Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Paul McHale

DoD felt a sense of urgency and acted upon it.

Jane Harman

Twelve sick, sadistic kids could not have acted alone,

Bill Thompson

The resolution on Jesus was tabled and never acted upon,

Nehal Bhuta

What we saw today was not Saddam admitting guilt, but admitting to the fact that he acted in accordance with his official duties and powers.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

Richard Blumenthal

We are in seriously uncharted legal territory, ... But there is no precedent for a state winning when BRAC acted lawlessly.

Glen Hauenstein

We are delighted that the U.S. Department of Transportation has acted so quickly to grant Delta's request to connect the business capital of the Southeastern United States with the business capital of South Africa via our flagship international hub in Atlanta. We are grateful to our customers and civic supporters for their role in voicing support for this historic new route and we look forward to welcoming customers from around the world to and from Africa as we inaugurate service in December.

Peter Lurie

Lead wicks are unnecessary in candles, and the industry has acted recklessly by continuing to manufacture them, ... Now the agency should complete the notice and comment necessary to complete the rule making as rapidly as possible.

Lewis Incze

Portland is a logical choice. Maine is a marine state and Portland is a port city. This effort can highlight the advantages of the city and the development of marine resources can benefit the entire state.

Tim O'Reilly

One of O'Reilly's advantages is that we have a network of thousands of user groups to whom we give free books, to whom we advertise our products, and they spread the word. If you don't have that database, it's hard to get the attention of the market.

John Knight

We have to go for whatever advantages we can, whatever weaknesses we can spot.

Michael Boyd

United comes out of Chapter 11 with no significant advantages over its major competitors.

Benjamin Franklin

Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.

Benjamin Franklin

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Lalla Ward

One of the advantages of appearing in such a play is that you begin to understand it properly, I feel Ophelia's tragedy was that she had been so used by everybody and felt that she bore a great burden of guilt.

Luke Evans

I think starting a cinema career late in life has more advantages than disadvantages.

Brad Katsuyama

We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.

Alan Nevin

During the '70s, a long list of state, local and federal regulations came into being that cumulatively relegated too many Californians to a lifetime of renting.

Robert Lundgren

An old friend of his, Dan Stone, came to us with the idea. He talked to Coach Knight, and from Day 1 he was interested in the concept, and then I talked to ESPN about it.

Joan Rivers

And then my dog came and sat in my lap. I knew I had to hang in there for Spike.

Gary Sinise

'The Stand' came out in May of '94 and was seen by 60 million people a night for four nights, and then two months later, 'Forrest Gump' opened. So within a very short time, I went from being depressed about not getting any work to being in two of the most popular shows of the year.

James Grant

The secretary told me the kids came in, they were frantic, ... We have a policy; you don't come in here with your cleats on. The kids knew that. It didn't matter. I think they were concerned. Three of the varsity kids came down to the hospital and checked on him after practice.

Safa Rashtchy

The second quarter got our hopes higher for margins, which came in significantly lower than we were expecting,

Joffrey Lupul

The second one was big. The power play hadn't been clicking too good. It showed a lot from our team, because no doubt about it, we lost our composure in the third period (Wednesday). Today, we came out like nothing had happened.

Anne Donovan

The second half, we came out and cut it to 10, and felt real good about the momentum. The crowd was in it, with just two minutes off the clock and already we had done that damage.

Robert Stallard

The strongest performance in the first quarter came from government systems.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Addison Mizner

Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.

Edmund Daukoru

The oil market has remained well-supplied with crude.

Frederick Tsang

The whole market is quite weak and there's quite a lot of selling of futures and red chips.

Robin Li

The market is fast-moving, fast-growing. Things that are true today may not be true tomorrow.

Bob Dinneen

E85 is going to be a much more significant market for us down the road. But you have to get more vehicles on the road that can use E85, and you need more outlets.

Mike Viracola

The trend on the market is still down,

Kate Warne

What an ugly day. A day you didn't want to be around to watch. It was just a market that was nervous and unhappy about the news of the day.

Mark Skousen

No one spends someone elses money as carefully as he spends his own.

Brian Reynolds

GM's going out to the markets to get the money and they're going to put it back into the market, so in a sense it's a wash,

Francis Gannon

I think in this market you never know what's going to happen,

Otis Smith

You want me to tell you that moving Steve was big? I told you that when we moved him.

Adrian Beltre

Don't like them, ... I'm not comfortable with them. When you move, it moves around. I never wear one.

Anna Kendrick

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

Janet Reno

Everyone working together has made a difference, but you can't say, 'Okay, now let's move on to something else,' ... We can never relax our vigilance about crime, about enforcement, about prevention ... there's going to be some new problem down the road.

Ron Carey

This victory sends a signal that American workers are on the move again.

Jay Wright

You get past that first one and now we are in the tournament. We've moved on and I think that makes them feel better, that they can just go play basketball.

Jack Roberts

The timing has to be just right. There has to be someone ready to move in at that level.

John Sexton

The time has come to move this tournament to a new level,

Andrea Dworkin

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Aung San Suu Kyi

Religion is about increasing peace and harmony in the world. ... People of all different religions should be given the opportunity to pursue good in their own way.

Booker T. Washington

Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.

Antonin Scalia

The mere possession of monopoly power, and the concomitant charging of monopoly prices, is not only not unlawful, it is an important element of the free-market system. The opportunity to charge monopoly prices - at least for a short period - is what attracts 'business acumen' in the first place; it induces risk taking that produces innovation and economic growth.

Eileen collins

I'm honored to be the first woman to have the opportunity to command the shuttle. I don't really think about that on a day-to-day basis because I really don't need to.

Earl Nightingale

Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity.

Dionne Warwick

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

Publilius Syrus

Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

Joe Jones

We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.

Ambrose Bierce

A chop is a piece of leather skillfully attached to a bone and administered to the patients at restaurants.

Morris Chestnut

I remember when we were in rehearsals and we were going through it, because we rehearsed before we went to Toronto, and it's more of the same. She and I had to deal with a lot of stuff in this movie and we really have to take ourselves there. It actually started in rehearsals, and just revisiting that piece of it all. Just the way Monica is and what she says and the way she looks at me, it really affects me throughout rehearsals and throughout the scenes.

John Mancini

You can get pretty much any piece in any wood, in any stain.

Chris Murray

But without a need, even the finest piece of beef is merely a piece of dead bull is it not?

Richard Gere

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

Emma Snowsill

I never go into a race thinking about winning. I just think about how the race will unfold and what I have to do to piece it all together.

Heather Mills

I was hospitalized five times in 2011 because of my skiing. Fracturing my left shoulder twice, snapping my anterior cruciate ligament once and smashing my scapula into five pieces.

Clint Stretch

This is a very complicated puzzle to try to piece together.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

Don Gould

You'd be surprised how quickly you get used to having them.

David Troyer

Right now we're waiting on them and they're waiting on us.

Craig Ferguson

I can't wait to see the debate between Ryan and Joe Biden. Biden is said to be already trying out different strategies. So far the one that Obama likes is where Biden pretends to have food poisoning and they cancel the debate.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action...

Charles Bukowski

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Don DeLillo

Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there.

Colleen Haskell

The worst part was waiting around. Sometimes you are ready at 9 a.m. and you dont start until the afternoon. Occupying your time while you wait is the hardest part of the movie.

Richard Lovelace

Those glories come too late That on our ashes wait.

Ray Kroc

When times are bad is when you want to build! Why wait for things to pick up so everything will cost more?

Thomas Jefferson

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.