Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Holman

Progress has been made in some areas, but there is still a lot of work to do in a short amount of time. Our goal is to reach an agreement, but that will depend on management's actions at the negotiating table.

Nishi Silva

Actions as a result of hatred give us a temporary satisfaction. But,It is better if we can be patient enough to watch the person suffering who deserves guilt.Because,patience adjusts us to be relieved both physically and mentally.

Tom Daschle

Actions are not just physical. Actions are sometimes verbal.

Al Aqsa

decided to desist from all sorts of resistance and to stop our actions against the Israelis.

Jennifer Jackson

The students are forced to be accountable for their actions and their grades every week and that forces them to show improvement.

Granta Nakayama

Storm water requirements have been in place for a long time. Developers must be responsible for their actions to ensure compliance with the law. Runoff from construction sites is a primary contributor to the impairment of water quality and EPA is vigorously enforcing federal regulations to help reduce this problem. This settlement is a strong signal of this Administration's commitment to increased enforcement of our nation's environmental laws and regulations.

Tom Daschle

So those two actions have apparently at least given us the impression (that the mail safety issue is being addressed. Again as I say, we can't really make any direct connection between any of these actions, but no new cases of illness have been reported,

Ramani Ayer

Notwithstanding, the several unusual items that influenced our results the last three months demonstrate that the underlying performance of The Hartford's property and casualty and life operations was strong. This performance is a reflection of our efforts to sustain profitable growth in a competitive environment. Our return on equity of over 15 percent over the last twelve months has exceeded our stated long-term goals. Actions we have taken to broaden distribution and improve our products are driving our sales momentum.

Robert Latimer

I want a jury to be able to decide whether my actions were criminal or not.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Alan Johnson

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Jessie Matthews

The songwriters were introduced to me as ordinary human beings; they would play their songs, and sometimes I would start to sing a song with them.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

Martin Rees

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

Sam Mitchell

Probably 80 per cent of it (is due to youth and inexperience). They come out with veteran guys who understand the league and know how to play. We come out with second-year guys, it's tough.

Mark Mulder

Compared to what it was yesterday, it's 100 per cent better, but it's still not good enough. I still can't quite look far enough to pick up the catcher.

Jeremy Williams

Coach always tells us to hit it where it's pitched. The first one was down the middle and I hit it to center field. The next one was high so I took it opposite field.

Ed Wolverton

Despite their decision, downtown still remains the dominant legal center of the region.

Chris Wright

A one-in-100-year flood has (a) 1 per cent chance in any year. On some years all of the ducks line up together, so to speak.

Colleen Kelley

An increase of 8 cents a mile, while better than leaving the reimbursement rate untouched, falls far short of what needs to be done to help people who must travel to perform the duties of their jobs.

Steven Aftergood

an implicit repudiation of the CIA, which was established to be the central focus and the integrator of the nation's intelligence production.

Zhang Guobao

And the proportion will increase to 10 per cent by 2020.

Craig Barrett

The semiconductor industry faces many technical challenges that need to be addressed if we are to maintain the rate of progress that has been the hallmark of our industry. The Focus Center Program is designed to create a nationwide multiuniversity network of research centers that will help keep the United States and U.S. semiconductor firms at the front of the global microelectronics revolution.

Mark Merritt

A disaster of this magnitude ... has never happened on this scale in U.S. history.

Jeanne Salvatore

The one thing about this disaster is there are going to be a lot of total losses. People with standard policies will be getting only what's in the policy.

Herman Frazier

The scope of the disaster is indescribable. I'm sure our fans will respond with overwhelming support and provide much-needed funds for the victims of this catastrophe.

Paul Wolfowitz

The scale of the disaster is so enormous that, frankly, a big part of the effort has to go to figuring what the needs really are.

Tom DeLay

It would be such a disaster ... I think what you see is a combination of gratitude and prudence.

LeBron James

It would have been a disaster if we couldn't win this game after being up by 25.

Bob Pratt

T he whole nation needs to come together and do whatever we can on all levels, so that we can help the people struck by this disaster.

Christine Whitman

This is far and away the worst natural disaster I've ever seen. Many people are just not going to be able to get into their houses for months.

Thad Cochran

This is going to be the most expensive natural disaster that's hit the United States in history. It's really quite phenomenal.

Ben McGrath

People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon.

Javier Solana

The situation is not easy ... but I don't doubt that we will find a solution,

Scott Reid

The system is flawed, no doubt about it,

Trevor Hohns

The omissions are performance-based ? there's no doubt about that,

Michael Charlton

After 20 years of evaluations, none of which put his IQ over 70 and some that put his IQ in the 50s there is no doubt he is mentally retarded.

Jack Ablin

After looking at the employment numbers, there is no doubt in my mind that the measured language remains. Knowing what we know now, there's no pause in 2005.

Jason Giambi

Actually, Joe was the one who congratulated me, ... And I said: 'For what? I know ain't gotten a hit in a while.' But it's exciting, no doubt about it.

Dave Odom

Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out.

Ben Wallace

Sometimes, when you have a new coach, a new system, a new group of guys, it takes time to jell together, ... But there's no doubt in my mind that we're eventually going to come together as a team and make that title run.

Ben Howland

That was about 20 minutes into practice. He did not practice the rest of the time. Has some swelling there. We'll see how it feels. ... I would expect it would take a lot to keep him out of the game.

Mike Lordemann

Our seniors have won two state championships and been to a final four. They know what it's like to win, they know how to win, (and) when they step on the field they expect to win. For them to have that experience and pass it on to our younger kids is invaluable.

Michael Phelps

People really expect to get news and information for free. They get it free on TV, they get it free on the web, and there's no reason they shouldn't get it free in the newspaper.

Kofi Annan

peoples look to you to solve problems, expect you to work together as governments ... with other institutions.

Jim Struzzi

People can expect pretty much the same scenario.

Alan Faneca

People don't really expect that from us. They know we're trying to get the run going. Maybe they're thinking that a little too much. We're able to open up a little bit.

Martin Nissenbaum

People don't expect it. The presumption is that when you pay taxes that are deductible you won't have to pay tax again. Just having a lot of kids can put you into the AMT.

Martin Nissenbaum

People don't expect it, ... The presumption is that when you pay taxes that are deductible you won't have to pay tax again. Just having a lot of kids can put you into the AMT.

Robert Vincent

People are very sad. Our people called and gave because they knew it would be there for generations. We just never expected this.

Jeb Bush

A very serious storm is hitting our state.

Andy Dennings

Offensively he's hitting toward his strengths. He's not pulling every pitch. He's doing his job.

Alison Lacey

Norwalk just kept hitting big shots, and we needed to realize that and get out on them and we didn't. It was frustrating to see their shots keep going in. We tried to get on them, and they just kept hitting.

Carlos Gracida

Once we got to overtime, we were going to win. Luckily, I was hitting my penalty shots well.

Brian Randle

Dee's a big-time player. He hits big-time shots.

Dan Castellaneta

And there's nothing wrong with hitting someone when his back is turned.

Stephen Ames

Anything can happen. Especially where he's hitting the ball.

Dan Shoemaker

Anything it hits that's cold, it's going to stick to it.

Steven Smith

The shots they were hitting was like getting hit in the stomach.

Roy H. Williams

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

Seth Godin

The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.

Cristie Kerr

She's 16 now, so young, but she's matured quite a bit,

Steve Heiden

He's very confident. He's mature for his years. He's poised, he's confident. He was very good.

Joe Brooks

He's very strong. He's worked out with weights. He's pretty thick. He's pretty strong and he's pretty mature for a junior.

Walt Peretti

He's such a mature kid. He didn't look worried back there.

Ali Larijani

It is an idea, not a structured proposal, we don't see it as mature and it has serious problems.

Dennis Alejo

When you're getting mature the responsibility you have

Trey Blue

We've matured over the year and they've been doing it all the time for us.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another, one wall after another.

Wu Dawei

a process of all six parties overcoming one mountain after another.

Kevin Kamps

Yucca Mountain is such a mistake. There needs to be more research done on the alternatives.

Carl von Clausewitz

A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.

Baltasar Gracian

Censure is like the lightning which strikes the highest mountains.

Craig Kelly

What you do once you're beyond the confines of your local lift service can be as limitless as the mountains themselves.

Brent Weeks

Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

Bob Iger

Though our mountain may be slightly smaller in scale to the one you find in Asia, it is remarkable in its authenticity.

Donald Miller

The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.

Jerome Hauer

Nothing indicates that this was anything other than a natural outbreak.

John Key

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

Jeff Bonde

She's always had a lot of natural speed. We're still trying to rate her.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

Bill Cunningham

He's talked about it for months, I think this is the natural progression whether or not he runs for mayor.

Ross Lynch

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob. I've got a lot of brothers, and there's a natural competitiveness between us when it comes to girls. If I said something about being a heartthrob, then they would bring me straight back down to earth!

Michelle Turner

I didn't think homosexuality should be taught as something that is natural or the same as heterosexuality.

Meseret Defar

My speed is natural and I have been training very hard.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm really drawn to the uncompromising realness of natural process: It's unadorned. It's not very pretty.

Bill Bullard

As a regular commissioner, it takes about 50 percent of my time, ... As chairman, it's about 90 percent of my time. It's significantly more work and more hours.

Frank Barnaby

A vast percentage of centrifuges have to be rejected in testing, up to 60% rejection.

Phil Simms

The team performed even better than I thought they would,

Tony Kennedy

The terrain is wonderful from a mountain-bike perspective.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Bob Clarke

Some questions are of a personal nature, which I don't think should be documented.

China Anne McClain

On Disney, we stick to the script. But you go to the 'Grown Ups set' and it's completely different. Same thing with Tyler Perry - it's nothing but ad-libbing.

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Padraig Harrington

These fairways are at least 50 percent narrower that anything you would see in the States.

Heather Brooke

I pine for a return to the type of old-school journalism and the tough newspapermen and women of the Thirties.

Jorge Paulo Lemann

I always say, 'To have a big dream requires the same effort as having a small dream. Dream big!'

Ricky Ponting

It's nice to put your hand up and do the big things the team requires of you.