Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Adams

(ADR) allows parties to control and design the outcome of their disputes by crafting creative solutions that avoid the randomness of trial decisions, ... Schedules can also be controlled, reducing business, professional and personal disruption.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Melvin T. Reid

An investor is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in business, and how to avoid them.

George McPhee

We have done everything we could to avoid this step, but we felt we had no choice but to now seek a legal remedy.

Bill Moseley

When I grew up, there was still black and white TV. I was told to never get out of bed once you're put to bed. I'd sneak down the hallway, try to avoid the creaking floor boards and go in and watch the 'Midnight Movie.'

Michelle Waterson

I know the different ways that I have lost. I think that's beneficial to me because I know how I got in those situations in the past, and I know how to avoid those situations.

Silvio Berlusconi

On the contrary, I tried on numerous occasions to convince the American president not to go to war. I did what was within my capabilities to avoid that happening.

Peter Buck

To me it was just incomprehensible... I have never been in trouble before... I will go miles away to avoid confrontation. I really don't like it,

Robin Marantz Henig

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

Jodi Picoult

As it turned out, hell wasn't watching the people you love get hurt; it was coming in during the second act, when it was already too late to stop it from happening.

Jamie Koch

The money this is coming from is already there. We're just honoring his contract.

Danny Culler

Coming to the checkered. Watch your mirror. Watch your mirror.

John Gibbons

Coming in we knew we had a good one,

David Perkins

Now, gas prices, ... they go to $10 to the gallon, we're still coming to the races.

David Rosenberg

Technology is helping productivity. But right now it's coming at the expense of employment.

Margaret Smith

Teenagers and men are coming in to learn how to knit. And we're seeing people who haven't knitted in 30 years.

Santonio Holmes

Ted Ginn didn't get much publicity coming into this game and I think that was good for him. Teddy was terrific.

Rick Hutcheon

Tech stocks are under great selling pressure. A quarter end is coming up and fund managers are probably trimming their positions in the technology sector simply because they don't want to show big tech weights at the end of their reporting period.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Margaret Spellings

The federal government is doing something it has never done before, ... Our 9 percent investment is going to 90 percent. That's my big news.

Omar Pimentel

The federal government has the right intentions, and I do hope they get the job done. It's just a question of will, political will.

Irwin Redlener

The illusion is that help (from the federal government) will be there minutes later, which is really not the case,

Bernie Sanders

The Federal Reserve has the responsibility to protect the credit rights of consumers.

S. Walker

It's my understanding that if we don't meet those federal guidelines then we are at risk of losing the federal funds that were supplied to Indiana to implement this project.

Sarah Flanagan

Even with this change, there will be more Pell Grant recipients and the federal government will spend more money on Pell than it did this year.

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.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Aristotle

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge;

Aristotle

Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government.

Dirk Kempthorne

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Hutton Wilkinson

And when the income tax was introduced, she was the first person to sue the government over taxes.

Jason Williams

Scoring is up around the NHL, so I'm not going to think too much about it. But it's obviously it's a milestone I was hoping to reach.

Harry Masch

Neither team played well last time we played. I'm just hoping we can play better and see what happens.

Kinky Friedman

How sad for him to be hoping for a small turnout.

Ron Gardenhire

He likes to play and he'll play through anything, so when he has to sit out, you know he's hurting. That's a little scary. I'm just hoping it's not a lingering thing.

Dennis Ruedinger

He seems to be doing all right. We're hoping by (today) he'll be able to do some light workouts and get some shooting in. It looks like he'll be on pace to do that. We'll be able to go pretty solid on Wednesday and Thursday with him.

James Blake

I was just hoping to make it a match.

Ron Gardenhire

He has no strength in it, ... We were hoping that he would be a little better, and he's not.

Rep. Gunderson

I'm hoping in two weeks that we are going to have a deal.

Frank Gonzalez

I like what I do. I was hoping to be a closer. I have a short memory.

Randeep Hooda

I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Aubrey McClendon

American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?

Brenda Ueland

running is the right thing to do! I am free, healthy with a good complexion. It is that automobile addict who should be ashamed: driving in a sealed car in warmed-over carbon monoxide and smoking a seegar. I am the Goddess! He is a bug in a monkey nut!

Jane Hamilton

This was life, I supposed, running and running and running, and realizing along the way that the phantom was getting closer.

Barry Eichengreen

As for the single market, the E.U.'s landmark achievement, there is no question that a euro zone breakup would severely disrupt its operation in the short run.

Jane Smiley

The body, the mind, and the spirit don't form a pyramid, they form a circle. Each of them runs into the other two. The body isn't below the mind and the spirit; from the point of view it's between them. if you reside too much in the mind, then you get too abstract and cut off from the world. You long for the spiritual life, but you can't get to it, and you fall into despair. The exercise of the senses frees you from abstraction and opens the way to transcendence.

Arthur C. Clarke

If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run-and often in the short one-the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative.

Anton Chekhov

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

Sabrina Carpenter

Singing is about telling a story. When you are onstage, you get to be your own self... When acting, you're someone else.

Grover Cleveland

WHATEVER YOU DO, TELL THE TRUTH.

Orson Scott Card

I always tell the truth about what I’m selling, and then nobody buys it.