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,

Laurent Fabius

I hope that this trial will serve truth and justice, ... I hope this necessary trial will allow us to establish that from what we knew, we acted in good conscience.

Robert Stovall

(The cut is) the beginning of several shots in the arm. I think the Fed acted early in the new year so to give themselves the opportunity in the end of the month to cut again, if things don't kick in as they like.

Brookly McLaughlin

The hotel acted in accordance with U.S. sanctions.

Talat Masood

The human aspect could have prevailed, everything could have been set aside and acted as an anchor for the great leap they could have taken politically. But they have been the prisoners of the past.

Sandy Berger

Sure, after Bush took office, the Administration could have acted upon the intelligence provided by Able Danger, but if the information was buried, then they probably weren't even aware of it.

Don Porter

It was pretty good drama, and maybe a little cheesy. But Dad never worried about being cheesy or being cool. He simply articulated what he thought was right, and then acted on those beliefs.

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.

Gilbert Arenas

Somebody's going to have to pay for me missing the initial. And that's almost every Eastern Conference team out there.

Elon Musk

Some rockets turn faster than others, depending upon the trajectory. In this case it is going to go almost straight up until it is out of sight.

Kevin Spacey

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.

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.

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.

Natasha Josefowitz

You may not be well read, you may not know how to count, you may write poorly, but as soon as you open your mouth people get an impression of you based both on the content of your message and on the way you deliver it.

Mary Karr

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

Ignacio Bunye

This is based on our civil service rules,

James Nichols

This is based on emotion. Those jurors had a lot of pressure on them ... and public pressure changes people's minds.

Thomas Reese

This is based on Catholic social teaching, the concern for the poor, that we should be hospitable to visitors and immigrants. This is not based on partisan politics.

Gale Kaufman

This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they don't.

James E. Faust

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

Eric Flint

The 'Heirs of Alexandria' series mixes the Renaissance with magic and demons, based on a changed theological history.

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.

Michael Brown

If the data suggests we need to go further, we will.

Mark Zandi

if the financial markets were reeling and the images from the Gulf were getting worse instead of better, if energy prices were rising instead of falling. But given the economic data and financial markets, there's no reason to make a symbolic move.

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.

Zam Fredrick

Situations like this, you have to make your own decisions to be where you want to be and do what you want to do. This is my career, and I've got to live with it.

Peter Costello

I did not find this an easy decision, ... In fact it is one of the hardest decisions one could ever face in public life because it was so evenly poised.

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

Scarlett Johansson

I would have loved to have gone into diagnostic medicine.

Shunryu Suzuki

When you are fooled by something else, the damage will not be so big. But when you are fooled by yourself, it is fatal. No more medicine.

Leslie Jones

I take care of everybody. I'm either hugging you or making sure that you're not sick, because my backpack has every kind of medicine in it.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Could your medicine be a cell, not a pill? Could your medicine be an organ that's created outside the body? Could your medicine be an environment?

Siddhartha Mukherjee

If the history of medicine is told through the stories of doctors, it is because their contributions stand in place of the more substantive heroism of their patients.

John D. Rockefeller

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

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.

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.

Darrell Sanders

Our suspect has a prior drug history. In fact, she just recently got off probation on drug charges, and she's back in business.