Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

Steven Wieting

The Fed has assumed that the weakness in the first quarter was temporary. This confirms that. The reasonable view was you don't have a one-third rise in energy prices without consequences.

Justin Beckett

The celebrity reviewers are people we contacted who, on a genre-specific basis, we assumed would have an interest in doing this.

Wei Kong

The findings of our studies did not fit most people's preconceived notions about how DNA molecules work, so they assumed we had to be wrong. The critics seemed very sure of themselves, and we had a lot of sleepless nights.

Bob Bandoni

Already, it's clear to me that leadership from the senior class is effective. It's not necessarily coming from authority that sometimes is assumed by playing prowess. It's really coming by a moral authority, one that kind of transcends what happens in the field. They're established kids, very comfortable with themselves and very genuine and enthusiastic on the field, but genuine in their responses to the younger players.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The early idealists and companies and governments have all assumed that the Internet will bring freedom. Yet China proves that this is not the case.

Richard Bohling

The county operated as business as usual for so long, no one wanted to change anything. People assumed a change was made but it never was. This should make it easier to direct money to fire departments that perform needed work. We need a contract for legitimate business purposes.

Madison Smartt Bell

The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries ahead of us in abolishing slavery and in extending full rights of citizenship to everyone, regardless of race.

Chris Rupkey

The curve should be flattening if the Fed is assumed to be still tightening.

Jeff Davis

I wouldn't be surprised (if the rally continued next week), ... There's a lot of momentum that can carry into the coming weeks.

Ronnie Brown

I wouldn't be surprised if he called me later on this week and put some kind of wager out there as far as yards per carry or something.

Dave Jones

I think it's a great idea. If you carry a weapon, you're going to use a weapon, that's as simple as it gets.

Paul Bremer

He is virulently anti-Western and is particularly anti-American, ... and he has the resources to fund considerable anti-American or anti-Western activity. So he is a concern, because he's got a clear motive and he's got the means to carry out -- or to pay people to carry out -- attacks.

Sam Hunt

I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.

Robert Esche

There are some young players in here who are going to carry the team in the future. I think it would be pretty unfair to judge them right now.

Carolyn Peck

What we don't have is any one person feeling like they have to carry the load by themselves.

Henry Mason

He really worked hard on gaining some weight. He's a stronger player. Hopefully, that strength will carry over (during the season).

David Beasley

Good grief, Chiles? Miller? Romer? These guys had tremendous experience and credibility, and it will be several years before Democrats develop guys who carry that kind of water,

Tim Thomas

I was looking forward to showing some character by giving a good effort all the way to the end of the year. I thought there was a good chance that maybe we could end the season with a win and feel good about ourselves. But it wasn't to be.

Lyle Overbay

I was looking for a pitch to hit. I had a chance to drive it. When I saw it go in the gap I thought maybe there would be a chance to score. Next thing you know, we win the game.

Jarome Iginla

Kipper, he's played like that all year. He's been amazing. Especially early tonight, they had some chances and he made some timely saves.

Donna Reed

Just the idea of giving a critically ill person a new chance at life. Every time I think about it I get goose bumps. My son lives on in them.

Brian France

Joe Gibbs has proven that you can take success from one sport and translate it to another. If they follow anything close to his model, and they're smart guys, they'll have a chance to be successful.

John Lucas

John has had a lot of skills for a long time, ... Sometimes, picking the wrong school, picking a system that doesn't fit, you have to go where you can. I think he's in a system now he likes and respects a lot, he's getting a chance to play with high-level athletes.

Ron Wilson

It actually gave us a chance to stop the goal from being counted. But it's just one of those things.

Brian Jensen

I think it's a great team. You get a chance to talk about poker with some great players and there's a feeling of team spirit.

Larry Davis

I think it's a great idea. While my wife's doing the grocery shopping instead of just wandering around the store, it would be a good chance to have my cholesterol checked again.

Linda Allen

Kim kept going back to medical, complaining about the contractions, but they just kept sending her back to her cell.

Ken Smith

Having to get more than one market pass hasn't been on the same level of complaints as high hotel rates and other hospitality costs.

Dexter Williams

Whatever Josh allegedly did, I'm very shocked because Josh is a good kid. Since he's been with us, our relationship has been good. We didn't have any complaints from teachers or anything.

Liz Smith

We took all the technological know-how that we had and took all the things women complained about and married the two.

Drew Brown

I'm not complaining about Mayor Mark or even Estefan. Estefan is running around like a one-armed paper hanger. They're busy.

Rita Mero

I'm glad to see that women have an important role within the industry. My no. 1 complaint would still be that most women are very submissive and victims. I would like to see women portrayed in a much stronger and intelligent capacity.

Robert Hunter

The CFA's complaint ratio went up. We concluded the service got worse and prices went up.

Charles King

The complaint serves the purpose of alerting Europe that there may be more antitrust violations on the immediate horizon.

Fred Couples

You won't hear any complaints from me. You have to play more defensively than you normally might here, but it is what it is and you just have to deal with it and play through it.

Richard Crawford

When he was dealing with me, he made me feel as if I were the only thing important to him.

Mary Simpson

I don't know why I was so optimistic about this transition. About every situation you can imagine, we have been dealing with.

Chelan Simmons

I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing with and know it's fake. As soon as I watch it on TV, though, my brain registers it as 'Everything's real!'

Diane Swonk

The Fed doesn't want to be dealing with the old economy, with deficits returning. They're trying to have some impact on decisions made now without getting us into permanent problems.

Patrick Lynch

These forums are insulting and laughable, given that we're dealing with an administration hellbent on placing these terminals wherever the industry sees fit.

Mark Rush

This has taken a toll, financially and emotionally. His family is dealing with this in a very real way every day.

Bill Murray

This really should be kept secret, but you can learn a lot by watching the making-of DVDs. Every actor should do it. You figure out what you're dealing with.

Rob Hinchliffe

These things take time, and now that you're dealing with three-way talks ...

Chris Brown

It's hard now being a young performer, it's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. You know, dealing with schoolwork and friendships and everything. But it's great, though. You gotta cope.

Doug Clark

I don't expect foreign exchange students to get a diploma, but I think they should at least get some recognition.

Jim McCormick

In the short term, this is probably not that significant. But it does indicate that they are putting all the pieces in place to have a more flexible exchange rate." ()

Masahiro Kawai

The individual exchange rates won't be supported officially...but if this index is relatively stable vis-a-vis external currencies then it's quite useful.

Mark Fitzpatrick

The dollar's a little weaker because Miyazawa retracted some of his comments, indicating there may be a need for foreign exchange intervention,

Kirby Daley

It's quite shocking. We don't really know how investors are going to react. We have to see how fast the Tokyo Stock Exchange can upgrade its system.

Emmanuel Munyukwi

It's quite embarrassing because the exchange is supposed to mirror the reality of the economy. We have benefited from the distortion of the market.

Mike Heimerdinger

It was pretty ugly. I don't think it was as ugly as last week, because we got the quarterback-center exchange this week.

Nobutaka Machimura

I want to exchange views with you frankly,

Svein Riibe

It took just about a week to set up the system and move existing e-mail from staff PCs and the hosting service server to the new Exchange Server at our KL office.

Don Vincent

They have to really justify it well, I don't know what their logic is or anything.

Judy Chicago

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

Dottie Pepper

At this point, she is an untapped talent because there is no track record. No qualifying school, no futures tour. There is a lot that has to be seen. She is going to have to win to justify it. There are a lot of questions that need answers.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Jenna Marbles

I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

Tullian Tchividjian

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Wilson Mizner

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Vinny Cerrato

All I can say is, from our end, I never talked to Carl about it until after Lawyer was released.

Mike Oldfield

I don't have any friends; I just have lawyers.

Nicholas Johnson

The problem is not that you can buy a congressman for $10000 but that you can buy a Washington lawyer for $100000.

Arlen Specter

Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

Larry David

I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything!

Lee Iacocca

They've got about as many lawyers as we have sumo-wrestlers.

Kent Brown

There was no seat location for the spot listed on the ticket.

Lorenzo Romar

It was tough for Jamaal. Jeffers was in there. He's a 6-11 (Jeffers is listed at 6-9) with long arms.

John Mogg

The risk we saw of an organization being unjustifiably listed is negligible.

Leonard Ambrose

This was a property listed with 'For Sale' signs outside.

Michael Foster

I don't want my son to be listed as a statistic, I lost a son, and they're losing a son.

Lamar Odom

If this were football, I would be listed as probable.

Frank Gaffney

listed ISNA as one of 25 American Muslim organizations that 'finance terrorism and perpetuate violence.'

Dina Merrill

It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.

Graham Moore

I have writer friends who go to the premiere of a film with their name listed as the writer, but they are shocked: 'That's not what I wrote!'

Pat McDonald

I think it probably should just be torn down. It's probably going to take a lot of money to rebuild.

Grant Heslov

When I write, I make decent money doing it, but I don't wake up dreaming about writing.

Simon Reuben

If you can't make 40% on your money in Russia, you're a fool.

Silvio Santos

I'm a TV man, not a money man.

Shuji Nakamura

There are still people in Japan who think money is something evil.

Sam Marchio

What you have to remember is he's shown he can raise the money when he needs to.

Anthony Solomon

I thought we should give the money back to the fans.

Robert Kraft

I think when you spend up to $10 million, that's real money,

Joe Kasper

Whatever this costs, it is going to save us money in the end.

Jerry Dorsey

He decided, for personal reasons, that he needed to be off the board.

Mark French

When he needed to be, he was very good. They had some quality scoring opportunities early, and he made some real nice stops.

Alyn McCauley

We make it tougher than we needed to. We got away from things we wanted to do.

Norm Boyles

We made the plays when we needed to, and Tiffany buckled down when she needed to.

Lee Evans

I didn't win the game. That's the object when you go out there. That's really all there is to say. I didn't win, and I didn't step up when I needed to.

Tomi Pettinen

I didn't want to push myself too hard. I didn't want to pull a groin. I've done nothing for 10 days. I think I did just what was necessary, what I needed to do. On the ice, keep it simple.

Matt Silverman

He will not have any role in the operations of the business. He will be a resource as needed for the organization and he will be a big supporter and cheerleader for the organization.

Alex Sanchez

He was tough. There wasn't very much I could work on. After the first takedown, I realized I needed to pick it up or I wasn't going to make it.

Mike Gillespie

He (Tate) made plays. He got two big baskets for us when we needed it the most.

Rick Bragg

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

William Faulkner

The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Faythe Levine

If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.

Chris Nelson

I read the paper and it makes me nervous.

Henry David Thoreau

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.

Mahatma Gandhi

A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma.

James Robertson

I prefer the pen. There is something elemental about the glide and flow of nib and ink on paper.

Sam Hunt

I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

Joe Gibbs

I think we realized what was at stake,

David Baker

I think we all realized that we had really been replicating things that had already been happening. I don't know if we were smart enough to realize that we were in a cul-de-sac, but we were curious.

Steve Jobs

Oh, I never realized that those spaces were for the emotionally handicapped!

Brian Silverman

It's like a dream. I never realized how big it is.

Nancy Roman

I had left teaching, which I enjoyed, because I realized I couldn't get tenure at a research university.

Michael Newdow

And as soon as I did the research, I realized the law seemed to be on my side and I filed the suit.

Jesse Spencer

All of my girlfriends have been actors, and I've realized that maybe it's not for me - and find something else outside of the industry.

Chuck D.

I think they realized the timing was all wrong.

Terry Palmisano

They go to where the restaurant is open, and unfortunately that is in people's backyards.

Macaulay Culkin

I can go to any restaurant without a reservation, but while I'm there, everyone's gonna be staring.

Graeme Simsion

Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

Rob Stevens

When I went to school, I didn't think I would have a restaurant so quickly, but I always wanted to get back downtown. Paine's is kind of a place for everyone.

Ben Crane

To this day, the first thing I do when I walk into a restaurant is take off my cap.

Bob Fox

We would have a sitter. And the two of us would take off. We used to spend a lot of time at a restaurant in town. Sometimes we would go to a movie, sometimes we'd just drive.