Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Anthony Marra

A novel can grant humanity even to those who act inhumanely, and by making men and women of monsters, it can offer not only a ground-level view of a particular conflict, but a descent into the substratum of human nature capable of the incomprehensible.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Joyce Bickers

As always, there are things to work on, but I am seeing the players incorporating things we work on in practice into the matches, whereas before they would work on it in practice, but never attempt in an actual game. These players are growing with each play and getting stronger and stronger and more confident.

Joyce Banda

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Jodhi May

As an actor, I think it's really important to be as anonymous as possible. It's your job to convince people that you are somebody else, and so any recognition I'd get away from the screen - well, it's not something I actively seek. To be honest with you, I'm surprised anybody does.

John Alexander

The big reason people are still buying the racks is that there are certain items that you just don't put through the electric dryer. Another is that in the winter the rack can act as a humidifier if you place wet clothes on the top and allow them to dry until the next day.

Lloyd Jones

A whole series of tests will occur. The Fish and Wildlife Service is coordinating with the Department of Agriculture, with surveillance activities through the fall to collect samples from birds taken during banding to hunter- harvested birds. It will be a very comprehensive testing program.

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Alberto Gonzales

Well, there is an attorney-client privilege here that needs to be respected, and it's a privilege that has been found to be worthy of protection by our courts.

Rebecca Murrell

Those clients with money who can hire private counsel can receive a lot more services than we can offer.

William Band

Many times, clients don't take the proper leadership role. However, the risk is high as four out of 10 client/PSP relationships fail.

Kurt Kutay

People want more meaningful travel experiences and they are finding them in interactions with people from different cultures. More than half of our clients come to us for cultural travel.

Irene Stein

Pharmacists have many clients needing help and they are trying their best. Getting through this period is just the first hurdle. They we have to work on improving the inadequacies in the legislation.

Linda McDougall

Numbers just don't lie, and Intuit doesn't have the numbers to back up their claim. They don't understand the difference between the number of clients served and the number of tax returns prepared.

Larry Keller

If they didn't get one red cent, if these defendants would say, 'We were wrong, we are sorry,' that would give a measure of the satisfaction my clients are looking for.

Reed Kathrein

Milberg Weiss is not looking at this at all and I don't think people should be out there trying to sign up clients today. We've got a lot of other things we have to think about now.

Joe Bruno

My (pre-Katrina) clients are gone. I don't know how profitable any of this (Katrina) stuff is, but I'm motivated by this need to do something.

Lynn Reaser

The cacophony on Wall Street this week reflected concerns that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates further and that corporate profit performance could start to dissipate.

John Glenn

a very unique and inexpensive opportunity to inform ourselves and the American people about an issue that has been of serious concern to all of us.

Pam Wilson

Back in 2002, we had a pretty similar situation. (The fire season) started back in mid-April, which is very early we definitely have some concerns as we head toward summer.

Yasuhisa Ishida

As long as concerns over possible interest rate rises are out there, the dollar is likely to be pressured by the unwinding of yen-carry trade positions.

Jeremy Cox

That was a concern of mine (playing zone) because I thought they were great shooters as well. They shot less than 25 percent (from 3-point range), so it worked for us.

Susan Collins

raises some disturbing concerns about the spread of extremist materials in American mosques and Islamic centers.

George Tenet

raised several concerns about the fragmentary nature of the intelligence with National Security Council colleagues. Some of the language was changed.

Mary Abbott

Personally, I don't think it's a good idea to move to a countywide system. I have real concerns about how frequently the revenues would be distributed and what sort of accountability there would be in getting proper distribution.

Maureen Dunn

Our concern is primarily that it's a safe environment.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Rick Lane

There was a hands-off mentality because Congress didn't understand the issues.

Carol Cox

We will spend less money next year than we did two years ago -- not very much less, ... The administration, having lowered the bar, got more of what it wanted out of Congress. At the end, the administration was holding the whip hand because it was Congress that wanted to go home.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress. They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Michael White

We're just following orders from Congress, ... They haven't issued any legislation about discontinuing the one-cent coin, so we keep making them.

Arlen Specter

If we give up the power of the purse, which is what is at issue here, then it really reduces the Congress to the state of being a eunuch,

Jay Rockefeller

If we had prescribed in Congress each of the relationships between the agencies, I think that would have been an enormous mistake and would have rendered this person more useless. This person can exercise power, and I think that's good.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Trafalgar Square

As soon as the result is known, there will be an immediate announcement.

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Roger Clemens

I know my immediate plans are I'll go back to Florida.

Jo Koy

I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.

Kofi Annan

It is the plight of the Iraqi people which is now my most immediate concern.

Peggy Smith

I've never been to jail before. I was married to a lawyer for 31 years. I'm a peaceful person.

Roy Johnson

That's him. They took him to the jail today.

Ayn Rand

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence.

Brian Urlacher

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Brian Baird

With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.

David Cone

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

Amnat Ruenroeng

If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.

Tom Waits

I did my time in the jail of your arms

Steven Biko

I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be.

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Christian Moody

His passes were perfect. Look at his shooting. I think he's the best.

Brenda Frese

When we're focused, we can go on runs like that. In the second half, we started making more unselfish passes and made things happen.

Frida Kahlo

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Stephen Jay Gould

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should cringe in embarrassment that, at the dawn of a new, technological millennium, a jurisdiction in our heartland has opted to suppress one of the greatest triumphs of human discovery.

Ann Coulter

Liberals don't mind discussing who is more patriotic if patriotism is defined as redistributing income and vetoing the Pledge of Allegiance. Only if patriotism is defined as supporting America do they get testy and drone on about 'McCarthyism.'

Alexander Hamilton

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.

Andrew Jackson

Elevate those guns a little lower.

Richard Marcinko

Shoot first and ask questions not at all

Steve Stivers

You know, capital isnt patriotic. Capital goes to where it needs to go to get a return.

Stanley Milgram

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.