Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

Gary Waters

I felt so bad because this is my team and it looks like I abandoned them. I made a bad choice.

Jim McCrery

I can assure you that the House Ways and Means Committee has not abandoned trying to extend the dividend tax cut and the capital gains tax cut. We think that is critical. We have not given up on that," ()

Scott Ritter

I am assisting United States veterans, heroes. People who put on our uniform, defended our country in time of war, who have been abandoned by their government.

Harvey Pitt

I do not believe that anyone can recall the last time a complaint prevailed under Section 18. It has long been abandoned as a resource.

Mel Pearlman

This is an issue that will come up in the next generation in Four Corners. In Four Corners, it's going to be particularly difficult to incorporate. Under Florida law, a city has to be in one county, and Four Corners is in the confines of four counties.

Judy Johnson

Don't know the future, don't know when the city will be re-opened, don't know how to get back to my house to pick up my belongings that are important to me,

Marcus Samuelsson

Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

Robert Garcia

Even a small city like ours will feel a major impact if this (bill) is passed in the Senate.

David Rakoff

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Ann Wright

We are trying to work our way through the list, and as you heard, the city is trying to do that as well. We really are not taking any names now because we're trying to cach up with the people who have already registered.

Bradford Cohen

You do what you think is right, but when you put yourself out there, you know you're going to get criticized. It's the same way being on the city commission.

Andrew McBride

Everything is now stacked in favor of the government. You're going to see pictures of New York City and the Pentagon you've never seen before, hear from survivors, officials in New York about the impact. What do they have on the other side?

Carl Griffith

There was a lot of frustration on all our parts. And hopefully our government will take a look so no American city will have to go through this.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Rhett Bomar

Everybody knows he's a great player. He's 100% healthy right now and he's going to be dangerous.

Gary Sheffield

Everybody knows good pitching stops good hitting. Our guys are pitching great.

Ken Stern

Everybody knows everything about everyone else. They're all gossips. If you're a private person, there's not as much privacy.

Rose Nix

Everybody knows everybody on each team and it's just exciting for them to make it down there. I'm just really happy for them.

Dominique Johnson

Everybody knows Ben's our go-to guy. But it feels good to know we're all doing our jobs, too.

Jeff Lacy

Everybody knows about my left hook, so you've got to go to the gym and work on something more devastating.

Dick Pound

Everybody knew that there would be more testing. The federations did more pre-Games testing and all that had an effect.

Thom Shuman

Everybody knew Teddy needed special help, but it never happened.

Lee H. Hamilton

The status quo failed us. Reform is an urgent matter, and reform must not wait until the next attack.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Sharon Stone

I've been famous for a long, long time. So I don't think of it - I think of it very differently. It's the normal temperature of my room.

Adrienne Bailon

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

Max Clifford

Now people are famous for doing things that 15 years ago they would have tried hard to keep out of the papers.

Shane McAnally

I always loved Willie Nelson, but I loved the songs that Willie made famous.

Nicole Scherzinger

I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.

Tadashi Shoji

Am I famous in Japan? I don't know, and I don't really think of myself in that way.

Chuck Zito

Sonny and another Hells Angel who was at the meeting thought they were beyond a little patch so they headed down to a local tattoo shop in Oakland and were the first to get the famous One Percent tattoos.

Evel Knievel

You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.

George Bernard Shaw

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Nasim Pedrad

John [Mulaney] likes to say I'm like a district attorney with absolutely no jurisdiction whatsoever.

Roy Brown

She's the kind of student we want at this University. She's a role model whether she likes it or not.

Merle Friedman

She mentioned that she likes shopping a lot.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

Georg Hackl

I have the strength of a 10-year-old. If the track was 500 meters longer I might have a chance.

Harry Harnish

The turkey vulture has a V-shaped wingspan and a white head. Unlike eagles, vultures tend to glide for longer periods of time.

Peter Frampton

The Longer You Love,The Longer You Live,The Stronger You Feel,The More You Can Give.

Anita Roddick

But the minute we went public on the stock market, which is how our wealth was created, it was no longer how many people you employed, it was how much you were worth and how much your company was worth.

Christopher Shays

We will come and make a longer trip soon,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.