We are still breaking new highs, but I think we are starting to run out of steam.
EDMUND SHING It's a little bit of a cooling off, but a half percent isn't bad.
EDMUND SHING Everybody thought it was a done deal on Friday, but now they are not so sure.
EDMUND SHING It is all M&A fueled. The momentum is very much on the back of M&A stories, but there comes a point ...
EDMUND SHING The guidance is going up and the numbers were above expectations across the board, particularly on t...
EDMUND SHING Miners have been massive in the past 12 months. The commodity bull-run has been enormous.
EDMUND SHING Consumers will be squeezed with higher interest rates, which is not good news for the market general...
EDMUND SHING In terms of disclosure, we haven't known a lot about the cost structure.
EDMUND SHING The guidance is good, and people are happy about the numbers.
EDMUND SHING In the end, it doesn't matter how many breaths you take, but how many moments took your breath away.
SHING XIONG We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it dema...
LI KA-SHING The future may be made up of many factors but where it truly lies is in the hearts and minds of men....
LI KA-SHING To be honest, we are not sitting on our 3G licenses. We are now going at full speed.
LI KA-SHING Sound economic fundamentals coupled with a number of positive factors have partially offset the psyc...
LI KA-SHING I am very satisfied with the results.
LI KA-SHING Information and communications technology unlocks the value of time, allowing and enabling multi-tas...
LI KA-SHING Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thoug...
LI KA-SHING The prospect of 3G (third-generation mobile phone networks) is very good but anything, even the best...
LI KA-SHING I don't think Husky is for sale; it's doing well, the potential is great and its production will inc...
LI KA-SHING That is a conservative forecast.
LI KA-SHING The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
EDMUND BURKE Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; fo...
EDMUND BURKE Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this ...
EDMUND MORGAN The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
EDMUND BURKE Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
EDMUND HILLARY Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
EDMUND WALLER I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useles...
EDMUND HILLARY A State which has universal suffrage and a wide extension of the jury franchise, must qualify the pe...
EDMUND BARTON Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny ...
EDMUND HILLARY I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for ...
EDMUND HILLARY Ambition can creep as well as soar.
EDMUND BURKE One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKE Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We...
EDMUND PHELPS Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past ...
EDMUND MORGAN There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under ...
EDMUND BURKE But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.
EDMUND SPENSER I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
EDMUND WILSON The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagi...
EDMUND WILSON The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
EDMUND WILSON All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
EDMUND WILSON His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship...
EDMUND WILSON Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
EDMUND WILSON Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
EDMUND WILSON No two persons ever read the same book.
EDMUND WILSON If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a so...
EDMUND WILSON If you're a beach person or a golfer, Key West is not for you. Most of the sand has been importe...
EDMUND WHITE I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West...
EDMUND WHITE If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned to...
EDMUND WHITE Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends o...
EDMUND WHITE Europeans forget that one-third of the American people have had a personal conversation with Jesus C...
EDMUND WHITE Looking back, I can see that the women I loved, at least early on, were status symbols. I suppose, i...
EDMUND WHITE Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, a...
EDMUND WHITE Barack Obama's decision to come out in favour of gay marriage may be a historic occasion, but it...
EDMUND WHITE I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it sho...
EDMUND WHITE In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.
EDMUND WHITE New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e...
EDMUND WHITE Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goof...
EDMUND WHITE In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a ...
EDMUND WHITE There ought to be more grants that go to people in their late twenties and early thirties. That'...
EDMUND WHITE The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of...
EDMUND WHITE Key West is the place where your sickly house plant back in New York grows to 10 ft. It's also t...
EDMUND WHITE In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys,...
EDMUND WHITE I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the 'blue chip gays.' I me...
EDMUND WHITE Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE When I was young, I despised old people. I was provincial and narrow-minded. It's the reason I s...
EDMUND WHITE I think sincerity was my sole aesthetic and realism my experimental technique.
EDMUND WHITE Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
EDMUND WALLER His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
EDMUND WALLER So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
EDMUND WALLER A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but wh...
EDMUND WALLER Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
EDMUND WALLER Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
EDMUND WALLER Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
EDMUND WALLER Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
EDMUND WALLER How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
EDMUND WALLER Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to the...
EDMUND WALLER And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still m...
EDMUND WALLER Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
EDMUND WALLER Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
EDMUND WALLER Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
EDMUND WALLER All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
EDMUND WALLER The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
EDMUND WALLER To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
EDMUND WALLER Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the so...
EDMUND WALLER He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received ...
EDMUND SPENSER Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
EDMUND SPENSER What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
EDMUND SPENSER Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
EDMUND SPENSER And all for love, and nothing for reward.
EDMUND SPENSER The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by ...
EDMUND SPENSER And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
EDMUND SPENSER It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER I'm hoping that the administration and other thought leaders will succeed eventually in bringing...
EDMUND PHELPS Economists of a classical bent lay a large part of the decline of employment, and thus lagging outpu...
EDMUND PHELPS Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid...
EDMUND PHELPS The best part of the high school in Hastings must have been the Music Department. Its orchestra and ...
EDMUND PHELPS In societies where one sees a higher prevalence of 'modern values' - individualism, vitalism...
EDMUND PHELPS I started to think about what drives innovation and what its social significance might be. The next ...
EDMUND PHELPS The good life, as it is popularly conceived, typically involves acquiring mastery in one's work,...
EDMUND PHELPS The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up...
EDMUND PHELPS What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but ...
EDMUND PHELPS Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the cl...
EDMUND PHELPS In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a compara...
EDMUND PHELPS I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an ...
EDMUND PHELPS I didn't do my work for money or prizes - only for the excitement of discovery.
EDMUND PHELPS I just think that the Europeans are depriving themselves of a high-employment economy, and they are ...
EDMUND PHELPS At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are...
EDMUND PHELPS An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare stat...
EDMUND PHELPS Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies ...
EDMUND PHELPS Without being aware, I think I was being indoctrinated into what was called Vitalism, the idea that ...
EDMUND PHELPS When the word 'morality' comes up in connection with economics, income distribution and fina...
EDMUND PHELPS My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t...
EDMUND PHELPS Corporatist attitudes against capitalism came to the fore in the 1920s. Corporatists, with their con...
EDMUND PHELPS Expertise and judgment in the art of lending for novel ventures must be reacquired.
EDMUND PHELPS Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constituti...
EDMUND MORGAN The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particu...
EDMUND MORGAN Between 1776 and 1789, Americans replaced a government over them with a government under them. They ...
EDMUND MORGAN Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchan...
EDMUND MORGAN The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer ...
EDMUND MORGAN It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is ...
EDMUND MORGAN Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson s...
EDMUND MORGAN Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who...
EDMUND MORGAN In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jeffer...
EDMUND MORGAN No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
EDMUND MORGAN Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, ...
EDMUND MORGAN The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that the...
EDMUND MORGAN The Puritans left behind so full a record of what they thought and did that scholars cannot resist t...
EDMUND MORGAN The southern colonists were not preoccupied with their own historical significance and mostly did no...
EDMUND MORGAN To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one fro...
EDMUND MORGAN Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not bea...
EDMUND LEACH The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between ...
EDMUND LEACH Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets...
EDMUND LEACH Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make u...
EDMUND HUSSERL Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research...
EDMUND HUSSERL Psychologically experienced consciousness is therefore no longer pure consciousness; construed Objec...
EDMUND HUSSERL What is thematically posited is only what is given, by pure reflection, with all its immanent essent...
EDMUND HUSSERL If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reali...
EDMUND HUSSERL To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the ...
EDMUND HUSSERL Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of st...
EDMUND HUSSERL In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherei...
EDMUND HUSSERL We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
EDMUND HUSSERL Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
EDMUND HUSSERL To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.
EDMUND HUSSERL It just is nothing foreign to consciousness at all that could present itself to consciousness throug...
EDMUND HUSSERL Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which...
EDMUND HUSSERL At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, proc...
EDMUND HUSSERL Within this widest concept of object, and specifically within the concept of individual object, Obje...
EDMUND HUSSERL Experience by itself is not science.
EDMUND HUSSERL I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
EDMUND HILLARY While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worke...
EDMUND HILLARY Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
EDMUND HILLARY I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there'...
EDMUND HILLARY I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
EDMUND HILLARY I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevas...
EDMUND HILLARY The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
EDMUND HILLARY My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be ta...
EDMUND HILLARY No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
EDMUND HILLARY Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
EDMUND HILLARY Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.
EDMUND HILLARY I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
EDMUND HILLARY It's not a real adventure when you have to pay for it.
EDMUND HILLARY There is something about building up a comradeship - that I still believe is the greatest of all fea...
EDMUND HILLARY If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this moun...
EDMUND HILLARY I say further that our system of education should be unsectarian.
EDMUND BARTON The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference ...
EDMUND BARTON Creating a nation requires the will of the people!
EDMUND BARTON If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of ed...
EDMUND BARTON It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
EDMUND BARTON She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
EDMUND BURKE My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
EDMUND BURKE The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; ...
EDMUND BURKE By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassin...
EDMUND MORGAN The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up a...
EDMUND BURKE But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resist...
EDMUND BURKE What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
EDMUND BURKE The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses...
EDMUND WALLER The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
EDMUND WALLER The balance of power.
EDMUND BURKE Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures.
EDMUND BURKE You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the re...
EDMUND BURKE I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
EDMUND BURKE There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they c...
EDMUND BURKE The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purp...
EDMUND BURKE Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their c...
EDMUND PHELPS I am, I must confess, suspicious of those who denounce others for having too much sex. At what point...
EDMUND WHITE If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKE Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting...
EDMUND MORRISON It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
EDMUND SPENSER Who will not mercie unto others show, How can he mercie ever hope to have?
EDMUND SPENSER Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.
EDMUND SPENSER It is an honourable thing to be merciful to the vanquished.
EDMUND SPENSER Give time and permit a short delay, impetuosity ruins everything.
EDMUND SPENSER Anger manages everything badly.
EDMUND SPENSER There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]
EDMUND SPENSER