Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Rick Carlisle

Our decision making and turnovers were our undoing in the fourth quarter. We were forcing them to take tough shots, and then we just made terrible errors down the stretch.

Rosevelt Colvin

People tend to talk about the 3-4 and 4-3 like it's two totally different entities, and it's not, ... A defense is a defense, no matter if this guy has that gap and that guy has this gap. Somebody's an end, and somebody's a linebacker, regardless who you put in there. I'll be dropping and rushing, whether we're in a 3-4 defense or a 4-3. That's one thing that factored in my decision to come here. I'm going to get the opportunity to rush the passer, because that's what I love to do.

James Cobb

People die in the buses. If you make the decision to voluntary evacuate, folks are going to die.

Frank Robinson

On Tuesday, I'll make a decision on that,

Larry Coker

Normally, I try not to make a decision like that in the heat of the emotion. You have no sleep, those kind of things. So I'll give that some thought and analysis.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Anthony Chan

This is a report that represents judgment day for the Federal Reserve,

Scott Berry

This group hasn't been fazed by the Federal Reserve's string of interest rate hikes.

Judd Gregg

You need a single point where all federal funds go through so you have accountability,

Alex Penelas

We are holding the federal government responsible, and specifically (Attorney General) Janet Reno and the president of the United States, for anything that may occur in this community,

David Phelps

We are heavily focused on the federal marketplace; it's 98 percent of our revenue.

Stephen McClellan

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing. By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

Stephen McClellan

CSC has a long presence in government systems integration and outsourcing, ... By contrast, EDS is keeping its military work to a small percentage of the total, and IBM sold its Federal Systems division." ()

Richard Nichols

We could see the Murrah federal building. It was demolished.

Dale Mitchell

The state does not provide any funding at all,

Richard Mann

Scholarship funding doesn't come from the state, it doesn't come from university coffers.

Russ Williams

We had no money, no funding from the university. We were literally starting from scratch. We had no office. We had no vehicle.

Dena Erwin

There is no indication that sheriff's funding was affected.

Pat Dunn

With funding for restoration already lined up, we're ready to move quickly. Our goal is to restore the property to high-quality, native prairie as quickly as possible.

Phil Brown

We weren't funding the (gang outreach) program much anyway.

Judy Batusich

We haven't been able to secure any funding yet.

Tim Butler

We're looking at several different sources. We haven't secured a particular funding stream yet.

John McIlwain

Right now, many people are in limbo and don't know whether to rebuild or what to do next. There needs to be a plan, and there needs to be funding for that plan, but right now there is neither.

Jeff Spence

The state actually gives a higher ranking to those who are working together.

Bryan Larrison

These last two wins after our January gives us momentum.

David Robbins

The space now gives us more opportunity to reach out to the community,

Roseanne Roseanne

The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Gordon Banks

I've met Pele several times since that day and he always mentions that save and gives me an affectionate hug and a smile.

Adrian Pilz

This gives you an idea of the mentality going on inside this bank.

Julie Futch

This gives us motivation for the next game.

Mark Jensen

This gives everyone a lift on and off the pitch. Whether Shearer wants the job in the long term, we'll have to wait and see.

Kris Kobach

A law that very specifically said no state can give in-state tuition to illegal aliens unless that state gives in-state tuition to all U.S. citizens, regardless of where they come from.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Robin Cook

The Russian government throughout has sought to be as helpful as it can within its power, but that power is very limited in Chechnya,

William Browder

The Russian government doesn't come because for 70 years they didn't have to worry about what the world thought of them.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Dalton McGuinty

I've tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Lauren Fine

Rather than meeting the chef, we heard more from the CFO and even had a review of the financials.

Craig Sher

Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.

John Fossum

I've never heard of a situation like this before,

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people shut up so fast. The only thing you could hear was our bench.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people shut up just like that.

Larry Walker

I've never heard 43,000 people just shut up like that. The noise just ... wasn't there.

James Franklin

I've only heard he likes to smash it -- he's a young Darren Lehmann.

Kristen Staab

It was the worst thing I ever heard in my life.

Kalle Palander

I skied like a pussy cat. I didn't take any risks because I heard that Rocca had skied out.

John Mica

What we did when we did it was necessary, ... We didn't want the industry to totally collapse.

Christine Wu

We are still positive on the industry as a whole, but I'm personally more conservative on UMC.

Steve Ballmer

We are still not getting in the manufacturing industry, ... We will provide the infrastructure that lets those in the manufacturing industry do their jobs.

Lloyd Doggett

What precedent are we setting in doing this for one industry and not for others?

Thomas Hoffman

Every time we have an accident, or have something particularly like Sago, we're back to people thinking we're the same old industry we were back in the '60s.

William Wood

But we?re talking about the same numbers. The oil industry is volatile. It?s very profitable some years and not so profitable others.

Ed Rendell

Because this is an industry that is young, it has tremendous potential,

Shaw Wu

From an industry perspective, consolidation is good. For Maxtor and Seagate, I'm not so sure.

Mike Paul

She did research in the industry to find out what the top 12 tips are and those are the tips.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

David Atkinson

The things that it saw as priorities 10 years ago, they may still be priorities, but they aren't necessarily the only priorities.

Joel Sawyer

That's going to be one of our priorities going into this session.

Miley Cyrus

My priorities are my friends and my family.

Jeff Mullins

You have to make time, ... Have priorities and get it done.

Donald Trump

As president, improving cyber security will be an immediate and top priority for my administration.

Donald Trump

Those who abuse our welfare system will be priorities for immediate removal.

Donald Trump

Last year [2015] alone nearly half a million individuals overstayed their temporary visas. Removing these overstays will be a top priority of my administration.

Donald Trump

The 9/11 Commission said that this tracking system would be a high priority and would have assisted law enforcement and intelligence officials in august and September in 2001 in conducting a search for two of the 9/11 hijackers that were in the United States expired visas.

Donald Trump

We will also make it a priority to develop defensive and offensive cyber capabilities at our U.S. Cyber Command and recruit the best and brightest Americans.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Eric Walters

I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.

Carroll Quigley

In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

Charles Barkley

I'm not paid to be a role model, parents should be role models.

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

It's always the script first choosing roles. [Then] whoever else is attached. I never like to be the first person attached, because I don't really trust what's going on, unless there's a really good director.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Jan Chipchase

Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.

Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Ayn Rand

Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

Ben Fountain

You have the mainstream bourgeois life of the U.S., Europe, the "developed" world - the life of technology, education, mortgages, careers, a certain level of physical comfort - while on the other hand, several billion people on the planet exist on less than a dollar a day. That's a huge and terrible reality to get your head around.

Burton Richter

In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really now dominating all the technology arena in the world.

Al Gore

Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature

Aimee Mullins

You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough in our technology that our language can evolve, because it has an impact.

Janet Napolitano

All images generated by imaging technology are viewed in a walled-off location not visible to the public. The officer assisting the passenger never sees the image, and the officer viewing the image never interacts with the passenger. The imaging technology that we use cannot store, export, print or transmit images.

Jim Calhoun

You find you think more about what can go wrong when you're the hunted. When you're the hunter, you think about all the things that can go right.

Shashi Tharoor

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

Marianne Williamson

Much like a GPS, love re-calibrates itself if you've made a wrong turn.

Rajon Rondo

He was crowding me. I think that's the wrong way to play me. Not to be cocky.

Kathleen Ham

I feel very, very vindicated. I feel a wrong has been righted.

George Eliot

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

Abraham Lincoln

It is better only sometimes to be right than at all times wrong

Winston Churchill

It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.

Larry King

I think he was the wrong person. He wasn't the target.