Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeffrey R. Immelt

I think we should have basically the same tax policy that Germany, Japan, the U.K., everybody else has, which is a tax rate in the mid-20s and no loopholes. Zero. The U.S. has the most antiquated tax system. And that means some people are going to pay more taxes, and some people are going to pay less.

Mary Karr

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.

Gordon Cooper

If we use the old antiquated systems we've got now, a Mars landing won't happen in my lifetime.

Ted Sarandos

The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we're trying to serve.

Jack Gould

This idea that privilege comes with position is something that's terribly antiquated and doesn't belong in a democracy. These are elected officials who chose to serve the public, and the idea of serving the public doesn't include taking gifts from someone who obviously wants something in return.

Rich Mancuso

It's not fair, it's not equitable. I think its antiquated legislation, and something has to be done about it.

Bob Evans

There's this myth about the Federal Poverty Level, and that is such an antiquated measure of need. I think what's missed here are the working poor . . . these are good hardworking folks who just end up with more month than money.

William Roth

It is the product of the Great Depression, a time when folks believed that an individual should retire completely and make room for others to work. It is antiquated and anti-productive,

Scott Mlynek

They went from the most antiquated systems in the industry to some of the more cutting-edge, and technology has helped drive the results.

Edward Kennedy

Judge Pickering's record reflects a hostility to civil rights and a vision of the Republican Party that reminds Americans of a painful time in our nation's history, ... Those who lack a strong commitment to our nation's fundamental ideals and principles do not belong in our federal judiciary.

Harold Mentzer

It belongs in Petaluma, as far as we're concerned.

Samantha Shannon

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creating worlds, and I felt it was a genre that gave me more freedom. It just seemed like I belonged there.

Norman Rockwell

Guess I never really belonged in Westchester. I was never really happy there. But the hard-dirt farmers in Vermont-when I got with them, it was like coming home.

Gary Sheffield

I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.

Jim Tracy

He's a good little offensive player. He looks like he belongs in the majors. This kid knows how to play. And he's a winner.

Ilham Patu

Her family said a number of chickens belonging to her neighbors had died suddenly before she fell ill. So, she must have contracted the virus from the sick birds.

Bill Bradley

I think (the endorsement) will send a very clear message that I belong to the people of the country, and the people will have their say,

John Barrow

I think the district belongs to the voters who live there and vote there, ... I'm too busy doing the job I was elected to do to focus too much on an election that's over a year away.

William Korman

I take no issue with why she chose not to work here. But to then insult me by saying I'm not a real lawyer - that's offensive.

Gil Brandt

He chose not to come because he had a paper due the following Monday. The guy has pretty good study habits.

Andrew Morton

Her legacy and testament are the words in her book. I am very proud she chose me to tell her story, ... There is no point in pretending any more.

Kathryn Flicker

He showed no pity. He showed no compassion. He showed no mercy. He deserves none for what he chose to do.

Tommy Hutton

He should have been working. He chose not to, and that idle time, I'm sure, made it even worse.

Lanny Breuer

I think it's extraordinarily unfair that in the last minute the government has chosen to intervene.

John McLaughlin

It chose me. Once I picked it up, I was hooked.

Pat Tryson

What makes you mad is they knew on Saturday what was going on, but chose not to do anything about it, ... If NASCAR really wants to fix this, take 100 points away from them. If I cost Mark 100 points, he wouldn't let me put that stuff back on his car.

Jim Kennedy

When he woke up this morning, ... Ken Starr had a choice: to serve the public or himself. He chose the latter.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

Samuel P. Huntington

Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.

Rich Galen

Democracy is messy. It is messy whether you've been doing it since 1789 or whether you're going to do it for the first time in 2005. The trouble with Democracy is, you hold elections. The trouble with dictatorships is...you don't.

Robert Caro

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

Warren Buffett

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

John Young

I'm not trying to be insensitive to other parishes, but I was elected to represent the residents of Jefferson Parish, ... And as long as hurricane season is still open, we have to protect this parish.

Kim Smith

If the people want this and we elected our school board, sooner or later they're going to have to listen to us.

Judie Niskala

If our elected officials in Texas want to impose harsh penalties for the use of marijuana, that is their decision, but the university does not have to pile on.

Bill Young

I personally feel that I got elected to do a job. I am not one to succumb to political pressure or what's politically correct. I have to go out and do what I think is the right thing.

Greg Sorbara

I love my job, ... And I hope that some day, one of you in this group will be elected to government somewhere.

Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Bob Taft

I'm not focused on next year's election, ... Obviously, I'm not a candidate. I'm term-limited. I'm focused on doing the job I was elected to do as governor.

Dan Rohn

He's a very, very talented young man. He has a lot of gifts others don't have.

Donald DeMayo

He's been giving gifts to students for 40 years.

Francis Donald

Humility is the river through which all other gifts of grace flow.

Jack Sheehan

We can get nice gifts for the kids.

Ann Kaplan

These are large research institutions, and a lot of these very big gifts go toward supplying infrastructure for, and paying for things like, medical research.

Don Jr.

The gifts of an honorable, well-lived life are in those who will miss you once you're gone.

Myles Munroe

Anyone who develops his gifts and talents will become a commodity

Noam Chomsky

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.

Renee Fitzgerald

This has been a really big job but very fulfilling. I may not have all my gifts wrapped for my kids or my house clean, but I have memories that will last forever.

Lloyd Johnston

It is possible that some students know what drugs are and are not included in the tests, and migrate toward using those not included.

Charlie Higley

I agree, that since this has come up, it would have been appropriate to include more disclosure.

Tara VanDerveer

Ideally, I'd like to have an eight-or-nine player rotation, and I'd like to include another perimeter contributor.

Julian Fellowes

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I am an insomniac. Most of my nights include a moment of wakening. Often I will make my way to the kitchen to make tea and read for awhile.

Ali Larijani

I want to say that the process of enrichment is the sovereign right of any country. You should not take away this right from nations which have a peaceful nuclear program, which consequently, includes also enrichment.

Justin Osmer

It just made sense to include it into the products we have.

Barry McCaffrey

The medical, scientific process is open to any drug. That includes marijuana. But you have to get through a process and demonstrate scientific validity. And in this case, to be honest, I think it's nonsense. This is mostly a 'Cheech and Chong' show for the quasi-legalization of marijuana.

Peter Bicks

All parties are trying to feel their way around and that includes how juries will react to their cases. It's only after you have a track record that you can really refine your strategy.

Tom Nutten

It actually works, and he obviously has no inhibition to show it. I think it has some kind of a gravitational pull, because everything does go towards him. That's why he is the center, and he is in the middle.

Jamie Campbell Bower

'Hamlet' is obviously a role a lot of actors want to portray or be involved with in some way and that I'd like to be involved in.

Kate Middleton

It's obviously nerve-wracking, because I don't know the ropes really, William is obviously used to it, but I'm willing to learn quickly and work hard.

Burt Stellers

I thought we rebounded harder, and defensively we were a lot more intense. They took it to us the first time. For us to come back and get a victory was obviously a positive.

John Gordon Sinclair

I think the problem I have is that first impressions are the ones that stick with people. And people's first impressions of me are obviously from the film, from 'Gregory's Girl.'

Robert Wiley

I think that his performances (in the WAFL) have been outstanding and (he's come into the side) obviously to replace Phillip Matera,

Kerry Haigh

We're obviously disappointed for the spectators who were unable to see the finish. We all wanted to see a finish, obviously.

Dick Umile

I thought we played a solid game. Obviously this was an important win for us.

Mel Stottlemyre

I think it's time for somebody new. I've been here for 10 years, and they obviously want to make some changes.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Mila Kunis

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Roberta Crawford

He taught me to play every position and he taught me how to switch hit.

Robert Payne

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Marcellus Sommerville

He erases a lot of mistakes. It's a privilege to have him back there to do that. He comes up with big rebounds when we need them.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The individual or the group which organizes any society, however social its intentions or pretensions, arrogates an inordinate portion of social privilege to itself.

Sarah Palin

I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.

Tori Amos

Being able to still make records is a privilege. I don't take it casually.

Matthew Nable

It's a privilege to be an actor, as it's not work - it's a job.

Marya Mannes

It is privilege of living to be acutely, agonizingly conscious of the moment that is always present and always passing.

Marshawn Lynch

The so-called right to privacy, as it were, is no longer a right inasmuch as it is now a privilege, to be enjoyed until it is torn away at a moment’s notice.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

Mark Twain

We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege.

Mike Mower

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

Russell Baker

Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity.

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.

Zachary Quinto

Even the former Attorney General of the United States Eric Holder has come out to say that he believed that [Edward] Snowden performed a public service, and I couldn't agree more.

Gary Peck

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

Bryan Kennedy

I like talking to the public and straightening them out.

George Bancroft

The public is wiser than the wisest critic.

Mahatma Gandhi

Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion.

John Greene

He wanted to serve his country, ... If that's what he had to do, that's what he had to do.

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Lea Barrett

There is a need to place some students on the Mullins campus... and my recommendation is for Dr. Dow-Harris to serve as principal.

Tom Ridge

He is not one to parse. He has said he will serve out his term and that has not changed,

Justine Henin-Hardenne

I had a lot of trouble with my serve in this tournament.

Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

John Petersen

They serve tough, but we have to get up some dumps, we have to be all over those balls.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

Once you violate parole, you must serve the remainder of the sentence.

John Adams

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Caroline Norton

They serve God well, who serve his creatures.

Oswald Chambers

God gets me into a relationship with Himself whereby I understand His call, then I do things out of sheer love for Him on my own account. To serve God is the deliberate love-gift of a nature that has heard the call of God.

Leonardo da Vinci

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

Stephen East

They're serving a need much more than a want than say a Toll or a higher-end builder.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Reggie McNeal

Among the gifts of serving others, then, is that we ourselves find our place of belonging.

John Milton

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

Warren Buffett

Take the high road; it's far less crowded.

Wellington Mara

I'm not taking that. Go ahead, it's here, just take it.

Maureen Caddigan

I know he is taking this very seriously.

Bam Margera

I just had the worst wake up ever, so I'm taking it out on Dunn.

Cedric Bozeman

I'm just taking it day to day. It's tough to handle.

Chet Edwards

taking the most from those who have the least and nothing from those who have the most.

Harrison Ford

It's very little trouble for me to accomodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.

Cecilia Johnson

They are very much taking it seriously. We're very optimistic.

Scott McGaffic

It wasn't a very pretty sight. But I'm taking it in stride.

Mike Hargrove

I don't know that he was awe-struck, but he was terribly excited.

Roilo Golez

I'm terribly disappointed with (Marcos). But that is her prerogative,

Nastassja Kinski

I'm not terribly consistent, and that worries me.

Oriana Fallaci

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

Anna Chancellor

There's a certain amount of self-aggrandising with actors, and I'm terribly shy of that.

Antony Gormley

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

Jason Bay

He wants to win now. He made that pretty clear.

Ron Gardenhire

He wants to play. But I'm just going to give him a day break.

Ray Allen

He wants to be better. He wants to be the best. But don't worry about that. Those things will come.

Paul Shefrin

He wants this to be the coming-out party.

Glen Taylor

He is very, very competitive and wants to win.

Sam Claflin

I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.

Steven Spielberg

Whatever he wants to do. That's how I feel about it.

Joe Dumars

I think we will get something done long-term. We are going to keep him here. Tay wants that, I want that and Duffy wants that. We'll get something done.

Adam Sohn

He's been here 20 years and he wants to recharge.