Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Helprin

If one accepts Hezbollah's self-description as a resistance movement, in which case one must, in light of the fact that Hezbollah never ceases to provoke, view Israel's mere existence as a continuing act of aggression, then Hezbollah has indeed shown that it can initiate conflict, resist, and survive.

Ted Dumitru

This dispute is probably going to be resolved after we receive a letter from Safa (that accepts or rejects the demands from the players).

Andrew Roberts

This is a fascinating reform, since it comes right before the U.S. FASB -- as is probable -- accepts a request by the SEC to look into FAS87, the U.S. (pension) standard,

David Price

This is a big case because intellectual property is growing in importance for business. If the Supreme Court accepts the lower court's decision, it will make it difficult for companies to enforce their patents and raise worries that they will be liable on antitrust grounds.

Andrew Parker

It's only a matter of time before Hollywood accepts that there is no 'magic bullet' to combat peer-to-peer piracy and then starts to embrace it.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

There is no way out of the crisis unless the prime minister accepts that the key part of the problem is his own legitimacy.

Peter McCormick

This is the one that accepts the message. It switches off a civil war and it gives the party the summer to get over what they have just gone through." ()

Roe Hye

There is sufficient evidence that results were deliberately manipulated, and Professor Hwang accepts this at some level. We don't think that the data in the 2005 Science study was incorrect because of simple mistakes.

Charles Knight

Anybody who accepts mediocrity -- in school, on the job, in life -- is a person who compromises, and when the leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Paul Rothemund

We actually fold the DNA into any shape that we want. So in the case of the smiley faces that I made, I actually fold the DNA into a disk, but then leave two holes for the eyes and the mouth.

Freddie Shepherd

We always intended to take our time over the appointment of a full-time manager and that is still the case as we consider our options very carefully.

Mike Foley

We also think they're trying to take the other parks and slice off pieces of them too. This is sort of a test case to see if they can get away with it.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Dan Bartlett

The plight of the Palestinians has always been on the president's mind and a part of his statements. But sometimes when we state our case not all of it gets out. So we reorder the priorities to make sure our entire policy and positions get out there.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Rep. Caruso

We want to see what he was thinking at the time. He's the one who received the employment. Was it something that he sought? Was it something that the companies offered to him?

Louis Navellier

There's a lot of companies that profit from a weak dollar.

Michael Specter

When people say they prefer organic food, what they often seem to mean is they don't want their food tainted with pesticides and their meat shot full of hormones or antibiotics. Many object to the way a few companies - Monsanto is the most famous of them - control so many of the seeds we grow.

John Nolan

The other thing the Internet and overall technology are enabling us to do, quite honestly, is streamline our internal costs, and that's a big deal. We're using the Internet just like a lot of companies to try and drive down costs administratively and then leverage that infrastructure to enhance our core products and offer Internet-related products outside our mainstream.

Ron Carey

The Post Office and the other companies can't manage the volume, ... They shouldn't be dictating; they should be negotiating.

Jim Keyes

We are pleased to join the global companies listed on the world's most prestigious stock exchange, ... Our NYSE listing marks an important milestone for 7-Eleven and will raise our visibility with the financial community.

Ryan Thompson

There are companies that will rent furniture for houses on sale.

Harvey Eisen

There are companies that in my mind are obvious takeover candidates,

Victor Lazarovici

There are companies making money consistently, even at lower gold prices. Panic is the last thing you want to do.

William Steere

We want to see how it plays out in the court and how it plays out in the market,

Michael Clarke

The person I heard in the courtroom was not the real Dennis,

Nathaniel Persily

We are at a defining moment. The court is going to decide when political parties go too far in rigging electoral districts for their own advantage.

James Greer

We stress El Camino tradition all the time. It's our job to hold court at home like so many of the past El Camino teams did. EC pride means simply not losing.

Donald Copeland

We spread the court well. Grant, who is an excellent passer, he's able to see over defenses.

William Shakespeare

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

William Shakespeare

Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy.

John Roberts

An important function of the Supreme Court is to provide guidance, .. As a lower court judge, I appreciate clear guidance from the Supreme Court.

Salih Mutlaq

We have no court in Iraq to trust.

Alan Greenspan

Productivity is notoriously difficult to predict.

Don Worstell

The one thing we like about our team over most teams we play is our depth. We play nine guys, and any one of them can go big on you on a given night. I think we're a difficult team to scout.

Rick Stansbury

The pluses are that (Gordon) is a good player. He is going to be one of the better players in the league. If he gains more experience he will be really good, he has had some difficult times and has been providing good leadership as a freshman.

Ruben Patterson

We are a little fatigued. It's been a difficult road trip.

Angela Sgrignuoli

Where the wind made it difficult for several riders Saturday, today was nearly perfect for the runners.

Granth Sahib

Where the path is difficult and the street is narrow, there the Lord shall liberate you

McKayla Maroney

I was just used to being in shape, and getting out of it was really difficult for me.

Nicolas Roeg

I've been told my movies are difficult to market.

Jim Norton

When you talk about an icon and a legend, an extraordinary individual, as well as a people's person, it's difficult where to start about the man. He was the kind of person where all you would have to say is Amby and people knew who you were talking about. People loved him. On the day of his passing, the headline in the (Providence) Journal read, A one, and last, of a kind. In all of the years that I worked with Amby, it's hard to pinpoint what stands out the most, except that he was always there.

Campbell Scott

I make little movies, you know, they need all the help that they can get.

Hillary Clinton

Americans deserve to feel secure in their own lives, in their own middle-class aspirations, before you go to them and say, 'We're going to have to enforce navigable sea lanes in the South China Sea.'

David Cocke

You can't just retroactively and selectively enforce residency requirements.

Mike Taylor

Our sense is that the rules will be enforced better than they have ever been in a number of years.

Robert Witt

It would be irresponsible for this University to not enforce its rights under this agreement.

Griffin Bell

the written rules were often ignored, never enforced and all the participants knew it.

Ted Cruz

There was reference made to our leaders being stupid. It's not a question of stupidity. It's that they don't want to enforce the immigration laws. That there are far too many in the Washington cartel that support amnesty.

Chuck Rosenberg

enforce the law, fight terrorism and protect the national security.

Ron Goldman

enforce the judgement no matter who stands in the way.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Alan Bradley

Growing up in a Canadian household that was more British than Big Ben, I dreamed of flying to England myself and visiting the places my family never tired of talking about. I always woke up before the plane landed.

Alan Arkin

Either you're growing or you're decaying; there's no middle ground. If you're standing still, you're decaying.

Deb Caletti

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

Dave Johnston

We want to recognize the importance of our employees.

Megan Quinn

Always our users' privacy and security are of utmost importance to us. This is a planning process.

Brian Hanna

This is a big milestone for Mountain View. The importance of this match in our minds was huge.

Richard Jefferson

It's not so much the type of shot he hit, but the importance of the shot.

Gholamreza Aghazadeh

The relations with Russia are of key importance to our state,

Porter Goss

As a member right now on the Hill, I know the value of that and the importance of that,

Steve Carpenter

Safety does, however, remain to be of paramount importance on our campus.

Isaiah Stanback

I've come to understand the importance of practices and rehearsals.

Charles D. Broad

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

Monk Frost

Logic is only a theory liable for most of the mystery.

Jerry Coleman

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.

Robert Montgomery

The message that has been sent is, you're going to be liable for Saturday night specials and sales thereof.

Zora Neale Hurston

But as de old folk always say, Ah'm born but Ah ain't dead. No tellin' whut Ah'm liable tuh do yet.

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Debbie Stabenow

At a time when so many Americans struggle to pay for the prescription drugs they need, we must look for ways to lower the price of those drugs.

Trilby Lundberg

All point to lower prices at the pump,

Shawn McCambridge

This indicates lower use for the first quarter of this year.

Michael Evans

They're paying a lot lower and they can make their services for a lot lower.

Thorstein Veblen

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

Nikola Tesla

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.

Elon Musk

You should be innovating so fast that you're invalidating your prior patents

Candace Bushnell

Patent leather wedges-they were big when I went to prom!

Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Nathan Myhrvold

I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Janice Moore

It's just unacceptable. Our property values will decline.

David McIntosh

They'd say, 'I like what you're doing about property taxes, but let's do something about gas,'

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Steven Jeffrey

This is very important, especially since we have had to give up (much) of the property tax.

W. Hull

They have no right to own property in the United States because they have no right to be here in the first place.

Randy Hall

at least we know how much the property is worth ... it's worth $2.3 million.

Samuel Richardson

As long as my property taxes are high, I have to raise rents or make adjustments.

Cy Thannikary

Property tax rebates are a Band-Aid on the problem.

Janet Yellen

This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further,

Ian Schafer

When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.

Tom Rogers

What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.

Paul Loriquet

As soon as he raised his weapon was when the shot was fired.

Andy Xie

They need consolidation. If they can't raise prices, they will die.

Greg Hawkins

They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes a village to put on a triathlon.

Dale Thomas

The yen will weaken some more. There is no need to raise rates.

Richard Genthe

This is the sixth consecutive year we've raised over $6 million.

S. Walker

This is the only way I think we can get this done without having to raise taxes.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Elizabeth Gilbert

God is an experience of supreme love.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Kate Winslet

There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.

Curtis Green

She's polite, but she's a little naive. That's what worries me.