Famous Quotes & Sayings

Asahi Shimbun

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

Carrie Johnson

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

Tony Crescenzi

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

Heather Friedland

We will be looking to enhance the consumer versions of our product later this year with similar features.

Loren Loverde

The timing of the release will have some impact on when consumers buy, but not so much on whether or not they buy.

Anthony Chan

Next week's producer price index or consumer price index could tip the Fed in favor of a June hike if they're on the upside.

Scott Mitic

From a legislative perspective it's an interesting time now because the question is whether the federal law will give consumers more power to protect their data or less power to protect their data.

Maelle Gavet

From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

Michael Metz

If we do have oil prices at this level for another week or so, it's going to make investors reconsider the whole outlook for consumer demand, which of course has been the real fuel for the economy.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

V. S. Pritchett

Our defense performed well tonight. But we weren't scoring and the team started to get frustrated.

Bill Davis

Our defense made its stand the entire game. But offensively we had a lot of mental breakdowns. We just have to stay focused.

Dale Neibauer

Our defense kicked in. I had several freshmen in there, and I was happy how we pressed. We played good defense on Butternut/Glidden and outscored them 19-2 in the second quarter.

Ben Howland

Our defense kept us in the game when we really had an inability to score. When you go on the road you've got to be able to rely on your defense.

Lynn Hightower

Horses are part of our Western heritage that we love to celebrate. From that point of view it really is kind of a sad day. But it's also a day where the department needs to be accountable to taxpayers.

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Menzies Campbell

Look at every department of state and I will show you bureaucracy and regulation, an ever-greater threat to enterprise, diversity and freedom.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

Joaquin Phoenix

What the training did was teach me to trust my equipment and trust the other people that I'm working with, ... The firefighters will say, 'You should always be scared. If you're not scared then you should get out of the department because that's when you get hurt.' You have to have a level of fear and a level of respect for what it is you're doing, and if not, I think it breads a level of complacency, which is very dangerous.

Natalie Massenet

The United Kingdom has traditionally been a very small market, and even though you had such a creative group of designers, they represented a risk to department stores.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

David Donnelly

We followed the letter of the law. We did what we were directed to do by the state Department of Pensions.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Krist Novoselic

The only way you do anything is to become really active. And the most effective way to get your message to your elected representatives is to make campaign contributions and develop relationships with them.

Bob Blake

Brooke, she just has a nose for the basket. She goes hard. If we can develop her defensively, she's gonna become a big-time scorer.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Steve Ballmer

Developers, developers, developers, developers.

Michael Reed

New developers really have to do something special to get people to see what they're doing. It doesn't surprise me at all.

Sabrena Newton

If started early, this process can really help you feel better, look better and develop safe exercise and eating habits for a lifetime.

Saku Koivu

I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years, ... It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.

Erik Cole

I was such a late developer, that was actually a very important year for me, hockey-wise ? to develop a style I've been playing with ever since.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Troy Mattson

We tried today, we just didn't have the energy. We should have won one of these games this weekend. We lost a lot of energy because of our short bench.

Arron Afflalo

We just played with a lot of energy at the end. Obviously, it was desperation time. We were very fortunate tonight.

Jake Krause

We just stressed that the kids had to have more energy. They were a little lackadaisical in the first half.

Rafer Alston

We have to find a way to shoot better at home. We have to have more intensity and more energy and less mistakes.

Li Keqiang

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Adam Ereli

The needs are great, and there are ways to do this, to ensure that those needs are met.

David Suzuki

We need love, and to ensure love, we need to have full employment, and we need social justice. We need gender equity. We need freedom from hunger. These are our most fundamental needs as social creatures.

Jacques Chirac

Faced with this situation, we must act, ... What's urgent is to ensure the safety of people living in precarious housing.

Monica Johnson

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

Antonio Guterres

The government of Sudan has a responsibility to ensure security for all of its citizens,

Edmund Phelps

The need to encourage entrepreneurship and ensure that young people have the opportunity to start new businesses is acute.

Mary Williams

We urge all young people travelling to university this month to ensure that their vehicle is not overloaded,

Adam Hamilton

Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Elton Gallegly

I don't like to micro-manage federal agencies. But federal safety is at risk here and we have not only the right but the responsibility to provide some oversight.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

John Davidson

I still like Maverick Tube, which is the largest provider of tubular product to that industry,

Sue Parks

Right now we just want to get a meet under our belts. This will give us some output upon what we need to work on, as well as realize where we are at this point of the season.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Jennifer Baker

The reason she stopped by the congressman's office was because I interned there and she would come to meet me for lunch.

David Calhoun

We had the same reaction -- Is this feasible? But realize that whatever we do, it's not going to meet everyone's problems.

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Kenneth Lay

I was trying to see if they would meet with my lawyers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Larry Gregory

Having these meetings was more important than taking part on that panel,

Alison Goldfrapp

I thought what everyone thinks when they first meet Will,

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Jerry Calhoun

Boeing has always provided a competitive package of total compensation that addresses the needs of all employees.

Lauren Spillers

We are very unselfish. No one needs to score a lot of points. We all want each other to do well and don't have to score a lot.

Arthur Anderson

We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives.

Ernesto Zedillo

Today, more than ever, sovereignty also needs democracy,

Ray Davies

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

Rosa DeLauro

The Bush administration and Congressional Republicans have failed to bring up comprehensive energy reform or any piece of legislation for that matter that would lower gas prices, opting instead to give massive subsidies to the oil and gas industry

Steve Chabot

We've passed an energy bill in the House, to help us be less reliant upon foreign oil so we can get gas prices down. But nothing happens in the Senate.

Thomas Friedman

Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.

Peter DeFazio

There is no free market in oil.

Sherwood Boehlert

So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption.

Nigella Lawson

Good olive oil, good butter, milk - they give food taste and depth and a richness that you cant reproduce with low-fat ingredients.

Miranda Kerr

I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.

Michael Moore

It's all part of the same ball of wax, right? The oil companies, Israel, Halliburton.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.