Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Conan

There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night, and sometimes the glimmer seemed to be far away upon the horizon and sometimes it might have been within a few yards of us.

Arthur Doyle

There is nothing as deceptive as an obvious fact.

John Richter

This was essentially an organization that was willing to be a one-stop-shop for illegal goods. We seized more than $4 million of highly deceptive currency. It's the largest seizure of its kind.

Edmund Mierzwinski

First of all, ... if you just opt out, you're protecting your information from being shared with telemarketers who use deceptive scripts to trick you into ordering junky products. If this decision is upheld, you're also protecting your Social Security number from being shared with information brokers and that might protect you from identity theft and stalking.

Terry Gough

He's not the prototype tailback because he doesn't have quite the field vision or shake to him that the really good tailbacks have. But he has deceptive speed. We ran the legs off him, so he can take a pounding. He's very durable.

Greg Rusedski

I thought the first set was really good, especially getting that early break. He's a very deceptive player.

Keith Brooking

He has a lot more power, deceptive power, a lot more than you see on film. He's strong, he has the speed to get outside. I think he got some tough yards inside today. That's for sure.

Gary Ruskin

It's deceptive because people think they're talking to a regular person when they're really talking to a shill, ... That's the whole point, that shills have to disclose that they're shills.

Charles Hasse

It's being called the '65 percent solution,' but we regard it as really 100 percent deception. It's a shameful and deceptive effort to distract people from the real issues facing students and schools.

Daniel Loeb

Whether we own shares for the short-term or long-term, it's a red-herring issue that incompetent management uses to distract people from the real issues, ... In this case, the issue is that Ligand is beset by Robinson's and Maier's incompetence and failure.

Michael Hirschorn

We're most impressionable when we're 12 to 24 years old, so that what we wore, what we watched, what we listened to has greater import at the time, when you had yet to be distracted by things like jobs and families.

John Stevens

As with all investigations, I shall go where the evidence leads. Our quest won't be distracted or diverted and if there's evidence of wrongdoing, it will be highlighted.

Michelle Pfeiffer

They were distracted for a split-second, which was all it took for the other man to jump into the car.

Craig Newmark

During the bubble, we got distracted by the prospect of big bucks. Now it's much better balanced.

Giovanni Bisignani

A European solution is no solution at all. Unilateral regional efforts will only distract from this process,

J. Courtney Sullivan

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.

Pat Kelly

The wave is intimidating enough, and with all those people in the way it can distract from your focus.

Barry Zito

There won't be any intangibles that can distract the clubhouse, we'll know what to expect. That's a major plus.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denis Waitley

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Kevin Dineen

We are looking forward to the playoffs, especially with the gritty effort we have put forth on the road this season. The playoffs feature a lot of excitement packed into a series and just get ready to rock with us in the playoffs.

Ehud Barak

We are at the start of a very intensive effort and, in a way, the last one in this round to try to reach a breakthrough,

Salah Bardawil

There is no longer any time to lose - we are facing public pressure.

Joe Papin

Tomorrow we have even a tougher task. We are probably going to be facing a stronger team. We have to play for three periods no matter what the score is. You would think being 14-0 I would be happy, but right now I'm not.

Matt Bowen

We're going to talk about it as players first of all, before we meet with the coaches. That's not the way we play defense. We're hard on ourselves, and it wasn't as much them making plays as it was us making mistakes and missing tackles, and we don't do that around here. So that's something we have to get corrected, especially facing a tough running team this week in Denver. We don't do that stuff.

Byron Jones

We're steadily approaching a point where if we don't reach a northern facing slope, we won't be as productive as we'd like.

Mike Felix

We were hot tonight. When you're facing a team that's hot, it's hard to stop them.

Simon Maughan

Unless HBOS and Northern Rock step back, Barclays is facing a long uphill struggle in mortgages.

Richard Cripps

We're facing the realization that rising (interest) rates and rising stock prices are incompatible. The higher rates are really starting to make themselves felt.

Jake Brace

We're facing some negative sentiment in Washington. We talk to lots of people in Washington. Their message is: More is needed.

Michael Rothman

We're facing a situation in the latter part of the 2002 not unlike year 2000, when OPEC was in a position of having to unwind quotas to prevent too tight an oil balance.

Alan Greenspan

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

David Brooks

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.They have some issue. They have some interest.It may be preserving carried interest. But it's not altruistic.

Barry Diller

No one can solve an issue where there is no economic model yet.

Barney Frank

The issue is not that morals be applied to public policy, it's that conservatives bring public policy to spheres of our lives where it should not enter.

Barney Frank

Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Studd

Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.

Charles Stross

In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.

Charles Stanley

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Charles Spurgeon

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

Linda Jeffers

At least 50 percent of them want to come home. The most important thing for them is safe levees.

Robert Townsend

All organizations are at least 50 percent waste -- waste people, waste effort, waste space, and waste time.

Bob Willis

About 90 percent of the construction has been done in-house.

Lori Lucas

About 81 percent say they plan to save later.

Greg Waldrop

All of my qualified students are 100 percent employed. Not every student is qualified.

Will Brown

They're going to play regardless of what the score is, and they'll probably play early.

Daryl Manning

There's a violation to have any sign in any homeowner's yard, regardless of what it says.

Sean Kline

They always play us harder. It always seems like they come out and give us a game, regardless of the way the rest of the season is going.

Ben Wallace

That's how we've been all year. We don't panic, regardless of the situation.

Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Aesop

Do nothing without regard to the consequences.

Alex Newell

Singing is my passion, regardless of anything else that I've ever done. That's the one thing that no one can ever take away from me is my voice, and that is what I really want to do.

Katie Findlay

I don't know how to exist before 9 A.M. And without coffee, I'm not classified as a human. Actually, I could be regarded as a threat.

Jencarlos Canela

I only respond to Telemundo when it's about novellas, in regards to music or movies they have nothing to do with it; that's mine.

Frank Lindh

He was treated in a way that was shameful to our country.

Edward Hirsch

There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this.

Carol Kane

It's very hard to remain a student in life.

Bob Inglis

I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.

Paul Kohn

We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring.

Steve Gray

Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44.

Bill Proffitt

A lot of students thought they were real.

Louisiana Tech

They're going to be Tech students in every sense,

Richard Cate

They're all interesting in their own way. I especially like the interactions with the students.

Tom Angell

It's a victory that some students will be able to get back their aid. But there are still some fundamental problems.