Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Watson

The other respondents involved in this case settled with us and admitted wrongdoing,

Tom Fitton

The point is we need to get all of the facts on the table about this admitted felon's contacts with White House officials.

Mark Ogden

We've also seen cases involving rapidly deteriorating performance and the employees later admitted that they had gone several days without sleep, because they were using the drug.

Jeff Justice

We're in a position where one of these two statements is a lie. He's admitted he's lied about the most important part of his testimony so how can the judge allow this person to testify? But that's what judges do, they make decisions.

Larry Phillips

Where there's a problem, she's willing to admit there is a problem and find a constructive solution, ... That's a welcome change.

Doris Meissner

Where others might have faltered, you rose to the occasion, ... This is not just my opinion, which I admit is biased. This is a view that is shared throughout INS and by your peers in other law enforcement agencies, far and wide, here and abroad. They have described Operation Reunion as a textbook example of operations preparation and execution. It also proved to be the pivotal step in closing one of the most difficult chapters in the history of INS work.

Martin Jacques

Following the end of the Cold War, there was much discussion concerning the point of NATO. In the event, it was reinvented as a means of reducing Russia's reach on its western frontiers and seeking to isolate it. Its former East European client states were admitted to NATO, as were the Baltic states.

Neil Peart

It astonished me in the early Nineties to suddenly have musicians admit that they had been inspired and influenced by us. That meant a lot at that time. But of course, being human, the... disrespect isn't even strong enough a word, is it? The opprobrium was painful. Being popular and hated is not satisfying.

Tom Hall

While Japan is obviously a wonderful and exciting place to visit, I have to admit I was surprised that there were three Japanese cities in the top 200 because I didn't think that most people would be able to confidently identify that number of cities in Japan.

Lenny Roybal

We've won some close games this year, and that's made us better. We made a lot of mistakes late to let them back into the game, but we responded.

Gordon Hartwell

We want to try and shut down the inside game. We have to try and close the paint, which is what we tried to do all season, anyway.

Shafiq Rasul

We want to show the world what is happening there. We want the place to be closed down.

Mark Regev

We want to see maximum movement at the crossings, but that decision has to be weighed next to the very real security threats that there are, ... If we opened every crossing and there were a wave of suicide bombings, then we'd just have to close everything down again.

Suzi Babos

We accomplished our main goal of staying undefeated at home. Now we look forward to welcoming Stanford because we have a lot deeper lineup than last year. I expect a close match.

Dave Hubert

We always have the expectation that we will work as hard as we can to win as many games a possible. In spite of losing some close games early, this team did improve as the year went on.

Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

Rob Morosi

The other two ramps which will be closed are from the southbound Lodge to north and southbound Telegraph.

Scott Warren

The other students help us out, and it's a way to help them out in return. It helps me get closer to other students doing this.

Michel Onfray

We are fashioned not by our genes, but by our environment - by the family and socio-historic conditions in which we evolve.

Stewart Newnham

The pound's strength is tightening monetary conditions in the U.K., but it's not enough.

William Paul

We are seeing conditions that are similar to about what we saw in 2002.

Julie Gerberding

We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,

Chris Stanton

We are looking into whether Martha Stewart violated the conditions of her release,

Kevin Stephens

There are some conditions we just can't handle here. Like dialysis. We can't do that, and they'll be here three or four days, so they'll need it before then.

James Allen

Where there are difficulties to cope with, and unsatisfactory conditions to overcome, there virtue most flourishes and manifests its glory.

David Nelson

Where is the bottom? These market conditions will correct themselves, but probably over months, not weeks or years.

Mirwaiz Umar

We have no conditions from our side and they (New Delhi) have no conditions this time.

Robert Randall

We want the pedophiles to give it a thought, that they might be dealing with the police, ... And if we can stop them ... then we are serving our purpose.

Dave Minshall

We want them to get an offer to the table that they can live with. We want a deal that is more than just a nickel and a dime an hour. We want a deal that recognizes that they went without a wage increase for three years.

Jim Smith

We want them to be ready for whatever they might have to deal with on that first flight; to understand what to do if some of the systems don't do what they're supposed to.

Michael Defensor

We want to set this up properly because we are dealing with a military hierarchy and I might set it up wrongly.

Jack Stahl

We accomplished a great deal in 2005, and we set the stage for a strong year in 2006. Our strategy to re-energize important franchises, while simultaneously developing new products, is working.

Charlie Dowd

We always have the deal that they can leave up until Opening Day. It's a little frustrating. But I'm used to it and the fact that we had Luther who was ready to close. ... He just steps right in and makes it a little more palatable.

Gene Smith

The positives are closure. We're going into the Big Ten tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with. ... They can play without that stress.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they embrace.

Steve Perkins

We are proud to earn this award. It represents a great deal of hard work for us, for our suppliers and for their suppliers. We salute our team of exemplary employees and suppliers, and share this honor with them.

Chinua Achebe

A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.

Ellen Anderson

We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.

Cheryl Mendelson

We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

William Shakespeare

Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.

Carl Jung

The gods have become our diseases.

David Wilson

We're starting to see young people with old people diseases. These diseases include hardening of the arteries, heart attacks, and diabetes.

Benjamin Franklin

A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion.

Avicenna

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

Biz Stone

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

Charles M. Schwab

As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker: A Meeting of the Macabre.

Albert Pujols

Mike Matheny, Fernando Vina, Edgar Renteria, Mark McGwire and Darryl Kile... before he died. Those guys took me under their wing and taught me the way to play the game the right way.

Ray LaHood

What I told Edgar is I would write him a big check, ... I didn't offer to give him all my money.

Martin Jol

We have a terrific young squad but we lack a winning mentality which you can only get through experience. He has the mentality to help us make a big step. Everybody tells me we have the players, but we have to prove it. Away from home we have to do better. Edgar can help us.

Ray Bradbury

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

Samantha Shannon

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

Ross Lynch

My favorite poem ever was 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe.

Martin Jol

I did not even see it, I was watching Edgar Davids. The lad was going down then standing up and for me there's no problem.

David Draiman

I would like to thank a world that never understood or accepted me, family and friends that never believed in me, and a God with one hell of a sense of humor. You have all made me what I am today. Let that weigh heavily on your consciences.

Antonio Tabucchi

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

Luke Bracey

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

Kristinn Taylor

We are preparing for as many as 20,000 people, just to be on the safe side. People have been fired up over the past month, especially military family members, and they want to be heard.

Lisa Stanford

We are a very close-knit family. Sara was worried about her grandpa, not herself.

Joe Leveroni

We strongly oppose the pending project. Our family has lived on and ranched this property for 85 years. Our property is not for sale.

Matthew Goode

When you've got a new family, any kind of security you can have is great.

Matt Keator

When you throw in his charisma, his size and his family values, you know this kid will do whatever it takes to make it.

Nigel Barker

My favorite memory is Tomorrow. Tomorrow's family moments are what I look forward to every day. No single favorite. Just Tomorrow.

Ron Beard

When he figures out how incredibly good he is, he'll be unstoppable.

Milan Khatri

They are flying blind. A lot of the figures are ancient.

Robert Teeter

There needs to be a planned series of speeches, interviews, etc., over the next two or three months by administration officials and other public figures talking about President Ford, what he is trying to do and what he has accomplished.

Doug Painter

This is welcome news for the hunting industry and for conservationists. These figures show that our industry is out front in innovating new and better gear, and that hunters are willing to spend to further their enjoyment.

Audrey Eu

It's a resource question. We're trying to pass legislation, and we need to know what the figures are.

Kevin Burns

It was good information. I'm hoping we can use our figures to make us manage ours better and keep it. That's my personal opinion.

Carol Jordan

As a result, these newly released figures don't surprise us. Rather they remind us of the importance of the work that all of us are doing to improve the safety of women at this university.

Philip Scott

As our figures showed, our focus is on organic growth.

Gavin Patterson

After years of hype, delays, skepticism and then disappointment, it is a welcome relief to say that WCDMA has finally come of age. Preliminary figures show that end-2005 there were 44.42 million WCDMA subscribers worldwide, an increase of 163.62% over the 16.85 million subs registered as of Dec. 31, 2004.

Alan Bean

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Susan Gibson

We want to show people how they can look great for very little money.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Edward Gibbon

[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.

Audrey Hepburn

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Athenaeus

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Arnold Palmer

Swing your swing. Not some idea of a swing. Not a swing you saw on TV. Not that swing you wish you had. No, swing your swing. Capable of greatness. Prized only by you. Perfect in it's imperfection. Swing your swing. I know, I did.

Willie Kemp

Wayne, he's a great player, but we're moving on. We're still going to be friends.

Denis Waitley

The seeds of greatness are ideas you learn from people who've been great in their service to others.

Bill Gates

We will never make a 32-bit operating system.

Ai Weiwei

No matter what happens, nothing can prevent the historical process by which society demands freedom and democracy,

Whit Ayres

the most challenging of his presidency, but not that unusual from a historical perspective.

Sun Yuxi

For historical reasons, there is still some room for us to improve with respect to human rights.

Dan Richardson

It's not the idea of historical preservation we object to; it's the ordinance and the raw power it creates.

David Mitchell

All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy until they happen; then they become historical inevitabilities.

David Korten

An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.

Dave Barry

The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.

Bill Hall

As a historical society, we knew we had to preserve history, but now we have to pursue it, too.

Rachel Ward

And there was always a bevy of up-and-coming photographers sitting in Orange Julius in the King's Road.

Dustin Lanz

He's been on another level all year. Julius is totally at his peak.

Jeffrey Wright

It's a modernized version of Julius Caesar. It was originally set in Chicago, but we've moved the location to post-Katrina New Orleans' Ninth Ward.

Shane Harper

I've always been a huge fan of apologetics. C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors.

Marshall Bloom

We wanted a unique perspective on Lewis and Clark.

Jonathan Vilma

What can Ray Lewis do that you can't do?

Ernie Accorsi

Lewis was different because he not only was a starter here a year ago, he had been here since the 2000 season. When someone like that walks back into your locker room, they're popular, they're known, they've been a teammate.

James Johnson

Lewis really understands the game. He can run a team.

Cindy Mydland

Lewis Drug is a partnership that we've done with several Sioux Valley clinics.

Bart Chilton

I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'

Huey Lewis

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

Buzz Aldrin

Who put their foot in the Missouri River first: Lewis or Clark? Who cares!

Donald DeMayo

Where (those charges) stem from is a mystery to me.

Carlos Castaneda

Heightened awareness is a mystery only for a reason.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt.

Bryan Magee

It could be that the total scenario for human beings is an insoluble mystery until we die, followed by nothing at all.

Bill Johnson

The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

Bill Johnson

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Richard Ellis

This has been a mystery for a thousand years,

Curt Schilling

It's no mystery what he wants and I think that (the Red Sox ) are going to do what they can do to make sure that happens.

Don Brownlee

This is very exciting. It's a mystery story.

J. J. Johnson

We've always been told that there's nothing we can do. We're told that the patients are the ones who need to complain.

Chris Hall

We plan to send 25 patients a week by the end of this year.

Rick Colby

Ultimately, I think the patients need to step up on this issue.

David Adamson

There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.

Billy Carter

We did over 200 adjustments, ... My patients really responded.

Alex Berenson

HealthWell is just one of several foundations that assist patients in making their insurance co-payments for expensive drugs.

Carl Griffith

We had patients throwing up. It was very ugly.

Dennis Hastert

What we try to do is to try to put patients first,

Michael Moore

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Edward Hirsch

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

C. S. Lewis

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

NeNe Leakes

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

Eve Ensler

At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

Paul Register

Many times you have witnesses who are reluctant to come forward.

Christopher Hitchens

One can't indefinitely do for somebody what he is reluctant to do for himself.

Mark Howard

He was reluctant to integrate. And he wasn't alone.

James Greenwood

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

Jeffrey Passel

Once they come in, they are actually reluctant to leave.

Ian Baker

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.

Will Ferrell

You tend to get reluctant to talk about anything until the day before filming.