Famous Quotes & Sayings

We debated whether we should even explore this opportunity to return to Missouri. Ultimately, we concluded that our strong family ties are an appropriate basis to examine the possibility.

Zhu Rongji

strengthen cooperation with the international society in fighting terrorism on the basis of the United Nations Charter and international law.

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!

Monica

Some things make me emotional in a good way. When my son does well in school, I get real emotional because that's a testament to what I'm feeding him at home on a daily basis as far as knowledge goes. I wasn't so emotional until I had my first son.

Some people have had questions, some have said they wish we werent leaving and most have said they hope we can find a new location, ... Its sad. You see a lot of the same people every morning for years. We have a lot of regulars were on a first-name basis with.

Someone will need to lead the committee even on a temporary basis until someone takes a more permanent position.

So there is an appropriate basis for having a larger sign and a sign variance here.

David Stern

We went right to the terms of this new agreement. The adidas presence on a global basis is extraordinary.

Hu Jintao

Both China and the United States are great countries and share a wide range of common interests and basis for cooperation,

Derek Taylor

Breeding studies with both males and females often are necessary to identify candidate genes responsible for certain genetic traits. If we want to understand, for example, the genetic basis for why some clones of Daphnia from lakes are more resistant to pollution, then having males could help to find the genes in the genome.

This is about the fact that all of the local bread-and-butter nonprofits are the ones that make Fort Collins the best place in the world to live, ... The groups that don't have a national basis wouldn't be able to survive.

With some speculation that the RBNZ could have moved by 50 basis points, the end result was a market reaction consistent with an element of relief.

With its fine painting and its elaborate mural showing the mythic basis of kingship, the chamber has upended much of what we thought we knew about the early Maya.

John Ortberg

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

Raising rates by more than 25 basis points would shock the market so much that the Fed's credibility would vanish.

Productivity numbers on a quarter-to-quarter basis are very volatile. The downwardly revised second-quarter numbers could easily be revised upward in the third quarter.

The signs are positive, are good, that there will be broad participation, that the results will reflect the views and the will of the Iraqi people, and that there will be a firm basis for moving forward on the next step, which is an election, another nationwide election on 15 December. And the infrastructure of democracy is growing, is strong.

The surprise would be if they cut rates by 50 basis points or didn't cut them at all.

Peter Greene

The Sox, which had been positive on a relative basis during the last three sessions, is now accelerating, and the composite is leading, which is important.

It's far too difficult to short a strong stock. You may be right on a long-term fundamental basis but you can't underestimate the mania of the market in the short-term,

Edward Kennedy

It's a response to the president's very legitimate concerns, and it ought to be the basis of a sound compromise,

Janet Reno

The victims here are not only the big companies with household names, ... In the end, on a daily basis for the last 10 years, every American consumer paid to eat, drink or use a product whose price was artificially inflated.

Abraham Lincoln

The workingmen are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous

These are things that simply happen in the game of baseball. If this were to occur on a frequent basis for Cuba, this would be rather worrisome. But this is not the case.

There would be no indication at all that we have the virus in commercial poultry and therefore no substantive basis to impose trade restrictions on poultry and poultry products from the United States,

Craig Venter

The same oil that gets burned as fuel is also the entire basis for the petrochemical industries, so our clothing, our plastics and our pharmaceuticals all come from oil and its derivatives.

You must decide to develop personal success habits on a daily basis that will empower you to break those defaults that were cemented in you during childhood.

You may wish to not work on a full-time basis to begin with but to make the transition a little more gradually.

I hope the community will read the reports and make its own judgment about whether the record warrants the suspension or termination of the program. We didn't think so. We feel the decision ought to be made on the basis of the facts: We did not find racist behavior. We did not find sexual assault. We didn't find harassment.

For the first week, viewing levels were up on a weekly basis from last year and the year before, about 3 percent from comparable weeks. And these are the highest viewing levels for overall television since 1993.

If I've got money to change an election, it's going to be a lot easier on me to change your mind. If I'm only trying to change your mind on the basis of your intellect and patriotism, it's much harder." ()

The markets have been deteriorating since a year ago, when everything was great. At that point, the meltdown on a global basis started. I think this is a cyclical bear market,

The market seems to have pushed far too far, far too fast and on the basis of far too little hard information.