Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Baker

Approximately 26 percent of the surrounding property owners within 200 feet of the property have officially registered opposition to the request. Because of this, a super majority vote (six of seven council members) is needed to approve the requested zoning change.

Gary Buehler

We are very aware that many, many people are waiting for more generics to be approved and that there is frustration about the backlog.

Robert Ghiz

Sixty per cent of the population has to show up to vote; 60 per cent have to approve the change. Also 60 per cent of the ridings have to approve the change.

James Perkins

I can't guarantee it. It is important to us to get FEMA to approve us,

O. J. Simpson

My biggest passion in life is shoes. My mom, I would wear hers as a kid. I am in on the creative meetings and designing and drawings. And I approve everything that you see.

Maria Bain

We have some way to go, though, before this drug will be approved for use in people with stroke. We need to learn the extent of its benefits, optimal initiation of treatment time and duration of treatment, as well as long-term side effects associated with treatment.

Debbie Tower

We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. FEMA considered it permanent repair, not emergency repairs.

John Norris

We are bogged down in red tape. We're not able to get things approved and get to (work in) the field.

Peter Murphy

For the first time, we have a situation where quality charter schools will not be approved for no other reason than there's no room to approve.

Bruce Latimer

Oil is down, silver is down, so we have to assume those stocks will be down. I think we'll be a little weaker out of the gate.

Joan Didion

The shock of it was that this time, she had a lot of strength, ... Her husband and I assumed she'd overcome it.

Zach Hall

This program will be the most comprehensive and broadest program for stem cell research training in the country and I assume in the world,

Karen Joy Fowler

I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.

James dyer

We had assumed or hoped for today to be so much more than yesterday. Isn't it strange how we do nothing and expect different outcomes.

Abby Cohen

We don't think so, and continue to assume long-term earnings growth of 7 percent-to-8 percent in our valuation model.

Tim Russert

Those who could not get out were the poor, who rely on public buses to get out! Your website says that your department assumes primary responsibility for a national disaster - if you knew a hurricane three storm was coming, why were buses, trains, planes ... provided on Friday, Saturday, Sunday to evacuate people before the storm?

Jeffrey Klarik

When you decide you want to become a television writer, you naively assume it's going to be like the writers on the old 'Dick Van Dyke Show.' You'll write something and they'll just put it on TV. But what you quickly discover is that American network television is television by committee.

Kevin Mitnick

Most people assume that once security software is installed, they're protected. This isn't the case. It's critical that companies be proactive in thinking about security on a long-term basis.

Ian Gold

We did not complete the mission and it's frustrating.

Kurt Mayer

We have people who will get on a motorcycle in the dead of winter and ride 350 miles to go to a funeral of a complete stranger and stand there for an hour, at attention, give a salute and go home.

Mohamed Mahdi

There is complete forgery by every way and means.

Jack Ma

Currently, it seems the second phase has been completed smoothly and even better than my expectations. Now we are entering the third phase of reshaping.

Janet Jackson

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

Ned Riley

Today we're in the bottom- fishing mode and there are a lot of people who think the tech correction is complete and we've established our lows for this cycle.

Keith Burns

To me, it is a complete failure. Anything less than hoisting that Lombardi Trophy is a failure.

Thomas Russo

Warren comes complete with three skills: a consummate investor, a superb businessman and a great cheerleader.

Alan Curry

We are very pleased that the legal tactics of the defense have been rejected by the court of appeals, and we are hopeful that we can now finally place our complete focus upon going to trial.

Jessie Stricchiola

We've seen a consistent downward trend in responsiveness to submitted activity.

Steve Schultze

We thought we could do it in a couple of years, but it finally happened and it's real exciting for the kids, for the community, for the school, for our program. Our whole motto this year is 'Nothing but greatness.' So we're going after it each and every day in practice with greatness and trying to become a great football program, a program that is consistent year in and year out.

Alec Stewart

England have been consistent in the past where if someone has made themselves unavailable for some of the winter, then they have been made unavailable for the whole winter by the selectors.

Holly Brown

Devin stayed within herself and relied on her mechanics. She's been one of our most consistent hitters.

Chris Smith

You have to have that consistent effort ... to win the game, period.

Bill Bavasi

This was a pretty high priority for us in the off-season. The signing for us is terrific because there's so few real quality left or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of the lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We wanted to lock him up.

Bill Tolpegin

We're going to be consistent with our pricing.

Chris Petersen

We talked last year about him taking the next step there, and that didn't happen for whatever reason where we wanted him to. Did he get better? He did. He got better on occasion, but he wasn't the consistent guy that we needed.

Justin Griffith

We ain't very big, but we're consistent in what we're trying to do, and we'll stay at it, ... If we get a 2-yard gain on a run, that's a plus for us, we're happy. Other teams, they get a 2-yard gain, they're hanging their heads. We're thinking, 'Hey, second-and-8, we can go on, we still have the ball.'

Marc Grossman

Other countries have an interest in UN reform as well and not just in how the Security Council works.

Michael Clara

The very thing we're teaching our young men, the council is not doing to us.

John Lichtblau

The U.N. Security Council would be hurting the world more than it was hurting Iran if it restricted Iranian oil exports. The United Nations might restrict other Iranian exports or limit Iranian imports of military equipment, but I don't see the U.N. Security Council imposing sanctions on Iranian oil.

Hassan Nasrallah

The U.N. Security Council did not to condemn the Qana massacre, due to the U.S. veto.

Bill Richardson

The United States reserves the right to oppose any arrangement that does not protect Security Council resolutions and what we perceive to be America's national interest,

Stephen Hadley

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence.

Jamal Ibrahim

We have proposed at the recent AU Peace and Security Council meeting in Addis Ababa the formation of a joint force.

Jose Maria Aznar

Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

Peter Jenkins

We expect that the Security Council will now take up consideration of the reports and resolutions it has received from the (IAEA) Board.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Inaki Saez

Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.