Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wayne Dyer

Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you.

Jonah Rapino

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Bob Dozier

It's a tough area. South of the school, there are high- and upper-middle-class citizens - lots of doctors, lawyers, teachers and principals. North of the school, where Jerome lived, you have the inner city. It's a pretty tough area. Jerome and his parents did a great job avoiding the pitfalls of that.

Jon Daniels

Avoiding the arbitration process for the next two years with a core player such as Mark is an important step for both he and the club. We're hopeful the contract is the continuation of a relationship that will last well beyond the term of this agreement.

Bob Motzko

That (pass) was a great play. You guys have been following me with Hooton, and I just can't explain it. He just can't get points. I've never seen anything like it and I can't figure it out because he doesn't have a lot of flaws. He's got great hands, shoots well and competes his tail off, but he's just got a way of avoiding points.

Roberto Goizueta

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Peter DeLorenzo

After gorging on faddish, oversized SUVs for years, while studiously avoiding more rational vehicle choices, drivers in this country have woken up with a relentless hangover from Katrina made up of the double-whammy of tight supplies and jaw-dropping prices.

Joe Schwieterman

Now it's a matter of damage control for the union. They may be looking for a face-saving maneuver to rejuvenate the membership, while avoiding the permanent loss of jobs.

Jeff Mikulina

This is nothing more than special-interest legislation for an irresponsible developer who was nailed by the 3rd Circuit Court for polluting the water and desecrating burials and avoiding our land-use law, and now the Legislature's going to bail him out at the expense of our agricultural land.

Gerald Curtis

Handling the budget is a big part of the job, but you have to realize that 70 or 80 percent of the budget is mandated by the state; you can change very little of it. But you do have to look at cuts.

Tom DeLay

There is no fat left to cut in the federal budget.

Brendan Gilfillan

He hopes that the students stay engaged throughout this process and that they participate on campus as college presidents make the same kinds of tough decisions that the governor did with this budget.

William Stewart

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town. Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

William Stewart

(Residents) have to recognize the selectmen drive the manager in this town, ... Budgets are not made up at the last minute . . . If you're going to make changes you have to make it at the selectmen level.

Dennis Taylor

Our No. 1 goal is to restore budget cuts, and No. 2 is financial aid.

Richard Tofel

In the midst of budget reviews for 1998, this is clearly an appropriate time for such a review.

Alex Roland

in a budget crisis of its own making.

Bob Elliott

I guess we still look forward to any other input, but it looks like the budget will be workable at 3.5 mills, ... I don't think we need any more than that right now. We can't go any lower than that unless we generate money somewhere else, and I don't know where that somewhere else would be. The millage is where we need it to be to do what we need to.

Jim Taylor

It's likely there will be some major cuts in future rounds. Whether we will be one of them, I don't know.

Karl Malone

Look at this, scabs and cuts all over me, I get these every night, every game. They can't tell you that you're not at risk, and you can't tell me there's one guy in the N.B.A. who hasn't thought about it.

Heino Ruland

The job cuts were well priced in. What was not in the price was the results, because the fourth-quarter result was driven by the top line as opposed to anything else.

Tony Marshall

All of those cuts have to be restored before we can talk about staffing.

Michael Lopez

They take short cuts to get the job done, thinking that's going to please the employer.

David Obey

They are targeting programs for poor people to pay for tax cuts for rich people.

Klaus Kleinfeld

There will be more cuts in the short term.

Bruce Springsteen

There's a lot of music we have that cuts right to the heart of what's going on there.

Norman Foster

Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.

Donna Karan

He was really the one man who was the voice of the designer. He understood us as designers, and then he could explain us to the consumer.

Tom Pecora

I need someone to explain this process to me.

Cory Lidle

I'll let them explain what happened, ... because I can't.

Juan Pierre

I haven't seen anything like it. I can't even explain it. It looked like we had everything in hand. To see the wheels fall off, it's a tough one to swallow, especially at this time of year.

Jessica Ross

I'm loving it right now. I'm having a great time. I can't even explain it.

Kristin Baker

I'm scarred for my mom. I can't really explain how I felt, but it was okay, just as long as it was saving my grandpa.

Drew Hall

I'm very stunned. All we talk about is going to the NCAA Tournament. I don't know what happened today. I can't explain it. Turnovers, me leading them in turnovers, just uncharacteristic things from a lot of guys. It's one game and done, and it's the wrong time for it to happen.

J. Horton

I know they're OK. I can't really explain how I felt when I heard that. I can't wait to see them. I just can't wait to talk to them.

Steve Hall

I just can't explain how he got 11 rebounds tonight. He just simply wants to be out there on the floor.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

William James

But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.

William James

Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.

Tupac Shakur

The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it’s planted in stone

Trey Gowdy

Facts are neither Republican nor Democrat.

Richard Dawkins

The fact that somebody does good doesn't make their beliefs true.

Virginia Woolf

To be nothing - is that not, after all, the most satisfactory fact in the whole world?

Werner Herzog

Facts sometimes have a strange and bizarre power that makes their inherent truth seem unbelievable.

Samuel McChord Crothers

The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Roger Williams

In 13 years, this is the first time the feds have supported TAG funding (through a grant), ... It's always been a huge push from the state. The federal government hasn't always supported this in terms of finances, so it's a nice change.

Michael Lambert

If you don't wait on FEMA, if you don't wait on the federal government, things can get done faster,

Elaine Shannon

Clearly, this is very embarrassing, and very serious. The system is only as strong as its weakest link, and if perimeter guards aren't trained well enough to protect federal buildings, we're got a serious problem.

Michael Clayton

You can't picture something natural doing something like that. It's devastating. People in Louisiana haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time. This was one of the most powerful hurricanes Louisiana has ever had to take on.

David Stern

It was important to the Hornets and the NBA that we maintain a presence in Louisiana in anticipation of a return to New Orleans next season.

Johnny Knoxville

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

Wes Brown

Love the show 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.' Being from Louisiana and a big outdoorsman, I'm a big fan of 'Duck Dynasty' as well.

Andy Kopplin

We are providing ways to keep homeowners as homeowners. You can successfully rebuild South Louisiana with the package we have proposed.

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Gerard Houllier

About a third of the national team is made of Lyon players and I have the right to say that I disagree.

Billy Bennett

It's kind of depressing, seeing it all on national TV.

Monique Currie

It's just really disappointing. We were just so close. I think we had all the tools in place to win the national championship. Sometimes things don't work out the way you want it to.

Tim Tessalone

A lot of our players do get a lot of national attention,

Andrew Mitchell

All of Britain's aid is spent in Britain's national interests, and some of it contributes to Britain's national security as well.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Jim Angell

I think their response has been very measured.

William Levada

It's not surprising that there's been no response

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Jesse Cole

We did not get any response with that either.

Amy Martin

The response has been overwhelming. I don't know any other word,

Greg Smith

The response has been overwhelming. And we can always use more.

Phil Harding

We have had a tremendous response from our dealers and customers.

Jeff Friedman

Well, our response is for the negotiating team, during negotiations.