Famous Quotes & Sayings

Duncan Hunter

Prior to September 11, 2001, illegal immigration was considered a regional issue without national implications. We quickly learned on that day, however, that this is a national issue, affecting each and every American, not just those living in border communities like San Diego County,

Kurt Barrow

Oil markets have been a bit irrational in the past week or two with long-term supply concerns affecting short-term prices. Iranian oil exports are unlikely to ever be restricted and certainly not anytime soon.

Jim Shultz

Cutting public expenditures by any large degree cannot be done without affecting the poor who rely on public services, or provoking huge rebellions.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

BENEFACTOR, n. One who makes heavy purchases of ingratitude, without, however, materially affecting the price, which is still within the means of all.

Tomas Rosander

Beyond Blond has established a special branding for Sweden in the western region of the U.S. that presents Sweden today as a nation at the top of its game in delivering innovative design, scientific achievements, communication technologies, sustainable development, energy, environment technology and business prowess in numerous fields affecting contemporary lifestyle and quality of life. I'm pleased to say that Beyond Blond 2006 goes beyond California this year, featuring for the first time lifestyle events elsewhere within this consulate's 13-state region, including Washington State and Nevada.

Alan Greenspan

As the value of assets and liabilities have risen relative to income, we have been confronted with the potential for our economies to exhibit larger and perhaps more abrupt responses to changes in factors affecting the balance sheets of households and businesses,

Mahmoud Othman

Violence has its fingerprints on everything. It's affecting everything and every activity.

Jinny Sims

We are very pleased the courts have affirmed our position: that as teachers we have a legal right and professional duty to speak out about issues affecting the quality of public education.

Andre Dreicon

What's affecting the market is a lack of money.

Roger Toussaint

The struggle and defiance and unfortunately sacrifice will be required and will occur and judges need to understand that, the courts need to understand that and the lawmakers need to understand that.

Octavio Paz

...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and his most lasting love.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Adam Barrett

I think we all feel better going into the tournament, including me. We know the layout of the Dome. We understand that the courts and the backboards are different. It's a different environment, but we've been there, so we understand that.

Gary Wagher

In the '80s, the water would seep up through the cracks when it warmed up and the courts would be slick. Plus, they sloped the courts from the east to the west instead of putting a slight grade on each side so that it would slop either direction. That didn't help with the drainage.

Matthew Myers

In this case, the courts are going to find that the FDA is right,

William Chandler

If neither the courts nor the markets are able to restrain executive compensation, and if you the decision-makers fail ... the result will be imposition of regulatory controls,

Bill Threlkeld

We feel the courts in the end will see it our way, but we have to let that process go through.

Farida Karoney

It was about midnight when hooded men raided our offices and ordered the night duty staff to switch off the transmission.

Christopher Hill

We all felt duty-bound to continue, because I think there is a feeling that we have taken this further than we ever have in the past,

Woodrow Wilson

I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you

Jane Austen

She was determined, as she felt it to be her duty, to try to overcome all that was excessive.

John Diaz

We don't want to put them out of business, but we owe a duty to the public to ensure we're making it safe,

Igor Stravinsky

We have a duty towards music, namely, to invent it.

Immanuel Kant

Beneficence is a duty.

Bill Hill

If he thinks we're doing that, he's not doing his sworn duty as a judge to keep that from happening,

Henry Silverman

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

Roxane Gay

Definitely, there is a sense in my writing that people now know me in a personal way. And to an extent, that's true because I write about very personal things, and I use the personal often to contextualize some of these sociopolitical issues that we're dealing with. And to an extent, they're right. They know something about me.

Fred Harran

Anything that a pedophile can utilize to find the location of the child. These people are smart, just because they have issues doesn't mean they're stupid.

Burton Richter

Since stepping down as laboratory director in 1999, I have devoted an increasing fraction of my time to international issues. I am involved with energy, environment, and sustainability issues, particularly as they involve new energy sources free of greenhouse gases.

Aimee Mullins

I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me.

Charles Bass

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

James Wolfensohn

The first thing that you need to deal with is the issue of equity and poverty.

Diane Duane

The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.

Craig Kilborn

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

Brigham Young

The Holy Ghost is the Spirit of the Lord, and issues forth from himself, and may properly be called God's minister to execute his will in immensity.

George Brown

So we're going to be looking into our legal options.

Philip Kerr

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

O. J. Simpson

There have been a lot of unique and novel legal questions that require more research than normal,

Joseph Sobran

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

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.

John Roberts

I do think that it is a jolt to the legal system when you overrule a precedent. Precedent plays an important role in promoting stability and evenhandedness,

Chuck Robinson

I think it needs some clarification as to what is what, ... I'm not sure you don't run into some legal technicalities.

Mike McCurry

I think it's a matter not so much of legality as of fundamental fairness, that the president ought to have a right to respond to any report if there is such a report." ()

Elton Gallegly

What I heard, unfortunately, was more legal hair-splitting,

Bible Bible

And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.

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.

Bob Wynne

We are very pleased with the Commission's decision.

Steve Burd

We are very pleased with our 2005 results.

Dick Parsons

We are very pleased to have reached an understanding with Mr. Icahn.

Gary Muto

We're very pleased. We wouldn't be rolling out if we weren't pleased with our results.

Susan Tolchin

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

Debbie Morgan

We were pleased by the ruling but that also reaffirms to us that practices we have in place are appropriate.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

David Cook

We're taking every step we can think of to take. It seems so unjust that someone who has been such a careful, unbiased, sensitive reporter could be murdered for that kind of public service.

Bai Ling

What I like about being an actress is that it keeps you feminine. Being a director and producer makes you manly and very masculine and I don't like that quality in a woman. But I'll do it when the film is very close to me.

Greg Robinson

We're going to work; we're going to work hard. It's going to be quality work.

Cardinal Richelieu

Not the least of the qualities that go into the making of a great ruler is the ability of letting others serve him.

Bob Dylan

I'm looking for a woman who's head is mixed up like mine.

Dennis Prager

The rarest of the good qualities in human beings is courage

Dieter Rams

Nothing works without details. They are everything, the baseline of quality

Eckhart Tolle

What you encounter at your destination once you get there depends on the quality of this one step. Another way of putting it: What the future holds for you depends on your state of consciousness now.

Deepak Chopra

The quality of one's life depends on the quality of attention.

Chris Phillips

And we've been getting a lot of quality shots.

Aravind Adiga

Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

Carson McCullers

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is not the opposite to success, it's a stepping stone to success. If our primary goal is to be approved of, then we are not going to take risks, we are not going to speak out, we are going to try to blend in.

Arthur Schopenhauer

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Dave Pelzer

There's a lot of Dave mania when I speak.

Scott Adams

We know the goats are imported because they don't speak English.

Sonia Rykiel

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

Solon

What thou seest, speak of with caution.