Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jennings

As a staff, we are extremely pleased with the talent and ability of this year's class. There is great potential in the group and we expect them to push the level of the squad immediately.

Jason Richardson

As long as I was on the floor, I was going to play like I was healthy. If you think you're hurt, you'll play hurt. I didn't have the same jumping ability so I had to smarten up on how to get my shots to fall. I think the ankle will be a little sore tomorrow.

Arthur Andersen

raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern.

Sharon Stone

prides herself not only on her acting ability and other talents, but also on her natural physical appearance.

Brent Edison

Property taxes have become an 800-pound gorilla on the back of North Dakota property owners and renters. Property taxes have become so out of balance that they threaten the ability of seniors to stay in their homes, and threaten the dream of home ownership for our young people and working families.

Dale Adams

Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably

Scott Sprinzen

Product design issues are also an important concern here, as the companies have shown little ability to foresee market trends, such as the demand for crossover utility vehicles and gasoline-electric hybrids,

Gail Fosler

Probably the most critical impact of higher energy prices is their ability to weaken consumer spending.

Cameron Bennerman

Personally, I don't like shooting a lot of 3s. I want to get some drives to the basket and do some other things. You can sit out there and shoot 3s all game, easy. It's hard for me to buy into that. I want to mix it up some because I have the ability to. At the same time, we have guys who can really knock down the 3s. It made you not want to shoot any more 3s in the first half because we weren't making them, but open shots, you've got to have that confidence you can knock them down.

George Cofer

SOS has such a good reputation in the community, and for the most part well-deserved, that I and apparently others that helped found the organization felt compelled to point out the problems with the proposed amendment and try to educate the community that just saying no isn't the answer to water quality.

Chris Hansen

It would be a tragedy for the First Amendment and for this country if valuable speech about sex were unavailable to adults and minors throughout this country and that would be the effect if this law goes into effect.

Jeremy Travis

It was to remedy what was a very egregious violation of people's First Amendment rights to free speech and assemble.

Andrew Davis

The Second Amendment is probably one of the least respected amendments that we have, mainly because there's not enough education about firearms. So we're hoping that this event will raise awareness for firearms and incite some very good discussions about the Second Amendment and gun rights.

John Carlisle

The state's Transportation Improvement Plan had an amendment to it. What it means is, the intersections will be funded for improvements in FY06 and will most likely go to construction in spring or summer of this year.

Tom DeLay

I understand there may be an opportunity for the Amendment on another bill, like energy, and you know we will do whatever we can to help... Thanks for all you've done.

Frank Melton

I used the First Amendment to protect sources and to protect some journalists, and I felt very strongly about that, ... It was a serious criminal investigation, and I felt compelled to protect the sources of information and the journalists reporting the information.

Brad Luna

This issue of the amendment ranks dead last on a list of priorities for voters.

Donna Lieberman

This government can't figure out the difference between legal First Amendment rights to criticize the government and terrorism. So we have cause for concern.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

Michael Bean

Any deal that might be reached could come undone in conference.

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

Julio Mora

The situation is a good deal calmer with the recovery of markets outside. But people are still nervous because a lot of money was lost. They are just praying for the market to go up.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

Jim Blake

Enforcing the sign ordinance - that's the ultimate goal.

Bob Harris

Our hands are tied as far as legislation is concerned. All we are doing is enforcing what we're supposed to enforce.

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.

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Don Heller

Federal law is supreme, and the state proposition, notwithstanding, is meaningless.

Alexander Hamilton

It will be well to advert to the proportion between the objects that will require a federal provision in respect to revenue; and those which will require a state provision. We shall discover that the former are altogether unlimited; and that the latter are circumscribed within very moderate bounds.

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve cannot solve all the economy's problems on its own.

Pam Compton

Making good use of federal databases helps state programs immensely, but local information is invaluable. These are people who know these communities, they live and work there.

Tisha Tallman

Legislation introduced in Georgia is in violation of federal law.

Dalton McGuinty

So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

Ricardo Patton

That's not something at the forefront of Roby's thinking right now.

Rob Enderle

We're right now at the forefront of another major change.

Bob Grant

The taking of a human life is the ultimate crime. Irreversible. It does not matter to the victim of a murder whether the person holding a gun is 16 or 60.

Brandon Sanderson

It's like a banana farm for guns!

Ayn Rand

Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

Benito Mussolini

On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind.

Benjamin Franklin

Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns.

Al Capone

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

Al Capone

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

Al Gore

I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons.

Jan Brewer

Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible.

Hilary Clinton

I've been subject to quite a lot of illegal leaking,

Don Blair

This is anti-Bluffton and anti-community, ... nothing illegal about it, and nothing we can do to prevent it.

Rep. Hutchins

This is not a racial issue and should not be presented as such. The principle is legal versus illegal status.

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Jason Chaffetz

Straw purchasing is illegal.

Ariel Pink

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

Patricia Cornwell

I don't do things that are illegal.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Will Adams

Right now we wink and we nod and we give many of the same services and privileges to illegal aliens.

John Vessey

You have to set your "shove-it" tolerance someplace. But you also have to recognize that you, too, may be wrong, and that in two weeks' time you'll be "old what's-his-name" and won't be able to influence the situation at all.

Andrew Stanton

I almost feel like it’s an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Curtis Hanson

Rob Lowe, who I thought was really good in the movie [ Bad Influence], had his performance overshadowed by this sort of tabloid approach to him and the movie.

Ambrose Bierce

DECIDE, v.i. To succumb to the preponderance of one set of influences over another set.

Robert Harris

Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

Tony Robbins

The person with the most certainty in a given situation will influence the other.

Thomas Harris

You cant reduce me to a set of influences.

Scott Weiland

Bowie's obviously my biggest influence.

Steven Morrissey

You are bound to pick up influences.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Asif Ali Zardari

Political disagreements have the colour and fragrance that normally is seen and felt in a political bouquet, while remaining united on one issue that democracy is the future of Pakistan.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Ban Ki-moon

Now, more than ever, we need to connect the dots between climate, poverty, energy, food and water. These issues cannot be addressed in isolation.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

J. J. Johnson

There's lawsuits threatened on everything we do. You got to vote what you think is right for the kids. If somebody wants to sue you, let them sue.

Hunter Tylo

I had just won the lawsuit against Melrose Place.

Jose Morales

The Mexicans are going to keep coming, wall or no wall, new laws or old laws.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Carolyn McCarthy

We are not looking at any laws that are going to confiscate guns,

Addison Mizner

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

Mark McCormack

We thought the lawsuit was pretty frivolous." ()

Phil Ramon

As for penalties, it hasn't even been discussed. Our position is we want them to return to work as quickly and as safely as they possibly can.

Ann Veneman

no specific position has been taken on that proposal.

Javier Solana

The substantive position (of Iran) has not changed.

Juelz Santana

After a year with him I got to a position where I didn't have to do nothing in the street no more. But you have to be willing to work hard.

Graeme Souness

Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may feel is not your best.

New Giants

So now we're in a position to have to explain, even further, every thing. It won't speed this along.

Nick Saban

It would be very unfair to put it on that position when things aren't being done well around them.

Darek Braunecker

It was the position of the club. There was no sense him being there if he wasn't going to contribute.

Francois Girbaud

is like accessory, with a different position on the body.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Benjamin Disraeli

Poverty has its duties as well as its rights.

Calvin Coolidge

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.

Calvin Coolidge

One of the greatest perils to an extensive republic is the disregard of individual rights.

Busy Philipps

It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

Alan Dershowitz

Individuals have the right to pick and choose which expressions to condemn, which to praise and which to say nothing about. Governments, however, must remain neutral as to the content of expression. And governments must protect the rights of all to express even the most despicable of views.

Alan Dershowitz

In today's distorted world of 'human rights,' truth takes a back seat to ideology, and false claims - especially those that 'support' radical ideologies - persist even after they have been exposed.

Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Jan Egeland

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population.

bell hooks

... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

Edwin Whipple

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Andrew Griffin

The second one, I thought it was going to fall.

Cam Newton

I'm an example of why people deserve second chances.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Charles R. Swindoll

First impressions never have a second chance.

Bear Bryant

Don't give up at halftime. Concentrate on winning the second half.

Milan Baros

We were down psychologically after that second goal, but there was still so much time to play,

Keith Andrews

We just kind of went out and we were going, but we weren't going full-bore. Then that second quarter, I thought was huge.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

There is so much more than second thoughts in that affidavit.

Ashton Kutcher

When you venture at life with curiosity, you can learn from anything. You learn from things that you could never maybe thought you could learn from. And when you actually step into the room with a lot of people who have an education in a classroom, that is very similar to other people's educations, you'll actually come with a unique perspective that could be a valuable perspective that creates an innovation that could change the world.

Arthur Koestler

No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as a dependent part. His self-assertive tendency is the dynamic manifestation of his unique wholeness, his autonomy and independence as a holon. Its equally universal antagonist, the integrative tendency, expresses his dependence on the larger whole to which he belongs: his 'part-ness.'.

Blaise Pascal

Evil is easily discovered; there is an infinite variety; good is almost unique. But some kinds of evil are almost as difficult to discover as that which we call good; and often particular evil of this class passes for good. It needs even a certain greatness of soul to attain to this, as to that which is good.

Dennis Haysbert

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

Deepak Chopra

When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of The Law of Dharma.

Dirk Benedict

We need to continually look within ourselves. Contemplate our inner being and find our own unique voice and then learn to heed it and we will then have the life experience we deserve.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.

Claire Danes

I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.