Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Kaupin

The overall numbers were lower than anticipated. Quite a few of the candidates had to be contacted by the search firm. With that being said, quite a few of the candidates are qualified.

Rosemond Pradel

The people and the candidates want to have the elections and we are ready.

Nina Easton

Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.

Joe Galli

We have a model that's very acquisitive and we are looking at a number of acquisition candidates and we will continue,

Rebecca Jones

We were having difficulty recruiting qualified police officers, and we felt this policy may have prevented some good candidates from applying.

Elliott Stonecipher

You are going to have candidates going into their hotel suites to watch the returns, knowing that anything could happen.

Steve Pike

We've had concerns about the recent election where over 1,000 candidates were disqualified from running and there were many allegations of election fraud and interference,

Scott Provancher

We have communicated to the music-director candidates the current situation. It's our intention, as long as we are able to operate the season, to have those candidates come in.

Lachlan McIntosh

We have candidates for seven of the nine races. None of these candidates are sacrificial lambs. They can all win.

Billy Graham

We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other people, and that we are God's blessed. I tell you that God doesn't love us any more than He does the Russians.

Zubin Mehta

My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.

Chuck Schumer

Mr. Snowden is a coward who has chosen to run.

C. S. Lewis

You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.

Bob McHugh

We have worked every day, including with groups like Legal Aid, to make our delivery of service even better. They've chosen to litigate this matter, so let them have their day in court.

Malala Yousafzai

I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.

Tim Threlfall

We have chosen to take this concept of flow and make it the centerpiece of our storytelling.

Sondra Guffey

We have chosen a mix of colors that are specifically designed so that colorblind can distinguish.

Mark McKinnon

I don't claim any moral or ethical high ground, but I also have chosen not to run for public office. Shouldn't there be a higher standard of conduct for public officials?

Abraham Lincoln

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Franco Debono

The people are represented in Parliament. Therefore parliamentarians are not party delegates but representatives of the people elected on a party ticket, which is different.

Gore Vidal

I was like everyone else when Obama was elected - optimistic.

Kevin Hall

We have Virginians who, through their elected representatives and their judges and juries, support this as a matter of public policy in Virginia.

Phil Roe

I got elected to run the government more efficiently, lower taxes.

Eric Thode

Whoever were to get elected in this rushed, expensive, 20- to 30-candidate special election, they're going to serve no time to speak of, and they're going to do nothing.

Nick Ryan

Jim Nussle is doing the job he was elected to do by getting results on Iowa priorities.

Gabriel Claudio

The President has been elected for a six-year term. The mandate was won fair and square in the election in 2004 and the mandate stays until 2010.

Davy Crockett

I would rather be beaton and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.

Roberto Cavalli

In the evening every man looks the same. Like penguins. Women have a special dress for that event; men, the same tuxedo.

Khadga Oli

The policemen left this evening and now I think I am free to move out.

Bernadette Peters

I love Some Enchanted Evening, and If I Loved You. And as I sing them more and more, I find new favorites.

Beatrice Arthur

I thought nobody would come just to see me sing. I knew it would have to be an evening of comedy, also.

Thomas Moore

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

Mike Helton

I think everybody who was part of it would like to figure out how not to have another evening like this one. It was extremely undesirable.

Mayor Hassig

We have to tackle these recommendations one evening at a time. We have to look at this with that level of scrutiny.

David Addison

We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward.

Miuccia Prada

We really think that now evening should come back serious. For me it was interesting because I tried to do a serious evening, but where you feel yourself very comfortable. Usually ... you feel yourself during the day and when it's the evening, it's always a problem. Evening usually is too serious. So now it's very serious, but I tried to make it young and wearable.

Damian Fraser

Mexico would become a safe haven should the situation worsen in Argentina.

James Tobin

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

Mickey Matthews

Id much rather be playing Lock Haven than Nebraska, ... Im sure Jack would switch with me.

Alanis Morissette

...and what it all comes down to is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet.

Charles Manson

If I haven't seen it, it's new to me.

Brad Pitt

I haven't known life to be happier.

Chuck Palahniuk

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

W. Richard Stevens

The next 8 years were spent working in New Haven for Health Systems International, which was lots of fun, but that's another story.

David Copperfield

I act like I'm 14, if you haven't figured that out yet.

Gwen Moore

I've been the co-chair of the Non-Partisan Women's Caucus and vice-chair for several years, taking a leadership role in this women's organization.

Danny Glover

The points leader (Ferris) had nothing for me. Once I got outside, I was gone.

Cathy Rigby

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try.

Carrie Underwood

It's hard to look at things that are too close.

Carl Sagan

I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.

Bergen Evans

Legislators who are of even average intelligence stand out among their colleagues. . . . A cultured college president has become as much a rarity as a literate newspaper publisher. A financier interested in economics is as exceptional as a labor leader interested in the labor movement. For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they [only] marshal us in the way that we are going.

Bergen Evans

Leadership is more likely to be assumed by the aggressive than by the able, and those who scramble to the top are more often motivated by their own inner torments.

Bergen Evans

For the most part our leaders are merely following out in front; they do but marshal us the way that we are going.

Arrian

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks ...

Gillian Armstrong

I have major credibility as a hip, out-there documentary filmmaker, and I'm not going to say, 'I'm only a drama filmmaker' anymore.

Buck Leonard

I was not bitter by not being allowed to play in the major leagues. I just said, 'The time has not come.'

Bryan Cogman

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

Bridget Kelly

For me, the majority of my music is really dark and to the point.

Frank Pierson

There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.

Tony Benn

The anti-war movement now represents a majority in the country.

Steve Forbes

The American administration is making a major mistake, trying to pressure the Chinese. I wish we'd back off.

Sue Enquist

The ASA Major Championship is the pinnacle of women's major softball during the summer. I'm really proud of all the players that contributed to that team.

Arlen Specter

We have a major, major problem on our hands, ... It is a matter of very, very substantial urgency.

Tim Cox

We have one big step to go (in the rebuilding process), and I think this is the year for it.

Mark Ambrose

From a team standpoint, it's a rebuilding year.

Jalen Rose

I don't think it's a total rebuilding situation.

Kim Badley

For us, it is a rebuilding year. I would like to say we are just reloading, but, unfortunately, we are rebuilding.

Doug Thornton

I think it could be a symbol for the rebuilding of New Orleans.

Kevin Martinez

It's not over for us. Rebuilding will go on for decades.

Dave Eggers

He must trust, and he must have faith. And so he builds, because what is building, and rebuilding and rebuilding again, but an act of faith?

Terry Gray

We thought this was going to be a rebuilding year.

Mike Milinkovich

We're rebuilding our Web site at Eclipse.org and we're using PHP,

Erik Crawford

We had opportunities to step up and make plays, and we didn't.

Rajon Rondo

We've got so many talented guys. As long as someone's stepping up, we don't need a (consistent threat), but in the long run, we'll need someone consistent.

Sidney Govou

We've made a big step towards the title.

David McClure

I thought he stepped up real big." ()

Johnny Whitaker

We are not stepping back to a time when we are going to have anything even approaching hazing.

Mike Canales

We'll find a guy. We'll wait and see who steps up.

Ken Sprague

We were intimidated before we stepped on the court.

Helio Castroneves

Dancing is just like racing. You don't learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It's very much like what I do in racing.

Dick Pound

I don't understand why they're not stepping up to that and saying,

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Bob Mulholland

Voters want to know, 'What are you going to do for me in office?' That's what it's about.

Mark McKinnon

Voters are looking for credibility and are wary of polish. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter which candidate can more deftly read a teleprompter.

Judy Davis

I feel like the voters made their decision.

Charles Rangel

The victor will be the one who gets the most voters out.

Lindsey Graham

We're going to need those voters in the fall.

Bill Nye

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Carly Fiorina

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.

Joseph Stalin

It is not the voters who count, but those who count the votes.