Famous Quotes & Sayings

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We took that as a sign that the rebound in the economy is affecting charities in a positive way.

What is affecting them are the basic rules (currently in place).

We, the farmers, believe that if this problem was identified on another person's farm, not a minister's farm, as you speak to me now, nothing would have been done. Generally in Africa, governments think they are doing their people a favor to do anything for them. They only respond to what is affecting them personally.

He was here in my office, and he was jolly and happy and talking about things affecting the county. In my service on the Board of Supervisors, I can say Donnie Lowe cared about people.

Hedge fund investors have started affecting the fund-raising environment for private equity funds.

Martin Brodeur

If they had 30 Martin Brodeurs out there, that rule wouldn't be there; nobody would have voted for it, ... There are just too many teams that didn't have these goalies that were ready to make sure the guys that were affecting the games weren't able to do it anymore.

Tony Raines

I don't know what Jamie was thinking or doing. He was driving kind of aggressive all night. I think I had less to do with affecting the outcome of the Chase than he did. We'd been struggling with the brakes, and he checked up in front of me. I had no intention of wrecking him.

James Snyder

We are proud to bring the world-renowned leader in diabetes care and education to the Las Vegas Valley. Diabetes is a major disease affecting our local community at a rate that exceeds both state and national norms. If not properly treated, it can be a life threatening and debilitating. We look forward to working with the Joslin staff in Boston to ensure that our care meets the standards of this international leader in diabetes treatment, research and education.

When it comes down to it the city made the law and they need look at it how it's affecting college students in a negative, they're being put out on the street.

When we have the Duval County Fair, they bring a lot of livestock into the city. That falls into a nuisance because it is affecting the public health, because the smell is so bad.

Through her offices, she uses it to provide an opportunity to raise awareness on issues affecting youth and affecting women and affecting new Canadians. It's putting a very human and sort of a personal face on the role of Governor General and how it can be used to raise awareness.

Gabrielle Zevin

When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

Erik Brynjolfsson

When I first started doing work on how the Internet is affecting commerce, like a lot of people, I was really excited by this nearly perfect market.

Julia Glass

The books I read, if they intrude on my writing, do so as weather will pass through and touch a landscape - affecting it, yes, but only now and then leaving a permanent mark.

Jim Jarmusch

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesn't play, it has a poignancy to it.

We've seen early signs of recovery, but it hasn't been affecting the technology space yet.

Kofi Annan

The people of Serbia want to have a say in the decisions affecting them. And I hope that this choice and their voice will be heard.

Dilma Rousseff

We will not play with inflation. We are living a delicate moment. President Obama spoke to me today about the high unemployment affecting the United States. In this crisis period, when the developed nations are not recovering, it's prudent to maintain the established inflation target.

Djimon Hounsou

As a young boy, I had strange dreams of affecting people and somehow being instrumental in changing the makeup of Africa and helping to improve life there.

Patricia Wright

We want to be a clearinghouse for individuals and groups concerned with federal and state budget issues affecting the middle class and the poor. We want to take back their power and speak on their behalf.

We recognize the importance of the cash dividend to our stockholders, and we remain committed to rewarding them for their support, ... At the same time, the current weak economic environment and the uncertain outlook are having significant industry-wide effects on revenue, negatively affecting our overall performance.  Therefore, the board believes it prudent to reduce the dividend rate for the time being.

Daniel Barenboim

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.

Ethan Allen

We were able to maintain our current prices in spite of increases in materials and shipping costs, ... In addition, to meet the demand of strong sales, we were able to quickly increase capacity in our plants without affecting our margins.

The rate at which our Asian trading partners open their borders to U.S. beef will be an important factor affecting growth for the state in 2006.

There are a series of factors affecting categories of the business. We have to take all those factors into account.

John McCarthy

Today we are just recovering from the major dollar rally of last week. We could see one more dollar spike up before the trade figures on Wednesday, which will underscore the issues affecting the dollar.

Rudy Giuliani

The only time the private parts of someone's life are relevant is when they're affecting public performance. And just because someone is a public person doesn't mean that any part of his or her private life is open to scrutiny. If someone is doing his or her job, you have to have enough empathy to understand that we all have personal problems.

The criteria are: How much snow fell, over how large an area, affecting how many people.

Florence Kelley

The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

We know there is plenty of virus there, but it's just not affecting humans, or even horses, very much and we can't explain why.

Alexis Herman

Overall I think it's fair to say we're seeing some impact of interest rate adjustments affecting the overall economy, ... It's clear we have certain skill shortages in certain sectors of the economy, but overall we have a majority of sectors that continue to hire. We have a skills shortage, not a labor shortage.

Our business is booming at the moment. It's actually affecting our stock levels. It was the busiest summer in my six years here. This is the first place I've ever sold cars where no one asks about fuel consumption.