Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Sullivan

Some of the pickup reflects mix shifts, with payroll growth in above-average-wage sectors accelerating relative to growth in below-average-wage sectors. That said, some legitimate pickup in wage gains is probably credible given the low unemployment rate and the energy-led rise in inflation expectations recently.

Scott Ritter

I was a credible voice, I am a credible voice, and I will be a credible voice in regards to issues pertaining to Iraq, and obviously what you are not mentioning here is the timing of all of this,

Rich Hersh

I think the truth is always a credible threat to illegitimate and unjust power.

Brandon Claussen

Jerry is a very credible guy. He lives what he talks. I completely respect that. Sometimes, he may say something to you that you don't want to hear. But it's the truth. Sometimes that will prune you back a little bit. But when you get pruned, you always grow more fruit.

Christopher Hill

The appropriate time will only come when the DPRK has promptly eliminated all nuclear weapons and all nuclear programs, and this has been verified to the satisfaction of all parties by credible international means.

Susan Jollie

The annex can and should be developed. There are no other credible nonprofit museums that are interested in that spot.

Pope John

It is not credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it.

Eugene Volokh

Lawyers tend to have something credible to say about an important subject. Lawyers have been educated about the legal system, which people are interested in.

Glenn Branch

It doesn't matter if they label it philosophy, science or home ec. For this to be endorsed as scientifically credible is a violation of church-state separation.

Steve Rogers

Some of the manufacturing layoffs were offset by gains in retail.

Nestor Aguila

Some investors opted to pocket gains after the two-week trading halt.

Scott Kirby

Our systems are very highly tailored to what we do. You don't get any productivity gains from outsourcing.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

Overall market sentiment was boosted by the sharp gains in the regional bourses, especially rises in the Japanese market.

Toni Sacconaghi

Overall, it seems unlikely that Dell's share gains would be enough to offset the potential loss of Intel marketing monies.

Bill Vaughan

Western audiences can gain an impression of China from my films. This is an excellent channel for promoting China`s culture.

Peter Chandler

It has been a good day for the index. Toronto has held up very well and held its gains better than the Dow or the Nasdaq,

Alan Ackerman

I think gains in the market have outrun fundamentals. The move has been too much too soon. I see the likelihood of a pullback next week.

Alex Wong

Gains on Wall Street overnight and in Tokyo this morning helped the market recover.

Jim Calhoun

Regardless of our success over the years, whatever it may be, Providence has always played us close. Providence has given us a lot of problems.

Richard Hartley

Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.

Wang Jian

Our research showed that about one-fourth to one-third of the tickets to a performance are given to government organs without charge.

Jerry Rickrode

Our mental psyche has not been real strong. But I'll say the guys haven't given up on it. We're working hard and trying to make adjustments.

Margaret Keane

Stand up for your rights and be brave, and don't be intimidated. Read your Bible. That's really given me strength, and it will give you strength. Pray, and use God's name, Jehovah. And never tell a lie, ever.

Eric Smith

Some of the requirements had given us very challenging manufacturing tasks.

Chris Klein

Our problem is holding that lead and making Houston or any other team panic when they're a goal down. We've twice now given up that lead too quickly.

Patrick Manteiga

Our staff has given them some break. This is just a group without a lot of money.

Robert Sasaki

Our scenario in 1999 is that 10,000 on the Nikkei is a given - 8,000 is possible. We think that if the market goes to 8,000 it's good. It's not going to stay there for very long.

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.

Joseph Balestrino

It is a realization that there are inflation headwinds out there.

Hans Olsen

It all leads to the idea that inflation isn't so bad. That supplies some push for the market.

Michael Moskow

If inflation expectations did become unhinged, this might require a stronger response,

Irene Cheung

From March, the year-on-year inflation rate will probably come off quite substantially.

Philip Shaw

Last month's inflation report ... (was) about as strong an endorsement of steady rates as one is likely to see.

Mark Cliffe

His reputation as an arch-dove on inflation is rather misleading.

Joseph Tan

One to two percent inflation is still very tolerable.

Alice Rivlin

No one's really worried about inflation right now.

Mark Zandi

The overall CPI does not reflect the inflation most seniors face.

Don Porter

Our national federations are legitimate members, some are stronger, some are weaker.

Vincent D'Onofrio

We need substantial legitimate work on television, ... and we don't need to lose shows like that -- we need to get more of them.

Ernesto Zedillo

It is not legitimate to use something that pains and angers us all for political benefit,

Michael Bias

I think solo shows are starting to be viewed as legitimate theater.

Matt White

I don't condone the use of EPO, but it does have a legitimate use in the treatment of a number of cancers.

Ghassan Khatib

He is pursuing a unilateral approach, which is not constructive, and he wants peace that is incompatible with our legitimate rights and with international legality,

M. Powell

I think it's a very legitimate issue, but I think it's way down on the priority list.

Tommy Jones

He has tremendous makeup. When he was in the minors, I thought he'd be a No. 3-4 starter. I didn't think he'd be a No. 1, but he's a legitimate No. 1.

John Owens

Since we're not making money, I think there is skepticism that is out there and it is legitimate skepticism.

Shlomo Yosef

Part of the treatment of the prime minister, in order to preserve low pressure in the skull, is sedation and respiration for at least the next 24 hours.

Keith Schwer

Someone might find low taxes agreeable, but not the way tax revenues are spent, such as on education.

James Davis

Our profits would increase, gosh, a lot, ... Of course, we?d lower our prices.

Mike Showalter

Our strength is down low in the post. I like to pound it inside. When we do that it opens it up for our guards. And our guards, when they take it in the lane, are awfully tough to defend.

Kim Zimmerman

Overall, I was very satisfied with our team score today. The one thing that surprised me was how low the team scores were today. It was virtually the first time out for many of the girls, especially playing 18 holes. Some have played nine holes.

Mark Kantrowitz

It is and it isn't. It is from the point of view that rates are the lowest they've ever been.

Mitch Kapor

Jazz was a bomb. That was also the low point of Mac sales. People had just written it off.

Juan Williams

The 112th Congress passed only 220 laws, the lowest number enacted by any Congress. In 1948, when President Truman called the 80th Congress a 'Do-Nothing' Congress, it had passed more than 900 laws.

Eddie Jordan

That was our low point of the season.

Carolina Milanesi

Over all, their mix is improved. They are shifting more toward that mid- and high-tier model,

Cato June

Playing linebacker is completely different than playing safety. You're in the mix every play and those big linemen get on you real fast.

Emanuel Ungaro

The '60s were free, innocent, without pressure. I did what I wanted to do. Remember when I was mixing prints. I started that in 1969 and '70,

Lance Briggs

I think we're in the mix of putting something together incredible.

Richard Hamilton

He comes at you on every possession. You've got to mix it up on him.

Richard Shelby

because they all go into the mix of the economy.

Josh Elliott

I was a subscriber to 'Sports Illustrated' like so many of us, and I was overwhelmed by a toxic mix of naivete and arrogance, and just thought to myself, 'I think I can write like this.'

S. Walker

He's been out of the mix for a long time.

John Updike

A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.

Bill Dudley

I think you have to be somewhat skeptical about the payroll number.

Eric Rabe

She is not on our payroll at this point.

Tim Gray

We get much more real-time data, ... We can track our payroll daily.

Alex Tabarrok

More retirees, longer life expectancy, larger benefits, and fewer workers - these trends have meant substantial increases in the payroll tax. Since the social security program began, the payroll tax has increased more than 500 percent.

David Dewhurst

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

David Dewhurst

Ive never supported a payroll tax.

Howard Warren Buffett

I love to tell how I'm suffering because one percent we're paying 25 percent of the total. We're not paying 25 percent of the total taxes on individuals. We're paying maybe 25 percent of the income tax, but the payroll tax is over a third of the receipts of the federal government. And they don't take that from me on capital gains. They don't take that from me on dividends. They take from the woman who comes in and takes the wastebaskets out.

Bob Basel

A lot of people are waiting for Friday's payroll report.

Sandy Alderson

I don't see the payroll going up substantially,

Mark Gottfried

I think the carryover is that the pickup games, when we're not present, are better, ... They're talking about principles defensively.

Mohammed Jassim

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army,

Karen Cole

We had to make two trips in the pickup

Bob Sinche

And the second quarter is supposed to be the weakest quarter, with a pickup in the third quarter.

Will Kitchen

If he starts making a couple, they all start going in. It's the same way when we play after-school pickup games. He's the sparkplug for us a lot of times.

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.

Kathy Burlison

Who we serve reflects where we are in the community.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Thomas Kochan

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

Mike Stevens

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Charles Bradford

It's not surprising at all, because (Nucor) reflects the market.

Sam Brownback

I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her,

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Lara Rhame

It erodes the relative interest-rate support for the dollar.

Jon Favreau

I don't know that a movie like 'Daredevil' did better for having Ben Affleck then 'Spider-Man' did having Tobey Maguire, who was a relative unknown at the time.

Jordana Spiro

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Chen Shui-bian

I got up at 2 a.m. for this trip. I want to see my relatives and I want to see China,

Shahazad

My destination is at a place where my late-friends and relatives are waiting for me to arrive.

Dave Bristow

She's by herself, she has no relatives in Manatee.

Victoria Jackson

Sitcoms are relatively clean. There's not much nudity.

Ralph Nader

Stadiums rise with tax dollars; schools and clinics crumble, in the same city. Grotesque!

Koichi Seki

I think today's rise is no more than a technical bounce.

Ariel Sharon

He who rises up to kill us, we will pre-empt it and kill him first.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Adolf Hitler

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

Adolf Hitler

Universal education is the most corroding and disintegrating poison that liberalism has ever invented for its own destruction.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Faith never goes contrary to reason -- faith simply ignores reason and rises above it.

Bob Woodward

They rise to this office. They want a big-time presidency.

Bill Shorten

Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.

Christopher Cox

It is about wage clarity, not wage controls.

Ed Pastor

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant.

Nancy Pelosi

Raising the minimum wage is the right thing to do, but it's a popular thing to do as well.

Mike Rowe

We've waged war on work. We have collectively agreed, stupidly, that work is the enemy.

Jared Bernstein

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers.

Thomas Perez

Raising the minimum wage isn't just pro-worker; it's pro-economic growth.

Susan B. Anthony

Not one of our national officers ever has had a dollar of salary. I retire on full pay!

David Ricardo

But a rise in the wages of labour would not equally affect commodities produced with machinery quickly consumed, and commodities produced with machinery slowly consumed.