Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mathew Staver

Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.

Ben Lieberman

The world is full of tradeoffs, and sometimes 'renewable power' activists fail to recognize that. Solar energy collectors must displace a tremendous amount of natural landscape to produce any significant amount of energy. And anything less requires a great deal of financial expenditures for very little and very inconsistent power.

Nina Easton

In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter should be urged to adhere to business practices that maximize the safety of activists using their platforms.

Paul Di Filippo

For every reader and writer of steampunk fiction, there are probably hundreds or thousands of other activists who gleefully embrace some non-written manifestation of the steampunk ethos.

Bill Crawford

There's a whole group of south Scottsdale activists who were disenfranchised. If you acknowledge those people it means so much to them.

Janice Crouse

It's a sad day for American when a small group of very determined activists are dominating the awards ceremony.

John Carlisle

These companies just don't understand that reparations activists are not after apologies and racial reconciliation. They want money.

Lucy Powell

For us political activists and candidates, the morning after any election is a mix of emotions - the personal and the immediate, the culmination of your own recent campaigning efforts; and the fortunes of your party and the success or otherwise of what you stand for and believe in.

Johnny Depp

I was known as 'Ray, Head of Security' in the bookstores and stuff where he was signing books. I just spent an enormous amount of time with him and watched him like a hawk. Studied him. I tried to steal his soul.

Michael Gibson

I would think that it would only be fair that the Chamber was able to reduce their request by 25 percent with their money they got from Charlie Adams Day and other things, that Main Street be reduced by the same amount from $10,000 to $7,500,

John Planamenta

Kelly is a very intelligent player. She held that ball the perfect amount of time.

Gene Watson

John and I are good friends and we've performed from the same stage before. I don't know how his part of the concert is set up, but I'll take mine from 'Love in the Hot Afternoon,' the song that got me started, and bring the people right up to date. I'll be skipping through the career and covering as much as we can in the allotted amount of time we have.

Dusty Baker

I talked to him the other day because he was pressing a little bit already. I told him to just relax. It's the same game he played in Venezuela. We have to eliminate the pressures of the amount of people and TV and radio, simplify things and say, 'Hey, man, it's baseball.

Terry Delp

I think it's a blooming business. You have to have the drive, but in a short amount of time, you can have a lucrative job.

Bobby Cox

I think it changed the atmosphere in this city a little bit, ... We've always had good clubs, not always veterans. We've always had young kids but nothing to this extent during my tenure. Some of those kids are from the area. It really caught on. It energized the town, and created a tremendous amount of interest in the team. You know, they were kind of the underdog kids, and people root for that.

Alexander Downer

I think in turn the media has become very interested in this specific case, and has gone into an enormous amount of detail.

Adam Levine

It all sounded questionable. ... I just hope if it's a false accusation, that the amount of media attention focused on the players, the same amount of attention is put on their innocence.

Christopher Burge

The results reflect a strong, solid and successful market - there were some very high prices but participating collectors remain focused and controlled.

Jim Holt

Those are the same sandbags our garbage collectors will probably be picking up this week.

Sarah Brady

Our ultimate goal- total control of handguns in the United States- is going to take time... The first problem is to slow down the increasing number of handguns being produced... The second problem is to get handguns registered. And the final problem is to make the possession of handguns and all handgun ammunition- except for the military, policemen, licensed security guards, licensed sporting clubs, and licensed gun collectors - totally illegal.

Paul Mellon

In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors and persuade them to come in with him, and that hunch proved to be right.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Seth Shostak

Here's a news flash: scientists can be wrong. That's no big deal (unless the scientist is you), since research is self-correcting. Consequently, most errors by scientists become historical curiosities, with little long-term importance.

Maria Rodriguez

What we want is the deal they promised us -- if we paid them, we were covered.

John Jay

Having them being released is a good thing. People make a big deal about it because it's an unknown.

Deborah Silverman

had a great deal of success with this program. We've set a number of sales records in the past few months, and we thought it was important to extend for the month of September.

Rebecca Loos

He's a stranger to me now. He looks very different to how I knew him. And the way he dealt with the whole thing. He's just a very different man.

Albert Smith

It is a good deal better to be seventy-nine years young than it is to be fifty years old

Fred Eckhard

has been reminded of its obligation to ensure only the voluntary movements of displaced persons.

Mike Turner

There are no refugees, no displaced persons here, ... They are our guests and we treat them as such.

Elina Kazan

We're making every effort to offer jobs to displaced employees.

J. C. Watts

We're doing it on a case-by-case basis. We'll be happy to be of service to any Louisiana or Mississippi student displaced as a result of the hurricane,

Paul Sarbanes

Any person or family displaced as a result of Hurricane Katrina ... could get a temporary housing voucher. This is without regard to their income situation, ... It recognizes the storm hit rich and poor alike, and this is an effort to give them some immediate, short-term help so they can move out of the situation in which they find themselves.

Judith Owens

There's just never been anything like this before, with so many displaced people, and they're going to be displaced for so long,

Oscar Arias

In the United States, resources exist to retrain displaced workers and promote the development of technologies that create new job opportunities for American workers.

Lee Humphrey

He was big for us tonight. He's been around for five years; he knows how to prepare for games. He knows the right mindset to have, and he stays focused. Tonight he gave us great energy off the bench.

Siobhan Davies

What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity.

Ross Gittell

Historically, spikes in energy prices are followed by a recession. The possibility (of a recession) is there; the probability is less than 50 percent, but it's there.

Chelsea Levine

There is energy and it's exciting performing on stage with other people.

Willie Wilson

I thought our guys really did a good job down the stretch. I thought we really played with a lot more energy and a lot more focus and played at a higher level that we need to play with to win in this kind of environment.

Brian Brohm

I think we were up pretty handily and some guys got a little complacent. We didn't have as much energy and didn't execute like we needed to, and that contributed to Kentucky getting back into the game.

Chuck D.

I think we are going to see the push for renewable energy gain a steadily higher profile.

Amber Bacon

I think us losing to JSU was a big wake-up call. ... I honestly don't think that will happen again. I don't think we will lose energy anymore, because that was a big loss and it hurt us really, really bad.

Dan Kammen

It is not a massive savings, not like putting in 10 percent energy and getting out 100 percent. We find it is somewhat better than gasoline, but it's not a home run.

Edward McKendree Bounds

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

Edward Markey

It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Richard Hofstadter

A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.

Richard Whately

He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts.

Samuel Johnson

Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past.

Samuel Butler

Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.

Ronald Reagan

If you think you can - you can!

Mary Shapiro

I don't know whether they will say yes or no since there are all sorts of administrative, financial and legal issues.

Randy Sharp

I think no question this will have a financial impact on American Girl.

Timothy Smith

The financial office still has the power to request financial information from these organizations so we're still not running the risk of giving money to financially unstable organizations.

Oliver Friedrichs

The general trend is that attackers aren't concentrating on 'far and wide,' worms, but on financial gain.

Joe Phillips

This has left us with a serious financial burden.

Brock Kreitzburg

The Home Depot has provided me with the financial support and flexibility to work and maintain a job while pursuing my Olympic dream. I would not be an Olympian if it weren't for The Home Depot.

Timothy Adams

This is just yet another step on the road to Iraq's normalization with the global financial community. We see this as solid forward progress.

David Stern

It's our preference, our strong preference, to have the Blazers in Portland, in Oregon, playing at the Rose Garden and being able to be a financial success.

Kathleen Smith

It's important to have a product that investors like. That is a real positive they have going for them. Their financial statements also look good.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

Martin O'Malley

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Dave Annable

Hollywood is full of beautiful people - but who knows how many are beautiful inside?

Randy Pfitzer

I thought he did well. He's a sophomore, and he does a good job at what he does. He has more potential, I would like to see him realize his full potential. I would have like to have seen him move on.

Rhonda Jefferson

I think (the break) had something to do with us starting off flat. We did have practices during the week off, but Monday was the first full practice because we had the whole team there.

Bobby Collins

I thought we played well 35 of 40 minutes. But we've got to put together a full 40 minutes, because teams like A&T never give up.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Chuck D.

Joey wrestled a great tournament, and we don't want him to get lost in the shuffle. He was solid all weekend.

Tim Ehresman

Joe was great tonight. He did things tonight he's been practicing all year. Come heck or high water, he was going to make it (to the regional tournament) again.

Ike Turner

Joe Louis is a great artist. He kind of helped me somewhat getting back to the blues.

Fay Vincent

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Mitchel McLaughlin

John Hume has, I think, demonstrated great sensitivity and judgment throughout this peace process. And I think it's hard to imagine a more inappropriate moment to make that suggestion.

Donnie Henderson

I think it's a great opportunity. You always want to hear your name, and now a team has actually called. It's exciting.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

Jessica Young

This is a landscape bird. It specializes in using very small pieces of a very large landscape.

Marcel Proust

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Paul Otellini

I think it is going to be less than people expected. But it's probably not as poor as looking only at retail would indicate.

Frank Badillo

There is more of a risk this season that people will be less able to make payments on these offers.

Billy Hunter

When he told me that he was guaranteeing us no less $500,000 and up to a million, I said, 'Cool,'

Dave McAlindin

It has always been our philosophy that less is better.

Charles Coles

He is more than just a teacher. We're able to talk to him about things we can't say to teachers, because he is more like us and less like them.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

Robert H. Connelly

If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-punched in October.

Mike Babcock

I liked to see less plays through the neutral zone and more plays around the net, but he (Hudler) played well tonight.

Matt Doherty

(Harris) may be one of the quickest players I have coached. He's a natural leader.

Richard Dawkins

Natural selection is anything but random.

Van Morrison

Performing was the natural thing originally and the rest of it [records and so on] is just like offshoots of that. That's how I see it anyway.

Omar Vizquel

I'm pretty sure he can do it just because of his natural talent,

Herschelle Gibbs

It's disappointing. I was trying to keep my end up as long as I could and at the same time play my natural game, which they didn't make too easy. We didn't get enough partnerships together, like they did in their first innings.

Jay Shows

It was just a natural transition. It's kind of the way it's been already.

Mike Massey

It was a gift. I was a natural player,

Mickey Mantle

All I had was natural ability.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.

John Dos Passos

Marxism has not only failed to promote human freedom, it has failed to produce food.

Howard Schnellenberger

It's no secret that this state produces high-quality players, ... And there is no reason why every team in the state can't become a winning one.

Stephen Covey

A little over 5% of the world's population produces almost 29% of the world's goods and services.

Michael Keaton

There are certainly producers I hang with and directors I hang with and actors I hang with.

Nell Newman

I always sought out organic produce because to me it always tasted better; the quality was better - if you got it fresh.

Catherine Deneuve

On Belle de Jour, the producer was very protective. It was very hard for me.

Doug Christensen

As long as it's on land, it's not going to produce a tsunami. It has to be on water.

Steve Spurrier

produce a winning team within three years or walk away.

Nick Nicholson

The sales produce virtually all of our net,

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Joel Smith

Even the way somebody walks sometimes in a video may be the way to recognize that person.

Woody Johnson

We all recognize that there are similarities here. We will be searching out the possibility that we have a serial bomber.

Larina Kase

To become successful is to recognize every tiny step towards successand then take more of them.

Willie Davis

If they didn't recognize me as the new owner, that would get me in somehow.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.