Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Probyn

This was a disappointing number relative to expectations and certainly consistent with the idea that consumer spending is going to be a much smaller contributor to economic growth in the fourth quarter.

Paul Doyle

What did he run, about 30 meters in the first round and 40 or 50 in the second? You'll see a lot more out of him, he's really looking like he's going to do something impressive ... he's certainly looking like he's in sub-10 form.

Benn Steil

The purchase is certainly no bargain. That would suggest, to the extent they have ambitions for a significant merger, they are concentrating on the London Stock Exchange.

Khaled Hosseini

For me as a writer, the story has always taken precedence over everything else. I have never sat down to write with broad, sweeping ideas in mind, and certainly never with a specific agenda.

Tod Ruble

We haven't really found anything of the magnitude of this certainly not in Dallas. We're fully capitalized and will be starting all the construction on the site.

Ted Leonsis

We'll look at free agency, but I'm still trying to find where big free-agent signings can help the team. There's certainly no magic wand to wave and the team gets instantly better, but I like the way we're playing and I like the way the players have responded to our coach.

Greg King

Last year was the first time in about nine years we haven't made the playoffs. That's certainly a motivating factor.

Dan Wilson

Certainly the '95 season was at the top of the list, the emotions day after day. All those things we went through were things you never forget. It was just a feeling of accomplishment, coming back from so far back to tie at the end of the season.

Ryan Ford

Certainly it was big win and we're disappointed that we didn't get two. But going into this weekend, we're still in this thing.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Daniel Webster

It would seem, then, to be the part of political wisdom to found government on property; and to establish such distribution of property, by the laws which regulate its transmission and alienation, as to interest the great majority of society in the protection of the government.

Daniel Webster

The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.

Daniel Webster

The inherent right in the people to reform their government, I do not deny; and they have another right, and that is to resist unconstitutional laws without overturning the government.

Ameen Rihani

I am for reformation by emigration. The emigration of the mind before the revolution of the state. The soul and mind must be free before one has a right to be a member of a free government.

Martin Straka

If you play like that for 10 years in the NHL, there's no way you lose it in a year.

If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, because then the other stuff won't matter that much