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When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Confucius

Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, something that rises to the level of criminal activity. We don't think we saw that here. We saw places where monitoring wasn't great and bid law compliance wasn't great.

Mindy Chambers

She has a lot of court experience. When the competition rises, she plays always plays harder.

Linda Vivona

It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.

Robert Lindner

Only if we can restrain ourselves is good conversation possible. Good talk rises upon much discipline.

John Erskine

The government contends it rises to the level of domestic terrorism. We say it?s free speech.

Andrea Lindsay

We've had some people get to 106 degrees and not have symptoms and some get to 102 and have symptoms. Some guys' core temperature rises after they come off the field and stand around, and other guys it goes down when they come out. It depends on the individual.

Rick Burkholder

Low interest rates have really been powering these markets. The ECB is worried it is signaling inflation further down the line, but in the U.K. you have had very strong house-price rises, and no real pickup in general price inflation.

Milan Khatri

Man cannot aspire if he looks down; if he rises, he must look up.

Samuel Smiles

He's special, he's in his own world. I see a young man that basically rises to the occasion. He jumps with the crowd. He wants the crowd to get involved with him.

John Smith

The amenities that Hilton Head offers and the quality of the golf and beach and shopping areas attracts a core audience that is not easily going to be dissuaded by (other factors). We're not going to go in the tank, no pun intended, because of what people perceive to be rises in gas prices.

Rich Harrill

Markets can still rise. Stocks in Europe are fairly valued. They can compensate for a lot of interest rate rises.

Guenther Gerstenberger

We need to be making contraception easy for women, but in many states we're actually making it harder. When effective contraceptive use rises, abortion rates go down.

Sharon Camp

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

As long as concerns over possible interest rate rises are out there, the dollar is likely to be pressured by the unwinding of yen-carry trade positions.

Yasuhisa Ishida

The figures are a sign that bank lending will probably start to show year-on-year rises in the January-March quarter.

Yoshimasa Maruyama

We believe that some large-capitalization stocks will outperform the broad market if investors' risk aversion rises in response to increased volatility.

Thomas Mcmanus

Gordon Brown's lack of fiscal responsibility will damage our ability to compete, and mean further tax rises for hard working families.

George Osborne

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

Ted Kulongoski

It just happened, ... You can't plan for it but just build the runway and hope to God the muse rises.

Felicity Huffman

Oil prices, while they are still high, have stabilized, and we think they will reduce further. And interest rate rises will pull back consumption in the U.S.

Tanweer Akram

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

Al Stewart

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

Bryan Miller

Imports on the other hand are up because of rises in oil prices. Still, on a volume basis exports are growing more than imports.

Koji Kobayashi

I see no reason why we should see a break in this rise in the market. Valuations leave room for further price rises.

Boris Boehm

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

Lucretius

Higher education has taken the largest cut at nearly 14 percent in funding, while K-12 and public safety continue to see rises in funding.

Rod Hissong

Well, the telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

Kurt Vonnegut

Well we want to know what the speculation is that is contributing to this, if there's price gouging going on, ... We want to know from state and federal agencies what kind of help is available, if there are tax credits that people should be applying for right now and most of all we want to get to the bottom of why we are seeing these exorbitant rises in natural gas prices.

Jan Schakowsky

His level of play has improved as the season has gone along. Obviously he?s very athletic. His level rises after each tournament.

Bob Nutting

Despite terrorist threats, fuel price rises, and a weak dollar, ... Americans feel free to travel again, especially to Europe, where they've been going in increasing numbers.

Amy Ziff

There isn't enough good news right now to really get people involved. Most professionals and individuals are just holding, looking for some clarity on the transition in Iraq, looking for some clarity on the presidential election, and, perhaps more importantly, looking for some clarity from the Fed on rate rises.

Rick Meckler

Art rises above and beyond the issues of the day. It reunites what has been rent asunder, not along national or religious lines, but along individual, human ones. It heals, redefines goals, and strengthens the resolve to move on, to rebuild, to reconstruct. However obtuse human behavior is in other arenas, art, if not suborned, can clarify, put into perspective and re-inspire.

Lorin Maazel

I do not expect core inflation to rise much above these levels. But were it to do so, this would seal the case for more rate rises.

Paul Ashworth

Average price rises are being continually pushed up and it won't be long before we see £1,000 energy bills as the norm.

Adam Scorer

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.

Lane Kirkland

UK Plc feels it has gone as far as it can in accommodating tax rises that have weakened our international competitive position. The trend we now want to see is a downward one not an upward one.

John Cridland

What people are feeling is that Iran is a longer-term issue. The focus is on the now, and inventory rises continue to suggest an easing in tightness -- not just week to week, but also month to month.

Justin Smirk

If crude oil prices keep on rising, the chances that consumption is going to be hurt further down the line rises. That means the Fed could be more gradual in raising rates.

Peter Kretzmer

This will be a recurrent theme in 2006, as last year's sharp rises in energy prices disappear from the year-on-year comparison.

Luigi Speranza

There are expectations that Japanese markets will rise in the medium to long term, but still, the recent rises were too rapid and too much.

Yutaka Shiraki

A lot of people always knock me not being able to pull my team together and lead my team to big wins. I kind of take offense to that. Cream always rises to the top.

Anthony Johnson

It's at the court's discretion. The petition is filed, and the court makes the decision whether board members are neglecting their duties as such, which rises to the level of removal.

Scott Shewell

The rail industry is going to have to work hard to demonstrate that these rises represent value for money.

Anthony Smith

The consciousness of people whose natural bent is to support the president and the military and the status quo is shifting. If America ever rises up, Camp Casey is what it will look like--not an anarchist street party.

Starhawk

In addition, the market seems to have come to the conclusion that an end to the quantitative monetary policy does not necessarily mean the start of interest rate rises.

Noriaki Ichikawa

The bigger surprise for the market would certainly be no change. That would likely raise questions about a delay in eventual rate rises and lead people to dump the yen.

Katsunori Kitakura

That has no impact on Sen. Bowers. Each case rises and falls on its own merit.

William Massey

He needs distance. When they start running a mile-and-an-eighth, that's when the cream rises to the top.

Bob Baffert

The competition is going to be tough for those spots and it will be interesting to see who rises up to the challenge. Right now all the seats are up for grabs.

Carlo Facchino

If the yuan rises too rapidly, a lot of overseas investors might move their factories or companies out of China.

Tang Xu

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

Cuban Proverb

We are seeing forecasts of gold price rises moving towards four figures from hallowed institutions. This gold market is broadening significantly.

Julian Phillips

It's a neutral to a decent number. I don't think this number adds to the argument that the Fed is stopping (rate rises) at 4.5 percent.

Richard Franulovich

As certain as it is that the sun rises in the east, the Fed will be hiking its benchmark interest rates to 4%.

John Lonski

The housing stats were a relief for investors worried about rate rises.

David Stix

The construction of a new countryside should definitely make stuff more convenient for farmers' lives and production. If we move farmers into high-rises, using elevators might bring inconveniences because they have to carry hoes and stocks, and some farmers want to bring livestock.

Chen Xiwen

The trend has not changed in that a recovery in corporate profits is leading to rises in capital spending.

Takumi Tsunoda

The main reason for the slowdown in February inflation is weaker food price rises.

Song Guoqing

The higher oil rises, the more attractive ethanol becomes. It's also an environmental issue. It's not as though there are other alternative fuels that are cheaper.

Christine Mccracken

I don't believe there is a housing bubble bursting. I think there will be an evening off of demand and an evening off of price escalation. We won't see the big rises we've enjoyed in recent years. But that doesn't mean there will be a downturn.

Bruce Karatz

We like a person who's an academic risk-taker, someone who seeks challenges and rises to meet them, ... We'd rather see a B in an AP class than an A in a regular class.

Michael Mckeon

The market is still expecting two more rate rises from the Federal Reserve, which will keep improving the dollar's rate advantage.

Fumihiko Kawano

The market is optimistic about next year and some operators are buying now in advance, expecting rises in early January.

Gabriel Jafet

At this point, if the yen rises further, it's going to undermine the Japanese economy, and, as a result of that, both Japan and the U.S., for different reason, would like to see the yen stable at these levels or a little bit higher.

David Horner

We are disappointed that the HKAOA appears to be using sickness as a weapon whilst demanding pay rises of up to 32 percent.

Tony Tyler

The Quebec program heavily subsidizes the cost of child-care for middle and high-income families. Most [provincial] governments in Canada already subsidize child-care for poorer women but they lose the subsidy once their income rises above the poverty level.

Kevin Mulligan

Time will never dull the grief of those who lost their loved ones on that tragic day, nor will it diminish our dedication to remembering our heroes and ensuring that a fitting memorial rises in their name.

George Pataki

These results are pleasing in that good revenue growth was achieved in the current low inflationary environment but many businesses experienced cost increases in excess of inflation, due to start-up costs of increasing capacity and fuel price rises.

Brian Joffe

History teaches us that punitive measures hastily crafted in response to short-term rises in prices will have unintended consequences and disincentives to investment.

Lee R. Raymond

Dallas being a major metropolitan city that it is, I think, was just a couple years behind other cities in downtown condo high rises. We've looked a number of things within this market, but this is the only one now.

Keith Walker

Even when no rain is falling, you can continue to get rises among small streams and creeks.

Kevin Durfee

There was some profit-taking today, which is natural after the rises we've seen.

Carlos Hokama

We can't rely on future volcanic eruptions slowing ocean warming and sea level rises.

Peter Gleckler

A stronger won is a big risk, but Hyundai should see its earnings grow unless the won rises above 950 per dollar.

Stephen Ahn

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Mosa Sono

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Charles Munch

Under the influence of art the walls expand, the roof rises, and it becomes a temple.

Robert Ingersoll

The big worry is that these energy prices hit the economy all at once and CPI rises too quickly.

Stephen Green

The commission is investigating what is behind the statements at Farnborough fair when they simultaneously announced price rises.

Stefan Rating

Expenditure rises to meet income.

C. Northcote Parkinson

It's the impression that the series of interest rate rises are nearer the end than the beginning, and people were bored after last year with the market flat on the year.

Mike Driscoll

Fukui may make remarks that seek to curtail the recent spike in yields, on the view that recent rises are too much.

Seiji Shiraishi

You see many stars at night in the sky but find them not when the sun rises; can you say that there are no stars in the heaven of the day? So, O man! as you behold not God in the days of your ignorance, say not that there is no God.

Ramakrishna

Rises in prices may not accelerate, but it's unlikely that they will fall back into negative territory once they start rising.

Toshihiko Fukui

The increase in inflation is mainly due to price rises in cost-driven goods such as petrol and jewelry.

Kent Yau

As a general rule, as income rises, so debt increases, but in the very low income groups we find an extraordinarily high ratio of debt.

Goolam Ballim

Profit-taking is natural after those rises. The market is taking a breather. We hope that it's a breather, at least the trend is still looking positive.

Celso Cenise

It's kind of frustrating when ... the door is slammed in your face. I'm hoping somebody rises to the occasion, because it's the next big craze in fishing in the United States.

Mark Metzger

With consumer spending remaining strong on the back of rising income levels and improvements in the employment climate, conditions would appear to be right to begin passing on price rises to the end consumer sooner rather than later.

Satoru Ogasawara

The confidence level has to rise, especially being a starting quarterback. If your confidence level rises, everything else comes along with it.

Anthony Turner

They say the sun never sets over the British Empire, but it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.

Steven Wright

There is a spike in front. You pick up any flaws in manufacturing in the first 90 days; it flattens out [soon thereafter], then rises, especially with a mobile product.

Jim Kahler

She definitely rises about the rest.

Kelsey Primiano

Overall market sentiment was boosted by the sharp gains in the regional bourses, especially rises in the Japanese market.

Sukhbir Khanijoh

When there is a pressure situation I want him in there more than anybody. You are always proud of a kid who rises up to a pressure situation.

Travis Biggs

The Lockyer investigation should put oil industry executives on notice that they are going to have to answer tough questions about their role if the price of gasoline rises more than ten percent above pre-Katrina prices or above approximately $3.10 per gallon.

Jamie Court

After six days of rises it's normal to have profit taking.

Huang Seen

The input side is going up because of carbon dioxide emissions, but the output is going up because of temperature rises.

Guy Kirk

However, should wholesale prices remain at these levels for some time, then the threat of further price rises being passed on to consumers could become a very real one.

Tim Wolfenden

The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

James Arthur Baldwin

We're not particularly concerned about rises in interest rates in the medium term. It's a red herring to markets and people can get too carried away.

Stuart Fraser

She just rises to the occasion. She just goes all out ... you can't really explain it.

Pat Nepple

A lack of new housing coming onto the market for sale in London is supporting particularly strong rises.

Richard Donnell

Continuing domestic energy price rises will lead to a major increase in the number of households struggling to pay their bills, or paying the health and social costs of living in cold, damp homes.

William Gillis

We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground.

Andre Artero

Rate rises may make their way back on the agenda. The Australian dollar should benefit.

Besa Deda

But the magnitude of recent fuel price rises mean even these cost reduction measures are now not enough.

Rob Mcdonald

The cream rises to the top, those five guys are the top five. No surprises there.

Nick Watney

The rises in import prices will likely speed up the process of companies' passing on such rises to domestic prices.

Takuji Aida

There is probably some expectation of interest rises here in the new year but no one is expecting a regime of rises.

Tony Russell

November's data suggests that the market has settled back down to the pattern of small rises in some months and small falls in others, with prices overall growing only very slowly.

Fionnuala Earley

We had rises in large-cap electronics stocks on one hand and falls in bank shares on the other. That kept the Nikkei from moving either up or down.

Masaharu Sakudo

If the price of oil rises, Iraqis will be paying for the incompetence of the government in maintaining security and in the meantime millions of Iraqis will not be able to afford the proposed price.

Kamal Yassin

We also worked hard on costs and managed to limit rises in sales, general and administrative costs to the growth pace of sales, which helped pump up top-line (operating) profit.

Toshizo Tanaka

However, increased passenger numbers have seen airport costs on a per passenger basis generally decrease or slightly increase during this time and combined with price rises, airport profitability has risen substantially over the period.

Graeme Samuel

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!

Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

When children are little, their sleep pressure rises faster so they fall asleep early, but when it's slower, like it is for teenagers, it's harder to get to sleep.

Mary Carskadon

The moderate rises in unemployment of the past 12 months and higher numbers entering the initial stages of the repossession process, should mean that repossessions will continue to increase over the next few quarters.

David Stubbs

There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

Edith Wharton

Without general elections, without freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, without the free battle of opinions, life in every public institution withers away, becomes a caricature of itself, and bureaucracy rises as the only dec.

Rosa Luxemburg

Ethan Kilmer and Tyler Reed didn't even go to the scouting combine. But that's the funny part of this: A lot of guys come under the radar. Guys like Reed and Kilmer might not be draft picks, but they can make teams. Cream rises to the top.

Joe Butler

The CPI proved not so helpful for the yen's rises. The market is now shifting its focus to the policy meeting.

Etsuko Yamashita

In this league, you've gotta hang in there. You're going to face a good pitcher like that. We were just lucky to get a couple runs at the end. He got ahead of us, and was shutting us down. Maybe that's where some of the experience comes in; when one part of our team is down, another part rises a little bit.

Eric Kadooka

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender.

Edgar Lee Masters

Fresh money is flowing into the Hong Kong stock market to bet on further yuan rises and the money may flow into the domestic markets via various channels too.

Zhou Ji