Brunt Quotations

Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

We believe that consumer spending is going to bear the brunt of higher energy prices that we have seen leading up to and immediately following Hurricane Katrina as discretionary spending is curtailed.

We're going to have to take the full brunt of the negative impact in the marketplace, ... In a market environment you cannot have an imbalance between supply and demand, so price is your rationer. ... The price has to go up enough to destroy enough demand to bring things back in balance.

Working people in regional Australia will feel the brunt of Howard's workplace laws and I'd be very worried if I was a federal MP who has voted for this legislation.

Working people are bearing the brunt of the EPA's inaction,

We're getting back incorrect deductible amounts, incorrect co-pays. We're here on the front lines, getting the brunt of it all. Not every patient has these problems, but there's a lot of it going on.

We've won the tight games and before we didn't. Before we were receiving the brunt of the bad things that would happen. You see what happens at the end of the games now. At the tight part of the game we're stepping up and playing through it.

We're looking at another fine day (Tuesday), but it might not be so fine Wednesday and Thursday. I don't think the Big Island will catch the brunt of it.

Louisiana is in line for a possible direct hit. We know that we're going to take the brunt of it.

Some assets were impacted for six to nine months from Ivan last year because things like underwater landslides affected pipelines once the storm had passed. Shell is taking the brunt of the storm this time.

Nobody bore the whole brunt of this, and it's going to take these kinds of partnerships in the future. It took a village to protect this.

I can't imagine it's good for any currency but the Aussie and kiwi dollars bear the brunt of global risk events,

If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.

He's going to take the full brunt of this hurricane coming in,

He's carrying this label that he's this mistake-prone guy from his days with the Cardinals. Anyone who knows anything about football is going to know that (Sunday) it was about more than just Jake. Unfortunately, he's the one that's going to have to take the brunt of it.

There is an anti-incumbent mood out there and Republicans are the ones who will bear the brunt of it.

Jake had a great year, and I don't see any reason for anybody to put all the blame on him. Anybody that's a real football person who saw the game would understand that. But unfortunately, he's the one that has to take the brunt of it all. But that's why he gets paid the big bucks.

Our reform legacy by then had not produced a substantial rise in wages and job opportunities. People saw the hard side of reform but not the gains. Many ... traditional Labor supporters carried the brunt of the change and sheeted home the blame to him.

Squarely we should put the brunt of the blame on the TEA.

Most of our schools and other divisions have taken concrete steps to determine how they can support university students whose families have felt the brunt of Hurricane Katrina, ... Several are accommodating students from Gulf Coast colleges whose plans have been entirely disrupted this fall.

We put him in a bad deal. We were humiliated. They kicked every man's butt out there ? coaches, players, everybody. He's taken a lot of heat. For him to take the brunt of that wouldn't be fair.

We have borne the brunt again of a dropped catch. The bowlers toiled hard and I can't fault them for that. They tried to take wickets all the time.

We know that we're going to take the brunt of it. It does not bode well for southeastern Louisiana.

We're likely to get some strong inflation data and that's going to keep the dollar going up for now. The yen will probably bear the brunt of the advance.

We are marching to defend our civil liberties which are under attack and to show our solidarity with the Muslim communities who are bearing the brunt of that attack.

We just have to wait and see how the pain is the next couple of days. Right now I feel the ankle took the brunt of it.

With our lineup, there's going to be somebody new every night to get a couple of big hits. We don't have one guy who's going to stand out and take the brunt of it. We're just scrappy, and I think that's a good thing.

Both pitching staffs, for the most part, did a nice job. And Brunt came up with the big hit to top it all off.

We'll just wait and see how it feels. Right now, I feel like my ankle took the brunt of it.

WOZA was started to give Zimbabwean women a voice and platform with which to exercise their rights. At this time in Zimbabwe, where things are very tough economically, socially, politically we felt that women were bearing the brunt of that crisis and should have the loudest voice in shouting out and holding the political leaders accountable for what they've unleashed.

Those two have been handling the brunt of the scoring for us.

Brighton Gardens was following their evacuation procedures. Just 24 hours ago, (Houston) was expected to take the brunt of Hurricane Rita, Brighton Gardens was doing their job to get their patients to safety

Bruce wants to win and I want to win, too. The offensive guys like me are taking the brunt of the criticism and we've got to prove ourselves. There's no better game to show it than this one.

Fixed costs like salary, retirement, taxes, utilities, software, and general supplies are the brunt of the increases.

It was a learning experience for us. We took a little bit of the brunt of it with the 10 hole. We were floated wide on both turns and it hurts. That is a little hard to overcome.

Sooner or later, foreigners will stop financing the deficit. But at this point they show no signs of slowing down. If there were trade barriers that caused Americans to buy significantly less imports, production here would go up a little, but the thing that would take the brunt of the reduction is that our spending would go down as prices went up. We would have less of everything.

Techs took the brunt of the selling yesterday, so that may be why they're performing a little better today, ... There is also a sort of sincere belief that next year, and even in the next six months, tech and telecom will perform better, so that may be reflected in the buying, as well.

Really, Abbott is bearing the brunt of this.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets. If this proposal moves forward, workers today will not only see their benefits drastically reduced when they are ready to retire, but they will also bear the brunt of trillions of dollars added to the national debt because of this plan.

South Florida will bear the first brunt of whatever goes wrong or right with these elections.

The brunt of the losses was disproportionately felt by the Foothills and far-western counties.

That's what's so scary, ... We haven't even seen the brunt of it yet.

A lot of the shares that had been the market favorites of late wore the brunt of the sell off today with traders closing down positions quickly.

Atlantic has taken the brunt of those losses, particularly in 2005.

It's just unfortunate that Smithtown has chosen to move ahead with this. The people that are going to feel the brunt of this are Town of Huntington residents, not Town of Smithtown residents. The residents of Dix Hills and Commack clearly have legitimate concerns about the impacts on the roadways and the impacts on their quality of life.

It's a significant hit to a very stressed system, and we're bearing the brunt of consumer frustration,

It meant a lot to me that he saw the difficult time I had last season, taking the brunt of the load, and him wanting to come back and help me out through the process, ... It's important for me to get his back.

It's too bad that the taxpayers have to bear the brunt of additional bills,

It's not these locals' fault that their national unions left the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and it's not working people's fault. They shouldn't have to bear the brunt of a decision by their leadership. Solidarity charters will allow unions to work together and let working people still benefit from a united grass-roots movement.

It looks like we're going to bear some of the brunt of this storm. Hurricane Katrina's aiming our way.

It looks like we're going to bear some of the brunt of this storm, ... Hurricane Katrina's aiming our way.

Stocks are really feeling the brunt of the expectation of higher rates. The market is down not only because of the change in language in the Fed statement, but because the Fed was not clear about the timing of the rates, and the market wanted more certainty.

It was a good moment for both of us. We have taken the brunt of (the criticism). We are sticking together and creating an 'us versus everyone else' (mentality).

They were a little teed off from Saturday, and Montrose sort of took the brunt of it. It was a good challenge for us.

The key to our success this year is obviously not from our offense. It's from our pitching and defense. We made some plays when we had to. Brunt made a great play. This is the kind of baseball we're accustomed to playing this year. We bounced back and played a little better today.

The large and increasing number of uninsured Americans is no longer simply an altruistic concern on behalf of those without health coverage, but a matter of self-interest for everyone, ... The stakes are high both for businesses and for workers who do have health insurance because they bear the brunt of costs for the uninsured.

I'm not really an injury type of guy. This year it seems like I'm getting the brunt of it.

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

I like Mike's mobility. It's important everybody does their job. The quarterback gets the brunt of it. I'm not going to point fingers. Everybody had a piece in it.

If you're depressed or burnt out, your family is probably suffering the brunt of that as much as you are. They may prefer a pay cut to you're being so down.

He's really the front-line guy who did the brunt of the work.

By taking the necessary action at the right time, businesses can prevent themselves going the same way and bearing the brunt of another company's business failure.

I don't think the Keys are going to escape getting pretty much the brunt of this storm.

The Europeans are obviously frustrated that they're bearing the brunt of the current account adjustment and want the United States to say that the Asians have to play a role.

The entire Gulf Coast suffered, but Louisiana bore the brunt of this disaster.

The dollar sell-off against the euro makes sense because it is primarily the U.S. that is going to bear the brunt of the problem.

The city can't tax those people outside of their jurisdiction. They can't assess them in a way to recover those costs. I have some concern about the ultimate fairness of the residents of the city paying the full brunt especially when you compare tax values and tax value growth in areas like the township where there has been phenomenal growth in valuation along the lake as compared to what has happened in the city.

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience.