Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Cole

I think we are all aware that some accounts have a deficient balance.

Gene Sperling

If you look at what is clearly in their plans, it will cost a lot of money. We have not seen the details and ... are claiming that by all accounts it is being paid for with the largest amount of gimmicks, supply side growth, and double counting in history.

Beth Givens

If you've given them your credit-card number and/or bank-account number, you should watch those accounts very carefully.

D. James

If rural exports lift as expected in coming quarters and support expanded export capacity in the mining sector, the much fabled improvement in Australia's trade accounts will be a step closer.

Peter Orszag

We're not fully using those accounts and they're not working as well as they could. Let's take those accounts we already have and make them work better, rather than creating a new system of accounts.

Ben Bernanke

The banks have accounts with the Fed, much the same way that you have an account in a commercial bank.

Hugh Thomas

Symbian's history and pedigree has always been around the mobile phone, ... Other operating systems have migrated from a desk top world where there has been LAN connectivity for sometime. Creating WLAN technology for Symbian OS meant we had to create a number of new components, in the areas of network discovery and security. All in all we invested over 50 man years of programming in the development. When it is added to Symbian OS it accounts for almost 10% of the total firmware footprint.

Michael Flanagan

I view this as putting smaller portfolios into incubators to wait for them to be hatched into higher revenue accounts, ... But lost accounts is precisely the risk that Merrill Lynch runs with this strategy.

Kate Warne

(The TSE 300) started sliding at the beginning and it just kept sliding. Nortel accounts for most of it but you have Seagram pulling back, techs took a big hit. It's pretty much across the board.

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

George Mirabal

I think all three cities tied in the design, the concept and the capital that was needed. I think it was the way in which the capital was structured that made the difference.

Mark Bloomfield

I think that a capital gains tax cut is very, very doable this year. The only question is not will there be a capital gains tax, but what will it look like.

Parris Glendening

It is imperative that I, as well as our citizens, have complete confidence that the legal process involved in capital cases is fair and impartial,

Barack Obama

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

Mahmoud Abbas

Our capital will be Jerusalem, and our state will not contain settlements.

Mo Ibrahim

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

Richard Rainwater

If you happen to be in the right place at the right time, the capitalist system is a beautiful thing.

Renee Chen

High global commodity prices should have helped to underpin the import value of raw materials, but imports of capital goods probably remained subdued.

Philippe Petit

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

Alfred Kahn

The increasing status of Xbox 360 as the premiere next generation digital gaming and entertainment system makes this the perfect time to introduce a carefully orchestrated licensing program that expands the Xbox brand.

Billy Baldwin

. . . a great deal of wonderful clutter -- all of it carefully ordered and intimately meaningful to the homemaker. She cares little about the intrinsic value of any of her possessions as long as it's something she loves.

Alan Dean Foster

Dawn was written well before 9/11. People speak a lot today about the banality of evil, but not all evil is banal. Some of it is carefully structured and well-thought-out. That's where the real danger lies.

Vernon Howard

Stucy carefully the law of cause and effect.

Meshell Ndegeocello

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.

Phaedrus

The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.

Erik Autor

We're going to monitor this situation very carefully over the next several months. This is a case where what happens in Washington can have as much effect on cargo as what happens on the docks.

Niklas Savander

When we carefully considered the requirements of our customers when developing these devices, two clear new trends emerged: the need for IT departments' to have a secure and manageable platform, and the need for devices to support a variety of employee preferences and different working styles.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Mike Lowell

Josh was crying to me for five years with the Marlins that he always wanted No. 19 so I told him I'd be willing to give it up. I think change is good sometimes. So I figured why not? I'm on a new team, new number and everything is new. I'm kind of starting from scratch. I feel good about that.

John Silvia

I suspect that there's a little optimism that the Fed will signal that they are just about done, that they'll change their language from saying 'further policy firming may be' to saying it 'might be' needed.

Jim Zandri

I think it is a combination of things. A lot has changed in New Year's over the past few years.

Jim Duquette

It all started in his mind right after his wife went into the hospital. He started thinking about whether he really had the desire to keep going. We let him take a couple extra days just to make sure that was his final decision. He's not going to change his mind at this point.

Mack Brown

It¹s a compliment, because it¹s a place we haven¹t been in a long time and it sets our standard even higher. We also understand that the percentage points and the rankings can change weekly. What we have to do is concentrate on winning. That's the only thing we have control over. It¹s only October, and what we want to do is to be one of the top two teams in December.

Carrie Shelver

It also comes down to how society perceives the role of men, as opposed to the role of women. Men can do well to change these perceptions, and the violation of women's rights, by redefining their role as the dominant partner.

Mike O'Connell

He wants a better opportunity. I think he looks at our team and sees he's not going to be able to make our team. I don't know what it is. I think he just wants a change of scenery.

Jeffrey Lichtman

He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan.

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

Li Jian

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

Tim Adams

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

O. Henry

We think China is a growing regional power and we want to partner with them to manage their gradual rise.

Ping Chew

If you look at what most other money going into China is earning, it is not that inefficient. If you don't invest in U.S. bonds, what do you invest in?

Shi Yinhong

In the future, China will provide more international public goods in many areas.

Tom Jaine

Civet of hare in the south China seas! 'Gosh, Gertrude, let's go have some civet of hare, it's really cold out there.

Cass Johnson

The Chinese threat is real. We will continue to file and re-file textile-safeguard petitions until China is willing to come to the table and negotiate.

Tom Davies

The China vote is the most important vote coming up in Congress for the technology community.

Royal Masset

In this situation, she is the most powerful player. She controls the variable in this session the spending limits.

Chuck Miller

The engine (for Pallotti) is the Faulkner kid. She controls the ball, defensively she's a bulldog, offensively, she controls the offense. She's one of these kids who walks up to you before the game with a smile, then walks out on the court and kicks your butt.

Matt Elledge

To win four titles in a row, you know they have a great program. It's going to depend on tempo. Whoever controls the pace of the game will probably win.

John Jones

The one thing we wanted to do was get them in physical condition. The mind is the first thing to go. It controls everything.

Jimmy Wales

We have to continually evaluate whether our controls are enough.

Monica Crowley

If the government controls your health care, the government controls you. Obamacare was never about health care. It was about government power, dependency, and control.

Ken Johnson

By the time you've finished going from molecule to market, you only have a couple of years left on your patent, so you only have a few years to recoup your costs. There are price controls in other parts of the world like Canada, and that drives up costs for the United States as well.

R. Robinson

He's the guy who controls the legislative calendar. That's their interest in giving money to his committee.

Sathya Baba

Mind is the overall instrument which controls and directs the senses.

Yoshinori Ohno

I would not say it was as wide as the Pacific Ocean, but a big river. But the differences have gradually been narrowed.

Tatsuyuki Kawasaki

In the long term this is going to be a setback for the market ... It is likely to gradually lessen trade by individual investors.

Amy Smith

I just kind of got gradually better and better, and then one day it clicked, and I did pretty well ever since, I'm going to miss it too much after I leave (Manheim Township).

Phil Dow

If we have a series of big moves up, that would be a shock to the system, ... but, considering where are from a historical perspective, they could go up more gradually and not be a terrible headwind for the market.

Michelle Paver

My thirties merged into my forties, and I sort of gradually realised that I don't really want children. Now I'm glad I don't have them. Part of that is because I have my books.

Ravi Shankar

I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

William Whewell

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Walter Huston

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

Malin Akerman

Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.

Mahatma Gandhi

Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible.

Emilio Estevez

Americans are probably more in line than ever before. We're more moderate than we are liberal or conservative.

Bob Hiester

They come with the lines on it. You order it for the sports you want.

Helen Allen

It was a madhouse, ... if you wait until voting day, then you've got the long lines and you get tired.

William James

Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.

Wesley Morris

If I like a movie, I'm definitely advocating for it, but it's not "you should see this" or "you shouldn't see this." I try to take a longer view about what the movie is doing and where it fits in the context of other things, in the way that certain good literary criticism tries to do the same thing.

Wesley Morris

Anything produced and then exhibited for public view is open to interpretation.

Wesley Morris

I just have to be able to follow and enjoy the writer's voice and the writer's point of view. Liking what the person has to say is not really important to me.

Richard Rohr

Every viewpoint is a view from a point.

Trevor Nunn

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can't be told that I'm wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn't to do with receiving criticism and responding to other views, it's who has that last decision.

Van Wyck Brooks

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Umberto Eco

I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote "I am that I am," for example, I thought that the fundamental problem was where to put the comma, inside the quotation marks or outside.

Robert Pozen

We don't take a macro view... We'd look at every company to figure out if trade sanctions are helpful or hurtful.