Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott McCallum

You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.

Tim McCormick

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

J. C. Watts

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

Helen Hudson

Dr. Martin Luther King, his whole agenda was good works, and in the labor world we all have the day off. So instead of sitting at home, watching television, we decided to come out and do some good throughout the community. And this is the result of it, this is our seventh annual clothing and food drive.

Bruce Cleveland

You can't drive your own agenda, ... Customers drive your agenda for you. Customers cannot be disrupted, period. Oracle is a professional, ethical, large company. They're not going to disrupt any of our customers.

Karen Bonaudi

We wanted to see if it generated any interest at all. So the next one is where we will have a real full agenda of different participants in transportation. The people we want to attract are the people interested in hearing from the providers of transportation and the users, and we expect a real interactive give and take session there.

Sreedharan Pillai

Congress does not have an agenda of its own in these states and is following the agenda set by the CPI-M.

Roger Thomas

To be honest, we were shocked. There was nothing on our agenda indicating we would even discuss the opener below Point Arena.

Phil Klay

People should be able to tell stories that are important to them to try and understand what they mean. I don't think you figure anything out on your own. Certainly not war stories.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Steve Snyder

Southwest certainly was a part of the increase in January. We'll see in the coming months what the trends look like. It'll probably be a little easier to make a judgment (about Southwest's impact) at the end of the first quarter.

Jim Beal

So we're certainly concerned. We're watching the situation closely, but at the present time the system's functioning as it's designed and we're being reasonably successful in managing flows.

Arlen Specter

So they weren't necessarily your views then and they certainly aren't your views now?

Andrew Morton

So the whole thrust of any kind of reportage of the Royal Family, certainly in the tabloids, it may have been intrusive in terms of the way you define it, but it was certainly very laudatory and it really maintained and expanded the fairy tale.

Greg Olsen

Space is not for wimps. It's certainly not just writing a check.

Adrian Gonzalez

On-demand solutions are influencing the mindset and expectations of customers with regard to pricing and time-to-value. While $1 million TMS deals are still possible, they are certainly the exception and relatively rare these days.

John Chafee

Now is certainly not the time for Congress to embark on massive tax cuts or spending programs predicated on revenues we have not yet received. Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

Patrick Lang

The state agrees with Storms that his sentence may be impacted by the Ohio Supreme Court's decision in State v. Foster. The state has no objection to having Storms returned to the trial court for re-sentencing.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Kevin Keegan

The tide is very much in our court now.

John Wallace

Publicly he's saying one thing and in the court he's saying another thing.

Ken Crump

You never really shut down Beverley. But we had good court recognition of wherever he was.

Bob Hofman

You play the whole league season to get a home court in the tournament.

Antonin Scalia

If you're going to be a good and faithful judge, you have to resign yourself to the fact that you're not always going to like the conclusions you reach. If you like them all the time, you're probably doing something wrong.

Dennis Fowler

(Considine) is just a real solid player. She starts here back and forth, we mix the line-up around a lot ..She?s got a good demeanor on the court and she did really well.

Sir Scott

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

Joe Girardi

It was an ugly game for us. We didn't pitch, we didn't play defense, we didn't hit with runners on. It's difficult to win a game like that.

Jeannie Oakes

These roadblocks exist in every school in California, and one in every eight has all of these, making it extraordinarily difficult for students to prepare for college.

Marc Falcone

Is it just a spigot you turn on, the people are waiting and just turn up? It's difficult to say.

Mike McCreary

Is it difficult to prepare for Madison's offense? Absolutely. It's hard to simulate the timing and the speed of it. We haven't seen the option run at this level this year." ()

County Administrator

It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.

Dan Kelly

I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose,

Ronaldinho Ronaldinho

The whole of this team's very special, they're great players so it's difficult to choose.

Bob DuPuy

They all have significant strengths, all have significant financial wherewithal. Every one has support within the industry and outside the industry. The strengths of the groups make this a very difficult decision.

Carl Tobias

The witness whose testimony was struck was their first and perhaps their strongest witness, and so that could make it difficult going forward on the case.

Maya Angelou

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.

Maya Angelou

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome.

Bob Clark

If you do encounter that, it would be wise probably to swim elsewhere, ... Just be mindful of your and their environment.

John Green

The truth is that in our lives we are all going to encounter questions that should be answered, that deserve to be answered, and yet prove unanswerable.

James Graf

We're right on the money right now, heading toward our encounter with Mars.

Daisaku Ikeda

A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Joan Baez

I generally like to get to the point.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

BeBe Winans

I've been privileged to meet presidents and sing at inaugurations and other political events.

Helen Thomas

Presidents hate the press. They hate me most of the time.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

David Daniels

This is the first time I've ever seen this called. I hadn't seen it all year. There hadn't been any warnings issued all year in any of our games.

Sandy Miller

This is probably the worst day we've seen in many, many years.

Asma Jahangir

This is something we have not seen here before.

Bob Metzler

It would take something pretty serious for that to come about.

Jane Austen

An annuity is a very serious business.

Douglas Kennedy

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Donald Wuerl

There are serious problems that have to do with the environment, that have to do with the way in which we live and consume.

Vijay Mallya

Any serious airline has to look at a worldwide network.

Matthew Henry

Pure Christianity and serious godliness fear not the scrutiny of a free thought, but despise the impotent malice of a prejudiced one.

Maya Angelou

You're not serious; you're boring as hell.

Plautus

It is not fair to treat as serious that which is only said in joke.

Paul Weller

I suppose I was much more serious-minded in the '70s and '80s.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Colin Mochrie

The American audiences are more vocal and enthusiastic. British audiences tend to sit back a little more.

Debbie Ryan

We just went cold. We have a tendency to do that.

Sasha Roiz

I have this tendency to play these horrible, horrible characters.

Donald Rumsfeld

It tends to be speculative, ... It is not actionable. It is not verifiable.

Katherine Center

Beauty comes from tenderness.

Edith Hamilton

A tendency to exaggeration was a Roman trait.

Bob Mayer

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Peter Hook

Democracy for us tends to be has to do with who shouts the loudest!