Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelvin Frazier

We have rules we have to go by to make the case. You may know he did it but I still have rules I have to abide by to put my case together and for me that's the hardest thing of the job you have to let this guy go.

Scott Patterson

However, if it gets to a situation where people are refusing not to abide by it, we do have the authority to not allow them to ride the bus. So that is one stick the agency has that it can use.

Charles Schumer

However this turns out, I would simply urge all Americans, from President Bush on down, to have faith in Mr. Fitzgerald's investigation and to abide by his findings once they are made public,

Salva Kiir

I pledge my allegiance to the government of Sudan... I shall obey, observe and defend the constitution and abide by the laws of the country.

Councilman Polensek

If you want to own a bar or tavern, you have to abide by local and state laws.

Stanley Fischer

I generally prefer to abide by agreements I've signed. So that is at least one rationale for transferring the money. There are all kinds of other rationales, but that is my starting point.

Shoichi Nakagawa

If the US side wants us to import and eat it, it should strictly abide by rules which have been agreed on between Japan and the United States.

William Stevenson

The injuries were so extensive we all felt that it wasn't an accident. We had to abide by the law, and the law spelled it out. It wasn't just wrestling.

Brett Albanese

The Forest Service is not obligated to abide by state rules, but we try to work with them. There's also nothing in the state law that controls what a private landowner can do.

Brian Johnston

My role will be largely a support to him in his capacity, ... He's going to be expecting me to provide some guidance for him in terms of our paper-making activities in all the mills.

Dan Glickman

We hope the Supreme Court's unanimous ruling and an aggressive education effort will dissuade companies and individuals from engaging in these types of unlawful activities in the future. But when necessary, we will pursue all avenues ? including legal means ? to protect our product from theft.

Kevin Lee

I asked what their hobbies were. Here, I get the opportunity to do musical activities that they don't have.

Jillian Rose Reed

I do as many fun activities as possible. A lot of hiking, beach bike riding and walking. And cardio barre, which is a dance-based workout at a ballet barre. It's a full-body workout for one hour on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in a studio.

Ali Yunesi

Our nuclear activities are open and very transparent. Our military activities are all legal,

Thomas Russo

Investors are unable to get a clear view on 2006 because there's so much noise in the numbers. There's the competitive environment in Spain, there's the impact from Kraft activities and there were currency swings. It doesn't in any way impact the progress made on the domestic product.

Adam Gilchrist

In 2001, we also got distracted by doing a number of endorsements. By 2004 we limited off-field activities so as to remain fresh and concentrate on the job at hand.

David Smith

The integration activities from Q4 are bearing fruit. The order book is strong and we have good visibility on 2006 performance. Our confidence in the revenue streams allows us to provide guidance on 2006 of between EUR 25 and EUR 30 million, a significant step change on 2005 pro forma revenues of EUR 17.5 million.

Somsak Kosaisuk

The headaches and fatigue are normal. We are attempting to hide from the heat under trees and in tents during the daytime. At night, our activities will continue.

Paul Haggis

As a filmmaker, it's a great thing to feel you've really affected them, one way or another. I'd much rather have that than have someone say, 'Nice film, man.' That's a stake through your heart.

David Orton

Profitability for the quarter was affected by the lower revenue and a reduction in average selling prices for the company's board products.

Jim Albaugh

People touching product and programs won't be affected much.

Coby Karl

I sort of took a page out of his book. I don't think it would have affected (the team) too much, but I didn't want outside stories wandering around. I wanted the focus to be on our team and not some outside situation.

Jim Forbes

This is not a contract about big wage gains. The big issue is to make sure that people affected by plant closings are looked after.

Ann Taylor

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is a part of the neighborhoods and communities affected by this disaster, and we are committed to contributing to the relief efforts now under way, ... On behalf of our company and all 61,000 of our employees, our thoughts and prayers are with everyone who is affected by this disaster.

Dan Toole

Drought need not be a death sentence for children living in affected communities. We can save thousands of lives if we can get the emergency health, nutrition, water and sanitation interventions to them before it is too late.

Will Johnson

Even if it wasn't an overt lyrical influence, it definitely fueled some of the tone of the record, and some of the feel of it. Even the title itself could be somewhat linked in a way. There's a song off the sessions that's not on the record, but it's called 'All This Fresh Mutiny.' It's kind of a harsh title, but at the same time it was very much inspired and influenced by what I kept seeing before my eyes on TV. It's impossible for me not to be affected by that.

Howard Smith

Even if Baltimore's growth slows down, they won't be affected as acutely as Entrust. When you go off a smaller base, it's easier to hit the number.

Rick Sherlund

While not that material to the company, it is a step in the right direction. The bigger opportunity to Microsoft might be to encourage corporate customers in China to sign up for enterprise agreements to help better manage the implementation of new software such as Vista and Office 2007, although we see no reason to be encouraged at this stage.

Jim Allchin

Product quality and a great out-of-box experience have been two of our key drivers for Windows Vista, and we are on track to deliver on both. But the industry requires greater lead time to deliver Windows Vista on new PCs during holiday. We must optimize for the industry, so we've decided to separate business and consumer availability.

Niklas Zennstrom

People do business in Sweden and it goes well; they may try launching the product in Denmark instead of considering a global business plan. On the financing side, VCs require too much downside protection and are not willing enough to take risks.

Kevin Rollins

Dell's business model is potent in all economic cycles,

Robert Phillips

Coke is down because of disappointing earnings and lackluster second-half estimates, ... Everyone is eagerly awaiting the new CEO's business plan.

Tamika Catchings

Coming of losses to good teams - Connecticut and Washington -- we knew we needed this one. We want homecourt for the playoffs and that means we have got to take care of business at home or on the road.

David Smith

Developing online presence tools is a strategic move, with more businesses showing an interest in hosted share-points, for example. The company's strategy is to extend its business software offerings to Web platforms.

Kathy Sierra

Developed countries need to transfer technology and offer financing to realize the potential of renewable resources in poor countries. This makes good business sense. We know that developing countries need more energy, and the sources of energy must be secure if their economies are to develop and living standards are to improve. Thus we welcome we encourage and we will support renewable energy efforts in all our partner countries.

Alan Oster

Despite improvements in confidence and still reasonable sales, the results suggest that business is still reluctant to increase hiring.

Anthony Thompson

deteriorates markedly further from here, and threatens the strong business investment outlook.

Mats Sundin

As a team, we are scoring some goals but we still have a lot of work to do. If we want to compete with Ottawa and the other top teams in our conference, we have to do better in our own end.

Lee Brown

Teams can register to compete on our Web site. We're also still taking applications from craft and vendors.

Dave Schutter

You're only as good as the competition you wrestle. If we wanted to, we could probably go undefeated every year in duals if we wanted to go find the weakest teams to compete against, but that's not our objective. Our objective is to go out and find the toughest competition to see what we're made of, and hopefully that improves us when we get down near the end.

Soren Petersen

You need scale that is just immense in order to compete in this area.

Ashley Wagner

When I step out onto the ice to compete 'Romeo and Juliet,' I don't feel like a fighter. I feel very nervous, and it's very difficult for me to get into the mindset for it.

Houston Mader

We got at each other every day in the room. It's been good to have someone to compete with.

Kermit Davis

We gave them a couple of days off, and hopefully that will help them. We're going to back off of them a little right now. We're still going to compete and work hard in practice.

John Cook

We have a better understanding of how tough it will be getting into those late rounds of the NCAA tournament, going to the next level to get to the Final Four and compete for a national championship, ... We've got a lot of wisdom.

Troy Porco

We want to get better every day. As well as we've done this year, we're still trying to get better every day. In the long term, we're trying to compete for championships. We're trying to position ourselves for a national championship.

Hiroshi Arano

The recent loss in Tokyo was triggered by factors like the reshuffle of the Nikkei components and tumbles in U.S. shares. It has nothing to do with economic fundamentals in Japan, which have not worsened at all.

Claire Babrowski

One of the key components of sustainability is having enough of the right products to sell. That starts with making room in our stores for products and customers.

Tony Fadell

I used to work about 100 hours a week; now it's about 70. But 40 hours? Forget about it. Either you're all in, or your not.

Rod Thorn

We've started looking at other options because players that we may have an interest in are either signing every day or they are about to sign.

John Carver

We could've won it after either slam, simply by saying (Teague) couldn't continue. But that's not the way we want to do things.

Heather Bowie

Either way, it will be a relief when it's over and we know.

Libby Turner

Either purposely or inadvertently, they were abusing the system.

Mike Huckabee

I never, ever, had a person who could come up with the name of a person who could not get a job because an illegal immigrant had stepped in front of them, because it was either a job that person didn't want to do or didn't exist.

Jonathan Brown

Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.

Tad Boyle

To get our guys, we've had to go into someone else's back yard and either out-recruit them or out-evaluate them.

Richard Rushing

To keep that all organized requires either headcount or a good software system.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Jeremy Robinson

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

Shane Smith

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Kay Granger

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

Vint Cerf

Writing software is a very intense, very personal thing. You have to have time to work your way through it, to understand it. Then debug it.