Famous Quotes & Sayings

Swen Nater

Coach Wooden gave me a job description. He told me I probably wouldn't play very much, but he needed me to practice against Bill. He said, 'You're not going to get the glory, but I need you to do this.' I accepted the challenge.

Isabelle Dinoire

Despite their pain and mourning, they accepted to give a second life to people in need.

Sergei Bogdanchikov

Despite the fact that to date our company ranks first in the world for oil reserves (according to the generally accepted international methods of assessment), a pace of development of no less than 7% a year is planned for our company. This calls for constant increases in our raw material base.

Issac Asimov

A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written

Michael Dorf

Anything the court does that is controversial is going to be in danger as long as it's controversial. The reason why racial segregation in schools is not going to come back is not because all nine justices think Brown is right. It's because the country has accepted that it is right.

Marie Okabe

The secretary-general and the United Nations stand fully behind the millennium development goals, which are internationally accepted and which have the broad support of member states and civil society.

Katharine Graham

These cool or antagonistic relationships are part of life in Washington and are accepted as such, but I often think how self-defeating they are and how much better polite professional relationships would serve political figures and journalists in situations like this. I agreed with a charming message I got from George McGovern after he had been defeated for the presidency. He recalled making some bitter remarks about a couple of our columnists at a dinner party; but wrote me, 'I have regretted that outburst and I have also established that the maximum time I can carry a grudge is about three months. This note is simply to say that I have now forgotten all campaign grudges. It is just too difficult trying to remember which people I'm supposed to shun.'

Jason Alexander

The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.

Vladislav Jovanovic

The targeting of China's embassy is not an accident, is not a collateral damage. This is one accepted harm, one accepted crime, by those who have decided to stage total war against Yugoslavia.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

James Wolk

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

Pankaj Mishra

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Rob Smith

The Big Ten is so competitive. You don't know where certain teams are going to be two weeks down the road. We are just going to try and clean up our game and take it one game at a time.

Joe Theismann

Back when we played, they were like molded to your head. Football players are a finicky bunch. A running back likes his leg pads to fit just right. Some players like their shoulder pads to fit a certain way. We all have our idiosyncrasies and quirks.

Richard Yamarone

As long as there is a perception that higher prices are in the tea leaves, that's a problem certainly for policy makers. And I think that's why the Federal Reserve seems hellbent on raising rates.

Jim Henderson

As long as you warm the seat for a certain number of hours, you walk out of the classroom with that certificate.

Mary Osako

As in most jurisdictions, governments are not required to inform service providers why they are seeking certain information and typically do not do so.

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Chuck D.

Any conduct that violates either the law or Red Cross code of conduct is not tolerated.

Yaacov Cohen

We've shifted from being a Microsoft-centric company to more of an IBM- and open-systems-centric company. We made the decision prior to the software code leak, and it had nothing to do with that. That's under federal investigation.

Nick Kinsella

The problem with some people is that they use their religion as a part of their identity rather than what it actually is; a code of conduct.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Tool vendors have made a good start, but have much work to do in tools that depend on compilers and other source code analyzers.

Nick Griffin

Unfortunately, there haven't been any contributions to the code from parties that have downloaded it.

Steve McConnell

Good visual layout shows the logical structure of a program.

Michael Bryant

Ontario, therefore urges the federal government, in consultation with the provinces and territories, to undertake an immediate high priority review of the current firearms provisions in the Criminal Code as set out in this paper.

Shane Coursen

But we don't get down and dirty and talk about individual lines of code in our products.

Jerry Weintraub

I'm a guy who shakes your hand and will never let you down. I have a code of honor and I don't lie.

Dag Hammarskjold

The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Ayatollah Ali

The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities.

Atharva Veda

YOU very often condemn the mind as a monkey; but take it from Me, it is far worse.

Javier Solana

Every European, every democratic person, has to condemn these people who wanted to interfere with an electoral campaign, producing suffering for hundreds of people, leaving families broken, without any objective.

Paul Watson

There are many who condemn my crew and I for taking the law into our own hands and for taking on the barons of corporate profit.

Ann Cooper

We categorically condemn the outrageous prosecution of Shi Tao,

Sathya Baba

There is no discipline equal to service to smother the ego and to fill the heart with genuine joy. To condemn service as demeaning and inferior is to forego these benefits.

Publilius Syrus

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

Glenn Greenwald

It's always easy to get people to condemn threats to free speech when the speech being threatened is speech that they like. It's much more difficult to induce support for free speech rights when the speech being punished is speech they find repellent.

Johanna Siguroardottir

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

David Moore

Our faculty gets to travel, visit the sites and conduct workshops and teach classes. In doing so, they are getting international experience, and that helps them to develop professionally.

Alexandra Milenov

A principle of justice is that the defense needs to be able to conduct interviews in a privileged setting. Otherwise there could be a perception of unfairness or abuse.

Nancy Peterson

The students are there to take down names and family information. They then input that information on the (Red Cross Family Links) Web site, and conduct searches.

George Robertson

public trust is essential to an effective judicial system and one judge's conduct may have a significant impact upon the public's perception of the entire judicial system ...

Jim Petro

I've never, nor would I ever, not conduct an appropriate investigation.

Christopher Dodd

This is the first time in more than 200 years that the federal government will take a very proactive role in the conduct of elections,

Peter Erben

We did see some procedural irregularities but nothing that I consider systemic and which would have influenced the overall conduct of the election. This was a peaceful and good election.

Jim McCarthy

This type of conduct is irresponsible and will not be tolerated.

Stan Heath

Auburn is a difficult team to play because they have so many different defenses. We wanted to make sure we had a high energy level. I thought we responded pretty well in the second half.

Rene Portland

Our energy was not the same. Ohio State pressured us defensively and made it difficult for us. Our offense never got going.

William A. Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Conard Fowkes

Actors don't do a good job worrying about their finances. It's difficult because you do not work consistently week after week. You may be very well paid for a job that lasts 10 weeks. Then you're unemployed and you haven't put any money aside.

Robert Montgomery

The momentum is increasing for a national program. This is especially important because it offers hope to patients who have compatibility issues that make it difficult for them to find suitable donors.

Doretha Edgecomb

An emphatic yes or no would be difficult at this time.

Joel Silver

The size of Audubon's anthologies made them difficult to carry, move around and store.

Jan Vandemoortele

The situation remains difficult but it's not critical. The rains and snow often make it miserable but not unmanageable.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Emile Sheng

I think it shows the differences between the parties are pretty big.

Lee Dean

We're working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

Jane Goodall

The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families.

Caprice Bourret

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

Alana Stewart

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

Aung San Suu Kyi

There is nothing to be gained by being unnecessarily nasty. Violence begets violence.

Bobby Seale

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

Eckhart Tolle

The moment you put a mental label on another human being, you can no longer truly relate to that person. . . It then becomes possible to perpetrate any act of violence.

Bill Schwartz

We've had no violence here. Let's keep it that way.

Barbara Bush

As if we don't have enough violence on television.

Cory Doctorow

Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.