Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Uecker

The MRI scan looked like I had swallowed a cantaloupe. It was an abdominal aortic aneurysm. I was shocked because, except for the back pain, I felt good.

Charles Osgood

There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.

Hootie Johnson

An invitation to become a member of Augusta National is very special and would never be tied to anything except personal relationships within this club.

Len Wolman

Everything you see is new except the structure of the rooms.

Jeff Blankenship

Every player started at least one game in the HIT tournament and every player sat at least one game except for Lonnie. That's how well he's swinging the bat.

Pat Hill

Except for one play, I thought he played a great football game.

Fred Rodriguez

I started pushing in that last 150 meters, and I passed everyone except for (Michaelsen). You can only do so much. You always like racing at home and doing well at home so (this finish) is a treat.

Barry Steinhardt

You have tens of thousands of screeners, with haphazard training and professionalism that varies widely, ... All of this raises the questions of, are we really safer now? And are we getting anything out of this agency, except hassles?

John Wooden

An effective leader allows exceptions to the rule for exceptional results or when circumstance demands.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Calvin Coolidge

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

Dan Harmon

It was never my direct intention to do anything particularly medium-defying.

Jim Carrey

It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.

Jill Scott

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

Chenzira Kahina

The intention is not just sexual, but it's intimate in a sacred way.

Eric Holder

I don't have any intention of resigning.

Mira Nair

Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

Richard House

It wasn't my intention ever to leave Chicago, that's for sure.

Daphne Guinness

Part of being a conscious human being, is having an intention. And if you put an intention into whatever you do, it’s definitely going to be more satisfying in the end

Tom Lewand

We put the tag on Jeff Backus with the intention of keeping him here not only in 2006, but beyond.