Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Riedl

President Bush's pledge to halve the budget deficit by 2009 distracts policymakers from the real issue of unsustainable trends in long-term entitlement spending. The president's proposal to slow Medicare's 9% annual growth rate is a good fiscal step, but the budget does not propose enough immediate and bold reforms to the quickly growing entitlement programs that threaten to overwhelm the budget.

Dominic Jones

PDF annual reports are principally useful only for printing, and sometimes for offline reference for experienced users. But they are not usable for online browsing, which is how most individual investors want to view online annual report information. Firms that post their reports only in PDF ignore the needs and preferences of most of their report users and put people off reading the report.

Eric Hyman

Our objective is to try to do this on an annual basis. We want to reconnect with our past. Our past is very important to us.

Rick Grice

(Statewide), the annual average wage and salary employment grew more than 46,000 jobs to a level nearly equal to the 2001 all-time high.

Melinda Schwartz

That cookbook quickly sold out and we've had requests for another. We thought it would be great to honor the 10th annual relay with a new cookbook.

Steven Benner

Our plan is to shoot for the goal of reaching $1 billion in total operating revenue and delivering 25 percent top- and bottom-line annual growth from now until 2010.

Peter Robertson

Our strong earnings and cash flows are enabling us to return cash to our stockholders and at the same time, fund a robust capital program, which in 2006 will be the highest annual spending in our history.

Ron Osborne

Our workshop is the only venue of its kind in the state that provides an annual forum for face-to-face training and information sharing on a wide range of emergency management topics.

David Montanye

Our budget on an annual basis this past year is $660,000. We currently have expended $400,000 over that budget.

Tatsushi Shikano

Reflecting solid consumer spending, the real estate and retail sectors are likely to lead the improvement in the overall non-manufacturing sector.

Paul Patterson

Regulators often want to see some of the synergies and cost savings from these deals come back to the consumers in terms of lower rates or limited rate increases. Usually there are some givebacks in terms of rates.

Howard Archer

Relatively subdued consumer spending, intense domestic and international competition, and high input costs continue to dampen ... the sector.

Britt Beemer

Our research on holiday gift returns shows that it's only three percent of Americans who are real jerks and they indulge in consumer fraud and return abuse. The rest of us have to deal with the consequences.

David Emanuel

Our removal of those features was because we have become focused on search for consumers and businesses, and those features were not in line with our goals.

Anthony Chan

Our own studies have shown that consumers tend to switch over to non-store outlets in times of higher energy costs .

Stephen Baker

Part of the problem Sony has had in the past couple of years is that as the consumer electronics market has changed, ... A lot of it has been about lower prices and distribution and neither have been Sony's strong points.

Jon Miller

Our new corporate identity better reflects our expanded mission -- to make everyone's online experience better. Plus, consumers in the U.S. and around the world already know us by our initials.

O. Henry

Our mission has been to enable the service providers and network operators to deploy uninterrupted video throughout the home without interfering with other consumer devices and networking environments already in place.

Felton McClellan

Regardless of the fact that we lost everything materially, we are so blessed.

Rachel Laws

Regardless of the fact that it's Senior Day, we have to win our last home game because we haven't been winning lately and we really want to stop this streak.

Katsuya Okada

Our policies weren't wrong, but I have to reflect on the fact they did not get across.

Jim Mott

Part of it is losing to Herkimer and part is the fact that we're 1-3 now and really need a quality win. Hopefully the kids are mad and will come back ready to work tomorrow.

Michael Lynton

Part of this is the fact that the movies may not have lived up to the expectations of the audience, not just in this year, but in years prior,

Mark Shapiro

Part of what makes Peralta even more valuable to us is the fact that he plays up the middle.

Steve Johnson

Our load factor (the percentage of seats filled in October last year) was only 56% of what they offered. With that as one of the arguments, you'd look at providing fewer seats.

Andy Kopplin

Our No. 1 goal is to get that money out as expeditiously as possible. The limiting factor will be the number of contractors available.

Willie Geist

People know the facts of a story just as well as the people on TV do, and they have more platforms to hold the media accountable when they don't get it right. We are a world full of media experts. That's a great thing.

Jerry Garcia

Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills, One man gathers what another man spills

Ken Knutson

Our pitching is generally a year older with some really good arms. We have the players.

Brian Foster

Our start to the season has been generally encouraging,

Tomoko Fujii

Japanese institutional investors seem to have sought returns by selling dollar-denominated assets. That kind of repatriation is generally yen positive.

Samah Haggag

Late payments generally have the highest negative impact on a score.

Ian Spector

It exploded. Since last summer, we've had 50 million hits. We generally get between 500,000 and 800,000 hits a day.

Elizabeth Thomas

I think poetry was meant to be heard out loud. I am not doing this for the money. What I do is done from a passionate place inside of me, because I feel very strongly that young people need a positive outlet and some kids have that through sports, and some have it through music or art. Kids who have it through poetry generally aren't heard. They all can't be good at football.

Steve Rhode

It doesn't surprise me. People generally underestimate what they're going to spend for the holidays.

Joe Sacco

I think I'm generally a good listener anyway.

David Liss

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

John Challenger

Pay raises have been paltry since 2001. Since 2001, wage growth has been muted because productivity has been so strong.

Mark Pervan

Supply growth is not there, and the players in the market aren't investing in new supply.

David Dodge

Such a slowdown in growth, in turn, raises the risk that policy-makers might resort to protectionism. In that event, a period of very slow growth could, perhaps, be punctuated by periods of outright recession.

David Hendler

Stan O'Neal has rehabilitated Merrill over the last several years, but where is the next growth area? That's what people are wondering.

Mark Batey

Out of all the major markets, it was the only one to show growth. We were up one percent.

Ken McCarthy

Right now, you could say we're at sort of a sweet spot, where we have healthy growth and reasonably high interest rates.

Bill Crawford

A relationship is like life. It isn't a process of preservation, but of change and growth. Unless you grow and change together, you will change ... and grow apart.

C. S. Lewis

Everywhere, except in theology, there has been a vigorous growth of skepticism about skepticism itself.

C. S. Lewis

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

Henry Willmore

Previously the market had taken out any risk of a second-quarter tightening by the Fed. With this statement, we see that's not a risk to be discounted.

Mark Hoffman

Our relationship with SAP is actually better than it ever has been before, on products, on marketing and on sales, ... That's why this stuff is so shocking.

Oleksiy Ivchenko

Our relationship is shifting completely to a market basis.

Evan Siegel

Our marketing tactics are really where we separate ourselves.

Ethan McAfee

Sure there are some smaller names, but they're unattractive to big corporations because their market share is probably 1 percent or less.

Ante Kostelic

Sure I want to win and smash records, but winning medals is not like going to the market and getting cabbage.

Marina Amoroso

Sprint has essentially under-performed in that space. It does not have nearly as much market share.

Five Live

Some of the merchandise isn't right and the market is very tough,

Leendert Staal

Our priority now, our aim, is to get 25% market share.

Bill Crawford

Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.

Bill Crawford

Realistic optimism allows us to experience the best until we have to deal with the worst ... which often, never comes.

Bernard Beckett

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Bill Vaughan

Optimism, unaccompanied by personal effort, is merely a state of mind and not fruitful.

Martin Charnin

Her spirit and her optimism are organic to the American spirit, and that's what this show is about.

Cameron Crowe

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Dick Thornburgh

That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Denis Hayes

I suppose I'd characterize myself as having a faith-based optimism. My faith is parental and Darwinian.

Walter Benjamin

What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.

Thomas A. Edison

Success is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

Neil Baldwin

Our revenues are down about 20 percent from prior years.

E. Hicks

Over 90 percent of phones really do not really have vulnerability.

John Bradley

Over 60 percent of runners are from Utah,

Robert Straus

Right now, tech stocks are about 20 percent undervalued. While I wouldn't be surprised if some profit-taking took place, we still see a lot of upside.

Ashton Kutcher

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

James Thrash

That's what it was, 75 percent of the offense?

Roger Clemens

I was pitching 100 percent at this time of year regardless.

Giulio Andreotti

I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Roni Java

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

C. S. Lewis

A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

Aimee Mann

In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

Ayn Rand

Do not let your fire go out.

Bryant H. McGill

Acceptance is the road to all change.

Bryant H. McGill

It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

Bryant H. McGill

You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

Brion James

I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.

Baha'u'llah

Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

Craig Benson

I don't think anyone's pushing for spending limits in the campaign.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Jack Morgan

If they end up spending 4 or 5 weeks there, it won't surprise me.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

John Faso

I would look to put state spending on a diet.

Dan Cooper

We'll look at the spending cap. We have to look at the legislation that was passed.

Jason Chaffetz

Federal spending is atrocious.

Sathya Baba

Start the Day with Love;Spend the Day with Love;Fill the Day with Love;End the Day with Love;This is the way to God.

Steve Wilson

Some of the things offensively are starting to come together,

Jermaine Wiggins

Man, that ain't even a thought for me, ... I can't get into that world. I've been around too long to start something like that up.

Beck

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

Brian Boland

I think Doug is starting to take it to another level.

Bill Budge

The power of the computer is starting to spread.

Charles Davis

That was his first start and he was sharp.

Kim Parker

That will be a big start all over for us, but you've got to start somewhere,

Neil Thompson

That way we have something to start with if you do go missing.

Mike Aronson

He was able to make what used to be his weaknesses into his strengths.

Blaise Pascal

What amazes me the most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Blaise Pascal

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

Deepak Chopra

What will really make you attractive is not working on your weak points but embracing them.

Abraham Lincoln

Weakness is what keeps driving us to God, by the overwhelming conviction that there just isn't anywhere else to go.

Brit Hume

What played to what had been a relative weakness for us-this was exploding overseas as well, and we had to scramble to mount some reach and get into places and be competitive on the ground.

Babe Ruth

A part of control is learning to correct your weaknesses.

Aleister Crowley

30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.

Agatha Christie

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.