Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Paul McHale

DoD felt a sense of urgency and acted upon it.

Bill Thompson

The resolution on Jesus was tabled and never acted upon,

Mike Purcell

We played much more like we're capable of in the second half. We played with purpose and direction. We acted like we wanted to play again next week.

Michael Schiavo

He acted out of conviction and showed great courage when he stood up for the rights of all Americans.

Kevin Curtis

He acted like he'd been there before. He was phenomenal.

Jane Withers

He acted like a little kid and when someone acts like a kid, I treat them like one, ... I didn't put up with any guff, and because of it, we had a very warm relationship.

Randy Russell

He acted like a gentle breeze, but his impact on us was definitely larger than life.

Lucian Mitchell

He acted like a champion. I guess I'm partial to him--he helped me out of that.

Ron Marks

Anybody who says there's such a thing as 'actionable intelligence' has never seen intelligence. Almost never in my 23 years have I ever seen anything that said to me that at such and such a time and such and such a place such a thing was going to happen. It just doesn't happen that way.

Kathy Dais

The sophomores have matured very well and I'm counting on them a lot to really step up and almost take the lead and get some things done this year. Katie has great potential to win tournaments and Denise practiced a lot over the summer and she came back really good. I think she's ready to break out.

David Deutsch

The theory of computation has traditionally been studied almost entirely in the abstract, as a topic in pure mathematics. This is to miss the point of it. Computers are physical objects, and computations are physical processes. What computers can or cannot compute is determined by the laws of physics alone, and not by pure mathematics.

J. Moore

I've never been scared to go up. I like taking contact because I think I almost finish better with contact.

John Kasay

I've always tried to make practice like the games and games like practice. NFL games are often very emotional the energy, the momentum. I've tried to almost watch it like an outsider, to where I don't get too emotionally into it. Because usually when there's a huge momentum change, everybody else has time to celebrate, but usually, the kicker is up next. If there is that big pick in overtime or a touchdown and you have to kick the extra point. You take the opposite tack and ramp all that back down.

Adam Hughes

I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

Alice McDermott

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

Jonathan Turley

After almost half a billion dollars spent on the computer registration system for Obamacare, the website coughed, sputtered, and appeared to descend into an immediate coma as millions tried to log on. One reason is that the Obama administration never fully tested it.

Michael Jenkins

After leaving that situation it was almost a relief being back at square one,

Ed Sarpolus

People in Michigan, by a 2-to-1 margin, blame President Bush rather than the governor for Michigan's economic problems. While her job approval ratings are up from being below 50 percent in August through October, they are not at the 60 percent level she once had.

Chuck Todd

If he gets his approval ratings up to the mid-40s, then at least Republicans can fight on their own.

Bruce Myers

I think the contract started out at maybe $500,000, and they had a change order to get it to $700,000, but they ended up paying like $1 million, and there was no evidence of any other change orders or any other board approval for that last change.

Marvin J. Ashton

A friend in the true sense is not a person who passively nods approval of our conduct or ignores improper behavior. A friend is a person who cares.

Wayne Murdy

With approval to move forward with the Nevada power plant and the development of our new mines in Nevada and Ghana, we are well positioned to leverage gold price exposure for our shareholders.

Horace

He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.

Margaret Murphy

We're trying to work to have the milestones covered. When we have the approval process in place, we will be in a position to engage developers,

Jean Reno

There is partial truth to that rumor. The president did say I would be good in the role, but when he said that, he didn't know I'd already been cast. His approval wasn't needed -- I'd already been selected by Steve Martin.

Robin Cook

The opening of diplomatic relations is not in any way an approval of the conduct of the regime, ... But it may well be helpful in resolving ... the strong tension between it and South Korea.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Jay Sparks

The whole first half they wanted me to tell them what to do based on our set plays. Outside of maybe one possession in the second half, we didn't run a set play. We just played basketball, and I thought that was good for us.

Rhys Ifans

The whole film genre is one of deceit. It is the suspension of disbelief. That's what all theater and all film is based on.

Mario Batali

The whole concept of the supremacy of the family unit in the Italian culture... That's all based on the relation of the mom and the children and the bambino.

Richard May

The whole budget is based on the tobacco settlement and ... I think it is fair to say when you talk to people on the (Capitol) Hill that the tobacco settlement is dead.

Tony Domenech

This country is based on small businesses. You can't know what it's like to run a small business without owning one any more than you can know what it is to love a child without having one.

Yubaraj Ghimire

This emergency debate is based on political rivalry. They're playing power politics with the emergency.

Qi Xiangdong

That's nonsense. The association never sets prices - the big mills do based on costs and supply and demand. It's already market oriented.

Cathy Keefe

That's natural, though, based on the phenomenal growth in '05.

Slavoj Zizek

It's bad if we are controlled, but if we're not, it can be even worse.

Harry Reasoner

We're all controlled neurotics.

Dayton Moore

I never saw Derek Jeter when was young, but that's who he reminds me of. He's just real sure and real controlled with everything that he does.

Flip Saunders

They controlled the tempo. We played out of character.

Albert Lin

Right now the industry is all about data traffic.

Geoff Kendrick

The risks are now skewed to the upside (on U.S. interest rates). 4.75 may be a done deal (in March) and depending on how the data goes, 5 percent may become a done deal as well.

Walter Moloney

There's no data on that. Personally, I don't think that it would negatively impact sales.

Paula Wagner

What can data tell us and teach us to reach all students? ... That is the most valuable part of the data.

Amanda Hoffman

We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.

Steve Jobs

Let them know precisely what you are going to do with their data

Tim O'Reilly

Who has the data has the power.

Bob Picciano

When you compress data to memory storage, then you don't have to harden to disk as frequently.

Nell Minow

Right now, executive pay is like a scavenger hunt. You have to get little pieces of data here and little pieces of data there.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Mike O'Connell

We felt we needed to shake up the team and, sometimes, you have to make some difficult decisions to better the team.

Eroll Skyers

The conventional wisdom suggests that those who make hard and fast decisions for a living are prosecution-minded individuals since a verdict is not much more than another decision, and since sympathy and empathy play no part in the decision-making process.

Andy Stanley

The health of your marriage tomorrow will be determined by the decisions you make today.

Ron Paul

Without question, the true goal of some in Congress is to create a system of socialized medicine. It's politically expedient to slap a 'patients' rights' label on legislation that simply leads us closer to a complete government takeover of medicine.

John Wesley

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Jaron Lanier

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.

Christopher Dodd

Working families need to know that we will work to protect their health needs, promote the development of safe, effective medicines, and guarantee patient rights.

Christine Maggiore

None of what’s happened to me and to my family has shaken what I know to be correct and true about science and medicine, and my experiences.

Chris Gardner

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The best medicine for despair is service.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.

Jeff Goodby

Advertising shouldn't be like medicine. It should be like candy.

Chuck Palahniuk

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

Thomas Sowell

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

Jakaya Kikwete

I will make sure research and development is a top priority in agricultural development.

Sarah Kay

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.

Gary Snyder

The first priority is just to get them registered,

Mahatma Gandhi

Your action expresses your priorities.

Nancy Sinatra

I was at a party three weeks prior to the murders at Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's house.

Peter Lynch

You have to keep your priorities straight if you plan to do well in stocks.

Malaika Arora Khan

I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.