Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

As a Scot, representing a Scottish constituency for almost the past 25 years, I do not harbour an overweening ambition to pronounce on each and every matter exclusively English.

Henry Yennie

Of the almost 1,500, we suspect there's a 'nugget' who are truly missing ? washed out into the Gulf. Then there's a small subset that honestly don't want to be found. How do we know when we're done? How long do you keep looking? What do you do when you've done all the DNA testing you can, when you've called everyone and you still can't find the person?

James Laughlin

Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the person doesn't want to do a re-write. That's something we do almost nothing of.

Kristin Campbell

Of our dual enrollees, 25 percent have received their cards, 50 percent have some sort of information and 25 percent are just not in the system. Thank God for our software. When you get a prescription or a refill that comes up with no glitches, you almost want to jump up and down.

Stephen Vizinczey

Oh God,' he groaned. 'I'd almost forgotten! What a relief it was when I stopped worrying about being good!

John Murphy

North America posted a loss almost twice our estimate.

Gary Waters

Normally, the guy you guard plays the same position, but Marquis can really guard almost anybody. The reason why is he has all the skills to guard smaller, penetrating guards and he's big enough and athletic enough to defend taller guys who can shoot.

Michael Arad

No rendering can really simulate the way the light bounces off the bronze panel. From some angles, it's almost a mirror, and from others it's a matte surface.

Wu Yonggang

After the deal, there will be almost no more big ideal banking targets left.

Esther Dyson

We decided we needed to be something concrete rather than something nebulous you couldn't negotiate with. This is an interim board. Our job is to figure out how to create a permanent system with a permanent board.

Jack Straw

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

Karl Rove

The world is full of people who are discerning, and we need to recognize that concrete information told with honesty and specificity and integrity is important to the ultimate success in this conflict.

Lee Wooten

The construction of a concrete dam can range from hundreds of thousands of dollars to in excess of a million dollars to get the dam completely fixed up.

Scott Siegel

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't like concrete jungles.

Eric Takamura

We're going to continue the patching of the pipes where there are cracks. Where we can, we're going to put a sleeve around it. Then, we're going to pour the concrete jacket.

Bill Richardson

Our critical security systems are operational. All our Energy Department nuclear materials are secure, ... Some of the high explosives are kept in concrete bunkers surrounded by earth and we don't see any problem.

Eduardo Paes

Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete jungle, you must find open spaces. And when you find open spaces, make it so people can get to them.

Bruce Nissen

We're heading into a crisis. It's got to be a critical question for public policy.

Brenda Allen

This was a crisis for me. It was a sad time.

Bruce Katz

The response to the housing crisis has been incoherent and fiscally wasteful.

Tim Collins

There's obviously a blip here due to the crisis atmosphere, and once things settle down, things may go back to normal,

William Custer

We've been teetering toward a crisis for a long time now.

Francois Heisbourg

When a government starts losing the trust of the people in the heat of a crisis, anything can go wrong. And this is what happened in Madrid.

Adam Duritz

I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

Mahmudur Rahman

The crisis of diesel should not be seen as scanty stock.

Andrew Wigglesworth

The crisis is not over. The only thing that has happened is some moderation in the rate of increase of our premiums, but we still have issues in terms of recruitment and retention of physicians.

Dan Bartlett

I've never heard the two even discussed together.

Harry Redknapp

I've not discussed it with Milan yet. I don't know where it's at yet. But if someone's going to come in and we are going to be able to improve the playing squad, which we need to do, it's got to be good for the football club.

Sarah Williams

We met with them and discussed the purchase - if not the outright purchase of the whole property, then for parts of it.

Don Madden

Two years ago we discussed with the state about providing water to Dillon State Park.

The Archives

has not been discussed in any meeting I've been in. And I would estimate I've been in at least 100 meetings.

Neil Howard

We've already discussed it, and it's a good possibility.

Mike Gundy

We discussed it in a mature manner, and he handled it with integrity,

Gary Bettman

We discussed a variety of options and I don't want to focus on any one because it would seriously be misconstrued and be potentially inflammatory,

John Drew

We never got upset, rather we discussed it. It's not something that has happened to every golfer at some point... . I am really proud of how we played today.

Sean Rooney

We had been speaking about a 51 percent to 49 percent split, but we're open to discussing any percentage,

Ross Brawn

As to my role in the future, we are discussing that at the moment. I'm very happy at Ferrari, very pleased with the way things are and would very much like to be involved with Ferrari in the future.

Didier Deschamps

I don't think this is an important question right now. The final is my objective for the time being. I'm not discussing that.

Michael Lange

I would welcome the governor going door-to-door with me and discussing the issues of the next session.

Simon Crisford

We'll see how he is over the next week or so before discussing plans. But if he is to run in the Kentucky Derby, he will go straight there without a prep race.

Tom Sawyer

As congressman, my voting record on these matters is clear. I know how to get things done.

Stephen F. Lynch

other matters have been referred to us, and we are taking a look at those matters.

Shyam Saran

These matters should be resolved through discussions and not through confrontation.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

LaVerne Knox

I don't mind being in the shadow right now. What matters is where you are after that game.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Jeff Gundy

What matters is that we fouled too much, we turned it over too much, and I think we probably shot in the 20's. We didn't play well enough on offense to win. We have professional players out there, so we have no excuses.

John Agius

There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.

Bryan Whitman

He was relieved for matters of personal conduct.

Colin Powell

It was the Congress that imposed 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' it was certainly my position, my recommendation to get us out of an even worse outcome that could have occurred.

Billy Donovan

I don't know if we would have played them again, if the outcome would have been any different. They were just a better team than us.

Curt Miller

I think that's what you're going to see down the stretch, that each and every possession is important to the outcome of the game.

Cathy Allinger

If she didn't have that sort of access, the outcomes could have been different as she went through the Games.

John Anderson

Look there are going to be, there are already adjustment processes in place but the point is that you'll actually make them work and get satisfactory outcomes if there's decent burden sharing along the way. If there's, if you like a proper transitional assistance.

Rob Blake

Not good. It's not the outcome any of us wanted by any means.

Katsuya Okada

In elections, you can't tell the outcome until you open the ballot boxes.

Maria Brous

At this point we're monitoring to see what the outcome will be, and we'll take it from there.

John Devine

As we stand today, we don't know what the outcome is for Delphi, that's their call,

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

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

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.

Billy Bragg

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Aleksandar Hemon

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

Al Franken

There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Donald Wuerl

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Steve Coogan

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

Tom Jones

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

Toni Morrison

Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

Tim Duncan

I'm not serious most of the time.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Alice Cooper

Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.

Donald Trump

We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but HillaryClinton did vote for it. We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but once we were in Iraq, we should have never left the way.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Steve Israel

I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Seth Rogen

I work under the assumption that, generally speaking, my taste and the taste of the Oscar voters are not one in the same.