Famous Quotes & Sayings

Solomon Asch

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function.

Chris Hope

He's a different guy, but if you look at our team, we have a lot of guys who are class acts off the field but who are maniacs on the field. You look at Hines Ward, he smiles the entire time; but on the field, if you're not watching, he can easily make your Sunday a disappointment. Jerome Bettis is a yes-sir, no-sir guy, but on the field he can hammer you, too. That's just the makeup of our team.

Mel Sachs

He should not be held responsible for the acts of his co-defendant at all.

George Berkeley

Westward the course of empire takes its way; / The four first acts already past, / A fifth shall close the drama with the day: / Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Din Syamsudin

We told him to withdraw his troops from Iraq, because the occupation is only promoting more radicalism and new acts of terrorism.

Mike Love

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Dana Hayter

I think any company that can make a case that it has been damaged by the exclusionary acts affirmed in the Court of Appeals opinion would be able to use the facts from this case once the case becomes final.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

It is not difficult for us to understand the love of God. When the love of our Lord is in a man's heart, this man acts totally different.

Jerry Smith

It is my understanding that there is a history of a violent acts prior to this. It had something to do with throwing rocks off an overpass at passing cars.

Dave Frohnmayer

Keep in mind that we are only halfway through the season, and there remains a lot of football yet to be played. So it's impossible to address the dozens of hypothetical situations with the BCS standings.

Capt. Ready

I suspect that the division commanders are aware of this. As your story breaks, I'm sure it'll bring some attention to it and they'll address it.

Rep. Litvack

It answers the call from the public to address this issue. It gives law enforcement and prosecutors the tools to address these issues.

Nancy Becker

Having a functioning justice system is vital to the recovery of those states hard hit by Hurricane Katrina because it provides a needed sense of normality, and a venue to address grievances, ... Allowing attorneys displaced by the storm to temporarily practice law from Nevada is a simple step on our part that can assist their justice systems and preserve the rights and liberties of their citizens.

John Woods

has sent us a letter with numerous inaccurate and unfounded allegations that we intend to address with him directly.

Steve Buster

Half the businesses we surveyed are family-owned. About a quarter of these owners expect to retire or sell sometime in the next five years -- but only 13 percent expect the businesses to stay in the family -- with 35 percent having no idea what they will do or expecting to close down. Owners often spend an entire lifetime building their businesses -- but rarely give thought to what will happen when they are ready to retire. As a family-owned business ourselves, we strongly encourage businesses to start planning now -- to minimize taxes and address other financial and emotional considerations.

Ted Danson

Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.

John Becker

What you got is a bunch of lies, and I won't address a bunch of lies,

Charla Baker

What we have are basically individuals, whether it be an installer or a contractor, installing illegal systems in the county and not going through the process, which includes contacting our agency for a permit, letting our inspectors assist them and then actually inspecting the sewage system to make sure it works properly, ... We are trying to come up with some options to address what we can do about that, and we want the public's input. We want to invite installers, Realtors, lending institutions, the commission and the prosecuting attorney's office to give us input on that. Right now, if we have a violator, all we are able to do is turn that over to the prosecuting attorney's office.

Dave Bush

I was kind of thinking I just have to settle down, keep throwing strikes, just because of a run in the first inning I can't come out of the game plan. I feel like I've executed fairly well against them.

Tyronn Mitchell

I was just caught up in the moment, that was a shot of a lifetime. Who would think a number 14 seed against a number three seed? The emotion was just so high. I was running around like crazy.

Jai Courtney

I was always dressing up as a kid in the backyard, building some sort of fort and having battles against imaginary enemies. It's often that same feeling when you're pretending for a living, but it's with bigger toys.

Flip Saunders

Kind of how we've been for 37 games. Different guys lead us over different parts of the game, play unselfish. Thirty assists, eight turnovers, that's kind of where we've been when we win games. I think how we played tonight against New York is pretty much how this team has played through the first half of this season.

Brian Vereb

Kenyon is opening a new facility and we will be the second opponent to swim in their new pool. The Ladies are a powerhouse in Division III swimming and this should be a good test for us, swimming against a quality opponent on the road.

Jerry Ryan

Kill the Pope; that's obviously anti-Catholic, but that's against the message of the other writings where they say 'no more war,'

Matt Hasselbeck

Knowing Chike -- he's a guy with a great pass rush and he's got a motor -- I don't think any quarterback gets excited about going up against him. I think our guys, hopefully, will be up to the task.

David Parsons

Kids coming out of high school are coached better today. Nothing against the coaches I had in high school; I thought they were great coaches. But everything is so specialized now. I watch Gary Rankin (Riverdale head football coach). He was a teammate of mine at Tennessee. (Riverdale) has a different game plan for everybody they played.

Gerald Doucet

I would not put my money against it.

Ken Ham

There's been an incredible censorship in America and throughout the world, but particularly in America where students aren't even allowed to critically think about evolution, the issue of origins; they are not allowed to hear other points of view; they are taught incorrectly about science and taught that evolution is fact.

Stephen Fried

I was lucky enough to meet him a few times and to work with him once. I felt as if I had been allowed to try on the Crown Jewels. He was a great, remarkable man.

Kurt Warner

I was looking for someone that was willing to give me a chance to play the game the way I played again. He definitely allowed me to do that. ... It wasn't necessarily what he had done with quarterbacks in the past, although it never hurts to be a part of a team or with a coach that has had great offensive success and great success with quarterbacks.

Ben Wizner

Kidnapping an innocent man and sending him to a secret location to be tortured is not only illegal, it is immoral. We need a full and complete investigation of a policy that has allowed countless detainees, some of them entirely innocent, to be tortured in our names.

Owen Williams

Know your stuff. That makes it easier to avoid nasty surprises, such as a contract coming up for renewal with no clauses capping price increases in it, when you have allowed yourself no time to renegotiate anything.

Fran Gow

Just look at what they've done by calling penalties for obstruction and just allowing the freedom to be able to skate. Look at what the style of play in the AJHL is right now - it's night and day (from the NHL). It's frustrating for players and it's frustrating for coaches. It's a rodeo out there, getting to the net.

Pete Townshend

John Entwistle told me shortly before he died that he would find it hard to offer songs for the Who to record because he could no longer allow Roger (or me) to comment on them in any way at all.

Martin O'Malley

Job creation is a choice. Investing in cleaner, greener technologies that allow us to strike a more sustainable balance with the other living systems of this earth - this, too, is a choice.

Robert Scheer

I talked to Reagan for about six hours all told. and Reagan was willing to go along with it. He didn't look at his watch, and he didn't allow his campaign aides to cut it off.

Edward Davis

Judge Moore assured me that he would be able to meet the deadlines that judge Hoeveler set,

Antonio Tarver

He was beat by a better fighter. Period. I am one of the best fighters in the world. Give me my credit. You all thought I would be one-punch happy but I passed my test. I did my homework. I took nothing for granted. I wasn't assured of victory until they raised my hand.

Tim Tompkins

We take it for granted that crime continues to go down, the economy is strong and tourism has grown. Those things weren't assured four years ago.

Kevin Bettencourt

I think we saw more of Kansas last year because they were on TV more. The coaches have assured us they have tape on everybody and they've already gone through it.

Bruce Bochy

He's done a terrific job for us, ... I assured him it had nothing to do with the game.

Tipu Munshi

He has assured us to tag our priority items into the list of 97 per cent products to be given duty-free access.

Manfred Richthofen

In the Squadron to which he belonged there was a rumor that the Red Machine was occupied by a girl, by a kind of Jeanne d'Arc. He was intensely surprised when I assured him that the supposed girl was standing in front of him. He did not intend to make a joke. He was actually convinced that only a girl could sit in the extravagantly painted machine.

Nazmul Hoque

The ministry had assured us that two other demands including the enhancement of sales commission would be fulfilled gradually.

Steve Davis

The investigation is under way, ... The bomb team has assured them the building is safe at this point. We don't feel there are any other devices we have to worry about in the building.

Michelle Clayman

There are still concerns that profits will slow considerably, and that will hit stocks. But I think there are a number of stocks that are just oversold at these levels.

Alan Smith

I think the pursuit of this was overly aggressive, and this reeks of a personal vendetta to me on the part of the homeowners' association. It goes back to concerns Karen had with respect to school zoning issues.

Addison Armstrong

I think we're still in a very headline-driven market and the geopolitical concerns are going to continue to outweigh the fundamentals.

Adam Ereli

Our objective, ... is to help relieve the suffering of the North Korean people, despite our concerns about the North Korean government's policies.

Hideyuki Suzuki

Investors sometimes go after these leading firms when there are concerns about higher interest rates. In a sense, these are stocks with staying power.... On top of that, their earnings have been good.

Chirlane McCray

I like to go to the subway and hear what people are thinking and feeling and what their concerns are. You learn so much that way. You really do.

Louis Hobaica

It helps them if they have health needs or concerns disabilities, if they are home bound.

Nancy Achin

Clearly, this pattern is such an extreme deviation from his peers that it raised grave concerns for the board.

Paul Simpson

If the pitch is like it was the last time we played there, I will voice my concerns and I will be stronger in my opinions.

Waqar Younis

Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.

Dee Brown

I'm just looking at Indiana on Sunday. You just have to worry about yourself. You have to win and see what happens.

Jamie Bell

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

Steve Alford

Indiana went about it a little different in how they did their search. I never got a phone call. I was never contacted.

Deepa Mehta

I'm getting calls. They say that I'm defiling the name of India -- but I don't see how!

Narendra Modi

I intend to launch a massive National Program for PDS Computerisation.

Narendra Modi

E-Governance to me is easy, effective and efficient governance.

Narendra Modi

Whatever Language Pakistan understands India should teach in that language

Jim Thome

The Indians are going in a way they want to go and I respect that, ... I've loved that organization and I still will.

Ailyn Perez

Sometimes the leads are equally balanced, like in 'Romeo and Juliet,' but sometimes they're just not.

Horst Keller

This leads to the question of how many places there are in the universe where life could potentially have developed.

Robert Jackson

People take liberties and one thing leads to another,

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

Ariel Sharon

make us desperate, to make us lose hope, to make us lose the national vision that leads us.

Rocky Watson

more tips, more leads as this investigation proceeds.

Tim Donovan

For the second match in a row, we have leads and get to 20 points and lose our focus. We have to learn to put teams away when we're ahead.

Patrick Valenzuela

She didn't want to switch leads but when she did, she accelerated again.

Philip Dow

I think this is a one-day pause. I'd be really surprised if this was all there is to this rally. .. . I don't see anything in the tape today that leads me to think this trend should be over.

Donald Rumsfeld

It's safe to say that Pakistan has been very cooperative.

Hamid Karzai

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

Ronald Neumann

Pakistan is doing a lot more than they were doing, ... They have put thousands of troops on the border. ... I think this is a considerable effort. It is going in the right direction.

Manmohan Singh

We are willing to supply to Pakistan whatever is on their priority list,

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion, caste or creed—that has nothing to do with the business of the State.

Anton LaVey

When walking in open territory, bother no one. If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

Salmon P. Chase

No more slave States; no slave Territories.

Pat Buchanan

Capitol Hill is Israeli occupied territory.

Leos Carax

Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.

Islam Karimov

We have not made commitments to make our territory and airspace available,

Thomas Huxley

Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation.

Stacy Schiff

No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.

Scott Weiland

I prefer to break new ground, but it gets harder and harder with the territory that's already been walked on.

Michael Crichton

Because the history of evolution is that life escapes all barriers. Life breaks free. Life expands to new territories. Painfully, perhaps even dangerously. But life finds a way.