Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Volpe

Any fee that the county implements, it's passed onto the home buyer. When you tack on fees or you tack on taxes, all that does is raise the price of affordable housing.

Jim Young

A's Baseball remains one of the most affordable entertainment values in all of sports. The average ticket price in 2006 will be $25.48, which still ranks in the lower third in all of baseball. And the average ticket-price increase from 2005 to 2006 will be 7.24 percent, which is the second-lowest increase over the last six seasons and lower than the last two seasons.

Craig Barrett

The bottom line is that we want images on PCs to become as easy to use and as ubiquitous as text is today. If digital imaging is easy, affordable and fun for consumers, we believe it will spur PC demand and contribute to the ultimate goal of creating new users and new uses for the PC platform.

John Lawrence

As people move to more affordable housing closer to work, it?s simply just a matter of supply and demand. They build more houses in Forsyth County because there is more available land.

Lisa Carlson

People assume they've got to go the traditional route. But we are beginning to see a lot more affordable low-cost options.

John Key

The surplus confirms that business tax cuts are affordable and so are personal tax cuts.

Ron Wyden

I voted for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, not because I thought it was the best we could do, but because I thought it was a whole lot better than the current system.

Shaun Donovan

A decade or two ago, the market was not strong enough for new market-rate development to work in East New York; today it does. And with low interest rates, you see lots of market-rate construction that is affordable to people making roughly an average income for New York City.

M. Wolfe

A few years ago, you could heat a home for $500. Now it takes $1,500. Energy has become a lot less affordable for low-income families.

Dr. McKinlay

Dentists and parents, I think, can be very assured from the results of this study that they can continue to put silver amalgam in children's mouths to fill cavities.

Mike Pence

Some (soldiers) were worried that the resources they need might be diverted, ... I assured them I would do what was needed to win the war and get them home safe.

Mohamed ElBaradei

once you have that assured supply, you have taken away the justification for countries to say, 'I'd like to make my own fuel,' and that's 80 percent of the problem.

Bob Riley

I've talked with federal officials and they've assured me this disruption of the gasoline supply is one of their top priorities and they're working to correct the problem, ... I'm hoping this will be a short-term disruption. In the meantime, citizens can continue to do their part by purchasing and using fuel responsibly.

Gene Dolnick

(Dr. Long) has assured us that educational leadership has to be a top priority. It is our priority. We believe it is his priority. I hope that we can embrace this choice.

Wim Duisenberg

European citizens can be assured that the future of the euro is that of a strong currency, based on price stability and the strength of the European economy,

Debbie Casto

Every game is huge. We're at the point now with three losses that we have to win every game to be assured of a spot in the regional.

Jim Ross

Be assured that Triple H is more than ready to return to Monday Night RAW and he and the incomparable 'Nature Boy' will make quite the impact if my instincts are correct.

Donald Rumsfeld

assured him that Gen. Tommy Franks and his Central Command staff will work closely with the Canadian representatives in Tampa to investigate the causes of this tragic accident.

Jim Calhoun

As far as we're concerned, we're incredibly happy to be a No. 1 seed. Obviously, I don't think anything we did changed us from being the overall No. 1. I think it's what Duke did.

Geraint Jones

The team has changed in the last six months, the side we had the success with will hopefully get together again.

Jack Keane

The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.

Irina Slutskaya

The system has changed but people don't change - we still have judges who push the buttons. I just wanted to do my best. I'm so happy I can do it and I just want to do it Thursday.

Mike Scifres

The special teams played well all day, ... Then that punt; that changed things.

Lanny Wadkins

The thing that put the question mark in a lot of people's minds was the swing change. I, like a lot of other people, questioned it just for the fact that if you think back to all the great players from Hogan to Snead to Nicklaus, Palmer, Watson and Trevino . . . none of those guys ever changed their swing to get better.

Karen Keane

The thing that is really changed is people have become a little more camera-ready. They come more prepared.

Bob Saget

The thing that changed me the most as a person was the play I did in New York,

Bobby Frasor

I've never changed it, never really messed with it.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Debbie Smith

Reaching out to children in need and touching their lives in this special way is so important.

Peter Craig

Our thoughts and prayers are with her children and her family.

Mark Madsen

Our thoughts and prayers are with Fred Hoiberg and his family and his children, because there's not a finer human being around than Fred Hoiberg. But hey, we've got to make adjustments, and we've got some good players who will hopefully come in and fill the void.

Sharon Lewis

Our detectives are interviewing the parents of the two children we found, to see whether they can't throw any light on the subject ... At the moment we have no leads.

Joe Biden

People should not be in a position where their children have access to weapons and ammunition.

Jason O'Mara

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

KP Kushwaha

People are still coming to hospitals with unconscious children in their arms. Some of them are coming to us very late.

Teresa Belew

People going, starting to drink at 12-o'clock with children and leaving after a long day in the sun out there, that's just a risky, risky combination.

James Steel

Any hint of recovery in industrial recovery there is a good sign, ... it was a supporting factor to the rally.

Rey Mysterio

Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time,

John Challenger

People who have been out for a while say, 'I've got to get back to work,' so they take downgraded jobs, ... Maybe they can't get a job as the plant manager, so they try to get a job as a manager on the factory line and work their way back up.

Catherine Deneuve

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical, when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

James Mcewan

People hate the fact that they kidnapped people, including a little child.

Preston Clark

The spectator traffic wasn't even a factor today. With this weather, they all headed for the hills.

Victor Kubik

The simple fact that Vitaly can talk and smile makes it all worthwhile.

Pedro Noguera

The simple fact is that schools can't do it alone,

M. Wolfe

The simple fact is that it's very dangerous, especially at night because low hanging power lines are hard to see,

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Mark Lasley

Most of the seniors that are starting have been starting since they were sophomores.

Abe Badmus

We're going to do everything as seniors to keep this going.

Colleen Kennedy

We have a lot of seniors this year,

Mitch Hedberg

I sick of "soup of the day" it's time we made a decision, i want to know what "soup from now on" is

Doris Wallace

You're just sick to your stomach, wondering who in the world can come, because everyone is busy; everyone who's touring already has dates.

Elizabeth Scott

There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

Edward Abbey

Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.

Andre Leon Talley

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

Anne Lamott

I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

Anne Lamott

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Anna Nicole Smith

I'm sick of being accused of gold-digging. It just so happens I get turned on by liver spots.

Anais Nin

I'm sick of my own romanticism!

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.