Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Rakesh Mohan

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

May Yan

While large banks need to cut network and work forces to enhance efficiency, small city commercial banks may need to expand to increase economy of scale.

Michael Birch

With the miners looking shaky, the temptation is to look elsewhere; either for earnings certainty or for relative underperformance, and the banks have that in spades.

Stuart Eizenstat

We leveraged our relationship with private banks and reached out to Internet service providers to create a low-cost Web site that will enable users to register once and subsequently transact with the government,

Sharon Hadary

As more and more women started their own businesses, banks started providing capital, markets started opening up to them, and women became involved in established networks for expertise, coaching and referrals. There was a circular effect that encouraged more women to go into business.

Greg Gibson

All of us had worked for big banks before. We weren't real enthused about that prospect, ... Once the transaction was closed, I think we all looked at each other and saw it in everybody's eyes and said, 'Hmmm, this is not where we want to be.'

Frank Bochte

It's just a greater opportunity with more banks and longer hours.

William Lerach

It sends a very serious message to those banks that have not yet settled that they better get about settling soon or they are going to pay more and more as time goes by,

Thomas Carlyle

Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.

Karen Ross

That's just a fraction of the rate we saw in the late 1990s.

Nell Minow

Yes, it's meaningful money, ... But it's still a fraction of what was lost.

Paul Wolfowitz

could be hidden in a room a fraction the size of this one.

John Tate

This number is probably just a fraction of what is needed in that marketplace.

Clint Hurdle

Every year you show up here, you at least have a fraction of hope. This year there's a lot more substance to go with that hope. They know (the division) is open. It's time to make a statement on the field.

The Talmud

Only a fraction of a man's virtues should be enumerated in his presence

Harry Emerson Fosdick

[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.

Bhagavad Gita

Whatever is endowed with glory, brilliance, and power; know that to be a manifestation of a fraction of My splendor.

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 Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Alan Watts

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

As God is exalted to the right place in our lives, a thousand problems are solved all at once.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we are the handiwork of God, it follows that all our problems and their solutions are theological.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Justin Davis

We want to sort of put this out there that this is an institutional problem and not just one incident.

Chip Kidd

If you can properly define the problem, then you've already defined the solution as well.

Ron Chapman

We are seeing a relief rally but there will be problems throughout the year and we're going to see a lot of volatility in the U.S. and Europe.

Chad Smith

Music doesn't solve your problems..but allows you to dance all over them

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Harold Wilson

What he proposes is, in my view ... unacceptable.

Catherynne M. Valente

An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.

Marshal Cohen

Women updated their wardrobes and showed a propensity toward style and comfort.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

William Shakespeare

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Publius Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Condoleezza Rice

There is no U.S.-European proposal to the Iranians. I want to say that categorically,

Chris Alexander

The marginal tax rate for high income earners is going up. Small businesses are no longer enjoying some of the exemption from payroll tax. Now there will be carbon taxes.

Barry Diller

I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.

Nikki Sixx

When we were younger, you know, small stuff was small stuff. But we turned it into big stuff. It's just part of being young.

Boris Diaw

We're small. That hasn't changed. We've been small all year.

Cary Grant

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Ai Weiwei

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Leroy Hood

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

With us being really thin at small forward, it's not good. But this time of year, that's usually when it happens.

Sandy Wilson

It's a small town remembering what it's like to be an American.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Chris Colfer

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Chief Seattle

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.