Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ed Perkins

Greed on the part of banks is never surprising. Fortunately, not all the cards are doing it.

Yoji Takeda

It gives the impression Koizumi wanted someone who has political clout and who can support his structural reforms. Merging or privatizing government-affiliated banks will be positive for commercial lenders and brokerages because it will mean more business for them.

Luis Gutierrez

Our bill ensures that national banks will be bound by state consumer protection laws, including predatory mortgage lending statutes.

Chris Hoofnagle

Retailers and banks are trying to pass a law that's much weaker.

Boris Schlossberg

Reserve diversification by central banks has been a key driver of dollar weakness this year.

Zeng Jun

Remember, interest paid to banks only comes back to you in the form of a billing receipt. Nothing else...

Karen Rugen

Our lead banks support the plan and we believe the plan is in the best interest of our other lenders, so we expect to get all the approvals we need.

Richard Hunter

If you imagine all the speculation we've had in past months with banks, then not one is off the possible-target field. All banks are put into that play.

Jeffrey Sachs

If the whole world went into recession, all the major central banks could cut interest rates and expand the money supply.

Richard Kerr

increases the complexity of their threat to the rule of law.

Jim Cullinan

It's unfortunate that the government is playing these kinds of procedural games which are only designed to inject complexity and delay into the process of resolving this case.

Deborah Harkness

For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

Jason Silva

If the process of life is about moving toward increased complexity and organization, a sort of sublime unfolding of greater and greater self-organizing systems, then we're actually doing pretty well.

Elizabeth Strout

As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor.

Vicki Warker

There is a power, and a danger in mobility. You can increase productivity. You can reduce cycle time. But the danger is the increasing complexity for your business. There is also the security risk.

Gilbert Newton Lewis

To inquire into the origin of life is like seeking the origin of electrical machinery or the origin of music. Every increase in complexity of arrangement, of form, of substance, leads to new and often incalculable properties.

E. Hicks

While this technology expands accessibility and productivity, it introduces complexity and security risk as wireless networks and handheld mobile devices become a new target for hackers and thieves.

Alex Thurber

To become a Premier-level partner, you have to know wireless just as well as our other technologies. Network complexity is driving the need for partners to invest in this business.

Jean Claude

I would say that consumers are not pushing enough,

Scott Anderson

Job growth is the main engine for consumer spending.

Wayne Ayers

I think the general message here is that despite the fears about a low savings rate, the consumer continues to hang in there, and that's essentially the only thing that's going to keep the economy on track.

Gerard Kleisterlee

There is a lack of value creation, particularly around consumer electronics,

Carl Gipson

It gets tough when you try to tailor-make a plan for every single person, but at the same time we are paying for things we never use. Right now, it is kind of a one-size-fits-all approach, and from a consumer standpoint, someone who purchases health insurance, that doesn't go a long way in curtailing health-care costs.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot. I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

David Rosenberg

I think that the U.S. consumer is hot to trot, ... I think you're looking at a first quarter that's going to easily top 10 percent (in retail sales increase) on an annualized basis.

Tim Burns

Under Michigan law, unless something was intentionally misrepresented or defective, there's no mandatory right for a consumer to make a return. But if a store posts a return policy, they must follow the terms of the policy.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

Scott Smith

Katrina is limiting the current supply of natural gas into the system, which is increasing the cost on the market.

Bronwyn Belling

It can cost over $15,000 to take out one of these loans.

Levon Kendall

This was a good learning experience for us. We got away from our game plan, and it cost us. We have to stick to the things that have been working for us all year or we're going to keep losing.

Javier Bardem

There are so many movies and it's a waste of time and a waste of money. Basically, movies are made with what it costs the external debt of all Africa.

Mark Rebholz

He shared in the cost for the privilege of being the pilot, ... It worked out well for all of us -- we finished our project and he was part of a grand adventure.

David Holden

I think it's a prime property, ... I know that we're looking for funds, but if we need any properties in the future, it would cost considerably more (to purchase property).

Jarvis Herring

It cost us a couple games early, but then guys started fighting for each other. We could have had a lot better season.

Kay Runge

It costs us probably a third per square foot to run as the other building.

Marilyn Rush

It costs so much money, and we're poor people.

David Meltzer

He deserves a ton of credit for making the sport what it has become. He's the Vince McMahon of his generation.

Dave Tippett

I thought our team played a very good team defensive game. Hatcher had a great year and we played very well in front of Marty, but you can't get numbers like that without having an unbelievable performance from your goaltender. Marty deserves a lot of credit for that. He's the guy who a lot of time dictates a lot of the equation as the last line of defense.

Denham Brown

I think we?re tougher than a lot of people give us credit for. They think, ?You?re talented, but you?re not tough. You can?t have both. You?d be too good if you had both.? I think they read too much into that.

Mark Rosen

I think it was hard for us to get a rhythm going in any of the first games. We were so forced in the first two games. The team deserves credit for getting out of it.

Daniela Hantuchova

I think we all know how well she can really play. But to her credit, I thought she kept fighting until the end.

David Fowler

It is important that we have people with integrity there. And I think even my enemies credit me with having integrity.

Jim Haggerty

He's followed in his father's steps. Young Hoover has topped his dad, and his dad was an icon in his day. I give a lot of credit to his dad for Jim's achievements.

Alan Zemaitis

He's done a total 180. He's accountable to himself as a man, and it's a credit to him.

John Reynolds

He was just like any other offensive lineman, giving all the credit to everyone else.

Susumu Tonegawa

My scientific career has developed on three continents: Asia, Europe and North America.

Sean Casey

There are still mixed emotions. Everything I've done as a big leaguer has been with the Reds. I see those guys over there. I'm a human being. I like the guys in the Pirates' clubhouse. They've been good to me. But I developed a lot of relationships over there, too.

Donna Sutton

Serena has developed inflammation and swelling of her left knee joint over the past two days.

Robert Klein

As we developed that reputation, the volume has increased, ... Being a new facility and having high visibility, we felt that it was a product line that we wanted to focus on.

Randal Kell

This has always been zoned for high rise development and could be developed as either residential or office space under the zoning.

Elizabeth Banks

Your funny gets developed pretty early on. Comedy requires that you understand as much as possible about the viewpoints of all people and everything that's going on around you. It genuinely requires a true point of view, a real sense of your own view of things in the world.

Chris Squire

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

Don Cornelius

'Soul Train' was developed as a radio show on television. It was the radio show that I always wanted and never had.

Mitch Kapor

Velano Vascular has developed a simple, game-changing innovation that will improve the way medicine has been practiced for decades.

Jim Balderston

To date, much of the penetration of Linux in the marketplace has been in the back room infrastructure space, tying things together at the lower levels of the stack. Such accomplishments are not to be scoffed at, but represent the first step in establishing Linux as an enterprise and market wide technology.

Leonard Susskind

Physics is perceived as a lonesome, nerdy kind of enterprise that has very little to do with human feelings and the things that excite people day-to-day about each other. Yet physicists in their own working environment are very social creatures.

Steve Stewart

The Enterprise Zone has something for everyone in those existing businesses.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Private enterprise is ceasing to be free enterprise.

Richard Pierce

This is a huge thrust for us in conjunction with Yahoo!'s enterprise thrust, and we're really happy about that relationship.

Terry Tempest Williams

Mythmaking is the evolutionary enterprise of translating truths.

O. Winston

We think project portfolio management, the execution of how people work together, is the next great enterprise application.

Ken Jacobs

We think PHP is ready for enterprise use.

Michael Capellas

If one thing stands out in the fourth-quarter results, it's the strength of our enterprise technology and solutions. This is where we see our most important growth in 2001 and beyond.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Winston Churchill

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from wantà. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Rob Davies

If we are to make progress, it is essential that our partners (the US) show much greater flexibility than they have up to now.

Bjarne Stroustrup

In the short term, say 10 years, many such standards will be industry standards rather than formal ISO or IEEE standards, but it is essential for the software industry's health that key interfaces be well-specified and publicly available.

Jim Crace

The Commonwealth Prize is about celebrating the Commonwealth and the special relationship we have with the ex-colonies - which is part guilt and part warmth - and the Booker Prize isn't an essential part of that, but it is part of that.

Bob Djurdjevic

They got rid of a dud so that the profitability of the rest of IBM hardware can now shine.

John Hughes

A geek is a guy who has everything going for him but he's just too young. He's got the software but he doesn't have the hardware yet.

Rolf Elgeti

Tech has missed out on the market strength over the summer months. In an otherwise beta-led rally, IT Hardware is the stand-out exception, having recorded the worst three-month performance.

John Patrick

We don't think that any one hardware platform can meet everybody's needs and we provide multiple platforms for that reason.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Mike Pincus

The people that were at this meeting had no opinion at all.

Emile M. Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Ashley Key

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Donna Newman

It's not a confidential attorney-client meeting. It's a meeting to wave at your client.

Olusegun Obasanjo

strive at this meeting to come out with solutions.

Fred Phillips

It shows what we are doing is working. We are meeting our goals, which is very exciting.

The Eagles

It's been a total headache, ... We had trouble getting officials because the state (LHSAA) ruled New Orleans officials were unacceptable this season because they have not been going to their weekly meetings and they are supposed to be working for other associations in Thibodaux and Hammond.

Hayley Wickenheiser

It's our first meeting since the worlds, so it will be interesting to see what they look like, and how we look as well.

Susannah Fox

There aren't any new recruits. It's online veterans who are signing up for a second or third tour.

Nathan Fillion

I don't spend a lot of time online.

Paul Petty

They should be inspected on Thursday and online shortly after that.

Donna Mutzenard

It's one thing to just go there, but it's another thing to talk to other people about what they're trying in their schools. You don't get that through online research or watching a DVD.

Chris Moneymaker

Not having the online game has made it more difficult. There are a lot of young and upcoming players in poker. But you don't get to see them because TV has sort of been taken away.

Timothy Simons

We live in a world in which whatever you do has a parody account online in moments.

Andrea Seigel

Viewers make online requests to their favorite video-making whisperers to do the things that trigger their head tingles. Everyone's needs are different. It's like an interactive choose-your-own-adventure.

Rebecca Ryan

many times, online is the first way a young professional sees the area.

Jeff Bezos

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Joel Smith

Even the way somebody walks sometimes in a video may be the way to recognize that person.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Willie Davis

If they didn't recognize me as the new owner, that would get me in somehow.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Sal Viveros

Most U.S. users updated their anti-virus solutions because of Melissa, so they are safe.

Jaroslaw Kaczynski

Angela Merkel is the best solution for Poland.

John Clayton

He'll end up here. You're not going to see any other teams step up.

Ben Lee

In some places, they're so thick you can't step without killing tons of them.

Brad Todd

If we want to get better, we've got to get a tougher schedule. It's time to turn it up a notch, but I think we're taking steps in the right direction.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I just said ?Someone had to make a play, someone had to step up,' and someone did.

Mike Dunne

I'm just concerned. No one's really stepping forward. It's a public-safety issue.

Colin Purdon

I'm nervous. But when we step on the court, it's down to business.

Richard Jewell

The first step was a long process, ... Go Braves!

Paul Turner

The first step is to do this kind of broad-brushed analysis.

Khaleda Zia

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Steve Trimper

He's got a strong arm. It was a game-saving throw right there.

Larry Taddeo

He's got a strong arm. I think he'll get some looks.

Lance Armstrong

I think we have fielded our strongest team ever with this formation,

Brian Urlacher

He doesn't look any different to me. He was as strong as ever.

Rob Thomas

There weren’t many people in this world who would let you be vulnerable and still believe you were strong.

Richard P. Feynman

Our freedom to doubt was born out of a struggle against authority in the early days of science. It was a very deep and strong struggle: permit us to question - to doubt - to not be sure. I think that it is important that we do not forget this struggle and thus perhaps lose what we have gained.

Richard John Neuhaus

My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.

Richard Dawkins

The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence … The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.

Roz Savage

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.

Wayne Dyer

St John of the Cross told us that if a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark. I interpret that as a direction for us to trust in the guidance we receive from our invisible self.

W. C. Fields

Trust everybody, but cut the cards yourself.

William Ralph Inge

Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove.

Samuel Johnson

Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses.

Zoe Saldana

Trust me: Studios, investors, filmmakers, they will shift because they just follow the money trail.

Julianne Moore

If you're reading IMDB, half of it's made up. You can't trust it or Wikipedia, which is just lies, lies!

Robert Ray

If there is a warrant and done by the courts, I would agree. But they're trying to do it without using the courts. I just don't trust them.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Tim Harford

A lot of international companies invest in the U.K. as a base for doing business with the rest of the European Union.

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.

Steve Earle

Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.

Eugene Jarecki

Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

George Washington

Be Americans. Let there be no sectionalism, no North, South, East or West. You are all dependent on one another and should be one in union. In one word, be a nation. Be Americans, and be true to yourselves.

Fredrik Bajer

I would rather propose a bureau somewhat similar to that which we have in the Universal Postal Union.

Fredrik Bajer

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

Franz Kafka

The indestructible is one: it is each individual human being and, at the same time, it is common to all, hence the incomparably indivisible union that exists between human beings.