Famous Quotes & Sayings

Asahi Shimbun

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

Michael Chambers

Real discretionary spending has been cut to the bone. That would gel with the sense we get in Indonesia of a very sharp drop in consumer durable purchases, motorcycles. If you go to electronic shops you'll see a sharp decline there as well.

Carrie Johnson

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

Steven Wood

This will offer some partial restraint to consumer spending.

Gary Miller

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

Peter Dixon

We've seen higher inflation in the course of this year than perhaps was anticipated last year when wage deals were negotiated, ... Consequently that's eroded household purchasing power, and we've actually seen very sluggish consumer demand - which has been a big surprise.

Bruce Rohde

We've seen customers in our industry aggressively reducing inventory balances, so shipment, sales and profits were lower than would be suggested by improved consumer purchases of our products.

Tony Crescenzi

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

John Silvia

Employment and wages are stronger and therefore, consumer spending is stronger. Housing is slowing, but not as much as we would have expected, and the price of oil is so far not having that big an impact on the consumer.

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.

Flex Plexico

Prior to returning this detainee to Egypt, the United States received appropriate assurances from the government of Egypt regarding this detainee's treatment upon his return to Egypt. This includes assurances that this individual will continue to be treated humanely, in accordance with Egyptian and international legal obligations, while he remains in Egypt,

Eddie Jones

Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.

Ari Fleischer

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

Mike Cahill

Denver's hotel market is just starting to turn around, so I think we're going to continue to see more and more sales in Colorado.

Leslie Tang

The strength in exports would continue to come from the sustained recovery in electronics demand, from the gradual recovery in the global electronics cycle, and commodities, especially from higher oil prices.

Larry Wachtel

So there's nothing to offset the economic news and stocks are muddling along. Until we get some surety about the economy or corporate earnings, we'll continue to have this drifting, dismal kind of day.

Thomas Neil

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

Brett Boretti

Right now, we're trying to get better and trying to improve. We know what we can do, and we just need to continue to work hard.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Joe Dumars

The team we ultimately turned into had a great impact on his situation. If we don't turn into the team we've turned into over the past 2 1/2 years, I guarantee his situation would be a lot different and he'd probably still be here.

T.O. Sterrett

The team of people impressed me very much. And I love teaching. I love working with people, but it sure doesn't hurt when you have great facilities.

Mark White

The team has great work ethic, but is young. He shouldered the responsibility of taking them to the next level.

Carlos Alberto

Officially there are 166 dead, and another 125 missing and presumed dead,

Shawn Marion

Sometimes we have a team down 20 points and then start missing some shots. That's when we need to clamp down on defense. It's not easy, but at the same time we've got to do it.

Juvenal

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

David Nicholls

I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.

Danny Miller

We go out and do our best, ... but we have to move on to our next missing person.

Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

E. L. Konigsburg

How can you know what is missing if you’ve never met it? You must know of something’s existence before you can notice its absence.

Donna Karan

I've been away and haven't seen my family. I speak to them every day though. I miss them, but I love traveling.

Dorothy Dunnett

If I can’t be personal, I don’t want to argue,” said his hostess categorically. “I may be missing your points, but you’re much too busy dodging mine.

Rudi Giuliani

I would have to say to myself, 'You've got to remain calm, you've got to stay focused.'

Unknown

Here's to the new husband, And here's to the new wife, May they remain lovers, For all of life.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Robert Portman

after the appeal, I understand it wouldn't be until the spring of 2006.

Arthur Koestler

I went to Communism as one goes to a spring of fresh water, and I left Communism as one clambers out of a poisoned river strewn with the wreckage of flooded cities and the corpses of the drowned.

Charles Churchill

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing.

Ben Jonson

Each petty hand Can steer a ship becalm'd; but he that will Govern and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails; What she will bear in foul, what in fair weathers; Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop 'em; What strands, what shelves, what rocks do threaten her.

Abdallah II of Jordan

The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.

Donald Trump

People are amazed because I don't get much with the colds. Sometimes in the spring or in the fall, I'll get a little hay fever. And that comes and goes.

Abraham Lincoln

And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again.

A. A. Milne

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

Abraham Lincoln

I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.

Archibald MacLeish

Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.

Barbara Kingsolver

When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the simple acts of faith like planting a garden that helped see us through another spring, another summer. And I inhale some kind of promise to protect my kids' hopes and good intentions we began with in this country. Freedom of speech, the protection of diversity - these are the most important ingredients of American civil life and my own survival. If I ever took them for granted, I don't know.

Busy Philipps

I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!

Alan Lightman

I go live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails. So it's really about two and a half months that I'll feel like I can recover some silence in my life...which is so hard to find.

Bruce Dern

From nine on I was forced to camp every summer. Not a volunteer. I played with the wrong kids so they made me go to camp to straighten me out.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

The weary August days are long; The locusts sing a plaintive song, The cattle miss their master's call When they see the sunset shadows fall.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

Robert Kiyosaki

I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.

Dusty Baker

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

Chuck Jones

The weatherman is not only blamed for his failure to foretell, he is blamed for the weather itself.

Amos Lee

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Thomas Sowell

Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy.

Jerome K. Jerome

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Jeff Goodell

In the U.S. alone, weather disasters caused $50 billion in economic damages in 2010.

Jean Rhys

Cold - cold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

Gregory Maguire

He knew about being alone. The weather was always cold there.

Gertrude Stein

August is a month when if it is hot weather it is really very hot.

Jessica Savitch

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute.