Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Rick Carlisle

Our decision making and turnovers were our undoing in the fourth quarter. We were forcing them to take tough shots, and then we just made terrible errors down the stretch.

Rosevelt Colvin

People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do.

James Cobb

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

Frank Robinson

On Tuesday, I'll make a decision on that,

Larry Coker

Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Ty Cobb

Once Walton went down this road ... where he was persuaded Libby was entitled to some of the information, this issue (of national security) was going to haunt this trial.

McG

The one thing I'm proud of as a filmmaker is that people are entitled not to like my films - that's the privilege of the public - but I think I have my own imprint.

Jim Volk

After being up 260 points over past two days, the market is entitled to a pullback.

Len Yaffe

Warner-Lambert is trying to maximize the price paid for the company. They think that they are entitled to a higher price, and this facilitates that.

Rod Higgins

You have to go down that road of seeing how he fits. I'm sure he has to do that from his side too. ... I'm sure we'll sit down and talk. As a professional, the way he is, he's entitled to that.

Drake Bell

There's just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.

Bobby Allison

Richard was the King and did a tremendous job with fans and for NASCAR, so he was entitled to the 'King' title,

Rick Wakeman

I didn't enjoy 'Topographic Oceans' at all. It was a double album, and the truth is it was padded out, and I didn't like that. But I was a fan of Yes - still am - and as such, I'm entitled to say what I think.

Rogers Johns

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Reg Alcock

The reality is, every single expense that was incurred was within the policy of the Mint, was vetted by their senior financial officer and was approved.

Bill Gates

We don't think there'll be a huge swing to one model at the expense of the other.

Marsha Blackburn

FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.

David Hansen

We will not have an open wallet for this. We will have to keep food and lodging expenses to a minimum.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Voltaire, as full of life as summer is full of blossoms, giving his ideas upon all subjects at the expense of prince and king, was exiled to England.

Tina Tessina

He's right. If the wedding has become more important than your relationship, that's a warning sign. Yes, you want a lovely wedding, but not at the expense of your relationship. After all, what's the point? Keep your future in mind.

Eugene Levy

look at a truth in a situation, keep it real - don't try to get a laugh at the expense of your story.

Tom Bergeron

We can't forget that the contestants are the representatives of the viewers at home, ... and if we make it too much of a yuk-fest at the expense of the contestants, that turns off the viewer.

Bill Thompson

We do want a viable junior high and high school in Lafayette, but not at the expense of our Opelousas campus.

Bruce Allen

The situation is he's a free agent. He has had interest, he said, from other teams.....Warren is testing the market.

Matt Sundeen

The three most restrictive states are Connecticut, New Jersey and New York which prohibit the use of hand-help phones while driving. So in those states, you can use a hands free device, but you just can't use the hand held phone.

Mark Few

The theme seems to be going toward thug ball. We should be shooting 60 free throws per game.

Adlai E. Stevenson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai Stevenson

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular

Carl Mattei

After a game like that, to think we were one rebound away and we couldn't get it. I told the kids it comes down to free throws and rebounding.

Mahmud Abbas

after nearly 40 years of occupation, still do not live as free people in their own land.

Atharva Veda

Stress upon the importance of virtuous living free from any kind of sinful tendencies.

Kevin Adams

Once you get into it, it's really interesting and you can see how much you free up officers.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Mo Ibrahim

Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored.

S. Walker

You have to go in and find out what their interests are, and take it from there.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Bob Kluba

As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.

Benjamin Disraeli

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Baltasar Gracian

The more merit, the less affection.

Alexander Pope

The good must merit God's peculiar care; But who but God can tell us who they are?

Ward Churchill

There's always merit to having a debate.

Mr Howard

If there's some outcome, some merit in those sorts of things (I would support the summit),

Epictetus

You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

Source Unknown

Acknowledgment -- If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Petrarch

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

Linda Jackson

The big questions have to do with moral development because there is not much research,

Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

David Vincent

A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Jacques Chirac

A new resolution is neither useful nor necessary,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

Dr. Chauvet

I don't tolerate insensitivity and neither do they.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Bhagavad Gita

There is neither Self-knowledge nor Self-perception to those whose senses are not under control. Without Self-perception there is no peace; and without peace there can be no happiness.

Todd Devereaux

North is very strong. We played with them for about 25 minutes.

Michael Griffith

North Dakota's is sort of a different pace.

Jay Grymes

Normal rainfall is not what we need. We need a wet spell.

Tahar Rahim

The mud is cold when you're in the north of Scotland!

Abdul Aziz

Now I can sell latex at normal prices.

Larry Rice

Technology is where there's momentum, ... That's been the norm and it's getting worse. People are going to go where they can make money.

Abraham Lincoln

The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

Nelson Oduber

This is a preposterous and irresponsible act, ... We are not terrorists. We don't pose a threat to the United States, nor to Alabama.

Jeff Wangsness

You're going to see some real challenging-type stunts, more so than they normally would do.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Jim Gabella

Right now we're not playing very well. We're not putting anything together offensively. We can do one of two things ? we can feel sorry for ourselves or we can come back out (today) and work.

Claude Julien

We're putting ourselves in that situation. Over 82 games, once in a while, you like to find ways to make it easier.

Rick Adelman

We've put ourselves in playoff position now, we're right there. There are expectations, and this is good, but there's no time to relax.

Jean Fontaine

Lynx-eyes to our neighbors, and moles to ourselves

Jim Waggoner

We're setting ourselves up for some kind of rally.

Carl Edwards

I got a trick up my sleeve for when we really need it so we'll just get ourselves in position, and we're going to be alright, guys.

Dick Whittington

If we recycle the trees, we give ourselves a present.

Randy Foye

If we're going to make this program go, it had to start with us. We took it upon ourselves that we've got to do this.

Mir Hossain

Enough is enough. The manufacturers must show some respects to their workers by complying with safety rules.

Baha'u'llah

Nor shall the seeker reach his goal unless he sacrifice all things. That is, whatever he has seen, and heard, and understood (before), all must he set at naught, that he may enter the Realm of the Spirit, which is the City of God.

Ayn Rand

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's moral duty is to live for others. That man must sacrifice himself to others. Which is the present day morality.

Ayn Rand

The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing.

Ayn Rand

In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

Ayn Rand

Collectivism requires self-sacrifice, the subordination of one's interests to those of others.

Ayn Rand

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others is the sole justification of his existence, and that self-sacrifice is his highest moral duty, value and virtue. This is the moral base of collectivism, of all dictatorships.

Ayn Rand

The social system based on and consonant with the altruist morality-with the code of self-sacrifice- is socialism, in all or any of its variants: fascism, Nazism, communism. All of them treat man as a sacrificial animal to be immolated for the benefit of the group, the tribe, the society, the state.

Ayn Rand

Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.

Ayn Rand

The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters. And intends to be the master.

Arthur Balfour

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Albert Einstein

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

Thomas Jefferson

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Richard Mitchell

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

Kin Hubbard

Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows

Michel de Montaigne

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

George Bernard Shaw

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

Roger Smith

By the turn of this century, we will live in a paperless society.