Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seesel

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

Ray Smith

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

Bhagavad Gita

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

David Jenkins

The study's findings suggest that the average person can do a lot to improve their health through diet. People interested in lowering their cholesterol should probably acquire a taste for tofu and oatmeal, keeping in mind that portable alternatives fit best with a modern lifestyle. Save the experimenting for the evening, when you have more time to prepare more complicated meals.

Joseph Lynch

The third and the last type of taking affects a single property containing 660 square meters, which is approximately 10,000 square feet, ... It is substandard. The lot is specific to Spaulding Road at Townsend Road. The project proposes to realign the road, and in doing so the project needs to acquire that land. It is a friendly taking.

Bill Stern

The Supreme Court made it clear that the authority gets the first shot at the land. With their decision in hand, we're moving forward with steps to acquire the site.

Nancy Brown

The thing is, these people being housed in shelters are getting food and drinking water, and they don't have the room to acquire a lot of possessions. They will need the basic personal care items such as diapers and infant formula, but their basic needs are being provided by the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. That takes money: There's no way around it. A 16-ounce can of food won't feed very many people in a shelter, but a truckload of No. 10 cans will.

George Morris

The museum found out about the knife not too long ago and sent a couple of their people to Monmouth to talk to me. After looking at the knife and the documentation, they asked me if I would be willing to donate it to the museum. I said that perhaps I would in the future but for now I preferred to keep it. They then pointed out that it couldn't be proved that the knife really was Lincoln's and I asked them if they felt if that was the case, why did they drive all the way from Springfield to acquire it? They didn't seem to have an answer for that.

Shimon Edelman

ADIOS relies on a statistical method for pattern extraction and on structured generalization two processes that have been implicated in language acquisition. Our experiments show that it can acquire intricate structures from raw data, including transcripts of parents' speech directed at two- or three-year-olds. This may eventually help researchers understand how children, who learn language in a similar item-by-item fashion and with very little supervision, eventually master the full complexities of their native tongue.

Kevin O'Connor

Any decent person, using their common sense would know they no longer have the authority to be in a homicide scene.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Sharon Salzberg

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Peggy Venable

We feel strongly they do have the authority and responsibility to review textbooks.

Anthony de Mello

If you make me your authority, you harm yourself because you will not see things for yourself, and you harm me too because you refuse to see me as I am.

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

Kusnanto Anggoro

Nonetheless, struggle for civilian supremacy is still perilous and uncertain. (Wahid) is struggling for authority over the military.

Zhu Bangzao

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Cass Sunstein

People who know him in Washington, D.C., of various ideological stripes, say this is not the type to be a fundamentalist. He is clearly extremely able, and his opinions are real lawyers' opinions.

Chris Rankin

Oftentimes somebody makes a traffic stop and the test subject is not going to be compliant, so a lot of time we don't see clear results. Here we can control it. We have controlled test subjects. We can give them tests, so we know what their blood-alcohol content is and then have the officers test them to see if it coincides.

Christopher Hill

North Korea needs to focus on what's on the table. We have to be a little firm and make it clear they they've go to come into the talks.

Eli Broad

Norfolk's success can be attributed to the district's strong leadership, and the solid partnership with the school board, unions and community. It is clear that they have made education a priority for all students.

Kevin Towers

After what I went through with Arizona, the last four or five days, they were crazy with all the speculation out there. I don't think it was fair to this organization. One thing I want to make clear is that I wasn't throwing my name out there. It got to the point where it didn't stop.

Donovan Hayles

After we were leading we went down to 10 men and we missed a penalty that would have taken us two clear goals ahead, that put some pressure on us.

Pat Buchanan

After seven years it's clear the Clinton Administration has yet to find the right formula of dealing with rogue nations, ... Sanctions have become the feel-good policy of the self-righteous.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

William Rehnquist

The Supreme Court is an institution far more dominated by centrifugal forces, pushing toward individuality and independence, than it is by centripetal forces pulling for hierarchical ordering and institutional unity.

Richard Gephardt

The Supreme Court has made its decision. We support and respect Vice President Gore's right to respond on his own time schedule. Until he does so, we will have no comment.

Mick Price

The things he (Ritchie) does on the court often go unnoticed. But, you look at his line tonight - 16 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists - and you can understand why we got off to such a great start.

Jonathan Harris

I've never been in this court at all or even Peabody too much.

Jacob Frenkel

a desperate move made with the hope of eliciting some sympathy from the court to permit him to spend some part of the remainder of his life outside of jail.

Briann January

After halftime, that's all I shot when I went out on to the court before the second half started. I shot free throws because the time might come when I needed to shot some.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Prakash Karat

The situation has changed. We just want the government to take a decision in national interest.

Graham Thorpe

The selectors have made their decision and they will be happy with the way things have gone - you can't argue,

Terrence Gabriel

The Nasdaq has at least the Microsoft report to look forward to, which should be strong.

Richard Robinson

Once you start, you'll probably be hooked. Because everyone that I know that's ever done it gets hooked, so to speak. They look forward to doing it again.

E. B. White

Once you get (a national title) once, you want to get it again. She is not the type to be satisfied. We are looking forward to the outdoor season and hopefully she can lead us and get another one.

Chris Hatcher

No two teams are ever the same. It's just the start of a new season. And as a coach, if you don't look forward to the start of a new season then you're in the wrong business.

Shawn Estes

Sometimes you want it to rain. Today wasn't one of those. I was looking forward to getting out there.

Sean Donohue

Ted remains a thriving part of United and we look forward to another great year.

Paul Tagliabue

Sometimes it seems we're taking two steps forward and one step back.

Todd Taylor

Roughly 13 million American taxpayers filed their tax returns over the Internet last year and the industry is looking forward to another year of double-digit growth.

Joe Perry

Practice has gone well and I am really looking forward to Sheffield.

Shepard Fairey

Propaganda has a negative connotation, which it partially deserves, but I think there is some propaganda that is very positive. I feel that if you can do something that gets people's attention, then maybe they'll go and find out more about the person.

O. Henry

The thing that gets me the most was that there were so many good shots.

English 20th Century Proverbs

The rich man has his ice in the summer and the poor man gets his in the winter.

Kristin Gore

I'm allergic to caffeine. When I have it, my throat gets sore, and I get a rash.

Tim Federle

You can't tell the story of a 13-year-old boy who knows every lyric to 'Phantom of the Opera' without also referencing how much teasing he gets at school.

Teddy Pendergrass

It gets harder and harder to make sure your public understands you're a sensitive human being, but I am sensitive. I don't like to be hurt.

Robert Hoffman

Each week gets tougher and tougher. But this was very big for me because I got pinned here last year (in the final), and it?s good to come back and win where you lost before.

Chris Spillane

Every time he steps onto the ice, he gets the job done. He doesn't get a lot of ice time, but every time he does, he does a super job.

Jim Walden

Well, I don't know what they do on the west side of the state, but over here whenever it gets dark, we just turn on our lights.

Ben Mendelsohn

As soon as you start acting in an accent, you're sort of out of your comfort zone. Maybe people start getting used to accents after a long period of time. But as soon as you do that, it's not so much as capturing the sound of the way other people speak, it's being able to actually be and move around in the sound.

Barbara Kingsolver

I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

Ah, the mysterious croak. Here today, gone tomorrow. It's the best reason I can think of to throw open the blinds and risk belief. Right now, this minute, time to move out into the grief and glory. High tide.

Jon Rogers

There are well-documented structural impediments to moving quickly in this industry.

Barbara Mikulski

I would say George Mitchell was like Clark Kent sometimes with his horn rimmed glasses and his very quiet manner. People say, well, he's just a quiet leader, but then he emerges as super hero and begins to move this legislation. He led by example.

Augusten Burroughs

Any damage that's been done, you have to fix yourself because it needs fixing and there is nobody else to do the work. Blame may well be justified, but it's not going to move you forward in your life.

Arthur Miller

The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed.

Ayn Rand

Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it. If you choose a mix of contradictions, it will clog your motor, corrode your transmission and wreck you on your first attempt to move with a machine which you, the driver, have corrupted.

Ayn Rand

Who was it that said he needed a fulcrum? Give me an unobstructed right-of-way and I'll show them how to move the earth!

Kareem Rodriguez

The shots that usually go down weren't going down. It was one shot and out for us.

Tom Tupa

I've taken shots for it. It hasn't worked. That's disappointing.

Hines Ward

We thought we could take some shots in the air. We're an experienced team and we took our chances.

Ryan Longwell

We had no shot of making that one. It was just out of sequence.

Sanja Tomasevic

Everything they told us would happen, did. They would have their big shots and their power. But we could play with them if we were patient.

Edgar Bronfman

between very long shots and very, very, very long shots.

Dave Stockton

There's no way I would have tied you, ... I wouldn't have shot that bad.

S. Hughes

There's not much we wouldn't take a shot at.

John Perkins

What if it was a stranded motorist getting shot in the chest?

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Douglas Preston

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

Suzy Kassem

Stand up for Truth regardless of who steps on it.

Simone Weil

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Tim Howard

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.