Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lord Byron

Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him in soul and aspect as in age: Years steal Fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; And Life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim

Mark Chandler

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.

Helio Ozaki

The central bank has made clear it won't let the real appreciate. The real won't strengthen as long as the bank continues to sell contracts and buy dollars.

Annette Beacher

The central bank has identified the triggers that will make it raise rates. We don't think those things will happen.

Yu Yongding

The central bank could scrap the way it automatically determines the closing rate of the yuan and determine it on its own.

Nick Kounis

The figures continue the recent run of reports suggesting that underlying inflationary pressures remain muted. They suggest the bank does have room to cut rates if growth disappoints going forward.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

The figures are a sign that bank lending will probably start to show year-on-year rises in the January-March quarter.

Peter Ueberroth

The financial condition when the new board was elected was very unattractive. We were surprised to find that major bank loans were necessary to fund 'ongoing operations', and that the United States Olympic Committee was basically in debt.

Robert Levine

The first letter I received was that they froze my bank account, my checking account.

Yi Xianrong

It is a clear signal to the property market that the central government has the determination and the means to curb investments and housing prices.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Patrick Flood

We'll do the survey and we'll get them (PNS) certified and they'll be part of the system. We've been straightforward with them since they first contacted us, and we're going to continue to be straightforward with them.

Daniel Rich

Those girls have started every game and hardly ever come off the field. Hopefully they can continue their defensive stand throughout the playoffs.

Jennifer Evans

Those girls have just done so well to continue to better their own personal performances and then create an outstanding relay team.

Michael Cuggino

You have the hangover of the Federal Reserve meeting next week, where it's generally expected that short-term rates will continue to go up. The market's digesting all of this.

Rosevelt Colvin

Lucky we're in the bye week, ... because if we continue to play like that, we'd be 3-4 next week. It's ridiculous to go out there and play like that.

Angela Clark

Mac's Place was packed after the concert. That was awesome. People just wanted to continue to listen to great music.

Bob Walters

Low long-term rates and a strong jobs market will continue to provide substantial support to the housing market.

David Hurd

Looks like they're transforming themselves into an E&P company. But refining should continue to be a big problem in the second quarter.

John Walsh

Houstonians want to help, ... Obviously, if you have vacant units and you want to rent them, there's a financial incentive.

Cindy Mydland

It's a big price tag and it's a big financial commitment.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Right is the royal ruler alone; and he who rules with least restraint comes nearest to empire.

Alveda King

Let's be honest about this; the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Anthony Eden

All prejudices are equally fatal to good government.

Amy Goodman

Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We're supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We're not supposed to be their megaphone. That's what the corporate media have become.

Clayton Christensen

Government mandates, incidentally, are likely to distort rather than solve the problem of finding a market. I would, therefore, force my organization to live by its wits rather than to rely on capricious subsidies or non-economic-based regulation to fuel my business.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

Daniel J. Boorstin

In America, communities existed before governments. There were many groups of people with a common sense of purpose and a feeling of duty to one another before there were political institutions.

Michio Kaku

The next big accelerator might be the ILC in Japan, a linear collider which might be able to probe the boundaries of string theory. So we physicists have to learn how to engage the public so that taxpayers money is used to explore the nature of the universe.

Steve Sawyer

The Americans, Saudis and Japanese have got what they want.