Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendy Lapham

We were aware that they were approved for positions that, I believe, are very similar to the positions they hold at Christina.

Jim Davies

We were approved for 18 new units in January. The new units will be similar to the ones in phase II, in that they will be in an enclosed space.

Alex Tabarrok

When the FDA forces an old drug off the market, patients have very little say in the matter. Patients have even less of a say when the FDA chooses not to approve a new drug. Instead, we are supposed to rely on the FDA's judgment and be grateful. But can the FDA really make a choice that is appropriate for everyone? Of course not.

Andy Dick

We're spending the money the district approved four years ago. I have not enough fields and too many teams,

Francis Escudero

We respect and honor the decision. But it does not mean we approve of it.

Ray Walsh

We're going to have information on how people can develop a team and we will tell them what their responsibilities are. It's just getting started right now. I'm glad that the school has approved it.

Tony Ridder

unless and until its board of directors has approved a specific transaction.

Bob Kelley

Usually if a Planning Commission is on board and their recommendations are incorporated into the plan, it's somewhat unusual to not have it approved by the council.

Miriam Jacobs

Work together to make lists of foods your kids like and you approve of, and fill their lunch boxes with them to create a lunch they will be happy with and not trade or throw away. For example, with Single Occasion products you can honor the individual sandwich preferences of everyone in the family, so everyone feels special and will enjoy their lunch more.

Antonio Tabucchi

I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.

Adam Ereli

There are claims of responsibility. They're really, quite frankly, hard to verify. I wouldn't be able to tell you that we know who's responsible at this point.

Bill Nye

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

Membathisi Mdladlana

We want issues related to compensation and pension claims to be addressed urgently since we do not want to see families of these workers starving.

Bill Maher

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

Gareth Peirce

We express incredulity that the senior police officer would have made extravagant claims from the outset without first informing themselves of the true facts.

Patrick Fearon

We're getting close to the weekly level of new claims that was typical of the months leading up to the late-summer hurricanes and the spike in energy prices.

Ken Perrotte

This "Desperate Housewives" demographic, dominated by pro-growth urbanites or suburbanites, often claims it wants to preserve "open space" or "green space." Sadly, this frequently is a euphemism for rollerblading trails and places where their doggies can poop unencumbered; not "wild spaces" where hunters stalk the creeks and wildlife is truly wild.

Jeffrey Herman

This (defamation) suit creates an opportunity to publicly litigate the claims even though the Archdiocese of Miami already settled the lawsuits.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Arne Duncan

Historically the Department of Education hasn't been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society.

Derek Bok

If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.

Denzel Washington

There is nothing good or bad, except by comparison" (209) - "Effort is Everything" by Bud Selig

Denis Waitley

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself.

Kevin Dineen

We are looking forward to the playoffs, especially with the gritty effort we have put forth on the road this season. The playoffs feature a lot of excitement packed into a series and just get ready to rock with us in the playoffs.

Ehud Barak

We are at the start of a very intensive effort and, in a way, the last one in this round to try to reach a breakthrough,

Bryan Hassler

We want to take it a step further and start promoting some of the solutions to not only the short-term issues but also the long-term solutions.

Jacques Rogge

We are preparing for the joint team, which is going much further than just two teams parading together.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by the reporting that Mark and Lance did throughout this story and in all the stories that were published in the paper. And if and when Mr. Conte speaks further about this, I'm sure we'll report about that as well.

Margaret Chan

Until we see further evidence, we are still at Phase 3 of the pandemic alert,

Alia Faraj

We're going to study the matter further and review all the information that will be provided to our office.

Todd Lewis

When we conducted a further investigation of his so-called hospitalization over the weekend, the indication was they didn't think anything was wrong with him and they were trying to get him out the door.

Source Unknown

Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can push things that come into their hands a little higher up, a little further on towards the heights of excellence.

Drew Mitchell

We're in the sweet 16. We've gone a lot further than we thought we would.

Michael Greenberger

As we move further from 9/11 and see that the money has often been used unwisely ... it is very necessary to put people to the test.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye.

Chris Brown

There's never a right time to say goodbye. But I gotta make the first move 'cause if I don't you're gonna start hating me.

Chinua Achebe

I don't want to be the one to tell somebody, You will not make it, even though I know that the majority of those who come to me with their manuscripts are not really good enough.

China Mieville

In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.

Edith Wharton

There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

David Hyde Pierce

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

David Icke

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Edward Hopper

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

Edward Gibbon

Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

Eddie Marsan

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

Henry Spencer

Whether solid rockets are more or less likely to fail than liquid-fuel rockets is debatable. More serious, though, is that when they do fail, it's usually violent and spectacular.

Courtney Campbell

With this type of leukemia, he most likely will need a bone-marrow transplant.

David Carr

We're more likely to be understanding than to be judgmental.

Mark Forest

Absentee voters used to be a unique demographic group. Now they're more likely to look like the rest of the state with each passing election.

Jim Dyke

The more we get the message out, the more likely we think people will become excited.

James Johnston

The more they need you, the more likely it is you're going to get clauses that you want in the agreement.

Lisa Maxwell

It's just an untouched jewel. It really is just kind of the next place for likely development patterns to occur.

Khuram Chaudhry

It seems like the U.S. markets are likely to see a sloppy start after Friday's sessions,

John Schneider

It seems like people are more likely to tell you you've gotten too thin than to tell you you've gotten too fat.

Akshay Kumar

Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Chris Adrian

I am...sad and angry. Why is my spirit so sad and angry? I look back at my life and all I can remember is rage and rage and rage.

Chogyam Trungpa

When you are frightened by something, you have to relate with fear, explore why you are frightened, and develop some sense of conviction. You can actually look at fear. Then fear ceases to be the dominant situation that is going to defeat you. Fear can be conquered. You can be free from fear if you realize that fear is not the ogre. You can step on fear, and therefore, you can attain what is known as fearlessness. But that requires that, when you see fear, you smile.

Chita Rivera

I never like the way I look. I don't. I never look at myself.

Edward James Olmos

At the rate we're going, the 21st century looks pretty clear. It's going to be pretty violent

Edward Hirsch

And sometimes you look at the first poems by someone and you go, "They have freshness and a sense of wonder that is never recaptured again by that poet."

Dayo Okeniyi

Denzel Washington is someone I look up to.

David Riesman

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

Sal Albanese

I can't solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

Kevin Fitzpatrick

We wanted to mitigate the risk, so we started by first selling the most marketable portion, the residential land, to other developers.

Jeff Tank

There were some passes that were there for us to pick off and we didn't make connections. Then, when we did get a steal we couldn't convert.

Greg Johnson

It passes all the boundaries, not just race and education. These are people, and people are complicated.

Carroll Dawson

Rafer is more of a traditional point in that he passes first, shoots second,

George Osborne

They all said I was a very young guy. Well there is nothing I can do about that but with each day that passes the problem solves itself.

Bill Callahan

I don't know about a lot of things. I read a lot, but a lot of it just passes through me. I don't retain much. I am kind of dumb that way. Or maybe 'I am a simple man,' is a better way to say it.

Jordan Gross

We need to be able to protect and get the passes off to make them back off.

Kyrie Irving

I'm not really a big X's and O's guy, but if you want to go there, I'm more of a space-the-floor type of coach: Five out, zero in, and that's the way we play basketball, screen and roll here and there, pocket passes everywhere; it's what it's about.

Nate Washington

I'd take her over Ben. She can make passes at me any day.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self-evident

Dan Hopkins

With the kind of support he sees around the state, he thinks it would be something important to enact.

Nate Burleson

It was tough for him. When Superman sees Kryptonite for the first time, it's shocking.

Genesis Rodriguez

I'm bicultural, and everyone sees me as a Latina, but in my head I see myself as both Latina and American.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

Richard Engel

Israel sees the world just beyond its borders collapsing.

Jeff Gundy

We'll know more after he sees the doctor. He's had it for a long time. It has to do with his toenail and having his toenail removed.

Jack Nance

Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.

Dave Tippett

He sees them as well as anybody, and I trust what he has to stay.

Greg Rusedski

(John) McEnroe sees him in the top 20, I see him getting into the top 50 and then the top 20.

Charles Caleb Colton

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Athenaeus

I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.

Antonin Artaud

It is not a certain conformity of manners that the painting of Van Gogh attacks, but rather the conformity of institutions themselves. And even external nature, with her climates, her tides, and her equinoctial storms, cannot, after Van Gogh's stay upon earth, maintain the same gravitation.

Bernard Baruch

Financial storm definitely passed.

Cedric Richmond

In D.C., I've passed amendments to allocate $6.3 million to keep our waterways open for business, $1 million as a down payment on our wetland restoration - our natural storm protection - and $5 million to ensure that drilling permits are reviewed thoroughly and efficiently.

Beth Moore

We want Christ to hurry and calm the storm. He wants us to find him in the midst of it first.

Beth Moore

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

William Shakespeare

This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends.

Deepak Chopra

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives.