Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Deiss

A 'no' would leave us in a very difficult situation,

Marjorie Scardino

As editor, he led the integration of print and online media, extended our international reach and steered the FT through the most difficult markets in its history.

Bruce Arena

As difficult as it looked last time around, I think it's going to look a heck of a lot worse this time around. I think it's going to look very challenging and it will be very challenging.

Ellen Tauscher

a safety net is just not there for people who are without a job or without skills in an increasingly difficult environment.

Stan Heath

Auburn is a difficult team to play because they have so many different defenses. We wanted to make sure we had a high energy level. I thought we responded pretty well in the second half.

Michael James

As long as oil is trading near $70 a barrel, interest rates on the 10-year (note) are around 5 percent and gold hovers at $600 an ounce, it will be difficult for equities to make headway.

Paul Wolfowitz

As impressive as that election was, Iraq still faces a difficult road ahead,

Cobi Jones

That was a big loss for a lot of people here personally and professionally. For us as a team, it's very difficult to replace someone who saw where the sport could go and where it needed to go.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika

People who have been so hurt hesitate to pardon, ... It is so easy to say 'sorry' but in reality here it is difficult to swallow.

Source Unknown

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Ben Okri

Don't neglect the gold in your own back yard.

Mo McHone

This was the first time the U.S. had to qualify for the World Championships without NBA players. I kind of feel like we won the gold medal.

Alan Williamson

The trade in the gold market is very, very thin, with gold off the lows and the highs of the day at $502/oz and $508/oz.

James Blake

We weren't sure if I was ever really going to be back to a 100 percent, if I was ever going to be back to this level again. I said whatever tournament I win, the next Grand Slam, you have to wear a gold tooth for the whole time I'm in the tournament.

Steve Jobs

We went from nothing online to the gold standard in e-commerce.

Doris Lessing

We do not know which of our silver products will be judged as gold by our successors, nor does it matter.

Adolf Hitler

Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

Allan Sloan

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Jennifer Westfeldt

As an actor, I've always been interested in making sure I can perform the role and the lines in the way the writer intended.

Peter Rodman

A year from now, it will be of interest whether you have more (able to operate independently) or not.

Joerg Kraemer

As long as they are rising, the ECB tends to raise interest rates.

Eduardo Chillida

A single wave is nothing, it does not interest me. But after this wave comes another, and then yet another.

Pat Gillick

People seemed more interested in their martinis than me,

Dan Miller

People get a very real sense of her true interest in whatever it is she's doing. This is a person who doesn't go through the motions. What's the phrase - phone it in? She doesn't do that.

Adarsh Sinha

Once we do get the end of quantitative easing, it will be some time before we get an end to zero interest rates.

Edward Pullen

The more I read, the more interested I got.

Source Unknown

Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

Chris Phillips

Sometimes our passing was without a purpose. When we did pass with a purpose, we were very good, but not nearly long enough.

Rod Smith

The season is nowhere near over. We just can't go undefeated. That's the only thing.

Ron Zarrella

Don't look for any number near this in July,

Baha'u'llah

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

Brian Sullivan

You have a rising tide out there, and it's even better if you're not near the water.

Earl Steele

You have to be able to get them near you before you have to worry about them seeing you.

Pascal Lamy

you have to go as near as possible to the people who want to punch you.

Paul Carter

You go in it or near it and you're dead.

English 15th Century Proverbs

Near is my kirtle, but nearer is my smock.

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 Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Ethan McAfee

The stock is going to go up 5 to 10 percent the first day. It's not going to go up 50 percent or more.

Dominic James

I spend 85 percent of my day right here (McGuire Center). I don't get back to my room until 10:30 or 11.

David Fischer

That's where it all starts. I'm 100 percent positive that's where your excelling comes from.

Bob Bowman

You're ruining my life! I'm spending 90 percent of my time at the pool.

Ron Wilson

You wait for somebody like that to mature. He's still not there to my satisfaction defensively 100 percent all of the time, but he's getting closer.

Richard Valdez

You remember 20 percent of what you hear, 75 percent of what you see and 90 percent of what you do.

Greg Hymowitz

With rates going higher, I'm staying away from the old-economy stocks.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

John Seabrook

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Bill Gross

It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Peter Smith

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