Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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'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.

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.

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 have enormous interest on this lot. This may blow you away. I have triple order bids of $10,000 on this lot.

Where the dealers are making a market with a wide spread, but have in their possession an order to buy stocks at a higher price than they're bid, or for a lower price than they're offering, they want the investors and the institutions to see those better bids and offers.

We had 11 or 12 bids for this one. We're getting preliminary bids in now and we expect the same kind of numbers.

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

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.

Long and Foster said they had no clue that either of the parties that put bids in on the house were married, ... He submitted the contract in his own name, and when he went to see the house, he went with two other men.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more higher bids come in.

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.

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.

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.

It's incredible momentum. The market just seems to have taken up from where it left off in 2005 with a lot of cash washing around from all the bids going on and a lot of bid speculation still about.

Does he council you better who bids you, ''Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Then, welcome each rebuff / That turns earth's smoothness rough, / Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go!

I told them not to hold their breaths, but that we had an outside shot at an at-large bid. It was just a matter of the right teams winning their conference tournaments to make sure there are enough at-large bids left.

John Williams

It's not ethical. As auctioneer you sit on the fence between buyers and sellers. We get hundreds of absentee bids and I would hate people to think, 'Oh, he's taken a higher bid.

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,

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.

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.

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.