Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Carey

Any positive thing like that will absolutely create problems. But I thought it was and still is a wonderful thing.

Carl Mydans

As he came across the deck, tapping the deck with his cane, the entire ship was absolutely silent. And the sound of him coming to surrender his country -- tap, tap, tap -- affected me greatly. And my vindictive feelings about him vanished.

John Scarlett

As a bureaucracy becomes more established, it develops its own career structure. It is less dependent, and should be less dependent, on individual personalities. Absolutely no one is indispensable.

David Call

As a complete product of Issaquah public schools, there is absolutely no way I would be here if I didn't have well-funded arts programs and some great teachers who were constantly pushing me intellectually and personally.

Carole Strayhorn

As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. But I recognize that there are those tough situations where heartbreaking decisions have to be made.

Michael Shaw

The bottom line -- GPS is absolutely critical to our nation's economic well being.

Andy Blackston

(The Bulldogs) just absolutely don't beat themselves. To beat them you have to outplay them.

Frank Hancock

The boy did absolutely what you'd want children to do. Quite honestly, he should be commended for the job he did, not criticized for it.

Carrie Martin

The bottom line is we will be clearer. We will make every effort to explain that better. We will be absolutely clear that this is a reimbursement.

John Seesel

A seller with lawfully acquired market power including market power arising from an act of God can charge any price the market will bear, so long as this seller does not join with others to set prices or restrict supply.

Ray Smith

The bucket doesn't get filled up without the drops. We have acquired 23,000 acres, that leaves 130,000 (acres) to go.

Bhagavad Gita

As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.

Joe Green

Prices for hotels rose significantly during 2005, but we believe that we still will be able to acquire premium-branded hotels at reasonable capitalization rates. In attractive markets where hotels are selling in excess of replacement costs, we will consider development on a highly selective basis.

Julien Pain

The more equipment is acquired and produced by a repressive regime, the more important anonymity is.

Kevin Knight

During the fourth quarter our revenue growth was driven by a combination of fleet expansion and improved revenue per mile. We benefited from opening new service centers, increasing service in existing centers, and a full quarter of revenue from Edwards Bros. , which we acquired in August 2005.

Brett Miller

Dell is doing a pretty good job on their own but in the long term they have to acquire a professional services organization. On the high end, they really do need a consulting firm to be a major player.

Brent Scowcroft

compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein had acquired nuclear-weapons capability.

Andreas Herren

Companies who have acquired these rights of course deserve to be protected against this so-called 'ambush marketing' by free-riders.

David Lereah

A new record is a bit unexpected, but so is the performance of mortgage interest rates which have been lower than forecast. When we look at recent job gains, we see all the positive factors coming together to coincide with a powerful demographic demand for housing.

Scott Berry

As far as I'm concerned, it's up for grabs. It's the same most any year. You have to be good and you have to be a little bit lucky.

Mike Malaise

As far as how it changes, it will give us a little bit of a window. It may make it easier to get some messages out without the negative prism of the DeLay campaign.

Daunte Culpepper

As far as Randy not being here, personally, he's a close friend of mine and we spent a lot of time together, so it's definitely a little bit different in that sense. But time moves on. We have a goal to be NFC champions and Super Bowl champions. We don't have time to sit and worry about who was here last year and who's not here this year.

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Charlene, Princess of Monaco

As for the French language, it's probably one of the most beautiful in the world. I speak a little bit and I can follow conversations, but I think it will take time to improve myself.

Kirk Hinrich

As a team, I think we did a pretty good job. We just have to do a little bit better.

Scott Minnig

As a team going into this game we were shooting 52 percent at the line and we still missed some foul shots that we've got to knock in. I told the guys this week we've got to shoot better than we've been shooting or else it's going to come back and get us. I think they started to see that a little bit and panicked a little bit.

Craig Ferguson

As a result of that we met a little bit of a wall.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

John Evans

The size of the property and the magnitude of what we're dealing with is amazing. But we're planning a community, not dealing with a plot of land.

W. S. Gilbert

The secret of man's success resides in his insight into the mood's of people, and his tact in dealing with them.

John Riggins

The story really is, in a way, Joel -- doing what he did while dealing with this illness,

Bill Causey

The slipping is one thing. There are all kinds of details we're not dealing with.

Jonathan Spira

I've always held that in the proportions we're dealing with, the index number is not only irrelevant, but possibly misleading, ... In search, size does not necessarily matter.

Bruce Johnston

Are you telling me, Mr. Jensen, that if Mr. Stevens were to testify that he did, in fact, tell you about that option, that you would say directly that he is lying?

Lisa Alther

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Hunter Tylo

I like to give the fans advice, so what I have been doing is working with the fans directly through e-mail, which is really unheard of.

Jerry Graybeal

I haven't heard directly from anyone. But I have heard from some of their representatives that they're interested.

Arthur Lewis

The insistence by CBC on the need to be able to hire more temporary workers can be traced directly to the corporation's serious funding shortfall,

Toby Miller

It will save us time to take it directly to the public for a vote.

Tom Ridge

Time will tell if we can directly link him to a specific organization or not,

Lloyd Axworthy

We have called in the Malaysian High Commissioner today to register our consternation directly with governmental authorities over Mr. Anwar's trial and sentencing,

Michael Sutton

We pay people directly for their submissions, and then we also have various programs to reward our loyal contributors and keep them working with us. This is our latest effort to further reward them.

Sania Mirza

Professional tennis has become an extremely physical and unbelievably competitive sport. Injuries are the bane of tennis players, and it goes with the territory.

Bob Thomas

Pro Grass has never missed a (football) kickoff or installation time to date. We'll provide a pristine installation and a very safe, extremely valuable venue.

Peter Capaldi

Personally, I have as little to do with politicians as possible. The ones that I've met I've found very boring. They're extremely egotistical, incredibly self-important. If I can help it, I try to stay as far away from them as possible.

Roma Downey

People really feel the need to share how the series has touched their lives, and that's been very moving. We're enormously grateful to the fans of the show. They've been extremely loyal to us season after season, and they make it all worthwhile.

Charles Elliott

People read her for this combination of very keen perceptions of different kinds of people and the way they look at the world, making people very vivid. You do not have a problem of trying to remember who that person was just by names. She is extremely good at this richness of characterization.

Boris Yeltsin

Of course, the situation is extremely difficult, ... For us, it is simply unacceptable.

Evan Katz

Often, Kiefer's portrayal is riveting. He's really able to make these occasionally ridiculous situations feel extremely real, and more importantly, extremely personal.

Dave Reitter

Defensively, I thought we played very well. Our kids played extremely hard down there at the goal line.

Dawn Seiler

Defensively, I thought we played extremely hard, I'm very pleased with that.

Frank Lautenberg

Any properties that are available, we ought to be able to get our hands on.

Alexander Torshin

As a result, law enforcement officers did not know how to handle the situation. No training had been provided for them.

African Proverb

A weapon which you don't have in your hand won't kill a snake

Al Dyer

As long as I'm here we're going to keep playing tough teams because that's the only way to really get better. But these young ladies maybe aren't mature enough yet to handle all these losses.

Shivan Barwari

Raise your hand if you've ever shot putted a mailbox. Raise your hand Joe, you were there.

Steve Warner

Problem is people get impatient and want to pass on the right when he's trying to get back to the right hand lane if you'll just let him do it.

Tom Rankin

Prisons in Florence, Ariz., go hand in hand,

David Eckstein

Personally, I can handle myself after this, ... but I feel disappointed in letting them down.

Jim Lefebvre

Our team was very nervous as it was a big game. But that's part of being a professional player and they did not handle it well.

Annie Parisse

Reading a play, you view yourself as part of a whole. You see where the whole thing is going, and so you're willing to go to the very ugly place that your heart may go in order to serve the whole.

Wilma Askinas

Sometimes you have to be silent in order to be heard.

Jessica Raine

I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.

Haan Phelps

This is not a restaurant. They can't come in here and order New Orleans shrimp, because I don't know I'm going to get reimbursed for it.

Bill Griffith

Zippy has no problem with the irrationality of the universe, whereas most of us are desperately trying to make order out of the universe, and our lives.

Kevin Jackson

You should not have to pay in order to win or collect.

Arjun Makhijani

This is being transparently done to promote a very poor site . . . in order to accommodate the industry,

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

He whose honor depends on the opinion of the mob must day by day strive with the greatest anxiety, act and scheme in order to retain his reputation. For the mob is varied and inconsistent, and therefore if a reputation is not carefully preserved it dies quickly.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

John Duncan

Those two places in South Portland are significant bottlenecks.

Dr. Seuss

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

Yotam Ottolenghi

There are tons of wonderful places to eat in London.

Adrian Smith

I get to fish a lot of wild and wonderful places on tour.

Margaret Turnbull

If TPF is not canceled, these are the places where we will search.

Lynsey Addario

Most people, when they meet me, one of the first things they say is, 'Why would you voluntarily subject yourself to war? Why would you go into these places where you know there's a risk of getting killed?'

Charlie Morgan

One of the things we stress is to make sure you are prepared. Do you have enough water? Do you have the right equipment? When we travel, there is a checklist of things, the type of places we stay in, for example.

Sam Bush

Of course, I wasn't old enough to get in these places back then,

Cade Bernsen

As I understand it, it's going to be done rather quickly.

W. C. Fields

On the whole I would rather be in Philadelphia.

Keeley Hawes

I am not into action and adventure on holiday; that doesn't really do it for me. I would much rather go and lie down.

Joel Edgerton

To me, I think I'm just going to keep focused and forward on what I'm doing, work-wise, rather than searching for any kind of meaning in it.

Dedrick L.

To be honest, I'd rather be the underdog. We always play better when we're the underdog.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Darius Walker

Hopefully, he'll be rooting for us. We'd rather have him on our side.

Stan Wasowski

It is very remote it will rain. Most of it will stay north.

Allan Bristow

As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be the best.

Jeff Sluman

Other days, making one or two birdies seems like it's going to be impossible.

Diane Siri

I've accomplished most of the things I set out to do. It just seems like the right time to make a transition.

Rick Dickson

Somebody said it was a week ago Sunday this all began, ... It seems like many years ago.

Kenny Chesney

now he seems to think he can tell Renee what to do, what to wear, where to go and who to see.

Peter Hitchens

The whole of the U.S. system seems to be creaking at the moment,

Todd Rundgren

It seems like there are two worlds out there - one that has revolved around 'Breaking Bad,' and then the one that I've been in, which just kind of observes it from afar.

Jay Bilas

Even though it seems like a short timeframe, there's a lot that can happen.

Jill Wagner

When work seems like a job, I don't do it anymore. I always want it to be something I'm interested in and something that challenges me.

O. Henry

The old rivalry, which may not have been so strong two, three years ago, is back, and it's marvelous.

Mike Farrell

Telecom is also strong today (Tuesday) and those have been the most oversold stocks.

Gerard Bisceglia

Preposterous is a strong word, but it is warranted in this case.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Dave Mitchell

It was typical, good, tough wrestling. We have a pretty strong region.

Howard Gantman

It was very strong in terms of Californians contacting us in support of the filibuster.

Josh Reed

The wind was really strong all day. It was very make-able.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

John Fitzgibbons

This is not a strong time to take someone public.