Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Young

People say they're going to go get cash and don't come back.

Kevin Hall

The speaker says we walked away from cash on the table. We don't need cash on the table. We need transportation improvements on the ground.

Dean Baker

I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.

Marc Ganis

They are a cash machine. They print money, ... While there is no revenue pressure, they'll try to keep certain things pristine.

Jim Leljedal

This is not a place that has cash on hand. It's not a bank. These are just people working in an office environment.

Garth Whyte

This isn't just a matter of changing the settings on a cash register - that can be done fairly quickly.

Dave Ramsey

The first step in taking control of your money is to stop borrowing money. Start using cash today.

Lord Browne

Consistent with existing BP practice, we remain committed to returning excess free cash flow, including the net proceeds of this sale, to shareholders,

David Gilmore

European companies are flush with cash and they want to own market share in the United States, ... They want to own the 'new economy.'

Ren Zamora

Other companies have been able to fight pricing pressure, which is good. If all the companies started cutting prices, you don't want to go down that road.

Marc Maiffret

Companies like Microsoft are not equipped to deliver protection in a timely manner.

Guy Kawasaki

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Bruce Evers

Companies haven't assessed the damage fully and it may be that refineries stay shut for months. The European Union is moving crude and products to the U.S., but at some point it's going to have to replace that, leading to higher demand in a marketplace that is already very tight.

Boris Boehm

Companies are restructuring to make themselves fit for the future. Investors are looking for companies that are engaged in that process. It's a positive.

Jeff Kagan

Telecommunications companies always worry about cannibalizing their own revenue streams with lower priced alternatives. Consumers will decide on more than just price, however.

Paul Hogan

Telecom companies are huge so no one vendor can supply them all. This is a fairly sizable opportunity.

Song Ho

Technology companies will see a recovery in earnings in the second half so the outlook for the industry is positive.

John Fitzgibbons

Technology companies have snuck in and been profitable.

Asahi Shimbun

As a result, the food safety of consumers was treated carelessly, raising questions once more about government responsibility.

Carrie Johnson

the wealthy, time-strapped consumers are looking pretty good right now.

Tony Crescenzi

The CPI is correct in measuring consumer prices, ... But it's not correct in measuring the cost of living.

Heather Friedland

We will be looking to enhance the consumer versions of our product later this year with similar features.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Anthony Chan

Next week's producer price index or consumer price index could tip the Fed in favor of a June hike if they're on the upside.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Jeff Stone

I don't think we want to exempt those requirements from the Consumer Protection Act,

George Soros

I expect by '07 there will be a significant decline in U.S. consumer spending, and I don't see what will take its place, because it's so important as the motor of the world economy.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Thomas Neil

Now is when they have to decide how much they want to continue to play football.

Carles Puyol

Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (the racists) get to him.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

Karen Sack

This is a way for the company?to continue to grow over time and I think it is a healthy strategy over time.

Hossam Bahgat

This is a regrettable escalation on the part of the government. On the other hand, it will encourage the judges to continue to speak out on the issue of judicial independence.

Jon Huntsman

This is a question of fairness, to my mind, and I'm going to continue talking about it to see what we can get accomplished.

Brian Dolan

This is going to be a short-term recovery. The dollar will continue to weaken in the next several days.

Gurinder Kalra

Despite the stock's strong performance in recent months, we are reiterating our outperform rating and are raising our price target from 660,000 won ($ 673.43) to 770,000 won.

David Townsend

Despite the sound of 40,000 gallons, not a whole lot of stuff was released here through that hole.

William Daley

Despite the progress we have seen over the last week, we still do not have the 218 votes yet to win it, ... In the end, I am optimistic we will pull it out.

Patricia Ryan

Despite some of the closings we've had, we seem to be doing all right. With the rain and everything, there was some question at first, but we seem to be holding our own right now.

Michael Cox

Despite our directive to the National Journal to replace the ad, it was not replaced as requested, which resulted in its publication this week.

Benazir Bhutto

despite it our many people won their seats.

Tom Browning

Your obsession with size has not led to superior earnings growth despite increased leverage.

Pete Hastings

Better to have York as an informed insider helping with the turnaround effort than to have him pressuring from the outside, despite the amicable relationship. He's solid, experienced and may provide some spark to the process.

Ahmed Zewail

Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.

Harvey Pitt

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

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Donald Trump

The plan I am proposing today does not involve smoke and mirrors, phony numbers, financial gimmicks, or the usual economic chicanery you usually find in Disneyland-on-the-Potomac.

Tom Reich

When it comes to the economics of baseball, there's no question he's been a hawk and is a hawk. But I don't think that meant that he didn't want to win. His excitement right now is undeniable.

Friedrich List

Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and that the one can never develop to its fullest without the other.

Jerry Patterson

The economics work, and they work well, and we're excited about it. The environmental impacts are very positive.

Pamela Falk

The economics of Washington's strained relations with Venezuela could prove costly.

Ban Ki-moon

Since problems spill across borders, security anywhere depends on sustainable development everywhere.

Kerry Healey

I want my kids to be in an environment where they can talk about values in a way that you can't always do in a public school setting.

Royal Society

We show the first wild images of a giant squid in its natural environment,

Craig Venter

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Duncan Sheik

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do

Len Wolman

What we're trying to do is mirror the environment you're going to have at home.

E. O. Wilson

Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

Claude Bernard

All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment.

Dalai Lama

The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Matt Hasselbeck

We were really focused on the task at hand rather than, 'Oh, my gosh, we're in this big game.

Hillary Clinton

There's no day that is the same as the day before. So you have to be energized; you have to be focused.

Jim McEwen

Granted, we played a JV team, but by the same token, instead of messing around, our guys stayed focused and played well.

Joel Quick

I did a little prayer while I was up there. I was just focused on the form and knew it was going to go in. I wasn't going to miss it for my team, for my senior year.

John Bender

I could see everyone waving on my way by every lap, ... but I tried to stay focused on hitting my marks. If I hit my marks here, we're unstoppable.

Paul Tudorovic

I am now fully focused on our first home game on Saturday night.

Jose Andres Puerta

The right use of food can end hunger.

Barbara Jordan

Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.

Alice B. Toklas

But I don't want nutrition. I want food!

Diogenes

If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.

Alice Paul

Food simply isn't important to me.

St. Jerome

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Susan Lucci

I love spaghetti and meatballs... I eat a lot.

Michael Pollan

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

Michael Pollan

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. Don't eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

Edward Meir

Commodities seem to be a rather popular alternative (to bonds, equities and the dollar) for funds searching for a trend.

Ronald Fisher

We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

Bob Livingston

Now they are going to have to fund his research and he has the opportunity to show his stuff,

Ian McDonald

Funding can never replace the value lost from trade and the euro190 million does not really offset that, offset what we would lose.

Jason Kelly

If a fund has $100 million in assets, it means it's a real player, ... The Neatest Little Guide to Mutual Funds.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Tim Beck

This doesn't take away from us winning the region title.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Lyle Mangum

Region 4 is tough. I think Region 1 is the toughest, but Region 4 is right after. I think our wrestlers have fared well.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Brent Weeks

I am Sa’kagé a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down.” --(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.)

Booker T. Washington

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.