Driven Quotations | Page 9

If you think about what's really driven the drive in equity markets over the last couple of years, it's been those low interest rates. What's brought all the money in has been that we took short-term interest rates back from over 6 percent (several years ago) to 3 percent.

I just looked up and saw the van one day. I think I had driven up there for about a month.

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

In the morning, looking towards the sea side, the tide being low, I saw something lie on the shore bigger than ordinary, and it looked like a cask; when I came to it, I found a small barrel, and two or three pieces of the wreck of the ship, which were driven on shore by the late hurrican; and looking towards the wreck itself, I thought it seemed to lie higher out of the water than it used to do.

In the near term, we believe Juniper is in the early stages of a transition from a secular to a cyclical growth company, which keeps our rating equal-weight despite an attractive valuation relative to historical multiples. Over the next several years, we think Juniper is well positioned for a spending cycle driven by bandwidth demand, security, and the convergence of services onto IP networks.

In the near term we expect excitement to be driven by cross-border M&A and further material restructuring initiatives. Let the M&A dance begin.

In two years, it's matured so much beyond what we expected, so we don't get any resistance to the neighborhood. We don't get questions like, 'Why would I want to live here?' It's got to be Vulcan's marketing that has driven that.

In my youngest days, the nuns at my grammar school drummed into us that we were in this world to make it a better place - not just for ourselves, but for other people, too. So from the very beginning, I've been driven by this idea that we have to make a difference, and it's one of the reasons I went into law in the first place.

But I know Johan. Seven years in a row he's driven into Paris in car No. 1, and he doesn't want to drive in car No. 3 or 5 or 10.

But it hasn't. The debt market expects Greenspan will achieve a soft landing, which means corporate earnings aren't going to crash and the outlook for corporate borrowers remains positive. That's driven yields lower, which in turn has kept borrowing costs lower for companies.

Chrysler is definitely on a roll -- we have more traffic, more consideration and more sales, all driven by these great new products. We're going to grow Chrysler's market share and brand image through elegant designs, inspired engineering and exceptional value.

Behind it, the whole digital marketplace is driven by advertising . They're creating all this valuable real estate where you can put an ad.

He's totally consumed by racing, ... It's a passion. Everybody who succeeds highly is driven by what they're involved in, whether it's artists, writers, athletes or whatever.

He's so driven by coaching, he's not going to stop. He's coming back.

Chief financial officers are becoming better educated about the role and impact of logistics on financial performance, driven in part by the need to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOA). Many companies, however, do not have a clear and accurate understanding of their transportation costs. They're often bundled together with other costs and reported at an aggregated level, thus preventing companies from allocating transportation costs to specific products, customers, or business units.

I played really solid the last two days. But the key is that I've driven the ball well. Anybody who's put a low score up has driven the ball in the fairway.

I didn't even think about the upcoming season. I didn't care if I would get injured in this game. That's how much I wanted to win this game. That's how driven we were for this championship.

House prices tend to move seasonally, driven up by higher demand and activity in the warmer months and falling off towards Christmas. Just as the trading period over Christmas is crucial for the retail sector, the spring and summer are crucial for the housing market.

He's just a driven kid. He's just made tremendous strides throughout his career because he wanted it.

He's one of those special guys that doesn't come along very often. Watching his game, how he goes about his business, it's still very impressive. You can tell he's been able to do what he's done because he's different. He's more driven and more focused than any person I've ever been around in professional golf.

He's one of those special guys who doesn't come along very often. He's more driven and more focused than any person I've ever been around in professional golf.

How Chinese exports perform is largely driven by external demand rather than the exchange rate,

I don't know if anyone has noticed, but there are a lot of good race cars out here, ... This is the best field (of Funny Cars) I've ever seen and that goes back to the days of 'Snake' and 'Mongoose,' Bernstein and the 'Blue Max' (references to Don Prudhomme, Tom McEwen, Kenny Bernstein and the car driven by three-time champion Raymond Beadle). I raced against all of them and I got spanked regular. But, bottom line, it's tougher now. There are no easy rounds.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

German companies have stepped on the gas in the past 12 months. They're in conquering mode, and we've not hit the peak yet. There's a real M&A mania out there, and it's increasingly driven by globalization.

Humana's commercial business performed reasonably well this quarter, in part due to lower inpatient utilization trends, which also positively impacted the company's government operations. We think cost trends continue to decelerate in 2006, in part driven by slowing pharmacy costs.

We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible.

The volume server market continues to evolve as richer server configurations driven by both scale-out cluster implementations and scale-up server virtualization initiatives continue to drive increased customer spending.

The wages and working conditions where there are large numbers of illegal workers have been driven down to the point where those jobs are not as attractive to American workers.

This is a very important clue, because it indicates this program of fat storage is perpetuated as these cells divide. It's not driven strictly by over-nutrition.

They have salary requirements, and that gets passed along through tuition. That has driven up the cost of providing an education.

They were the fastest cars produced in 1987. Faster even than the Corvette. That's what made them famous. Everybody who's ever driven one of those cars is impressed with its speed and handling. To this day, there are all kinds of shootouts between the Grand Nationals and Mustangs.

They've spent the last five years trying to de-politicize the whole oil price setting mechanism, getting rid of the image of OPEC as a politically driven cartel, trying to portray themselves as central bankers and they are being asked to make a tough political choices now,

They waste us-ay-like April snow In the warm noon, we shrink away; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day- Till they shall fill the land, and we Are driven into the Western sea

It was amazing. Therapy for six and one-half years seems to have driven a dramatic effect.

It's a mature market area that hasn't seen a lot of new investment. The low vacancy rates are being driven by a lack of new inventory and relatively strong densities. As a result, new retail centers are performing well in the area.

It's clear that a significant portion of market demand was at the very low end of the PC market in the fourth quarter, driven largely by aggressive pricing and promotions.

It's clear that they want to shift to more domestic demand driven growth and I think the rate hike is only part of the equation and they're going to continue to put in measures to slow demand in the industrial sector.

It wasn't a nice situation. There was a wedge being driven between myself and my brother (Dan, the guitarist in The Darkness) and that's the relationship I've had with him all his life. It really was an awful, awful environment.

It was a great try from Mark Cueto and then a completely different try when Lewis Moody was driven over.

I remember reading something about you last year, that you had stated that America's economy's primarily driven on an inflated housing bubble.

Wars are fought on objectives, not on timetable, and that's why I've been so insistent upon not allowing ourselves to have policy driven by time table, but by objective.

I'm driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan .' And I did, and then God would tell me, 'George go and end the tyranny in Iraq ,' and I did.

In a few cases, the car can't even be driven away from the pump.

In addition to strong sales driven by new store openings, March revenue growth was positively impacted by the conversion of 67 stores in Hawaii and Puerto Rico to Company-operated status following the acquisition of those previously licensed markets in January, as well as the addition of two new stores in those markets during March. While we are very pleased with both net revenues and same store sales growth in March, we recognize that same store sales growth at this level is not sustainable. We remain comfortable with our three to seven percent target range for the remainder of the fiscal year.

My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God.

I like the idea of not looking at trends, not being driven by them. I like what I like and that's it.

Any regulations adopted since December 31, 1995 that damages or harms the value of your property by restricting how the property can be use would be subject to our initiative. Farmers are being driven off land by government regulations.

Anytime our student athletes can help win titles for the school in another sport, that's good for everybody. Jamaal and Brian have made all our spring practices and meetings. They know that football comes first. But it says a lot that they are driven enough to do both.

Appears to be a good quarter overall, driven by strong top-line growth and continued improvement in gross margins.

An element of it is investment driven but our research has found that most of it is from incredibly wealthy people who have done their homework and have become incredibly sophisticated buyers in a short space of time.

A number of mobile applications are driven by TV gaming, which is frankly not at the forefront of the business mind. You could look at entertainment as being a Trojan horse to the business community.

AOL's value is driven to the extreme merely because you had two industry giants fighting for it.

The Nasdaq is increasingly driven by a lot of day-to-day momentum players. Technically, (the Nasdaq) was oversold and they came rushing in. I think it's more of a bounce from yesterday's sharp sell-off.

The Nasdaq, which is largely driven by tech stocks, has soared 24 percent in the past three-week period, so today we're seeing some profit-taking as the market is refreshing.

So much of our business is driven by speed. Because of globalization, we have observed an intense pressure to reduce downtime and thus, increase overall productivity.

Sometimes you get the wrong person. Sometimes you are driven by prejudices.

Sonoco delivered on its key performance initiatives in 2005. The Company experienced sustained quarterly earnings increases, margin improvement and double-digit sales growth driven by acquisitions, improved company wide volume coming from significant new consumer product and market development, and geographical expansion. Our employees remained focused on meeting the needs of our customers while improving productivity and managing costs in all of our businesses. We continued our efforts to successfully hedge the majority of our natural gas needs to provide more certainty of energy costs, and we maintained a positive price/cost relationship, despite rising costs in most raw materials.

The business model is still principally subscriber driven with advertising being a nice add-on.

The broad picture looks better than expected but we have to watch figures very carefully. A downward correction driven by a relapse in consumer spending is very likely in the fourth quarter. That's why I remain cautious.

The budget will be driven by cost savings in the administration. We are putting the heat on ourselves to cut the cost of administration of state government.

The box office in general was very depressed last week and this week as well. It's always driven pretty much by the product and we don't have real strong product right now.

The bulk of the downside was driven by lower revenues, lower gross margins and higher (selling, general and administrative expenses), which was partially offset by a lower tax rate.

As a literature of change driven by technology, science fiction presents religion to a part of the reading public that probably seldom goes to church.

The Gulf of Mexico, back in the early 1990s, they called it the dead sea. That's not true anymore. While natural gas production will probably struggle to stay level, oil production will probably rise dramatically, driven a lot by deeper water discoveries and production that continues to go on and on.

The development team has worked extremely hard on creating unique and exciting features to appeal to every fan of the game. All these new features - the innovations in the batting system, the new pitching mechanics, Artificial Intelligence tendencies driven by Inside Edge, the new Pure Motion Physics movement system and so much more - combine together seamlessly to create an authentic and thrilling MLB video game.

The devotion that young Chinese feel to the Internet is driven by deep factors ranging from youth unemployment and income inequality to political repression and the demographic imbalance between men and women.

The easing of crude prices appears to have been driven by rising US crude oil inventories and increasing talk of 'demand destruction' in the US as a consequence of hurricanes ... and high retail oil prices.

The currency markets are much more driven by activity and data coming out of Europe and Japan right now.

The crunch is on refineries. The global market right now is driven by the product market in the United States, which is why the situation is pretty bad.

The current increase in ATE sales is primarily being driven by increasing capacity requirements for memory and SOC testers.

The future lies before you Like a field of driven snow, Be careful how you tread it, For every step will show.

The fundamentals are improving, and it's being driven by things like high-definition televisions. The programmers are putting these products out there, and you need more capacity for that.

The fundamentals for sustained M&A activity remain strong, and deal activity will be driven more by a buoyant economy, industrial restructuring, ongoing privatization and continuing regulatory and A-share reform. Major deals can also be expected in outbound investment as Chinese companies gain greater confidence in 2006.

The earnings quality was weak because the earnings growth was driven by lines that are very hard to forecast or unpredictable like trading incomes and acquired loan portfolios. These were the lines that really drove the earnings results and were unusually high this quarter.

The effort to restore our state requires a daring, yet realistic plan. A plan based on input from people in all walks of life. A plan created from the ground up. A plan driven by local needs. A plan inspired by innovation, ... We cannot simply re-create what the storms destroyed. We must make the new Louisiana smarter, safer and stronger.

The Do You Know A Brawny Man contest is really exciting because it is actually being driven by consumer interest. The Brawny Man has a bit of mystique about him that seems to intrigue people.

The dollar, and foreign exchange markets in general, have been driven by rates and yield this year. As we go into 2006, we see a lot of that yield advantage intact and U.S. rates rising more.

The dollar is going to be driven by policy, what (Treasury Secretary John) Snow says, and what happens in the G20 meeting, more than U.S. economic data.

The growth in our core businesses was healthy during the quarter driven by strength in Server and Tools, and the success of our Windows Client products in a robust PC market.

The growth is clearly being driven by internal demand, and that means Japan is recovering on its own.

The growth will be driven mainly by search.

The history of fiction is about family - an inexhaustible subject for literature. We are creatures driven by emotions that are on high display in intimate relations - inside the family.

The idea that a lot of things can get out without marketing clout is not there. I think there are complications for the next several years, as we are still in a theatrically driven mode.

. The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

The improvement in underlying sales has been driven by some price investment and by 'easy' improvements in availability that you would expect in the early stages of a recovery. Indeed, it is still too early to call any major recovery.

The increase has been larger this year than we've seen in the past. The introduction of some nationally known restaurants probably has driven traffic toward them, and we always see when a new restaurant opens, it tends to draw people to that area.

The increase in e-filing is really being driven by people using their home computers. E-file is the safe, accurate way for taxpayers to quickly finish their taxes and get a refund.

All eyes will be turned to the Fed. The market will be driven in and around the Fed meeting ? it could be a sell on the story because 50 basis points (a half-percentage point) is already built into the market.

The guy was driven not to let that happen again this year.

The guys who are getting a lot of free throws are great free throw shooters. J.P. shot like 500 every day this summer. He's the most meticulous, driven worker. There's a reason why they're shooting like that. Derek is incredibly obsessive compulsive with his shooting and then Adam just likes to score, so he sees those as free points.

The character can't go any further. She's slept with her brother-in-law, driven her sister to drink, become a blackmailer. What else is left?

The holiday season was strong with fourth quarter (same-store sales) up 14.6 percent. Momentum entering spring is evident, driven by an appealing spring line.

The initiative's goal was not to drive business to one wholesaler, but to reduce pharmaceutical costs for participating hospitals. This regional effort was driven by our membership and really showed how hospitals can work together to affect change.

Their lives were intertwined in need, driven by greed and lust. Nevertheless, the court is convinced of his love for her,

The key difference is that a facility's operating costs are no longer directly tied to the revenues, ... Now, your revenues are driven by the services you are providing.

The environmental community has never been driven by economics.