Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Palmer

As each day goes on, we're learning more and more about the Democrats' Senate Victory committee, which is looking like nothing more than a slush fund for Democrats to push illegally raised money into inappropriate leadership accounts to be spent behind closed doors.

Francis Bradley

The whole book was rather crude & hasty but how far it really was less useful on that account I don't know.

Brian Caldwell

Consumers would be shocked to learn that the amount of many short-term payday loans may be as high as 500-percent APR or even greater in many cases. Undoubtedly, some consumers would choose to forego the loan in the face of such written disclosures. However, even when disclosures are made, they are frequently inaccurate, failing to take into account various fees and charges.

Jason Bartosic

Confident singers. This isn't professional theater, in that situation it's then and now, a bad note and you're gone. Here, we take into account nervousness and we give them more leeway. We're looking for potential.

Richard Francis

Continuing sharp improvements in Venezuela's external and debt indicators motivated the upgrade. High oil prices have generated large current account surpluses for the country, which in turn has boosted the external assets of the public sector.

Michael Kadoorie

Tradition means taking account of a wonderful history but remembering that everybody today looks to the future.

Alan Greenspan

This situation suggests that international investors will eventually adjust their accumulation of dollar assets or, alternatively, seek higher dollar returns to offset concentration risk, elevating the cost of financing of the U.S. current account deficit and rendering it increasingly less tenable,

Damien Comolli

We are appreciative of the understanding of the Egyptian FA. They have taken into account both the interests of the players and our club. There was an excellent spirit of co-operation.

Mike Wahle

We did a lot better job scheme-wise. The last time the protections were not built in to account for the extra guy they brought down. This time they were built in. If we didn't pick it up we had a tight end or safety do it. We were a lot more prepared.

Laura Schlessinger

Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Douglas Brinkley

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.

Rick Lynch

The insurgents are still there, ... They still want to derail the democratic process. They still want to discredit the Iraqi government, so operations continue.

Brandon Siler

We held them and we stopped them when we had to. I'm proud.

Charles Rangel

And yet, Republicans have held hostage every penny of relief until the Senate passes their special interest tax breaks,

Duane Schwab

We've held teams to 54.8 points per game, and we're pretty proud of that. This team has really come together.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Melanie Gruer

I would just say it should not come as a surprise to people that she held views on public policy prior to being appointed,

David Pascoe

Law enforcement officers are held in a position of trust and they are held to a higher standard. That is why allegations like this are so troubling.

Islam Karimov

The trial will ... be held in mid-September, on September 20,

William Hurt

I was held hostage and almost executed by a man who was robbing us in the middle of the night.

Philip Schultz

I didn't learn how to read until I was at the end of fifth grade and 11 years old and held back.

Sherri Coale

Iowa State played fantastic. When we were up by 10 points (with 6 1/2 minutes to play), Iowa State could have said 'we're done,' but they kept fighting.

David Letterman

Newt Gingrich had a horrible week in the Iowa caucuses. Only 13 percent of his ex-wives voted for him.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Rastislav Spirko

We don't have any more time for some losses. We know where we are. We want to get to the national tournament and play here.

Sam Rainsy

This shows that the spirit of national reconciliation and national unity have prevailed.

Henry Paulson

Too often, we restrict trade that would create U.S. jobs and is in our national interest.

Dennis Moore

We don't need that on the national level.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Carl Sandburg

Time says hush: by the gong of time you live. Listen and you hear time saying you were silent long before you came to life and you will again be silent long after you leave it, why not be a little silent now? Hush yourself, noisy little man. Time hushes all: the gong of time rang for you to come out of the hush and you were born. The gong of time will ring for you to go back to the same hush you came from. Winners and losers, the weak and the strong, those who say little and try to say it well, and those who babble and prattle their lives away, time hushes all.

C. S. Lewis

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

Cesar Chavez

We are tired of words, of betrayals, of indifference...they years are gone when the farm worker said nothing an did nothing to help himself...Now we have new faith. Through our strong will, our movement is changing these conditions...We shall be heard.

Bellamy Young

The more I resist anything, the stronger it gets.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Claire Messud

I always thought I'd get farther. I'd like to blame the world for what I've failed to do, but the failure - the failure that sometimes washes over me as anger, makes me so angry I could spit - is all mine, in the end. What made my obstacles insurmountable, what consigned me to mediocrity, is me, just me. I thought for so long, forever, that I was strong enough -- or I misunderstood what strength was.

Bob Dylan

May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.

Bobby Fischer

I don't recommend trying to cram a lot of long opening-move variations into your head. The main idea behind any opening is to get a strong pawn center and give your pieces a lot of scope so that you cramp your opponent's position and can attack weaknesses in his game.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.

Hillary Clinton

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

Jeb Bush

Candidates are making lasting impressions on voters, not just primary voters, in how they campaign.

Byron Dorgan

I don't feel responsible for things I didn't vote for.

James Dobson

I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances.