Famous Quotes & Sayings

Takuji Aida

The slowdown in recurring profits reflects rising material costs in manufacturing and higher personnel costs in non-manufacturing.

Tom Schatz

The structure slams the door on any competition. The ULA locks up all contracts, ensuring high costs for taxpayers and stifling innovation.

Mallory Factor

Sarbanes-Oxley costs the American people money. It costs jobs. It costs our competitiveness. It hurts our markets.

Norman Baker

Rather than increasing fuel costs to pay for nuclear the government should be investing in renewable energy.

Joseph Anderson

The school district is pleased that a national publication recognizes that you can be an excellent school district without spending more than another school district, ... We have one of the lower per pupil costs in Delaware County. Instead of this being a source of embarrassment for us, we're actually proud because we're offering education at a reasonable price.

Jon Gruden

It was very scarily familiar to me, ... You know, a missed field goal, a missed extra point costs you games. I'm sure they're sick about that today. If you're going to finish last in field goal accuracy, you're not going to win many games.

Eric Graaf

The short-term effect is likely to be negative. This type of issue costs management time, leads to sizeable costs of lawyers and creates uncertainty.

Andrew Hill

The sheer magnitude and frequency of wholesale price rallies are such that absorbing these increased costs to protect market share is simply not a commercially viable option.

Joel Naroff

The sharp rise in input costs can only further pressure earnings in those sectors where there is limited pricing power, which is still most of the economy.

Johnnie Burton

The offshore energy industry has compiled an outstanding safety record that allows development of these resources without significant risk to the environment.

Jack Buck

After all of these years, I realize my energy comes from the people at the other end.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

Jon Huntsman

so we can operate government more efficiently from an energy-consumption standpoint.

Amy Butler

Once we tied the game the energy went up. It was our seventh overtime game, and it was nice to win it.

Brad Winchester

Now it's going to be a matter of taking the energy of this game into the games back home.

Kate Warne

Oil prices fell significantly so all the energy sector was down, you see all of the financials are down, the high-tech flyers down.

Dan Grunfeld

Sometimes you don't start out with the energy you should and they start hitting shots. But to our credit, we stuck our noses in there and didn't get discouraged. We just kept playing our game and didn't get away from what we do best.

O. Henry

Sometimes you can give your team a lift and give your team some energy when you lower your shoulder and go after that guy. But as a runner you can get yourself in trouble that way, too. Sometimes you just have to know when the journey is over.

Jan Schakowsky

Handcuffing the ability of states and localities to develop clean fuels in the cheapest possible way, using local resources, is not sound or sensible policy.

Larry McKibben

We have a real opportunity on renewable fuels to take this to a whole new level in Iowa.

Robert Kiyosaki

Fuel prices are at the center of our lives. They affect our ability to travel, stay warm, and feed ourselves.

Andrew Sullivan

We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.

Philip Sidney

Provision is the foundation of hospitality, and thrift the fuel of magnificence.

John Connell

My team heard that and took it personally. We needed fuel and that was it.

Rob McDonald

Fuel is now our number one cost. We regret having to increase fares but the numbers are stark.

Ed Stewart

For us, it's all about fuel, fuel and fuel.

Gerald Grinstein

If we had fuel at the price it was three years ago, we would have had probably record operating profits in the first and second quarters of the year. That's how much fuel has impacted Delta.

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.

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.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The whole world is concerned, and I think the Myanmar government understands,

Craig Benson

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

Jeanette Chan

There would simply be too much information for network operators to store all the data. The government has to be practical.

David Mann

It's been increasing significantly over the last year and a half.

Alan Brown

The use of application processors in 3G mobile handsets is increasing the semiconductor value per handset and semiconductor revenue for suppliers of application processors.

Rob Reiner

This isn't about Republicans or Democrats. It's about investing in our children.

Larry Woolsey

Before investing in snowshoes, rent some to get an idea of what you want.

Edward Tenthoff

Biotech investing is no longer a pie-in-the-sky game.

Theo Epstein

We think investing in Coco was a wise move.

Daniel S. Loeb

Timing is everything in this markets.

Robert Reich

Over the long term, the only way we're going to raise wages, grow the economy, and improve American competitiveness is by investing in our people - especially their educations.

Thorstein Veblen

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes of industry.

Steven Spielberg

I'd love to build a company that will continue to make movies well beyond me someday. And I'd like to help start something great, even investing in it myself.

John Templeton

If you want to have a better performance than the crowd, you must do things differently from the crowd.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Donald Rumsfeld

After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Tom Harkin

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Fareed Zakaria

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Franz Liszt

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Michael Burgess

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

Barack Obama

As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

Laura DiDio

You're paying a lot for these licenses, but you're getting a lot, too. These are real, tangible benefits.

Jane Austen

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.

Anton LaVey

Do what you want as long as it's paying off for you. But once it's become a liability, then something is wrong and you better find out what it is.

Steve Stifano

Essentially, if you go with a friend, you'll each be paying $9.75 for a ticket.

Gayle Bradley

You can never have too much to pay for things.

Julie King

We also haven't pulled blankets and pillows off the aircraft. We think it's a strategy that will pay off for us in the long run.

Gary Hutchison

At that rate, it'll take - what - two thousand years to pay it back.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.

Michael White

We want answers. We want someone to pay for what they have done.

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Dedrick L.

To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Darius Walker

Hopefully, he'll be rooting for us. We'd rather have him on our side.