Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Alan Blinder

The last duty of a central banker is to tell the public the truth.

Lisa Gansky

RelayRides and WhipCar, AirBnB, Roomorama and One Fine Stay are all stellar examples of how new, access-based offers entice and provoke insurance companies and banks to re-think risk, value, customers and deal terms.

Al Rosen

The other speculation would be that there were some documents that were seized in that raid at the Bank of Nova Scotia, that someone may have noticed certain sales or transactions.

Michael Mayo

The performance of the Bank of New York's retail bank has lagged, the stock value of pure-plays has increased, and Bank of New York stock has lagged. We sense that the time is right for this move.

Tsuyoshi Segawa

The plus reading will definitely pave the way for an end to the Bank of Japan's ultra-easy monetary policy and the market has not factored this in yet.

Don Horner

We are proud to be the only bank servicing the Sand Island community and are pleased to provide an expanded facility to all of the customers in the area.

Rakesh Mohan

We are advising banks to review credit quality and exercise greater control on credit.

Firas Askari

We are seeing a lot of new buying of the Canadian dollar. The central bank continues to tighten and everyone is talking about the election. We expect continued strength in the Canadian dollar.

Philip Goodhart

We've always had a broader cultural coverage, particularly in the last three or four years We have short stories in every issue. We have more of an interior life. Perhaps the mistake was not to make more noise about that in the earlier issues.

Dan Fogleman

Women's health is a priority for Wal-Mart. There's a lot of broader considerations, but it's something we're giving a lot of thought to.

Dan Fogleman

Women's health is a high priority for Wal-Mart, so clearly there are broader considerations, and we are giving this a lot of thought.

Jeff Soref

As she gears up to run for president, it?s a broader stage, and these issues matter in a way that perhaps they don?t when she?s in the Senate.

Mike Holtzman

As we have maintained, we will offer a series a recommendations ? some specific and some broader ? to protect the interests of those the program was meant to serve,

George Russell

All of Colorado has grown in the meantime to a much more sophisticated place. We have a much broader mix of people than we had then.

Don Reed

For a small group of people to make a decision that these are inappropriate, I think, is not the way to go. There has to be broader consensus.

Nigel Gault

For a long time we've been looking for consumer spending to slow down, ... It's a question whether this is a trigger for a broader slowdown in consumer spending and the housing market.

John Sicher

It started out with young consumers ? late teens, people in their 20s ? but it's getting much broader than that.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denis Waitley

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Kevin Dineen

We are looking forward to the playoffs, especially with the gritty effort we have put forth on the road this season. The playoffs feature a lot of excitement packed into a series and just get ready to rock with us in the playoffs.

Ehud Barak

We are at the start of a very intensive effort and, in a way, the last one in this round to try to reach a breakthrough,

Shawn Russell

We started hitting our outside shots. That opened things up on the inside.

David Hasselhoff

Wherever I can go, I hit the water, whether it's the ocean, or in L.A. it's Zuma Beach in Malibu; I just hit the water.

Stan Rosenstein

Where the rubber is really going to hit the road is Jan. 2 in the local pharmacies.

Joe Vitt

There is no question. It's a point of pride for the players, for the coaches, for our families. When a man's butt hits the ground, a man better get back up again. We were kicked down last week, and we've got to rise.

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always been trying to write songs that hit you in the stomach but ones that make people feel like things will be just fine.

Jason Schenker

Whether we hit it today or next week, I don't really think hitting $50 is going to give us a downturn.

Jeff Davidson

Watching 'Old Boy' is like getting hit in the mouth.

Jeff Davis

When it comes right down to it, I'm not going to say that we didn't execute. We didn't hit our shots.

Mark Osiecki

Tom will make a big hit when we need it, and he'll take a big hit when we need it. We need him to be on the ice for us to be successful.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Ed Royce

The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

Kevin Hall

We still see this as kind of a short-term issue that will work itself out.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Vonetta Flowers

They got their passports when they were 5 months old.

Mark Spano

They don't tell us any of this for the first seven months and then they come up with all of this.

Dave Eggers

They took my mother's stomach out six months ago.

Andrew Clark

They said a year or 15 months and I brushed it off,

Jacob DiPietre

They've already been in the process of doing that for several months now.

Dom Starsia

It's a real joy, what this regular season has been. I've been saying it for any number of weeks and months now: In our sport, people remember what you do in the month of May. That's what the public takes away from it.

Truman Capote

it's a well-known photograph. This was 1984, just three months before he died.

Nostradamus

In England, one without a trace of Royalty will master. Twenty months he will rule; twenty months he will bleed the lands, then his end comes quickly.

Rich Marcello

We probably have another 18 months or so until we get it done.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.

Frederic Bastiat

If everyone enjoyed the unrestricted use of his faculties and the free disposition of the fruits of his labor, social progress would be ceaseless, uninterrupted, and unfailing.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report, and that is not good.

Charles Edison

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles Baudelaire

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Charles Baudelaire

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Charlie Munger

Determine value apart from price; progress apart from activity; wealth apart from size.

Michael Musto

My passion is New York and the vitality that makes it special.

Tamara Tunie

I'm Irish on St. Patrick's Day. I'm Italian on Columbus Day. I'm a New Yorker every day.

Rita Ora

A New Yorker is anyone who has the guts to really live in the city.

Dorothy Rothschild Parker

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.

Jason Calacanis

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

Santiago Cabrera

I've been to New York a lot. I grew up in London but I'm from Chile originally.

Eddy Curry

That's just how things happened. I think in the long run, New York is going to come out on top.

Erik Estrada

I wanted to be a New York City cop before I became an actor.

Adam Mansbach

The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.