Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hilary Rosen

We remain confident that the (9th U.S. Circuit) Court will ultimately affirm once it has had an opportunity to review the facts and the law.

Bo Sanchez

Faith Words arent just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

ACCUSE, v.t. To affirm another's guilt or unworth; most commonly as a justification of ourselves for having wronged him.

John Norquist

They should just affirm the street patterns and property lines that already exist. The city needs to learn from its image, which is very strong,

Philip Sidney

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

Vladimir Putin

Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.

Stephen Covey

I affirm to you the tremendous potential you have, not beyond anything you could ever imagine.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RAZOR, n. An instrument used by the Caucasian to enhance his beauty, by the Mongolian to make a guy of himself, and by the Afro-American to affirm his worth.

Chris Atkins

This is good news for taxpayers and the states. We hope the Supreme Court will bring some clarity to this area of the law and affirm the principle that states are free to develop their own business climates, so long as they do not discriminate against out-of-state taxpayers.

D. Miller

We want the highest price possible. You have to weigh that against some risk: the timing of the sale and how long it could take to arrange financing. So sometimes it does make sense to take a lower price.

Tom Jones

We want to test ourselves, see the progress we've made against bodies other than the UB offense and get a feel for where we are, what we need to do, and take it into the season.

Steve Tanner

We actually didn't lose a game in the summer league against the Maryland teams. That kind of got our confidence up. That gives me chance to try people out in different places.

Aaron Huffman

Waynesburg is a solid team. I don't want to jinx it, but it seems we always play well against them.

Chris Coleman

Wayne is still not fully fit. But he's only going to get better. I was pleased with his performance against West Ham in the last game and he will get fitter and stronger as he goes on. He'll be back in the squad for the World Cup.

Doug Herzog

We always hold out hope against hope. We would very much relish the opportunity to be back in real business with Dave.

Jim Elliott

We always do well against Newman. We're a little young, but I think we're going to be able to hold their own the rest of this season.

Felipe Roque

We always considered and continue to consider the Pope a friend, who fought against poverty, neo-liberalism and for peace. We will also always remember his words against the U.S. economic embargo that our people suffer,

Stephen Decatur

We always come out against Washington with a mental block anyway,

Gloria Fletcher

We want them to get back their jobs and as long as these charges are pending, there's no possibility at all. Which doesn't seem fair.

Mark Hudson

We have no information showing that she was ever in Alabama. Our investigation is ongoing as we speak. There is the possibility that more charges could be coming in Alabama.

Carina Perelli

We're going to fight these charges because I reject every single one of them.

Wendy Hopkins

It's just something that people can feel good about when there are no administrative charges. That's a huge plus. When I talk about Season of Sharing, people are always surprised that no one charges administrative costs. All that is collected goes to a client.

Bill Walton

They have a list of charges and they're just trying to make a big deal out of it. They're just tooting their own horn.

Mitchell Ribitwer

This involves multiple charges and courts and at this time we have no comment.

Thomas Fitzpatrick

It's not the ultimate vindication we are waiting for, but it demonstrates the charges don't measure up.

Carl Tobias

This means the issue of whether you can hold a citizen 3 1/2 years without charges will likely be unresolved, which is of great concern to many.

Michael Drewniak

There was simply too much suspicion out there, given the history of the case, for us not to give a full explanation of what went wrong and why no federal charges were filed.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Together, we must renew our continued commitment to serve and pledge to bring a positive change to our communities.

Merv Adams

We always had to work on Saturdays and Sundays. That was our commitment to them.

Louise Bourgeois

Even though what I do does enter the market, it doesn't interest me. I am exclusively concerned with the formal qualities of my work. It is about the need and the right to self-expression.

Linda Johnson

The people who voted yes understood the issue, and that is really what we are concerned about. I think it speaks for itself.

Bill Nygren

The people who own Internet stocks are taking on a very high level of risk. Myself and most of the other managers at the conference are concerned about people who own and trade those stocks not understanding the risks they're taking.

Subodh Kumar

We are seeing a pullback on stocks because many investors are concerned with the outlook for interest rates and with the economy at the start of 2006. The rebound in oil in the past couple of days is also hurting some stocks, especially the ones related to consumer spending, such as retailers.

Gerald Lucas

There are some fears about inflation but people are even more concerned about what's happening in the corporate credit market.

Matt Durgin

We're not going to make an issue of it. We're more concerned who we're playing, not where we're playing.

Donald Trump

We have a special site, a special location. We have a neighborhood that at first was concerned but now has embraced us for the most part.

Todd Jaeger

We have some chain-link fences that are kind of high in back of the high school and we're concerned about kids getting hurt, so it's kind of a double-edged sword there.

Charlie Haden

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life.

Tony Dungy

We want to see if we can get that done, ... So our focus is winning the first one. This is a very critical two-week stretch for us.

John Broughton

We are at a very critical stage in our negotiations,

Pat Sullivan

We're in that critical time that people can be rescued, ... If we don't get out thereto and do it now, then they're going to die.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Thomas Galvin

Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.

Bill Walton

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

Lennon Parham

We took 'BFF' around to try and take it somewhere else because we were really proud of it, and it had gotten all that critical acclaim, and Twitter fans were going crazy about it.

Judd Rose

While many people think that we as reporters are whining and that this is a time of war, we are really the conveyors of truth in a very critical time and people need to know that truth.

M. Night Shyamalan

Being insecure - I'm a master, a virtuoso - they can be handing me the keys to the kingdom and all I can think is, I hope I don't drop the key.

Ken Warwick

Why should you take a drop in money?

Laurie Metcalf

You know, if a TV show dropped into my lap out of the blue, I would have a hard time turning it down because there just isn't the money in theater that there is on TV.

Gavin Grant

We have to have a strong ACC Tournament. We were supposed to be like a 3 seed (in the NCAA), but I am pretty sure we are going to drop down from there. I think we have to go into the ACC Tournament like we did last year, knowing we had to win to get in. We have to win games. We don't want to be an eighth or ninth seed.

Ahmad Khatami

We want our rights and nothing more, and we will resist until our last drop of blood.

Matt Lanter

I honestly try not to eat a whole lot of fast food, so it wouldn't kill me to drop it all together.

Steve Stinson

Whether they are talented or not they know what has been done before and they expect to win. These guys find a way to win. Part of that is the tradition of Flower Mound. They are going to do what it takes to make sure they are not the ones to drop the ball.

Guillermo Cole

We're monitoring the situation. We have an inspector dropping by every day.

Katie Aselton

I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.

Amy Louviere

It would inhibit the miner from being able to speak freely.

Lara Giddings

At times I wonder whether or not your role as a member of Parliament... may in fact inhibit a relationship developing.

Kenneth Langone

A lawsuit with no legal precedent, seeking no damages, from no jury, in the name of stopping something that isn't happening? Only in New York.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Mike Garcia

A lot of states have laws where you can't get into school without proof of immunization.

Kim Beazley

They have in their various parliaments, the power to pass laws related to this,

Rosemarie Arnold

This plea is Step One in the vindication process. The lawsuit is Step Two.

Sean Egan

There may be more lawsuits and a fine, but I think they will be manageable,

Andy Fisher

There may be a myriad of laws that have some relevance.

Ziad Asali

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

Lloyd Chapman

These lawsuits are a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Terry Greene

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Li Deshui

Through the survey, we are able to remove the 'water' from the statistics of the manufacturing sector, in particular, from small-sized enterprises.

Kat Clark

If they're in a destructive mood, we'll remove the mat, too.

Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Joan Lunden

Remove failure as an option.

Robert Mugabe

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Ephraim Sneh

No, we are not going to retaliate right now,

Stephen M. Walt

Israel has a sizeable nuclear arsenal and could retaliate if it were attacked.

Alan Watts

Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work.

Alan Clark

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

Alan Bennett

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

Alan Ayckbourn

A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Al Kaline

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Akio Morita

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

Chloe Sevigny

I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment.

Eddie Murphy

Making a movie is a collaborative effort and sometimes all the ingredients don't work out. I know that every now and again I am going to make a movie that won't work.

Dawn Staley

Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.