Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Ellis

I was almost positive it would be a one-year deal, so I was a little surprised yesterday. I'm happy.

Danielle Pletka

Katrina has changed many things but I don't think it will change Iraq policy. There is almost no elasticity in that policy.

Katie Gearlds

Just toughness. To have four games in four days with some players playing almost 40 minutes ... their will to get it done impressed me. We've got to come ready to play, that's for sure.

Horacio Ramirez

I think it's a little different because we're opening up here. It's a little more exciting because it's the opening series. But last year was almost as exciting, because it was the first time I pitched in L.A. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow.

Mike Browning

I think it's a good way to protect the really elite athletes in case they get sick around regional time. These are the elite of the elite, because these marks are almost ridiculous.

Zoe Lofgren

I think it's a blessing that we've managed to keep the heavy hand of regulation off the Internet, ... When the government moves in to regulate the Internet, we'll almost always get it wrong.

Dexter Filkins

I think - I think the real nightmare place now is less Afghanistan than it is Pakistan. I mean, again, Pakistan is this gigantic country, deeply troubled, kind of almost ungovernable, sitting on top of probably 50 or 60 nuclear warheads. Nobody really knows where the warheads are; the Americans certainly don't know where they are.

Mike Cooke

I think it is almost inevitable that it will happen. It's not going to go away.

Jolene Ortego

I think it almost provides comfort for parents to know they have that instant way of communicating with their kids.

Christopher Brooks

I was in the process of tying it to my fishing rod, when I turn around and this Coast Guard boat was right behind me, ... It was the one thing I was hoping for and I guess it was like, 'Oh, well, here they are.'

Mona Sutphen

I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Elliott Sadler

Kevin's done a great job, ... He's been the man behind the scenes for the last two years. Everybody's been behind him the last two weeks and things are going really well.

Alison Parker

Kids who commit serious crimes shouldn't go scot-free. But if they are too young to vote or buy cigarettes, they are too young to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

Ron Prince

I wouldn't read too much into who's doing what with what group. We're trying to get all the quarterbacks the opportunity to play with different combinations. It's only what's fair to them when you're going to be behind a group that hasn't been blocking together but for two weeks.

Robert Gamez

I would've made a double bogey but I double-chipped, ... The wind caught me on my downswing on the first shot and I went long. The guys behind me hit good shots and came up short. The wind switched that quickly.

John Jones

I would say that we won when we had to win and did what it took to win (in the first half of district). I wouldn't say our wins were pretty, but we have to put that behind us.

Rohan Verplank

Katie skied great and was only 0.6 and 0.3 seconds behind the winner.

Karin Robertson

Just like dogs and cats, fish feel pain, so if you wouldn't hook dogs through the mouth and drag them behind your car, you shouldn't hook fish through the mouth and drag them behind your boat.

John Ashcroft

I would say that Mr. Thompson and Mr. Olson are very outstanding individuals, whose records of public service, including service with this Department of Justice, are exemplary records. But those are not my announcements to make, ... Those are presidential appointments and they will require, in each case, the confirmation by the United States Senate.

Stephen Miller

Just smoke everywhere and everyone busy. The fire department running around.

Tom Walters

I think it's a great fit. (Kirk's) been really good with Department 56 and Byers' Choice.

James McDonough

I think it really puts the department on very solid footing to do its missions and do it in a streamlined and effective manner. This is a very healthy and very positive realignment.

Jerry Moran

I always assumed the Department of Agriculture was the farmer and rancher's friend.

Larry Ellison

What is Oracle? It's people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.

Jenny Manley

He sees a discussion about moving FEMA from under the jurisdiction of the Department of Homeland Security as an excellent starting point in efforts to make the federal government more responsive in emergencies.

Joel Klatt

I think it's important to most of us because of exactly what it provides to the whole program. Obviously, the whole department gets a little national respect. Hopefully, we go down there and put together a solid effort and get recognized on a national stage where we feel we belong.

George Little

I think about the tremendous responsibility that I have in providing leadership to the team in the department of corrections, ... I just hope that I can be worthy of all the kindness and all the support.

Mike Dowd

I want it to be at the forefront of my life for the rest of my life. This whole process has been one horrible thing and 100 great things. It's tragedy and triumph. Every day, people treat my wife the way God wanted us to all treat each other. How many of us get that opportunity?

Christopher Shays

This is a bittersweet day for me, ... I would have liked my Republican Party to be in the forefront of this issue.

Kari Appler

It's a good time of year. Legislation is at the forefront of people's minds.

Bruce Dressel

We've always been at the forefront of trying to deploy this kind of stuff.

Rob Enderle

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

Ricardo Patton

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

Terry Jicinsky

This speaks very well of Las Vegas. It shows Las Vegas remains in the forefront of people's minds.

Alan Greenspan

The United States has been in the forefront of the postwar opening up of international markets, much to our, and the rest of the world's, benefit, ... It would be a great tragedy were that process reversed.

Paula Scalingi

The Puget Sound region is at the forefront of the nation when it comes to looking at the needs.

Anthony Curtis

I think it makes sense. The only thing left that's new might just be old. If you've already got an old place, you wouldn't want to tear it down and start from scratch if you didn't have to.

D. H. Lawrence

He liked to watch his fellow-clerks at work. The man was the work and the work was the man, one thing, for the time being. It was different with the girls. The real woman never seemed to be there at the task, but as if left out, waiting.

Mike Dunne

He left voluntarily. He said it was time to move on.

David Broder

He left his editor, our editor, blindsided for two years and he went out and talked disparagingly about the significance of the investigation without disclosing his role in it.

Mark Lamoreaux

There is more left in the car. That's the encouraging part. I've had a perfect car. This one isn't there yet, but it's pretty good.

Ani Difranco

we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine

John Sacchi

There aren't any soft spots left in our schedule. We need to realize that every upcoming match is going to be a brawl and we better be ready fight.

Fran McDevitt

We made mental mistakes. We didn't pick up loose pucks and we left men uncovered.

Bill Forsyth

I actually emptied a theatre. It was a 40-minute film, and about 400 people left during the screening.

Edwin Whipple

Knowledge, like religion, must be ''experienced'' in order to be known.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Bobby Hernandez

He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Plaxico Burress

We've got to get things in order off the field, too.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Umberto Eco

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.

Trudi Canavan

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

Rick Riordan

We are servants of Ma’at—order and justice. We don’t kill our enemies for things they might do in the future.

Christopher Paolini

I like to think that he possesses my better traits, ... But he is very much his own person.

Richard P. Feynman

If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives.

Richard P. Feynman

I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong. If we will only allow that, as we progress, we remain unsure, we will leave opportunities for alternatives. We will not become enthusiastic for the fact, the knowledge, the absolute truth of the day, but remain always uncertain … In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar.

Richard P. Feynman

Unless a thing can be defined by measurement, it has no place in a theory. And since an accurate value of the momentum of a localized particle cannot be defined by measurement it therefore has no place in the theory.

Richard P. Feynman

Progress in science comes when experiments contradict theory.

Richard P. Feynman

The game I play is a very interesting one. It's imagination in a straightjacket, which is this: that it has to agree with the known laws of physics. ... It requires imagination to think of what's possible, and then it requires an analysis back, checking to see whether it fits, whether its allowed, according to what's known, okay?

Richard P. Feynman

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts.

Richard P. Feynman

It is odd, but on the infrequent occasions when I have been called upon in a formal place to play the bongo drums, the introducer never seems to find it necessary to mention that I also do theoretical physics.

Richard P. Feynman

We are trying to prove ourselves wrong as quickly as possible, because only in that way can we find progress.

Richard P. Feynman

Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and from show.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Oriana Fallaci

You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Vladimir Putin

The Soviet Union, and Russia as the successor state to the Soviet Union, is a founding member state of the United Nations and a permanent member of its Security Council.

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.