Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hamilton Peterson

These were clearly people who were informed of the unthinkable, digested it, and acted upon it in no time at all.

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.

Charles Studd

Noah walked with God; he didn't only preach righteousness, he acted it. He went through water and didn't melt. He breasted the current of the popular opinion of his day, scorning alike the hatred and ridicule of the scoffers who mocked at the thought of there being but one way of salvation.

Eddie Reese

Even though I didn't know I was going to be a swim coach, I always acted like it. I was always coaching other swimmers and telling them what to do.

James Seif

Bill Scranton acted quickly, decisively and correctly. That's one of the reasons he will be a great governor. ... People who know me will realize that I had no intent to inject race into the discussion, but only to emphasize the odd twist in the campaign.

Whittaker Chambers

Communism in our time can no more be considered apart from the crisis clan a fever can be acted upon apart from an infected body.

Paul McHale

DoD felt a sense of urgency and acted upon it.

Arlen Specter

Could we have acted sooner to avoid the situation we are in now, in effect running for cover?

Michelle Fontaine

We are very pleased the court acted before the deadline. We're just very happy to not let the Oct. 1 deadline go by without doing something.

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

Steve Tasker

The Buffalo Bills are a punch line. We were always the team that couldn't win the big game. But we kept getting to the big game.

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Mark Hansen

The Senate passes dozens of bills every year to crack down on drunk drivers.

Joan Maloney

I wanted to emphasize the glamour and prestige of the event.

Harvey Staver

First of all, this is a very smart group. For example, we're not real fast on the bases, but we're smart in our running, and that's good because we emphasize running so much.

Mario Perez

We want to emphasize safety, so no one gets hurt.

Sonny Rollins

I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have.

Abe Badmus

He?d see us tense, like he used to be. He just emphasized us to go have fun and enjoy the moment.

Michael Ramsey

I want to emphasize that there has been no interference with the trial and there won't be whatsoever.

Eddie Jordan

It's good to have physical practices, but we have rules. We want competitive practices, and when we emphasize a physical approach, it's going to happen where you have some physical contact.

Shane Voss

We want our players to be scholar-athletes. We emphasize that all year.

John Otto

We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.

Carmen Bambach

A showdown of the two greatest rivals of the Renaissance.

Nicola Sturgeon

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

Derek Jeter

People say this is the greatest offense ever. But let us play awhile. Names don't win games. You have to play the games.

Mark Mohl

Osage had a very tough week with three quality opponents. We are disappointed we didn't win all three, but the kids had great effort.

Luke Reilly

Northwest is the measuring stick in our league and no one does it better than them. It was a great night for us and a great win.

Ray Allen

After the first half, I thought we were in great shape. We were only down two, and we should have actually been up. We were in the game. I just think everyone was one step behind.

Brian Curran

Again, we have to worry about ourselves, and we did what we had to do in this one. We have a great opportunity there for us (tonight).

Peter Cardillo

Oil is having a great impact on stocks.

B. F. Skinner

Oh yes, yes, yes, it's great to just get away from the regular schedule you have all season.

Otto Bismarck

When a man says that he approves something in principal, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it in practice.

Dan Harmon

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

Chuck Berry

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

Stephen King

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

Shahid Afridi

I love cricket and I have no intention to retire

Mike Tyson

Every punch was thrown with bad intentions.

Mason Cooley

True wit has a grave intention.

Mahmoud Zahar

Negotiations is not our intention, negotiation is a method,

Mahmud Zahar

Negotiations are not our intention, negotiation is a method.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Joe Hughes

That's kind of an odd statistic. You don't see that too often.

Ricky Gervais

I've probably done the odd thing. I've probably done more than I would have done and some things you don't say no to. You don't say no to working with "The Simpsons"... the greatest comedy show on television. You mustn't. Even though going to my bad judgment, I remember saying that all I can do is make this show slightly worse.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Kurt Busch

We've never seen a spark here out on the race track, because we've never run under the lights, so you'll see sparks in odd places that you've never seen here before.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

Anne Rice

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Ann Patchett

I saw that my best work was my most personal work, which is odd, because my fiction is very far afield and has nothing to do with my life.

Anita Shreve

Odd how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love-soaked, drenched in love-only to discover later that perhaps you didn't know that person quite as well as you had imagined.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Doug Holland

People say, 'Just shut the borders,' but they don't understand what that'll do to the agriculture in this country.

Michael Boyd

People say it will be like FedEx for people,

Chuck Palahniuk

People say I make up wild stories. But all I have to do is write down stuff that really happens.

Carine Roitfeld

People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.

Kevin Davis

People say I do a lot, but I'm just doing what I enjoy.

Argus Hamilton

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Benito Mussolini

We must give Italians a sense of race.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Charles Babbage

In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.

Janet Guthrie

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Dan Aykroyd

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Nick Lewis

We went in a little too confident. We've got to realize it's tough to win on the road in any conference.

John Stocco

But you never realize really what it's like until you're actually out there in the spotlight,

Salvation Army

I didn't even realize that there is a possibility ... I would be very sad to see it go.

Gibril Wilson

I didn't realize that the punt was short. It was unfortunate. ... You've got to make your own breaks, so it's all on us.

Kurt Warner

I didn't realize that, the little things you learn.

Kristin Gore

I didn't realize I wanted to write about D.C. until after 2000. Even though I was a comedy writer, I stayed away from that subject on purpose. It took attaining some distance and perspective.

Dan Campbell

I didn't realize how young our team was, ... We're all pretty much on an even plane.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Steven Lopez

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Zygi Wilf

We didn't want him to twist in the wind another night.

Laurieann Gibson

I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist.

Henry Rollins

You don't have to twist my arm to work.