Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Paul McHale

DoD felt a sense of urgency and acted upon it.

Bill Thompson

The resolution on Jesus was tabled and never acted upon,

Laurent Fabius

I hope that this trial will serve truth and justice, ... I hope this necessary trial will allow us to establish that from what we knew, we acted in good conscience.

Robert Stovall

(The cut is) the beginning of several shots in the arm. I think the Fed acted early in the new year so to give themselves the opportunity in the end of the month to cut again, if things don't kick in as they like.

Brookly McLaughlin

The hotel acted in accordance with U.S. sanctions.

Talat Masood

The human aspect could have prevailed, everything could have been set aside and acted as an anchor for the great leap they could have taken politically. But they have been the prisoners of the past.

Sandy Berger

Sure, after Bush took office, the Administration could have acted upon the intelligence provided by Able Danger, but if the information was buried, then they probably weren't even aware of it.

Don Porter

It was pretty good drama, and maybe a little cheesy. But Dad never worried about being cheesy or being cool. He simply articulated what he thought was right, and then acted on those beliefs.

Steve Outing

more of us will use these sites as entry points.

Olli Rehn

Turkey's fit to open the negotiations with the European Union,

Klaus Liebscher

I think European integration -- and this is a must for me -- must not be counteracted by nationalist, protectionist measures.

Michael Caine

I think I have the secret of a successful L.A. restaurant, especially now that so many Europeans live there. You have to have a place where they can see out the windows, see the world passing by. Europeans fancy that.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Show me one dictatorship in the world that has not been supported by the United States government or some European governments. It almost doesn't exist. I think a dictatorship and hegemony are part of the same phenomenon.

Bernhard von Bulow

For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won for our international policy the same independence that we had secured for our European policy.

Lee Humphrey

As a shooter you can tell when your shots are going good. Tonight I felt good, especially in the second half.

Brandon Jenkins

I've never felt this way. I never lost this many games in my two years here. We're just a young team. We've got to get tougher.

Lynsey Addario

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

Ben E. King

I always felt I never chose music, it chose me.

Michael Christie

Bernstein's presence will be felt throughout the season.

Dave Osborn

Blackstone felt they weren't able to pay that fee, so we're going to go forward with tearing it down.

Amanda Lindhout

I never felt an obligation to say every single terrible thing that happened to me.

Ang Lee

For six years, from 1985 to 1991, I felt pretty weak and useless.

Bruce Hornsby

I felt it was time for there to be a document of what we sound like now.

Mayor Iwuc

Better than the minimum qualifications outlined in the charter. Not only do I want the best-qualified chief, I want the best.

Seth Godin

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

Rajneesh

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

Rajneesh

The deeper you surrender to existence, life, nature, the more loving, more understanding, more insightful you become.

Jean Piaget

Experience precedes understanding.

Isaac Asimov

The greatest weapons in the conquest of knowledge are an understanding mind and the inexorable curiosity that drives it on.

Milan Kundera

The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late. Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

Nikki Reed

I guess the older I get, the more understanding and forgiving I've become.

Nelson Goodman

If we are ready to tolerate everything as understood, there is nothing left to explain; while if we sourly refuse to take anything, even tentatively, as clear, no explanation can be given.

R. D. Laing

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.

Tony Kushner

Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.