Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

We stand firmly behind Tom DeLay and ask that he be afforded the same rights as every other American -- that is innocent until proven otherwise,

Tom Reynolds

Until Majority Leader Tom DeLay has his day in court, it is vitally important he be afforded the same presumption of innocence afforded to every other American,

Sandy Johnson

With Ms. Truesdale's current CD album, 'I know Him' on Nashville's CIS-Christian label, Jeanie Kay has brought forth an array of inspirational music sure to please any listener, ... Her soulful voice and her emotional, believable musical delivery reaches audiences in a direct manner not often afforded many singers.

Darcy Tucker

We're not afforded the luxury of looking past any games.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.

Steven LaTourette

As a former prosecutor, I trust that the legal system will work and Tom DeLay, like every American, should have his day in court and should be afforded the presumption of innocence. However, in order to remove any questions that may arise about these contributions, I have made a donation in the same amount to the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund,

Adam Cohen

The building is actually steel and concrete, which is more like the new construction we're doing. So it all of a sudden afforded us really good bones.

Daniel Glaser

The briefing focused on the Treasury's authorities to combat illicit finance and the tools we utilize to protect the U.S. financial system, and afforded a useful opportunity to clarify numerous issues.

Yoshinori Ono

We want to stay friendly with China. We would like to ask China to be a little more transparent.

Matt Damon

We actually begged him to switch roles because he originally cast us flip-flopped and we both felt like we'd done that before. So we asked him and it's more challenging and more fun for everybody if they're doing stuff a little differently.

Christy Fusco

We always ask patrons what's going on. We have a small percentage of chronically overdue books.

Mads Mikkelsen

We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Kate Mulgrew

The perfect combination of everything that not only delights, but exalts me is my husband. I could not ask for a better man.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Patrick Vogt

We want to thank Bob Rice for his many years of service to the Company, as a founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board. Bob has been a visionary in the industry for many years and was the force behind our industry-leading graphics technology platform. We wish him success in his future endeavors.

Michael Musto

With representation there to do the speaking, the guilty are suddenly given the freedom that comes with hiding behind the fact that they never said that - in fact, they never said anything!

Mary Kaye

The power in you is not only the name of our organization. It's also the driving philosophy behind what we do.

Rene Locher

The positive rationale behind a deal would be the potential to cut more costs.

Bryan Fair

The people who were left behind in New Orleans are the people who are always left: the poor, the people without power, the people that our society doesn't care about.

Kevin Reilly

We are proud to have had the opportunity to bring television viewers one of the most acclaimed series in television history. From the venerable, moving performances by the first-rate cast to the sterling creative team behind the camera, this series has left an indelible imprint on the landscape of television drama.

F. Stone

We usually worked just a couple of miles behind the front lines. I guess a lot of our job was transferring gasoline from 55-gallon drums to 5-gallon cans,

Clint Hurdle

We stuck him in there when we ran out of other options last year. He settled into that role real well. He's not just a guy hitting behind (Todd) Helton anymore. He's a legitimate fourth-place hitter.

Chris Moore

We struggled with their defensive pressure. After our good start, we started to play too much one-on-one and it got us out of our early rhythm. We could not get over the hump after we fell behind in the second (quarter).

Barney Frank

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Prescott White

We actually delayed the encore so West and his management could see what was going on.

Jim Leach

We stressed that delay was not in anybody's interest, either procedurally or substantively,

Joe Hills

We're talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Roy Rening

With this, we hope that the authorities would delay the execution because there are key witnesses in this case.

Paul Oversier

We're not happy with the results. We had a major delay of service and had to evacuate a train with hundreds of people on it.

Tom Cirigliano

We're filing the suit to make sure our interests are protected. We have no intention to interfere with or delay the pending transaction between BP Amoco and Arco.

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Manny Acta

It's a shame, but Pedro won't pitch in the Classic. I met with Pedro to talk about this; he did everything he could, and he was ready to join the team later in the competition, but his injury delayed his preparations.

Tamara Tunie

Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

Boris Yeltsin

There will be tough measures in the North Caucasus and we will restore order there in Dagestan and other regions, ... But once again, I state it firmly as president -- there will be no state of emergency.

Al Nigrin

I've been doing this for 18 years. It was a little sapling, and now it's a sturdy oak tree, firmly planted in the ground.

Meister Eckhart

You must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever you may be. You must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed in your mind.

Simon Schama

By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

Janelle Hironimus

We firmly support the rule of law and constitutional government. Violence should be avoided.

Stanley Fischer

The recovery is not firmly in place. There is no reason to withdraw stimulus right now. The need is to make sure that the recovery in Japan is self-sustained -- and that means it's hard to see any good reason for monetary policy to tighten.

Dave Lockett

From an organizational standpoint, there haven't been any discussions; he's still firmly entrenched (here).

Jonathan Klein

I guess I come down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp.

Bertolt Brecht

The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.

Edwin Meese

You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Jere Reneer

They are as innocent as they were when they first walked in here.

Ed Hall

There was no intent on his part. It was just a innocent mistake.

Sidney Jones

This man is not just an innocent old preacher. The man knows perfectly well JI exists. If he says it doesn't exist, he's lying through his teeth.

Nicholas Sparks

A WALK TO REMEMBER is set in the late 1950s because that was the last really innocent period in schools.

Peter Simonson

These new stories are from a very innocent source,

Francis Bacon

Study After Velasquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X,

Riley Wallace

You have to look at them first. They're proven and they've been winning on the road.

Paul Woolpert

We've proven we can win on the road, now we have to prove we can win at home.

Michio Kaku

In science, nothing is ever 100% proven.

George Smitherman

We need to look in those jurisdictions that have taken that step (to see) whether it's proven to be effective.

Danielle Brian

No one has proven themselves strong enough to tackle it.

Ron Cosner

She has proven she can probably steal on anybody.

Jose Fernandez

If other schools question why they didn't make it and we did, they should schedule differently. We've proven we belong.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Dave Martin

I think GamesRadar.com still has a lot to prove. IGN and GameSpot.com have proven traffic and a successful format.

Earl Warren

Citizenship is the right to have rights.

Earl Warren

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today.

David Ricardo

The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.

David Henry Hwang

. . . I felt I was finally in a position to affect not only the artistic content of the American theatre, but also its institutional structures. This has been an important goal of mine, as there have always been a variety of issues - artistic freedom, author's rights, access by minority groups - which have concerned me and even influenced my decision to become a playwright in the first place.

Atifete Jahjaga

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Antonio Tabucchi

I don't have any doubts either about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps some more should be added to the list, but I don't have the slightest doubt about human rights.

David Price

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Frederic Bastiat

Since no individual acting separately can lawfully use force to destroy the rights of others, does it not logically follow that the same principle also applies to the common force that is nothing more than the organized combination of the individual forces?

Frederic Bastiat

It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property, since they pre-exist, and his work is only to secure them from injury. It is not true that the mission of the law is to regulate our consciences, our ideas, our will, our education, our sentiments, our works, our exchanges, our gifts, our enjoyments. Its mission is to prevent the rights of one from interfering with those of another, in any one of these things.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.

Bob Doyle

We want to stand on our two feet.

Jorge Cruz

We want our voices to be heard. Us students, we will take action. We will stand up for what we believe.

Charles Handy

You have to stand outside the box to see how the box can be re-designed.

Kevin Connors

They got us slowed down and standing around a lot.

Rose Johnson

They should be able to stand on their own after that.

Jeremy Karlin

They should be able to - from this stand - to say that guy's the shooter, and they're not able to do that.

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Charles Dickens

At the great iron gate of the churchyard he stopped and looked in. He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock-bell.

Charles Dickens

The cold hoarfrost glistened on the tombstones, and sparkled like rows of gems, among the stone carvings of the old church. The snow lay hard and crisp upon the ground; and spread over the thickly-strewn mounds of earth, so white and smooth a cover, that it seemed as if corpses lay there, hidden only by their winding sheets.

Charles Spurgeon

No one served God by doing things tomorrow.

David Brenner

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

Charlize Theron

You just don't know if you'll be around tomorrow. You just don't.

Charles Lamb

I conceive disgust at those impertinent and misbecoming familiarities, inscribed upon your ordinary tombstones. Every dead man must take upon himself to be lecturing me with his odious truism, that "such as he now is, I must shortly be." Not so shortly, friend, perhaps, as thou imaginest. In the meantime I am alive. I move about. I am worth twenty of thee. Know thy betters!

Charles Lamb

Satire does not look pretty upon a tombstone.

Bessie Smith

The Greatest Blues Singer in the World Will Never Stop Singing.

Chris Breslan

Tom trained on Wednesday, and he'll be okay.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Scott Wolf

Although, I didn't really like sushi until I moved out to L.A.

Michael Mussa

They don't need to do it tomorrow, but they can't wait until the end of the year,

Liz Shimek

It's not over until it's over. We're fighters.