Famous Quotes & Sayings

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

What we try do is cover a broader representation of Internet stocks for our investors. So we tend to invest in a number of sub-segments, within the Internet sector, B2C, B2B, infrastructure software, infrastructure hardware, and so on and so forth.

Donald Fagen

That was one of the elements. Just getting older and also I'm a New Yorker, so 9-11 on a broader level had something to do with it. I work as I go so I have a file of things that go back a few years and I think probably the last Steely Dan album, (2003's) Everything Must Go, had some things on this theme, too. But this is on a more personal level.

Barack Obama

I would like to see him (Bush) reach out to a broader circle of leadership in the African-American community and indicate that what he saw woke him up,

He was always shooting for something higher -- some broader socio-cultural theme.

Pete Carroll

Well, they have brought that same concept. They have a broader spectrum of things that they do in their offensive game plan. The thing I am really impressed with is how well they can execute that.

In the broader sense at Digitas, I've been very involved in media and publishing.

Kyrie Irving

When I'm playing the 1-guard, I'm kind of seeing everything that's going on. When I play the 2, I have a more broader understanding of what's going on and where the screens are being set in order for not only myself to get open, but for my teammates.

Rich Lowry

Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.

Kojo Annan

I feel the whole issue has been a witchhunt from day one as part of a broader Republican political agenda.

Shutterstock has evolved from an image-based marketplace for small businesses to a much broader platform, with a large and expanding addressable market opportunity.

Mirage is clearly an industry leader in loudspeaker sound quality and design. Mirage's premium speakers complement our industry-leading home entertainment selection, and we're excited to offer an even broader selection to our customers.

Newer teachers also have a broader perspective on literature.

No doubt the financial markets are anticipating that something could change. Whether that happens this summer or later remains to be seen, ... There are some broader negatives in the economy right now but the they will take a long time to work through. For now, we can still get decent growth in profits even as costs rise.

Joe Flaherty

'SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal.

Mark Zandi

So far, the surge in oil prices has yet to do any significant damage to the broader economy. We may see some softening in the consumer spending numbers soon, but unless that translates into a weaker job market, the economy should be able to weather these higher energy prices.

Douglas Coupland

I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to.

We obviously monitor consumer confidence as an indicator of how consumers are feeling about the broader economy, but we also look at a number of other indicators.

There is value in everyone working together. . . . I think it's worth it to get broader support for something that already has strong support.

As she gears up to run for president, it?s a broader stage, and these issues matter in a way that perhaps they don?t when she?s in the Senate.

As we have maintained, we will offer a series a recommendations ? some specific and some broader ? to protect the interests of those the program was meant to serve,

Ken Goldberg

As much as I want to use Suffern as a platform to get out there, I want this effort to be broader than that. ... We just want to save one person.

The new company will have different products and a presence in more markets. Demand for products turns on and off: Sometimes fixed products are hot and sometimes variable ones are. With a broader product portfolio, the company will have something to sell no matter what the environment is.

Juan Williams

The news comes at you just so quickly. It's incredible in this day and age. Given that tremendous rate of news, sometimes I think it's easy for us to lose touch with the broader picture the pattern of change.

David Nelson

For investors, this makes it hard to know whether one quarter is reflective of broader improvement in the business.

For a small group of people to make a decision that these are inappropriate, I think, is not the way to go. There has to be broader consensus.

For a long time we've been looking for consumer spending to slow down, ... It's a question whether this is a trigger for a broader slowdown in consumer spending and the housing market.

These opportunities are much broader than our traditional consumer and professional tax businesses in the U.S. and Canada. Taxes also impact our payroll business as well as the tax forms part of our supplies business.

These things become symptoms of a broader disquiet with Cheney.

Everyone has in their mind a picture of someone with a disability, and it comes from past experience. It is so much broader than that. For us to sit here and say what they can do would be just as complicated as saying what somebody without a disability can do.

The big inflationary news will be next week's CPI. It's a much broader price measure and gives you a much better look at price movements in the economy.

Barack Obama

We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation. The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color. Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country.

Pete Sessions

History shows one important fact: the results of competitive special elections from Hawaii to New York are poor indicators of broader trends or future general election outcomes.