Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the Offended power, to confess our national sins, and pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Jerry Ray

He (James Earl Ray) said he wouldn't confess to anything he didn't do,

Hamish Bowles

There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.

Robert Udell

He's a child. Thirteen-year-olds are more susceptible to a false confession than a 40-year-old.

Gavin Newsom

I am disappointed but I confess I'm not particularly surprised,

Ryan Stiles

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.

Gerald Word

His confession was no confession at all. He confessed to something he really didn't do.

Frank Serpico

I must confess that since the first time I heard myself referred to as a whistle-blower, I cringed, and I am still uneasy with that term. It sounds demeaning. Demeaning for so noble a cause.

Susanna Clarke

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

H. Hart

I think the number one criteria (for getting into NCAA Tournament) has to be how you did in your conference.

Angela Merkel

It is not just meeting the ... criteria - this is a question of justice for the future, ... For me it is a question of destiny.

Leonard Hamilton

I don't have any say in the criteria that's already been determined and me making speculations right now would be just that, speculations. What we have to do is maintain hope, and hope that we've done enough during the season to go the NCAA tournament. Past that, there's not a whole lot more we can say.

Wayne Smith

Our acquisition pace has been strong and steady, and we have established a track record for not only finding hospitals that fit our criteria but also for successfully assimilating these facilities into our system.

Robert Redford

Because it's nonprofit, we're not obligated to put the criteria of commerciality on it. That was one of the reasons for starting it.

Kelley Heck

If the proposal meets that criteria he's open to looking at it.

Gary Numan

I honestly don't know what criteria makes someone right-wing or left-wing anymore. The boundaries of those definitions seem to be in a state of flux. I'm not socialist, I know that.

Chris Klug

I'm optimistic. I think they'll go by the criteria and things will work out fine.

Ben Howland

I'm excited about a No. 2 seed. It was well-deserved. Our guys have worked very, very hard. One of the criteria that is used is how are you playing at the end of the season.

Heather Becker

The first load, 50 pieces were soaking wet, ... We unframed everything, got them stable, lying flat to aerate and dry, and documented each piece with photography. We were able to save a good percentage.

Dave Hamilton

Then it exploded. We saw reproductive rates that have never been documented before. High litter sizes and young otters reproducing that weren't supposed to be able to reproduce and that sort of thing.

Raylene Ireland

The thing that hung us up was we could not provide documented proof. Their (Union Pacific) perspective was it really wasn't that serious of an issue.

Chet Baker

The one thing that did stand out in my memory was the fact that he had a well documented association with Heroin. Growing up with a somewhat myopic view of the world, I could not understand how it was that people could put a drug user on such a high pedestal (If you will pardon the pun).

Giselle Davies

This is not the IOC's position, and we were not consulted about this letter. The position of the IOC remains the same. The FIG documented and validated the result of the competition, and those results will stand.

Giselle Davies

This is not the IOC's position, and we were not consulted about this letter, ... The position of the IOC remains the same. The FIG documented and validated the result of the competition, and those results will stand.

Charles Grassley

Even documented pledges by FBI bureaucrats to write threat assessments were never kept, and no one was held accountable,

William Schulz

We have documented the use of torture and mistreatment, widespread throughout the world. We have documented that the U.S. government is a leading purveyor and practitioner of the odious human rights violation.

Tubby Smith

We fully expect him to be back at some point when the NCAA finishes their job. Everything has been documented and processed on our side, and we'll wait for the NCAA to finalize their decision.

Ronda Rousey

I was just a little three-year-old kid, and I loved Hulk Hogan. And when you're a three-year-old kid, you don't list off the reasons. I was just drawn to him. He was always my favorite, even in the video games and everything like that. He was the one that I always remembered and liked the most.

Henry Selick

Just like those little Viewmaster slides, there's a inherent magic that's captured in 3D that you can't get in drawn animation or in CG.

George Herbert Mead

No very sharp line can be drawn between social psychology and individual psychology.

Alan Reed

We take people on horse drawn rides through the corrals and through our processing plant to see how milk is bottled.

Ken Jennings

Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps.

Bobby Carpenter

I'd like to be able to run well on a big stage like this. But I told myself I wasn't going to get drawn into that. I probably need another week and a half, two weeks.

Braylon Edwards

I couldn't have drawn it up any better.

Erling Lyngtveit

He now says he can no longer stand by the conclusions drawn in the article.

Rahul Dravid

If you prepare another wicket like this it will be another drawn series.