Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Bernanke

At some point in the future, the committee may decide to take no action at one or more meetings in the interest of allowing more time to receive information relevant to the outlook.

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Bill Blair

Stopping motorists or pedestrians in order to provide verbal or written information concerning the current job action is an improper and abusive use of police powers,

Joe Main

Study all you want. That's good. That's healthy, but don't preclude action with study.

Anil Sahin

Something is wrong when a cartoon insulting two billion Muslims is considered freedom of opinion, but when an action film takes on the Americans it is considered demagoguery.

Brian Koslow

Someone with a millionaire mindset is willing to explore opportunities. Most people become paralyzed by the thought of taking action. The millionaire mindset is uncomfortable with inaction. Any self-made millionaire listens for opportunity. The average person listens for what's wrong and why something won't work.

Xinyi Lu

Some financial institutions believed Fukui would delay the action but the government can't stop him. It shocked some investors and they finally decided to cut their losses.

Brad Pitt

I don't want to waste time being angry at someone I love.

Boyd Rice

I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.

Jane Goodall

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

Koren Zailckas

We are taught to believe it's bad to be angry, or at least it's not good. That's not the case all throughout the world. People are more open and not embarrassed about it. For instance in Paris, people believe Americans have a really unhealthy relation with anger. They think it's essential to get angry.

Diana Ross

So I'm not worried about the emotions I carry with me, because I'm happy that I have them; I think it's good for the work I do. The emotions that are not healthy are the ones you hold inside, like anger.

Dean Koontz

Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.

Brigham Young

The best remedy for anger is delay.

Bobby Hull

Always keep your composure. You can't score from the penalty box; and to win, you have to score.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anger is one letter short of danger.

Bible Bible

Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, / That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: / And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

Ian Lowe

Oil and gas are limited resources, ... Wasteful use of these fuels and the burning of coal are the main causes of global warming.

Jerry Beasley

Coal keeps the lights on!' And this year it will also keep the lamp of learning burning for the beneficiaries of Concord's scholarship program.

Roland Mesnier

The Secret Service came to me and thought I was burning the White House.

Rusty Smith

The smell of burning rubber is always great in the air.

Frank Sr

A friend saw him on fire and came and put him out. That's the only thing that keep the fire from burning all of him.

Melissa Cross

Someone took my parking space and I just lost it. And I started screaming, not at her but in the car. And my throat was like (makes a burning gesture). I stopped and regrouped and then I got out of the car and screamed at her the right way.

Jeff Deren

Right now we get 93 percent of our energy from burning fossil fuels. If all of these projects come on-line that number will be down to around 55 percent.

Jay Johnson

Right now, the fire is contained. The wind has shifted and they've lit a backfire to get the fire burning back on itself.

Jim Wall

We hear about the labor market from employers all the time so we know it is an issue, but 51 percent is a big number.

Jack Martin

Employers in many of these sectors have gotten themselves into a Catch-22 situation where if they do not look the other way and hire illegal workers, they will not be competitive with other businesses.

Steve Smitson

Employers could be required to register. They could post wage bonds.

Ann Dufresne

What is the impact going to be, how will employers react?

David Arkless

But the employers I talked to do not want to hire them. They said these people are being trained with the wrong things.

Jose Gonzalez

I would say the vast majority are not in a day labor-type scenario. Contractors and employers have a need for good workers, and once they find them they keep them.

Sal Souto

We've become a 24/7 society and employers are taking it out of the hide of the working people. Employers are paying them less, not paying them for the hours they work.

Fran Quittel

There are all kinds of ways employers can smarten up.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

John McDermott

The statement was very similar to the statements he's given previously,

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do the thing and you will be given the power

Bill Clinton

And though you have given too much, you still have so much to give.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Olivia Chow

This government wants to give with one hand and take away with other.

Geoff Hoon

This government plans and prepares. We will plan and prepare for this winter.

Kelly Lamrock

This government is treating the Speaker's office as a political plaything.

Steven Tyler

The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who were there first.

Gerard Kennedy

This is a serious problem that should not be left unchecked,

Brad Johnson

The only player left was Matt Birk, ... He was a rookie in '98. Now he's hurt.

Carol Ann Duffy

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Steven Aftergood

FOIA is one of the most vital tools we have left and it's urgent that it be protected. It's under stress in this climate, but it's not broken.

Sarah Kendall

Did he have weapons with him when he left the house?

Gary Smith

Corporations left and right are dumping their obligations and promises.

Dan Kusnetzky

This type of movement is likely to see a lot of momentum. No one wants to be left out of a major trend like this.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Stephen Bailey

This provides a second option for our students.

Dan Becker

There's lot of options out there for me.

Jarno Trulli

I am not in a rush and we are talking but I have other options and I don't want to wait until September to sort out my future.

Scott Gerber

We are going to pursue every option to get it passed.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Sundiata Gaines

I really think our only option is to win the SEC Tournament.

Nicholas Kristof

Doesn't it seem odd that your cellphone can be set up to require a PIN or a fingerprint, but there's no such option for a gun?

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Gregg Shotwell

What struck me the most was he said he's going to try to keep Delphi pensions solvent. And I was struck that he would think that any of us would trust that.

John Lee Hooker

Groups are corporations now. They have pension plans. Musicians have saw the daylight.

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.

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.

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.

Ban Ki-moon

From the Balkans to Africa, from Asia to the Middle East, we have witnessed the weakening or absence of effective governance leading to the ravaging of human rights and the abandonment of longstanding humanitarian principles. We need competent and responsible states to meet the needs of "we the peoples" for whom the UN was created. And the world's peoples will not be fully served unless peace, development and human rights, the three pillars of the UN, are advanced together with equal vigour.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I do protect human rights, and I hope I shall always be looked up as a champion of human rights.

Derrick Bell

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

Brendon Urie

You don't have to be the same as anybody else, but you can support - just concerning human rights in general.

Eldridge Cleaver

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

Richard Maloney

This is a strike that should not have happened.

Dave Vestal

We showed we could strike through the air. We showed we could come back.

Jonathan Genant

If he had taken another strike at me, I wouldn't be here today.

Vance Wilson

If you look at the way he was continually getting strike one down in the zone ... if he does that, he can do whatever he wants.

Toby Hall

I'm safe, and it was strike three. So there it is.

Steve Friswell

They can't come to work when they feel like it and strike when they feel like it.

Mike Gold

We are taking a robust, step-by-step development approach,

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Nancy Grace

The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.