Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

John Ullyot

The senator believes we live in a country where no one is above the law -- and that includes senators and presidents. He believes that it is appropriate that the matter be looked into by the appropriate people.

George H. W. Bush

The Senate has confirmed a man with an astute mind and kind heart, ... All Americans can be confident that the 17th Chief Justice of the United States will be prudent in exercising judicial power, firm in defending judicial independence and above all a faithful guardian of the Constitution.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Hill

I've basically just played since I moved to The Villages. I had played in maybe 20 or 30 games before that.

Mike Redmond

I've played through it, but it just got to the point where that was it. I couldn't basically run. I feel good about doing everything I could. I battled through a majority of the season, especially the last two weeks.

Eric Schwartz

These basic rights are spelled out in the UN's Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.

Kit Williams

The state law has basically no effect on city ordinances, which remain in effect as long as they are more strict than the state law. A city ordinance doesn't overrule state law. A city ordinance can't make things less strict than state law.

Carl Zimmer

I started fact checking and copy-editing, basic stuff. Then I started writing books and articles, and left in 1999. I've been working freelance ever since and moved here three years ago.

Charlie Hunter

I started doing this style late summer of 2005, after deciding that I loved to paint outside, and that by the time I'd figured out a good composition and color world, the light would have changed completely. The solution? Paint in monochrome. The basic palate tends to be a warm white, a cool white, unbleached titanium, Naples yellow, cobalt or ultramarine blue, transparent red oxide and viridian.

Dean Breest

There are dramatic numbers of adjustments on a seasonal basis going in and out of a tourist destination like Las Vegas.

Claude Mandil

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year.

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Robert Lang

Are you telling me they're going to do a new urbanist village when the center of the economy is vice? ... Casinos in Mississippi were such a pariah land use that they were not even on land. Now they're going to be the basis of a traditional community?

James Robertson

Even though I'm quite well established, it's not always easy to have a real security of income for the next two to three years. It gives me the freedom to experiment with form and style, and not just write a conventional novel. It gives me the breathing space and the time. They are trusting me on the basis of my track record to produce something of value and quality.

John Shelby Spong

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

Rick Francis

We feel we can play pretty good defense, and any time you play good defense on a consistent basis you're going to be in the game.

Scott Handy

When we started off with Linux six years ago, we promised to invest $1 billion, and now we are getting that investment back on a quarterly basis going forward.

M. Wolfe

People who are on this campus on a day-to-day basis know the campus better than a consultant. It's very important for their input.

Gary Campbell

Coaches are usually defensive minded anyway. I've always built the defense starting with the middle linebacker.

Carolyn Strauss

The show has built momentum with our subscribers and with the critics.

Peter Graf

These composite apps are built around the user and are instantly usable, ... All of these are add-ons. You don't need to touch your existing stuff, and you don't need to be all SAP.

Rachel Sklar

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

Keith Stewart

We're very concerned because the (electricity) system is still very much in the hands of the people who built our last nuclear plants and got us into the mess we're in today,

Fisher DeBerry

We feel like we have some depth in our offensive line and obviously we have two good quarterbacks with game experience. That second unit built some pride. There are a lot of those second-unit guys that could be just as effective as the first-unit guys. We'll continue to use two units like that. What periods of the game we'll use them or when we'll use them, we're not going to say.

Steven Tuen

The expectations are built up so high that anything less than perfection will cause the stocks to fall.

Ansel Adams

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

Paul Cox

How sad it will be if in three or four centuries all that is spoken in the world is English, Hindi, Mandarin, Russian, Japanese and a handful of European languages, ... We will also lose much healing knowledge and much conservation knowledge embedded in indigenous cultures.

Ramez Naam

The accumulated knowledge of materials, computing, electromagnetism, product design, and all the rest that we've learned over the last several centuries converts a few ounces of raw materials worth mere pennies into a device with more computing power than the entire planet possessed fifty years ago.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Dan Witter

Brent developed into that role as the season progressed. He did a super job finding the open man out there. Overall I thought we progressed as a team and played to our strengths and that's probably why we finished third in the conference.

Andrew Adamson

We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.

Eric Haxthausen

The fact that fuel prices have increased and more importantly, fuel price forecasts have increased since the proposal was developed suggests a stronger standard is warranted.

Mark Knox

Many of the facilities, tools and systems developed over the past 10 years can still be used for HD DVD. That translates to a much more rapid time to market, and a smoother and more economical transition.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Marc Bulger

It did surprise me to hear that, ... I really thought and still think he could be developed into a very good quarterback. When I went to see Nick at the end of the year, I told him the same thing.

Tom Allen

We feel he really developed in the offseason. He worked very, very hard.

Josh Holmes

A new way of doing things, a new doctrine of game development.

Michael Pollan

Johnny Appleseed was revered . . he was . . . an evangelist (of a doctrine veering perilously close to pantheism).

William Gurnall

Godliness, as well as the doctrine of our faith, is a mystery.

Henry Adams

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Pat Robertson

There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

Randall Terry

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The universe is represented in every one of it's particles. Everything is made of one hidden stuff. The world globes itself in a drop of dew. The true doctrine of omnipresence is that God appears with all His parts in every moss and cobweb.

Mahatma Gandhi

My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa.

Edward McKendree Bounds

While the pulpit must hold to its unswerving loyalty to the Word of God, it must, at the same time, be loyal to the doctrine of prayer which that same Word illustrates and enforces upon mankind.

Joey Skaggs

As a news story, I'm just a subject, not a person. My early performances were provocative, so I was stereotypically portrayed as a counter-cultural figure by the mainstream media.

Keith Newman

Defensively, I think we've got to get off to a better start than what we have. I think we've got to go out there and set the tone early in the game.

Jake Shields

I've only seen two of his fights, and it was hard to get a feel for him because he had his man on the ground most of the time. I'm going to have to feel him out early on and see what he's got.

Brian Jones

The September report was taken too early to get the full effect.

W. S. Gilbert

The wickets will be similar to what the players will face early in the season at the SCG,

Dave Moates

That's high school baseball. It's not earth-shattering. It's early in the year, too. They have to learn to pitch and play in games like this to be successful in games like this in April.

Elize Du Toit

I'm not sure if I'll become Dr. Du Toit. I'm at the early stages of a long journey.

Chris Schultz

When you're 1-9 and down 22 at the half, it's nice to see they didn't quit. That's a good sign. I told the kids early in the third quarter that we were still in this thing. They didn't pack it in.

Bob Cook

We have incorporated the teachers into an early intervention team which visits all our nurseries up to twice a week.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Rebecca Hornbacher

Deb, on the other hand, is one of our most versatile players. She played midfield for her first two years here at ISU, played as a defenseman last year and now is switching back. Once again, she has done a great job with the transition process.

Jim Yerkovich

(Deane) plays with the greatest intensity of any big kid I've ever been around.

John Tavares

Any player in the NHL would be a great comparison, but when you name a guy like Sidney Crosby . . . but I don't know if I'll be able to do things he's done in the league because we're different types of players,

David Phillips

Are we no longer the Great White North? It's incredible.

Tony Blair

The standard of living and prosperity of the Iraqi people would be infinitely greater were Saddam not there,

Richard Grimes

The smallest pleasures hold the greatest treasures like the smallest treasures hold the greatest pleasures.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Tipu Sultan

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Jermaine Jackson

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Harold Hamm

Climate change isn't out biggest problem. It's Islamic terrorism.

Jerry Falwell

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

Glenn Beck

Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Reza Aslan

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

William Kristol

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

George Brown

So we're going to be looking into our legal options.

Philip Kerr

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

Joseph Sobran

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

John Roberts

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

Albert Pike

Less glory is more liberty. When the drum is silent, reason sometimes speaks.

Richard Cobden

Look not to the politicians; look to yourselves.

Mercy Otis Warren

Mankind may amuse themselves with theoretic systems of liberty... but we can only discern its true value by the practical and wretched effects of slavery.

John Tillotson

They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.

Mark Skousen

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

Mark Twain

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

Alexis de Tocqueville

It profits me but little, after all, that a vigilant authority always protects the tranquility of my pleasures and constantly averts all dangers from my path, without my care or concern, if this same authority is the absolute master of my liberty and my life....

Chris Rock

You don't pay taxes; they take them from your check. That's not a payment - that's a 'jack.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.