Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Tien

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

William Prophet

With the FOMC meeting less than one week away, and 10-year rates soon to be within 25 basis points of the overnight rate, it is difficult to picture the market remaining at these levels.

Peter R. Grant

Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection.

Robin Clements

With some speculation that the RBNZ could have moved by 50 basis points, the end result was a market reaction consistent with an element of relief.

William Saturno

With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has upended much of what we thought we knew about the early Maya.

Max Nordau

We will briefly mention some peculiarities frequently manifested by a degenerate. He is tormented by doubts, seeks for the basis of all phenomena, especially those whose first causes are completely inaccessible to us, and is unhappy when his inquiries and ruminations lead, as is natural, to no result.

Reuben Mark

We are especially encouraged by the 110 basis point improvement in gross profit margin during the quarter, to an all-time record and the largest quarterly gross profit increase in over three years.

Steve Barrow

Fifty basis points is most likely; that's factored into the markets already.

Michael Iachini

Expense ratios are all mostly under 75 basis points.

Liaquat Baloch

We are of the view that Indian movies spread obscenity and vulgarity. These (Indian) movies cannot be watched with family members and as such we will be opposing their exhibition in Pakistan.

Vauvenargues Marquis

We are often dismayed to find that even disasters cannot cure us of our faults.

Firman Gani

We cannot yet conclude the source of the blast.

John Murtha

We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning,

Jacob Lew

We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.

Steve Frank

We cannot win as a party that wants more regulation, more taxes and more Democrat judges. If he continues to do that, it's going to be a very long night in November for him.

Paulo Autuori

We cannot vulgarize the deaths. We can't keep talking about winning or being competitive while there are people dying.

Xia Bin

We cannot underestimate the possible loss to the reserves if, in the long run, the United States adopts a weak-dollar policy and we are still maintaining a high level of dollar reserves.

James Wolfensohn

We cannot turn globalization back. Our challenge is to make globalization an instrument of opportunity and inclusion -- not fear and insecurity. With all the forces making the world smaller, it is time to change our way of thinking, time to realize we live together in one world, not two -- this poverty is in our community wherever we live. It is our responsibility.

Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your stuff.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Ai Weiwei

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Andre Malraux

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Woody Allen

Some actors like the total freedom Woody gives them, but I like to have some parameters, some structure.

Han Suyin

I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.

Pope XIII

It is quite unlawful to demand, defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, or speech, of writing or worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man

Richard Bach

There is such a thing as perfection...and our purpose for living is to find that perfection and show it forth....Each of us is in truth an unlimited idea of freedom. Everything that limits us we have to put aside.

Larry Long

There's a real freedom without all that stuff, once you learn to get by without all the things you thought were necessities.

Rachel Corrie

I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

Tariq Khan

We're not taking away their freedom of speech. We're letting people know that Hyatt is supporting these people.

Bill Rosendahl

We are living in the 21st century. It is time we respect our elephants, give them their freedom and put them in a sanctuary.

Deion Sanders

I like what I see. I think the league is heading in the proper direction.