Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Schultz

I think it's a good experiment, a good compromise and a good step forward for Squaw Bay. My hope is that it will create some order here.

Tommy Barnes

I think it's a good compromise. We'll continue to evaluate anything we do, including evaluating an extended year for remediation.

Pam Dixon

We may well be living in a new era here in terms of governments and data flow. This subpoena could, if fulfilled as originally requested, definitely compromise the privacy of quite a few people.

Jill Taylor

I always wanted to get married in the fall. So we made a compromise.

Samuel Beckett

Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.

Jim Collins

In rapid-growth times it's hard to get the right people -- you're more likely to compromise on who you get.

Bruce Jackson

If Ukraine holds out and manages to strike a compromise with Russia, then Russia's ambitions to restore its influence in this part of the former Soviet empire could be finished.

Avigdor Lieberman

I have not yet seen a final draft of the new government's guidelines, but we will not compromise on ours.

Troy Polamalu

I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, wherever the play dictates where I'm going to go is a different story. Sometimes I'll compromise my responsibility because I overcompensated, and sometimes I'll get cut short and just fall in the middle of the play, as well.

Robert Trout

Were you to read the British press today, you would learn that the British Empire never forgets its defeats.

Voltaire

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Walter Scott

The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.

Nostradamus

The great empire will be torn from limb, the all-powerful one for more than four-hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

Eric S. Raymond

Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.

John Boyd Orr

In the last five or six thousand years, empires one after another have arisen, waxed powerful by wars of conquest, and fallen by internal revolution or attack from without.

Pat Buchanan

Empire breeds terrorism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Andre Previn

I'm on very good terms with all my former wives.

Anna Kournikova

Notice how I didn't say our former USA colleague.

John Hanson

It's great having a former Governor step up -- we're honored to have her as part of the team.

Jean Nidetch

All you need is one person in a group to be honest, and then slowly, very slowly, everyone else starts telling the truth. That's why our lecturers must be former members of Weight Watchers. They must have lost weight our way.

Joe Pistone

They say we're playing in a former minor league stadium that has short dimensions. With our pitching and hitting, that's a plus for us.

Frank Thompson

The number of former Anaconda workers has really thinned out in recent years,

Skip Snow

They are pets or descendants of former pets. They don't occur naturally here.

David Woodward

There were some strained relationships between the former leadership of the shelter and some members of the commission,

Anthony Anderson

Kangaroo Jack is the first movie I've been in where I was the star, or co-star, so this is my baby. This is the one that holds special meaning to me.

Colin Falls

He's just making one move and not thinking about it. I think sometimes he holds onto it and over-analyzes. He catches and makes his move (and) that opens us up on the outside.

Mark Fox

Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.

Roland Nash

In these negotiations, Russia holds all the cards. They have the energy, and the U.S. needs it.

Amy Louviere

They want to see how the seal holds up to the pressure of an explosion.

Proverb

Every tub smells of the wine it holds

Tony Sammons

It's too late for a referendum. If he holds to that, then he will personally have killed the legislation and the joint water-sewer commission.

Anthony Cordesman

It's 50-50 this thing holds together through the spring of 2006. But that is purely a guess.

Dhani Jones

The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.

Bob Kinniebrew

I would say that every person who is successful in the mortgage and title business, Mel had an influence on.

Curt Schilling

He obviously sat next to me in Washington and lied. I don't know that there's any way to prove that anything he did was not under the influence of performance-enhancing drugs.

Jim Haslam

I don't give so I can have influence over there,

Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

Vladimir Putin

One thing is clear, everyone, no matter what their professional or material status, no matter what their influence on various state structures, must obey the law.

Tish Olszewski

I'm not sure what influenced him to go to VNI. Maybe it had something to do with his acting. In an undercover capacity, you really have to act.

Charles Dean

I have tremendous respect for Walt, ... He has left a lasting influence on all of us.

Frank Galati

I'm sad to sense that she may be evaporating into obscurity, because she's enormously important as a writer and as an influence on other writers and other artists.

Chris Cornell

I'm sure I could start a band tomorrow that would have different influences and would want to do something completely different than anything I've done.

Santigold

I pick up inspiration from everywhere and it all manages to keep stored in my brain somewhere.

Tommy Bowden

I want to see some big plays (offensively) and how Will manages the team. This will be the first time we will get to see him do that.

Bo Ryan

This is all about trying to restore confidence.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Tom Vilsack

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Vladimir Putin

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

Joe Biden

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

Anatoly Lebedko

If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.

Trevor Noah

I'm not an abrasive person. I do speak my mind, but my goal is never to offend. I don't intentionally want to strike a chord.

Rigoberto Medina

There is no connection. The nationwide strike has nothing to do with this.

Dan Nobbs

We throw strikes and play defense, that's pretty much our philosophy.

Tom Pratt

I thought (Shaver) had big-league command. Everything was down in the zone. He threw 43 strikes in 58 pitches.

Lorenzo Bundy

He was pretty good, especially early. He pounded the strike zone, but he still has to work on his location.

Jimmy Harris

He was spotting his fastball. He had a real tight strike zone.

Derek Jeter

He was throwing strikes, that's the thing. You try to be patient, but if he's throwing strikes with it, you find yourself in the hole.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

Toby Hall

I'm safe, and it was strike three. So there it is.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Russia can be either an empire or a democracy, but it cannot be both. . . . Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I am sure that all complaints regarding me were initiated from Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin

There are no Russian units in eastern Ukraine - no special services, no tactical advisors. All this is being done by the local residents, and the proof of that is the fact that those people have literally removed their masks.

Viktor Yanukovych

We must improve our lives and we will do it together - all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine.

Marvin Kalb

Vladimir Putin is a Russian czar. He's kind of a mix of Peter the Great and Stalin. He's got both in his veins. And he looks out first and foremost for the national security interests of Russia. He accepts that, in Eastern Europe, that is a Russian backyard, that is a Russian sphere of influence. Ukraine lives most uncomfortably and unhappily in a Russian backyard.

Marvin Kalb

Every nation at the end of the day must fend for itself. Sometimes, it needs help. And Ukraine deserves all the help in the world.

Marvin Kalb

Putin never wanted all of Ukraine. He wanted for historical purposes to take Crimea. He did. Then he wanted a part of Ukraine that he could always use to advance Russian interests. And he is now at a point where nobody in the West is shouting, hey, stop. Give us back Crimea. It's all accepted. And so he has won.

Pascal Lamy

Russia and Ukraine are candidates for the entry to the WTO and their dispute would be easy to understand and tackle if they are both members of this organization.