Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Dimock

I think any incumbent has room to worry.

Paul Dunn

Not one incumbent lost in 2004. There was only one congressional race that was within 10 points.

Charles de Gaulle

The national task that had been incumbent upon me for 18 years is hereby confirmed.

Henry Harteveldt

It's incumbent on American to respond to this. It's possible that American will try to up the bidding for US Airways.

Alan Abramowitz

As long as you have an incumbent running, you're not going to have a competitive race.

James Goldston

Ted Koppel is a unique voice in American journalism. There's no point in trying to replace him as an individual. It's incumbent upon us to find a slightly different approach.

Chris Coleman

When the incumbent mayor loses a primary by a 2-to-1 margin, it's a referendum on his performance. It has nothing to do with party loyalty. It's about value and judgment.

Councilman Okino

I think if we override, it's incumbent on us to say where we're going to go. We can't keep throwing it back to him; that's irresponsible.

Alexander Veshnyakov

I don't think the incumbent MPs are ready to revise the problem dramatically.

Larry Sandburg

We've done that three times now. The only two loses we've had were the other two.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It is better to lose than never to have had.

Evan Spiegel

TheIinternet is a timeless void - you put something in there, and it's there forever and loses a lot of context.

Luanne Rice

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it.

Marshall McLuhan

When things come at you very fast, naturally you lose touch with yourself.

Pitbull

I don't understand the word 'lose', I only understand the word 'learn'

Edith Piaf

Money? How did I lose it? I never did lose it. I just never knew where it went.

Chuck Palahniuk

Anything you can aquire is only another thing you'll lose.

Robert Bosch

I would rather lose money than trust

Joseph J. Lhota

I was involved as deputy mayor in New York City on 9/11.

David Gudgel

It is my opinion that most probably I will be getting a recommendation from my mayor pro tem (today),

Willie Brown

Mayors are judged by results.

Christine Quinn

I'm tough, and you know what? New Yorkers deserve that. They work head, they fight it out, they slug it out. And they deserve a mayor or a speaker who's going to do the same.

George Griffin

there's a sense Jan will stand up to the mayor when she disagrees.

Ed Koch

I'm not an author, but before I became mayor, I wasn't a mayor.

Mark Begich

As mayor of Anchorage, with 43 percent of the state's population, we have worked on a variety of projects from road projects to renewable energy to a variety of things.

John Hickenlooper

The most important thing a mayor does is hire talented people to run the city.

Rep. Ayres

This is something the mayor has been working on for two years.

Bouthaina Shaaban

What do you do if the other party won't talk?

Richard Posner

But Friedman seemed to share Friedrich Hayek's extreme and inaccurate view that socialism of the sort that Britain embraced under the old Labour Party was incompatible with democracy, and I don't think that there is a good theoretical or empirical basis for that view. The Road to Serfdom flunks the test of accuracy of prediction!

Richard Dawkins

People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality. This mistaken view may have motivated the millionaire Conservative party donors. I have even heard the cynically misanthropic opinion that, without the Bible as a moral compass, people would have no restraint against murder, theft and mayhem. The surest way to disabuse yourself of this pernicious falsehood is to read the Bible itself.

Richard Whately

The tendency of party spirit has ever been to disguise and propagate and support error.

Richelle Mead

But I’m just going to be out there having a tea party with her cats or whatever it is she has in mind." Adrian

Richelle Mead

Once you cross into the next loyal kingdom, however... be warned. You may not find such a warm reception. The Mimosa Land and its residents are not nearly so accommodating." This was warm and accommodating? That didn't bode well for the next kingdom. I also found it sad that a place called the Mimosa Land was unfriendly. It sounded like a party waiting to happen.

Richelle Mead

Did you follow me from the party?" "Yes" "I didn't even know you were there." His dark clothes indicated he must have been on guardian duty at the party. "So you saw the illustrious Janine cause a commotion by dragging me out." "It wasn't a commotion. Hardly anyone noticed. I saw because I was watching you.

Ronaldinho

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Virginia Woolf

Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in her diary about the sticky issue: "I've shirked two parties, and another Frenchman, and buying a hat, and tea with Hilda Trevelyan, for I really can't combine all this with keeping all my imaginary people going.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Nicola Sturgeon

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.

Jeff Carter

This referendum is just not going to fly.

Craig Stapleton

have the same values and the same interests.

Sean Bersell

It has always been about value and convenience.

Tori Amos

When you value your crew, they look after you.

Krystyna Phillips

That's priceless. We can't even put a value on that.

Tom Rogers

The value of stand-alone subscriptions is much more important to us than DirecTV,

Christopher Hitchens

Perhaps the values of socialists can only be realized by socialists in a nonsocialist society.

Lil Wayne

Things I say have value and I would love for you to value them, however you get it.

John Hodgman

I am someone who values truth - actual truth as opposed to 'truthiness.'

Adelaide Clemens

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that.