Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Yu Yongding

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

Susan Grant

The company's check is counterfeit, of course. And you're stuck owing your bank all the money you've wired.

James Stewart

The euro can be a serious problem for the U.S. but there is little the European Central Bank can do; it's already raised rates aggressively, ... The euro could gently descend to 80 cents.

Stephen Stanley

The crux of the statement was unchanged (from the last meeting). They said that policy remains accommodative, but that the central bank will respond to changes as needed. That's been the mantra since the tightening period began last June.

Robert Martinez

This is money that has never been Bank of America's money. The best estimate at this stage is that it's around $100-million over a five-year period.

Kevin Kelly

This is money in the bank earning interest, not bonds, not debt.

Hasitha Premaratne

This is a good signal by the central bank to control credit, as it's further fueling inflation.

John DiFucci

This is a financial acquisition primarily. Oracle is buying PeopleSoft for its maintenance stream.

Phil Noblitt

This has been happening, this sort of erosion of our buying power, if you will, for decades.

Steve Anderson

It's usually driven by who's buying whom, personalities and their influence with the board.

Janet Reno

Forcing PC manufacturers to take one Microsoft product as a condition of buying a monopoly product like Windows 95 is not only a violation of the court order but it's plain wrong,

Joel Naroff

Forget the decline from the June pace. What is important is the level of activity, and that is extraordinarily high, ... This market is showing no sign of weakness. With mortgage rates so low, it is no wonder that people are still out there buying homes. And with demand strong, construction is not going to fail.

James Norton

For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.

John Pickett

There was tremendous buying momentum at the close, especially in the last 20 minutes. The shorts jumped in, the institutions ... It was a technical buyback. But it still was a very encouraging day as far as I am concerned. People are feeling more confident about this market now.

Bill Cheney

It reflects that people mostly still have their jobs, still have their money and people are still buying houses.

Kate Warne

This is the time to be buying integrated oils.

Mark Roman

Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to change what's going on this year. I'm trying to put all that stuff as far away from my mind as I can possibly get it and just move on and try to prosper in this new year.

Mario Pescante

There will not be a change to the law, but we have found a solution to the law, a provision, something like that.

Jon Burnham

This is an incredible thing that's going on in these stocks and it's going to continue for a while until something happens to change it,

Ed Ableser

This is going to change my life a lot.

John Slenker

This is the big story - the change from a manufacturing-based economy to a service-based economy.

Katsuya Okada

This country will not change without a change of government,

Robert Fick

This could springboard us. This tells us we can grind it out, no matter what, and maybe change some thinking about us.

Arthur Sterbcow

This could change the demographics of the city. I think we'll lose a lot of low-income people.

Juergen Falter

This election would be a vote on a complete change of political direction if there were different coalition alternatives.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Steven Soderbergh

When things go right it's hard to figure out why, but when things go wrong it's really easy.

Uli Hoeness

I hope the manager and the team can overcome all of this. It is not easy to go into a game after spending so much time with legal prosecutors.

Mo Mowlam

the exact impact on the peace process is not easy to ascertain.

Matt Watson

It's an easy way to make a quick getaway from the school environment.

R. Robinson

They got a lot of easy baskets in the first half shooting (near) 50 percent to our 20 percent. We just didn't play at the same intensity as we do when we play state schools.

Paul Chryst

They've got a good defense. It's not going to be an easy game at all.

Nate Leaman

It's not easy finishing .500 in the ECAC. I think it's the toughest league in the East. And getting 16 wins is an accomplishment.

Glenn Frey

It's the lure of easy money, It's got a very strong appeal.

Jay Gibbons

First I've got to figure out what team I'm on,

Tony Bethel

We were just out of sync. We couldn't figure out how to get back in sync.

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Steve Sawyer

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Abraham Lincoln

Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?

Alec Waugh

There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.

Albert Einstein

Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent People Ignore.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Where might is, the right is: Long purses make strong swords. Let weakness learn meekness: God save the House of Lords!

Alfred Sisley

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Alfred Sisley

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vigour of civilised societies is preserved by the widespread sense that high aims are worth while. Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives, so that men wander beyond the safe provision of personal gratifications. All strong interests easily become impersonal, the love of a good job well done. There is a sense of harmony about such an accomplishment, the Peace brought by something worth while. Such personal gratification arises from aim beyond personality.

Alfred North Whitehead

The vitality of thought is in adventure. Idea's won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervour, live for it, and, if need be, die for it. Their inheritors receive the idea, perhaps now strong and successful, but without inheriting the fervour; so the idea settles down to a comfortable middle age, turns senile, and dies.