Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Zhou Shengxian

Groundwater near both banks of the river is in accordance with national standards and it's safe to drink.

Ron Dennis

I think the difference in the discussions that have taken place in the last month ... is that the push now is more towards what is in the long term interests of Formula One. That is where probably the acquisition from the banks of the equity by CVC has been most positively felt because they want stability, they want growth and now we participate in that growth so everybody has a very common interest.

Diego Rivera

What do you mean the banks of the river?. Are/ you the banks of Diego Rivera? I will be/ remembered throughout history and already my/ little Frida has forgotten.... Who first put a/ paint brush in your hand? ... And now you/ have become the banks to contain me? No,/ Frida, you have forgotten the real truth. You/ are a stone in the mighty river. A lovely/ speckled stone.

Jasmine Guinness

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

Mark Lackey

I think what's happening is that with Japanese banks wanting to clean positions by March 31, we're hearing that they have been big sellers in North America.

Yoji Takeda

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

Michael Molligan

It goes from flooding its banks to getting very low.

Hans Tietmeyer

I will not talk about this experience. But, as I wrote before today, a signal of intervention by central banks can be an extremely effective move. I am not disapproving in certain situations of joint single intervention.

Katherine Paterson

The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.

Sean Brown

I wouldn't say everybody gambles. Probably a large number of the population does. When you are talking about millions of dollars, that's when it becomes a big deal. Fifty bucks here and there is not that bad, but when you have big money and when police get involved, it's serious. The police just don't get involved for nothing, for no reason.

Jim Craig

Katrina was the worst disaster probably in U.S. history. It becomes a question of capacity more than training when you have a disaster of this magnitude.

Mick Ebeling

Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable.

Malik Peiris

Just the introduction per se (of the virus from wild birds to poultry) is not a major risk but if it becomes endemic, that is the problem,

Mark Wilde

I think it's about an even-money proposition that UPM will come back with another offer. The concern in the market is that either side is going to end up stretching it to $80 per share, and then it becomes a little more difficult to justify.

Hidenao Nakagawa

I think it can be resolved through dialogue whoever becomes the next leader of this country.

Freddy Adu

It becomes very, very, very, very tempting to look ahead, and as a matter of fact I am doing that right now, ... I always have to make the best decision for myself first, and, you know, I'm just looking into things right now, so we'll see what happens at the end of this season and we'll see where my family and myself are headed.

Gary Williams

It becomes very important that you have as many players as possible.

Bob Fisher

He kind of set the curve on weekly newspapers and stayed on top of innovations in the newspaper business.

Shawn Woods

There are still some hang-ups in the program; it may be less stable. And the learning curve is short, but it will still require some training.

Scott Kerr

Her learning curve is pretty quick. She picks things up rather quickly. She swims pretty straight.

Mike Sweeney

He's got the stuff to go out and win 17, 18 games, ... He's a lefty with a fastball 95-97, a 12-to-6 curve and a good change.

Scott Kirby

Historically, mortgages do not perform well in an inverted yield curve environment.

Terry Labonte

I think it's going to succeed. When you look at Roger and Troy, they've been successful in everything they've done. I think they're dedicated to making this thing work. Like I said, though, it's difficult when you first start out. There's going to be a learning curve for everybody involved here. ... These guys are going to work hard at getting this thing going in the right direction.

Jennie Finch

I threw her a changeup low and she got to it. I probably shouldn't have followed a curve with a changeup.

David Ader

It is going to follow what the nominal (Treasury) curve is doing. It's not that great of a surprise.

Ben Bernanke

I think at this point in time that the inverted yield curve is not signaling a slowdown.

Dennis Moore

Kids need to be equipped for that. They need to learn to use that technology to keep the new economy going.

Chris Fitz

I think it's a good idea to diversify the economy and keep more of the grapes here.

Ralph Kauffman

I think it indicates that the economy seems to be growing at probably the same rate in March as it was in February.

Lorenzo Codogno

Italy's economy has become a real problem and tackling the issues head-on will require a strong government, not one that may be forced into compromises.

John Hughs

Greenspan is the least influential event this week. We know where the economy is, and there isn't much expectation of him saying anything new.

Richard Franulovich

Greenspan is speaking on the economy and ... the unmistakable message from the Fed is that hurricanes only represent a transitory risk.

Anthony Chan

Greenspan has to give reassurance that, if things deteriorate, the Fed is willing to act. But the underlying structure of the economy seems pretty good.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down. I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Ned Riley

What we have now is an economy that's slowing down, ... I think we're going to see some cyclicality to tech earnings.

Ernie Beck

I think it's a big disadvantage because I think you need to be playing. It's one thing to practice. ... About six or seven years ago we had a similar situation. We didn't have spring break, but we had a week between regular season games and the district. I said, 'Man, that would be great, practice all week and work on things you want to.' We were flat as can be going into districts.

Jason Bay

There are still a lot of things that need to be worked out, ... but it's flattering to have that offer.

Quincy Jones

I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

Sanford Bernstein

I think the DaimlerChrysler numbers are a disappointment, ... The most glaring question would seem to be in Mercedes car. Operating margins were flat year over year.

Aerial Gregston

I think we weren't playing up to our level today. We were really flat today, and we just need to step up.

Jerry Miller

I think we were a little flat today,

Don Williams

I think what it's saying is that '04 was an outstanding year, which leaves us flat with '05.

Jeff Hironaka

We looked flat at times and I thought pressure on us forced us into some hasty decisions. And they capitalized.

William Blake

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: General Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer

Matt Rosoff

If you think things are not being run well, then yesterday will lend credence to your arguments.

Source Unknown

If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

Audrey Wallace

I met him in October, and he said he would lend his name to our lacrosse classic. This significant man lent me his name for my lacrosse classic, so I really want to make something of it.

Kurt Barnard

It will lend luster to the mall, ... This means Indianapolis has the demographics to support a Tiffany.

Jim Rohn

It is better to be a lender than a spender.

Steve Erickson

A street is a story in asphalt - so it's a paradox that the streets are the one place where the movies play fast and loose with continuity, something to which L.A. streets lend themselves as naturally as does the city's psyche.

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.

Michael Rushford

I can't see in what sense it would lend momentum.

Edmund White

I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Frank Melton

He wanted to put public money into it,

Chris Beatty

He'll be making a lot more money than that senator.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Stanley Tucci

I'm not interested in wasting money on a project.

Mark Howard

He was reluctant to integrate. And he wasn't alone.

Will Ferrell

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.

James Greenwood

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

Jeffrey Passel

Once they come in, they are actually reluctant to leave.

Eve Ensler

At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

NeNe Leakes

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

Paul Register

Many times you have witnesses who are reluctant to come forward.

Christopher Hitchens

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Ian Baker

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.

Samuel Johnson

It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

Virgil

Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.

Walter Cronkite

To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could.

Willard Van Orman Quine

We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation

Will Rogers

Well, another senator rose and said {as they always do} 'Does the gentleman yield?' They always say that - least they call each other 'gentleman' in there. But the tone they put on the word, it would sound more appropriate if they came right out and said 'Would the coyote from Maine yield?' 'cause that's about the way it sounds. Well, then, the other senator says 'I yield' (for if he don't the other guy'll keep on talking anyhow). So the coyote from Maine says 'I yield to...the polecat from Oregon!'

Yvette Clarke

There is no doubt that Stop-and-Frisk does not yield the desired results, and it is apparent that it disproportionately targets minority communities.

William Ames

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

Wendell Berry

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow involve within itself a ceremonious generosity toward the wilderness of natural force and instinct. The farm must yield a place to the forest, not as a wood lot, or even as a necessary agricultural principle but as a sacred grove - a place where the Creation is let alone, to serve as instruction, example, refuge; a place for people to go, free of work and presumption, to let themselves alone. (pg. 125, The Body and the Earth)