Famous Quotes & Sayings

The pullback appears to be due to profit-taking, which is not surprising considering prices have really surged in the past few days. The decline will not be large because the Iranian issue is keeping a high floor under prices.

Hans Eysenck

In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.

Chuck D.

With a wife approving her husband's salary, it appears that this board's stamp is really just a rubber stamp,

Yield demand for the New Zealand dollar appears to remain unquenched.

Gary Young

There are reports of numerous casualties. It appears the freight train hit the vehicle (which had come off a motorway bridge), which then ploughed onto an adjoining line and was in collision with the passenger train.

Alan Greenspan

While this stellar non-inflationary economic expansion still appears remarkably stress-free on the surface, there are developing imbalances that give us pause,

While this appears no more than a routine reshuffle, September's review is likely the impact the markets in a positive way.

While the US Fed appears to have shortened its commitment to rate hikes by deleting the word 'measured', the US monetary authority still implies there are good chances of more rate hikes beyond the March meeting.

Adrienne Warren

While the U.S. consumer appears to be in reasonably good shape, the risk lies in the potential for higher heating bills this winter to sharply curtail discretionary household spending,

While there still remains some room for a couple of visits on the lower end of the trading range, the market appears to digest geopolitical and economic realities with the same, predictable outcome: higher prices.

While there appears to be some signs of the beginnings of a recovery in the housing market and more positive news of Christmas trading from retailers, it is clear that companies are still finding it difficult to forecast in the current economic climate.

While the penalty appears excessive, we cannot quantify the exact exposure with certainty,

While the market continues to be weak in comparison to last year, it appears to have stabilized, which on the margin this is good news for Cisco.

This second month of non-manufacturing growth, at a higher rate of growth than in November, appears to indicate that November's growth was not entirely due to a rebound from October's low point following the events of Sept. 11,

Eliot Spitzer

The public expects and deserves the protection that effective government oversight provides. Until the Bush administration shows it is willing to do the job, however, it appears the public will have to rely on state regulators and lawmakers to protect its interests,

Dick Cheney

We are very concerned with the loss of life now on both sides. The level of violence appears to be escalating. That's clearly not in anybody's interest. We need to find some way to try to cap the violence and get some process started to rebuild confidence.

David Cohen

US$70 appears likely, but global growth seems solid right now.

As is evident, a clear deceleration appears to be underway. The gain was not large enough to recoup the 13.1% month-over-month decline in July.

As is evident, a clear deceleration appears to be underway, ... The gain was not large enough to recoup the 13.1% month-over-month decline in July.

At this point, this appears to be purely an accident.

At this point, it is what appears to have been a very sophisticated and well thought-out fraud,

At this point, it appears to be a random act, and while nothing has been ruled out, it does not appear to be drug-related. We cannot say at this point what -- if anything -- was taken from the house. Unfortunately, there is no further description on the men.

At this point, it appears it's just useless to continue any discussions, ... It's time for us to start digging in. It's time for us to start getting our members prepared for this strike.

Michael Clarke

At the moment it appears to be mostly particulates (soot). We have no reports so far of elevated levels at ground level.

At this juncture, it appears that U.S. corn consumption and demand prospects are stronger than prospects for U.S. soybeans.

Carol Bruce

Disclosure was not a big issue before because there's never been the kind of money thrown at a campaign like it appears there has been at this one. It's never been an issue because campaigns have typically been low-budget.

John Updike

Doctorow here appears not so much a re-constructor of history as a visionary who seeks in time past occasions for poetry.

Bill Gates

could be read to ban Microsoft from competing in any product category. I know such a ban would be unreasonable, and yet that is what the language of Section 8 appears to provide for.

Corporate spending will be very critical in 2006, and it appears that businesses are stepping up to the plate.

There's still a chance of a rate hike, you can never officially rule that out, but for the moment it appears the worst-case scenario will be an announcement of a tightening bias. I don't see that happening, but that would be the worst-case scenario.

There's some selling of the dollar on what appears to be a little weaker demand in the U.S. economy.

There's no doubt the market is on the defensive and is preparing for what appears to be inevitable. A rate hike at the August policy meeting later this month.

There's lots of cash around, but it appears everybody has discounted the half-percent increase.