Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're capable of playing better than that, but it's a big confidence-booster to know you can play below your standards and still win.

We don't see much reason that (China) would be below eight per cent GDP growth, certainly for the next number of years.

James Wolfensohn

We estimate that tens of thousands more children will die worldwide and some 10 million people are likely to be living below the poverty line of $1 a day because of the terrorist attacks.

We estimate that residential heating degree days (a measurement of heating requirements) were 9 percent lower than those of a year ago, and about 10 percent below normal. In addition, we incurred about $1.7 million increased expenses to restore electric service after windstorms.

We really need it to be below $50 a barrel, but having it below $60 is a big help.

We know little of what is living below our feet...yet it is vital to sustaining life on earth.

To have a president in a strapless gown, is that appropriate? We spent weeks and weeks on this. She is covered below her knees. There is no cleavage, and she wears gloves.

Thus, if the consumer business were to be sold, or perhaps restructured into a JV contributing below Pfizer's operating line, it would likely have the effect of increasing gross margins and operating margins.

Hugh Evans

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

We are seeing gas prices drop dramatically. Thirty states are below $3, compared to 17 last Monday.

We remain comfortable with our view that interest rates will fall further this year as output remains below trend and inflation falls back below its target.

Pockets of liquid water may be no more than tens of meters below the surface.

Nikki played well below what she's capable, but golf can be cruel like that. Sometimes nothing seems like it'll go right during a round and Nikki certainly experienced one of those days today. The most important thing is to forget about it and move on to the next round.

Nobody considers that a very healthy situation. You have a number of very high-profile, important cases coming this next term that, from the perspective of this administration, were decided incorrectly in the courts below. You need five justices to reverse. A 4-4 tie just means the decision below is affirmed.

John Randolph

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul

I would be surprised to see a massive increase in prices, but a slow creep up towards just below $570 would be on the cards this week.

I would come over here in the morning biting my lip in fear when the temperatures dropped below 10 degrees.

I was pleased with our defense in the second half. We held Stout 20 points below their season average. We were right there with them. Unfortunately, we couldn't get our shots to go in.

Charles Dickens

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

I have a target price for UPS at 60. But sad to say, most transportation stocks are so far below what I think are fair target price, that it doesn't stand out as a bargain.

Furthermore, with the market in deficit for the past three consecutive years, industry stocks are below critically low levels and the stocks-consumption ratio is forecast to remain below four weeks over the next three years and should continue to underpin strong copper prices.

Thomas Perez

Full-time workers earning the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 only earn about $14,500 a year in wages - below the poverty line for a family of two. That's unacceptable.

If AOL's share price falls below $50, there's the real risk you could have a shareholder revolt from both sides, ... That is a threshold point. But do I think we'll get to there? No.

Barack Obama

I don't understand how you could have a situation where you've got several days' notice of an enormous hurricane building in the Gulf Coast, you know that New Orleans is 6 feet below sea level. ... The notion that you don't have good plans in place just does not make sense,

For those people that are now walking two hours, and sometimes six hours a day to get their water, the solution is just about 20 meters below their feet. We don't need a miracle cure, we just need to drill a well and make sure there are proper systems in place so people can operate it and maintain it themselves.

For the year, we expect earnings for the Outdoor Group to exceed those of 1997 as seasonal marketing and promotional campaigns are implemented and inventories are reduced during the second half of the year, ... For the second quarter, however, earnings for the group are expected to be below year-ago levels.

Brian Billick

Haven't seen much of you in a while, ... We're just sitting here kind of below the radar screen.

Having said this, the rise in U.S. rates overnight does suggest there is scope for another test below $1.20 in the euro today, but we would look to square shorts at $1.1950.

Gold could move up from...where we stand at the moment. I would be surprised to see a massive increase in prices, but a slow creep up towards just below $570 would be on the cards this week.

Gold could move up from the $562 where we stand at the moment. I would be surprised to see a massive increase in prices, but a slow creep up towards just below $570 would be on the cards this week.

Joplin has been the bull's eye for the drought in Missouri, where 11 of the past 12 months have received below normal rainfall. The precipitation deficit is now approaching 20 inches, or less than 60 percent of normal.

Job gains were clearly below expectations and trend. There may be some bounce back next month in specific sectors. Slower job gains may also reflect the impact of higher oil prices and uncertainty in the spring.

I think it's encouraging that three weeks in a row we've been below 400,000. I think it suggests the labor market may be strengthening a little bit.