Weaker Quotations

It's just that if you're not disruptive everything seems to be repeated endlessly - not so much the good things but the bland things - the ordinary things - the weaker things get repeated- the stronger things get suppressed and held down and hidden.

These wars appear also to have given its death blow to colonialism and to imperialism in its colonial form, under which weaker peoples were treated as possessions to be economically exploited. At least we hope that such colonialism is on the way out.

Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.

Young people like to think they're invincible. They don't like to face any situation where they've gotten weaker instead of stronger.

But definitely, when a decision is taken, or when you are trying to oppose a decision, you are in a weaker position than the member states, because they know more about the situation than you. We gave information, but they never gave us any information.

We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people.

When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation.

In my case, I was placing extreme pressure on my lower spine from rotating my hips too much. This is a common cause of bad backs - and bad shots - for golfers of all levels. In addition to resting, I worked with my trainer, Joey Diovisalvi, on strengthening the weaker lower-body muscles that contributed to my overactive hips and back pain.

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex.

If not met promptly and decidedly, the two portions of the Union will gradually become thoroughly alienated, when no alternative will be left to us, as the weaker of the two, but to sever all political ties or sink down into abject submission.

When the Soviet Union fell, optimistic scholars believed the world had shifted inexorably in the direction of free markets and liberal democracy. Instead, the West gradually embraced bigger government and weaker social bonds, creating a fragmented society in which the only thing we all belong to, as President Barack Obama puts it, is the state.

You know it's harder to be a girl in this world because we're the weaker sex.

MVC has always been one of the weaker players in the market, so it is dangerous to draw too many conclusions from this specific situation, but it does back up our view that these markets are becoming increasingly difficult.

On the one hand, it sounds like we may be a little weaker going into 2006.

I worked in L.A. for 25 years, ... I played oboe, English horn, piccolo, flute, clarinet. But what happens when you do that is you spend your practice time on instruments you are weaker on to make them stronger. The instruments you are strong on become weaker. At some point, you end up in a mush of mediocrity. I was working for quantity, and I wanted to get back to my primary interest, which was to play jazz on the saxophone.

I wouldn't view this as the start of a weaker trend.

If we get a big kick start to the quarter with a strong April, that could offset us being a bit weaker than we expected to be in the first quarter.

I guess if there's any surprise it's that I would have thought exports would have grown a little more than they did. But in the second quarter everyone else had weaker economies, although more recent signs are that things abroad are picking up. So maybe June was too soon to look for an increase.

My concern is that what's happened here is that inflation is higher than the Fed anticipated. On top of that, the kind of tightening already imposed by the markets, in terms of lower equities and higher bond yields, is setting up weaker growth in 2005.

Revenues associated with Asia appear to have fallen further from the depressed levels of the first half of the year. Worldwide agricultural markets are weaker than we anticipated, and we are also seeing a slowdown in our Latin American markets.

Nobody feels they have to buy the market at higher prices, at least not yet. Stocks have had a nice recovery, they're up overseas, the dollar is weaker -- so people are saying there's no real reason to buy the bond market.

I don't expect the market to gain momentum in either direction until it gains new clarity about the possibility of a May rate hike. The overall trend in housing demand remains relatively weaker compared with 2005.

Licenses are a little better, though they could have been a bit stronger. Margins were a little weaker than the Street had been looking for.

Mazda is gaining on new models that are selling really well, lower production costs from platforms shared with Ford, and the weaker yen,

Mazda, like other automakers, is benefiting from the weaker yen. Currently they don't have many new models, but next fiscal year starting in April, they will release new SUV models in the U.S., which should help its earnings and sales.

Since Vietnam, the Democratic Party has been viewed as the weaker on national security issues. Who better to make the case than veterans of the war? It's hard to accuse them of a lack of patriotism.

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

She came here to parliament to tell strong stories about sniffers who are living in Yuendemu who are just lying down from petrol. It's just a gas that makes your body weaker and weaker and weaker.

Share prices rose in knee-jerk reaction to the rally in US markets Friday and a weaker yen.

Share prices were weaker as many investors are keenly awaiting the machinery orders (figures).

So far, the surge in oil prices has yet to do any significant damage to the broader economy. We may see some softening in the consumer spending numbers soon, but unless that translates into a weaker job market, the economy should be able to weather these higher energy prices.

So far this year the market has suffered from two things; firstly a surge in demand for diesel cars distorting the market at the end of 2005 and secondly weaker consumer confidence.

Signs of weaker demand are hanging over the market. There has been a tremendous rise in prices over the past year, which had to have an effect.

Should foreign investors, who have helped fund U.S. twin deficits, show weaker demand at the 10-year auction and the trade deficit widens, that may make it easier to sell the dollar.

Sentiment seems to be more upbeat at the moment but bear in mind much of the improvement in earnings has come from restructuring, as companies take action to deal with lower sales and weaker pricing power.

The price of oil and the weaker euro is absolutely having an impact, ... This is a market searching for a reason to go higher but this is a core root economic problem that could exist and the market is quickly coming to the belief that there is no overnight fix.

The price of oil and the weaker euro is absolutely having an impact. This is a market searching for a reason to go higher but this is a core root economic problem that could exist and the market is quickly coming to the belief that there is no overnight fix.

Growing fleet sales, increasing competitive pressure in large pickups and escalating risk of weaker consumer spending is likely to hurt pricing and revenue.

Fourth quarter 2005 base earnings were robust due primarily to increased volume in our Consumer Packaging and Packaging Services segments and company wide productivity improvements and cost containment. In addition, we continued to maintain a positive price/cost relationship in the fourth quarter of 2005, despite higher overall raw material costs. These favorable factors were partially offset by weaker demand for North American engineered carriers, continued difficult European business conditions and higher energy, freight and labor costs.

Getting out there and playing on the road will help us get better in the long run. If we were to have a weaker schedule, we wouldn't be able to keep on improving.

Give a lot of credit to Maryland. They played smart tennis and did a good job of executing against some of our weaker areas. Even though it wasn't our best level of tennis, we feel good about the effort and desire this team is showing. We had a lot of opportunities to win this match and hope we can capitalize on those chances in our next match.

From a 'wall of worries' standpoint, the market needs to be assured that there are no other casualties out there that are going to report weaker earnings, and from an energy standpoint, prices have got to move lower.

Given the very strong correlation which exists between the trade-weighted rand and the commodity indices, it is extremely difficult to call for a weaker rand in the current environment.

Given the weaker outlook, we expect the 2001 consensus estimate of $1.76 to come down substantially.

I expect a weaker opening here due to a higher yen and a fall in U.S. stocks, while a halt in recent rises in oil, gold and other commodity prices is a plus.

I expect positive, but weaker hiring in the region in the months ahead.

If it didn't happen in the first quarter, it's going to have to happen at some point. If consumer spending or investment spending was a lot weaker than expected, it'd be a lot more troublesome.

Certainly in the second half, you could see we were nowhere near as fit as the MLS boys, ... They're a good team, and I think they got stronger and stronger as the game went on, and we got weaker and weaker.

Certainly, the degree of strength through August is not sustainable; we'll get a much weaker number in September. But the third quarter as a whole will still show 5 to 6 percent consumer spending growth, even if we get a negative number in September.

But certainly the numbers are weaker than expected, ... This is just one in a series of numbers which argues that the economy is decelerating rapidly.

Buoyed by the Nigerian oil sabotage news and a weaker U.S. dollar, gold has reasserted its safe-haven attributes since last Friday.

Businesses continue to look at the future with some skepticism. Companies again report weaker employment outcomes in December, while capital spending also weakened somewhat. The official cash rate is even more firmly on hold for the foreseeable future.

China Telecom is weaker because attention is on Unicom. Overall the market is still consolidating because there is still no clear direction.

Because we felt Freedom was a little weaker we tried a few things we wouldn't normally try in a close game. You have to see how your runners are going to do in these non-district games. The hit the ball well and they listened well.

Basically, I think the desire to wait and see is very strong right now. That being said, U.S. stocks, especially the Nasdaq index, were weaker ... so the market is likely to move lower.

Had I been made aware earlier of the rule, I may have acted on it. In my opinion, the horse would be better suited in the weaker race.

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

We are following the stock market here and the more weakness we see there the weaker the dollar is going to get.

I also decided to take a few chances when the balls were pitched short. Luckily it worked, even though one or two shots went flying over the wicketkeeper's head. When you get runs against weaker countries you aren't always that appreciative but when you make runs against the Aussies it feels really good.

I always thought that Northwest had the upper hand in this, and that AMFA was playing with a weak hand, and now they have a weaker hand, ... Northwest has always had the fortitude to fly through a strike, and now they have demonstrated that they have the ability to fly through a strike.

If the Congress does badly it will start looking weaker within the coalition.

Had the outcome been better, it would have increased speculation of higher consumer prices immediately ahead, so it seems that investors are taking a weaker reading as a positive.

He's a valuable player. He's one of the top three on the team, so we had a much weaker team this week.

He (her father) figured out I'm not going to see anything on the inside and if I did, I could still turn on it. It seems like that's just what teams do because they figure you are weaker hitting the outside pitch.

Many had bought high-techs on the back of a weaker yen. But a scenario of the yen's free fall doesn't seem realistic.

Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism.

Markets are rapidly abandoning the forecast for the Fed to increase rates to 4 percent by year-end, and are instead pricing in 3.75 percent. People are worrying lofty oil prices and Hurricane Katrina might hurt the U.S. economy when weaker data continue to come out.

Looking to the remainder of our fiscal year, we anticipate stronger fourth quarter sales, but expect a much weaker third quarter in light of continued delays in our customers' purchasing decisions. In response, we have cut back our production of potash and phosphates to limit increases in our inventories, especially because of current high raw material costs, and to better match supply with current purchasing activity. As a consequence, the industry may face acute logistical challenges when spring season begins if domestic shipments don't accelerate soon.

Some of the weaker trees will be uprooted. Some trees will fall on power lines. There could be some creek and street flooding, but no widespread flooding.

Some investors focused on domestic demand-led sectors, while high-tech firms appeared to be weaker due to lingering worries over the firmer yen.

Spending was up, a little weaker than expected... Nevertheless, the trend has been upward and it looks like the consumer is still in the ballgame in terms of supporting economic growth.

Survey results, while somewhat weaker than the rest of the nation, continue to point to growth for Missouri in the months ahead. Of course challenges and opportunities related to automobile industry restructuring will be an important driver in the near and intermediate term.

Our organic revenue growth was 2% in the quarter, which was a bit stronger than expected in Fire and Security but weaker in Healthcare, primarily due to the challenges we are facing in our retail business. Electronics continued to grow at the 3% pace we had anticipated,

I was a little surprised that the fourth quarter guidance at the mid-point is a little weaker than people were looking for ... but to some extent that?s nit-picking.

Koizumi's style is amazing -- sometimes he completely ignores logic. Okada is very logical, and I think on paper, more people would believe what Okada is talking about -- but his presence is weaker than Koizumi's.

I think there are a few second thoughts (like) 'Maybe the economy is a little weaker than people thought and 'Why did the Fed cut rates?'. There's a holiday in the U.S. Monday. I think (the market) is going to be pretty subdued.

Japan increasingly needs a weaker yen to counter falling foreign demand and increased competitive pressures.

Our guard play has been our weaker play, but the last third of the season they have really stepped up.

Maybe in the first round, you don't ski too fast because you don't have competition next to you. You're focused more on synchronicity. If you seed well, you ski against a weaker team. In the finals, the competition gets harder and you need to ski faster and still hold it together.

July sales were weaker than expected. Summer can be a volatile season for retailers but I am a little surprised by the weakness in apparel. I'll be keeping an eye on discretionary spending going forward.

Just about everybody had multiple hits and multiple scores. We just ran into a much weaker team.

I suspect it's going to be a fairly weaker open. Stocks are still looking for direction in Europe -- there are no big macro drivers today.

It is going to make economists slightly revise down first-quarter GDP, which they already did with the weaker consumer spending number.

It is never right to bully those who are weaker or less numerous - just because you can.

I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a weaker European telecom sector due to the high cost of Germany's third-generation mobile-phone licenses.

Output was slightly weaker than expected, but I wouldn't worry too much.

Outside of energy, the consumer is fine. That's why growth this year will be weaker than last year, and it will be weaker next year than this year.

Other things being equal, higher oil prices will mean weaker economic growth, but the question is weaker relative to what.

Overall, we achieved solid results in 2005, with strong income growth in our tobacco businesses partially offset by weaker results in food.

Our counterterrorism tools do not exist in a vacuum. They are stronger and more sustainable when the American people understand and support them. They are weaker and less sustainable when the American people do not.

It is not clear to us whether the slower revenue growth is a function of weaker market demand or historically weak competition becoming more efficient, ... To be sure, Dell's share gains must come from other major vendors in this increasingly concentrated market.

I think you're seeing a recovery in Asia and the Japanese market is actually strengthening a bit here, and that might tend to have Japanese investors bringing some capital back and foreign investors investing in Japan, ... So I don't see it reversing. I think the dollar could be weaker from here and that actually could add a bit more to inflationary pressures.

It appears as if every company doing business in the Southeast will jump on the Hurricane Frances, Charley and Tropical Storm Gaston bandwagons for their weaker third-quarter performance,

It appears, given Intel's guidance lower, that things are significantly slower now than we saw in the fourth quarter coming into December, ... Things are a little weaker than they were.

I think it makes some sense; it's just consolidation like anything else. You take two weaker players and combine them for strength.

It confirms that this recession in 2001 was not particularly mild or as short as some folks had thought, ... We were expecting at least two negative quarters, and the fact we had three is a little bit of a surprise. That helps explain why we're having so much difficulty generating some positive momentum right now. The economy was weaker than we had thought.

I think we'll continue to see weaker housing starts, but the slowing will be more modest than the 8% decline we saw in February.

I think we're going to continue to see this churning for the rest of the month and then February tends to be seasonally weaker for the market, ... Longer-term, the momentum is still up, but we may need a few weeks of consolidation.