Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Greenspan

Lowering the deficit further in the near term, however, will be difficult in light of the need to pay for post-hurricane reconstruction and relief,

Alan Greenspan

There is a limit to how long and how far deficits can be sustained,

Tony Cristaldi

We have a significant deficit in rainfall, The fire threat remains quite high.

David Bradley

UH-Downtown has a very severe space deficit at this time.

Kent Conrad

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

Jason Schenker

With the year-on-year deficit in gasoline and with economic growth it is hard to be bearish about energy in the short or medium term. The manufacturing and retail numbers, the regional and national numbers, wherever you look they are positive. The same goes for overseas.

Benedict XVI

But its ultimate roots can be seen as moral and spiritual; they are linked to a disturbing deficit of faith, hope and, indeed, love.

Joe Barton

Basically, it takes the money and spends it all. It doesn't leave anything for deficit reduction.

Matt Bennett

I don't think you would have seen a gathering like this six years ago, before 9/11, or even two or four years ago. This is a 35-year deficit Democrats have had on national security where it's been an issue to be survived, not highlighted.

David Hume

Habit may lead us to belief and expectation but not to the knowledge, and still less to the understanding, of lawful relations.

Bear Grylls

You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.

Audre Lorde

For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be altered at the same time that we alter the living condition which are the result of those structures. For the master's tool will never dismantle the master's house.

Frederic Bastiat

Nothing is more senseless than to base so many expectations on the state, that is, to assume the existence of collective wisdom and foresight after taking for granted the existence of individual imbecility and improvidence.

Kelly Trahon

Wayland has a strong program so I expected this to be a good game.

Ray Johnson

We always expect a good game from them. It's playoff intensity.

Derek Jacobi

Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

Alan Dundes

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

Al Gore

I have absolutely no plans and no expectations of ever being a candidate again.

Anthony Burke

We're seeing tremendous increases each year in the number of taxpayers e-filing their returns from home.

Liliana Rambo

We're looking at being able to increase the number of on-street spaces. We're working with the public works department.

Eliot Spitzer

Like everyone else, I am wary about the way spending is being increased at some levels.

Temple Grandin

One big question that's come up is: Has autism increased on the mild side of things? I don't think so - they've always been here. Some of this is increased detection.

Bryan Hopkins

We have increased results by more than 400 percent in the last two years because we have the right tools, people and process in place.

Kevin Norrish

One question would be whether it would be necessary for an increase in production in order to make up for Nigeria. I have a feeling, they probably view that as a bonus.

Akira Takei

One more rate increase may be enough for the U.S. economy.

Alfred Neuman

Money still talks these days! Trouble is, you have to increase the volume alot!

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

David Rockefeller

It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months.

Ron Jirsa

We are going to have to get tougher if we are going to go on through this month and make anything happen.

Jane Austen

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

Jane Austen

Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance.

Olympia Snowe

The reality is, this is a very different world than where we were even six months ago,

Sylvia Harriss

We usually give the restaurants a month to submit their checks.

Shimon Peres

The pope said he will go in the first months of next year.

Patrick Biancone

She has been treated and will spend a month at Ashford Stud.

Rob Glaser

six months to a year from now is realistic.

Arthur Ransome

When a thing's done, it's done, and if it's not done right, do it differently next time.

Denis Leary

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about.

Dee Dee Ramone

I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

Diana Gabaldon

I'll scream!" "Likely. If not before, certainly during. I expect they'll hear ye at the next farm; you've got good lungs.

Al Capp

My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.

Al Goldstein

Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.

Charles Babbage

The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.

Alanis Morissette

When I'm really, really angry, if I'm privileged enough to be next to someone who can hold my anger, I'll definitely take them up on holding the bucket.

LeeAnn Palo

Let them do it next year. They've got a lot of time left.

David Walliams

There's a sort of magic and music to comedy. Some words, some numbers even, are funnier than others. A Caramac bar, for instance, is funnier than a Milky Way.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

David Hilbert

However unapproachable these problems may seem to us and however helpless we stand before them, we have, nevertheless, the firm conviction that their solution must follow by a finite number of purely logical processes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Barry Bostwick

I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

Derek Fisher

I'm not chasing money, so I'm not looking at just trying to stretch out a deal artificially just to have a certain number.

Deb Caletti

The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

Deb Caletti

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

Alan Dershowitz

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

David Dixon

Always expect the unexpected. The oil and gas industry is terrible at predicting anything. Always have a back-up plan.

Dennis Kucinich

We need to see the connection between global warring and global warming, and it's oil. Sustainability is the path to peace.

Al Gore

The misconception that there is serious disagreement among scientists about global warming is actually an illusion that has been deliberately fostered by a relatively small but extremely well-funded cadre of special interests, including Exxon Mobil and a few other oil, coal, and utilities companies. These companies want to prevent any new policies that would interfere with their current business plans that rely on the massive unrestrained dumping of global warming pollution into the Earth's atmosphere every hour of every day.

Al Gore

The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

Al Gore

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Jared Bernstein

What you don't hear from these GOP candidates is that they really can't go after this president on domestic production of oil and gas. He's actually done quite a lot. In fact, I would suspect they're environmentalists who are worried that we're doing too much drilling and fracking, in fact. I know that for a fact.

Carol Browner

There could be oil coming up until August.

Bobby Ray Inman

Iraq is not about oil.

Bob Dylan

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Alison Goate

One particular allele of this polymorphism was being transmitted to alcoholics in these families.

Dorothy Sanders

One team tried to put a box-and-one on Monica. Another team tried to double-team the post. Each time somebody tries to shut down one particular player or area, the other parts of the team have stepped up.

Jeffrey Bryant

One who has never been tempted with a particular sin can never feel proud for staying pure of it.

Sergey Lavrov

must be aimed at making this happen, not making any threat which at this particular stage is not appropriate.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

John Keats

Point me out the way / To any one particular beauteous star.

Ed Smith

One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

Tom Kloza

One would wonder what the prices would be if it had actually been cold.

Pete Domenici

My constituents think somebody is rigging those prices and that they are getting ripped off.

Mark Sullivan

Many are wondering how prices could go up so quickly after the hurricane.

Louis Navellier

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.

Mark Clare

With wholesale prices where they are, all suppliers are going to have to put prices up in 2006, and I think that is inevitable.

Tim Noest

If it doesn't get there, prices will rise again. They may not be able to find the ships.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Henry Hwang

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Barry Commoner

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

Charles Darwin

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Blaise Pascal

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it

Blaise Pascal

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

Blaise Pascal

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Gregg Shotwell

We're just going to have to take them to the mat. There's no reason to take concessions. It doesn't save jobs.

John Kasich

The reason we have such a reform budget is because we've been thinking about these things for a long time.

Jenna Morasca

Gossiping and squawking for no reason is really pointless.

Linda Cohen

Let's see which one rises to the top.

Bruce Springsteen

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

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.

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.

Ralph Nader

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

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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

Hugh Johnson

We'll have some bewildering rises and some bewildering, if not shocking, declines.

David Hilbert

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

David Hockney

Until I saw my drawings replayed on the iPad, I'd never seen myself draw. Someone watching me would be concentrating on the exact moment, but I'd always be thinking a little bit ahead. That's especially so in a drawing where you are limiting yourself, a line drawing for example. When you are doing them you are very tense, because you have to reduce everything to such simple terms.

David Hockney

It takes a long time to make it simple.

David Hockney

I'm rather shocked by what I thought was simple mindedness actually. I thought they're not looking, they're not actually looking.

David Hockney

Anything simple always interests me.

David Hume

The whole of natural theologyresolves itself into one simple, though somewhat ambiguous proposition, That the cause or causesof order in the universe probably bear some remote analogy to human intelligence.

David Hume

We find in the course of nature that though the effects be many, the principles from which they arise are commonly few and simple, and that it is the sign of an unskilled naturalist to have recourse to a different quality in order to explain every different operation.

David Hume

What praise is implied in the simple epithet useful! What reproach in the contrary.

Bear Grylls

Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.

Brendan Sexton III

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

Daren Beaudo

Right now we don't know how big of a spill we have.

James Salter

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives...

Brian Giles

That's OK. Just as long as they don't spill any of the beer.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

Laila Robins

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

Nina Hoss

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Daniel Hannan

Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to keep us there, because we buy from them more than we sell to them to the tune of £40 million per day.

Benjamin Franklin

No nation has ever been ruined by trade.

William Shakespeare

Music, moody food Of us that trade in love.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Rose Smith

I wouldn't trade any of this for the world.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Brenda Fassie

I am a shocker. I like to create controversy. It's my trademark.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Donald Trump

We're going to renegotiate trade deals.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Miles Austin

She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed.

Patricia Bryant

She was there until the week before she died.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Chuck Hill

I would have expected, even without FD, to see more preannouncements this quarter. Things are worse out there.

Sean McCarthy

If we do nothing, things will get that much worse sooner.

Andy Roddick

I got out there and it was just stiff. It got progressively worse the more I moved. I just didn't feel real comfortable for the whole match.

Quentin Richardson

Just when I thought we couldn't get any worse or go any lower, we find another way to do it.

Dusty Baker

He's day to day. He's no better or worse than he was yesterday.

Gerhard Richter

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

Derrick Brooks

It could be a whole lot worse then where we are.

Richard Madden

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.

Craig Barlow

That was even worse than being in the right bunker.