Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Jimmy Carter

the way that people register, the way that people vote and to guarantee that when their votes are cast that they'll be counted accurately and to make sure that we don't discriminate against voters who might be poorer or live in a precinct that has a bad system.

Bob Gilder

You expect Hale to play well. When he's putting well, he's tough to beat. I should be happy with second place but I'm not. I wasn't accurate enough to make a move early in the round. I'm disappointed because I wanted to win.

Michael Cherry

You end up with a number that's as accurate as an EPA mileage rating 'Your mileage may vary,'

Doug Conklin

Every time we got close, they always answered the call. And the second-chance points they got were huge. Our scouting report was very accurate on how well they could jump.

Stuart Appleby

Everything is just so condensed here. You couldn't fit nine holes of golf on this place from last week's layout; not even that, six holes if you're lucky. It is very claustrophobic and small. So, you have to be more accurate. I haven't been accurate enough in tee shots and/or greens, but I've managed to hide that through scrambling.

Larry Frankel

There's no telling if the data being mined is accurate data.

Matt Hasselbeck

Throwing mechanics, shoulder posture, my drop ? little things like that. Right now in camp it still feels like I'm confined and working on stuff. My feeling is, hey, these guys know what they're talking about. I'm buying in 100 percent to what they're saying. Don't ask questions. Come September, your mechanics will be better, you'll be a more accurate passer, and because of that your team will be better.

Julie Craven

We have to continue to work on passing so we can run our offense a little better, ... We have to be more accurate so we can run the faster offense.

Don Kelly

We have not prepared that report, so we don't have any official statistics, yet, ... Right now, no one is monitoring real time crime on a daily basis. All we have is a snapshot from the daily reports. The problem is a snapshot is not always an accurate reflection of the total picture.

Joel Denney

One after the other there's been enough things hitting that it continues to push them closer to the edge. They just cannot stand a whole lot more.

George Bernard Shaw

Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':

Donald Rumsfeld

Even that does not suggest that there cannot be a terrorist event somewhere, someplace in the world and I suspect there will be,

Granth Sahib

Between the Lord's devotees and the people of the world, there can never be any true alliance. The Creator Himself is infallible. He cannot be fooled; no one can fool Him. He blends His devotees with Himself; they practice Truth, and only Truth.

Mary Shelley

Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.

Kevin Cory

Every time Elena steps onto the court, she expects to win. That's something you just cannot teach.

Adora Svitak

Ineffective substitute teaching is a problem that means thousands of hours of lost learning for America's students. It cannot be dismissed with a sigh and 'Just wait for the teacher to come back on Monday.'

Alan Ball

You cannot hold a child accountable to the same standards that you hold an adult accountable to.

Bennett Miller

A film cannot make it into the culture without the support of critics.

Larry Steach

Every penny of the donations goes into the memorial fund.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Abby Cohen

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

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Frank Lautenberg

given recent developments of which we are all aware.

Ken Holland

Given our recent history with groin injuries, they tend to take a little longer than you think. We've had players come back, feel OK, and then re-injure themselves.

Lindy Ruff

From my understanding, nobody in our organization is involved. I haven't been given a lot of information, but there has been no indication that someone on our team is involved.

Tammy Moore

From what they're telling us, we won't. They haven't given us any hope that we will.

Dan Kennedy

If a proper study were done, the results in, given proper consideration and then sites chosen, I'd shut up,

Ian Poulter

I don't think it matters who you're playing in any of the rounds. On any given 18 holes, someone who's higher ranked, if he doesn't play well, he's going to be out.

Susan Levy

I don't think she would harm herself. I have given her the reality of how valued life is,

Chris Ahearn

We have storm recovery teams ... leaving in the next day or so. The issue is places for them to stay and road closures,

Jim Jeffords

Looking ahead, I can see more and more instances where I will disagree with the president on very fundamental issues. The largest, for me, is education.

Andy Williams

For the most part, a lot of these issues are things that we knew and we've been working to address.

John Dalton

I don't think these issues will pull people to the polls, ... I think that those who normally vote in the primary will be the only ones voting on them, unfortunately.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Jim Crace

In the U.K., a lot of writers won't show up to support activist issues because they figure they're already repairing the world. I don't want to be one of those people.

Michael Fiore

The issue of whether the remedy was forward-looking was an old one for the Justice Department,

Robert Garcia

The issue is were these people ever really married.

Chuck Carlson

The issue is: Things can't get any better for the group.

Dieter Zetsche

It has performed well in the world's toughest market.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Dell Leonard

I think I'm still in a state of shock.

Tommy Bowden

You like to see the state be a success.

Mark Thompson

I feel I know my way around state government,

Cal Ripken

I don't want to think it's true. I'm in a state of denial,

Deborah Besley

He's not eating, he's not talking, and he's in a restless, agitated state right now.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

David White

Some still have enough time to do so.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Robert Bork

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.

Thomas Otway

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Moore

Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.

Robert Kennedy

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

Robert Herrick

Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.