Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Kilgore

I trust the people driving on the roads, not the bureaucrat staring at a map in Richmond,

Robert Pitofsky

I don't want the Federal Trade Commission to be the thought police, ... I don't want a bureaucrat like me influencing the content of these materials. But, rather, we need to influence the way these materials are marketed.

Barack Obama

Those who oppose reform will also tell you that under our plan, you won't get to choose your doctor - that some bureaucrat will choose for you. That's also not true.

David McAllister

The democratic process allows any politician with an agenda, any organization with a big enough showing, even any bureaucrat with enough zeal to initiate legislation that impacts others more than themselves.

David Cook

Jail overcrowding -- that's what's driving everybody's car.

Mike McCue

Journalism is being pushed into a space where I don't think it should ever go, where it's trying to support the monetization model of the Web by driving page views. So what you have is a drop-off of long-form journalism, because long-form pieces are harder to monetize.

Bob Wilson

I think it makes people think and realize the hazards of driving and the need to be safe.

Carlos Delgado

I take a lot of pride in getting big hits and driving in big runs.

Detective Legros

He said he was just driving around and needed the money.

Brian Jenkins

He said he was driving on U.S. 250 and said someone ran in front of him.

Spike Milligan

His vibrato sounded like he was driving a tractor over a ploughed field with weights tied to his scrotum.

John Silvia

I think it's just oil and optimism about the New Year. I think oil is the driving factor due to the warmer weather, but people are now looking for better than expected (fourth-quarter) earnings, better than expected retail sales number. There's a host of good numbers out there.

Russ Rader

It is important that parents enforce strict rules about driving: no nighttime driving, no driving around with friends in the car. These are the riskiest situations.

Julian Schnabel

I think when somebody's painting they don't necessarily... I'm not illustrating what I know. I'm mapping out, like topographically, some terrain I am satisfied with, how awkward that mark is.

Walter Lippmann

At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.

Javier Solana

road map to get out of the violence.

Raven Goodwin

I freestyle, but I'd rather sit down and write down my music to map out what I'm doing. But if I'm out with my friends, I will freestyle, you know?

Gwyn Howat

It's unlikely there will be any postponements. The weather has been all over the map this week, so we're going to play it day-by-day.

Ken Jennings

There’s just something hypnotic about maps.

Larry Wall

Younger hackers are hard to classify. They're probably just as diverse as the old hackers are. We're all over the map.

Philip Pullman

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

Hanan Ashrawi

Sharon has subverted the whole process by turning it into something sequential and conditional and, of course, by making himself the interpreter of the road map,

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gary Shaw

We try to give them a little leeway. They're not always staring at their watches.

Rick Riordan

I gave her my deluxe I'll-Kill-You-Later stare.

Paula McLain

My life was my life; I would have to stare it down, somehow, and make it work for me.

Maggie Stiefvater

Ronan kept staring at Whelk. He was good at staring. There was something about his stare that took something from the other person.

Burton Rascoe

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

Amanda Hocking

Wendy: Why are you staring at me? Finn: Because you're standing in front of me.

Stephenie Meyer

Something I've never seen in all my lives. I'm staring at... hope." - Wanda

Paul Ballew

We do have some payback out there staring us in the face.

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Robert C. Solomon

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Robert C. Solomon

Familiarity can no longer be a necessary condition for trust.

Robert C. Solomon

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust opens up new and unimagined possibilities.

Robert W. Service

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Vittorio Alfieri

A usurper always distrusts the whole world.