Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Schmidt

I wouldn't be shocked if someone was interested in acquiring them since there is real tangible value.

Porter Goss

Having watched the pride of some countries in acquiring the world-stage status of having nuclear weapons -- and what that has meant for nationalism and leadership ... it becomes almost a piece of the holy grail for a small country that otherwise might be victimized living in a dangerous neighborhood,

Bill White

Today, I have talked with the senior FEMA official in the United States and the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. They have committed to review both deadlines for hotel reimbursement based on the hotel population and for acquiring needed apartments based on the supply and demand for apartments in Houston,

Bertrand Russell

It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws

Paul Stanley

I think that ultimately - as I say to most of the people who are acquiring art - I can tell you my reality of a piece, but ultimately what's more important will be yours. I can tell you what a piece means to me, but just as valid if not more is what it means to you.

Mark Nelson

There are numerous competitors who could benefit immediately from acquiring Palm. The opportunity to realize these benefits will surely erode over time, as will shareholder value. It is imperative the Board act in a timely and decisive fashion before the opportunity to do so is diminished.

Philip Green

I am delighted to announced that our third year, since acquiring the business in October 2002, has again produced an excellent set of results.

Chanakya

He who desires sense gratification must give up all thoughts of acquiring knowledge; and he who seeks knowledge must not hope for sense gratification.

Sathya Baba

In the matter of acquiring food, different kinds of strength, abilities and skills are used by us but these very same skills are used by animals and birds as well.

Julie Ask

If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well...

Donald Trump

In a sense, my approach to education is the opposite of my approach to real estate. The apartments and offices I build aren't cheap, so there's an element of exclusivity there, but Trump University is meant to be inclusive. A contradiction? I don't know, but so what if it is?

Mike Adras

I'm talking about a voice in the locker room when coaches aren't present, a voice at their apartments where they live, that type of thing. He tells them not to get excited or too low. Keep plugging away and things will happen. He has a confidence in others to help them improve their game.

Jimmy Heidel

The first thing that's going to happen is in July we're going to get apartments off the ground. There are a few other questions on the houses that are over there; what's going to be done with them. Their plan is to take every other one out and do kind of a bed-and-breakfast.

Dennis Lynch

The end result is that HUD is supportive of the project and they're not going to block it. All 10 apartments are going to be available as originally planned.

David Barker

The high-end apartments were lowering their rates closer and closer to ours, ... You can only lower your rent so far before you start to rent to people you really don't want to rent to. We've hit what I would consider the floor, and take our vacancies on top of that.

Jean Barry

The high cost of housing not only keeps the workforce from purchasing homes in South County, it also makes it next to impossible for them to find apartments they can afford,

Laura Bush

And right now, as many of the shelters are - people are moving out of the shelters into apartments and into hotel rooms, we know that the crowds will disperse and that might make it a little more difficult to find people,

Stephen Davis

The housing industry and apartments would be 25 percent higher not because of low salary but because of their efficiency.

Hugo Chavez

kingdom of equality, freedom and peace being based on justice.

Christine Karpinski

Knowing who will want to rent your vacation home and then buying based on their demands, rather than just your own family's demands, will make it much easier in the long haul when you want to rent that property out.

Mary Berry

Key officials anticipated on Election Day that there would be an increase in levels of voter turnout based upon new voter registration figures, but did not ensure that the precincts in all counties received the resources to meet their needs,

Stuart Law

I wouldn't put a penny of my money there. There's also concern about the environmental impact of so much development. It's a city based on consumerism. I'm not sure that guarantees its role as a long-term holiday-home location. I wouldn't buy there.

Bill Chambers

Jack Lynch had a vision and the club was able to create this facility based on that vision.

Herschel Sandler

I would say this tournament was a little stronger than the Valley of the Moon based on individuals. You can't always look at teams. I think having Healdsburg, Will C. Wood (Vacaville) and Hogan (Vallejo) was great. Vacaville also brought some good kids.

Ken Stern

I would say two weeks is on the short side . . . more likely three or possibly four, based on our experience.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.

Bill Cowher

Joey's been looking good the last couple of days. He's not ready to play the whole game. But, based on what I've seen the last few days, he'll start.

Ken Ham

Most students are presented only with the evolutionary belief system in their schools, and they are censored from hearing challenges to it. Let our young people understand science correctly and hear both sides of the origins issue and then evaluate them.

Katherine Paterson

Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.

Michaela Dorfmeister

I was like a horse in a box before the race. Now I go home from these Olympics with two medals, and they are both gold.

Jon Heacock

I was just as surprised as everyone. You're disappointed. It hurts and bothers you. Our football family is like any family.

Matt Carle

I was joking with Chris and Brian up there, how all three of us were just glad this thing was coming to an end after all the hype in the last three months. Now they're both competing for a national championship tomorrow (today).

John Paxson

Kirk is a very big piece of this team's foundation. He is a great leader for our team both on and off the floor and I am very excited to watch him develop.

Julie Martin

Kingma is just a phenomenal player, both offensively and defensively. She really got into Dunbar in the second half and was a great leader for them.

Don Williams

Kim woke up to hearing some people screaming. We smelled some smoke and we both walked out on the balcony and saw these embers flying by.

Bernie Bickerstaff

Kevin is a big guard who can defend both positions on the perimeter, ... We liked the effort he put forth during summer league play and wanted to take a second look at him.

Dan Henning

John is super committed to his plan. Everybody has a plan. But the key to John is that he sticks to it.

Tim Adams

I take them at their word that they are committed to doing that and we expect to see that in place over time,

H. Hunt

I think it is most appropriate that the two teams have committed to new 25-year leases, and that the public will at the same time have the parallel, but separate opportunity to vote to complete the original project design with the rolling roof.

Andy Geiger

He wanted me to know what he had done. First of all, he said he committed a violation. Secondly, he gave the money to a prospective student-athlete.

David Whitton

He just wanted to do his best. He was committed whole-heartedly to the job. It was typical of him.

Carol Williams

He is the most passionate, committed person I've ever met when it comes to getting things done. The emotion he shows is so genuine. With Karl, making life better for other people is just an integral part of who he is.

Juan Samaranch

He is president of an organization that has 114 members of which a handful committed improper acts.

Kapil Dev

He is very focused, committed and determined. The effort that he has put in is simply unparalleled.

Colleen Kelley

What we do support is anything that would fall into the town's master plan. The mayor has said he is committed to rebuilding the town's villages. We will support plans that are in keeping with that.

Kalman Chany

Be careful, because some deadlines are for when the applications need to be postmarked, some are for when they need to be received and some are for when they need to be processed,

Angie Murphy

It's stressful. There's a high workload - lots of deadlines to meet. This is a special group of kids. They have to be motivated.

Roger Daltrey

It will come out when it is ready. What's the point of trying to give yourself deadlines that aren't really important? I think we have to get it good before we can finish it.

Jose Maria

The point is not extending deadlines but the honest will to disarm, which he (Saddam) so far has not showed.

Joey Spatafora

The big thing is grants that are tied to this, meetings that are tied to this. You know those deadlines don't change. They're not particularly sympathetic to that.

Crawford Falconer

Deadlines have no credibility. What we have to concentrate on is getting the job done.

Lindsey Graham

Deadlines are important ... but we need to get this right,

Yossi Beilin

There should never, ever be deadlines which become dead ends.

David Samson

There's no more fake deadlines or real deadlines. This is about the Marlins trying to save its franchise. We need a place to play after 2010, and we don't have one.

Sidney Blumenthal

Ken Starr's prosecutors demanded to know what I had told reporters and what reporters had told me about Ken Starr's prosecutors. If they think they have intimidated me they have failed. And if any journalist here or elsewhere wants to talk to me, I'll be glad to talk to you.

Jim Margard

Joy does not face many competitors and demand is growing from emerging markets.

Jorge Rodriguez

I think it'll go up to $5. It makes my head hurt. But I guess it's all about supply and demand, right? We demand (gas), they supply it, and they get to pick the price.

Jorge Rodriguez

I think it'll go up to $5, ... It makes my head hurt. But I guess it's all about supply and demand, right? We demand (gas), they supply it, and they get to pick the price.

Shane Matthews

He demands a lot of the position, but being a quarterback, you expect those demands. You want that.

Jim Reed

Have your storage full, and stay full, because I expect demand to stay high, and I expect supply to be challenging.

Matt Murley

He just demands so much from everybody. If you're not doing what he expects, he's going to let you know.

Caron Butler

He is the most effective, not when he's scoring, but when he gets other people involved. He demands a double-team every night. He did a great job of reading the situation and either going to the rim or passing it off. He's a superstar.

Laurie Calloway

He knows what I want and he's going to demand that from the players.

Kevin Doll

He never complained to the deputy of being injured, and he never filed a report.

Don Aaron

The language was ill-advised. In the opinion of the deputy chiefs, (the change) was not good policy and they directed that revisions be made.

Michel Lu

The foreign ministry has filed a strong protest while summoning the Philippines' deputy representative to Taipei.

Crystal Candy

Everybody is OK, but since it is a deputy who is involved and we have shots fired, we have to do a full-blown investigation.

Jefferson Powell

Despite all of the references to 'senior policy maker,' the principal deputy solicitor general isn't really that,

Kevin Doll

It's not uncommon: A deputy shows up, there's a commotion, but people aren't cooperative. People are intoxicated. No one wants to file a report, and (the deputy) didn't file a report.

Teri Barbera

The shot went through the driver's windshield. If the deputy didn't move, it would have hit him in the head.

Kraig Troxell

A deputy fired one shot and the suspect is deceased.

Mohammad Khatami

Due to your capabilities, I appoint you as the deputy president for development and social affairs.

Susanna Moore

It is possible to say that all of my books concern themselves with the notion of what it means to be female - whether it is in New York City in 2000 or Calcutta in 1836. In that way, my books really are the same.

Bill White

Good countries, like good people, keep their word, and I'm sure FEMA will.

Michael Chiklis

I was actually a little nervous when the female horse got shot,

Leslie Mann

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Steven Bochco

I'd like an hourly progress report on the FEMA teams on the ground.

Sara Blakely

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Sandra Bullock

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

Warren Farrell

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.

Yingluck Shinawatra

I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

Yasser Arafat

This is my homeland no one can kick me out.

Tom Ridge

The homeland is secure when the hometown is secure.

Condoleezza Rice

Working very closely with the Department of Homeland Security to match up what is available with what is needed.

Todd Olson

I'm sure the hotels in town are pretty full, with all that's going on.

John Oates

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

Remar Harvin

This is a high-volume season for a lot of these hotels and we just couldn't find anyplace else for these people to go.

Robert Wright

The hotel is the one thing they're going to work on immediately.

Hal Daub

We're not getting those large conventions because we're short hotel rooms.

John Cleese

Still trying to run a hotel and getting it wrong,

David Paulison

These people in hotels and motels must take the next step to find a better housing solution.

Janice Smith

It's primarily a hotel (issue). In Hamilton, we only have one major hotel.

Noel White

They were most pleased. The hotel is beautiful. It?s so well done. It was really the last piece of the puzzle.

Skyler Green

I was like, 'Some, but not much,' ... He told me I needed my rest. I get some, but it's been hard.

Tom Benson

Jackson, since it represented Mississippi, it represented what we needed to do in getting the whole state of Mississippi ... to be in our corner.

Wendee Saintsing

Jo stepped up and we needed somebody to do that.

Jamie Moyer

He didn't panic, but if he let it play out another one or two more fingers, he would have got right to where he needed to be.

Jerry Dorsey

He decided, for personal reasons, that he needed to be off the board.

Rob Spear

He just thought that he needed to stay at Gonzaga so he's withdrawing from the search.

Kenny Smith

He just did whatever it took to win. There was nothing he didn't feel like he couldn't do. If it needed to be done, he would try to make it happen.

Gerald Wallace

He is their superstar, he is their go-to man. When they needed a win, they went to him. He pulled it out for them and did what he had to do to get this team a win.

Mike Sullivan

Hannu made the timely saves when we needed them,

Ken Ham

We are going to officially wave you off for 24 hours.

Ken Ham

We are going to officially waive you off for 24 hours.

Maiwenn

There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Tom Anderson

Our official position is that we are opposed to the inn.

Tony McCoy

I never had a written contract, was never officially a stable jockey.

Bob McMurray

The drivers, the mechanics, the sponsors, and I - we just can't wait for Friday's official practice to begin.

Markus Gandler

We are considering making an official protest about this to the IOC.

Norm Coleman

not received an official confirmation from Galloway to our invitation.

Zach Braff

Hitler was about population control.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Peter Kirk

If you look at population, and population density, (York and Lancaster) are very similar (markets), ... Put on top of that a built-in rivalry.

John Cunningham

I just like being out in the woods. I like the sport of it, but it's still population control, too.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

George Galloway

The hard left is a very small section of the British population and I myself am not hard left. I am a traditional Labour left-winger.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Noam Chomsky

The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Wilfrid Sheed

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

Wynton Marsalis

I have friends who will critique me much harder than any review.

Michael Judge

I'm not suggesting that there are 20,000 wrongful convictions, but we will have to review those cases.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Trams and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Dave Dombrowski

I'm going to sit down with Tram and review what's going on. It's an important day.

Toni Simonetti

That review is going on very intensively right now.

Don Fehr

They can review anything they want to review.

Leon Panetta

You know, one thing I've learned over 40 years is that when you have jobs in Washington, you do it day by day and that's what I'm doing as secretary of defense.

J. Stoltzfus

This is the secretary of transportation bill, that's what this is.

David Cross

[If Donald Trump does get elected, I will be] probably Secretary Of Reeducation. Or I don't know. I'll probably end up working in the cafeteria.

David Brooks

It's rare in an administration for a secretary of state and a secretary of defense to get along really well.

Philip Reeker

The secretary reiterated what we have said before. We are not seeking to escalate this problem, but we are not going to give in to blackmail.

Michael Bloomberg

Nobody is going to delegate a lot of power to a secretary that they can't control.

Suranne Jones

She worked in one as a secretary when she was 21 or 22,

Hillary Clinton

My work as secretary of state was not influenced by the outside forces.

Hillary Clinton

When I was secretary of state, we actually increased American exports globally 30 percent. We increased them to China 50 percent.

Mike Carey

I think Ann Strother took over the game, which a senior should.

Cara Bortz

I was just thinking, this is the end of my senior year.

Rob Riggle

I was voted Most Humorous in my senior class in high school, and I was a fan of comedy, my whole life. I never got into the horror genre, and action was fine, but I just loved comedy. Any comedy I could get my hands on, I would. I watched Saturday Night Live religiously. I've just been a fan of comedy, my whole life.

Ryan Lochte

My senior year of high school, when I was getting recruited for college, my dad goes to me, 'You can become an Olympic champion.' And that's the first time that I'd heard someone else say that to me. I was like, 'Uh, are you talking to me?'

Ronaldinho

When I got to the senior national team, there was another Ronaldo, so they started calling me Ronaldinho because I was younger.

Reince Priebus

For all their scare tactics, President Obama and Democrats have no plan whatsoever to preserve Medicare for future generations - or protect it for today's seniors and those nearing retirement. They did, however, cut Medicare by $700 billion to bankroll Obamacare.

Reince Priebus

Since Medicare is on track to go bankrupt in 2024, the de facto Obama Medicare plan is to rob it and watch it disappear, leaving future generations without any hope of receiving benefits and today's seniors with an unpredictable future.

William Kristol

Recalling that a good chunk of the 47 percent who don't pay income taxes are Romney supporters - especially of course seniors (who might well 'believe they are entitled to heath care,' a position Romney agrees with), as well as many lower-income Americans (including men and women serving in the military) who think conservative policies are better for the country even if they're not getting a tax cut under the Romney plan. So Romney seems to have contempt not just for the Democrats who oppose him, but for tens of millions who intend to vote for him.

William Westmoreland

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

William Whipple

I hope in time N. H. as well as the other States will feel the importance of Sovereignty.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Richard Powers

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

Samuel Johnson

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

Vladimir Lenin

Every cook must learn to rule the State.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

Tony Wilson

If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.

Tom Fitzpatrick

It always comes down to supply and demand,

B. F. Skinner

All indications are right now that we're going to have ample supply of vaccine this year.

Tom Crosby

There is some supply available; it is limited.

Lola Russell

We're very optimistic. We are monitoring it and keep up with supply issues.

Tim Ryan

We need to be able to at the very least supply our own military.

Derrick Johnson

If they are any discrepancies, we want to make sure that if there are individuals in need that we supply as much support as possible,

Lola Russell

We do not have a supply problem. There have been some distribution issues.

Aaron Williams

Our water supply is very important to us.

Craig Bruce

Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.

Scott Faieta

I talked with the contractor, who is still optimistic.

Mario Theissen

I talked to him (Ralf) on Friday, he was very positive, he wants to get back in the car.

Curtis Martin

I talked to him a lot. I showed him around. I showed him where he would probably want to live. I told him he could have my place if he wanted it. I told him I'd do whatever it took to get him here.

Ginalyn Ofamin

I talked to her yesterday, and she is doing better.

Tom Oswald

I talked to her about things like how to take notes. We weren't flirting, though. At the time, I didn't know she was going through a divorce.

Beth Combs

It can't be about wins and losses. We've talked about it's not where you start, it's where you finish.

Willie Randolph

He wants to be the best. We've talked a lot about his approach.

Kevin Garnett

He just talked to me briefly, and I could tell right away that we were going to get along.

Chris Stoneberg

We talked about what if the Seahawks and Steelers play. We never thought it would happen.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Rose Kennedy

There can be no really pervasive system of oppression, such as that in the United States, without the consent of the oppressed

Robert Reich

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Sanford I. Weill

The whole financial industry is consolidating in the United States.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.