Famous Quotes & Sayings

James L. Buckley

As a consequence, the Court ruled that the limits on campaign spending violated the First Amendment, but it accepted the $1,000 limit on individual contributions on the ground that the need to avoid the appearance of corruption justified this limited constraint on speech.

Christian Carion

The British army accepted that. I respect that and told them: 'Congratulations, I'm proud these soldiers far away from home will see it.'

Peter Suwak

As part of the rezoning vote, they accepted that recommendation, which opened the door for our legal challenge, we think. We don't understand how they can now consider that blighted.

Naeem Khan

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has invited the President to dinner. The President has accepted the invitation. The dinner will be preceded by a meeting at which the two leaders will review the progress in the Composite Dialogue process.

Edith Summerskill

Prize-fighting is still accepted as a display worthy of a civilized people despite the fact that all those connected with it are fully aware it caters to the latent sadistic instincts.

John Benson

Our engineering staff signed off in the last 24 hours (so) it has been accepted in principle, but we'll know between now and Sept. 10-11 if it satisfies all (our) requirements,

Chris Kearney

Our facility is not suitable for a person in this gentleman's condition. ... If we had known he was prone to violence, we would not have accepted him.

Chuck Nelson

People have accepted the fact they'll be spending $2.25 a gallon for gas but they realize, too, that they'll probably put, on average, only about 2,000 miles a year on their vehicle.

Gene Johnson

After settling down and proving herself by getting a couple wins, I think she felt more accepted and like she'd really earned a spot there. She's turned out to be one of the most popular in the group. It seems there's daily, almost hourly, contact between she and some of the others. You know those girls and their cell phones.

Robert Jobson

As a result, at a meeting of the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles, Prince William and the Queen they basically decided that the evidence had gone too far and they interjected in the case,

David Ditzel

As a brand new startup company, one of the things you have to do is go out and raise money and be a visionary. I came up with the basic ideas for the technology here, so I'm more of a technologist. And I really had a longing to get back on the engineering side.

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Bob Walters

The bulls basically hoped for a number showing housing is eroding, and they didn't get it. I'm not surprised. As long as jobs are strong -- as long as interest rates are low -- this isn't going to change.

Bob Rea

The buildings are basically intact for all practical purpose. The site needs some work, but this is the identifying site of the state's worst coal mining disaster and that needs to be preserved.

Mark Rodgers

The calculator is designed to provide a basic projection of consumers' buying potential. Our built-in debt-to-income ratio calculates the high end of affordability.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Madeline Albright

a very strong endorsement... of the basic objectives established (by the 19-nation NATO alliance) ... to stop the repression in Kosovo.

Mitch Kapor

A typical medical practice is like an old-fashioned business which keeps all of its records on paper. It can probably track down any individual transaction if it needs to, but it's basically helpless when it comes to overall measurements of performance. And that's the big problem.

Kyle McSlarrow

Any government mandates, and certainly for any one of those options (suggested by Martin), in our view is very clearly under Supreme Court precedent a violation of the First Amendment.

Susan Basford

As elephants get older, pregnancies certainly become more problematic.

Jerome Holtzman

a shortstop with some, but certainly not overwhelming promise.

Larry Ellison

As far as J.D. Edwards, we're certainly interested, ... We've been looking at that closely as well. It's simply a matter of terms of the deal and price of the deal. We're keeping our options open there.

Neil Fox

As for heat, it certainly seemed very hot throughout the month, and maybe the dryness accounted for that impression.

Carl Duke

As for widespread searches, we aren't doing that, but if a lead comes about a location we will certainly check it out.

Yotam Ottolenghi

As for pineapple, it's far more versatile than you might think, and certainly merits wider use than in Hawaiian pizzas and pina coladas and on cheesy cocktail sticks.

Sophie Okonedo

As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want that. My own hair that I have day to day is a fuzzy afro. And that's who I am.

Bill Belichick

As a football team, they completely outplayed us tonight. They made the plays and we certainly didn't make them.

Tony Hitt

Another sister of mine, Kathie, and Jimmy Acosta, and their three children, are en route, having to go out through Texas, and then head north. They're on their way to Tennessee where they all plan to take up residence, and enroll their children Christopher, 17, and Tyler, 11 in our schools here.

Bible Bible

As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

Joanna Scott

As children know, there's lots of fun in nonsense. We never stop benefiting from staying flexible, open and responsive, even in the midst of confusion.

Paul Houston

As children are growing up in an increasingly diverse world, they need to have exposure to people different than themselves. I'm not saying it can't happen outside the public system, but it happens easily in the public system in many cases.

Wendy Nehring

As a young girl, I wanted to be a first-grade teacher. When I was about 12 years old, I saw an Easter Seals commercial on television that really made me want to do something in my life in which I would help children with I/DD.

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.

Jose Andres Puerta

As a chef and father, it kills me that children are fed processed foods, fast food clones, foods loaded with preservatives and high-fructose corn syrup.

Maeve Binchy

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.

Stephen Pagliuca

As a father of four, I want our children to enjoy the freedoms and opportunities that are the fruit of progressive values.

Bill Fisher

Originally we were playing most of our games sitting on our heels hoping not to make mistakes. Now the kids are really going after it, expecting to win. It's only been two games but now they know that they can go out and do the things it takes to win.

John Hughs

Oil is on everyone's mind. We're expecting a fall in inventories, but instead we get a rise,

Stacey Widlitz

The Street was hoping for positive comps in Japan, and also some investors were expecting same-store sales growth in the U.S. to be 10 percent or higher.

Robert Mattson

The Street is not expecting disappointment or glorious things but ho-hum results. Things are getting incrementally better.

Bob Hammond

The team is really focused and they are expecting a lot in the present, ... But as always, you just never know.

Kaydee Smith

After about 11 months we got pregnant for the first time, and unfortunately we had a miscarriage at three months and so about a year and nine months later we got the news that we were expecting quintuplets.

George Hodgson

After a 240-point fall on the Dow, people are expecting a bounce.

Bill Griffith

Sometimes when people read Zippy they're expecting it to fall into the same formula as some other comics. That's not what I do.

H. Hunt

Sometime in the middle of the summer, we are expecting we could be approaching critical-stage drought.

Kirk Kaczor

Any time a team shows frustration it makes you feel good because you know you're doing your job.

Richard Hyman

Any idiot can amass intelligence. It is being able to leverage that knowledge. They are good at that.

Henry Stern

Any hill is a good hill, just watch out for rocks.

Raymond E. Feist

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that's never my intent. That's an unintended consequence of me just trying to entertain, to write what we used to call 'ripping yarns.'

Chevy Chase

Any good actor has to have a good sense of humour, too; they have to be able to manipulate people.

James Hogg

A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?

Vic Rimmer

Ashdown did a good job of maintaining what they had.

Terry Stotts

As good as we were in Seattle over that five-year period, and that five-year period was as good a five-year period as there had been in the history of the league, I don't know if we had a 14-game winning streak.

Greg Zipadelli

As good as we've been in the past, we've never been as good as this.

Lynn Kippax

This is a small, humble step the governor has taken to demonstrate that everyone can take small steps to save energy.

Tony Quinn

This is a real sign of how terribly weak the governor is.

Kathy Walt

This is still a legal matter and I think it would be the wrong time for the governor to weigh in. Let's let the legal system work.

Lydia Lenker

This is obviously a very important decision. The appointment will be made in a timely fashion, but the governor will give the process the time it needs.

Rob Stutzman

This governor has always been out there more than other governors.

Chuck Logsdon

There are some key issues where we've not received a response that is what the governor wants to hear.

Adam McKay

Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.

Margita Thompson

While we are disappointed we did not make the June ballot, everyone knew it would be very difficult. The governor has always said what is important is not June or November but that he and the Legislature work to rebuild California.

Kathy Walt

With his Hollywood looks, he was typecast to play the governor of the great state of Texas,

Pat Robertson

Ashok means without sorrow, and he lives up to his name.

English 14th Century Proverbs

A reed before the wind lives on, while mighty oaks do fall.

David Kennerly

(The sitcom) touches so many people. The world would not have suffered had I not done this. This show lives on.

Donald Rumsfeld

The task is to keep at it until Americans can go through their lives without fear, ... It is a marathon, not a sprint. It will be years, not weeks or months.

Ronda Storms

This is a real victory for people in the community. And for moms and dads, and for people who are just trying to live their lives and have a neighborhood that's safe and that they can be proud of.

William Blake

Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.

Rob Pike

We're systems software people ourselves. We wanted a language to make our lives better.

Carol Nelson

There is no such thing as closure. My son lives in my heart. I see him in my other children.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that many lives have been lost.

June Daugherty

These AAU teams are amazing. They practice all year. They're well coached. They play a lot of games.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more you practice, the better. But in any case, practice more than you play.

Ayn Rand

Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice.

Brian Tracy

Growth and fulfillment come from abandoning old practices and embracing new ones.

Jan Karon

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

Carl von Clausewitz

Talent and genius operate outside the rules, and theory conflicts with practice.

Calvin Coolidge

The attempt to regulate, control, and prescribe all manner of conduct and social relations is very old. It was always the practice of primitive peoples.

Alain de Botton

Unnatural to expect that learning to be happy should be any easier than, say, learning to play the violin or require any less practice.

Alain de Botton

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Dave Allison

That's huge. We didn't sit back and protect the lead, we went after it in the third period.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Evangelos Venizelos

Protect those who protect you.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Herman Edwards

We have to protect the quarterback. We haven't done that and we need to do that.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

John Breaux

He'll tell it like it is. If he thinks something is not right, he'll holler about it. I'd be hollering at everybody, too.