Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Tien

What's offensive to me is that you have the government selling Registered Traveler on the basis that we will get you through security lines faster, when they created the inconvenience on dubious grounds in the first place.

Ann Cooper

We call on you to ensure that the U.S. military cease the use of these detentions at once and that officials credibly explain the basis for the detentions of those currently being held, or release them immediately,

Stuart Cohen

We paid them on a time-and-materials basis to do the work, and I just know they're going to turn around and tell me that it's going to be time and materials to finish the work.

Jim Sutton

While some say neither move goes far enough, they have provided enough of a basis to unblock the discussion and move forward.

Ronnie Wood

We do things on an exchange basis in the music business - it keeps the wheels turning. That's how I can get people like Slash, Flea and Kris Kristofferson on my album. Collaboration should be done through trades rather than charging each other a fortune.

Vicente Fox

Fair trade governed by rules is the basis for the growth of our economy. Institutions and procedures must be strengthened, not weakened,

Wilhelm Stekel

Truth is not always the best basis for happiness. There are people who perish when their eyes are opened.

G-Eazy

In the past, my process would start with a sample of another song, and I'd chop it up and use that as the basis of the song that I was making.

Christie Brinkley

When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.

Phil Garner

Sometimes your offense picks up your pitching, and I do believe that our pitching will pick up our offense more often than it will let us down. Tonight we needed the offense and we had the offense. A win is a win.

Art Hogan

(Techs) had such a terrific run for the past two weeks that I believe some people are taking this opportunity to take some money off the table and invest it in the 'old economy,'

David Gibb

Terri is declining rapidly. We believe she has, at this point, passed where physically she would be able to recover, ... Face the Nation.

Bob Skubal

Some people still don't believe she's for real. If they have an issue to deal with they should get over the fact that girls should have no limits set on them. They should never hold themselves back.

LaVerne Knox

Sometimes people in this area, they just believe that one of us, if not both of us, should be in the Colonial Center every year.

Sathya Baba

Seeing is believing, I will believe in God only if I see Him; but are all things seen or heard or touched or tasted, as real as they seem?

Viktor Yushchenko

Russia is our strategic partner and we believe that in the course of this visit we will lay the groundwork for a new stage in the development of Ukrainian-Russian relations,

Russell Smith

Sadly, I don't really believe in the idea of timeless fashion. It's an oxymoron. If 'classic fashion' really never changed, we'd all still be wearing togas.

Phil Klay

Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

George Becker

China's a rogue nation, ... We should hold our congressional leaders accountable.

Bengie Molina

I got a hold of it. I didn't think it was going to stay fair, but it did.

Cindy Sheehan

there's always hope, and I've always said that. The invitation's still open, and I think he knows how to get a hold of me.

Cary Sherman

We're willing to hold out our version of an olive branch.

Josua Mata

We will hold the traditional Labor Day march and any untoward violence will not come from the workers? line.

Shahid Shamsi

We will hold the protest. It will be a peaceful rally.

Doris Lessing

It is very enjoyable, writing a story. You get this idea. It takes hold of you. And then you spend day and night thinking about how to do it. And then you do it. And much later, you think, 'Oh, yes. That's an interesting question.'

Shagari Alleyne

When Randolph comes back, we're going to be a better team with him. When he's not here, we'll just hold up the slack until he comes back.

Andrew Young

Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.

Andy Johnson

Some people think that because it's a threatened species, that every one we save is good. But not if they never get to live in the wild.

Lois Lowry

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Robin Cook

Tell the people of Serbia how much wealth you have sucked out during the same years they have been impoverished in Serbia,

Nick Hanauer

Tech innovation is something societies have to pursue as vigorously as they can. We have to innovate civically and socially at the same rate; otherwise, you create unfortunate disruptions, and that's where you have people opposing technological innovations.

Harvey Pekar

Sometimes I want to convey something complex philosophically, and sometimes I just want to portray myself in a situation that I think other people have been in many times, but it hasn't been written about much.

Don Herold

Poverty must have its satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people

Yusuf Islam

Perhaps people will remember my voice and what I was able to do with it.

Jeb Bush

Perhaps people are saying, 'I'm going to hunker down,'

M. Wolfe

Quarterback is a position that people try to put too many things into it,

Christy Turlington

So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma.