Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Street

I've been an elected official now for 24 years, and I value my integrity very highly, ... And this speculation about whether or not I'm a target of any federal investigation has caused some concern.

Thomas Moore

Right now, we really don't even know what happened as to the cause of the accident.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

I am a member of the Peace Society because I was a soldier: because I have fought and seen what war is like from personal experience. It was on the battlefield that I pledged myself to the cause of peace.

Brigham Young

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

Pat Lewis

Even though we didn't pull it off, it was a thrill to be involved with so many great athletes. This game is for a great cause and I think we put on a great show.

Carrie Catt

When a just cause reaches its flood tide - whatever stands in the way must fall before its overwhelming power

Chris Paul

We missed (21) straight shots. You can't win games if you go through stretches like that. I don't know what the cause of it was. We had a lot of open shots but they just wouldn't go in. I guess that is how it is sometimes in the NBA. We just couldn't hit a thing. We were even going to the free-throw line and missed shots from there.

Rich Cavanaugh

We have to eliminate those mistakes that cause you to lose, turnovers, big plays and mental lapses.

Kammie Michael

We had sufficient evidence for probable cause to obtain search warrants in this case. And we are continuing to investigate it as a sexual assault.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

William Stafford

So, the world happens twice --once what we see it as;second it legends itselfdeep, the way it is.

Frank Beamer

These are all unusual things that can happen in a ballgame,

Freddie Shepherd

That's going to happen sooner rather than later.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

Tracy McCormick

We had called for a widespread 1 to 2 inches of rain this weekend. This week, we're watching what happens to the remnants of Hurricane Wilma." ()

Martin Brodeur

Everything was chaotic. A lot of things were up in the air. There were a lot of rumors here and there. It kind of took two or three weeks to settle our heads, and when the New Year turned, that's when this team turned around and made it happen to make the playoffs.

Mark Brunell

We were fortunate. That was huge. It doesn't always happen that way.

Ralph Johnson

You can not push the river, it's all about God's timetable. Things happen when they're supposed to happen.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Andy Reid

You could pick out anything and we probably didn't do it well.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Elliott Avent

That guy, if he's not the first pick in the country, I'd be awfully surprised.

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.

Charles Darwin

The season of love is that of battle. The roots of these fights run deep.

Jared Bernstein

The bottom line is that it's better to run a workforce on security than insecurity.

Janine Benyus

After decades of faithful study, ecologists have begun to fathom hidden likenesses among many interwoven systems. ...a canon of nature's laws, strategies, and principles... Nature runs on sunlight. Nature uses only the energy it needs. Nature fits form to function. Nature recycles everything. Nature rewards cooperation. Nature banks on diversity. Nature demands local expertise. Nature curbs excesses from within. Nature taps the power of limits.