Weathered Quotations

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

Michael and I had great role models. Though his father has passed away, his parents had an amazingly strong marriage, as do mine. Both weathered really tough times. For us it has been normal to stay together through difficulties. We grew up witnessing that firsthand.

Here's to the pilot that weathered the storm.

Africa is the most weathered continent in the world; 75 percent of its soil has been degraded. You don't just bring that back. I always like to say it's like putting an oxygen mask on a cadaver; it just isn't going to work.

I always sort of swooned at the sight of the classic barn structures in central and northern Minnesota, where everything seemed rustic and weathered and made to age gracefully.

Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.

The profusion of fonts is one more product of the digital revolution. Beginning in the mid-'80s and accelerating in the 1990s, type design weathered the sort of radical, technology-driven transformation that other creative industries, including music, publishing, and movies, now face.

We knew they were going to make a run at us when we were talking at halftime. But we weathered the storm, buckled down and got our game back.

We really finished our chances tonight. Our team weathered the storm in the end, scoring a late goal to secure the win. I am really happy with the game tonight. It always feels good to beat a team from a so-called 'higher' conference.

Nothing can trump that trial. It was hard on me, hard on the family -- very difficult for all of us. But we weathered the storm, and we are closer and better and have a keener sense of what is valuable in life.

I felt like at halftime, we had taken their best shot. We had weathered it. The second half was going to be ours.

Fortunately these two are pretty young. They seem to have weathered the storm pretty well,

He is a very strong guy, a game guy. He is fighting for the opportunity of his life. I got hit but weathered the storm.

We've been trying to do this kind of thing for about a decade. We attempted to do it on one of our Mars probe, but either we got weathered out or the spacecraft misread some stars and everything closed down.

It bought us a little bit of time. When we weathered the storm in the first half, I felt good about that.

I tip my hat to (University's) work ethic. They came out and threw the kitchen sink at us, and we weathered the storm for those first two periods.

I think the first year was all a surprise and a shock for us. This year, having weathered that, we all went in knowing how to do it a little better.

I think we showed what superior athletes we are. We weathered their storm and that's all they had. You could see them fading in the fourth quarter.

Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation.

Overall, I'm very pleased with how we played tonight. Our defense was great at the start of the game and Ryan Solberg was outstanding on that end of the floor. But then we lost some of that intensity and West got back into the game. We weathered the West storm in the second half and got back on track. This was a very nice W for the kids.

Our company has weathered one of the most difficult quarters in history, marked by recession and war. The remainder of the fiscal year should benefit from operating improvements currently under way, as well as favorable trends for some of our most important products and brands.

People have been looking for companies to say we've weathered the storm -- no pun intended -- whether it's the hurricane stuff or the macro things,

Literally and figuratively, I think we've weathered the storm, as the release of strategic reserves has calmed the market.

I think he weathered it so well; he answered it so well. Those were things that would've been brought up, and he becomes a stronger candidate now.

Jury verdicts are slightly above average, but by the time you get that far, you've weathered enough challenges.

We need to try to be safer. We've got to stay out of the (penalty) box. (Gwinnett) came at us hard (Wednesday) night. They probably wanted to push us out of their building, but we weathered the storm. We expect them to come out just as hard (tonight), so we have to adjust.

The problem with having the name Wyeth is that immediately, when people hear the name, they all of a sudden see weathered barns in a field or something.

We won't know how the conference has weathered this for about another two or three years, maybe four. The top half of our league was very good (this season). The bottom half of our league was not good. That's a fact.

The fact that we got 70 shots is amazing. That's being a little bit tight. That's what happens when you play a great team. Connecticut weathered the storm. They're a great team.

The fact that the January number is back up to the higher level we saw in August 2005 indicates that the demand for labor is holding steady and seems to have weathered the hurricane and energy-related effects of last fall. The January online help-wanted ad volume is consistent with what we are seeing from the Consumer Confidence Survey. In January, consumers were more upbeat about current economic conditions, and they were especially more positive about the job market.

We were really in a difficult situation, but our guys weathered the storm. We don't lose anything when our sixth, seventh, eighth, and ninth guys come into the game. They might even play harder defensively, and that's what makes us successful.

We knew Kountze was going to come back and put points on the board. But we felt confident that if we weathered the storm and got composed, that we'd have the chance to win.

We've dealt with tragedy, with an unfortunate situation involving a team member ... I just feel so good for these kids to have weathered that storm and accomplished this. If there is a team in the state of Tennessee that deserved this, it's my kids.

This time of year it's not about winning by a certain number of points. Now, it's about wanting to advance. That's a good team we beat tonight. They came out and pounded us and we weathered the storm.

weathered reasonably well the steep rise in spot and futures prices for oil and natural gas.

This really was a team effort. The kids weathered the storm and we got some big contributions from the bench. Every one of the kids stepped up. They did a marvelous job.

We weathered this storm with a reasonable outcome, but we have more tides coming at the end of the month, so we need to continue to restore things. This is a strong reminder to keep the pressure on our decision makers to continue to fund the local reclamation districts. Basically, when you build a highway, you don't walk away from that highway and let the thing crumble to pieces, you maintain it at a very high level.

We weathered the storm. We seemed to play better as the game went along.

We weathered the storm in the first period and we scored some opportunistic goals in the second.

We weathered the storm and stayed close. You can't make them all.

We weathered the storm and defensively were able to maintain. And Nathan hit some big shots at the time for us.

We weathered a near-term storm of the recent tech earnings well. The market has a lot of consolidating to do, and there isn't a catalyst for serious upside at the moment. Only quality earnings amongst all sectors will help us.

Financial assets clawed back some of their recent losses as President Arroyo appeared to have weathered the latest storm.

The Grand's giant oak trees weathered the storm very well and today remain as majestic as ever.

We wanted to put pressure on them early but we didn't finish our opportunities. To their credit, they weathered the storm and played with the heart that they've played with all year.

This team showed an incredible mental toughness. It didn't let the storms of the game bother them. They weathered each one of them and this game wasn't in doubt at the end because they showed so much resolve.

We kind of weathered the storm. We felt like at halftime we had kind of taken their best shot.

You have to be able to weather the storm. We weathered it, but then it started raining again. Then it started snowing. Then it started hailing.

You have to be able to weather the storm. We knew we had a run in us and we knew they had a run in them. We weathered theirs and they couldn't handle our 18 points. That's immense. Give credit to the kids. We didn't slow down the ball, we went right at their throat and we're going to do that from now on.

We will weather this storm as we have weathered Katrina.

We're going into the break onto a positive note and that was important. We weathered the storm in the first period. Marc-Andre was phenomenal in the first, he made some key saves. The power play played really well and penalty killing for the first time in a long time didn't allow a goal.

There was a long weathered carpenter's bench under the tall tree in front of the little old house that Lawrence had lived in there.

These economies are doing well and weathered the recession well. And in Miami and L.A. the housing booms happened later than other parts of the country.

The (stock) market nervously followed New York again, slightly affected by the delay in ruling on the FGTS workers' fund. But we weathered New York fall quite well.

They showed me what type of heart they have today. We've gone through a lot this year, but they've weathered the storm. Now what we have to do is build on this. We can't go backward.

They knew there would be pressure. The pressure was building up before the season, and they have weathered it well.

They made some runs, but we weathered the storm.

This movie is a tribute to the scores of health care workers who stood fast and weathered one of the most compelling events in recent Canadian medical history. These men and woman are heroes for sacrificing so much in the face of a potential medical catastrophe.

It sends a signal that the U.S. economy has weathered some pretty harsh storms over the past few years and in recent months.

It wasn't the start we wanted. I've always felt like the team that plays Thursday has an advantage in the Friday game, but we weathered that and found a way to move on.

It's a flight to quality. Investors as well as advisers are seeking out large, blue-chip fund companies that appear to have weathered the storm successfully.

I told our guys that if we came out and played our game and got off to a good start, that (Chatham) would get down a little bit and start pointing fingers at each other. We weathered the storm. And I told my guys that we had more heart and character, and if we weathered the storm, our character would pull through.

It looks like the mid-Atlantic weathered the hurricane well. Activity rebounded smartly. It does reinforce the view that the underlying economy remains strong in the mid-Atlantic and more broadly across the country.

It's been a long journey, but it feels like we've weathered the storm.

It was a game of runs. We made a run in the beginning and end of the second quarter. They made a run in the third and we weathered it.

It was a difficult 90 minutes... but I think we weathered the storm and created some chances, but I think in the end selfishness... let us down.

They came out on fire, with 24 points at the ten minute mark. We weathered the storm of the first ten minutes.

So far, I am encouraged to see how well the regional economy has weathered the job and income losses centered in the auto manufacturing sector. Mild winter weather and the Super Bowl no doubt helped to support the economy early in 2006. As those effects fade, I would expect to see some fall off in activity over the next several months.

Inflation seems to have weathered the storm of rising energy prices.

If you look at the record, at how the U.S. has weathered shocks, we have a very, very resilient economy. Initial conditions matter.

Higher interest rates have been weathered by home buyers through the use of adept home financing techniques. Nevertheless, the resilience in the housing sector will support further monetary tightening by the Fed.

Holy Katrina! The economy weathered two major hurricanes and in spite of that showed accelerated growth. I think what this shows is that fundamentally the economy was and is in really good shape.

If I can use a cliche, he just has to be Andre Agassi ? the guy who weathered so much for so long. The guy who knows so much about matches and be every bit of Andre Agassi he can be. Against Roger Federer you have to bring your best because he sets the standard. There's no way Roger is going to give anything to anybody.

I couldn't be happier for these guys. It's a great group of kids. We've weathered some ups and downs. They deserve this.

The industry weathered Katrina, but if Rita comes ashore as a Category 4 or 5 storm, it would cast doubt on the solvency of some insurance companies and deplete the surplus capital for others.

You've got to love a fund that's been through bad markets, ... Young people have never seen bad markets, but it's nice to see some funds that have weathered bad times.

the economy has weathered these storms about as gracefully as could be expected.

The market has weathered a poor earnings period and increased anthrax anxiety and has come out of it pretty well. I'm encouraged. The imminent economic stimulus package and Federal Reserve cuts are providing further encouragement,