Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Atul Gawande

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Dominic Monaghan

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

John Meyers

There has always been a choice out there. It's a matter of taking the time to see what's available. You want to be sure it's a company that's really dedicated to insurance.

J. Taylor

You have to make choices and you can't do it all at once, ... This is sequential. This is step one and it's all about seniors.

David Adams

You have a subject who's lunging at them with a knife ... swinging wildly at them and they're fearing for their life. They had no other choice but to resort to lethal force.

Mark Consuelos

You had no choice - you either got it or they'd ride you until you got it. And they did. You picked it up pretty quickly, and so after the two weeks, you're ready to get out of there,

Samantha Mahoney

When you make a run like that in the WNIT, you have no other choice but to move forward, and the next step is the NCAA tournament.

Richard Doherty

Toshiba didn't have any choice because they don't want to launch even one player commercially that doesn't have a secure foundation to it.

Gary Ruskin

So the question is who else is going to know. We are concerned about the invasion of privacy related to corporate advertisers knowing your position.

Kent Willis

School administrators are so concerned about discipline in school that they neglect the fundamental rights of students. Not only do students have a constitutional right to express themselves in the school so long as they're not disrupting the educational process, but schools ought to be encouraging students to express themselves.

Lara Rhame

This is not a 'ripping off the Band-Aid' kind of situation, where you know how much the pain will be and that you'll be fine afterwards. We don't know how well the economy has healed. The Fed remains very concerned ... that they might overshoot and give the economy such a shock they'll have to cut rates again.

Robert E. Lee

At present, I am not concerned with results. God's will ought to be our aim, and I am quite contented that His designs should be accomplished and not mine.

Stockwell Day

We are very concerned obviously with developments in Haiti.

Dave Bonnot

We were concerned that he seemed to be listening more to them (developers) then his constituents and us. He did say Mountain Springs was a great place to put a subdivision.

Richard Pound

We were concerned something might be going on in Italy.

Tom Padjen

We were concerned especially with homecoming week and everything. Defensively, we played a great game.

Michael Roth

We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

Meg Casper

School districts should be back in better shape, back to where they were before the hurricanes hit.

Kirby Green

We think it screams for the three districts to come together. So they don't all have to fight over the last drop.

Brian Peterson

Kurt only gave up four points on his feet in 34 matches. The only other points he gave up were from releases. Nobody scored on him at districts or at state. This is a high school kid who doesn't make mistakes or get out of position. He wrestled all season at an extremely high level.

Deanna Lassegard

People either walked up to us or someone dragged them. If you didn't come to us we never knew about you.

Tom Roseen

The tax drag is just a really big issue. People just don't have it on their radar screen yet and they really should.

Wayne Angell

I've never seen a time when there's been such a blow-up of the kind of risk to the U.S. economy. We've taken a 2 percent trade drag for the first three quarters of 1998 and yet we're still averaging a 3.25 percent growth rate for these first three quarters.

Shlomo Dror

This is not like the situation of Jewish settlers who had to be dragged out of their homes,

Adam Ereli

This issue is something between Mexico and Venezuela. It's not something that you need to drag the United States in.

Rick Riordan

Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!

Marianne Moore

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

Frank Denton

I don't think it is appropriate to drag in the other candidates. I don't have any intention of signing (the pledge). I didn't have anything to do with the suit or any of his original troubles.

Persian Proverb

By a sweet tongue and kindness, you can drag an elephant with a hair

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jack Kozuchowski

I've spent half my life here. And they've always given me a lot of space to do what I thought I needed to do. It's been a labor of love.

Hal Capps

You never know what we are going to run. We feel like we have six tailbacks that can get the job done on any given night.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

David Brodsky

Everything (entitled to the defense) is not given to us,

Peter Weir

With more time I like to see the actors find something of their own places, so I can get their own ideas before I put mine in. Given they have a better idea more often enough.

Mark Rylance

This situation has given them an opportunity to really set themselves up.

Andrew Friedman

We think that we're going to become intimately involved with the arbitration process given the nature of how young our roster is. The intent of the hearing is to solve differences that can't be resolved through negotiations. It's not ideal for the team or the player, but sometimes it's necessary.

Amity Gaige

There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.

Boris Vallejo

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Barbara Kingsolver

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

Baruch Spinoza

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

Art Buchwald

Any company executive who overcharges the government more than $5 million will be fined $50 or have to go to traffic school three nights a week

Benjamin Bratt

I don't really consider myself to be an actor of any particular style. My aim with every role I undertake is to be truthful and honest in that particular portrayal. I don't have a particular methodology from any one school of thought or training.

Carl Zimmer

Evolution is a large political controversy as to what should be taught in the schools. But there is no scientific controversy that we evolved when we talk about evidence from fossils and DNA.

Alan Dershowitz

I came from a poor family, so working and going to school at the same time was natural. It taught me multi-tasking, although we didn't call it that back then. I learned I could never be idle, I need to be doing many things at once.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

The private schools and the independent schools like Oprah's are really doing well because they've got the best of everything but it certainly puts the spotlight on a system of public education that is still reeling from the apartheid years [in South Africa].