Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald McDonald

He is what amounts to another union representative rather than representing the people who elected him.

Lady Bird Johnson

The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one person - her husband.

John Young

I'm not trying to be insensitive to other parishes, but I was elected to represent the residents of Jefferson Parish, ... And as long as hurricane season is still open, we have to protect this parish.

Kim Smith

If the people want this and we elected our school board, sooner or later they're going to have to listen to us.

Judie Niskala

If our elected officials in Texas want to impose harsh penalties for the use of marijuana, that is their decision, but the university does not have to pile on.

Bill Young

I personally feel that I got elected to do a job. I am not one to succumb to political pressure or what's politically correct. I have to go out and do what I think is the right thing.

Greg Sorbara

I love my job, ... And I hope that some day, one of you in this group will be elected to government somewhere.

Elliott Abrams

In Kuwait there is already a real, elected parliament with genuine power, but the prime minister is always a member of the ruling al-Sabah family. That must end.

Bob Taft

I'm not focused on next year's election, ... Obviously, I'm not a candidate. I'm term-limited. I'm focused on doing the job I was elected to do as governor.

Shari Arison

I saw things before they happened, and that scared me very much. The premonitions would always be accompanied by harsh and painful physical sensations.

David Beckham

I thought the first yellow was harsh and the second even harsher,

Dwyane Wade

I think it's what he wants. He knows he's an important option on offense and knows what we expect. I'm sure he doesn't think we've been harsh about it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others

Don Stark

He speaks out pretty strongly and quickly and some would say harshly on ... what he would see as a sort of giveaway to big business.

Viktor Yushchenko

Talking about the values (of the Orange Revolution) is more productive than simply opting for harsh and incomprehensible opposition,

M. Powell

It was harsh. It was harsh on anybody.

David Fleischer

It's a harsh reality for Congress, one of its worst-ever moments in modern Brazil.

Christian Nevel Bovee

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.

Siri Hustvedt

I am always suspicious of those who impose 'rules' on child rearing. Every child is different in terms of temperament and learning, and every parent responds to a particular child, not some generalized infant or youngster.

Jerry Kilgore

He'll have the power if he wins to impose a case-by-case moratorium in Virginia. He's misleading the voters.

Jim Calhoun

Our 3-0 record and their 3-0 record is going to clash. Whichever team is able to impose its will and style on the other team is going to win.

Daimon Shelton

Our mentality on offense is we want to impose our will whoever we're facing. We were able to do that.

P. J. Harvey

This is a very important decision, Judge Jones has reaffirmed that in this country, public servants shall not use their public office to impose their religious views on others.

Jim Gallagher

They imposed on it unilaterally and said we had to do it. Well, that violates our contract.

Steve Maebius

The law says a judge may impose an injunction after an infringement finding.

Malcolm X

For me, my 'X' replaced the white slave master name of 'Little' which some blue-eyed devil named Little had imposed on my parental forebears.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Lane Donati

We took too many penalties and that took us out of our game.

Greg Thomas

There are no retrospective penalties in the game's regulations.

Jason Smith

It's tough when you're killing penalties all night. We're not getting the results we want.

Jay Norvell

It was a nightmare. We had penalties on things that were so elementary.

Terry Pratchett

If failure had no penalty success would not be a prize.

Loretta Young

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

Jock Stein

The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.

Sen. Aronberg

It says you can't put signs on the right of way, but there are also penalties for people who steal other people's signs.

Stu Barnes

Work ethic, turnovers, penalties ... that sums it up.

Antony Beevor

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

James Smith

It's a pile of rubble now. It's down and gone.

John Schuerholz

There's a lot of it still on the table. Big piles of it.

Mike Hanson

We did 18 piles yesterday and will keep going today. We plan to be there until Friday.

Michael Robinet

Toyota is sitting on a pile of money.

George H. W. Bush

Karyn is with us. A West Texas girl, just like me.

Robert Duvall

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense, bright and vilified by city people.

Wil Wheaton

I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.

William H. Wharton

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Saying youre from Texas makes you kind of proud.

Jackson Rathbone

I miss Texas so bad. That’s the hard part about being out here in L.A., trying to pursue acting and music and lighting and production and stuff. It takes a lot of time out from your personal life, and I can only get back to Texas three times a year at most. It’s tough.

Henry Rollins

Texas is as odd as it is vast.

Henry Rollins

Texas is a hotbed of insanely good bands and musicians.

Jon Meacham

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others.

Ryan Lynch

I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.

Henrique Capriles Radonski

The best university is the university of life.

Vince Young

We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas.

Ken Robinson

I like university professors, but you know, we shouldn't hold them up as the high-water mark of all human achievement. They're just a form of life, another form of life.

Peter Cook

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

Paul Keating

If there was a university degree for greed, you cunts would all get first-class honours.

H. Judd

This is the only university I've been to that doesn't have campus-wide recycling. In a way it's embarrassing.

Derek Bok

Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year.

Ben Barnes

I actually went to university.