Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlo Panunzi

Anyhow, it is not a very important business and mainly active in Europe.

Paul Aussaresses

As for torture, it was tolerated if not actively encouraged, ... He (the emissary) knew exactly what went on during the night.

Eric Brewer

The site that we had been looking at did not work out. We never got to the point of moving forward on an actual approval process. We are still actively looking for sites in Citrus County but do not have any specific plans at this time.

Ram Hernandez

The official statement I can give you, the only statement I can give you is that Naomi Fuentes is a person of interest in an active criminal investigation.

Steve Zeller

These are the sort of films we are actively and passionately looking for. They have excited audiences and jurors alike at a number of film festivals because they are stunning and emotional pieces of work, and we are happy to be involved with such excellent movies.

John Walsh

That should reflect what you see. As rooftops show up, you're going to have more services to serve those homes. We still have very active projects for office parks and industrial parks.

Ian Telfer

We're looking to fill that gap as our production starts to go down six or seven years from now. And these mines, as everyone is learning, take longer and longer to drill out and to permit and build, so we're actively looking now.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they are so only to the extent that those who profess them know how to turn them to account.

Liu Peng

We are holding active consultations with the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG) about how to let the people in Taiwan share the Olympic glory.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Sharon Salzberg

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

Zhu Bangzao

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

Deb Baker

If they're defying authority in regards to this immigration protest, they're going to be suspended, regardless of their ethnic background.

Steve Lambert

Signs are a symbol of authority. They tell you when to go, what to do. No one really questions them. For an artist, it's totally interesting.

B. F. Skinner

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Webster Franklin

When you're creating a new taxing authority, it could possibly create instability, of which Tunica has been fortunate not to have over the last 14 years.

Mackey Sasser

The bottom line is, their pitchers were better than our hitters tonight. We had our chance but we couldn't get the job done. It's the same old thing we've seen all year. We have a runner at third base with less than two outs and we can't him in.

Brian Quinn

The business must be based on the success of our football team,

Jamie Bamber

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

William Frey

Back 30 or 40 years ago when people thought about where they'd move it was based on jobs. Now housing is as much of a factor.

Nelson McCullough

A number of times, we had the bases loaded and we'd get that third out. We just couldn't capitalize on it." ()

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Carolyn Johnson

The students are selected based on recommendations that come from their instructors and who have demonstrated a record of high achievement.

Lawrence Lindsey

The tax cut provides enough of a floor that we don't fall too far. We'll have a base from which to grow.

Loren Scott

The tax base will shift more to where they have their residences, instead of where they work. That's where they will pay their property taxes, buy their groceries, buy their cars.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Lu Xiaowen

Aiding the needy has always been a traditional Chinese virtue.

P. J. Harvey

Ultimately what they are planning is a Chinese space station in about 2008 or so. To do that they will need to learn about how to survive on longer missions.

Jack Ma

What we are doing is to design an on-line search engine for ordinary people, not just the engineers. We are more focused and a totally search engine technology will come to the Chinese market within three to five years.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Tom Verlaine

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.

Sun Heping

Chinese embassy is the home of all Chinese people living abroad, and we would like to express our sincere wishes to everybody here to have a wonderful future.

Rodrigo Rato

Given the importance of the Chinese economy, that will be healthy for the world economy.

Jim Raper

Our driving force is to do an extremely high-quality job for the lowest possible price. Ultimately, that saves our taxpayers money.

Larry Starkey

People fail to slow down and pay attention. People keep driving like it is a sunshiny day, and it isn't.

Richard Friend

And that won't be easy on this tight driving track.

Georg Hackl

The small driving mistakes were annoying, but it's important today that I wrapped up a place in the seeded group at the Olympics.

Richard Grasso

A day doesn't go by when the market isn't on the most skittish and volatile path that I've seen in my 35 years at the Big Board. What's driving that is the simple insecurity, or if you will uncertainty of outcome.

Laila Robins

I'd rather do a great play than a mediocre play in New York. As much as I'd like to be seen in New York, that's not my driving motivation. My motivation is to play great roles, wherever they happen.

Debra Wilson

My driving force is spirituality.

Tom Crosby

We are still driving like fiends in North Carolina. We are getting back to our consumptive habits.

Brad Wilkerson

We did a good job of being patient. Wakefield didn't have good command, and we did a good job of being patient and getting good swings. If we get on base, these guys do a job of driving us home.

Kofi Annan

The secretary-general hopes that the tribunal will uphold the international standards of justice necessary to ensure its legitimacy, fairness and independence.

Tony McNulty

These are serious allegations and I will ensure that they are fully investigated.

Stephen Toulouse

We've taken a look at this situation and incorporated some lessons learned. We will work very hard to help ensure something like this doesn't happen in the future,

Bob Collins

We have a responsibility to ensure that every student is given every opportunity to be prepared for, and to pass, the CASHSEE. We are exploring every possible way to work with these students to provide their passage to the next stage of their future.

John Carr

We want to ensure everything possible is done to protect our responsibility to oversee the National Airspace System.

Robert Friend

We want to ensure every miner has the equipment and training to safely evacuate.

Rudolph Penner

To improve highways, we should rethink the way revenues are raised instead of only increasing them. The present highway finance system can remain viable for some time, but the right reforms might give us a system that not only pays for roads, but also allows us to manage traffic flow and ensure that scarce funds are invested in projects with the greatest public benefit.

Richard Berner

Upside inflation risks may require that the Fed move promptly and perhaps a little more forcefully to ensure that inflation and inflation expectations stay low.

Trevor Manuel

There is no room for error ... we have to ensure the next few weeks are in fact about the intensification of (the trade) agenda.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

John Sutherland

These are six extremely different novels, all of them good in a very different way.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Mike Bossy

I'm always extremely honored to be applauded the way I am when I get back here and have any kind of liaison with the fans. I'm humbled by it.

Shanna Briggs

I felt like we started out extremely flat. And we didn't do some things well defensively that we wanted to, and that's when they went on their run.

J. Taylor

Hiroshi is an extremely technical player with his passing and dribbling, ... He'll be a good player for us.

Jay Foreman

He stepped up big for us. They had put a lot of good shots on goal. He was solid in net. His reflexes are good and he is extremely athletic. He showed me a lot stepping in a tough spot like that.

Peter Castro

He's extremely concerned. And she's extremely grateful for that concern.

Mike Woodson

He played extremely well. He didn't play like a rookie.

Tetsu Emori

The oil market is now down because most people are taking profits after seeing a sharp increase last week.

Sergei Ivanov

Russia has no intentions to increase its military presence in the northwest.

Dan Ballister

These are the lowest increases we've done in over 10 years.

Doug Tumen

You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you should run no more than 22 next week.

Tony Gerlicz

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

Todd Tiahrt

Earmarks are supposed to be bad. But they don't increase spending.

Liang Guanglie

China-US military relations, an important part of overall relations, have seen an increase in exchanges.

George Goncalves

Mortgages were super, super rich in February. It made sense for them not to increase their portfolio using mortgages, but they did increase it, and it was mostly floating-rate type products, mortgage-related securities and those kind of asset-backed products.

Sherry Sylvester

Neither man ever met a tax increase they didn't like.

Drew Matus

There's no sign of inflation, and the labor market is still weak. There's still plenty of room from the Fed's point of view.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Labor humanizes, exalts.

Terry Jones

Sarah: That's not fair! Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?

Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; and thought without learning is perilous.

Thomas Graham

If it wasn't for union workers and labor unions, there would be no 40-hour work weeks, eight-hour work days, pensions or vacations,

Liz James

Most of them take around 72 hours. You mail it to a lab and they do an analysis.

Francis Collins

We can peek into evolution's lab notebook and see what went on there.

John Abraham

I don't have a problem being labeled a sex symbol, though I personally don't feel very sexy about myself.

Wayne Dyer

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

Terry Hoeppner

We are going to have 200 motorcycles leading us down (Indiana) 37. They are going to be leading us back into Bloomington.

Sean Landeta

Up to that point, our punt team had done very well. Two weeks earlier, I was leading the NFC in punting, and I thought I was punting well, but they thought that they needed to do something to shake things up.

Bobby Howard

We were leading 7-2 in the game. We just didn't get it done.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

Doug Firebaugh

The life you are leading is simply a reflection of your thinking.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my character actor side as a kid and my more leading man side. It's all been beneficial.

Al Leiter

It's a very big mental game, all day leading up to warm-ups. You're not sure if your curveball will break, or will you be able to throw it over the plate? It's all negative thoughts going into the game.

David Beckham

We could have done without this, leading up to the World Cup.

Ron Wilson

Tremendous play by Joe. That play was unbelievable. He's leading the league by about 20 assists. He makes plays every night.

Bill Callahan

A number of us talked about what we would do if we had come on him when he was loose, and you wouldn't be having a trial right now if that had occurred.

Gray Davis

the most qualified person on question number two.

Roebalin Bustamante

You see the standing water, this is the number one hole.

Ashley Scott

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

Jane Addams

That person is most cultivated who is able to put himself in the place of the greatest number of other persons.

Joe Wurzelbacher

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America.

Edward Snowden

There are proxies, proxy servers on the internet, and this is very typical for hackers to use. They create what are called proxy chains where they gain access to a number of different systems around the world, sometimes by hacking these, and they use them as sort of relay boxes.

Doug Risebrough

We have a number of players who are third-, fourth- or fifth-year pros. It's their time. We're not sure what they're going to do, but we need to find out.

Brian Greene

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

Sue Leibold

A new world opens up for parents because a new world has opened up for their teens.

Dan Shechtman

The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.

Brenda Smith

The right tools can really open up Scripture to you.

Nasser Judeh

This is not an open door. We can't just let people in because they are at the border.

Dean Acosta

That's not the way we operate here at NASA. We promote openness and we speak with the facts.

Bob Fitzsimmons

Younger people especially, I urge them to open a Roth. I open them up regularly.

Daniel Barber

It has made me realise how many doors open for you when you're up for an Oscar. It seems once you are nominated, it validates you as a serious director, and you become someone that people want to work with.

Richard Daynard

At this point, it's really open season on the industry,

Justin Brouse

We were third-and-long, so I was thinking first down. That?s really all I was going for. But I was wide open so I just took it all the way.

Anne Robinson

They are always so pleased with themselves aren't they? I've never taken to them. What are they for?

John Lloyd

We are very, very pleased with progress so far.

Susan Tolchin

We're very pleased that the sirens worked this time.

Heather Thomas

I am really pleased I am just so proud that he did a lot better than me. That's what you want for them to do better than you. He can go on to do what he wants now.

Howard Stern

He was very supportive. I was so pleased that he had called.

Mike Hargrove

I was real pleased with how he threw the ball. He was down in the strike zone and threw well.

Bob Souliere

I was pleased with the team's effort. They worked hard, unfortunately we had a poor shooting night.

Joanie Ewing

She had a lot of one putts for par. That's a solid round for her, and she was pleased with it.

Mark Geragos

He's pleased with the outcome, and he's back at work.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Tia Carrere

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Kennedy

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Charles Kennedy

I want to see far more decisions taken far closer to the patients, the passengers and the pupils. Far more power for locally and regionally elected politicians who understand best the needs of their areas. And far more say too for the dedicated staff at all levels in health and education.

Jamie-Lynn Sigler

I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.

Jascha Heifetz

When people come to play music as they do to play bridge, civilization will have taken the longest stride forward since the beginning of time.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.