Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Collins

Banks are now recognized as providers of financial services.

Masafumi Nakayama

Bad-loan disposal is the single most important task for banks at the moment. Apparently, the market is sending a cheer to Asahi's efforts.

Jim Bruene

Credit unions and smaller banks were actually quicker than most large banks to offer online services because of the relationship they had with vendors and their capability to integrate web operations into their systems at a reasonable sum. A bank like Citibank had to do a huge internal thing to get the system up.

Andrew Bell

Bond markets seem to have decided that perhaps there is a bit too much growth, not so much that they're fearful of a big break up in inflation ... but that central banks are going to keep chipping away at the foundations of cheap money.

David Lindsey

This sparkling Opera Box production promises to transport everyone to the banks of the Danube.

Paul Watson

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

Edmund Phelps

Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

Cheryl Potter

We drove to several banks and someone said they found her behind New River Shopping Center,

William Lerach

I don't think ever before have Wall Street banks and investors jointly petitioned the SEC to require more disclosure in public offerings.

Terry Vaughn

As an athlete, you've got to understand there's no loyalty in sports. I understand that and it doesn't bother me,

Anne Stevens

As a leader in both hybrid vehicles and in vehicles capable of operating on ethanol-based fuels, Ford is the ideal company to bring both technologies together for the first time.

Dennis Miller

After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in.

Matthew Scully

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small farmers and to the decent ethic of husbandry those farmers live by. A religious person can oppose factory farming because it is degrading to both man and animal - an offense to God.

Lord Byron

An old man / With an old soul, and both extremely blind.

Rosa Gerra

An officer who speaks Spanish can't always be everywhere. It was a hit-or-miss thing. This way they know there will be someone there every Monday. It's got all the right ingredients of an excellent program. It's a win-win for both parties.

Tom Sexton

An obvious key who came to us this year tremendously more mature ? and that's a really big point for him ? is Addison Beaver. His speed is real key for us, great shot with both feet and can play any position.

Ted Sarandos

The star of 'Narcos' and the director and creator of 'Narcos' are both Brazilian superstars. So Brazil has received 'Narcos' particularly well as it's been well-received around the world.

Michael Ching

The size of this charge reflects both much weaker demand forecasted over the next 12 months as well as the costs for certain commitments that Cisco felt obliged to fulfill.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

E. Hicks

No substantive change was made to the process,

William Petersen

The name change isn't for those of us here in New England. The name change is for those folks entering the region.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Jim Haslett

The one thing I did learn this year is that things change fast. You've got to be able to adapt. I guess that's the way life is. You just don't know what things are going to change.

Greg Olson

Spam' is the number-one issue for ISP's. It's killing them, ... This is definitely going to change the Internet.

Joe Zappala

Now is as good a time as any to change it.

Marianne Williamson

Now if you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.

Jehane Noujaim

Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.

Melissa McCarthy

At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.

Ray William Johnson

Sometimes, comedy and entertainment is not all about telling jokes; sometimes you just have to be you for a few moments.

Reese Witherspoon

Romantic comedy has really evolved since that time when there used to be a lot of social conventions and all sorts of reasons why people couldn't be together,

Christy Romano

It would be a half-hour comedy that would really showcase my personality so my fans could get to know me. And I'd love to keep working with ABC.

Brett Ratner

I'm a laugher and a lover of comedy.

Bobby Farrelly

I feel reviewers are tougher on comedies in general. They don't take them seriously, and the ones that get great reviews are not necessarily the ones that I like.

Bobby Farrelly

In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.

Aaron Harberts

And we felt like it was just a great romantic comedy world and a great office comedy.

Mark Billingham

While the subject matter of my novels could not be further removed from the stuff I used to trot out at the Comedy Store, the delivery of the material employs many of the same techniques.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Mark Vitner

If we had an anti-business Congress that went after pension reform aggressively, it could have a devastating impact on Wall Street.

Tom Daschle

OK, we'll take the first step. This is as crucial as it gets.

Amar Singh

It is a shame that the Congress party is describing their president Sonia Gandhi's resignation from parliament as a sacrifice. She wanted to defame us and instead stumbled and fell in the grave dug by them.

Tom Schatz

Large contractors give lots of money to these members of Congress. They always have. That's the way things are done.

Bruce Barbour

The Stewards Program is an immersion experience designed to give an overview and excite an interest in future study.

Tim Berners-Lee

Web pages are designed for people. For the Semantic Web, we need to look at existing databases.

Mike Goodman

Internet2 was designed to make large file transfers happen quickly.

Jeffrey Lubell

The incomes of working families simply have not kept pace with rising housing prices. And this is despite low interest rates and new mortgage products designed to make homes more affordable.

Rob Meyer

It's designed to make it more fun to do the right thing.

Mikhail Kalashnikov

We had grain but no mills, so I designed a special mill of wood so we could make flour.

James Krouse

The introduction of several programs designed to review systems and program performance has resulted in efficiencies and cost-saving efforts.

John Hamilton

A lot of the signs that you see today would have been designed or put up in the '70s, early '80s, when the gap between the price of the day and a dollar would have been so significant that nobody would have thought about it.

John Hamilton

A lot of the signs that you see of today would have been designed or put up in the '70s, early '80s, when the gap between the price of the day and a dollar would have been so significant that nobody would have thought about it.

Michael Brady

elected to make tough decisions, and this was one of them.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Their voices have been heard. They elected me to be governor, and they sent me up here to do the job, ... That's what I'm here to do, and so that's why I'm concentrating on this right now.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Gabrielle Giffords

I was elected six times to represent southern Arizona, in the State Legislature and then in Congress.

Bonnie Hunt

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Randy Pausch

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Hudson Taylor

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Hans Zimmer

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Diego Klattenhoff

Everyone fails. Everyone is constantly failing. It is all part of life, and especially this job of being an actor.

Benjamin Franklin

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

Daniel Pauly

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

Conan O'Brien

When all else fails there's always delusion.

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.

Alexander Hamilton

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Robert Hartwig

New Orleans is what it is because the federal government made it that way. And what it is today -- underwater.

Neal Fried

If it does happen, it'll be over time. It's not going to be like losing 1,000 oil industry jobs in Anchorage or even 1,000 federal jobs.

Harry Lee

If the federal government would have responded as quickly as Wal-Mart, we could have saved more lives.

David Fine

If the ruling is simply that nothing in federal law prohibits mid-decade redistricting, that will not help them.

Bruce Kennedy

If this (the discrimination decision) was made by a federal court, and not a federal agency, we might look at it differently,

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,

Joe Lhota

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

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.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Jane Jacobs

Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best most responsibly and responsively when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Charles Kingsley

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Cumming

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Arleigh Burke

Success can not be administrated.

Ehud Olmert

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Eduardo Galeano

The population becomes the internal enemy. Any sign of life, of protest, or even mere doubt, is a dangerous challenge from the standpoint of military doctrine and national security. So complicated mechanisms of prevention adn punishment have been developed ... To operate effectively, the repression must appear arbitrary. Apart from breathing, any human activity can constitute a crime ... State terrorism aims to paralyze the population with fear.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Rush Limbaugh

Obama has now lost his trustworthiness. He has lost any hope of majority support from the American people for his agenda. Obamacare has wiped that out. It really has.

Rush Limbaugh

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

Tim Pawlenty

President Obama said that he designed ObamaCare after RomneyCare, and basically made it ObamneyCare.

Michele Bachmann

Obamacare is a crime against democracy.

Michele Bachmann

Obamacare is a crime against democracy because a material part of that bill was not disclosed to the Senate nor to the House of Representatives. The funding was hidden in the bill. That was fraud and I can't vote for any budget that fails to bring back that money from Obamacare.

Noam Chomsky

Obama himself has been highly supportive of Mubarak.

George McGovern

I have a very deep concern about President Obama putting in another 21,000 troops into Afghanistan with the promise of more to come.

Greg Gutfeld

Magic Johnson links his HIV and treatment to health care as though ObamaCare would provide the same level of care that a mega rich celebrity would get. Is he going to dump his coverage? Is he going to dump it and sign up for ObamaCare?

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Michio Kaku

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Fred Williams

I didn't see any survivalists; it seemed to be more for profit.

Hope Schulte

I don't know what was going on. It just seemed like everything was just going in for me. I just did what I usually do, and (the shots) just seemed to fall.

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.

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.

Mackenzie Astin

Life can only be understood backwards.

Tim Bedwell

We are short on the street, but they're in the pipeline.

Adolf Hitler

All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

Robert Foster Bennett

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.

Rene Descartes

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

Thomas Paine

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Thomas Sowell

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.

Thomas Jefferson

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Thomas Jefferson

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Thomas Jefferson

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Thomas Haden Church

I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.