Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

Christian Stracke

Where the credit is really due is in the early part of Greenspan's tenure: being faced with the aftershocks of the Wall Street crash in 1987 and dealing with that quite well. He confronted some very serious potential crises and got us to a point where we avoided them and are better off than we might have been otherwise.

Niall Ferguson

I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.

Nell Newman

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

Kendall Ponder

We've avoided the issue as much as we can. It's a big game for us because we are facing Hickman, not coach Riley.

Julie King

We've avoided the fate of other bankrupt carriers. We're still in the game.

Peter Butler

We've avoided a race because it is inappropriate, and it may make you make some bad decisions. The damage is not just to the patient but the reputation of the whole field.

Jimmy Wallace

They sent everybody at Broderick tonight, and he showed how unselfish he is and still managed to score. We avoided foul trouble for the most part, and that was one of the keys for us.

Jon King

They're still singing about going out and getting drunk and having fun. We very consciously avoided that sort of subject matter.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Dan Fogleman

Women's health is a priority for Wal-Mart. There's a lot of broader considerations, but it's something we're giving a lot of thought to.

Dan Fogleman

Women's health is a high priority for Wal-Mart, so clearly there are broader considerations, and we are giving this a lot of thought.

Jeff Soref

As she gears up to run for president, it?s a broader stage, and these issues matter in a way that perhaps they don?t when she?s in the Senate.

Mike Holtzman

As we have maintained, we will offer a series a recommendations ? some specific and some broader ? to protect the interests of those the program was meant to serve,

George Russell

All of Colorado has grown in the meantime to a much more sophisticated place. We have a much broader mix of people than we had then.

David Nelson

For investors, this makes it hard to know whether one quarter is reflective of broader improvement in the business.

Don Reed

For a small group of people to make a decision that these are inappropriate, I think, is not the way to go. There has to be broader consensus.

Nigel Gault

For a long time we've been looking for consumer spending to slow down, ... It's a question whether this is a trigger for a broader slowdown in consumer spending and the housing market.

Arthur Erickson

After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared.

Leonard Mlodinow

The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your state of mind and character.

Joe Biden

This combination of benchmarks and regular public accountability would go a long way toward convincing the American people that they are getting the facts in Iraq and that we have a strategy for success.

John Garfield

There was no convincing me that a stepmother could be anything but a wicked ogre, and I acted accordingly.

Sangram Majumdar

I tried to find work that felt convincing ... work that had a personal attachment.

Meg Rosoff

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

Jim Crocker

That's not to say it's not challenging, ... but the team is making a convincing story.

Ben Nelson

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary.

Kenneth Osborne

There is considerable and quite convincing evidence that that could not have happened.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Ed Koch

I have a social life. But I don't discuss it.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Ted Schadler

It's not really about social networking. It's not wide open.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Jim Blake

As part of the deal, there's a social mobilization effort.