Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cynthia McKinney

The 9/11 Omission: Did the Commission Get it Wrong?

John Poindexter

The 9/11 Commission is identifying the exact problems that we were trying to get technology to solve. So I keep pushing the idea.

Candy Olson

We can't just keep hoping the county commission will do right by these kids.

Laura Martin

We have the Racial and Cultural Diversity Commission which translates and publishes our press releases into Latino magazines.

Michael Copps

Today the Federal Communications Commission empowers America's new media elite with unacceptable levels of influence over the ideas and information upon which our society and our democracy depend,

Jack Evans

We will respond quickly and comprehensively to any requests for information from the Commission on this complaint, but no such requests have been received so far.

Stephen Williams

We have been working for some time on this commission and the purchaser is a long standing customer of ours. Even though we regularly work on commissions to source rare wines this one has been particularly gratifying.

Thomas Vinje

Microsoft has been playing games with the Commission from the beginning, but now it realizes its time is up.

J. Taylor

Microsoft continues to be open to working with partners and competitors, alike, to jointly commission research that helps all our customers engage in an informed and respectful debate on the facts.

Ernest Walton

The high esteem in which the Nobel Prizes are held is undoubtedly due to the conscientious way in which the Committees have discharged a heavy responsibility.

Elaine Elliott

That would be our best-case scenario. It would be historic. It would be another step forward. (The selection committee is) at least going to have to give us a serious look.

Linwood Norman

That will be evaluated by the mayor's education committee and by the mayor, moving forward.

Sander Levin

The Ways and Means Committee for me has this opportunity to work with programs where I can take my parents' sense of community and make it work.

Pat Summitt

We have to learn to handle better. We have to do it by committee when we don't have a point guard on the floor.

Milos Forman

And everything is controlled and everybody is a member of some committee, because then their watchdogs placed in the committees can control everything, what this person says or how this person think(s), you know.

Pam Richardson

Members of our committee felt some things needed to be updated.

George F. Will

It is committee meetings, called huddles, separated by outbursts of violence.

Charles Schumer

I think, if you were to hold the vote today, she would not get a majority, either in the Judiciary Committee or on the floor,

Denis Villeneuve

If you don't deal with your shadows, you are condemned to repeat the same mistake over and over, as a human being or as a society.

Nick Clegg

We can't return to the 19th century, draw up our drawbridges and say, we don't have anything to do with each other, Germany will not work with the Netherlands, the UK will not work with France. That's ludicrous. We are condemned to work with each other.

Preneet Kaur

When an Indian meets a terrorist, we condemn this.

Bertrand Russel

Man, condemned today to lose his dearest, tomorrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness

Ann Cooper

We categorically condemn the outrageous prosecution of Shi Tao,

Bible Bible

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: / That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

Bertrand Russell

His wit and irony - particularly when he uses them to condemn superstition - are inimitable

Peter Hain

I take heart in the statements made not just by the IRA leadership but by the president of Sinn Fein in repeatedly condemning criminality and saying it has no part for the future Republicans.

Jose Vicente

There is a legal measure in the United States that condemns and punishes statements of this nature,

Russian Proverb

Without a shepherd, sheep are not a flock

Greg Matthews

We are all part of God's flock regardless of race, sex, denomination, or religion.

Howard Rheingold

There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet, that whenever people find a new way to communicate, they will flock to it.

Babe Parilli

After the Red Sox won in 1967, people would flock in there to see anything. There was a mystique to the place that still exists.

Michael Ramsey

What happened was the odor of the wolf got into the flock, and the flock stampeded.

Travis Barbary

He's the kind of personality that guys want to flock to him and be around him. He's the kind of guy that likes to have fun, but when it's time to work, he's ready to work.

David Kennedy

The overall picture is of an operator aggressively maintaining its market position in a highly competitive market, and sacrificing margin to do it.

Cathy Stucker

To make any sort of income, you need to be highly organized and really work it.

Phil Klay

I have friends with post-traumatic stress - friends with post-traumatic stress who are, you know, highly successful, capable people.

Noam Chomsky

There is every likelihood that the Jihadi movement, much of it highly critical of bin Laden, could have been split and undermined after 9/11.

Kraig Terpstra

The practices have been highly intense and the kids have been very focused. They have prepared to be here, and they want to make the most of the opportunity.

William Gaillard

I think people should keep in mind that these are not highly paid people, they're not like the players or the coaches.

Jane Harrison

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Howard Warren Buffett

There are more living organisms in a tablespoon of highly organic soil than there are people on the planet.

Julianne Moore

I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being in a story... I didn't want to play ball; I wanted to imagine something and read something.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Anne Brown

We are not seeking a totally safe world, but we are doing what we can to prevent those really serious injuries.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures.

William Stewart

We want to teach you how to prevent them,

Alexei Navalny

The questioning is a stupid formality aimed exclusively at preventing us from speaking at the demonstration.

Bill Gates

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Ashley Judd

You have so much power to bring awareness, prevention and change.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

C. S. Lewis

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

Dustan Mohr

That was, in my mind, the reason we won.

Karla Comfort

That was the only reason. You wake up every day and find a reason to go on. My reason is I have kids.

Paul DePodesta

We just couldn't get on the same page. That's really the only reason why.

Frank Floyd

I think it will work out. If for some reason it doesn't, we'll have to go back in and re-evaluate it. But it's better than what we have right now.

Becca Fitzpatrick

You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Gaines Adams

I like to have fun, but I also try to make time for my son.

George Allen

It's time for an American comeback... where leaders in Washington listen to 'we the people.'

Zadie Smith

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

Zadie Smith

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

Vivienne Westwood

I am in my own head most of the time.

Zubin Mehta

New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.

Zubin Mehta

I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.

Yakov Smirnoff

When you like something, you find time to do it.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit delusional, but every time I do a job, I think I'm retired.