Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Green

The Social Fund was designed to help the most vulnerable people at the time of greatest need meet the costs of things like cookers, cots and funerals, but it is not operating as well as it should be.

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Debra Smith

The sponsors made all the difference. Not only did they cover event costs but provided prizes for the student participants as well.

Matt Buckland

The short trading week looks set to be dominated by oil prices. The news is likely to depress stocks with higher input costs set to damage margins.

Walter Price

The surprises were all on the positive side. I was worried that costs would be out of control.

Bill Warlick

The surge in fuel costs is offsetting a lot of the progress that's been made.

Michael Thompson

A focus on health is one of the key strategies to reduce health-care costs over time. A culture of health and well-being can reduce the trend in health-care costs over time.

James Berg

Actually, the operating revenues have been declining over the years because of the increasing costs and operating expenses.

Tom Schrader

The storm is drifting east, and the further east of Houston it gets, the less damage it is going to do to refineries in the Houston area.

Bill O'Grady

The storm has moved over Florida, so we know for sure that it's not going to damage any energy facilities. The weather is still mild so heating demand has yet to pick up. The primary trend is still lower.

Stephen Leeb

The stock reaction over the next few weeks is likely to be fairly neutral, with a lot of the damage already factored into prices.

Shawn Amos

I spent years shaking the damage that comes with being burned by living near someone else's spotlight.

Mickey Driver

It would be highly speculative right now to pick out a day. We have people on the scene surveying the damage and every day we learn more about the situation.

John McNulty

The worst damage had already taken place at the site prior to 1988, and was due primarily to unplanned development.

Bruce Buckingham

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

Jan Egeland

The whole world has been really shaken and moved by the images of widespread damage and suffering.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Brian Acton

Dealing with ads is depressing. You don’t make anyone’s life better by making advertisements work better.

Ben Moody

I was horribly depressed, and I felt like I had failed as a band leader, a professional, as a person.

Barbara Pym

You know Mildred would never do anything wrong or foolish. I reflected a little sadly that this was only too true and hoped I did not appear too much that kind of person to others. Virtue is an excellent thing and we should all strive after it, but it can sometimes be a little depressing.

Laura Mvula

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

C. S. Lewis

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.

Alain de Botton

He did not mean to depress us, rather to free us from expectations which inspire bitterness. It is consoling, when love has let us down, to hear that happiness was never part of the plan.

Dean Koontz

The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's depressing and it's stupid. Criminals are all after cheap thrills and easy money, and when they get them, all they want is more of the same, over and over. They're shallow, empty, boring people who couldn't give you five minutes of interesting conversation if you had the piss-poor luck to be at a party full of them. Maybe some can be monkey-clever, some of the time, but they aren't hardly ever smart.

Boethius

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.

Blaise Pascal

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Jim Tracy

That's just how well that guy pitches. He just dominated the game.

Jack Bicknell

And they have some wide receivers who can really fly, so we have our hands full, ... They pretty much dominated Wyoming and their offense is really dangerous.

Bob Hartley

Even though they've pretty much dominated us in the first three games, the good news is we're still right there with them.

Malcolm Boyd

Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches.

Carmen Schoolcraft

We had a good final seven-minute push in the second half, but that was about it. We dominated the first half, but we just couldn't put it in the back of the net.

Jim Tracy

We got pitched to death. He dominated the game.

Antoine Walker

We feel like we can play better. We felt like the first game they hit us with a real good shot. We don't think we've hit them with a good shot, where we've dominated for 48 minutes.

Angela Merkel

My government will be dominated by a firm will to renew our fatherland,

Martin Reynolds

Obviously, US Robotics is a shadow of what it used to be when it dominated the modem business.

John Fisher

On those locations that we find a higher number of slow-walking pedestrians, we will lengthen signals.

Carsten Fritsch

The structural problems have not improved and the trend is still to higher deficits. That presents a risk for the dollar.

Luisa Deason

The stakes for illegal aliens are higher now. We see more weapons and, at times, you see people shot.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Steve Chercover

The stock (Monday) is trading higher than I think it's been in a long while.

Beckie Faulkenberry

We've had more public input on this project than on any other. They didn't want it to turn into a resort or retirement community.

Claire Miller

We truly want the public's input on what they would like to see.

Dan Brown

The human body is amazing," she said. If you deprive it of one sensory input, the other senses take over, almost instantly.

Stuart Townsend

Actors want to be told what to do - they really do. But they also want to have an input and be recognized for that.

Jef Raskin

The system should treat all user input as sacred.

Jeff Lengyel

It even comes with a stylus for text input -- using a virtual keyboard on the screen -- and drawing.

Nancy Clark

We would like the public to be here for that. We haven't had any input from the public at all.

Roger Price

We will have to take a look at this and reconcile this input to our recommendations. This is valuable information.

Joe Banner

Normally I'd say the player is not likely to just pass up getting paid. But in this case, you really can't say. This isn't a very predictable situation.

Susan Meyer

The more options we are able to offer people, the more likely they are to use one of them.

Tom Dorsa

The suspect was most likely in the passenger seat of the vehicle at the time.

John Pescatore

AES will likely not replace more than 30 percent of DES operations before 2004,

Laura Bush

The old Medicare was a system stuck in the past and we need to worry about the young workers that are putting money into the future, ... The more options available, the more likely you are going to get what you want.

Kyle Cooper

The weather remains the primary driver. Until the weather moderates, prices will likely remain robust.

Jason Schenker

At this point, at these prices we're not likely to see a cut. Politically that is not feasible.

Peter Morici

This situation is likely to become worse in the months ahead.

Sam Buttrick

We think it's been done in such a way that it's likely to stick.

Kevin Johnson

Ray really starts with the customer. He looks at things 'outside in,' as he says, not technology-out.

John McNamara

Profit is a new kind of shark that looks just like a dolphin.

Matt Walton

These low numbers may make us look good, but it also looks like we're not telling everything. Penn's numbers may look bad, but at least you know they're telling you everything.

Clark Yingst

Technically, it looks like no more than a reflex rebound, an oversold bounce.

Malia Davis

See how he looks at her when she's eating. He's totally in love.

Mark Thomas

You should never rule out strategic deals, i.e. uneconomic deals, but the probability looks slim to us.

Michelle Williams

You should see how she looks at her daddy.

Mike Pope

You put him on a 5-9 corner, ... and it looks like a father-son banquet.

Brian Jacques

Basil Stag Hare tut-tutted severely as he remarked to Ambrose Spike, 'Tch, tch. Dreadful table manners. Just look at those three wallahs, kicking up a hullaballoo like that! Eating's a serious business.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Jane Fonda

The news is not gender-neutral, but it's usually reported as though it's gender-neutral.

Arianna Huffington

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund's goal is to produce a broad range of investigative journalism created by both staff reporters and freelance writers, with a focus on working with the many experienced reporters and writers impacted by the economic contraction. The pieces will range from long-form investigations to short breaking news stories and will be presented in a variety of media - including text, audio, and video.

Brit Hume

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9/11 came along.

Ben Harper

The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Vijayraj Bhatt

Controversies can make news but can't produce results.

Art Hogan

Arguably, Nokia's news isn't good, ... If we were rallying on Nokia, it was a little questionable on its reasoning.

Patricia Edwards

There?s not a lot out there that?s new.

Mark Ferrulo

An oil pipeline is subject to significant oil spills.

Tetsu Emori

The supply of oil is still ongoing; most people feel there won't be a disruption, so they're taking profit now, especially after Friday's sharp increase.

William Teague

So when there were reports of an 80-foot (24-meter) wave striking an oil platform, they called it a rogue wave. We think it wasn't a rogue wave.

Peter Schiff

This is similar to the 1970s when there was a permanent readjustment in oil prices.

Jane Hirshfield

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.

Ariel Sharon

Arabs may have the oil, but we have the matches.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Bernie Sanders

Subsidies for the oil, gas and coal industries are projected to cost taxpayers more than $135 billion in the coming decade. At a time when scientists tell us we need to reduce carbon pollution to prevent catastrophic climate change, it is absurd to provide massive subsidies that pad fossil-fuel companies' already enormous profits.

Bill Gates

You're welcome to short them if you want,

David Lynch

There are only 24 hours in a day, and my top priority is working on my films, but I love short film experiments.

Andre Dubus

I love short stories because I believe they are the way we live. They are what our friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion and rage, their yearning and their cry against injustice.

John Muir

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Jet Li

Love is more powerful than kicking ass.

Dr. House

How does someone just start drooling? Chase? Were you wearing your short shorts?

John Carlock

He (King) comes in in short spots because he can throw strikes.

Larry Wall

If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

Eknath Easwaran

I like to remind my friends frequently how short life is. This is the important message of death: not a day to waste, not a day to quarrel, not a day to brood upon yourself. This is not losing the joy of life; this is gaining the joy of life.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Peter Smith

A lot of times you don't know who you're trading with or where.

Todd Nace

We're about a week away from reopening, once we get the (insurance) settlement.

Paul Johnson

We'll have to see. Two weeks into the spring, we'll have an idea of the separation.

Sylvester Croom

This week has never been about just football; how could it be?

Albert Brooks

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

Joe Gibbs

Two weeks in a row, he's been pretty impressive.

Taye Diggs

On the set I never know what day of the week it is.

Ray Nagin

One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again.

Tony Abbott

If you don't want to work weekends, don't.

Tommy Rettig

There's a big difference between somebody who does acid on weekends and somebody who takes downers every day.