Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

Just looking at the environment, the breakdown in Iraqi defense system, and the fact that we're in there in that urban area, we're not a good target for the use of chemical weapons even if Saddam could throw them at us, and I think the guess would be he can't at this point,

Charlie Rangel

What you have just witnessed is the official breakdown of bipartisanship,

Sung Sohn

Historically, economic and political crises have been buying opportunities. Looking at 17 crises, ranging from President Wilson's nervous breakdown to the Gulf War, the stock market setback generally has been a short-term matter lasting no more than a few months.

David Patrick

I think a number of people back home were on the edge of a nervous breakdown as they kept track of things on the internet towards the end but, thankfully, they eventually had something to celebrate.

Ethan Harris

In the preliminary reading an increase in the index of current conditions was offset by a decrease in the expectations index. We expect a similar breakdown in the final survey.

Robert Blendon

If there is a breakdown as was seen with Katrina, it will be very hard to convince people they can count on government to do what's necessary to protect their lives.

Alexander Walker

His films warn us we are risen apes, not fallen angels, creatures whose proud rationality suffers breakdown with convulsive effects.

Marco Rubio

If we want to save our country, we must all realize that the breakdown of our culture is trapping millions of people in a cycle of poverty and dependence, and together, we have to do something about it.

Julia Cameron

In my experience, divorce takes you out for about 10 years, but you hear people talk about it lightly. The same with depression. You only have to have one good breakdown before you realize you need help. It's pretty frightening.

Brian Clifford

I think it's a great time to find buying opportunities in names that you can revisit, ... It's a lot easier to buy stocks as they're coming towards you rather than running away from you. It's a good time to sharpen your pencil and go after some of these names that have kind of run away on valuation.

H. Hunt

I think it is rather unfortunate that motorists filled up in panic buying when they will find it 4p cheaper now.

Russell Hall

Having a good allocation only protects you if you're willing to rebalance periodically so you're selling high and buying low.

Simon Spurr

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

Joe Barton

There are so many cars on the market that get 30 miles per gallon, and folks aren't buying them,

Richard Babson

What you are seeing now is the buying of individual companies in the Dow for value. It is less a question of tech versus financial stocks, and more a question of looking at specific companies.

Scott Davis

had become quite difficult to predict this year's holiday buying and shipping season and the prospects for any rapid economic turnaround.

Andes Cheng

Having more big quality state companies is definitely good for the Chinese stock market because investors would be more interested in buying stocks. Capital is not a problem in China. The problem is that there aren't enough good investment opportunities.

Emanuel Balarie

Going forward, inflationary concerns will only gain steam, the U.S. dollar will continue its downward decline and geopolitical tensions will continue to draw safe-haven buying from around the globe.

Sidney Blumenthal

Like oil crises in the past, it strikes at American feelings of independence, mobility, freedom and exceptionalism.

Dorothy Moore

Studies have shown that daily doses of hydroxyurea decrease the number of painful crises a person may experience and lengthen their life span as well,

George Fulton

This is one of the worst (economic) crises of our lifetime, we're facing not the worst winter but a winter that never ends.

Terri Blackstock

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

John Prendergast

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

Tipper Gore

Crises like these remind us of what it really means to be human.

Parker Palmer

We are a profoundly interconnected species, as the global economic and ecological crises reveal in vivid and frightening detail. We must embrace the simple fact that we are dependent on and accountable to one another.

Spencer Wells

Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

Ron Oden

Who knows what crises situations there might be when people are placed in that position and they're not developed? ... I'm not saying that I won't run again, but I'd have to feel something really, really special in order to stay.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's economic policies would raise taxes on minority small-business owners, whose numbers are steadily increasing as a result of the President's pro-growth policies. Under President Bush's leadership, a majority of minority families are homeowners for the first time in history.

Bernard Baumohl

Katrina has shaken the very foundations of the U.S. economic expansion when it ruined much of America's energy infrastructure, ... While a recession is unlikely, the probability of stagflation has greatly increased with inflation moving higher even as the economy slows.

Zhang Guobao

It also delivers substantial economic and environmental results, alleviating poverty.

Ken Robinson

You create your life, and you can recreate it, too. In times of economic downturn and uncertainty, it's more important than ever to look deep inside yourself to fathom the sort of life you really want to lead and the talents and passions that can make that possible.

Alan Johnson

Having the Blazers in Portland is important to the whole region and the state. The economic impact the Blazers organization has is very significant. And when you think about their payroll and what taxes they pay locally, it's a huge factor.

Larry Goldstein

Goldstein said. ''There does seem to be some lessons learned. Whether they are economic lessons or political lessons, or some combination of the two, I don't know.

John Hill

Gold prices have been resurgent, following oil, inflation data, and fretting over global economic imbalances.

Mitsushige Akino

Good economic reports provided us a relief and I expect stocks will rebound from yesterday's losses.

Tomoko Fujii

Good economic figures will surely be euro supportive. The euro-zone economy is expanding faster than expected.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

Austin Peebles

It actually got to where he wasn't saying 0-0 anymore, we'd wait a few seconds and then one of us would say it. I don't even think he noticed, he was so focused on the game. It was kind of funny.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Bob Wallace

I talked to him a few nights ago. He was scared, and that's not like him. He's a positive guy.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Jon Constant

He had a lot of shots that went in and out. Generally for us, it's as he shoots that makes our team go. He kind of had an off night but he sure didn't have many during his career.

James Blake

I generally try to worry about my side of the court, the things I can control. I feel like I've done a much better job of that now, having kind of different perspective on the game.

Bruce Schneier

I generally think the terrorists do something new each time. It is a big hole in the system.

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Sam Smith

I generally have people stop me once or twice a week about that.

Richard Pasch

Right now what we're forecasting is for it to become a tropical storm and move into the northern Gulf of Mexico.

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

Ralph Peters

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

Stephen Richer

I'm very happy here. I love the people here. I love doing what I'm doing. I love getting things back together... This has nothing to do with how I feel about the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Jerry Lewis

The human needs in the Gulf region are all too apparent,

Peter Beutel

This is all about Tropical Storm Rita ... obviously, the last thing that this market needs is for a hurricane to hit the western gulf where it didn't hit last time.

Larry Wall

These two storms took the most destructive path over the Gulf that they could.

Roger Allen

After the last hurricane hit the Gulf of Mexico, it took six months for the oil platform to get back up and running.

Ken Cook

It's a pretty big storm system. It's really tapping the moisture from the Gulf and the sheer strength of the storm is leading to really heavy snow.

Ed Rollins

I do not think it is a lasting issue. I think it is just a series of things that this administration has done that makes it look like they are not always forthcoming.

Vincent Nichols

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

Dennis Cardoza

It's a lasting legacy for the community, the state and the country.

Andy Neary

I took that as even more important, especially with how the U.S. is often perceived. We did something that will leave a lasting impression, and that made me proud.

Irish Proverb

A tune is more lasting than the song of the birds,And a word more lasting than the wealth of the world.

Rob Neyland

That's where the rubber meets the road in this - the lasting impact.

Shane Oliver

Developments in New Zealand are of little relevance to Australia, so won't have a lasting impact.

Atharva Veda

See yourselves in all; See all in yourselves; that is the road to lasting peace and joy.

R. Inge

Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Brett Norris

Just looking at them, they really like to mix up their defenses a lot. They play a lot of zone but will switch it up. We will have to try to recognize that.

Willie Randolph

Kaz is looking much better. It might be the right time for him to get going, so that's good.

Patty Thayer

I would say it's one of our most important marketing pieces. It is a response to every phone call, to every reader, that we get.

Mike Johns

Just to regain that market share we had before will take some time.

Edmund Daukoru

Just rest assured, we are under obligation to the market to keep the market well supplied. We meet as often as it takes to micro-manage the short-term volatility.

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Jim Robb

I think the market will not really react to it.

Alex Brown

I think the markets will probably be up,

Bill Sutherland

I think the market kind of got walloped by the Merck verdict on Friday, and this may be a reflex rally we're seeing now.

David Briggs

I think the market is trying to make up its mind,

Brett Gallagher

I think the market is just biding its time, and we're going to have these back-and-forth days.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Dave Morris

I was a nervous wreck until she said it was the real thing,

Valerie Fleming

I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to be able to race. But it all worked out and I got to the podium.

Carlos Franco

He wasn't nervous because he's won three times on the Nationwide Tour.

Mykal Riley

I don't have a timetable. I'm not nervous or worried about it.

Hale Irwin

I'd be telling a tall one if I said I wasn't nervous down the stretch,

Dennis Setzer

I am kind of nervous about the championship thing.

Roger Angell

He was too nervous to travel, by and large.

William Gibson

The present tense made him nervous.

Urban Meyer

Coaches do get very nervous.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Willie Brown

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Willie Brown

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Russell Baker

The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him.

Townsend Harris

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Jim McCamant

The IPO window for biotech stocks is closing.

Greg Hymowitz

The fundamentals for technology stocks are very positive.

Hans Kunnen

The big-picture fundamentals for commodities stocks is still in place. Nothing has actually changed. The sell-off in some sectors was not warranted.

Spiros Segalas

It's making the Dow more meaningful, more representative of the stock market.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.

Michael Friedman

The stock trades at about 9 times its 2003 earnings,

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Bobby Labonte

We're going to be like the stock market. We're going to be up and down.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,