Famous Quotes & Sayings

The thought of oil as a tax doesn't sit right with me. It may be a tax on consumers but it's a plus for producers, ... If you follow the money, my loss is someone else's gain and what starts out as a tax quickly becomes a more balanced picture.

Charles Schumer

The Supreme Court's verdicts show that, contrary to what the administration believes, we can have both security and liberty. Congress should now enact legislation that reflects the court's carefully balanced decisions on liberty and security. The Judiciary Committee ought to hold hearings immediately to begin the process of enacting legislation.

I've long loved balanced funds, especially for skittish investors, because the bonds mask the volatility of the stocks. When I was doing financial planning, I saw that people often had a hard time keeping in mind the overall portfolio, and a balanced fund kind of forces them to do that.

Joel Robuchon

I've never followed a vegan or vegetarian diet in the past, but I think I could do it. It would not be easy. I have worked with nutritionists who have said a vegan diet is not necessarily all positive for your health, because you need nutrients you only find in meats. I believe in a balanced diet.

Mike Mitchell

I've never been one to try to depend on one person completely. Some people do a better job of using a great player. I've always tried to have a balanced team, a balanced attack.

The most important thing is to have a balanced group. We need to be prepared for injuries and suspensions during the competition.

Russia supports boosting OSCE economic efforts and the full-scale and balanced implementation of the Economic Strategy.

Sandy Dennis has balanced her postnasal condition with something like prefrontal lobotomy, so that when she is not a walking catarrh she is a blithering imbecile.

Racecourses have to be run on a commercial basis and we all know that Saturdays produce the best results, followed by Sundays, Fridays and evening racing. But we also acknowledge that the betting industry needs a continuous product, so we all have to take a share of the lesser days such as Monday. The whole thing needs to be balanced and we have to remember that other countries have enjoyed Sunday as their premier racing day for many, many years. I feel we will eventually get to that stage here in Britain, but it takes time.

The steel business is a local business. We do believe in the U.S. economy and would like to have a strong, balanced presence here.

Scott Kazmir

I've been trying to beef up a little bit, mostly my legs, trying to get those stronger. It seems like it's helping out a lot, making it a lot easier to stay balanced and stay real strong on my back side. Going through the first full season, you know how much it breaks you down a little bit, so I think it's good to get stronger and have a little more weight on there.

Tom Daschle

This is an issue that's very important to South Dakotans, ... We hope we can find a balanced bill.

Phil Angelides

This is not rocket science. You don't need initiatives. What you need to do is present a balanced budget,

That's what we're looking for is balanced scoring. If we can get balanced scoring, we're going to be successful.

Roger Cook

You want a balanced slow-release fertilizer that feeds the roots throughout the fall and is still around to fuel the stems and leaves next spring.

Errol Morris

You're meant to think somehow that literature, in espousing eternal values, is kind of normal and balanced and reasonable. When it fact it's anything but.

Tom Brady

You need a balanced offense. It becomes tough to throw the ball when it's windy, rainy, cold and breezy.

This is by far the most balanced team I've played on. It doesn't matter who's scoring. You can take away one player and there's four more coming at you. (Georgia) used every type of defense, and we still managed to win.

There are very, very few companies that can boast of a balanced budget year after year without interruption.

Laila Ali

Focus on being balanced - success is balance.

We've surpassed the point I thought we'd be at right now. But I've been dealt a good deck of cards here. We have loads of offense and we're more balanced than we have been in the past.

John Grogan

Living organically is my way of feeling connected to the earth and my own humanity. It's how I feel balanced and at peace with the planet.

We had balanced scoring for us with Minor, Hines and Reiser. Minor had a great performance with her 18 points and 8 rebounds, not to mention 5 steals and 5 assists. She was 7 of 10 from the field. She also handled the ball well tonight. (Hines) does not want her season to end. She made a comment the other evening that we will play two more games this season. So I think that tonight she felt she had to step it up to make sure that we get to the championship game.

We had balanced scoring, and we never let (Ellsworth) get on a big run.

We had balanced scoring. All four lines were very effective. It was a great team win for us.

Helen Clark

We live in a very strong and robust democracy. This election has been very finely balanced and the result has been a close one.

We have a really balanced team, a nice mix of veterans and young guys. They've worked extremely hard to reach their goals. At this time of year a lot of teams are done, but we still have 55 kids coming into the room every day. We're having fun.

We're a bigger, better, stronger and more balanced company than at any time in our 55-year history,

Don't live a balanced life. Live an integrated life.

And Vivendi has dramatically transformed itself over the past few years into having quite a balanced distribution portfolio relative to what people thought it would have two years ago.

Hosni Mubarak

encouraging, balanced and gives hope for the peace process to move forward.

Employment cost is below expectations, which should encourage the Federal Reserve at next week's meeting to maintain a balanced approach.

Robert Byrd

First, we've got to get over the fact that it's Lanier. We have to play the game, play hard and handle their pressure. We want to try to prevent (high-scoring Bulldogs junior guard R.L.) Horton from getting on a run. Lanier is so balanced and athletic, though, that it's kind of pick your poison with them.