Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Mads Mikkelsen

Awards mean absolutely nothing if you don't get it. If you do get it, they're the best thing in the world.

Sophie Kennedy Clark

Auditioning for 'Philomena' was such a traumatic experience because I had three callbacks, and I was absolutely positive that I was just an option.

Teemu Selanne

Bad passes. Absolutely bad passes. We panicked at times.

Jesse Greener

Back-to-work legislation is not an option that will work in the interests of students. If imposed, there will be absolutely no trust in the process since back-to-work legislation could impose not only an arbitrator, but even a contract. In this case, students will likely not see improvements in the faculty student ratio - this would be serious set-back in the quality of college education.

Burt Aaronson

a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.

Mike Tracy

That was absolutely the pinnacle of my basketball career.

Rocco Mediate

That was absolutely the coolest thing. The fans here are knowledgeable, and they knew I was in trouble and appreciated the effort, I guess.

Carolina Milanesi

As competition continues to drive price pressure at the low end and a design and technology 'arms race' at the high end, the survival of the fittest depends more and more on economies of scales, or very carefully cut out niche markets.

Marc Chouinard

As a hockey player, it's one of the things you dread. It made me realize to be careful out there, especially when you have your back to the play.

Rusty Ladd

As a little child you are utterly dependent on the people that are your caretakers, and he was supposed to take care of her.

Tyler Mason

The big thing for Nevada, for us especially, would be the huge investments in technology and what they've done to modernize health care administration.

Philip Virgo

The big raids will be for project management staff so you need to ensure these staff are content and that means providing clear career paths and training opportunities. Many firms haven't been doing this because over the past few years they haven't felt the need to, but that is going to change with all these public sector projects.

Ron Hill

a very good example of a company that cares deeply about their community.

Debbie Norton

At your own home, you can ignore little problems like a leaky faucet or dripping pipes. But a person paying rent expects that to be taken care of.

Michael Cuddyer

A win is a win in our book, and we don't care how we do it.

Billy Blanks

A will is to make a decision how you should take care of yourself.

Tim Johnson

Our American democracy is in danger of being sold to the highest bidder, and there can be little doubt as to why so many U.S. citizens have become increasingly cynical about the integrity of the entire process,

Howard Osofsky

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

Ahmed Ibrahim

Any decent Iraqi would not do that, and every good citizen rejects that, too,

Mark DiCamillo

The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Fatos Nano

These elections are of extraordinary importance. This will be a society of free citizens no different from other European nations. Tomorrow will be a new day.

Andy Fisher

The modified provisions will provide for the protection of civil liberties of United States citizens while permitting the federal government to continue investigating terrorists and protecting U.S. national security.

Donna Mitchell

Your name is on the list and there is no recourse for you as a citizen. If his name is on one list then it could be on other lists I don't even know exist. It is sort of scary. I feel there is no accountability from the government.

Phil Klay

You're not supposed to risk your life just for the physical safety of American citizens - you're supposed to risk your life for American ideals as well.

John Freeman

This is an issue of fairness and doing what's morally right.

William Shakespeare

Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

It's not fair!" (Ryssa) Because life was ever about fairness. Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

Jack Dunn

For us it's a fairness issue, it's a justice issue, and it's a legal issue.

George W. Bush

He's a man of integrity and fairness and throughout his life he's inspired the respect and loyalty of others,

Rep. Lindsey

I think everyone is interested in tax fairness in this state.

Dennis McMillen

Fairness is so important because some sponsors are very generous.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Tom O'Brien

I've always said, we'll find our niche in Boston, if we're good enough. I think we've found it. We have the opportunity to become a national school.

Ken Hitchcock

I've always found that veteran players play significant roles in playoffs because they know what the level is like. And over a short period of time they can get themselves to that level because they know it's a two-month season.

Jim Caldwell

After a tragedy, we find a way to shake the troubles. It's a somber locker room since they found out. But they have been very businesslike.

Jimmy Chamberlin

After I left the Pumpkins, I went home and just sat around. I have a studio in my basement, and I found myself writing all these songs, just taking advantage of the relaxed situation. I wrote about 30 songs in about 30 days.

Stephen Murphy

So we found out what else they were interested in, ... sound tracks for people's lifestyles.

Ben Boyd

So we called around. We found a policy. We wrote a check.

Robert Blake

So you think that you're going to be found guilty?

Claude Julien

Sometimes you wonder if you need it to be a roller coaster-type of game. We got ourselves back in the game and somehow found a way to let it slip away.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Larry Cox

This is not something that needs to go before the board,

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Dan Barker

Only sinners need saviors.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Debra Winger

I do not need a lot of money to be happy.

Mike Holmgren

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of year for us.

Erika Yowell

We did respond saying yes, we would be interested.

Troy Erickson

We try to teach them how to respond to situations.

Doug Russell

The credibility of the university is tied with how we respond on this.

Andrea Riseborough

I don't read reviews, and it's not because I don't think I can learn something, I'm sure I could learn a lot. I just that I feel very passionately about the work and especially when you're doing theater, you really only need one director and when you read reviews, you feel like you have twelve, because you respond to them, naturally.

Howard Schultz

There's tension here, and I'm just trying to respond in a responsible way,

David Aus

It was like, bing, bing, bing. They threw some big punches, and we just didn't respond like we have all year.

Jeffrey Hirschkorn

They make money. The market's going to respond heavily to this.

Idina Menzel

I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

Brandon Sanderson

Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good thing can become destructive if taken to excess.

Auguste Rodin

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

Augusten Burroughs

I don't read memoirs. But if you write a memoir, I would think you'd want people to know, "O.K., look, I've taken some liberties here." It's just a matter of being open with your readers.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I embrace technology and I just think that in 1984 when James Cameron wrote about the technology, everyone thought he was totally way out there and it was science fiction. Now it's almost reality what he talked about. The machines have taken over, except they have not become self-aware, like in Terminator. So this is really one thing that we have to watch out for, but I think technology is good.

Ayn Rand

Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good, and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value - and so long as that beneficiary is anybody other than oneself, anything goes.

Audie Murphy

I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.

Benjamin Cardozo

Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.

Cameron Mackintosh

I've taken considerable gambles on shows, but they're very considered gambles.

C. S. Lewis

They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out.