Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steny Hoyer

Today, the U.S. Congress declares America's independence from hanging chads, butterfly ballots and a broken outdated election system that nearly provoked a constitutional crisis two years ago.

John Ravitz

We have to keep counting the absentee ballots, because under the law those ballots that we receive a week after the election we have to count as well. So if it is close, we are not going to rush to judgment. We are going to do the responsible thing and make sure we give all of the candidates and the voters of the city of New York real numbers, not numbers that are unofficial.

Ken Fields

Voters should know we are working with officials to provide ballots and equipment that will work well on Election Day.

Craig Waters

While the court does not in any sense condone the irregularities noted by the trail court in the way the applications for absentee ballots were handled. However, these irregularities do not require the voiding of all absentee ballots.

Max Linn

The problem is Florida voters keep saying eight years, but the legislature is hearing 12 and 24 years. They're just not hearing the voters who cast their ballots by a solid 77% margin in favor of eight-year term limits, so we decided to help their hearing.

Delores Killette

We realize that a percentage of Louisiana voters will vote by absentee ballots. We are committed to the residents of New Orleans, wherever they are living now. It is important that displaced residents understand that we will to do our part to make sure that absentee ballots are delivered and counted.

Delores Killette

We realize that a large percentage of Louisiana voters are exercising their constitutional right to vote via absentee ballots. Those ballots are being sent through the mail, and the United States Postal Service stands ready to deliver these ballots to elections officials.

Abraham Lincoln

To give the victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary

Pat Riley

When you're casting your ballots for Defensive Player of the Year or All-Defensive Team, there's no doubt. I think people forget about what he's done. He's second in the league in blocks and he only plays 16 or 18 minutes per game. He's really a factor for us. I thought he was the difference tonight.

Thich Nhat Hanh

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

I don't stay out that late. I never really stay out that late. I used to, and after a while you begin to realize that a little sleep works wonders, you know?

William Kirby

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.

Vitruvius

When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

Ezra Taft Benson

Students at universities are sometimes so filled with the doctrines of the world they begin to question the doctrines of the gospel.

Ezra Taft Benson

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

Ellen Key

The simplest formula for the new conception of morality, which is beginning to be opposed to the moral dogma still esteemed by all society, but especially by the women, might be summed up in these words: Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Robert Hayes

The overwhelming bewilderment begins with the scores of competing plans that are being offered,

Joe Siecinski

We have a good group of returning juniors and they are all doing a good job. I'm counting on all the juniors.

Robert Grosseteste

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands.

Jean Anouilh

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy /common clay, if you like /eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others /the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Jean Anouilh

Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.

Omar Jacobs

I was used to counting to one Mississippi and then going, but they made us wait on three sets, so I jumped on two. I'm happy I did well throwing, but I didn't get the time I wanted in the run. But the throwing was the most important.

Brad Faxon

I was hopeful to be here. I was counting on my fingers what four months was, and my doctor told me that would be really pushing it.

Ken Macdonald

We're counting on the Peninsula being a big presence. Hopefully people will realize how easy it is to drive to Portsmouth.

Clair Altemus

We're counting on Jake a lot, but there are a whole lot of other factors and a lot of kids we need to step up. I know there are more than a few kids we have who have been waiting around for an opportunity, and this year will provide that opportunity. How they respond will be very key in how this season turns out.

Richard Shelton

We're counting on it. It's a whole different level of artists.

Kurt Barnard

The numbers today are nothing other than big generators of yawns.

Alva Noto

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Todd Engle

Everything from roofs to hurricane panels and hurricane shutters and windows to generators and screen enclosures and on and on.

Gregg Fishman

It was an isolated event. That's not to say it can't happen again. Big power generators and big transmission lines do trip off occasionally.

Marcus Samuelsson

When you're in Portuguese-African Brazil, or Lisbon, or Mozambique, sometimes piri piri is used as a condiment. Sometimes piri piri is just spices from a jar, and sometimes it's made with garlic, olive oil, cilantro, parsley, and some light chilies.

Don MacAdam

We'll pay a reasonable price, but we're not paying $2,000. It's not like we smashed light fixtures.

Sathya Baba

You are in the Light, then the Light is in you, You are the Light.

Mark Spitzer

We wanted to make them as light and as comfortable as eyewear.

William Shakespeare

I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.

Maurice Maeterlinck

I am moved by the light.

Platon

I'm a portrait photographer that's used to shooting celebrities, and I usually need time and all kinds of lights and a studio to set up my shots.

Mark Foster

I think I've got to be more upbeat and lighter on the course.

Colleen Jones

Maybe I'll take a little consolation in realizing that ? even if I'd played lights out too, she was just going to one-up me all the time.

Roger Short

Typically, we provide at least one, two or three (candidates) that are very strong.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Tom Zilla

I thought it provided a lot of justification for making the improvements.

Dawn Medley

We provide them with different options. It's not just a cookie-cutter decision.

Jon Davis

We provide everything students need: knowledge, equipment; we've got it all.

Thomas Kelly

We provided about a quarter of the community's blood.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

C. S. Lewis

Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

C. S. Lewis

Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

Bette Davis

In this rat-race everybody's guilty till proved innocent!

Bill Bowerman

If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you're a winner.

Bertrand Russell

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

Bertrand Russell

European travellers find the Japanese a smiling race.

Bertrand Russell

How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.

Bertrand Russell

Belief in a Divine mission is one of the many forms of certainty that have afflicted the human race.

Jimmy Austin

We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.

Indiana Evans

You have to remember I've been working with adults since I was 12 - they were my peers, and it has an effect, for sure.

William McNamara

I knew I would be an actor since I was seven or eight.

Bikram Choudhury

Most researchers sit at a table and read books. My research, since three years old, has been to use my own body.

Alice Walker

Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities.

Alice Walker

I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it.

Nicolaus Copernicus

The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction.

Reid Scott

I've been a diehard fan of 'The Simpsons' since I was a kid.

Robert Zoellick

Since I came to the World Bank in 2007, I have argued that we must 'modernize multilateralism.'

Pat Nixon

I have made my own decisions ever since my father died.

Samuel Dalembert

That would have been a tough decision. If the staff didn't change, it would have been something to think about.

Joe Nathan

We've got our staff back. We've got a better lineup. We're going to be a lot better.

Dusty Baker

We have a support staff here I think that can make a difference.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.