Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

I would want us all to put real collective pressure and sustain it on President Milosevic in the hope that we will get an agreement and he will understand the implications of any escalation,

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Bruce Allen

He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in just a few days of conversation we were able to reach an agreement that we think will ensure his future.

Andrew Sorensen

He's doing an outstanding job. We're in 100 percent agreement on the terms of his service.

Christopher Hill

It is a good agreement for all of us.

Carol Raulston

I think the industry has literally been shaken by this month's events. There was a broad agreement that we really needed to focus efforts, particularly looking at technology and training.

Bill Daly

I think the importance of meeting quickly after the season cancellation in an effort to get a deal done as soon as possible is maybe we can take some germs of where there was agreement before the season cancellation and build on those, but time will tell.

Christopher Hill

I think the Chinese draft is an excellent basis for reaching an agreement.

Susan Petniunas

It is clearly time for the U.S. to honor its treaty agreement with Canada, and to end these illegal duties that continue to harm American consumers.

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Jose Maria Aznar

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5N1 virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only. The current situation in Italy does not provide consumers with any cause to avoid eating poultry products.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Olli Rehn

It is high time that Serbia reaches full co-operation with the ICTY. That is the way to avoid the disruption of the negotiations, that the negotiations would be put on hold when the next round takes place.

Stanley Fischer

It is in Israel's interests to avoid a collapse of the Palestinian economy.

Gary Ross

I would think they are setting their bargaining position high, so that when they sit at the table, they can then compromise.

Alexis Herman

I think it's a major victory for both parties, ... That's what collective bargaining is all about.

John Roberts

It is not a process under which senators get to say, 'I want you to rule this way and this way and this way, and if you'll tell me that you'll rule this way and this way and this way, I'll vote for you, ... That's not a bargaining process. Judges are not politicians. They cannot promise to do certain things in exchange for votes.

Lori White

I have faith in the bargaining committee, so I'm hoping it was a fair deal,

Colin Butler

The message is that he has no respect for the people he is bargaining with. ... He should bargain in good faith and defend that contract to the public.

Karen Miller

The collective bargaining process has worked at Delta for 60 years without third-party intervention, ... Reaching a settlement is the only way to end uncertainty for the public. A PEB would only delay the uncertainty by 60 days so now we'd be facing a strike in the middle of the summer.

Mark Gendregske

The company and the CAW bargaining teams are working hard to find solutions to a number of issues.

Janet Yellen

The growing capacity of foreign countries to supply goods and services to the U.S. market has impacted the structure of wages and the bargaining power of workers.

Dave Minshall

The important thing is that what happened today is what we've been saying all along, and that is, it's better to be at the bargaining table than on the picket line.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sanath Jayasuriya

I thought about it long and hard and decided that's it. It's a very emotional moment, but I guess every good thing has to come to an end.

Freddy Peralta

The people have united. The people have awakened, and they have decided to fight for their rights.

Mike Healy

We're in the process of replacing old machines right now. So we decided to put the new software that recognizes the $20s only into the new machines, starting with the highest-volume locations.

Tony Dungy

We're obviously happy for Mike. I don't know what the league's rationale is on it, but I'm sure they looked at all the facts and that's what they decided to. It's really out of our hands and we've just decided to be thankful for whatever happens.

Dave Anderson

We then decided to get together and play.

Jim Parker

We then decided that since we were making all the parts, why not make the shells and manufacture our own vintage suspension helmets,

Dusty Auxier

We thought we would be a playoff team when the season began. We had 17 games decided by less than 10 points and suffered nine league losses by five (points) or less. We could never get over the hump.

M. Thompson

Just to get that hit, it felt great.

Mark Sullivan

Karl Miller once described a role that he had as 'actor-proof.' I kind of felt like that was Justin. He was so well-written, it was kind of hard to not do him justice.

Graeme Smith

(Kallis) said that he got through yesterday's session fine. He felt it with one or two shots, cross-bat shots.

Noah Lowry

Just one pitch. Everything else felt pretty good out there.

Michael Hopkins

Jones had his intensity level up from the start. We felt if we got off to a quick start we could hang with them, but we never found a way to stop Jones.

Sam Perlozzo

I talked to Richie at the time it happened, and we felt if it was going to completely heal, it was going to take about six weeks. You just hope nothing happens to him and he can get through the rest of the month.

Paul Formica

I talked to Kevin and he had nothing but great things to say about Cleveland. I think Kevin is going to take his time and wait until the end. I don't think the Indians are able to give him what he wants, which is five years, so I felt comfortable talking with him.

Mike Holmgren

I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it,

Tim Duncan

I think it's a great situation for everyone, especially myself. I felt good tonight. I felt like I was moving pretty well and not in a lot of pain, so it was good.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Chuck D.

We try to not put too much pressure on the kids. We treat it like a regular day.

Chris Bosh

It's real important but I don't put too much pressure on myself.

Elliott Sadler

It's ungodly . . . the pressure that we get as drivers,

George Phillips

It will provide another way to and from Route 7 and relieve pressure on 641.

Nic Pizzolatto

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

Niall Horan

There's always pressure on the second album - this one has to be the big one.

Kevin Costner

I deal with pressure. I have a tendency to probably be at my best under pressure.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

Karen Walker

I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week!

Kypros Chrysostomides

It seems that today we reached a satisfactory conclusion.

Tom Duxbury

There's at least one more we could reach for another flyby.

Rick Wagoner

These negotiations were done in a positive, cooperative, problem-solving spirit, ... While it may have taken some time to reach this cooperative solution, I think it was time well-spent.

Joseph Biden

We have to do more to reach out and get the rest of the world in on the game,

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Sandra Williams

We're uniting together to reach out into the community.

Richard Wagoner

While it may have taken some time to reach this solution, I think it was time very well spent,

Sam Wyche

I was in serious cabin-fever trouble being out of football,

Paul Busse

It can be taken as seriously as you want or as whimsically as you want.

Debra Brown

Had he been in the vehicle, he would have been seriously injured.

Michael Ballack

I am in serious negotiations with Chelsea. Nothing is signed yet, but I know what I want.

Roberta Baskin

If you want to be serious about it, there has to be some enforcement mechanism.

Brian Billick

I'm told that it's not serious and it's typical.

Nancy Thayer

I have discovered the meaning of life. It resides in what I can wrest from each day that I live.

Milan Kundera

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

Jonny Lang

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.