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.

Jack Straw

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

Paul Mackel

Japan is signaling that they're not concerned about the pace of the decline in the yen, so people are going to continue to push the yen lower. Japanese investors are continuing to buy bonds abroad and we see more scope for yen weakness.

John O'Donoghue

I also believe strongly that capping this exemption would send out a message internationally that we do not encourage success in the arts ... We will force our young talent to go abroad as soon as they become successful. This is wrong.

Ernesto Herrera

These passive investments abroad by Filipinos will come back once the country succeeds in carrying out meaningful governance reforms, and once we achieve political stability and sustained economic growth.

Mahmoud Zahar

It will be used by Palestinian investors abroad and any Palestinian who wishes to move to the Gaza Strip. The departure of Israel from the border crossing would allow mayors and directors of charitable organizations to travel abroad freely.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

Dan Colen

As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I really want to allow the oil paint to perform, to show me the things that it wants to do, beyond my imagination.

John Fair

Sales move too fast for us to allow that.

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Dean Stoyer

Do we think he has the same value he did two or three years ago? Absolutely. He's certainly has been the cornerstone for our business, lending credibility and brand awareness, allowing us to create a golf company within Nike.

Ben Bernanke

Equally important, stable prices allow people to rely on the dollar as a measure of value when making long-term contracts, engaging in long-term planning or lending for long periods.

Eryn Witcher

EPA's proposal would collect 99 percent of the same data and allow small businesses to meet their reporting obligations to EPA in a more streamlined way.

David Fay

Elephant Eye will allow us to take a proactive role in the development of new material that can play not only in our theatres, but on the world stage as well.

Robert Gottlieb

Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the writer to write a certain kind of book. Sometimes that's hard.

Michael Armstrong

Borders all over the world are coming down, and as they come down opportunities spring up, ... Companies reach further to compete with their products and services, and when they want to open shop, wherever they want to open shop, they want those communications services to support their people and their products, and we've got to be there.

Michael Chertoff

We cannot hermetically seal 7,000 miles of land borders and keep out 100 percent of illegal crossers, ... But we can create such a high likelihood of interdiction that it will have a strong and unequivocal deterrent effect on those who wish to cross illegally.

Martin Jacques

China has existed within very roughly its present borders for over two millennia and for virtually the whole of that period saw itself as a 'civilisation state.' It was only when it was too weak to resist the western powers in the early 20th century that it finally acquiesced in an arrangement that was alien to it.

David Heymann

Hong Kong, with its dense population and fluid border with China, had one of the hardest outbreaks to control.

Jerry Jarrell

One or more of the (forecast) models bring it on shore (along) the Georgia-South Carolina border with winds of, perhaps, 50 miles an hour.

Laura Bush

David Dreier cares a lot about a lot of issues. One of the issues that he's been talking to me a lot about is to make sure the federal government does its job in enforcing our borders to keep illegal folks out of our country,

Neil Stern

They sort of crept over the border from the north, and are now sort of expanding into the northern suburbs and western suburbs.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Bruce Beehler

It really was like crossing some sort of time warp into a place that people hadn't been to.

Tika Sumpter

It used to be that film stars didn't want to do TV, and actors weren't singing, and singers weren't acting. Everybody's kind of crossing over to whatever they want to do. So I feel like, if you have it, use it. If God's given you this talent, then use it.

Gary Schatsky

If you have a choice, pick a different departure date.

Boyd Holbrook

There are all kinds of directors I want to work with and all kinds of films that I want to do.

Kristen Stewart

There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've never wanted to tell anything about myself to, and I've worked with guys who have been pouring wells of emotion. So emotional availability is not a gender-specific thing.

Kevin McDonald

He sort of gets comic moments. Not a lot of directors do.

Douglas Sirk

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

Ray Walston

I have worked with some very great directors.

Stephen Chow

I like working as a director most.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Rebecca Hall

You either are a good director or you're not.

Christine Benz

That's what we've been telling investors all along.

Kevin Rose

I want to be known as one of the most accurate investors that ever lived.

Peter Peterson

The time has come for investors to speak up.

Scott Adams

I'm primarily just an investor.

David Hilal

This is just part of the software world. And because there's a remedy for these problems, investors don't lose too much sleep over it.

Kenneth Lay

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Alan Dershowitz

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

Mick Jagger

Thanks to everyone in Israel for the wonderful welcome. It was a great show and we'll remember it forever.

Ray Charles

Even though I'm not Jewish...Israel is one of the few causes I feel good about supporting.

Norman Finkelstein

Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state.

Missy Elliot

I love this city [Tel Aviv]!

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Hamas says in its charter they want to see a world without Israel. They want to obliterate Israel.

Ashton Kutcher

The people here are amazing - the young people here are amazing. The entrepreneurs here are incredible.

Ashton Kutcher

Sharing love and light while in Israel.

Ashton Kutcher

My goal is to embrace the people, the 'natural resources' of Israel, and to build businesses with the creative Israelis.

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Dorothy L. Sayers

We cannot really look at the movement of the Spirit, just because It is the Power by which we do the looking.

Alice Paul

I always feel the movement is a sort of mosaic. Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end.

Jonathan Ravelas

The present move seems to be targeting the 50.40-50.45 levels.

Roy Blunt

We'll move toward voting next week, and when we do it will pass,

Brian Eno

It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.

Donald Miller

Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The traveler used to go about the world to encounter the natives. A function of travel agencies now is to prevent this encounter.

Amelia Earhart

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Thornton Wilder

Heaven's my destination.

Ray Bradbury

I don't know anything anymore

Sharon Shinn

You have not traveled enough," she said. "Or you'd know that every journey makes its own map across your heart.

Shane Koyczan

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Shana Alexander

Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.