Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Tatyana Paramonova

Banks that understood the difference have attempted to save their position on the market and raise the capital.

Heywood Broun

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.

Heywood Broun

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one, or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality

Andy Goldsworthy

Some snowballs contain seeds, which will be released in the melt in what could be seen as a hopeless attempt at growth in a built-up environment.

Benjamin Lopez

Thank God the governor was the only one in the whole legislative process to err on the side of reason. He was the only one to stop this sneaky, underhanded, sleazy attempt to undermine marriage and the family and implement blatant same-sex marriages.

Maria Ressa

Seeds of Terror. It's also an attempt to try and look at what's going on globally through different lenses, to step out of our lenses we always impose on the world, and to try and see it from others' (lenses).

Christopher Bond

Protectionism is the use of scare tactics, the use of unsound scientific information in an attempt to protect our market. In this case I believe that sound science dictates that it is time to open the border.

Stephen Jones

Dead men don't tell tales. We don't want a Lee Harvey Oswald here. We don't want an Oliver Stone movie. We don't want a Warren Commission report.

Jacques Chirac

Is it normal for the commission to be disinterested in a problem? ... This is one of the reasons that explains the current rejection of Europe. It is a problem that must be looked at.

Nicole Corcoran

This was an issue update on education. This was an e-mail that was sent out. It was a new, electronic way to get a message out. Actually, we look forward to some guidelines from the ethics commission on something that's totally new. No one has addressed what's OK with an e-mail, what's OK with a link to a Web site.

Dan Randolph

We're very much hoping the commission doesn't reopen the noise rule, and would be surprised in many ways if they do.

Peggy Kerns

What happens in the states too often is that when the ethics commission oversees the Legislature, and the Legislature gets mad at them, they cut their budget.

Abdullah A. Badawi

We will not have any role in its work as we want the commission to be really independent and free of any form of government intervention.

Jyoti Basu

Let (the) Election Commission do whatever it likes, but we are going to win this time also.

David Swanson

Lee's commission to monitor the treatment of prisoners in US custody? Jane was elsewhere.

Nick Gardner

Many people will also want to commission their own valuations or surveys before proceeding - which will make the packs partly redundant.

Brad Shaw

As a team, we played our most desperate hockey.

Michel Salgado

After winning the double, he is desperate to come here.

Tubby Smith

We've been in a desperate situation. (The 0-2 start) was a wake-up call.

Daniel Alfredsson

We've had some injuries, we went into a slump and we've played some teams that are more desperate than us in some cases.

Freman Hendrix

This sounds to me like the ploy of a desperate man who is down in the polls.

Dominic Moore

You have to be a little desperate when you're a man down and more desperate when you are two men down.

Jake Hohl

There could hardly be a more desperate predicament than to fall through the ice and have no one around to help you.

Alan Autry

You look at it, you're stuck with 400 or you look at it as we have an opportunity to help 400 fellow Americans in desperate need,

Nick Vitucci

We weren't happy going down 4-2, the players were visibly upset. Maybe we need to play desperate more often because they really responded.

Lee H. Hamilton

The status quo failed us. Reform is an urgent matter, and reform must not wait until the next attack.

Kurt Cobain

Things have never been so swell, i have never failed to fail

Walt Baker

The worst thing we can do is to start firing people because they failed to show up to work.

Timothy Roemer

We've had our first test, and we've failed miserably,

Dave Rice

One thing this team has never failed to show is resolve.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Lizz Harmon

The theme of the fair this year is All-American Fun, so we wanted to make it something that all Americans could afford.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Jeff Kent

The roads are better than when I started, and I think I've been fair in spending your money.

Kevin Carns

This is an issue we think is fair game. We really think the general public is fed up with these predators being released back into their communities.

John Freeman

This is an issue of fairness and doing what's morally right.

Edward MacMahon

This is not going to be a fair trial.

Ayman Nour

This is not an election. They are treating this as another referendum. The government has lied (about a fair vote).

Roger Smith

This is not about who's telling the truth and whether he's guilty or not, it's about whether he had a fair legal process.

Anthony Weiner

Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.

Barbara Lee

Nine years ago on September 14, 2001, I placed the lone vote against the 'Authorization for Use of Military Force' - an authorization that I knew would provide a blank check to wage war anywhere, at any time, and for any length.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Calvin Coolidge

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Charles Kingsley

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Cumming

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

Phil Roe

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Alan Perlis

If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

Mark Williams

The process is working. It's not working perfectly, but it is working better than it was on Jan. 1.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Scott Graham

The process is for what you want to see, not what you don't want to see.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Nathan Moss

I'm still in the process of making up my mind.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Dita Von Teese

Anyone who says they don't like to receive a gift is lying.

Sean Moran

We have yet to receive a response from the town or the Benjamin Co..

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Bea Arthur

If you would have told me ten years ago I'd be doing this and being received like I am now, I'd say you're crazy.

Jerry Glover

I have never received one dime. This is all volunteer.

Volodymyr Lytvyn

I have not received the resolution for signing.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Henry Ward Beecher

There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Charles Freeman

Stop Undermining My Constitutional Right to Represent Myself.

Kesha Rogers

I'm a Democrat because I represent the true traditions of the Democratic Party.

Eddie Guardado

I wanted to represent my country. It's an honor.

Robert Klein

They do not come to represent those institutions.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.