Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Lazear

On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.

Chen Xingdong

China's trade surplus will remain a sticking point between China and the U.S.. It's hard to close the trade gap because there's very little China can buy from abroad that it doesn't already make.

Jay Bryson

I guess if there's any surprise it's that I would have thought exports would have grown a little more than they did. But in the second quarter everyone else had weaker economies, although more recent signs are that things abroad are picking up. So maybe June was too soon to look for an increase.

Jack Straw

I have a clear duty of care in respect of both UK citizens and of UK staff in diplomatic posts abroad

Paul Mackel

Japan is signaling that they're not concerned about the pace of the decline in the yen, so people are going to continue to push the yen lower. Japanese investors are continuing to buy bonds abroad and we see more scope for yen weakness.

John O'Donoghue

I also believe strongly that capping this exemption would send out a message internationally that we do not encourage success in the arts ... We will force our young talent to go abroad as soon as they become successful. This is wrong.

Shashi Tharoor

Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend's sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that.

Kelly Corrigan

I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.

Noam Chomsky

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

Jeb Bush

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Mark Hooker

The show was closed unjustly because the licensing ordinance that the city claims was the grounds for closing us does not apply to nonprofit and charitable organizations like the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center.

Carl Hindy

Couples go in with this sort of virgin idealism, that the statistics don't apply to them. Then the realities of life set in.

Kirby Wadsworth

Towards the end of 2006 and into 2007, you're going to start to see integrated ILM and CDP solutions, where CDP literally feeds the ILM infrastructure. Everything flowing through a CDP stack makes it really easy to apply policies to the data without impacting the online data flow. And that's where I think you really start to see the power of this. Not just in the instantaneous recovery or the DR components of it, but the long-term ILM integration.

Jerry Fuqua

We played them a couple of years ago. We knew what they were going to do. We knew that they liked to apply pressure and that they were going to use lots of cuts to the basket.

Len Sommers

I teach US History, but it's wrapped up in social studies. He's getting to apply what he's learned here in school and take that out into the real world.

Jeff Benedict

It doesn't matter if they are black or white, whether they come from urban or suburban neighborhoods. When they basically get what they want and there are less rules that apply to them, the potential for abusive situations is increased.

Stephen Ward

It all depends on what you mean by a prostitute. If you simply mean a woman who sells her body - that would apply to any woman who marries for money.

David Irons

You can apply for it, but you're not necessarily going to get it.

Ron Krumer

One could say that the life of the prime minister is in danger.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Carson Kressley

I love music. I love going out dancing.

Jane Austen

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

Jane Austen

Every savage can dance.

Bella Thorne

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

Barry Gibb

I never really did any disco dancing.

Ben Bova

We have, I think, come through the big danger of a vast and sudden exchange of nuclear weapons, ... And I think the lesson we've learned is, if you have nuclear weapons, you probably don't dare use them.

Bob Goodlatte

While the Internet holds many potential opportunities for children, there is also a tremendous danger of online predators.

Tyler Haynes

Someone's season is going to be finished -- nobody wants that.

Kathleen McCarthy

The Rockland runner is very good and Kate stayed with her the whole race. Kate is so consistent. I can always rely on her to finish strong.

Ellis Hobbs

The season is not over. This is Week 17 and we want to finish strong. I can rest later. They pay me to play.

Louis MacNeice

I have just finished my novel (rough draft). It is to be called 'Anacoluthon.' This will make the public think it is an historical romance.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We finished this one. We made it hard though. I told the guys that they are kind of hard on their coaches.

John Shepard

If Andrew's the guy that finishes it, Andrew's the guy that finishes it.

Robin Snyder

I always say that when you're on the road, you're seven points down automatically. We want to finish undefeated and that's going to be hard to do.

David Carrier

I have a new home here in El Paso, I'm by myself, so I am going to try to get finished with school and open up my own shops.

Roger Martin

I finish it in the pan and flame it in cognac table side and serve.

Manny Acta

We have big stars in our country, and it's tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we're going to fulfill them.

Fergie

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.

Scott Gernander

Even though we haven't seen a lot of it, I was a little disappointed at how we handled their press.

Donald Copeland

It is disappointing, but the way he's handled it shows what type of man he is. He's never made any of this about himself. For him, it's all about the team.

Willie Randolph

I don't look at just where he's playing, it's how he handled himself. He has a lot of poise for a young player, and I like that.

Cheryl Stewart

I need to have a strong faith, because no one else could handle this.

P. J. Harvey

If you can handle the time, it's great. But it's tough on the families. You have one or two kids, you are travelling around all summer. It takes a lot of time.

Nick Hardwick

I know I've seen what the league has to offer for the most part, and I know I can handle it.

Tom Taylor

still trying to get a handle on enrollment data.

Sena Drawer

It's really nice to see him mature and handle pressure and try to be a positive influence to everyone who is around him. I think he is getting there. That's the joy of teaching high school kids, seeing that maturity when you have seen them struggle in the past and then they get it together their senior year.

Jason Gore

The next time I'm in this position, at least I'll be better prepared to handle it.

Colton Fretter

That thing's not leaving my side all night.

Donald Trump

Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special interests and the special interests want those companies to leave, because in many cases, they own the companies. So what I'm saying is, we can stop them from leaving. We have to stop them from leaving.

Don DeLillo

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

Constance Baker Motley

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Laurie R. King

Travel broadens, they say. My personal experience has been that, in the short term at any rate, it merely flattens, aiming its steam-roller of deadlines and details straight at one's daily life, leaving a person flat and gasping at its passage.

Laura Miller

Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.

Lisa Unger

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

Peter Bart

Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.

Martin Yan

At thirteen, when I arrived in Hong Kong after leaving China, I made a living by working in a restaurant.

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

David Morales

He tried to obtain the proper medical treatment to treat this, and he was denied,

Marty Bahamonde

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

Bobby Sherman

Gosh... for the past 10 years or so I've been with the EMS (Emergency Medical Services) as an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician).

Stephen Dick

All the workers will undergo medical examination before repatriation to their families.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Don Nickles

I ALWAYS intended to return to the private sector,

Desmond Tutu

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

David Livingstone

Oh, that I could dedicate my all to God. This is all the return I can make Him.

Allison Pearson

In death, we are not defined by what we did or who we were but by what we meant to others. How well we loved and were loved in return.

Jeff Lacy

I don't think that's the case, it wasn't the real me in that fight. We'll find out when I return in October.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Irving Layton

My neighbour/ doesn't want to be loved/ as much as/ he wants to be envied.

Tim Danson

He doesn't want to be in the courtroom, he wants to be on the ice.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Dan Hampton

Who wants to play in the band? I wanted to play football.

Chris Pine

Any actor wants to do interesting roles, different roles. It's not all that much fun to do the same thing over and over again.

Gareth Gates

I always wanted to be with a woman who has the same mindset and wants to look after me like my mum.