Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

Offices are as acceptable here as elsewhere, and whenever a man has cast a longing eye on them, a rottenness begins in his conduct

Harry Oliver

A person who is making ends meet is merely living in an acceptable level of poverty.

Anthony Santomero

A number of sectors will need to transition before we can be confident of an acceptable level of economic activity.

Larry Neal

The staff has been encouraged to recognize that this is a transitional period in which old routines probably should be questioned because what has been perfectly acceptable may become dramatically less so.

DeEtta Culbertson

The simplest (solution) would be (for PAISD trustees) to follow acceptable board actions and procedures.

Lee Hartmann

The temperature got way out of the acceptable range.

Rob Manfred

The tax mechanism in the last basic agreement would not be acceptable to us this time around.

Geoffrey Beene

I've analyzed most of my designs in the past ten years ... and I never realized that I use so little fabric. I think that's the part of modernity that the more you can design with the less, maybe the more acceptable or the more meaningful clothes are.

Geoff Hoon

After careful evaluation, the chiefs of staff have advised me that UK forces are able to undertake the proposed operation, that there is a compelling military operational justification for doing so and that it entails a militarily acceptable level of risk for UK forces,

Erik Christianson

The tout services Web page is several years old. The staff had planned to take it down and review it. ... The Web page has now been taken down, and the list is being analyzed as to how best to use it in the future in our anti-sports wagering efforts.

Gary Doer

We've pursued and analyzed all legal options and at some point we'll be able to share that with the public,

Fisher DeBerry

Good teams are going to find a way to win the close games. That's why they're good teams. That's why they play in bowl games and why they win championships. I think we've been competitive. We've proven that. I haven't analyzed it as to why it so happens that's how they turned out.

Jason Vines

We're prepared to share all the data that we have, ... And we'll share with them the way we analyzed it over the last few weeks and came to some overwhelming conclusions.

Steve Fairchild

I'm not putting words in his mouth, but if I hired - say - my son, I would be tougher on him than the normal guy. As I analyzed the situation, that's how I viewed it. He gave me an opportunity that was unreal. For my career, to have a chance to come here and work with him - there's a lot of guys that would want to do that.

Adam Michnik

An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

Brad Thor

Let me make this very clear: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, our digital exhaust is being sucked up by the government. It is being compiled on big server farms and it's being analyzed by different computer programs, looking for any hint that you and I are up to no good.

Ian Anderson

Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.

Raymond Gilmartin

We have analyzed the industry extensively and carefully considered various alternatives, ... focusing on internal growth and appropriate external initiatives.

Karen Clark

The shop was going from summer clothes to fall/winter, so other Junior League volunteers helped me sort and go through clothing items that would work for South Africa,

Ben E. King

I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.

Celine Buckens

Well, I love clothes.

Katia Winter

I love Nike's running shoes and clothes because they feel as light as a feather.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Pick clothes that you really love. And wear them. And don't make anything "special." If it's being held for something "special," wear it to the market. Wear it every day!

Wu Yi

The only way out is to produce value-added clothes.Garment manufacturers should explore new markets to disperse market risks.

Anton Chekhov

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

Diana Vreeland

Balenciaga did the most delicious evening clothes. Clothes aren't delicious any more.

Diana Vreeland

You can see and feel everything in clothes.

Tom Murray

We offer a lot of extra space in our home designs that can be used for a variety of purposes.

Pete Madland

A wild guess, maybe 5 or 10 percent stay open all night.

Michael Gambon

People should be shrouded in mystery. Especially actors. No, hang on, maybe actors should be blown up.

Tim Raines

Now maybe they'll talk about us more than the Cubs,

John Talbot

The scanner's about the size of a toaster, maybe just a little longer,

Ellen Borakove

The work on the roof has only just started, so maybe there will be more discoveries to come as the work progresses.

Kiki Vandeweghe

That's interesting. Maybe it was a Freudian slip.

Rick Beggs

You might recover some hardware, buttons, maybe the back of a skull.

Golshifteh Farahani

The Iran I'm dreaming of maybe doesn't exist anymore.

Dana Stabenow

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.

Carlos Delgado

This is pretty special. It's exciting, just because you know you're playing meaningful games.

Benjamin Disraeli

If you don't believe in magic, then you can't believe in reality.

Cesar Chavez

It is not good enough to know why we are oppressed and by whom. We must join the struggle for what is right and just. Jesus does not promise that it will be an easy way to live life and His own life certainly points in a hard direction; but it does promise that we will be "satisfied" (not stuffed; but satisfied). He promises that by giving life we will find life - full, meaningful life as God meant it.

Al Gore

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

bell hooks

To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.

Brian Weiss

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

Brene Brown

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity. If we want greater clarity in our purpose or deeper and more meaningful spiritual lives, vulnerability is the path.

Edward Norton

Instead of telling the world what you're eating for breakfast, you can use social networking to do something that's meaningful.

Edward Abbey

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

Jehan Perera

It is a referendum on nationalism versus internationalism, on modernity versus tradition.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Michael Fincke

Space has shown us over the past years that things aren't always what we expect, and that we need to be ready.

Orlando Bloom

Now my favourite pastime is to take a bath with my son.

Demis Nikolaidis

The work we have done the past two years is now visible and we will play to win.

Jay Shows

This is something we've been working toward since the past year. It's not really much of a change.

Stuart Sternberg

This is the day we pointed to. It's optimistic. It's enthusiastic. It's exciting. Really, on a scale of 1-10 of expectations, it's past a 10. It's just great, just wonderful.

Robert Esche

That's in the past. I don't really want to talk about that.

Jaret Wright

You're going to think about it. Once you're out there, you've got to play the game. Everything is in the past after that.

Brett Favre

Even in past years, when I wasn't in the Super Bowl, I wished I was.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

John Magnie

We realized we really do better when when we're all together.

Courtney Lewis

We realized that we had to be the leaders.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Aaron Spelling

Ten years of any show is amazing, but one about a minister? Wow.

Andre Agassi

Ten weeks ago, I didn't know where things were going to go,

Arthur Ashe

Martina's like the old Green Bay Packers. You know exactly what she's going to do, but there isn't a thing you can do about it.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

John Avlon

Politics is history in the present tense.

Dee Brown

We didn't play as well as we wanted defensively and offensively. We're not doing the things we want but we'll take the win. The Big Ten is a grind-it-out conference.

Clive James

John McEnroe looks as if he is serving round the edge of an imaginary building.

Donald Young

I love tennis. Without it I don't know what I would do.

Andre Agassi

My only good result in 1997 was marrying Brooke Shields.