Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Bruener

As a member of the organization, I have to roll with it, accept the change and know that we have to move on,

David Hawkins

No question, they're being tougher, more comprehensive in their audits, ... They're actually auditing transactions, rather than just auditing by interview. They're less tolerant of weaknesses in internal control systems, and not as ready to accept management explanations.

James Jones

I've learned that racism will not be taken as a given. I don't think we should ever accept it.

Michael Rogers

I wanted to do it, but they believe it would be in my best interests not to make myself available for the Commonwealth Games and I accept that.

Bob Kraft

A few weeks ago, they had a big meeting. And 78 percent of the people voted not to accept that offer.

Ned Colletti

After 25 years in major league baseball, it's a dream come true to be the general manager of one of the most storied franchises in all of sports. I'd like to thank the Dodgers for putting their trust in my leadership abilities. My goal from this point forward is to accept nothing less than winning a World Championship with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Richard Breeden

These situations demand immediate action. Customers can't wait and accept promises that things will be sorted out in days or weeks or months.

Michael McLaughlin

These young women are living the things we've taught them, ... It's been our goal to elevate the program and we're getting there. We certainly accept the challenges that come with the territory.

Jim Corridore

The stock is up slightly today as the uncertainty of strike is lifted from the company. United really had no choice but to accept the PEB findings. They couldn't survive a month with a strike. But guaranteeing 37 percent wage hikes is only going to weaken a company that is already weak.

Lucille Baur

Now that we have Mr. Short in custody, we'll investigate to determine whether or not he is linked to any other recent criminal activity.

Stan Lowe

From our perspective, what I think is important is the prosecution team, in conjunction with specialists from the criminal justice branch, are reviewing the decision and the proceedings. After that review, they will determine what action, if any, should be taken.

Charles Kelly

If (a criminal suspect) makes a million in drug money and plows it into a legitimate business, you can trace the proceeds through there; and once illegal proceeds are commingled with legal proceeds, it contaminates everything.

Martin Tauber

I feel like a criminal now, but I am not a criminal.

Nelson Mandela

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Robert Stewart

This was all done for everyone's protection. If you're going to be sheltering people, it would be prudent for people taking them in to know what criminal pasts they might have.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Peter Cohen

I feel that so much has happened that I didn't think would happen. I'm shocked. My judgement has been wrong for two years.

Jack Kerouac

Nothing ever happened - Not even this

James Russell

They just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, doing the right thing.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

Nothing had happened with it yet. All it said was that her services were no longer required.

Lauren Willig

I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else.

Percy Hall

It was the most devastating thing that's ever happened in my life. I tell people, 'You're not always responsible for what happens to you, but you are responsible for how you respond.

Andrea Ferro

It was something that surprised everybody. In Italy, everyone is talking about it because it's something that never really happened before.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Archibald Cox

What can you or I do? Alone, almost nothing. Yet one person - you alone - can make the difference. . . . The failure of just one person to join, to participate, to do whatever he or she can - your failure or my failure - may mean that there is just one too few to win the fight for sanity, and so leave the world on the road to destruction. Each of us, all of us, must do what we can.

Ayn Rand

The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

Ayn Rand

Whenever anyone accuses some person of being 'unfeeling,' he means that that person is just. He means that that person has no causeless emotions and will not grant him a feeling which he does not deserve. He means that 'to feel' is to go against reason, against moral values, against reality.

Ayn Rand

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear fellow, who will let you?" That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Ayn Rand

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Ayn Rand

I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.

Al Gore

Adopting a central organizing principle means embarking on an all-out effort to use every policy and program, every law and institution, to halt the destruction of the environment.

Al Gore

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.