Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hiroaki Takai

Some selling is coming through the bond market because of stocks and the consumer price report. Yields will probably have a bias to rise toward June because investors are becoming more alert to the chances of a policy shift.

Barksdale Thompson

Sarah was on the other side of the field when she passed that ball to me. She's a good passer. You've always got to be alert because, if you're open, she'll give you the ball.

Eckhart Tolle

To be aware of little, quiet things, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

Steve Cole

We have done a lot of training with law enforcement to alert them to these types of situations. If you look a little further and pull the curtains back, there may be a lot more to it.

Zhong Nanshan

At this point, people will be very alert in all the hospitals and we have been training the doctors in all the hospitals talking about this. Now, people are very alert if these kind of symptoms are being reported.

Robert Blake

Didn't I already answer this? ... That would not make sense. Nobody was breaking any laws. They weren't going to 'stake out' my property. All that would do is alert the police that there was a problem.

Robert Rizza

Diabetes is a serious disease, and its complications can be devastating. The good news is that with early detection and treatment, those complications -- as well as the disease itself -- can be prevented or delayed. The American Diabetes Association hopes that this Alert Day will encourage millions of Americans to find out if they could be at risk for diabetes or could be living with the disease and not know it.

Mark Greene

Contact the credit card company or financial institution and ask them to put a freeze on the account. And alert the bank and the three major credit (reporting agencies).

Alvaro Soto

We should be alert to the danger that cutting off assistance prior to the formation of a new government might be interpreted by the Palestinians and the Arab world as a punishment for the way the Palestinians voted in January.

The Jerusalem

a shared educational space for high school students (from the Arab and Jewish, secular and religious populations) to recognize the 'other,' the one who is different and to examine the ways to grapple with multiculturalism in the city.

Jalal Talabani

As for us, we have always expressed our compassion for Arab countries in their testing times,

Idan Ofer

As an Israeli company, security is of the utmost importance to us and we require rigorous security measures from terminal operators in every country in which we operate, but especially in Arab countries. And we are very comfortable calling at DP World's Dubai ports.

Nicholas Kristof

During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.

Freddie Tidmore

Arab wants to run the football but Pope throws well, especially when they get in the spread offense. We've got to stop the run and we've got to be mentally ready.

Carlos Haddad

Arab descendants normally discuss the immigration of their relatives to Brazil: where they came from and what they started working as.

Hans Blix

Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world.

Tariq Aziz

President Mubarak assumes a role for himself which both Washington and London have not given to him, ... In reality there is no noble, fair and intelligent person in Egypt, in the Arab homeland or the whole world sharing Mr. Mubarak in his deduction.

Stephen Kinzer

Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American weaponry.

Ralph Boyd

There are well settled provisions of federal law that guarantee bilingual assistance at the polls for those of Puerto Rican origin and others,

Rick Robertson

The people of Michigan are generous in their concern and assistance in times of need. We pull together as a community to help in any way we can.

James Wolfensohn

We can only have success in partnership with others in the development community, including civil society and the private sector. There must be effective performance in utilizing development assistance -- corruption-free and reaching the poor.

Terri Teuber

We want to ensure that all who are eligible know about the program and receive nutrition assistance with dignity and respect.

Joe Becker

We are building an IT (information technology) infrastructure to be able to support 2 million families that have need of financial assistance and we will have that in place by July 1.

Michael Bolch

Those who had uninsured or underinsured losses as a result of the hurricane should register without delay. Even if you already repaired the damage, replaced the property, or received partial reimbursement from your insurance company, make the call before the March 11 date. Registering with FEMA will also determine what housing assistance you may qualify for.

Pam Dorr

Many of our families have had difficulty unraveling the red tape involved in accessing assistance. We'll work with these families to make sure they are aware of everything they're entitled to. We are committed to supporting Hale County and displaced families recovering from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. With the support and technical assistance from HAC, we can make a difference for our rural families.

Bill Foster

Getting help to our colleagues is problematic at this time due to emergency restrictions. However we are preparing our plan and will be ready with immediate assistance when supply routes are open.

Robert Latham

If any family has suffered losses or damages as a result of Hurricane Katrina and has not registered for assistance yet, I urge them to call and register before the March 11 deadline and learn what types of assistance they may be eligible for.

Chandler Riggs

I've never had a haircut where I've gone to a hair cutting place and they gave me an incorrect haircut. So I've been pretty lucky.

M. Wolfe

This is an opportunity for the district to be on the cutting edge.

Carole Strayhorn

A leader does not let nine sessions go by and now a tenth without a long term fix with cutting property tax and money going into educate for our teacher and for our classrooms.

Paul Ryan

Your state is rightly characterized as being on the cutting edge of this.

Brandon Sanderson

Getting cut off from the knights' magic rock also required a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom. (Those of you in the Hushlands, I dare you to work that last sentence into a conversation. "By the way, Sally, did you know that getting cut from the knight's magic rock also requires a period of exile from their giant glass mushroom?")

Aziz Ansari

Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs!

Carl Sandburg

My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself.

C. S. Lewis

There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on.

Al Yankovic

There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall.

David Rosenberg

As for the employment report, I think there's a danger of overreacting over the message from it because this was the third warmest January in the past 112 years.

Philippe Petit

Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession. You have to pay attention; if not, you will lose your life.

Mafumi Usui

Depressed, young people and the Internet - it's a very dangerous mix.

Ron Krumer

One could say that the life of the prime minister is in danger.

Elizabeth Hernandez

It was worth the cold, the hunger and the danger we went through.

Donald Black

I see no danger is seeing persons spending a dollar on a lottery ticket, but I have had patients who spend enormous amounts of money just on the lottery,

Becky Hammon

They are a lot more dangerous now. She's exactly what they needed.

Dan McCarthy

This is developing into a potentially dangerous situation.

Jeff Last

That's why it is so dangerous to fly near a thunderstorm.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Dalton McGuinty

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Bud Selig

I've often said I won't rest until I rid the sport of steroids. If we can't solve our problems, then I submit to you the government should do what it has to do.

Steve Corson

It was the same kind of thing as what you're seeing. We were getting material that was packaged to look like it was from a government entity.

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

William Poole

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

Dylan Smith

Prior to Box, I was a professional wiffleball player and then a professional poker player.

John Wallace

Prior to today, you were from the three towns, ... But from today on, you are from Passaic Valley.

Ron Bonjean

The speaker is making it a top priority to get that done.

David Atkinson

The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the only priorities.

Jeremy Shada

I've actually done a lot of on-screen, live-action stuff prior to 'Adventure Time.'

David Townsend

This is the first time we've had this type of occurrence. There just had been no prior experience.

Michael Loomis

This is probably the highest. I think that in most years, spending exceeds the prior year, because our sales tax revenues keep increasing.

Joel Sawyer

That's going to be one of our priorities going into this session.

Chris Davis

I accept my punishment and will begin serving my suspension immediately.

Auberon Waugh

The main objection to killing people as a punishment...is that killing people is wrong

Conrad Black

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

Confucius

Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves.

Andrew Fastow

I wish I could undo what I did at Enron but I can't. I understand that I deserve punishment. Your honor, I accept the prison sentence that you are about to impose and will serve it without bitterness.

Ronald Reagan

In case anybody asks you about my position on capital punishment, you can tell them I favor it; and if they want to know why, you can tell them this story.

Thomas Bernhard

I would be the unhappiest person imaginable, confronted daily with disastrous works crying out with errors, imprecision, carelessness, amateurishness. I avoided this punishment by destroying them, I thought, and suddenly I took great pleasure in the word destroying.

Tamora Pierce

Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut.

George Steinbrenner

Let's not talk punishment.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Nate Silver

Well, you know, you're not going to have 86 percent of Congress voted out of office.