Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Williams

In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not run for a second term.

To me, these bids are classic top of the market stuff. The Irish property market can't defy the laws of gravity forever. I'm trying to persuade my wife to sell our house now before prices fall.

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

There may be other bids on the way. Not only in electricity, but in gas, water and other services as well.

It really depends on the bids and how smoothly that goes. It could be a couple of weeks; it could be a little longer.

These bids are the expression of future growth for Germany companies. German groups are thinking about their future and about expanding.

These are the lowest competitive bids we could find.

This isn't just about getting bids from companies that are ready to supply right now. If we like someone's product, even if they only have two employees, we'll work with them and show them how they can gear up to supply us.

We're anticipating getting bids back by Feb. 20, but that date could move a little bit.

Richard Burton

Do what thy manhood bids thee do,/ From none but self expect applause:/ He noblest lives and noblest dies/ Who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

(Biotechnology) is keeping the Nasdaq up, ... As bids start to firm, money is flowing back in, and that's causing the Nasdaq to outperform the blue chips.

We've had a soil contamination problem, and our steel bids came in pretty dramatically over what we thought the estimate was going to be. Between those two, we've exhausted a good part of our contingency fund.

We had seven vendors who came to our pre-bid meeting, and four bids were received for the work.

The original bids for construction costs started out at $8 million, then it went to $12 million. To stop the bleeding, we've signed a contract for $13.5 million. It's locked in now.

The township is doing all of the design and property acquisition, and we expect to put it out for bids in December of this year. If everything gets done on schedule, we expect to start in spring of (2007) and get it finished in the summer of (2008).

The fact that the bidding went to a second round implies that either the league's reserve price wasn't met or, more likely, that two or more bids are fairly similar. So there's a danger that Sky doesn't win two of the remaining three packages, or they have to pay up for them.

We'll meet with the council and let them know how much the bids are for and how much the interchange will cost. If the bids are outrageous, say $15 million, that's when we'll have to go back to the drawing board because we couldn't draw that much extra money from other projects.

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.

Gray Davis

I expect these bids on long-term energy contracts should stabilize the market and drive the price of electricity down. This is a key step in our efforts to keep the lights on in California at a reasonable price.

William Shakespeare

Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

I won't throw a shipper out if somebody else can pay me a nickel a mile more, because I don't want the shipper to throw me out when a carrier bids a nickel a mile less. But if I'm losing money on freight, I've either got to stop hauling it or get a price increase.

We intend to screen the bids for eligibility on the day following the submission of the bids and will select from the eligible bidders the winning bid on the second day after submission of the bids.

We continue to be fully invested. Valuations remain reasonable. The number of bids shows investors that everybody has cash, everybody is rich.

J. J. Johnson

We are open to talking to strategic partners who could buy into DC Air. We are open to discussion but haven't received any bids yet.

We have already received bids from six to seven countries who are willing to play host to the (Twenty-20) event.

We couldn't complete our drawings, which meant we couldn't get bids for the work.

We have two bids in each side. As far as I'm concerned that's very good.

We are expecting the bids to come (in) high.

Eliot Spitzer

First, before any bids were submitted, the defendants determined which insurance company would win the business. Second, they set a 'target' for the winner to submit as its bid,

We're under siege and I don't get it. We deserved every bid. We earned them. We deserved six bids and we should have had five, because I don't understand how they can look at Missouri State and not put them in.

This sale represents a record in terms of the total volume of RIK gas sold, the number of bids received, and the total number of companies that made offers.

We're responding to RFPs (calls for job bids for security systems) now.