Famous Quotes & Sayings

If you look back to 1994 when the Fed was hiking rates continuously, after every rate hike the Fed adopted a neutral bias. However, the tightening cycle continued until early '95, for a total of 300 basis points (3 percent). We are not looking for that type of tightening cycle this time, but nevertheless it does suggest that the neutral bias does not preclude further rate hikes down the road.

If you've been thinking about adopting a new companion into your family, now is an excellent time.

I'm pleased to receive this award, ... I have been a constant with this organization for many years now, but we wouldn't be here today if I wasn't surrounded by many other talented people along the way. I'm extremely proud of the Burlington community's dedication to professional baseball as evidence by the fact the Bees have survived and now prospered as the smallest full-season market in the Minor Leagues. I'm also pleased with the response we've gotten on a regional basis from the baseball fans all over Southeast Iowa and Western Illinois that have adopted the Bees as their hometown team.

IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.

Jeffrey Donaldson

I have not heard a viable alternative to what I have put forward, and the reality is that the (power sharing) strategy that we adopted in May has failed,

In 1995, Lotus Notes was an alternative to the Internet, used solely within enterprises. Since the Lotus Notes business model was to give away Notes client software, while charging for the server software, it was reasonable to assume that Mr. Barksdale had adopted this strategy as well.

I never heard people speak about segregation as some great cross that they were bearing. They just went on about their lives. Some of them had good contacts with white people that they were serving in someone's home. Sometimes those white families almost effectively adopted you.

It's amazing. Everybody's adopted this child as their own.

It's dwindling big time. We have more going out today. These people are linking up with families and mainly going out of town, being picked up by family or going by bus. Some, I'm sure, have gone into housing and then some families have been adopted by local families.

Derrick Johnson

I've heard all the jokes before, ... about how the K.C. offense could put up 1,000 points, and the defense would give up 1,001. Well, no more. This year, my fellow defenders and I are adopting the motto 'Three and out' as our rallying cry.

It was a simple decision, really. The circuit was just too tight and we're improving it to maintain Long Beach's status as the premier street race in America. It will not only make for better racing this year, but will provide much more excitement when standing starts are adopted for the Champ Car World Series in the future.

It was in the Christian spirit. They just contacted us and kind of adopted us,

Sean Kelly

It's a chicken or the egg principal. Carriers and brokers are asking 'who is going to adopt this first. 'Who is going to be the leader to build an ACORD XML interface?' The risk is the first one out there is going to have to find a partner to do it with to try to get some type of ROI.

It's a bittersweet victory because people are ready for curbside this year. We have a crisis on our island. We are running out of landfill. Why not adopt it this year? There are recycling companies ready to go.

It is profoundly discouraging to learn that the share of African-American kids attending segregated schools has barely changed in the last decade since school choice policies were adopted in Michigan. We should all be concerned about the kind of society we are creating, in which more than half of African-American students in Michigan go to schools in which virtually none of their classmates are not also African-American.

It's another stimulus the government wants to adopt to invigorate the market by bolstering trading in the long term.

It's going to be difficult for them playing against the entrenched players. They need one or two phones that have a significant impact and are adopted by a major carrier.

Jim Brown

It's generally mechanical design that's gone to a global environment, though electronics has also adopted this model.

It's been a combination of people trying to do the FUD factor and people sometimes don't get it, ... We've said we're going to adopt a format approved by an international standards organization effective January 1, 2007. It's not anybody's technology. It's not procurement. It's a standard. There's nothing about open source or any of the rest of it.

It looks like right now the flat-panel displays are being adopted by the higher-end appliances. On the low-end appliances, you may always have knobs and dials.

It may be that an amended protocol is adopted and upheld.

It is the goal of the EPGAA to educate the industry and consumers on using laminated glass in applications other than windshields. We are pleased to see the continued increase in adoption of laminated glass; it shows that automakers and consumers alike are realizing the extended benefits of this technology.

Willie Nelson

It is the future. Through bio-diesel, we can reduce dependency on foreign oil and adopt an energy source that's clean, renewable and helps family farmers find new uses for their products.

In the last 18 months or so, we've seen a significant shift to the adoption of personal networks or home-based networks used in small retail stores or small offices. Those networks are very inexpensive and very easy to use.

Mark Siegel

Interest in graphic novels has exploded, and for good reason ... A new generation of outstanding authors and artists is exploring the form in ways that reach far beyond traditional ideas of the comic book. And a new generation of readers raised on a visual world of movies, TV and video games have adopted the form as their own.

Harry Reid

Instead, the nominee adopted what I consider a disingenuous strategy of suggesting that the views expressed in the memos were not his views, even at the time the memos were written.

Richard Thompson

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

Joseph Nye

In recent years, both China and India have adopted foreign policies that have increased their attractiveness to others. But neither country yet ranks high on the various indices of potential soft-power resources that are possessed by the U.S., Europe and Japan.

In our meetings (with French officials), we stress that adoption of the bill could lead to irreparable damage in long-standing Turkish-French ties and that this should not be allowed.

In other countries, where water was limited, they were forced to adopt ways of controlling leakage.

In past elections, the parties all adopted strong positions on the issue of peace. But this time, the voters aren't looking for peace - they're looking for quiet.

Charles M. Schwab

In our works at Bethlehem and San Francisco, and all over the United States, I adopted this system: I pay the managers practically no salary. I make them partners in the business, only I don't let them share in the efforts of any other man.