Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Rose

As long as the argument that they make to the judge comports with the minimum and the maximum allowed by the statute and the aggravating factors they bring forward are allowed by the sentencing statute ... that's their discretion and their job, ... And if they didn't do it, then we'd probably live in a less safe community.

Tom Wallace

Rachel is allowed to speak for herself. People can take from it what they want.

Tony Dungy

Our defense had to play well until we figured out what looks they were going to give us. I was proud of our defense because they held the fort and allowed us to play patiently.

Wendee Saintsing

Our defense broke down. We allowed them to keep driving the lane and were fouling them when they were making shots.

Karl Hobbs

Our defense allowed the game to be played at a much faster pace and I think that was the difference.

Bobby Brockman

Our defense was solid all game. The guys were a little disappointed they did not keep the sheet clean (and allowed a goal), but a 5-1 win is pretty nice.

Mike Sherman

Our doctors would not have allowed it, ... We'll have to evaluate him on Wednesday.

John Stewart

Our customers, particularly our Asian customers, have requested it over and over again. We feel strongly that if customers are asking for tested beef, we should be allowed to provide that.

Wendy Tellone

Our allocation formula has allowed for a lot of paraprofessionals. Citrus county, (in comparison), has one paraprofessional for every 500 students. Yes, there are some things that are going to be different next year.

Rosemarie Arnold

The call to report this incident was that of a compromised gas pipe, not of an ordinary smell of gas.

Baron Hill

The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.

Jason Schenker

The call to establish more refineries is likely to be sounded again.

Jamie Dixon

The call on the five seconds was strange because there was no count.

Linda Parker

The call needs to be put out to all the people of Macomb County. This is not an issue only for African-Americans. If ... you care anything at all about your county, you have to speak out,

John Gill

The call itself is gonna prove those other factors.

Jeff Benjamin

The call at this point in the year is for people to help pull it off by doing the preparatory ground work.

Pam Olshanski

The call actually came in as a mental subject call as officers were responding. The mother had called, concerned for her son's welfare. We're familiar with the house as we've responded as recently as last week under similar conditions.

Thomas Gray

The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,/ The swallow twittering from the straw-built shed, / The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing horn, / No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed.

Rodman Philbrick

As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone.

Wyclef Jean

As a child growing up in Haiti I experienced the wrath and destructive power of hurricanes. My heart is filled with tears for the victims and all those who have lost loved ones in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Michael Mullen

As a Naval officer, I've been all over the world, and one of the foundational lessons I learned was that parents everywhere would like to raise their children to a higher standard of living in a peaceful environment. That's a universal goal for families.

Melina Kennedy

As a mother, as a lawyer, I find it unbelievable that we would let children be near convicted sex offenders. We need to do everything we can, including at the city ordinance level, to make sure we keep our kids safe.

Karen Hughes

As a mom, I also have to say I really appreciated his leadership on helping teach our kids to make the right choices, because it really takes all of us. And it's wonderful to know government is going to be a partner with parents in helping our children to make the right choices on critical issues that could threaten their whole lives.

Robert Butterworth

A young child who doesn't understand what is occurring during a severe storm like a hurricane can easily become confused and frightened as a result of these unpredictable events.

Jane Harrison

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.

Ashish Sophat

A wonderful Combination :: A wooden stick and a pair of HUGS, can turn a raw Clay child in to COFFEE MUGS

Michael Leunig

A society that's provided for by television is a society that says it doesn't need too many parks or natural situations for children to play in because television will look after them.

Dan Forsman

It was an entry form to the dreaded Q School. ''That's how things are going.

Thomas Hardy

There's not a modest maiden elf / But dreads the final Trumpet, / Lest half of her should rise herself, / And half some sturdy strumpet!

Tom Hodgkinson

Travelling fills me with dread.

Kyle Petty

Maybe this will put the dreaded Intrepid thing to rest. Maybe the Charger is the way we need to go.

Fred Funk

He was dreading every golf swing he had to take.

Ernie Els

I think most amateurs dread playing a 180-plus-yard par 3 even more than a hard par 4. Part of it is psychological: You think you should be getting a breather, distance-wise, and instead, you get hit with a long iron or hybrid shot over trouble.

Brad Lukowich

I was dreading it and he was excellent. It was like he was one of the guys, talking to him.

Sarah Silverman

Even when I'm dreading it, I want to talk about it - it only helps me.

Paul Valery

We hope vaguely but dread precisely.

Peter Frost

These fields may also induce more elaborate forms of sensory hallucination ranging from the feeling of a 'sensed presence' to seeing a fully formed apparition.

Dana Milbank

this has been an elaborate exercise in navel gazing.

David Chang

When I first started to cook, I would cook these elaborate meals, but I rarely cook at home now.

Mark Greene

In cross-border deals, to me etiquette is not an 'edge' thing. It is a prerequisite to being effective.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Kathy Miller

Originally we were going to find a home for him, but people would look at him and go, 'Ooh.' He looked so terrible.

Jim McGowan

Of course, we're retired, so we're usually home -- if we're not volunteering.

Horace Horace

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Andrew Baird

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Dan Parker

No sir, we don't have a home left.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

John McPherson

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

Sam Harris

Como's probably never going to stay the same. This is home though. And I can never say that I'm going to a better place. We'll survive.

Kathy Bailey

Prior to that, it was mostly in the single digits. A week later it was 20.

Jaromir Jagr

Of course, you can work hard, but you have to be lucky too and you have to have a lot of talent. And later in the season, it's just my opinion, the talent is always going to show up.

Dan Bonner

The Monday after Selection Sunday, I'm scrambling to learn all the teams that I'll have to do later in the week. And then I'm out on the road.

Greg Evans

The secret is if you write enough words, sooner or later you have a book.

Romano Prodi

Sooner or later they will recognize how things are. It is very sad that there should be something like this in a mature democracy.

Roy Williams

Q's been playing much better lately and I told him he's got to play. I thought Q did some nice things for us. I think he really has played much better.

James Marsh

The score, which comes often quite later in a film, can help reinvigorate your emotional engagement with it.

Hollis Thomas

It was too little too late I guess.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

These words are the same ones that the late Imam (Khomeini) said,

Jim Tracy

A very wonderful note, I might add. A very professionally done thing.

Adelaide Anne Procter

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been.

Peter Beattie

The money might be better off used for things like law-and- order initiatives, schools and hospitals,

Pat Davis

The technician will see if the AC system is an old one or in need of repair. A suggestion might then be made to upgrade to a more energy-efficient system.

John Butler

See, I might have screwed the whole thing up in Buffalo,

Eric Desjardins

I've tried to play with the composites, and I still might go to it eventually, ... But I'm used to the feel of the wooden sticks and I like them.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

William Poole

that one might reasonably regard as commercially significant.

Ben Dattner

You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.

Ben Okri

It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.

Art Garfunkel

They say in the darkest night there is a light beyond

Brian Jacques

So here is my story, may it bring Some smiles and a tear or so, It happened once upon a time, Far away, and long ago, Outside the night wind keens and wails, Come listen to me, the Teller of Tales!

Jane Fonda

In spite of the incident, my experience in Kansas City was wonderful and I thank all the warm and supportive people, including so many veterans, who came to welcome me last night.

Jamie Farr

The entire behind the scenes of Saturday Night Live are all Canadian.

Caprice Bourret

It's like night and day... to do business, in Europe, there is no bull, they are pretty straightforward.

Carroll O'Connor

We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show.

Jane Austen

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Jane Austen

Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together.

Denise Monteiro

The social worker told her there was hope.

Connie Smith

This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.

John Schneider

You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

Dorothy L. Sayers

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Chuck Hagel

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

Anita Roddick

a social conscience is not incompatible with profit.

Rob Portman

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Lowe

As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Thomas S. Monson

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

Stephany Smith

As a team, we just stay strong and focused. Usually, we get it done. We trust each other.

Ann Fisher

As long as we stay together, we will be alright,

Brian Clarke

As long as I stay in town I will be fine,

Kurt Kutay

Some only have a dung hut to stay in.

Lillian Carter

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, "Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

James Long

I've stayed in Hiltons before, but I'd have to say that this was one of the best. They did everything for us.

Nate Jackson

I've been staying in it mentally. And they'll work me in as they see fit.

Calvin Williams

I've been through a storm, and I ain't trying to get in another one. So I just try to stay to myself.

Lindsey Hunter

Things are going well, but it just takes time. It's all going well, so I just have to stay patient.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

Farid Abdulkadir

It's the first time this system has been used.

Myles Munroe

External circumstances will not change until internal belief systems change.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,