Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frankly, we're perplexed. You'd like to see prices about this time of the year fairly low in anticipation of the summer cost increases. Unfortunately, they're already in the stratosphere and still headed north.

Frankly, I just don't see the savings. If it turns out that those costs are not being realized, the price we're paying is not worth it, and we need to stop.

From a local government standpoint, the cost of services is the principal issue. On a statewide basis, 35-acre tracts generate more costs than revenue.

from a convenience ? and cost standpoint will be very important.

From an inflation perspective these are reassuring numbers: If manufacturers can't raise their prices when input cost inflation is running at an all-time high, when can they?

From July until the end of December was one of the highest periods ever of increases for transportation projects. Labor costs are not an issue here - it's raw materials.

If a defensive tackle goes to the wrong gap, nobody knows because the linebacker made the play, so they don't know they screwed up. On offense, a guy can screw up and it can really cost you. On defense, a guy can screw up but people can rally around and cover for him. Everybody is going in the same direction, running to the football.

If a mistake was made, we want to tell people about it. The good news is that the program is going to cost less money to taxpayers than we thought, and we hope it signals that evacuees have found places to go.

I don't think we played real well as a defense. We missed a lot of tackles and played over-aggressive. We missed a couple of assignments here and there. We didn't do it consistently enough where it cost us, but we also didn't consistently stop them, either.

Carlos Lopez

I don't think we want to go forward any more. The costs are only going to get worse; they are only going to escalate,

Samuel Goldwyn

I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.

Mark Brown

I estimate it costs me $15,000 a year for everything,

I don't think it's a fad. It's a matter of cost. You can do an entire season of 'The Bachelor' for the same cost as one episode of 'ER',

I don't think publishers should give things away for free, but I think cost simply has to be reduced. We will not do this unless the cost is 50 percent off or more from the hard copy.

I don't think passing on the suppression costs would be done just as a deterrent. The fact of the matter is many people have lost their property and homes and someone has to pay for that. Under the law, someone is liable for it.

For the retail investor, a stock that costs $1 seems easier than a big-cap stock that costs $30, $40 or $80, so people are pushing into small caps.

Given what illegal immigration costs each year, given that 30 percent of inmates in our federal prisons are illegal aliens and given the strain illegal immigration puts on our health care, it's a small price to pay.

God help me if this costs me my job.

Global manufacturing weakness has persisted longer than we anticipated, ... In particular, aerospace, industrial gas turbine and telecommunication markets remained soft, reinforcing the need to increase the scope of our cost savings and restructuring initiatives.

If it costs them more, it'll cost you more.

George H. W. Bush

If it costs me politically, it costs me politically,

If it cost my team a victory, then I'll be man enough to say it cost my team a victory. I'm not going to let anything rattle me. I don't think that penalty cost us the game by any means.

If it comes down to it, it's going to mean cutting down on your operating costs to pay for your fuel costs.

Ignorance is not due to lack of education. Ignorance is a state of mind that refuses the temptation of looking into the facts, that craves for the twisted, inflammatory interpretation of the facts that nourishes the prejudice in it to stay the course and expand, at the cost of totally dumping the intelligence the Creator put in it.

E. B. White

I get that question a lot: What's the cost of living in Atlanta?

If workers are going to use the services, it's going to cost them more money.

If the task force adopts these reforms and we enact them this year, we should see cost savings, better patient outcomes and better services for recipients.

If we are going to the spend money to be properly informed, then we need to do something about it before the project costs would increase dramatically. That would be foolish and wasteful.

If the federal government shifts large Medicaid costs to the states, some states are likely to turn around and shift a substantial part of those costs to low-income beneficiaries. And since low-income people have nobody they can shift costs to, they likely will end up paying the price, partly in the form of less health care.

John Lawson

If the government is prepared to top up your income even if you opt out of the state scheme then you may as well take up this lump sum. It will not cost you anything to do so.

I was so tense. You have to be so connected. You have to be communicative. You have to be so sharp. This costs so much energy. It was not so hard physically. It was the tension.

I was so lucky that the head of my department was an Elvis Costello fan,

I was skeptical of that call, but the officials didn't cost us the game. It was a great game, and Florida made the plays it had to make.