Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kevin Marsh

The 7.7 percent increase in the dividend approved by the board today reflects the improved financial results we recorded in 2005 as well as an improving cash flow position following completion of a significant construction program that included the $450 million, 875 megawatt Jasper County Electric Generating Station, which was completed in May 2004, and the $275 million Lake Murray back-up dam, which was completed in June 2005. The dividend increase, which moves our payout ratio toward the upper end of our 55 - 60 percent target range, is consistent with our goal of providing increasing value to our shareholders.

Ed Murphy

The approved final plan for the project contemplates on-lot sewer systems.

Lisa Lange

We know that the public would like us to avoid using the approved bonds and we will continue to look at options to see if that is possible.

Abdel Rahman

We have turned over a complete security plan to the Americans, ... President Clinton himself approved it and was happy with it.

Hector Barreto

We've done a lot to expedite our response in these areas, and over the last six months we have approved more disaster loan dollars in a shorter time frame than in any other disaster response in the agency's history.

Pauline Neville-Jones

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated in the world as I found it, and it was a man's world.

Michael Chertoff

You can be assured that before a deal is approved we put safeguards in place, assurances in place, that make everybody comfortable that we are where we need to be from a national security viewpoint.

Andy Kahan

I think it would be more prudent if you're going to do it for people who are going to be released in the next year, rather than play house with people who, for all intents and purposes, haven't even been approved for release.

Frank Zarb

We are in the process of completing the restructuring of the NASD that its members approved so resoundingly in April, ... These appointments today set the stage for the future growth of both organizations, through outstanding leadership.

Michelle Fontaine

We have always wanted there to be unfettered time for individuals to file these claims. The deadline serves no purpose.

Kelly Collins

Time is running out. The deadline is approaching. So far, Delta has not come forward with meaningful negotiations.

Mary Hamilton

I was totally in shock. I thought the deadline had passed.

Don Crawford

We realized that a lot of kids turn 5 after the deadline and parents would love to get them in structured instruction.

Chris Hill

We don't have a real deadline (for possible NATO bombing) but things are going to get very tense in the next few days.

Brian Hill

If anything was learned this year it's the importance of all 82 games. It would have been a great learning experience and a nice reward for what they accomplished from the trade deadline on, but we're going to have to wait 'til next year.

Michael Guido

To come out and try and portray a story that they are not responsible is completely ridiculous. When it comes down to the deadline somebody has to pay. They are trying to talk this thing down.

Vanessa Gulati

There is no deadline to submit the report, but it will probably take them longer than other smaller developments.

Carol Hansen

I can't devote or focus on one issue for very long because there's always something else. That's the most stressful thing. The other big fear is that I'm going to overlook some deadline or responsibility.

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Ken Lisaius

The pilots determined that to be safe rather than sorry they needed to make an emergency-style landing.

Victoria Strauss

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.

The Others

The arbitrator has determined that the counterclaim will not be considered.

Larry Rothschild

That will be determined as we go. We'll see. He's where he should be in rehab. There have been no setbacks. As long as we can keep progressing, that's what we're after.

Rob Stillwell

We've looked at who are our employees going to be and is there enough of a population to draw from, and we've determined that there is.

Steve Ivcic

We just couldn't put anything past Perry. He's been like that all year. ... It was important for us to be determined and persistent because if you put enough pressure on any goalie, eventually the wall is going to crack.

Marc Andreessen

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

Fritz Hollings

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Tim Clark

The announcement by the governor is two weeks late.

Liz Boyd

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax. It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Jennifer Granholm

Today, the governor has no intention of suspending the sales tax, ... It would be an option, under a variety of circumstances.

Peter Dunbar

We're really pleased that the governor has shown, at least in our first negotiating sessions on this, that she seems to mean business.

Peter T. King

The party has to be rebuilt on all levels. In a way, maybe it's to be expected when you've had a governor in office for 12 years and he and his people are stepping down.

Donald Harris

I'm hoping the governor can step in and help out.

Mitt Romney

Every year, virtually every governor balances the budget.

Ric Williamson

Those are two guys under a lot of stress, as were all of us. They speak with candor, and that's what the governor expects.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Steve Burns

That was important because it set a legal precedent.

Pete Rose

I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Bryan Whitman

You can do something perfectly legal, but that is inconsistent with the policy or procedures of the department. Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Bryan Whitman

Just because it's legal doesn't mean it's the right thing to do.

Sandy Close

We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.

Ambrose Bierce

Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.

Lucio Gutierrez

I will use all legal and constitutional means to retake power,

Laura Nichols

I think if the vice president thought he had other legal options open to him, we'd defer to his judgment.

Bill Vaughan

Letters should be easy and natural.

William Shakespeare

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

Philip Schultz

Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.

Tom Lee

I thought it was a little odd at the time, so I saved the letter. Then I see the letter on television and it really worried me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

Julian Kurtz

We even sent them a certified letter but they won't pick it up.

David Friedman

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Arthur Caplan

Basically, you shouldn't be sending out anything until you have that letter in hand.

Marge Whaley

I don't think seven letters is a big concern.

Barry McGuire

Marches alone won't bring integration when human respect is disintegratin

John Calipari

We have strong legs. That's what we strive to have in March and that's what we have.

Bill White

going to march our men right back in there.

Ian Shepherdson

He used the word 'pre-emptive,' which was the signal he used before the March 1997 rate hike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Avan Jogia

Before I forget ...Beware the Ides of March.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Mildred Ellison

Now teachers and principals at our schools can go up there for the training because it's just amazing.

Kenneth Trump

I don't think the principal is doing anything radical.

Roger Fox

It's sad, because she's an outstanding teacher and he was a very strong principal as well.

Bill Cosby

Most of us learn to read by looking at each word in a sentence - one at a time.

Jim Morgan

When that tsunami hit, they sent planeloads of supplies and U.S. soldiers. Where's our help?

Susana Almanza

It has sent a frightening wave of terror throughout the community.

Kraig Troxell

He was sentenced a total of 115 years. All but 25 years were suspended.

Leonard Underwood

If they got trouble, they would be sent here and I would put them to work. But they weren't here very often.

David Hume

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

Nigel Barker

My daughter's first sentence was, 'Dada no hair.' And I was, like, 'No Jasmine, Dada does have hair, Dada just shaves his head.'

Carl Jung

Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.

Jason Calacanis

I don't want someone taking half a sentence or paraphrasing me... Just too much risk.