Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Myers

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

Anthony Romero

President Bush and his surrogates can justify this program all they want, but they cannot change the underlying fact that it remains an illegal program. The continued approval for this unlawful program undermines the very freedoms and values that define America.

Mark Rogerson

If you get your approval in one EU country then you hit the ground running in other EU countries.

Quincy Krosby

If you are Mrs. Smith watching TV, seeing images of the hurricane, seeing (former House majority leader) Tom DeLay get indicted, watching the president's approval ratings sink, you say to yourself: 'What's going on here?' Are you going to feel confident? No. Are you going to put money to work? No.

Hamid Awaluddin

If you read the constitution, it does not say 'after obtaining the approval' of the parliament but 'after listening to the considerations',

Jeff Neal

In the end, any vehicle that the governor uses will have to receive the approval of the state police.

William Russell

In order to sell or change the ownership of this property, we need to seek approval from HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development).

Carolyn Maloney

Clearly, the administration's approval process reflects a pre-9/11 mentality.

Zeng Jun

Choosing a house to buy is easy. The difficulty lies in getting approval for your housing loan application.

Al Gore

I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted, and I don't think Governor Bush does either.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it is very important not to make a big deal out of it, because it is not, ... President Bush is always welcome to California.

Tony Juniper

He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate change policies.

Roger Kubarych

Here's an appointment where Bush really can't make a mistake,

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Kofi Annan

Today, it is thanks in large part to the firm challenge issued by President Bush -- and the pressure that followed it -- that the inspectors are back in Iraq.

David Bositis

Rita was Bush putting on a show. Bush and his people took a lot of heavy hits in their response to Katrina. They wanted to be sure that this time around they projected an image of effectiveness.

Phil Trounstine

Remember when George Bush (Senior) went through a checkout line and was unfamiliar with how scanners work at the supermarket?

Matt Williams

People who think Bush is conservative say that because he doesn't represent their views.

Hermann Hesse

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Alan Murray

Kieron is very, very low at the moment because he cannot seem to get a run of games in the team injury-free,

Rauf Denktash

Just to come to the negotiating table I cannot say that my state does not exist. I demand the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is either recognized or taken into account.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

Just think of a man who wants to sit but cannot sit because he says, I have legs -- how can I sit? Or, think of a man who wants to keep quiet and silent and cannot keep quiet and silent because he says, I have a mind. It is the same.

James Caan

Joseph Russo is a dear friend of mine and I cannot express enough how pleased I am that your office has taken interest and is in pursuit of correcting this problem.

Hugo Ch

It cannot be that the countries that have developed nuclear energy prohibit those of the third world from developing it,

Samuel Jutzi

It can be contained in domestic birds. It can be eliminated in domestic birds, but at the current level of money, it cannot be contained.

Samuel Hopkins

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

Samuel Hopkins

Furthermore, the slaves cannot be put into a more wretched situation, ourselves being judges, and the community cannot take a more lively step to escape ruin, and obtain the smiles and protection of Heaven.

Hanya Yanagihara

I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Amy Jones

Kevin wants to change the course of his life and just get out of the industry. It was his decision. It's a life choice.

Richard Applegate

I would try to talk to your employer and see if they would change the investments, ... You might as well try if the choices stink or the offerings are really expensive.

Jeff Murray

Jack Reynolds (the developer's attorney) told me that a simple language change in their development proposal resulted in the need to rezone the site. They changed the language from 'senior living' to 'age-restricted' and apparently, doing so requires a rezoning if they want to develop the site in the way that they propose.

Robert Boswell

I write a ridiculous number of drafts. The characters change and grow through the drafting, and my understanding of them deepens. Creating characters in a novel is like shooting at clay pigeons and missing, and then missing more productively as the narrative continues.

Al Bowman

Just to put that in perspective, a traffic ticket is a summary offense. It happened years ago in college. I think, obviously, Mike has changed quite a bit, as we all have, in these last eight years or six years. I'm sure he's not proud of these.

Barry Collier

Kansas didn't just cut our hair. They shaved our head. They scored 196 or 96 or one or the other on us. It'll take a tremendous effort to slow them down and change that.

Bruce Bochy

Just seeing his name in the lineup changes the flow of the game.

Gabriella Goddard

Just one step could change your life forever.

Rick Curran

John has suggested there is continued interest in having Bryan. We're willing to be patient. He would prefer to stay in Toronto.

Deb Mandeville

It always provides us with good look at many of our 3A rivals. We swam well there and continued to drop time in many events.

Anita Frazier

Handheld platforms were the big story last year, and so far this year, that segment of the industry has continued to grow significantly since last year.

Peter Spina

Gold, silver and platinum started the week off on positive footing with continued excitement in the silver markets regarding the proposed silver ETF in the United States.

Matthew Parry

Gold continues to rally on continued U.S. dollar weakness, a trend I expect to continue over the next week.

David Gibbs

He's continued to get better and better and better. Different guys are going to play out there. Whoever's No. 1, whatever that means, there'll be more than one guy out there.

Mark Grace

He's continued not only as a good player, but as a leader on that team, as a guy who takes young players under his wing and teaches them how to play.

Vince Young

He had some rapid-fire stuff for me. I think he wanted to keep me on the move. It's a good thing I've continued to work out hard.

Nick Saban

He has continued to do a good job every time he's been out there, ... and I think that's something that's got to be taken into consideration.

Richard Lazarus

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

Samuel Wilson

Moreover, environmental health at the local level has become narrowly focused, very much defined around regulations and the attendant regulatory debates.

David Schmidly

I think it's been a spectacular hire. I don't know how you could define it any other way.

Jackie Barto

I guess I would define it as we didn't play with urgency for 60 minutes. My definition of urgency is do what you have to do to make the play. We worked hard, but urgency and hard work are two different things.

Robert Hughes

if sanity is to be defined in terms of exact judgment of ends and means and the power of visual analysis.

John Hickenlooper

I hope there's some cowtown left, because as much as we are going to be defined by the future, the past is also part of who we are.

Wayne Allard

It's hard to define what pork spending is.

David Brokaw

They define something special in human nature. They give us a measure of what's possible and what's truly sensational or phenomenal.

Gregory Miller

They have to be good jobs. At the end of the day, what defines a good job is the wage level.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Joe Tiller

I would say it's the single most important factor of (a team), ... You hate to put it all on one position, but if you told me, 'OK Tiller, you're going to graduate 21 of your 22 starters. Which one don't you want graduating?' It'd be the quarterback.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move. That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Albert Gray

Katrina just went through, and it takes a little time for water to move, ... That's probably a contributing factor to these high bacterial samples.

Michelle Reinig

Just the fact that you're on land, and you know there's somebody out there and you can't do anything.

Jim McMahon

Not at all, I mean I understand what these guys have gone through. Not only them, but the generations before them. Without them, we couldn't have the freedoms that we have today.

Wade Henderson

serve as the steward of the rights, liberties and freedoms of all Americans for generations to come.

Timothy Karr

It?s the first step onto a slippery slope that will dismantle many of the freedoms that Americans have come to know. AOL?s pay-to-send scheme threatens the free and open Internet as we know it.

David Keene

This is not a partisan issue. It is an issue of safeguarding the fundamental freedoms of all Americans so that future administrations do not interpret our laws in ways that pose constitutional concerns.

Neil Young

To protect our freedoms, it seems like we're going to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time.

Mohammed Habib

Maybe after the president wins elections, as we're sure he will, the freedoms that we've seen for the Brotherhood over the last year will be taken away.

John Wilmot

...Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust. (A Ramble in St James Park)

John Wilmot

Natural freedoms are but just:There's something generous in mere lust.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Bill Rogers

I think their whole search has a pall over it because of illegal actions.

Jerry Owens

I think it's real sad because these people are really saying it's OK to be illegal aliens. What Americans are saying is 'Yes, come here. But come here legally.' And I think that's the big problem.

H. Hart

It is illegal for them to sell an item that they know can be used to ingest or inhale an illegal substance.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

Mariano Puerta

I have not taken any illegal substances as reported. I was suspended two years ago and would never do anything like that again.

Bill Butler

They know the victims are vulnerable; they are illegal immigrants

Karl A. Menninger

We need criminals to identify ourselves with, to secretly envy and to stoutly punish. They do for us the forbidden, illegal things we wish to do.

Steve Wright

It's the illegal immigrants who poison the well for everyone.

Chris Servheen

This is urgent, considering the number of illegal kills right now.

Don Vincent

They have to really justify it well, I don't know what their logic is or anything.

Don Vincent

They have to really justify it well, ... I don't know what their logic is or anything.

Judy Chicago

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

Jeff Horner

It was tough to handle. Hopefully, we can justify a lot of things with this Big Ten championship, if we win it.

Dottie Pepper

At this point, she is an untapped talent because there is no track record. No qualifying school, no futures tour. There is a lot that has to be seen. She is going to have to win to justify it. There are a lot of questions that need answers.

Seth MacFarlane

If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.

John Wesley

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

Tom Casey

He is the established constitutional president of Mauritania.

John Edwards

It is actually the responsibility of the president of the U.S. to be able to do two things at the same time,

Orrin Hatch

I think the president has to do some compromising here, not just the House.

Gary Chaison

I think that (AFL-CIO President John) Sweeney will have to make a strong statement about the AFL-CIO and how it's strong and still relevant.

Dale Bills

He was strong and vibrant and it was vintage President Hinckley.

Ryan Lochte

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Reza Aslan

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

William Safire

Our rogue President, after selling face time...

Woodrow Wilson

Liberty cannot live apart from constitutional

Vinton Cerf

There was something amazingly enticing about programming.

Caroline Brown

In the programs we've run before, I would say that more than 75% of the participants have NOT truly been in this at-risk category.

Mark Roberts

In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.

Seimone Augustus

I really don't understand how a men's and women's program wouldn't get along. It's like brotherhood and sisterhood with us.

Ray Tanner

I like it the other way; I like the stability. But there are a lot of teams that make changes. There are many very successful programs that don't always stick with their rotation.

J. C. Watts

Their program is relatively expensive, but a lot of it is conditional. We don't know what they're going to cut.

Gary Buehler

The generic-drug program is very important to the F.D.A..

Thomas Burke

That's $200,000 in drug programs that won't get funded,

Tom Brookes

It will be similar to the licensing programs in the U.S..

Woody Allen

My relationship with death remains the same - I'm strongly against it.

Paul Wolfowitz

The cost of the high-cost economy remains too high.

Neal A. Maxwell

The "new" in us is bound to notice the "old" that remains.

Kelly Clarkson

Everything changes, but beauty remains.

Joyce Carol Oates

You don't have to understand why anything that has happened nor do you even have to understand what it is that has happened. You have only to live with the remains.

George Davis

They're kind of saying that it's going to be OK, but that remains to be seen,

Martha Minnich

I've seen just about all one could see. It never get any easier, but it remains just as rewarding each time.

Barry Steinhardt

Is it a step forward? Yes. Is it foolproof? That remains to be proven.

Edward Hall

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Todd Williams

It's something within his joint, most probably the cartilage, and it could be something underlying from the old injury.

Edward Miller

They want to use it, but it can't be put out there. It's going to be an underlying part of the campaign.

Mark Bradford

Everything I do has an underlying political question.

John Bradshaw

In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.

Adam Ereli

It undermines the right of Kenyans to information.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Tori Amos

When you value your crew, they look after you.

Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Lil Wayne

Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.

John Hodgman

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

Stedman Graham

How can I go out there and create value?

Philip James Bailey

The value of a thought cannot be told.

Michael Jordan

Nothing of value comes without being earned.

George Carlin

Where do we get our values from?