Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Warren

Credit card agreements run as long as 30 pages, and it's 30 pages of largely incomprehensible text.

David A. Bednar

A covenant is an agreement between God and His children upon the earth, and it is important to understand that God determines the conditions of all gospel covenants.

Philip Baggaley

The pilots are the last major labor group to reach a preliminary agreement (except for striking mechanics who have been replaced) and the largest source of labor savings being sought by the airline.

Alfred Marcus

The pilots are key. This is critical. If they don't reach an agreement, it could be the end.

Javier Solana

The peace agreement must be seen as a matter of urgency.

John McCarthy

The peace advocates are more interested in beating the conservatives than in reaching agreement with the Soviets.

Bertrand Russell

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive. Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one. Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

Bertrand Russell

My sad conviction is that people can only agree about what they're not really interested in.

Greg Aiello

The arbitrator's decision is consistent with our collective bargaining agreement, and it simply enforced the terms of the player's contract.

Brian Jennings

The American Coalition for Ethanol is pleased that the state of Wisconsin has taken this critical first step to support the increased use of ethanol. The state has developed a strong local ethanol industry, and ensuring that much of that Wisconsin-made ethanol is used in Wisconsin is one way to secure its continued success and to make the state less dependent upon outside sources of energy.

Vlado Buckovski

We joined that coalition since the country was under attack, now we are more useful as the opposition,

Charles Gabriel

Just because Democrats control committees doesn't mean they have an easy working coalition. There's still a coalition of conservative Democrats who will work with Republicans on key issues.

Joschka Fischer

Me? Joining a coalition under Merkel? Look, Merkel will not be chancellor.

Stephen Wright

We have now got a coalition government which may or may not include some anti-business types like the Greens.

Muqtada Sadr

We have noticed that the coalition has pulled back,

Hoshyar Zebari

We need these forces. It is an Iraqi need, more than an American or coalition need. The consequences would be catastrophic.

Louis Michel

We are in favor of a strong coalition to fight terrorism. All international organizations and the United Nations in particular must be engaged in this endeavor.

Gary Jackson

We are devastated by the loss of our friends, ... They were true American patriots and heroes who were performing a mission that is critical to the success of the coalition efforts to secure peace and freedom in Iraq.

Reinhard Buetikofer

We have always said that opposition is an option for us... We won't compromise on the content of our policies.

Jerry Jones

With the free agents, we were really able to cover our needs spots. That allows us not to compromise our pick in any way. We don't have to take a lesser player because he plays a position of need.

Jill Gerber

I think this was a compromise that everyone could live with.

Peter Callero

Management is taking a very hard line, refusing to compromise. We are open to compromise, and unless they do, we will have a strike.

Julie Salz

We'd rather that be left up to the patient and their physician. With this, unfortunately, compromise has to be made in order to get something passed.

Harry Moberly

We realize that the legislative process is a compromise. We won't get everything that we want, and he (Fletcher) won't get everything he wants and the Senate won't get everything they want.

Zhu Bangzao

We hope the two sides will continually enhance mutual respect in a spirit of compromise and cooperation, and strengthen exchanges and cooperation in every field in order to create favorable conditions to realize final, peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula.

Andy Roberts

We'll never, ever compromise safety. We never have.

Yasuhiro Wada

We are seeing some signs of getting closer, some compromise and some good discussions.

Isabella Bird

The rush of a herd of bellowing yaks at a wild gallop, waving their huge tails, is a grand sight.

Evel Knievel

My grandpa got me a set of Wilson clubs, Sam Snead models, when I was 12. Many years later, when I'd become well known, I got to know Sam, and we played a lot of golf together.

Nancy Gibbs

It's always been a luxury to be able to hop a plane to Paris, to Venice, to the Grand Canyon.

Pierce Brosnan

I love the ukulele. It's got a beautiful, melodic tone to it. There's something innocent and romantic, and it's just a grand instrument to play.

Patrick Stewart

Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?

Rickie Fowler

My grandpa would take me to the driving range and, I don't know, it didn't take me long to realize I'm a little different with golf. I have an eye for seeing things differently. Somehow I just see shots in my head.

Nicholas Haslam

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.

Mats Wilander

Who knows, she can then be the top-two or the number one, or even win a Grand Slam.

Mary Pierce

weirdest situation that I've ever experienced in a Grand Slam.

Eve Ensler

Before cancer, I was obviously disconnected. I had a tumor the size of a mango inside me and didn't do anything about it. It wasn't like I didn't know something was wrong.

Mike Williams

That was a surprise to us and we are obviously going to rebuild.

Maurice Greene

Every race is not perfect; there are obviously a lot of things I can improve on at the end of the race.

Mark Siegel

We've made progress, but obviously the work is not done.

Paul Simonon

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

David Bear

We haven't seen it, but obviously we will review it.

Matt Holliday

We can't get all tight because we haven't scored that many runs or whatever. It's just three games. Obviously today was not what we want the rest of the season to be like so you just try to turn the page on this one pretty quick.

Jim Garvin

It has obviously precipitated a lot of interesting thinking in our science community.

Hines Ward

I thought he was going to be here, but obviously he's not. It's sad. I don't think it had to come to this. ... I've got to prepare like we're going into the season right now without Plax; we don't know what is going to happen.