Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bethenny Frankel

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

Peter Angelos

That was the original intent and understanding. Jim came on three years ago with the understanding of working with Flanagan for a period of time that would result in Mike assuming the position of general manager of the ballclub.

Paul A. Volcker

You could not buy a house in those days without just assuming that the house was not only a place to live, but it was a good investment, because it was going to keep up with inflation or get ahead of inflation, and it was just - that was America.

Marvin Demoff

We've had discussions with Gus, but not much has been resolved. With Junior, there have been no discussions. We're assuming that each party believes they are better off separating from the other.

Bill O'Grady

Will they continue to push the world community? We just don't know. Until we know, it's just really hard to tell what they'll do, assuming tensions remain high.

Samuel Alito

Judicial review after a final decision is the general rule. You're assuming bad faith on the part of those making these decisions.

Firas Askari

I'm still looking for places to sell the dollar. We're assuming that the Fed is nearing the end of its tightening cycle. That's a reason to sell dollars.

Alan Skrainka

I think people placed bets today based on (the data). By buying stocks today, you are assuming we won't get bad news tomorrow.

Bruce Buchanan

It does supplant the memories (of Katrina), assuming he does well. But it might be a little hyperbolic to call it a second chance.

Bruce Allen

We feel he'll be a great fit for our team. He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.

Bruce Allen

We feel he'll be a great fit for our team, ... He'll come in and be our No. 3 quarterback. It gives us some great insurance and a feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter.

Bruce Allen

He gives us some great insurance and feeling that we can sleep at night that we have a bona fide NFL starter,

Lisa Kiser

I can't fix it for them. I know my son had a bona fide true accident, but on the other hand, I know that somebody lost a life.

James Foley

We are confident that the Bahamians will carefully consider any claims for protection consistent with international standards and ensure that no bona fide refugee is returned to Cuba.

Mario Andretti

It seemed like whenever I got a bona fide offer from Ferrari, I couldn't do it. And vice versa - when I was ready, their seats were taken. We always had a relationship, but what's important is that I pretty much started my F1 career with them and ended it there, too.

Mark Gottfried

Our team just needs to be careful of that whole concept of whether we're a bona fide NCAA tournament team or not. We've got to play better.

Sure Kamhunga

Our lawyers are going through the documents to confirm whether it's a bona fide and valid offer.

Manny Acta

We lost our bona fide closer and our No. 1 guy.

Timothy Noah

Republican presidents talk about freedom. Democratic presidents talk about equality.

Clay Shirky

The web's democratic in one way and distinctly undemocratic in another way. And I think a lot of the confusion about the political ramifications have to do with that one word having so many meanings. So, it's democratic in that it quite literally delivers power to the people; it, it essentially opens up participation in the public's mind.

Samantha Power

Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.

Mimi Kennedy

Don Siegelman should be a star in the Democratic Party. Instead, he's a former elected official sentenced to prison by a right-wing judge in Alabama.

Chris Seeger

Metro should study the democratic process before they study a way to get around it.

Dick Gephardt

We in the Democratic Party feel strongly that the people in the middle, the people stuck on the bottom, are the people we need to be giving the majority of this tax cut.

Kevin Hassett

Pork is the inevitable feature of the democratic process.

Jason Willett

On the Democratic side, we've had somebody looking at it for a long time. From the party's perspective, when you've not had the governor's office in 10 years you're ready for a race like this for quite some time.

Fernando Ferrer

forward to campaigning with him, and a united Democratic party ... to take on Mike Bloomberg as we head into November.

Ted Forrest

We have to take a look at the tape. We have to go back and examine things. Maybe there was something that we were doing. We were tipping our technique or something.

Marcia Gay Harden

I examine other people's characteristics, so when I'm playing characters, I don't always have to make them me; I can transform into others.

Mark Land

We're obviously pleased to be finished with it. It's made us better. We examined all of our processes and controls, and I really think we have strengthened our financial reporting and controls.

Ken Holland

He has some damage. He's going to be examined Friday and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

Ken Holland

He has some ACL and MCL damage, ... He's going to be examined Friday, and we'll know more about his status after we get some more opinions.

Jerry Green

We have to get used to being examined and poked and touched.

Ned Vizzini

A novel wouldn't be a book if there weren't some flights of fancy on the part of the author, stopping time to examine things, or to tell a joke.

John B. Larson

With these kinds of proposals, the devil is in the details. We're going to examine this realignment closely. We will fight any measure that compromises our needs - now or in the future.

Koren Zailckas

I don't know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, it's always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Susan Morris

We had one on loan from the Maryland Historical Society, but they needed it back.

Minna Antrim

That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ismail Haniya

We are optimistic that our people will go to vote in this historical event.

Alison Weir

I feel very strongly that where the facts exist, a historical novelist should use them if they're writing about a person who really lived, because a lot of people come to history through historical novels. I did. And a lot of people want their history that way.

Bruno Heller

I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Actually, I think that 'Seinfeld' tackles the same kinds of issues as 'Six Feet Under,' just in a different way.

Barack Obama

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

Nancy Keenan

The American people need to know where this man stands on the issue of privacy.

Dennis Hastert

The American people are really kind of tired of this finger-pointing issue and politics all the time, ... I think it would behoove all of us to work together to try to find the answers.

John Snow

That will tee up the next major issue for the president ? broad-based tax reform,

Alex Pareene

'Political junkies' and liberals will watch MSNBC, and angry, old right-wingers will watch Fox.

Ben Shapiro

Liberals in Hollywood can't stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.

Jonathan Haidt

The big breakthrough for me was, once I stopped disliking conservatives and could actually see what they were right about, they showed me a lot of things that liberals were wrong about. But at the same time, I think there are some things that liberals are right about that conservatives have trouble seeing.

Clint Eastwood

Liberals are not always so liberal with people who disapprove - disapprove of their point of view.

William K. Sessions

Looking back on my life, I wish I'd stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger - because when you do, you find out you can do it.

Marshall Wittman

The overall problem the Republican Party has is it is increasingly looking like Tammany Hall, ... An odor of sleaziness is enveloping the Republicans and seeping into the administration.

Maurice Greene

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Pedro Almodovar

My first memory is of the eyes of my brother; he was looking at me all the time.

Steve Violetta

You are always looking for something that has the wow factor.

Diane Davey

We've had everything from 80-degree weather to snow on the ground. We're looking for two nice sunny days.

Sgt. Phillips

We're really wide open in terms of looking at some things.

Molly Smith

We're really looking at our target as urban nomads.

Julie Bell

We're really looking at decision-making and problem-solving at the same time.

Victoria Strauss

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

Herman Edwards

That was something that might not have been as special to him as it was to all of us, he's not that kind of guy. He's about the team, that's what makes him so unique.

Brad Johnson

Most communities will not have any trouble by 2008, but 2013 might be a little tougher.

Thomas Reid

might not be an appropriate place for him to stay.

Chuck Smith

Might be guilty' isn't enough. 'Possibly guilty' isn't enough. 'Probably guilty' isn't enough.

Eliot Spitzer

Who might or might not be my opponent on the other side of the aisle, I'll just wait and see how it plays out,

Eliot Spitzer

who might not understand the ways of Wall Street.

Kweisi Mfume

who might not like what we have to say.

Chris Morrison

Who knows? You don't know who you might draw.

C. S. Lewis

If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?

Stephane Hessel

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

Bruce Good

Our suspicion at this time is that the motive was theft.

Vauvenargues Marquis

Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives

Carlo Piana

Since they have done that we have even more of a motive to be public.

Walter Wilson

Motive is something we're not getting into at this point and time.

Bharati Mukherjee

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

Tom Connor

This was about money, the oldest motive in the world.

Margaret Thatcher

As a motive for terror, religion has more often than not required a good deal of lubrication by lucre.

Bethenny Frankel

Being with my family is my highest priority.

Tom Coburn

It doesn't have much to do with Alaska, ... It has to do with priorities for our country.

Augustin Matata Ponyo

I have been busy working in order to make agriculture a priority sector not on a small scale, but into an agro-based industry.

Steve Squyres

For Spirit, the priority has been to reach a safe winter haven.

David Allen

You don't manage priorities, you have them.

David Suzuki

Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die.

David Suzuki

If we continue to set human borders and the economy as our highest priorities, we will never come to grips with the destructiveness of our activities and institutions.

David Suzuki

You would have thought that our first priority would be to ask what the ecologists are finding out, because we have to live within the conditions and principles they define. Instead, we've elevated the economy above ecology.

Alan Lakein

In all planning you make a list and you set priorities.

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

Patricia Marx

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Derek Dennis

We hadn't been down like that in a long time. It was up to us to go out and prove why we've been on top of the state rankings all season.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Paul Doerrfeld

We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Hines Ward

We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.

Isaac Brock

As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Kenenisa Bekele

The 3,000 meters record has stood for a long time.

Bob McAnally

That was the most ever, a record number.

Scott Ritter

I'll put my record of service up against anyone, bar none.

Patricia Millett

I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of reviewing briefs, record materials, cases, etc.

Madonna Ciccone

Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.

Johnny Marr

You can grow up without having to conform, stop going to shows, stop having a record collection, start being politically iffy.

Joshua Bell

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

Bill Bryson

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Ashton Kutcher

I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.

Kati Wilhelm

That was the worst 15 km ever in my life.

Kati Wilhelm

That was the worst 15 kilometers ever in my life.

Becca Fitzpatrick

She already has a car.” “A Ford. That’s like Toyota’s worst enemy.

William Hazlitt

His worst is better than any other person's best.

James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

Eddie Locascio

I didn't want to think the worst had happened, but ....

John Kelsch

I am devastated. This is our worst nightmare.