Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Grey

The American public has accepted legalized gambling as a means to spend their money for entertainment. America is on a gambling binge. The more available and accessible it becomes, the more gambling is acceptable to people.

Bela Anda

That would not be acceptable for the German government. And it wouldn't be in line with the spirit of looking to the future together and not into the past.

Stephen King

We know that they obtained these bodies in a fraudulent way and off the scale of acceptable practice.

Thomas Carroll

We know that that's not acceptable down here. A three-loss season, hey, that's great for some teams. But guys do come back here and they're like, 'Nah, that didn't cut it last year, man.' They don't expect us to lose three games. I really think guys from other schools don't expect us to lose three games. It's really unheard of down here, especially in the last four or five years. We're looking forward to stopping that trend.

Margaret DiNinno

We have tried every alternative-dispute resolution, including fact-finding. We're trying to find an acceptable resolution because it's obvious we're at an impasse.

Richard Carlson

Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness.

Paul Auster

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it's not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

John Lampe

We have been working closely with the state attorneys general on this issue for more than a year now, and believe that these efforts have allowed us to reach an acceptable agreement that permits us to focus our energies and our resources on rebuilding our company and the Firestone brand,

Ann Cooper

U.S. forces continue these alarming detentions of working journalists without any acceptable explanation, or anything resembling due process.

Graeme Samuel

The ACCC is not satisfied, at this stage, that the terms and conditions of those undertakings are reasonable.

Vernell Crittendon

We could not proceed under the conditions that have been set by the court . . . so the execution will not proceed. We are standing down.

Tom Carr

We just didn't play that well today. The conditions were tough and Geneva played very well from top to bottom. That (328) was an excellent score today.

Joe Hymer

We had one unsubstantiated report of some guys getting smelt in the river last Saturday, but nothing's confirmed yet. All I can say at this point is the conditions are right.

Stuart Appleby

Today, was just good solid golf all day, more trying conditions than yesterday, and I just made some good putts today,

Lleyton Hewitt

Today was great conditions to play tennis. Not a lot of wind.

Venus Williams

Today was a good day. It was windy, so the conditions were a little strange like that. My toss got thrown off.

Anja Paerson

Today was a better day for me, the conditions were much better.

Ibrahim Rugova

To make conditions for ... international security forces in Kosovo, to create security for the people, and to return the people to Kosovo, is the major objective for us now, for me personally and for the people of Kosovo,

Edmund Stoiber

The political situation has changed. The SPD is no longer so predictable,

Brittany Snow

I'm very lazy; if it takes me longer than 15 or 20 minutes to get ready, then I don't want to do it. So I wear a lot of jeans and T-shirts and very normal kind of tomboyish sort of things.

Bruno Seraphim

The Argentine question has in part been resolved, at least in the very short term, so shares no longer need to price in that question.

Chuck Palahniuk

Most novels, I find, are three times longer than they need to be. Very little happens, and I don't want to waste my time with them.

Jessa Gamble

Why would you have a work day that does not respond to shorter or longer day length? There's something that we lose, taking our schedules away from that locally relevant rhythm.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

You can have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in you power.

Nicholas Haysom

The problem we have is that the longer the delay, the more problems there will be distributing nationwide,

Jeff Horner

I wore it longer than I should have.

Richard Branson

I was very nervous because it took a lot longer to get down the runway than we predicted.

Warren R. Austin

To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

Don Miguel Ruiz

When we respect everybody around us, we are in peace with everybody around us.

Ariel Sharon

The peace plan outlined in the president's speech is a reasonable, pragmatic and practicable one.

Bikram Choudhury

Nothing in the world can take my peace away from me.

John C. Calhoun

War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.

C. S. Lewis

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

Cecelia Ahern

Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

Benjamin Rush

As the War Office of the United States was established in a time of peace, it is equally reasonable that a Peace Office should be established in a time of War.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.