Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Auletta

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Wendy Hall

The key issue here is self-disclosure and self-reporting. It was Halliburton's own internal, rigorous system of checks and balances that identified the irregularity. ... When the irregularity was discovered, KBR removed the company in question from consideration for any future work as a subcontractor.

Alexander Hamilton

The founders established a government of checks and balances so nobody could take advantage. As for Hamilton, he set up our banking system.

Mark Farley

The best thing about Eric is he balances up our offense. He throws it to everyone. He runs the offense the way it should be run.

John Dunn

Congress has got to hold the administration accountable. The founders set up the checks and balances for that purpose.

Scott Price

It's a mandate. Those decisions are made at the local level involving a local school board. Many districts made decisions based on making sure certain balances are kept within the district.

Randy Hayes

It's always an issue at election time and an interesting one that balances rights versus aesthetics. The courts see campaign signs as being political speech and do not look favorably on restrictions.

John Gower

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Ed Swanson

Knowing it was Senior Day, Nicolle was emotional in the locker room before the game, but after she hit some shots and got her rhythm, she got that swagger that had been missing for the last few games. When she hits shots from the perimeter like she did today, it makes us a better team.

Bill Cowher

Joey is the emotional leader for our football team without question. He is the kind of guy that gets us going. We have some unique personalities and Joey is unique in his own sense. I've never been one to try and harness guys. I just want them to be respectful of the game and of the opponents. I love a team that plays with emotion, plays with passion. I love being around people that love to do that and Joey does it in his own way and without a doubt, Joey is the emotional leader for our team.

Michael Haneke

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

Kevin Cooney

He could take over a game. Not many people could do the things he does. It's a huge loss, but he gave the team an emotional lift whenever he was up.

Niki Caro

Her physical transformation was really interesting and astounding, but it was her emotional transformation, what she was doing emotionally in that film. Her work was unbelievable.

S. Hughes

He's a senior leader. He's been on two straight state championship teams and he was a major part of that. He's our leader. He's our emotional leader. He's our physical leader. He leads the team.

Danielle Santos

I think it's going to be very emotional for all of us.

Rasheed Wallace

I think it was pretty emotional for him. He's a pretty emotional cat. I was just paying my respects. I can imagine it's tough for him right now, but hey, I have to concentrate on this team.

John Gordon

I don't know what I'm going to do. It's going to be difficult. I'm emotional just talking about it right now. It's very much an honor.

Paul Scheuring

I wouldn't be surprised if you saw something like 'Prison Break,' colon, and a few other words. But it's not going to be 'Prison Broke.

Curtis Eccles

Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.

Anthony Zinni

I would say we're within a week or so. We're ready now but there are a few more pieces to put in.

Michael Lloyd

I would say up until the recent few weeks, it looked like CSX might be doing a better job, now the shoe may be on the other foot, ... I'd be more worried about CSX going forward than Norfolk Southern.

Greg Shivers

Katie did much better in that game. Her pitching has really picked up the last few games.

Ramesh Chennithala

Karat had first said that he would react after the full report of the CAG comes out. It is now a few weeks and there has been no reaction from him.

John Gibbons

I talked to him today about a few things and I hope he got the message. You see guys on the other side like (Derek) Jeter and (Gary) Sheffield get down the line.

Joseph Beninati

There are such very few large-scale opportunities in Greenwich.

Aaron Rodgers

The only thing it means to me is my good pre-season didn't go unnoticed. I've still got to get better each day. My goal is to be No. 1. Obviously, it's not going to happen for a few years.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Randy Monroe

He can score, and he found ways to score tonight.

Joanne Rowling

>in Divintation< Lavender: >squealing< Oooo! Professor look! I found an unknown planet! Professor Trelawny: That is Uranus my dear. Ron: Can I have a look at Ur anus too Lavender?

Mohamed ElBaradei

There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life.

Kathryn Minshew

Work-life balance for founders doesn't look like work-life balance for everyone else. Starting a company isn't a nine-to-six job - or a nine-to-nine job, or a nine-to-midnight job.

Roz Foster

What we found was more than what we anticipated.

Aaron Patzer

In the first three years of Mint, from when it was founded to when it was sold, I can honestly say that in a sustainable way, I couldn't have worked any harder on it.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Brigitte Boisselier

I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Steve Forbes

I like his rational for why I'm not in the White House. I'll take it. It's better than some I've gotten.

David Novak

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

James Rubin

By any rational calculation, Milosevic comes out of this much, much weaker.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Terry Gilliam

He just had a different view of the film.

Robert Collier

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Rob Zombie

When you have too many people and you're trying to satisfy everybody's input, you usually end up with something so incredibly generic that it has no point of view.

Richard Paul Evans

Sometimes our arms are so full with the burdens we carry that it hinders our view of the load those around us are staggering beneath.

Richard P. Feynman

[Quantum mechanics] describes nature as absurd from the point of view of common sense. And yet it fully agrees with experiment. So I hope you can accept nature as She is - absurd.

Richard Dawkins

We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Whately

Of Rhetoric various definitions have been given by different writers; who, however, seem not so much to have disagreed in their conceptions of the nature of the same thing, as to have had different things in view while they employed the same term.

Richelle Mead

We've had to deal with so many complications. We're still dealing with them. And what can we do? Nothing - well, unless we take your side's point of view and make deals with the devil. But why? Why can't we make deals with God? People do all the time. 'God, if you do this for me, I promise to be good.' Stuff like that. Yeah, but I don't see any contracts like you guys have. No hard evidence that it works. How come we can only get things we want by being bad? Why can't we get them by being good?

Truman Capote

Most contemporary novelists, especially the American and the French, are too subjective, mesmerized by private demons; theyre enraptured by their navels and confined by a view that ends with their own toes.