Famous Quotes & Sayings

If it's all about money, if our entire Texas Legislature is just kind of up for bid to who can put the most money into campaigns, that's sad.

We're not convinced about the Rentokil story. Even if he comes in, I don't think there's much upside so there's risk to the downside. There's not going to be a full bid for cash at 180p-plus so there's not much upside to it." ()

Jacques Rogge

Madrid had a very good bid and was only two votes short of reaching the final round of voting.

Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little more, Let me be, when I am weary; Just a little bit more cheery, Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for. Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker to the brother that is weaker; Let me think more of my neighbor and a little less of me.

Robert Herrick

Only a little more / I have to write, / Then I'll give o'er, / And bid the world good-night.

The price that I think you'd have to pay for St. Jude would be even more expensive than what Guidant is being bid for today.

The price of crude has $10 worth of fear in it and $10 worth of speculation and when Wall Street isn't afraid, they don't bid the price up so high.

William Butler Yeats

She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree;But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.

Michael Park

Since the summer, Markko has been happier at the wheel of the 307 WRC and the engineers at Peugeot Sport have a clearer understanding of the sort of set-up that suits him. Everything's moving in the right direction and that's the main thing, both with a view to defending Peugeot's chances in its bid to win the manufacturers' title as well as to maintaining our own, very real chance of finishing in the top-three in the drivers' championship. We haven't given up!

Since the offer on January 27, the value of the underlying bid has improved.

David Vincent

Now we're all working toward putting a solid bid before the Higher Education Funding Council for England (Hefce) as soon as possible,

Now that we're in a more open economy, and there's a lot more opportunity to get goods from overseas, if manufacturers are operating at full capacity, there's less likelihood that somebody will bid up prices at a domestic producer if they can get it somewhere else.

People were falling over themselves to bid on this (Diebenkorn) work. There was some frantic bidding in the sale room and on the telephone.

Larry Walker

Softball Canada wants us to bid on the next one right away,

MBD has been in business for 16 years. We have bid over 1,000 other jobs, I'm certain, and in all that time, we have only withdrawn one other bid that I know of. We have a history of being a very professional bidder, and we made a mistake.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storm may enter, the rain may enter -- but the King of England cannot enter; all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!

If we have the opportunity to rebid, we will do so. I think we had an excellent bid and a high-quality presentation.

Tony Blair

London's bid is important to me, the government and to our country and I would be immensely proud to help bring the games back to London for first time in 64 years,

I reminded the board that that's what you do. You save taxpayer money by letting businesses bid on this.

It got nasty at times. In the end, it got made. I guess nobody wanted it to go to purse bid and have it be in somebody's backyard.

A takeover bid is underscoring prospects for the sector, which has been benefiting from a recovery in consumer spending.

Peter Ueberroth

As we've said before, if we find a city that's capable to bid on the Olympic games ... we will be a much stronger candidate from the United States because of the strengthening of our ties.

As VNU seems to be willing to open up the books, chances of a bid on the whole company have further increased.

A bid in the low 90s would be the minimum for Lycos because Lycos brings so much more to the table than Terra does.

It's just one other bid of evidence from a national health standpoint that tells us we ought to be educating day care centers and grandparents, as well as parents

The new bid competitively pushes into the range (of independent valuations) without breaking the back of the entity post acquisition.

After the initial bid from Wade was rejected, we decided we had three options. We could do another bidding round. We could run an independent midway. Or we could negotiate a one-year contract.

After this sell-off, farmers have slammed the door shut on new sales. Processors will have to bid more to get any immediate supplies.

The bids then come to us in an e-mail, and we update (the page) every day.

The bids on the tennis courts will come in very soon.

The bids came in $700,000 over budget, ... We were committed to being good stewards of the community's money.

The bid is ill-conceived, poorly structured and offers Patrick shareholders a diluted interest in the high-quality businesses Toll wants.

John Lawson

Stockholders should sit tight and enjoy the ride. A key question will be whether PSA ups the bid to either force Dubai Ports World to pay more or to get control of the business.