Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Their voices have been heard. They elected me to be governor, and they sent me up here to do the job, ... That's what I'm here to do, and so that's why I'm concentrating on this right now.

Viktor Yushchenko

that I have lived to the time when the Ukrainian president is elected not in Moscow, not in Washington, but in Ukraine.

Donald Briggs

It's time for the elected officials to do their job,

Joe Franco

I want every student present to know how big their position is and how important it can be to the student body, ... We want to encourage the notion of debate. It is so important that these senators take stands on issues - don't just vote yes because everyone else did. They were elected to their positions because they are leaders, not because they will vote yes on everything.

Mohammad Khatami

The U.S. government is, after all, the U.S. government. It has been elected by the American people, and we respect that.

Rick Davis

Nothing has changed. This elected has gelled. There are very few people out there who are genuinely and legitimately undecided.

Darren Shan

I was lucky because my mum was a teacher and showed me how to read and write. But most importantly, she encouraged me to use my imagination.

Jean Price

Jack gave him that right encouragement. You never know when that special pat on the back is going to be the one that influences them.

Ramel Bradley

He just told us he needed us to encourage him. He said we needed to help him get out of his slump.

Quentin Blake

With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

Nick Saban

What would he do (if he returned)? If there was something significant he could do, we'd encourage him to do that.

Cam McLeay

Having listened to family, friends, and everyone else, without exception everyone encouraged us to continue.

David Woodruff

His signs are great, probably as good as can be expected at this stage. We're all so encouraged.

Eric Warner

I think it's a really fun idea. It encourages a youthful spirit. I haven't had any entries yet, but it may be a day-of thing. . . . I really hope that you enter.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

David Neumark

I think what the living-wage movement has done in the past 11 years is incredible. How many other issues are there where progressives have been this successful? I can't think of one.

Paul Robertson

I think some of the technical and infrastructure issues haven't been completely realized,

Duane Lewis

He's doing fine. I think it was just a routine procedure. It had been prescheduled. It was not the result of any issues the last two weeks or three weeks.

Bill Graham

I did point out (that) his is a minority that is even less strong than ours and on many of these issues he knows that not only (does) he represent a minority of members of the House, but also in terms of the electorate.

Judy Breselor

I don't find it acceptable. It's really got to go before the Planning Board. I had some issues with it and have to go see how it fits.

Reid Hoffman

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

Joseph Castelo

It should not strengthen the position of those with a preconceived notion about terrorists.

Greg Stein

The notion of packaged products is really going to go away.

Ray Allen

It seems the referees take these preconceived notions about what he's going to do. It's ridiculous some of the calls.

David Fish

This is the notion of personalization at the intermediary level.

Michelle Branch

People have this notion of me being this sweet, nice girl, but I'm kind of a pervert.

Nicholas Haslam

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

John Doe

We had no preconceived notions of what we were going to be,

Dolly Wells

Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Albert Camus

You always get exaggerated notions about things you don't know anything about.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Tom Lehman

I'd like to be in a position to give my spot up if I had to.

Mila Kunis

I am in the position where I don't have to work for the sake of working, so I'm very lucky, in a sense. So, I can always sit back and wait for a project that I respond to, that I want to do.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Robert Payne

It is no more rational to have lawyers in positions of power than it would be to have garbage collectors in positions of power. And in human terms garbage collectors would be preferable.

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Megan Hilty

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Dan Gorbett

Inexperience. We have a lot of positions open.

Pat Gleason

I'm not sure that the transfer of these positions is necessary.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Gary Andersen

There isn't much difference. The positions are very interchangeable.

K'naan

I don't feel political most of the time. Sometimes I'm placed in positions because no one else will go there.

Joe Ehrmann

You have one of the most responsible positions in society.

Ryan Snair

Sean can play any of the infield positions and can catch, too.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Jeff Bzdelik

I haven't even thought about it. This is my first time here, so I'm worried about the present.

Larry Spell

I really like what you're presenting to us here tonight.

Layne Higgs

Their match-up zone presented a lot of problems for us tonight. The zone took away Garrett's penetration.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Ray Takeyh

They want to be able to present this as a fait accompli .

Mark Madison

At the present time, we are in a 'watch' position.

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Paul Dergarabedian

You could say the 'NC' stands for 'No Cash,'

Wendy Palmer

It stands for the big three in my life. God, me and family.

Joan Maloney

It stands for a time, not a place.

Dale Tea

As it stands now, I don't know what it means.

Robert Lansing

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

Jim Hawkins

For writing style and pace, your work stands alone.

Clem Metz

She just stands there -- like some employees.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Kenny Perry

He's a tremendous kid, a tremendous student of the game,

Wally Lamb

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Mike Butcher

I just watch guys. It's like, when the student is ready, the teacher will come. That's it.

Willie Tuitama

I'm just being a better student of the game.

Mila Kunis

I was actually a pretty good student. My problem was that I didn't know what I wanted to study.

James Remar

James Remar is a student of life.

Louis Menand

You have to have students wanting to take the courses, otherwise you're not going, they're not going to be very effective.

Eric Hoffer

The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities.

Randy Willis

It's new each time a different student handles it.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition. I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.

Gary Johnson

I reluctantly vote to decertify the petition, ... I still think it's ridiculous, but a statute's a statute.

Trevor Rabin

When you listen to a Yes album, you should listen to the whole thing through headphones with the lights off.

Carl Jung

Today's worries are yesterday's fears and tomorrow's stories.

Rick Wakeman

I am a Yes fan, ultimately. I've been a member of the band, but I was always a fan of the band first.

Robert E. Lee

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Richard P. Feynman

Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.

Richard Hofstadter

We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays avant-garde experiment is today's chic and tomorrows cliche.

Richard Baxter

That which once was, will be no more. Yesterday will never come again. To-day is passing, and will not return. You may work while it is day; but when you have lost that day, it will not return for you to work in. While your candle burns, you may make use of its light, but when it is done, it is too late to use it.

Umberto Eco

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

Tyler Perry

As far as the illusion of the fame, yes, I can definitely appreciate it.