Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

A service beyond all recompense - Weighs so heavy that it almost gives offense

John Milton

As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye

Herman Kahn

As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

As for the self-determination for the Kurds, this issue did not enjoy the support of Sunnis or Shiites, and we almost gave up this demand,

Robert Gottlieb

As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.

Milton Babbitt

As for the future of electronic music, it seems quite obvious to me that its unique resources guarantee its use, because it has shifted the boundaries of music away from the limitations of the acoustical instrument, of the performer's coordinating capabilities, to the almost infinite limitations of the electronic instrument.

Mike Colter

As an actor, you're trying to capture the nuances of real life, but voice work is almost over-acting.

H. Hunt

As a stimulus proposal, it's a non-starter. The economic impact is very, very small -- almost imperceptible.

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Billy Davis

The call up is a great opportunity for Pat, hopefully he can do well and force himself into the World Cup finals this summer.

Rosemarie Arnold

The call to report this incident was that of a compromised gas pipe, not of an ordinary smell of gas.

Baron Hill

The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.

Jason Schenker

The call to establish more refineries is likely to be sounded again.

Jamie Dixon

The call on the five seconds was strange because there was no count.

Linda Parker

The call needs to be put out to all the people of Macomb County. This is not an issue only for African-Americans. If ... you care anything at all about your county, you have to speak out,

John Gill

The call itself is gonna prove those other factors.

Jeff Benjamin

The call at this point in the year is for people to help pull it off by doing the preparatory ground work.

Pam Olshanski

The call actually came in as a mental subject call as officers were responding. The mother had called, concerned for her son's welfare. We're familiar with the house as we've responded as recently as last week under similar conditions.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Sean Comey

This is not a lot to reassure the consumer. The only upside to high prices is that it should ensure a steady supply because there is an economic incentive to produce and ship it.

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection.

Mark Knold

After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

Maureen Allyn

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

Roberto Sanchez

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

Lawrence Lindsey

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

David Toung

They all had pretty good numbers this quarter. It's very simple: people have money. Jobs and the economy are doing well.

Toshihiko Fukui

The world economy is running smoothly at the moment but there is a need to see what kind of risk factors there are,

Goolam Ballim

The world economy is entering a global monetary transition that will see incremental monetary policy tightening resulting in reduced global liquidity.

Raghuram Rajan

The world economy has proved tremendously resilient over the last few years.

Mario Hernandez

It was all on fire and the roof had fallen in.

Sarah Roemer

I had friends who were actors. I had some close friends who are actors before I had fallen into it. And but I never approached anybody about doing it. But once I had been approached, I said, 'Sure and I'll give it a go.'

Ian Shepherdson

The trend in sales is probably not as weak as this seems to suggest, but there is no question that the condo/co-op market is slowing much more dramatically than the market for single-family homes. Even in the latter case, however, sales have fallen more than 10% from their summer peak.

Michael Strahan

I didn't know where I was. If I knew where I was, I would have fallen down. That would have been the smart thing to do.

Tony Anderson

I would like to get a hold of their families and maybe this will give them a little closure, ... to know that their fallen sons' sacrifices weren't totally in vain and that at least somebody recognized what they did for us.

Alphonse Lamartine

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens

John Davis

I think it's really fallen off people's radar. We don't hear much about it at all.

Chris Dodd

I?m very proud of my state, my constituents, my governor, ... I?m proud of the people in the legislature and others who are all taking steps to make a contribution to alleviate the hardships that have fallen on our fellow citizens. It?s a great, great day.

Phil Flynn

The question is where do we go from here? We've fallen so quickly in recent sessions, will there still be momentum to go down to the low $50s?

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Anthony Chan

This is a report that represents judgment day for the Federal Reserve,

Scott Berry

This group hasn't been fazed by the Federal Reserve's string of interest rate hikes.

Judd Gregg

You need a single point where all federal funds go through so you have accountability,

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Stephen McClellan

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing. By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

Stephen McClellan

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing, ... By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

Richard Nichols

We could see the Murrah federal building. It was demolished.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Greg Cohen

New projects will generally have more support (for tolls). There's such a shortage of regular tax funds.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Robin Cook

The Russian government throughout has sought to be as helpful as it can within its power, but that power is very limited in Chechnya,

William Browder

The Russian government doesn't come because for 70 years they didn't have to worry about what the world thought of them.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Dalton McGuinty

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Naeem Wahid

People are unwinding growth expectations and interest rate expectations,

Ray Rund

People are taking this as a signal. In this case, it's kind of pro-growth stock. The Nasdaq has the most growth stocks, and when interest rates stabilize, or go down, people start to think of growth as being worth more.

Terrence Gabriel

People feel the growth is there whether you push rates up to 6.50 percent or 6.80 percent.

David Manning

Of the various alternatives, this one was the growth story more than any others.

Jesper Koll

The moment American growth slows down below, say, 2 percent, trade pressures are not just something that we talk about but are something that are really going to hit policy makers.

Harold S. Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - mental, financial, you name it.

Harold Geneen

Do you want my one-word secret of happiness -- It's growth -- mental, financial, you name it.

Alan Greenspan

a process that has undoubtedly improved national productivity growth and standards of living.

David Martin

The seniors have their own settings, which shows the growth and improvement they've made over the last three years.

Viktor E. Frankl

It is well known that humor, more than anything else in the human make-up, can afford an aloofness and an ability to rise above any situation, even if only for a few seconds.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Joseph Heller

Rise above principal and do what's right.

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.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Robert James

The taxpayers have spoken. They want a change.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Warren Buffett

I'll bring my tax returns; you bring yours. I'll meet you anytime anywhere.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Olga Kurylenko

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.