Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Gurdon

I take the view that anything you can do to relieve suffering or improve human health will usually be widely accepted by the public - that is to say, if cloning actually turned out to be solving some problems and was useful to people, I think it would be accepted.

Kate Moss

I take full responsibility for my actions. I also accept that there are various personal issues that I need to address and have started taking the difficult, yet necessary, steps to resolve them. I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co- workers, business associates and others.

Kevin McAvoy

He was a huge help. He got me used to what the kids are expecting. I just came up with an open mind and the guys accepted me.

David Shaw

He was a commercial spokesman and a barely adequate actor. That means he needs ... public acceptance, and if he doesn't get public acceptance, he doesn't have much of a future if he wants to make any money.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Seth Shostak

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Henry Morris

What would happen if we accept God's gift of tithing when we accept God's gift of money? If we give off the top, we claim our place as 'givers' before we admit that we are 'consumers.' That puts our priorities in order and establishes a framework of gratitude around the rest of our financial affairs.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set. What'll most likely happen is that they'll put in a rule: Here's the standard. You either accept it or you don't accept it. And I think nationally they'll accept it.

William Daroff

It will be a large priority to make sure we have a seat at the table to craft out a policy that allows for bona fide, above-board advocacy and nonprofit organizations to be able to fund congressional travel.

Esam Omeish

What has protected our community far before 9/11 from extremism and violent ideology is that balanced mainstream advocacy of Islamic principles.

Farhan Haq

Due in large part to our advocacy efforts for Niger, it's been brought to the front pages all around the world and the world response since then has been heartening ....

David Douglas

Each year between two and five million people worldwide die from lack of safe water and sanitation. Given this dire situation, the creation of a US-based advocacy group is long overdue, ... We know what the problem is and we have the knowledge and resources to save millions of lives - we simply need to extend water to those without it. Water Advocates and other US nonprofits can make enormous strides in helping solve this worldwide crisis by informing the public and ensuring that funding is available for more projects.

Karen Ignagni

While these data are of little comfort to any senior who has experienced a problem, they do put the scope of the issue in perspective. Our community's job is to work collaboratively with beneficiaries, pharmacies, physicians and advocacy organizations to resolve any remaining transition issues.

Bill Herman

We function as an advocacy group in forcing the administration's hand.

Susan Etheridge

You have to make sure that there is a balance; that it doesn't seem scary to the children. The whole idea of an advocacy center, it's supposed to be a child-friendly place where a child could feel secure and be able to tell their stories.

Mark Tushnet

There's likely to be more informality in the memos, which will be more revealing of Roberts' cast of mind, ... There may also be advocacy of positions that were rejected.

Brendan Bell

We're seeking to heighten the advocacy of the region as an energy supplier to the continent.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

Richard Scrushy

I wouldn't believe anything that man said. This is horrible that there are people who would do something like this to a company.

Mark Hogan

Jac says he'll bring this to everyone first, but we believe we're in the lead.

Paul Reiser

He's 50 percent Peter Falk, 50 percent my own father,

Michael Andretti

He's all but signed. It's not 100 percent done, but we're down to the piddly stuff.

Sarah Parcak

I think archaeologists are stuck, and we are losing our past at a very rapid rate. Tens of thousands of sites will be lost, and we've only unveiled a tiny percent of the past.

Ronaldo Ronaldo

I'm only going to play if I'm 100 percent fit,

Dave Thomas

In my class, there were about 50 percent students there.

Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Sadaharu Oh

I'm 100 percent sure. I spoke to him recently and told him we really want him to be a part of our team.

John Tortorella

I'm getting tired of the 25 percent rule. It's deflating.

Gennady Onishchenko

And 92 percent of them are drug addicts.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Dilip Shanghvi

I like to win without fighting. But if I can't, then I'm prepared to fight.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Jeff Kelly

be prepared with what you want to say.

Rep. Arza

Be prepared to fight. They're going to come after you personally. They're going to come after you every which way.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Ron Reier

This type of thing doesn't really surprise us, and it's not something we're not already prepared for.

Julie Gerberding

We've no idea if it will become transmissible from one person to another efficiently, but we've got to take the steps now to get prepared for that.

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Johan Huizinga

From whichever angle one looks at it, the application of racial theories remains a striking proof of the lowered demands of public opinion upon the purity of critical judgment.