.

Barry Commoner

By adopting the control strategy, the nation's environmental program has created a built-in antagonism between environmental quality and economic growth.

Barry Commoner

The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.

Barry Commoner

Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

Rachel Carson

Those who love and free nature are never alone.

Hanno Langenhoven

Unlimited growth in a finite environment is impossible.

William Shakespeare

Nature does require her times of preservation.

Nikolaas Tinbergen

The majority of autists - as well as their parents - seem to be genuine victims of environmental stress.

Gretchen Rubin

Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Barry Hyman

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear. There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be an end-of-the-week technical rally.

Barry Hyman

This is a market that goes down on sentiment and goes up on excessive fear, ... There was excessive fear and a deflationary picture. Markets will rally on excessive fear and it seems to be an end-of-the-week technical rally.

Rick Berry

This market is not moving on fundamentals. There's an incessant flow of money, and you have a lot of stocks at excessive valuations. Once the flow of money subsides, you can look for a severe correction.

Heather Graham

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

Jena Malone

It wasn't worth sifting through such excessive b.s., ... I tried to fit in and put on makeup and pretty dresses, but I always felt like a weirdo.

Jason Goepfert

Seemingly excessive optimism from wrong-way odd lot traders suggests we need a breather here.

Kate Smith

Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food.

John McCarthy

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Craig MacTavish

It's maybe the most important stretch we've had in a number of years. It can be a little overwhelming, but how we handle the pressure is going to be one of the big factors in the success that we're going to have.

Michael Carty

It's one of these choppy days, where there are a lot of different factors at play.

James Reed

There were quite a few factors that influenced me, but mostly it was the opportunity to do something unique and different.

Randy Bly

It's a combination of factors hitting all at once.

Christa Carone

As other factors are implemented it will start to have an impact in overall employment.

Michael Sheldon

The technical trends of the market and the sentiment has improved over the last few weeks, plus there are seasonal factors working in the market's favor.

Paul Mitchell

So that, even taking these factors into account, quite independent of these traditional risk factors, these signs are actually found to confer about a three times increased risk.

Anton Gunawan

The sharp downtrend is unlikely to be sustainable particularly from year-end onward because of the seasonal factors but the government would still be able to reach around 10 percent figure by year-end,

German Gref

These factors will pass, and the situation will be back to normal.

John Parker

We want to see more positive growth in North America.

Carlos Ghosn

India is definitely one of the markets where we can expect growth and a potential to do well.

Bob Schaffer

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

Bill McKibben

According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

Carl Jung

In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential that we embody. If we do not embody that, life is wasted.

Frank Fernandez

We're still in the upswing of one of these long M&A cycles, which tend to last several years. M&A growth will probably be up 15 to 20 percent next year.

Steve Snyder

We're seeing a lot of growth in the South.

Robert Mellman

We're looking for a little slower growth and a little higher inflation, but there will be a slower slowdown in growth than a pick-up in inflation.

Deepak Chopra

The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness.

Mike Toohey

We're making a substantial investment into the town of Maggie Valley.

Bob Trisolini

It's one of the most lavish shows I've worked on other than shows in New York and on Broadway. There is quite an investment in production values.

Rick Baker

I told them I would support their move to do that, ... I thought it was an investment in goodwill.

Simon Davies

This is to do with stabilizing trust in trade and investment and has nothing to do with privacy protection.

Steve Swasey

It was derided by a number of people in the investment community.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Kenneth Roth

Property is an investment and it is susceptible to market forces, just like stocks

Jan Egeland

North American pets get more investment per month than we have money for all our humanitarian operations in the world.

Vasco Moreno

After what we've seen from the U.S. investment banks, expectations are pretty high. If they don't produce the results, then that could be a problem.

Charles Spurgeon

He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.

Edward Hirsch

The great post-Holocaust poet, Paul Celan, said that a poem is a message in a bottle sent out in the not always greatly hopeful belief that somewhere and some time it would wash up on land on heartland perhaps.

Ed Begley, Jr.

It takes less land to grow a pound of broccoli than it does a pound of beef. Less land to grow a pound of grain than a pound of beef. Less water, less energy.

David Ricardo

The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital, is divided among three classes of the community, namely, the proprietor of the land, the owner of the stock or capital necessary for its cultivation, and the labourers by whose industry it is cultivated.

David Ricardo

Whenever, then, the usual and ordinary rate of the profits of agricultural stock, and all the outgoings belonging to the cultivation of land, are together equal to the value of the whole produce, there can be no rent.

David Ricardo

After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.

David Ricardo

If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Todd Shaw

We're still negotiating, trying to get lending terms that are favorable. These are very complicated transactions, and when you have to start from scratch, it doesn't get done overnight.

Ba Shusong

Raising the lending rate is the first tightening of the controls.

George Herbert

Lend only what you can afford to lose.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

I, who ne'erWent for myself a begging, go a borrowing,And that for others. Borrowing's much the sameAs begging; just as lending upon usuryIs much the same as thieving.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Mark Richt

A team that can put pressure on the quarterback without blitzing I'm more worried about than a team that blitzes. Blitzing teams are vulnerable to the big play.

Nate Gallick

As much pressure as I probably should be feeling, I really don't feel any pressure.

Mike Childress

It's just like a pressure cooker at home.

Greg Brunner

They don't have a lot of pressure on them. More of the pressure is on us.

Lelani Gordon

They were just relentless in their pressure and there wasn't anything we could do about it. And everything (Cannon) threw up went in.

Brian Meneely

They turned up the pressure after that happened. We started to stand and watch.

Shannon Glidwell

They put so much pressure on us. I think they out-played us for a big part of the game.

Brian Tempest

The year '05 was a tough year. Pricing pressure in the US has been brutal.

O. Henry

There was pressure, but I tried not to think about it. I just tried to go out and play hard. The pressure was there, but you try not to think about it.

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Scott Tucker

It was something unexpected. I didn't know this was going to happen. I just wish more could have been done to prevent it.

Ben Bernanke

Preventing liquidation of an unbalanced market will leave you in tears.

Robert Belshe

Preventing influenza in children, we think, will reduce influenza in our society.

Roger Smith

That?s good. It prevents the big earthquakes from coming.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

David Card

At some point, you want to prevent the other technology from being adopted.

Neil Ferguson

To be effective, ... you really must use a combination of strategies. No single one would successfully prevent an epidemic.

Terry Williamson

It is safe to say that we support projects such as these.

Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Kathi Moore

Projects were started but there wasn't a lot of finishing.

Varoujan Hagopian

Public-private partnerships are the only way to do projects of this scope.

Megan Smith

We very much use a prototyping model, play with ideas, and then get stuff started that way, which is how the greatest projects get started.

James Franco

I used to read a lot about myself and the projects I was doing. When I was only acting, I wouldn't read any reviews because I didn't find them to be very helpful.

Barbara Jones

We had been talking about doing more projects together.

David Leslie

We've had to set a workshop up; we've had to equip the workshop and everything else. But all that equipment is there now and whatever projects they want to use it for in the future.

Dustin Clare

There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.

David Taylor

We're getting a lot of good, technological resources we can use.

Chester Jourdan

They don't have the resources to do that nor, unless we get that supplemental (federal) money, will (they ever) have the resources to do it.

David Straus

It would put a strain on the resources big-time.

Brian Tracy

Time is your most precious resource; make every minute count.

Alain Ducasse

The planets resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.

Edsger Dijkstra

Brainpower is by far our scarcest resource.

Darryl Franklin

We all know there is not the resources and wherewithal to do all the things in the plan.

R. Inge

The resources took a breather for a variety of reasons.

Jeb Bush

The resiliency of this state is awesome. While we're strained in terms of the resources of our state right now, we're unbowed.

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

Jack Holmes

Would I like to return there? Absolutely. But it's sponsor-driven, not heart-driven.

Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Russ Borman

We'll see them again, and we'd like to return the favor.

David Butler

They need to sell a lot of stuff to get down to the shrink-wrapped size they need to be to make a return to stockholders,

Joan Kaner

Thank heavens! There was a return to black. There was a return to a sophisticated, pulled-together look.

George Phillips

The sale of conservation easements will give them a return on their investment.

Peter Reynolds

When we have a special event, our sales triple,

Shawn Roop

At first, all I wanted the Web site to do was $50 in sales a day, then $100 -- now I look for $350 a day.

Joel Rassman

The stock sales have nothing to do with the state of the market. It has everything to do with diversification.

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be among the top 20% of salespeople who make 80% of the sales.

Jon Hanson

Token sales have spiked, ... Token use has spiked.

Robert Klein

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Richard Foreman

We really won't see the story until we get into the spring and see the spring sales activity.

Chris Murray

Why do so many salespeople talk to customers about the product and not the result?

Shaojing Tong

I don't see how it will revive sales dramatically.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Ahmed Zewail

There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.

Lauryn Hill

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.