Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are pulling back a little bit, and I would view this as a pretty healthy consolidation, considering the run we had last week and the fact crude is still above $70 a barrel.

We are on pins and needles here with some dangerous levels in the euro. This area was thought to be resistance and we are poking our head above it.

We are on or above targets we set." ()

Ian Mcewan

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

Yotam Ottolenghi

When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

Use gentle means before you come to extremity, and whatever lesson you work him, and never take above half his strength, nor ride him till he is weary, but a little at a time and often.

The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

Ezra Taft Benson

Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.

Mark Shapiro

The only fulfillment I'll allow myself is when we're playing again in October and hoisting pennants above Jacobs Field. We can't stop now.

Chris Patten

The political situation is as hot as the temperature. I think frankly we are on a knife edge. There has to be some movement, I think, above all on the question of terrorism in order for us to see people pulling back from the brink. And that has to come soon.

We are looking better than I thought we would be at this stage. Lydia made a sensational comeback. It was out of this world. She got to 98 per cent of her best in her first event and she made the rest of the field look ordinary. She was a class above everyone else.

We recognize that prices are above what is justifiable on the basis of supply and demand fundamentals.

Jason Statham

If someone's got a fear of heights, they'd probably say, well, hanging off a helicopter at 3,000 feet above downtown L.A. would be the scariest. For me, that's a day's work, something I was very happy to do.

Armstrong Williams

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

Volumes are very thin, and now we've finally got the 10-year above 5 percent for the first time in four years.

Diana Wynne Jones

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.

Cathleen Schine

Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.

This works best for people with incomes above $125,000,

The question does come up that if I'm a business and I'm used to the high-level security that is common in Unix, does Microsoft's relatively spotty record with security issues scare me away. And is that going to create some kind glass ceiling above which Microsoft cannot proceed?

We have had a very good year. It's substantially above 2004.

We have an economy that has shown signs of slowing. With energy prices at extremely high levels -- and now moving above those levels -- this is kind of a double whammy,

We have also been consistent in saying that we would have to re-evaluate our investment thesis on Pinnacle if it were to go much above $43, given our concerns about returns on the Las Vegas Strip.

We have a lower addition at ground level, so we already have a foot and a half. Our main level -- we hope it doesn't go above that.

We need to instill the values that are important for future generations, and above all we have to show boys how to respect women.

We could go above $3.60. We could be at $3.65 to $3.70, if these wholesale prices hold.

We could get an IFO number above expectations, because data across the region is looking stronger. The market will be pretty pessimistic in that case, especially given the hawkish rhetoric we've had from the ECB.

James Williams

We have very high volumes in storage for this time of year. We are 16% above the five-year average and above last year's numbers.

We have very good interest to sell euros above $1.1929 and very good interest to buy euros below $1.1880.

We can split him out four or five yards in certain situations and may do that more this week to take advantage of his skills. Our other tight ends are good, but Jacob is a notch above anyone else. As a receiver, he can stretch the field and get open.

Roman Jakobson

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

Rosie O'Donnell

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.

Marquis de Lafayette

It is necessary above all that the citizens, who have rallied round the constitution, should be assured that the rights it guarantees will be respected with such a scrupulous fidelity as will reduce to despair its enemies, hidden or avowed.

Maurice Greene

Weather is uncontrollable. Only the Lord above can control the weather. Whatever we get, we have to work with.