Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Ritholtz

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

Michael Ramsey

I think we're going to have a case that's largely about accounting allegations...where the government is going to refuse to call either David Duncan, who was the chief engagement partner for Arthur Andersen, or Rick Causey.

Fred Glass

The commissioner indicated he would take that into account to the extent he had an impact (on negotiations). We've been talking to them for well over a year.

George Orwell

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

Mo Ibrahim

The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed.

Bill Sterling

The Europeans are obviously frustrated that they're bearing the brunt of the current account adjustment and want the United States to say that the Asians have to play a role.

Henry Charles Carey

The impoverishing effects of the system were early obvious, and to the endeavour to account for the increasing difficulty of obtaining food.

Igor Shabdurasulov

The doctors say from one to two weeks, not taking into account the president's irrepressible character.

John Chambers

You can't fault government for seizing that opportunity. But it has an impact on Barbados' current account deficit and it does bring with it attended risks. And, therefore, you have to ask whether or not the tourism business that is going to be generated from the publicity around the cricket matches will be sustained after the cricket matches are over.

Brian Billick

Either Kyle can return or he gets put on injured reserve based on how the rehab goes.

Ray Flynn

East Tennessee is a really beautiful place. My business isn't really based here at all, but I like living here. It's a really good place to raise a family and to live. I think a lot of people are finding that out.

Evan Bayh

believes that he made the right decision based on the facts as they were known at the time.

John Phelps

believed it was necessary to amend the permit because the permit granted in July of 2004 was based on false and/or misleading information.

Brent Erickson

Biotechnology is creating a new industrial revolution based on biology instead of petroleum. As biotech processes replace old rust-belt technologies, they are enabling a transformation from a petroleum-based economy to a bio-based economy.

Terry Southern

Blue Movie was based on an idea that Stanley Kubrick had. Somebody came by one day with some porn footage.

Shane Evangelist

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Caroll Spinney

Big Bird is based on what I learned as a child.

Evan Wilson

Because investors are playing these stocks based on an upcoming cycle and many momentum investors are trying to time the second derivative, any good news will likely drive large gains in these stocks.

Alice Yip

The quality of the fish is extremely important. I'd prefer to get it directly from Japan, but we don't charge enough for us to be able to do that.

Jacques Rogge

We are in charge, and only we are in charge of the doping controls.

Gary Craig

Two years ago the state paid us $75 a deer, but dropped it to $50 last year. This year it will be $50, too, ... I charge a regular customer $75 and don't make much unless they have extra things done, such as sausage and wieners made.

Mark Cooper

You haven't innovated anything that you want to charge these customers for.

Donna Newman

Let us see him. Why be held incommunicado? If they want to, charge him with a crime.

Dave Whelan

Let's see someone in charge with feeling for the game and let's make sure England are coached by an Englishman.

Samuel Butler

Learning is like a great house that requires a great charge to keep it in repair

Carol Sims

She's (Spears) phenomenal. I can't say enough about her, and you could see it in her eyes (Friday). She was trying so hard to take charge of the game, and she did - I thought a couple of spurts there she really got us back in it.

Tom Riley

She was possessed, ... She was ready to charge in.

Bob Dylan

Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day, with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Michael Jackson

the proceedings have been a nightmare for my family

T. S. Eliot

There's no vocabulary For love within a family, love that's lived in But not looked at, love within the light of which All else is seen, the love within which All other love finds speech. This love is silent.

Maxine Waters

I stand with this family. I stand on the side of this young man,

Khara Smith

We've proven we are a really good home team and even though the All-State isn't technically our home gym, we will still have family and friends and our school supporting us.

Marilyn Monroe

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I'd settle for just one baby. My own baby.

Jeff Wallace

What did we do? We put our university in the middle of a single-family residential area. It's the strangest zoning I've ever seen.

Chuck D.

We tell the kids (that) family is the most important (thing). So, some are on vacations and doing family things.

Rachel Tanaka

We talked about personal things, family and such.

Edmund Burke

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?

Elihu Root

I guess you will have to go to jail. If that is the result of not understanding the Income Tax Law, I will meet you there. We shall have a merry, merry time, for all our friends will be there. It will be an intellectual center, for no one understands the Income Tax Law except persons who have not sufficient intelligence to understand the questions that arise under it.

Michael Jackson

took place in a proceeding where neither my lawyers nor I ever appeared.

Doug Stanhope

You're born absolutely free except for laws of nature, if you drink you get drunk, that's a law, if you get old you die, that's a law too; if you sit on a tack you will bleed from the ass, these are the only laws that you're born with.

Claude Bernard

Effects vary with the conditions which bring them to pass, but laws do not vary. Physiological and pathological states are ruled by the same forces; they differ only because of the special conditions under which the vital laws manifest themselves.

Diogenes

Solon used to say that speech was the image of actions; . . . that laws were like cobwebs, - for that if any trifling or powerless thing fell into them, they held it fast; while if it were something weightier, it broke through them and was off.

Dick Francis

Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they dont apply to you.

Dick Gregory

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no.

Desmond Tutu

Are you able to restore to those people the time when their freedom was denied them? If you have evidence for goodness sake produce it in a court of law. People with power have an incredible capacity for wanting to be able to retain that power and don't like scrutiny.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Runners are poor walkers.

Bill Nygren

I don't think it has anything personally to do with Bob.

Julie Chen

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

John Stone

This taps into a part of my personal life. I think the movie will resonate with a lot of people.

Antonin Scalia

We're all going to be old, ... It's unlike other personal characteristics such as race and sex.

Douglas Booth

I love Leonardo DiCaprio. He just makes really great films with great directors. He has great relationships with directors but also has a great social awareness. I think he balances his work with his responsibilities to his world, the environment, things like that very well. I'm very impressed by him and I admire him a lot. And other actors like Joaquin Phoenix, I just look at him and marvel at his unexpectedness, just his work really.

Dwight L. Moody

Some people come to me and say, "Mr. Moody, don't you feel a great responsibility when you come before an audience like this - don't you feel a great weight upon your shoulders?" "Well." I say, "no; I cannot convert men; I can only proclaim the Gospel.

Douglas Wilson

Masculinity is the glad assumption of sacrificial responsibility.

Dorothy Height

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

Donald Rumsfeld

Don't be a bottleneck. If a matter is not a decision for the President or you, delegate it. Force responsibility down and out. Find problem areas, add structure and delegate. The pressure is to do the reverse. Resist it.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

Donald Miller

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

Donald Miller

I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.

Don Nickles

But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Bernie Sanders

We need a very progressive and strong agenda to bring people into the political process because I worry very much about the future of the American democracy where so many people are giving up.

Dave Allison

We want to get him some games. We want to play with some weight and he's a big, strong kid.

Phil Williams

This year is going to be as strong as ever.

Carl Taylor

We're strong people, working together, and Peter, Una and I will get there.

Stephen Jay Gould

Theory and fact are equally strong and utterly interdependent; one has no meaning without the other. We need theory to organize and interpret facts, even to know what we can or might observe. And we need facts to validate theories and give them substance.

John Bell

We feel the requirements are pretty strong and pretty reasonable.

Sgt. Reynolds

We're going on a very strong possibility that this is the same man.

Orson Scott Card

[It] was written and sold. I knew it was a strong story because I cared about it and believed in it. I had no idea that it would have the effect it had on the audience. While most people ignored it, of course, and continue to live full and happy lives without reading it or anything else by me, there was still a surprisingly large group who responded to the story with some fervency.

David Bowie

There have been times when I've written something and it goes out and it comes back in a letter from some kid as to what they think about it and I've taken their analysis to heart so much that I have taken up his thing. Writing what my audience is telling me to write.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Michael O'Leary

The unions need to be taken on. British Airways is massively over-staffed and has got to get its costs down. . . . The problem for [chief executive] Willie Walsh is that the board of BA has no spine, no balls and no vision.

Marlo Thomas

Today, all patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude's are treated without regard for the family's ability to pay. Everything beyond what is covered by insurance is taken care of, and for those without insurance, all of the medical costs are absorbed by the hospital.

J. Taylor

If they'd have taken it, they'd be dead.

Evelyn Glennie

I hope the seeds I have sown will be taken up by those who will follow me because the journey I have begun cannot be undertaken in isolation.

George Washington

For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.

George Vancouver

A British declaration be taken against Martinez for 'capturing and robbing us.