Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olin Browne

What makes it really hard is it's not a reaction sport, ... This is a premeditation sport. You're walking down the fairway, considering what your options are on the next shot that you're going to hit, how you're going to handle it, where you're going to go with it what you're going to do ... you get your head handed to you a lot out here. You know, the people that do well out here are able to absorb that, deal with it, put it in a little compartment, send it somewhere where they don't need to be in and move on to the next step.

Proverb Proverbs

Unless a serpent devour a serpent it will not become a dragon. Unless one power absorb another, it will not become great.

Matt Griffin

We're going to continue to put a lot on them mentally and see how they absorb it and how they react on the field.

Tom Hines

We're beginning to appreciate that baby boomers aren't traditional retirees; they plan to be active, whether that means working, volunteering or continuing to run a business. On the other hand, affluent individuals may continue to work to absorb steep and ever-climbing healthcare costs when they retire.

Bob Brown

I didn't want to be a shock absorber; I wanted to deliver the shock.

Bob Meyer

We started off with losses to two very good football teams, but we told the boys, 'One game at a time,' and that's the way we're approaching it. They're getting better every week. Our kids work really had and they absorb everything we're trying to teach them. I'm probably the happiest 2-2 coach in the state of Michigan.

Shawn Campbell

Where the men are going to get separated from the boys here is: Who can absorb higher energy and raw materials costs, pass those on in their pricing and have them stick as opposed to absorbing it in lower margins.

Niki Tsongas

Body armor is meant to fit snug to the body to stop shrapnel and absorb a bullet's impact. Armor designed for a boxier male frame does not fit properly on the overwhelming majority of females, who have a very different stature and body type than their male counterparts.

David Rusenko

Facebook has focused on the conversation, but not really on absorbing the Web into its walled garden.

Jon Heacock

We felt like we needed to bolster our lines on both sides. I felt like we did that.

James Niosi

We're experiencing a wait-and-see attitude because it's widely expected that earnings will not be that great. The odd surprise will help bolster the market but more importantly investors are waiting to hear guidance heading into the next quarter.

Dave Dombrowski

We're extremely pleased to have a person of his makeup and his ability to bolster the bullpen.

Michael Specter

By themselves, genetically engineered crops will not end hunger or improve health or bolster the economies of struggling countries. They won't save the sight of millions or fortify their bones. But they will certainly help.

Mark Richt

We want to make sure that we play someone that everyone in the nation would care about and can bolster how people, how voters feel about you if you win.

Vagit Alekperov

We're constantly on the look-out for new projects and monitoring the market. We'd like to bolster our core assets, including exploration, refining, processing and retailing assets in the regions where we have a strong presence.

Jon Daniels

He is a youthful starting pitcher with an excellent track record that includes an All-Star selection, and will bolster our starting rotation.

David Bahlman

The purpose of the list is to raise public awareness of the plight of these buildings in order to help bolster neighborhood and community allies who are also trying to save these buildings.

Rich Greenfield

Going direct over a broadband connection is a smart business and I think you'll see other broadcasters follow suit. This continues to bolster our view that you should be investing in content and programming over pure distribution like cable operators.

Julie Gerberding

We remain sobered by the ongoing transmission in Hong Kong, China and probably Singapore,

Scott Horne

We're going to see dramatic growth. The launch of third-generation mobile services in China is going to require new services.

Tony Blair

We believe you can achieve much more through persuasion and by encouraging China to open up to the outside world than by turning your back on China,

Brad Smith

We believe we have a set of principles that ensure we comply with all of our legal obligations in China and other countries and ensure we are consistent with the broad principles that the Internet creates and people's desire for free expression.

David Miller

We're keen supporters of permanent normal trade relations for China, ... Trade relations with China is as important to us as it is to the Chinese.

A. Johnson

Unless something is done about China in the Doha round, the developing world will lose tens of billions of dollars in exports.

Christopher Cox

United States' transfer of technology to the People's Republic of China has been the target of serious PRC efforts over the last two decades,

Ben Smith

With the introduction of the only non-stop service to Shanghai, Air Canada continues to expand its services to meet the needs of travelers and freight forwarders in the fast growing China market.

Steve Clarke

We're going to double our business in China in the next two years.

Adam Ereli

We've asked the government of Libya to identify the source of the interference and resolve the problem. And we'll be continuing to investigate it.

Joshua A. Norton

To Mr. Seward: It is my desire that, in case Maximillian will surrender, he be sent here a prisoner of war, but that in the event of his continuing the war, or refusing to surrender, then he be shot.

John Barnes

We remain very committed to continuing with this process.

John Hughs

What we're seeing is this kind off continuing correction in tech stocks that began a few weeks ago. The money is leaving tech and going to what we call value stocks.

Mark E. Smith

What we're more focused on is continuing to get the aid and necessary supplies to those in need.

Bill Corr

What they've said to the court is that the industry's illegal activities are continuing to this day. And that's the most important thing because that's what they have to prove to win this case.

John Lucas

We broke students into two groups. The first group could be accepted here as freshmen and full-time undergrads. The other 64 are enrolled in a continuing studies program, which they can do for a limited amount of time. They are people seeking temporary assistance.

Charlie McDonald

We believe we made a fair and equitable offer to bring the negotiation process to a successful conclusion, especially in an airline industry environment that is experiencing massive concessionary agreements. Over the next 30 days, we remain committed to continuing to work with the IBT.

Larry Johnston

We believe this transaction increases shareholder value by capturing strong value for the ongoing business enterprise, monetizing valuable real estate assets, and affording shareowners the opportunity to benefit from a substantial continuing ownership interest in a powerful, growing and vibrant new company.

Stefan Worrall

What we're seeing now is a very sharp turnaround in exports and this was reflected in the GDP numbers.

Michael Blythe

We are getting the investment we need to see. It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

Michael Blythe

We are getting the investment we need to see, ... It continues the theme of rebalancing in the economy: slowing consumer spending and housing being replaced with stronger exports and investment.

Keith Collins

U. S. meat exports continue to be heavily influenced by animal diseases.

Purnomo Yusgiantoro

With the instruction, we have to reduce oil exports on consideration that it will be more economical and can lower our fuel oil production costs,

Michael Every

With the import side holding up more strongly than exports for now, the Reserve Bank is unlikely to respond with lower interest rates in the near term.

Keith Collins

We're still expecting poultry exports year-over-year to go up. Our major poultry export markets are places like Russia and Mexico and China, and they continue to buy from us.

Julie Bishop

My point is this, the Government made this decision to ban totally beef exports into Indonesia, even to compliant abattoirs and this will have enormous consequences for the beef cattle industry across Australia.

Yoshiki Shinke

With the recent strength in exports and production, as well as robust consumer spending, capital spending will rise steadily.

Joe Hudak

We've always wanted to try to figure out ways to improve our attendance. There's no doubt it's a great advantage if you can have a lot of people in the stands cheering for you and cheering against your opponents.

Clint Hurdle

We've always wanted to improve our bullpen, but until this year we weren't able to get the pieces we wanted. It's been frustrating. . . . It's not easy to spend the bulk of the game battling for a lead and then seeing it get away. . . . Now we have some depth. We have some quality arms.

Tim Hesson

We've always tried to take a look around the corner. If we are going to spend this money, is there any possibility to do something different or to better improve the infrastructure tomorrow, even if we can't leverage it today?

Henry Garza

When we were old enough, he took us out there, and we tried to do it, too, man. We improved musically, but as far as getting anywhere, I can't really say that Nashville was the place.

Jodi Howell

You don't lose a shooting touch; it just likes to go on vacation for a little bit. I've been working in the gym on my own. I think I'm back to where I was and hopefully I can improve that a little bit more.

Chris Woods

Tony is a hard-working guy, who physically is a work in progress. His best days are ahead of him. He's dramatically improved from where he was a year ago.

Craig Pletenik

We're making some of the best academic improvement in the state, and we've got a bureaucratic blunder that we're trying to correct, and the state won't accept the correction.

Peter Larson

We're making some improvements as to where the decision points on the highways are going to be. We are getting rid of the weave actions that currently happen between the Chenengo River and Interchange 7. At Interchange 4 with Route 7. We're adding lanes where necessary to improve the capacity of the highway.

Alan Rifkin

We remain very positive on the home improvement sector and Home Depot's prospects, particularly given current valuation levels. Home Depot shares are currently trading in line with the five-year historic low forward price-to-earnings ratio, based on consensus estimates.

Kurt Eichenwald

When it came to dire warnings about Obamacare, the Republicans were the kings of 'swing and a miss.' People would flee the health care industry to avoid Obamacare? Nope - according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care gained about 1 million new jobs in preparation for increased demand.

Richard White

When I was a kid growing up and my dad owned the drug store, it stopped dead on Labor Day. That was it. People left, and you didn't see them again until Memorial Day. There was no Columbus Day, no Thanksgiving, no New Year's Day. There was none of that.

John Pickett

Tomorrow we've got a big labor number coming out and that may give someone a reason to get back in the market or to continue to get out.

Richard Miranda

We're meeting to go over laboratory test results and formulate a plan for what we're going to do about this.

Doug Steenland

We remain open to exploring various options to attain the needed labor costs savings but we need to resolve the issue quickly.

Chris Wiegand

We're going to get some weak numbers. The ISM report is going to be weak and that we're in store for a labor report that's weaker than what we've seen over the past four or five months.

Bob Krabbe

We're going to fight that vigorously. If the company were to have its way, we would be looking at losing literally thousands of jobs to overseas labour. This is something that we have not seen at any other airline. United (Airlines) in its worst days has never tried to do this.

Thomas Shannon

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of investment they need, they get the kind of trade they need and they have the flexibility within their labor markets to generate employment.

Harley Shaiken

What we're looking at in Seattle is a debate over the rules of the game and how the environment and labor will be treated -- whether they will be debated elsewhere or whether they will become part of the core discussions about trade.

Anthony Dragona

We've always worked cooperatively with the department, and we're only asking for cost of living increases.

J. M. Roberts

We've always said this about Alaska: nasty-ass weather, warm people. I never experienced 32 below before. ... My Irish blood has been thinned out by years of living in California.

Joyce Foreman

When we were living there, we always knew there was the danger of something catastrophic happening down there because New Orleans is below sea level.

Matthew Caws

When we were 14, it was Cost of Living. Then later, it was Because Because Because. That band was real ambitious and networking, looking for a deal. And that sucked, so we broke up. Nada Surf was formed for fun.

Desarae Garland

When I was a freshman living in the dorms I went home a lot, but now that I live off-campus I really can't stay home for a long period of time.

Rudi Zeif

We remain hopeful that there are living people among the missing that we can rescue. As we clear the beams we'll send dogs into the rubble to search for them.

Tom Thomson

We're going to drive the people off the land who have been living on it and working it for generations. It's going to destroy our No. 1 industry: tourism.

Kent Beck

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist.

Gary Bardini

What we're living on is a system that has been built over 100 years. It certainly is not up to the current practices that we would do in levee design, so we're doing our best with resources available to make the necessary improvements.

Bob Romeo

We've averaging 61 points per game, but the thing that makes me the proudest about this team is its defense. We've held teams to an average of 31 points per game. A lot of players get to play (as a result of big leads), and that means the kids on the bench are doing a good job defensively as well.

Steve Manzuik

We've assigned it our 'High' rating, which means the vulnerability allows for code execution,

Graeme Smith

We've always wanted to play positive, winning cricket, and if we can win this series, it means we can put a tick against this summer.

Mark Berry

When we were leaving, Jerry (Narron) said, 'You're going to come to Cincinnati and see us play next year,' ... He moved his thumb. His mother said that means 'OK.' I got pretty choked up. Jerry did, too.

Vicente Fox

When it comes down to it, for Mexico, the FTAA means being able to go forward toward development, in the fight against poverty, in job creation and economic growth,

Doug Mosier

We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.

Chris Harper

We're so young that when they start to press, we think that means we need to speed up.

Glenn Miller

We're going to take back our country by whatever means necessary.

Nitin Gupta

We're going to see some type of portable device that offers some PDA elements but is very consumer-focused, and that means more entertainment functionality.

Richard Thomas

We're manning up production as much as we can, ... We can only produce so many.

James Ritterbusch

We're going to see refineries further ramp up gasoline production as they come back on line. Concerns about gasoline will fade as this results in increased stocks.

Brian Jennings

We're going to see a rapid growth in production and use of ethanol.

Dan Bailey

We're going to go into immediate production after the trials, ... We've been below the radar screen. We're in an industry that doesn't attract much attention.

George Pipas

Whenever production and demand are out of balance, you have incentives. Toyota and Honda have the advantage of a more clean-sheet approach, so they have capacity more in balance with demand.

Wolfgang Bernhard

When we export to the United States, to the NAFTA region, we lose three-digit-million numbers, ... That raises questions about our European production facilities.

Michael Price

When we heard about the Bay Street production and how wonderful it was, we knew audiences would love this musical and that it would be perfect for our first touring venture across the country.

Steven Wood

Unless there is a quick rebound in sales, this suggests further weakness in production and declines in inventories over the months ahead.

Gary Hufbauer

U.S. multinationals are still spending most of their R&D dollars here in the U.S. -- about 90 percent. It could shift, but it has not shifted yet. Where the link is weaker that just because a firm does its R&D here by no means means it's obligated to do its production in the U.S.

Rev. Donaldson

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

Jill Levenson

What happens is that these guys are being pushed farther and farther into rural communities, where they have less access to the treatment in mental health they need, less access to employment opportunities . . . and they may be more difficult to monitor and supervise,

Jill Levenson

What happens is that these guys are being pushed farther and farther in to rural communities where they have less access to the treatment in mental health they need, less access to employment opportunities ... and they may be more difficult to monitor and supervise,

George H. W. Bush

We're moving eight choppers over, ... One of the biggest concerns for the government of Pakistan is not enough airlift capacity to get in some of the rural areas where people are suffering.

Howard Dean

Work with Mexico to improve economies in rural America and rural Mexico, and you will stop the flood of people wanting to come to America.

J. M. Roberts

We're barely meeting the core in rural Utah.

Charles Lamb

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

Marco Rubio

The poverty found in rural areas has some characteristics that are very different from the poverty found in inner cities.

Ibrahim Lipumba

The persistence of poverty in Tanzania, especially in the rural areas, is cause for concern.

Ed Silliere

We're just so far below normal on our demand projections that there's just no shortage of natural gas and, in fact, there's a surplus of natural gas. Surprise, surprise.

Alan Greenspan

I came to a stark realization: chronic surpluses could be almost as destabilizing as chronic deficits.

Angela Veitch

With the winter to summer transition, there's no air mattress below the high wire as far as surplus gas is concerned.

Michael Molligan

We're still living off a couple of years of surplus rainfall. We can get through a continued dry spring, as long as the summer rains come when they're supposed to.

Benjamin Graham

Whether we like it or not, government intervention in the face of surplus is here to stay.

John Kasich

We are going to make every effort to try to lock up the surplus in payroll taxes for Social Security and Medicare, ... Our tax cut doesn't come from Medicare.

Martin Sullivan

We want to grow the organization and improve returns to shareholders, ... If at some stage there is surplus capital - we're not at that stage now - we will return it in the optimal manner.

Steve Troxler

We want to collect as many supplies as possible, ... I encourage North Carolina farmers who have extra or surplus items to donate to their counterparts in Mississippi.

Peter Lynch

People were writing off California a couple of years ago, now they have a massive surplus. Canada is running its first surplus in 20 years and Mexico is doing well. Wouldn't you have been shocked if someone told you that the U.S. would have been running a surplus?

Romeo Serra

We respect the position of the CBCP in regard to the mining issue although we believe that the revitalization of the mining industry presents as a major viable alternative in the effective abatement of poverty in Mindanao.

Bob Rogers

We're going to get together and start to work. There are a lot of communities out there that faced similar problems and came up with viable options. I think we can come up with something that will work for Kent.

Donald Rumsfeld

What they're doing is they're trying to pretend that they're functioning well, leave the impression that people should give them money, their financiers, leave the impression that they're a viable organization and that they should get recruits, and just generally give encouragement to their people,

Jess Blackburn

What he is saying is that $80 billion remains a viable and reachable goal. He's not being as specific as to the timeline.

Craig Foster

We believe we have done this in a way that not only rewards players for their achievements at the highest level of the game, but ensures all players actively contribute to FFA's efforts to establish football in Australia as a fully professional and commercially viable sport.

Stephen Cooper

We believe this process will lead to the maximization of value of Enron's core energy assets and the mitigation of risk by removing viable operations out from under Chapter 11, ... fire sale.

Frank Rawa

We're going to have to show this is a viable organization before we go after government grants again.

Chris Chiames

We feel that we're in a good position, that this will make us a stronger airline, ... We'll be able to clean up our financial status with regard to balance sheets and aircraft that are too expensive to fly, and emerge as a stronger, more viable competitor on the East Coast, where most of our flights are operating.

Rick Torres

We're just looking to provide balance in the city and to offer viable alternatives.