Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

The secretary-general hopes that the tribunal will uphold the international standards of justice necessary to ensure its legitimacy, fairness and independence.

Tony McNulty

These are serious allegations and I will ensure that they are fully investigated.

Stephen Toulouse

We've taken a look at this situation and incorporated some lessons learned. We will work very hard to help ensure something like this doesn't happen in the future,

Bob Collins

We have a responsibility to ensure that every student is given every opportunity to be prepared for, and to pass, the CASHSEE. We are exploring every possible way to work with these students to provide their passage to the next stage of their future.

John Carr

We want to ensure everything possible is done to protect our responsibility to oversee the National Airspace System.

Robert Friend

We want to ensure every miner has the equipment and training to safely evacuate.

Rudolph Penner

To improve highways, we should rethink the way revenues are raised instead of only increasing them. The present highway finance system can remain viable for some time, but the right reforms might give us a system that not only pays for roads, but also allows us to manage traffic flow and ensure that scarce funds are invested in projects with the greatest public benefit.

Richard Berner

Upside inflation risks may require that the Fed move promptly and perhaps a little more forcefully to ensure that inflation and inflation expectations stay low.

Trevor Manuel

There is no room for error ... we have to ensure the next few weeks are in fact about the intensification of (the trade) agenda.

Tim Hatten

Demetrius is probably the fastest guy to ever play here and that's saying a lot.

Whoopi Goldberg

Sometimes I wish that I could run as fast as they do and do just 90 percent of the things I see those folks doing. I would have loved to have learned how to be a really good soccer player because I really like soccer.

Duane Akina

I've watched Ginn a lot, and I'm not sure I've seen a faster player in pads. We're going to be looking for him a lot, because if he finds a crease, he's gone.

Ruth Messinger

I've never seen a faster movement in my life.

Anthony Hopkins

The World's Fastest Indian? Oh, that's not for me. I've done enough with that role.

Jeremy Mayfield

We're going way too fast here, it's not right.

John McEnroe

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.

Monique Currie

We usually get a lot things going with our fast break. We weren't able to do that tonight.

Ryan Long

To do what he did in the mile and then come back and run the fastest leg on that relay (was very impressive).

Chris Duggan

Some smaller providers get nervous when you start talking about a rating system.

Deepak Chopra

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system.

Dale Jr

You get nervous when you see fluids. There wasn't any fluids -- just Busch trying to get out of the way.

Ellison Chu

The time for the announcement for the ETF is getting closer. Basically, the turnover is very small in silver because all players and traders are very nervous about the price at the moment.

Andrew Denton

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

Sue Barker

It was another nervous Tim Henman match - I'm not sure how he manages to get through them, let alone us!

Mark Ruffalo

I'm very nervous in the beginning and then I get in there and start doing my work and I feel more comfortable.

Jim King

Several of us are nervous about turning (a fund) over to another group.

Paul Chevedden

I am somewhat nervous about this meeting, ... But I will just present the truth of my two accusations. Please pray for me.

John Allen

As pope, he has to be the pastor of everyone.

Art Buchwald

We seem to be going through a period of nostalgia, and everyone seems to think yesterday was better than today. I don't think it was, and I would advise you not to wait ten years before admitting today was great. If you're hung up on nostalgia, pretend today is yesterday and just go out and have one hell of a time.

Aziz Ansari

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

C. S. Lewis

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

Bryant H. McGill

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.

Celia Green

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

Bram Fischer

I can no longer serve justice in the way I have attempted to do during the past 30 years - I can do it only in the way I have now chosen.

Bobby Scott

The Federal prison population has increased more than 7-fold over the past 20 years.

Bobby Fischer

I don't like to dwell on the past. I'm interested in Fischerandom now, I am working on a new clock, I'm trying to make chess a more exciting game today. I am not interested in sitting in my rocking chair thinking what I did 10, 20 or 30 years ago.

Mary Pierce

I am just very relieved to get through,

Arthur Travers

We've never seen him in here before Saturday night.

Dalai Lama

Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.

Dalai Lama

Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself.

Ambrose Bierce

REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

You couldn't be satisfied with being an amateur asshole, could you, Jimbo! You had to go and turn pro on me!

Steve Jobs

I sat in a garage and invented the future.

Mario Andretti

From the driver's standpoint I had the same horrors, the same satisfactions, the same everything. The speed is relative. It's faster and things are happening quicker, but you have the equipment to handle it.

Mason Cooley

Alone, I am satisfied with myself. With others, I am beset by troubling comparisons.

Michel Hazanavicius

French cinema audiences usually don't express anything. Certainly not satisfaction.

Jose Carreras

I am a little nervous with strangers. But I'm not tight inside. I think I am impulsive.

Marcus Spears

When I was recruited and after I signed, I had aspirations to be a tight end and thought I would be.

Mikael Samuelsson

I just wear tight skates, that's all. It's getting better, for sure. It's better every day.

Tres Thomas

We wanted to keep it tight between the University and SMG until we got the go-ahead from the band.

Joel Schlegel

I had to take a long road. After my quarterfinal loss, I had to wrestle a lot.

Jamie Franco

It's weird. We've been going at it for so long that we can't really wrestle each other anymore.