Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Fitzpatrick

Relatively moderate weather, ample supplies and an escalation in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program should make for another week of high volatility. Absent geopolitical uncertainty, prices should be moving lower.

Jill Nelson

Part of the magic of Martha's Vineyard is that we were, all of us, more free here than any place else, ... On the island, we did not worry about our personal security. We did not lock doors; we left keys under the mat in the car, slept with windows wide open, absent the need to protect person or property from outside invaders.

Teri Mowery

Our teachers really cooperate with each other, and if somebody is absent and we don't have a sub, they're great about covering for each other.

Nancy Elliott

Our students, under the old policy, probably took advantage of that a little bit and believed they could be absent for any reason.

John Augustine

Retailers came out with pretty good reports. One would think we'll see a pretty good retail sales number, and that would give support to the market, absent much higher core inflation numbers.

John Ryding

I think they'll hold unless we see some surprisingly weak economic data on the jobs front, which comes out on Friday. But absent that, I think the Fed is going to be tempted, having cut rates three times, to let things sit a while.

Robert H. Connelly

The AMLU membership has voted to reject minor league baseball's contract offer and voted to not accept offers to minor league spring training absent improvements in the spring training working terms and conditions.

Ken Salazar

That would make me a completely absent father and that's unacceptable,

Kurt Barnard

I think that Jupiter's conclusions are, absent documented evidence of this development, somewhat optimistic, ... They (consumers) do their research on the computer, then they buy in the store, but they're not going to buy more than they had planned to buy. They might buy different things from what they had planned to buy, but there are only so many dollars to go around.

Tom Kloza

Refiners are very popular on Wall Street now. If you bought refining (capacity) before the summer of 2005, you suddenly got one of the hottest assets on Wall Street.

Kit Spring

Real might need to look for a merger partner and I think the assets are valuable.

Trent Duffy

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

John Ford

Part of the reason we're doing this is that we like both the assets and the people.

Jacques Chirac

Our objective is simple: to give Europe back its dynamism, ... It has all the assets to be at front of the global economy. But, faced with international competition, there is urgency.

Jim Hankinson

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

Antonio Costa

States are required to return money and other assets obtained through corruption to the country from which they were stolen.

Doug Rockel

Splitting up the assets makes infinite sense, not only from a financial perspective but from an operating perspective or competitive perspective.. No one wants market dominance to take place. The shipping community certainly doesn't want it, even the competing railroads out West don't want it.

Sonya Morris

Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negative returns in the double digits are not uncommon.

Michael Smith

Some lobbyists might consider this a lobbying opportunity. But we see it as a very worthy charitable event.

Chuck Grassley

our goal is to encourage charitable giving outside of Katrina relief, to prevent the rest of the nation's charities from seeing a downturn in giving as they did after Sept. 11.

Michael Granof

I sure don't want to take money away from the University of Texas; any subsidy for a university is good. But from an equity standpoint, it isn't fair that wealthy people can treat their personal entertainment expenses as a charitable donation.

George Gross

He was a very charitable man. There wasn't a charity he didn't help out.

Steve Peterson

We try to encourage them to go to a vocational school or take a college course or they can elect to do charitable work and be involved in a service organization.

Michael Ramsey

We're proud of him. He's got a long record of civic responsibility and charitable work.

Nigel Wright

She was probably the most charitable person you could ever meet.

Melissa Bean

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.

Charles B. Rangel

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.

Mary Rich

Previously, when you called the electric company, the field guy would come out to connect or disconnect you, and then it would go out on a bill. Today that same transaction could touch up to a hundred systems.

Andy Ball

Our outlook as a construction company for the next two years is very, very positive.

Carl Icahn

particularly important at Time Warner because of the difference of opinion between many large shareholders and management concerning the direction of the company and the lack of share price performance under current management.

Scott Weiss

Part of the magic of a startup is the fear of death. You have only so much money in the bank, and if you don't get to the right milestone before you run out, then the company goes under - it's over.

Bill Gates

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

David Litchfield

Oracle still has not released an official patch, so it is still leaving its customers at risk. It is a trivial thing to fix. If the company is still working on it, I do not understand why.

Shawn Willett

Oracle says a company could, for example, take out its BI tool and replace it with a third-party app. The question is, how practical will that be for users?

Charles Bona

Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now.

David Menlow

People have to understand: As a shareholder, in general, they don't have any say in the company. People complain about it, but those who like what the company does will continue to view the stock as a vehicle for profits.

Gail Dudack

Really what the markets have been struggling with is: What is the direction of the economy and therefore corporate profits.

Kimberly Caughey

PC sales are strong and this quarter shows it. And Microsoft still has room for growth in the corporate segment.

Matt Smith

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

John Matelski

Oracle has done an excellent job integrating PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers, not only into their overall corporate support structure, but also their Fusion application strategy as well.

Darren Dopp

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter. If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Eliot Spitzer

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter, ... If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Greg Myers

Our problem was that we did not receive the corporate sponsorships this year that we have in past year, ... That represents $1,500 right there.

Claire Buchan

Our focus is on ensuring the SEC has the resources it needs...so that it can go after corporate corruption and fix the system so that abuses do not occur in the future, ... We view this as something that can be viewed as a distraction from those important goals.

Robert Scoble

Our corporate policy is, be smart. We don't talk about things we don't know about.

Marty Markowitz

I think these things are up to the discretion of the borough president,

Ned Riley

It is another piece of good news in that it leaves the Fed in an unfettered position to exercise more discretion in monetary easing. Because the economy has displayed such weakness and inflation has been non-existent with the exception of energy-related prices, the short-term inflation number may be less relevant.

John Ridley

I don't know what's hipper: to Facebook or to Twitter. I just know for me, personally, discretion never went out of style.

Troy Bell

The police officers received training. The officers had some discretion in terms of the minor violations. That discretion has been removed.

Cam Newton

I pray for discretion every single night, that I can see through people, see what their greater good is. Sometimes that individual 'wows' you by the eye, but when it come to heart to heart, that person's not there for you. That's not just females. That may be friends, people who come into your life just to use you for who you are.

Daryl Manning

We want to be sure that we execute that discretion wisely. We want to look to the future before we make any changes.

Terry Hoeppner

We'd like to have had him out there, we need every rep we can get, but discretion was the better part. He'll have a great summer working with the quarterbacks. Like I told him, if he keeps doing what he's doing, he's going to be illegal.

Capt. Ready

We're trying to use discretion as much as we can ? recognizing people's right to free speech.

Robert Clifford

Typically, much of the resolution of issues like this is placed in the sound discretion of the trial judge.

Elizabeth Warren

Regulators all meet with Goldman Sachs executives and employees day after day after day. They don't see the people who get tricked, the people who get cheated, the people who get fooled by the products that Goldman turns out.

Lumkile Mondi

Such executives are unlikely to be willing to look at new ways of doing business.

Linda Hirshman

I think it's not just the universities. It's the executives in the boardroom.

Harry Shearer

It grew out of the fact that so many record executives had seen Judith, and had said, 'She's great, we know she's great, we love her, we don't know what to do with her,'

Mike Cooke

I was very surprised. I assumed, probably like most senior executives in most organizations, that I knew all of what was going on around here,

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Bill Cosby

Network executives never did understand what made our show work,

Anita Elberse

With so much money invested in their most promising projects, Hollywood executives will understandably do everything in their power to make their products a success in the marketplace. Therefore, the most expensive films often also get the highest marketing budgets, and are slotted into the most favorable opening weekends.

Ivan Glasenberg

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

Darin Erstad

People love throwing that out there: 'Is it going to wear on you more, wear on you less?' I don't know. Just play and whatever happens, happens, ... You know, you can't worry about that stuff. You do all your exercises and hope it holds up. I can't do any more work to make it stay healthy. If it goes, it goes.

Pranab Mukherjee

Redeployment is a regular exercise undertaken after a review of the situation in the state. Last year we reduced troops voluntarily.

Mike Williams

I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet.

Beilby Porteus

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

Bill Cosby

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

Bill Cosby

I use the exercise room early, because I don't want to get on the treadmill and everyone's going 'Oh, Bill Cosby,' and then they come around to see how fast I'm walking, and it becomes very competitive.

C. S. Lewis

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

C. S. Lewis

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Michael Greco

The ABA does not, and we will not, protect the interests of any political party or faction, nor the interests of any ideological or interest group.

Peter Costello

It is in Australia's interests that we promote it in preference to other areas,

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

James E. Faust

Secularism does not accept many things as absolutes. Its principal objectives are pleasure and self-interest. Often, those who embrace secularism have a different look about them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life's objective is life itself.

Rudolf Steiner

Only when I follow my love for my objective is it I myself who act.

Arlen Specter

Should (the information) have been shared if it could have prevented (the) 9/11 (attacks)?

Daryl Manning

We shared some stories, got to know each other.

Alice Stewart

They called the Hogs. They shared stories about their time there.

John Lovelock

We don't think it was being shared for profit.

Jennette McCurdy

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Gary Anderson

We need a better dredging system that we have now.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Ram Dass

As one individual changes, the system changes.

Bob Ray

We have to have a system for response.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Randeep Hooda

I think 'method acting' is a widely abused term.

Willie Parker

I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.

Rashad Anderson

I wouldn't say it's wide open. But I know we aren't going to lose.

Anthony Brown

If they're going to have that rule, they should make wider streets.

Keyshawn Johnson

The wide receiver position is such a complex position.

Henry Mason

Most wide receivers are 400-plus. If he could ever get to that point, you've got to think he would be faster.

Daniel Hope

My goal is always to keep my ears as wide open as possible.

James Garner

There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

Thalia

You can make films in a lot of countries, but they don't have very wide releases.