Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Franklin

Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they're all worried about 2006.

Kofi Annan

I urge you, as world leaders, individually collectively, to keep working on this reform agenda to have patience to persevere, and the vision needed to forge a real consensus,

Scott McCallum

You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.

Tim McCormick

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

J. C. Watts

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

Graham Smith

And these are social groups which governments don't normally readily put on their agenda in terms of allocating resources for health care.

Helen Hudson

Dr. Martin Luther King, his whole agenda was good works, and in the labor world we all have the day off. So instead of sitting at home, watching television, we decided to come out and do some good throughout the community. And this is the result of it, this is our seventh annual clothing and food drive.

Steven Pinker

During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning.

Mark Changizi

Company logos, for example, are meant to be recognized, and we found that logos have a high correlation. Shorthand systems, which are meant to give a note-taker speed at the expense of a commonly recognizable system of symbols, do not.

Robert H. Connelly

We can say nothing but what hath been said . . . Our poets steal from Homer . . . he that comes last is commonly best.

Terry Teachout

A play is not a play until it's performed, and unless it's a one-person play that is acted, directed and designed by the author, many other people will be deeply involved in the complicated process that leads to its performance.

Richard Rhodes

When I heard what had transpired, I was deeply saddened. I resigned in support of Mrs. Wheatley because I know she has given unselfishly of her talent to this community.

Silvestre Afable

We have reached our goal sooner than expected. The Philippine government is deeply satisfied. We are very happy that the MILF has responded with seriousness and commitment.

Edward Kennedy

Sen. Ashcroft has a deeply disturbing record on issue after issue of vital importance to millions of Americans.

Susannah McCorkle

People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music." ()

Scott Pattison

Personal saving rates are minimal, and the federal government is deeply in deficit. But the states are putting money back into their rainy-day funds.

David Bonior

Nobody mentioned the word resignation, nobody mentioned the word impeachment, ... This was a meeting for the president to express to us his sorrow, his concern, this was a person who felt very deeply about the pain he has caused.

Michael McDermott

I am satisfied with the result we have come up with, but I am deeply dissatisfied with the way that we had to come up with it today, ... Everything prior went very very well, but today was a day I never want to go through again.

Harry Whittington

My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney has had to go through this past week.

Jeffrey Brown

I've never written a book with the intention of winning someone back or getting back at someone or anything like that. It's always just been about thinking about life and how relationships fit in to what life means.

David Shore

We've resisted a lot of weird stories because they don't fit the show.

Andrew Walpole

We are hopeful he will be fit for the first Test.

Bobby Robson

Jermaine Jenas is a fit lad. He gets from box to box in all of 90 minutes

Rafael Benitez

Crouch is okay now. He's played a reserve game, where he performed really well. He's been training normally and he's now fit and ready for selection,

Catherine Campbell

We wanted one place where Jamie could fit in with everyone else, where it wasn't as noticeable he was different.

Thomas Fuller

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

Dave Calloway

We knew he was our type of guy and he knew he'd fit in here. He plays that same way, of just knowing what he needs to do.

Don Powell

We kind of want it to happen overnight, or I do, but it's going to take some time. This could be five to 25 years for it all to fit into place.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.