Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack King

We have approved giving them this money, but if they can't get the improvement district together the project won't go forward.

Chris Knight

Everything goes through committees, everything has to be approved by at least a dozen people... it's a very slow grinding process,

Kofi Annan

Blix until now has been guided by approved Security Council resolutions. If the council were to pass a new resolution giving him fresh guidelines, he will have to factor that in before he continues with his work, which will be up to the council ... to determine what the next stage will be.

Bob McNair

We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.

Jennifer Kerns

While the legal deadline for initiatives is Jan. 26, we've sent a letter to the governor and the Legislature that indicated we've determined that measures approved by Feb. 16 could make the principal ballot. Legislative measures approved by March 10 could be on a supplemental ballot.

Gina McCarthy

Congress approved $400 million for wildlife preservation, but it didn't stop there and thank goodness it didn't. They wanted us to consider how we were spending that money.

Julia Dixon

Contrary to published reports that the lion was being held in a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved and inspected facility and that the authorization for ownership had been given by VDGIF, Mr. Bradley had no permits from either the USDA or VDGIF.

Jane Walsh

Council approved a whole slough of information around green roofs, one of which is that there be an incentive program, on a pilot basis that would provide incentives up to $10 a foot for green roofs.

Anne Heche

This Nonsense about my mother praying for me is really making me angry. My mother never approved of my relationship with Ellen. Her hatred for our relationship is one of the many things that ultimately led to my breaking off all communication with her. (My mother, that is, not Ellen.)

Mark Ferrulo

Any pro-environmental piece of legislation has a hard road to travel in this Congress. It's not going to be a walk in the park, not with current leadership in some of these committees.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Jim Hunter

Back then, they (Congress) were targeting NASCAR as a waste of fuel,

Jerry Costello

As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.

Daniel Solove

That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about. This is something that Congress has been very derelict in addressing.

Daniel Solove

That pervades CALEA and everything we talk about, ... This is something that Congress has been very derelict in addressing.

Mark Twain

Rail-splitting produced an unparalleled president in Lincoln. But gold hasn't produced even a good A-1 congressman.

Tom Daschle

ram through divisive provisions and pork spending that could never win the support of Congress on their own.

Fred Thompson

People think that they can waltz up to Congress and say anything that comes to their minds, ... Until somebody is prosecuted for some of this activity, people are not going to take congressional investigations very seriously in the future.

David Harcharik

Avian flu should not be considered a human health issue, but a human- and animal-health issue.

Malcolm Speed

Australia, Bermuda, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, UAE and the West Indies have indicated their intention to be considered as hosts for an inaugural Twenty20 event while England, Hong Kong, Nepal and Scotland have also expressed an interest in hosting future events.

Ken Williams

I've always thought it's kind of disrespectful to the guys that have gotten you in the position to consider a move, ... So if you come out and say I need X, Y or Z ... they deserve better than that.

R. Robinson

So often space is wasted, or dead, in a house which the owners consider too small. First, you need to take away the name of the room, and then the space is liberated for a variety of new uses.

Bill Cherpak

I've never seen Nate play a better game - ever. I told him before the game: 'If you want to be considered a big-time player, this is where you do it. I saw Nate take control of that huddle in the last drive. He took over.

Petro Poroshenko

I understand that my presence in the position ... could be considered possible pressure on the investigation (into the corruption allegations).

Dave Gould

They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car,

Steve Terry

This is a significant trophy trout fishery, there's a number of trout, 10 pound plus, which is considered trophy size in New Zealand so it's quite significant.

Johnny Depp

This is a rumor-filled society and if people want to site around and talk about whom I've dated, then I'd say they have a lot of spare time and should consider other topics... or masturbation.

Eric Boyle

Thank goodness this isn't the end of February.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jane Austen

I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Jim Houston

My goodness, I played at Ohio State from 1957-59,

Marion Ross

Oh, we saw a lot. My goodness, we saw a lot,

Christian Nestell Bovee

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good displeases us when we are not up to it.

Franz Kafka

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

Alex Rodriguez

You're representing 400 million (300 million, actually) Americans. That's a pretty big responsibility.

Bob Collins

You've got to say this was ill-conceived, poorly planned. We now have $1 million spent on a ferry that's going nowhere.

Chuck Pavlos

You're going to have a million people in this corridor.

Russell Perreault

There are more than 300 million people in the US, so we still have a lot of potential sales out there.

America Ferrera

They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!

Magglio Ordonez

We've got 25 million people in Venezuela. At least 24 million are going to be watching the games.

Martin Grove

could see these pictures go to $100 million or more worldwide.

Parker Palmer

There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.

George Pechtel

We wanted $3.4 million to get to Seventh Avenue.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

know that there has to be a spending limit.

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Leon Wieseltier

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Dietric Slater

We thought we could win. We started executing, slowed it down, got on a little run. Then we couldn't stop them from scoring.

Tara Kelly

There's no secrets. We have to stop them. We can't let them get on a streak.

Lonnie Bunch

My first task for tomorrow is to stop smiling.

Dee Brown

That was what we set out to do, stop Grier.

Maudie Samiee

It doesn't stop her for a minute. She's very adaptable.

Brian Jones

We were never going to stop even if they told us to.

Ray Parlour

We have to try to stop the supply to Thierry Henry, get about them and have a go ourselves.

Mike Gatting

He's got 600 but he won't be stopping there,

Joseph Druce

I was just, like, 'That's it. That's it. I've got to stop this. I couldn't get it out of my head.

Stephen Evans

Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.

Luiz Scolari

Thanks for everything and we will see you at the World Cup.

Sergei Krikalev

Thank you very much to those who worked with us.

Evo Morales

Thank you very much. I'd like to visit you, Mr. President.

Marge Whaley

Thank you very much for getting that resolved.

Julian Casablancas

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the deafening roar.

G. H. Hardy

Thank you so much for your kind words.

Ishinosuke Uwano

Thank you for waiting for me for a long time.

Jim Fuller

Thank you for this consideration of the residents.