Famous Quotes & Sayings

The slide in stocks is a positive for bonds. Further stocks declines will damp individuals' sentiment and could affect growth.

There's such a spectrum of choice that women have - it's her body, her pregnancy and she has the ultimate right to make decisions. I'm trying to find a way for a man also to have some say over decisions that affect his life profoundly.

There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the solid support from his base. The question now is whether his performance with the hurricane begins to affect his performance with his base.

There's no single factor on the road that would affect execution.

There's no doubt that the planet's warming, but who knows how it's going to affect the coastal systems, ... It certainly was an odd year. If we could figure out what might have caused it, then maybe we could predict it in the future.

Ben Taylor

There's no use in worrying about it. It's not going to affect anything that we do on the field.

THE tongue is the armour of heart; it guards one's life. Loud talk, long talks, wild talk, and talk full of anger and hate; all these affect the health of man. Why is silence said to be golden? The silent man has no enemies, though he may not have friends. He has the leisure and the chance to delve within himself and examine his own faults and failings. He has no more inclination to seek them (fault) in others.

The transfer of the shares in the whaling firm will not affect our policies at all.

Jeremiah Trotter

The train's going to keep moving, but any time you take away a talent like that, it's going to affect you some.

The United States can't allow its technology and scientific strengths to lessen because it will affect competitiveness.

We've really begun to look at the base of coaches and tried to broaden that. Coaches are going to go back and affect 20 or 30 boys and girls a year.

Al Sharpton

What happens in New Orleans will affect voting rights all over the United States.

We tried to get as much input from the public to make this decision as we could. Which I felt like its gonna be something that's gonna affect everyone, its gonna affect everyone in the future.

We just lost to two great teams ... but I think people are looking at our record thinking we're on a downslide. Because Maryland is such a great team, I don't think it should affect our seeding.

We just want the kids to play as hard as they can. It doesn't matter if we're playing the New York Yankees or the Bad News Bears. We can't let the opponent affect the way we play. Anybody who comes in here is going to want to beat us.

We weren't getting some calls, and I think that bothered us in the first half. But we didn't let that type of stuff affect us in the second half.

When a guy goes on injured reserve, he does not count against the cap. So if a guy is making $700 a week and he's out for two weeks, and then you bring in a guy to replace him for $400 a week, you're actually saving $300 a week on the cap. You still pay (the first guy) his full salary; it just doesn't affect the cap.

We lost two one-point games this week. I think we may have let that affect us.

We missed a lot of shots and it was a classic case of letting our missed shots affect the rest of our game.

We miss a lot of shots, and you can't let that affect (the game). We miss a shot, we hang our head for a minute and they're gone. That was the crux of it. I don't think we took poor shots. We took shots that were within the scheme of what we were doing. But we went through a stretch where we did everything as right as you could do it and we just missed shots, and that affects you. Whether it should or shouldn't, it does.

What's happening now is that the market remains trading at very thin volumes and that can affect prices, even when just a handful of shares are traded. The decision of any fund to pull out from certain stock hits the price.

What's going on in the waters of their neighbor to the north, whatever Virginia decides to do in the future vis-a-vis development ... in their coastal waters, will affect North Carolina.

We show our empathy and sympathy for those guys, ... but at same time we have a game to play Saturday and can't let that affect us.

The deal I made wasn't going to affect their graduations. If the team goes deep into the playoffs, and if it's a problem, they'll be back in school.

Oskar Lafontaine

The credibility of a left-winger does not come from the fact that he should have the lowest possible income, but from his courage to take steps that affect him negatively.

Christopher Williams

The fact that we are going to have a new prime minister... will affect investor confidence.

Jiang Zemin

The executives were asking me if this political movement will affect China's way of doing business. The Chinese immediately reassured us that it wouldn't.

Well, the two judgments did not affect me, as it is normal in international matches.

We have a very robust business plan that enables us to grow the business. Clearly higher oil prices are something we would prefer aren't there, but it does affect all other airlines. It's consistently the low-fare airlines like Tiger Airways that manages all of our costs exceptionally well that are able to cope with these higher oil prices and continue to offer lower fares. And that's what we aim to do.

The preponderance of a hospital's budget is spent on staff, the hands of the business. The changing market for staff will significantly affect the bottom line for hospitals.

Dick Vermeil

The pressure of a game doesn't really . . . I'm not saying it doesn't bother him -- it doesn't affect him negatively,

Those fights didn't have too much affect on me, ... I knew I won regardless of the decision. That's all behind me now. I'm on a mission. My mission is to win one fight at a time and get the belt around my waist.

Those donations are legal. We feel it wouldn't be appropriate to return them. We're a political committee. We don't affect legislation.