Famous Quotes & Sayings

Earl Smith

I think it is high time that a statement is made. The assault on our children must stop, something must be done, and we are calling on the powers that be to do something about it.

Steve Stockman

Waco was supposed to be a way for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and the Clinton administration to prove the need for a ban on so-called assault weapons.

Richard Patton

What you have here is an assault on Willie Copeland.

Pamelyn Ferdin

Here is a government, a feckless federal government, who spent millions of taxpayer dollars to wage an assault on all our constitutional rights.

Judith Miller

There is a full-scale assault by the federal government now on journalists in order to get at people who disclose classified information.

Jay Stewart

What you're seeing is a frontal assault on business as usual - the politics of insiders using the system to benefit themselves and their friends.

Sheila Nix

I think that might be a lot of people's reaction to hearing that a rolling pin could be an assault weapon.

Jackie Speier

It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.

Mark Warner

I will not tolerate any assault on the health, safety and welfare of Virginia's citizens or the environment, and I insist on compliance with environmental laws and regulations. This matter must be brought to a swift and responsible conclusion ... The bottom line is that you need to either fully comply with environmental laws and regulations or shut down.

Rush Holt

I would say the president has the power to help us get to the bottom of this matter. And we in Congress want to do this not so much for what has happened but to prevent such a thing from happening again.

Mike Woodson

I think it goes without saying that Joe is a huge piece to what we're trying to do in terms of turning this thing around and ultimately making the playoffs, which is the bottom line and why I'm here.

Brian Hill

He just has a lot of pain in that abdominal area, and we're just trying to get to the bottom of it.

Hunter Collins

Greg chose bottom to start the period. I stepped into a turk and stayed there.

David Eckstein

Guess what, if we're going to be a champion we've got to come back. The bottom line is we still have life.

Gale Anne Hurd

Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.

Thomas Piketty

My premise is not to tax to destroy the wealth of the wealthy; it's to increase the wealth of the bottom and the middle class.

Seth Shostak

The bottom line is that the position of the Sun relative to the stars slowly changes for any given date, and over the course of 26,000 years, it can easily slide between constellations. So you may think you're a Pisces, but you're actually an Aquarius.

Jim Veltman

This was one of those games. We didn't want to go back to .500 and be one of the bottom feeders. We wanted to be a top feeder, and I thought we proved that tonight.

Dax Maier

I was just a little scared because, one, what if I miss it; two, what if I slip, I might fall into the river. And so I just kept on looking up and got directions, and then next thing you know I was on the gondola and they brought us down.

Chadd Moore

James brought him to me. I saw he wasn't paying no attention, so I just took a chance and stole the ball.

Keith Johnson

John brought it out front and I crashed the net. I was yelling for the puck and he got it over to me.

E. Hicks

John has brought a new level of professionalism to the Texas Rangers over the last four years. During his tenure the organization has improved on the field at the major league level while enhancing the minor league system.

Matt Williams

John has been brought in to learn about international preparation and at this stage it is just part of his development. But we would be looking for him to be knocking on the door of international selection in the near future.

Troy Glaus

J.P. has brought in pitchers and hitters to help out and that's just what we're going to try and do. We're going to try to put this team back to the level it's been before and the level it deserves to be.

Charles Sims

I think it's a big victory for Rosie. Who doesn't?, ... Rosie didn't want this fight. She wouldn't have brought this lawsuit if they didn't sue her (first). She just wanted to show that the claims were unjustified.

Greg Jones

It came down to offensive execution. We found a way to get runners on base, move them over and then get the big hit that brought them around. We got into a couple situations with two strikes and two outs and finished with some really good at-bats.

Anthony Veliz

It came down to a phone call. Grayson called me and brought the idea up. The IBL season works with his (And1 Tour) schedule, so it's a no-brainer.

Eric Hoffman

He should be forever locked up to ensure the safety and security of the citizens of Delaware County.

E. Helm

I think the citizens of this city are nervous about overdevelopment, ... We want development, yes, but we don't want it all in downtown in one area.

Craig Johnson

What makes us fundamentally different is that we give citizens the tools to become informed, organize themselves and then to take action, ... People can form or join groups, contribute money or time, or dialog with their representatives with just two clicks of their mouse.

Freman Hendrix

It has been a labor of love for me. I have not tired. I am energized when I am around the citizens of Detroit.

Mark Herring

I think voters have sent a strong message this past election that they want someone who will go down and work on issues that are priorities for the citizens in the district. Like traffic congestion and finding solutions to the traffic problems, as well as education and development. As state senator, those are the priorities that I will work on.

Dennis Hastert

It is important that when we rebuild this historic city that we consider the safety of the citizens first.

Alan Greenspan

we may be governors of the Federal Reserve but we are also citizens of this country.

Viktor Yanukovych

We must improve our lives and we will do it together -- all of our citizens and myself as president of Ukraine...,

David McCarthy

I have found it increasingly difficult to meet my obligations to the citizens of Millville and the students and staff of our schools.

Don Foster

We think about 90 percent of the people are in compliance. And some people that aren't in compliance don't even know that they aren't in compliance.

Nina Olson

When information is reported to the IRS, the compliance rate is 90 percent. When it's not, only 50 percent shows up on a tax return.

J. Taylor

I have exhausted the administrative process with this property and I have been met with refusal towards any compliance efforts,

Bill Anderson

In one compliance report you know exactly where you stand. You can see how many users and licenses you have.

Bruce Brody

High grades could mean a lot of compliance but not necessarily a lot of security.

Bob Ryan

I just want to be in compliance with the law. I want to make sure I have the right documents. It's more confusing than it used to be.

Mohamed ElBaradei

I hope they will understand that countries are not ready to negotiate under threat, or under blackmail and they should first take the first step to come into compliance with their non proliferation obligations.

Paul Hamerman

The first time around with SOX, there was an imposed deadline and everyone scrambled to meet minimum compliance requirements. Now, it's time to look at the underlying systems and processes, and see how they can gain efficiencies from them.

Dennis Murray

The harmonization of it all is difficult. All this plethora of compliance makes it hard to set a level to it and match the standards and regulations and meet their requirements.

Bob Campbell

It didn't have any details. That's why we put a condition on those plans that when they did figure out where the exit point was, it would have to comply with the ordinance that regulates exit points.

Orrin Hatch

I think the president ought to comply and help here.

Luis Suarez

He was removed from the national team because he didn't comply with some rules that are followed around here.

Neelie Kroes

I have given Microsoft every opportunity to comply with its obligations. However, I have been left with no alternative other than to proceed via the formal route to ensure Microsoft's compliance.

Neelie Kroes

I have given Microsoft every opportunity to comply with its obligations.

Bruce Bartlett

He failed to comply with the conditions and was perpetrating a fraud on the court. How can people think that is the right thing to do?

Rebecca MacKinnon

Research In Motion, the owner of BlackBerry, has been asked by a range of governments to comply with surveillance requirements.

Imad Hamad

Our request is simple -- comply with your own regulations. Enough is enough. We don't want special treatment. We just want to be treated fairly.

Chuck D.

Our next step here would be for us to really understand the scope of the request. And once we understand the scope of the request, what we will do is develop a plan to comply with the FTC subpoena.

Amelia Torres

We can confirm that we received the request last week. We are assessing it ... and expect to come to a conclusion in May.

Charles Stross

I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.

Seneca

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct

Robert Falcon Scott

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

William Taylor

involve a willful state of mind. The arson investigators' conclusion was this was a deliberately set arson fire.

Paula Rieker

I observed events that I thought were wrong, so I did make a conclusion. I didn't make a conclusion that it was legal or illegal.

Noriaki Ichikawa

In addition, the market seems to have come to the conclusion that an end to the quantitative monetary policy does not necessarily mean the start of interest rate rises.

David Vladeck

If you only read half the statute, you can come to that conclusion (that expert fees are not allowed). We think their reading overlooks half the statute.

William Shakespeare

In short whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When everyone is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

Bob Paduchik

Ken Blackwell is either a huge hypocrite or very incompetent.

Billy Gillispie

Joe shouldn't have shot it. He knows that. It was my fault. I probably should have either called another timeout right there and told them exactly what we wanted to do or just reminded Joe that we didn't really need to have a 3-point shot at that point.

Peter Greenaway

I think it is really important to be in some way provocative - either intellectually or viscerally - in the films one makes.

Jim Rice

I think it is one of the most picturesque views that we have encountered in either mission thus far.

Shimon Peres

It can't happen as long as there is still shooting. Either there is shooting or there are talks,

Karan Johar

It can be either of the two Fridays.

Andy Reid

He can play either side. He was a starter all his years at Georgia. When you see him, you will see he has a little size to him.

Steve Smith

He can play either position equally well, and I don't often say that about guards. I hear that and when I see most kids, I think they become one or the other. He can honestly play either. And that helps.

Doris Lilly

He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely like him, except, maybe, Lucifer.

Jay Brown

He wants the place to feel like a family environment.

James Sarni

What will keep swap spreads from widening dramatically is that we are still in (a relatively) low yield environment.

Deb Patterson

I thought about the fans and how incredible it was for us to have competed in that environment. I thought about our players and just how proud I was of how tough-minded they had become as competitors and how happy I was for them. I thought about our staff and how hard they've worked.

Steve Sampson

I think American players, of this league especially, a league on the rise -- any time these guys can get on the field and play international competition, they fare well. I think our all stars are going to do very well. Unfortunately it is not the most ideal preparation, but once they get on the field and see the environment I think they will step up and play respectfully.

Mary Walker

It gives our workforce a great opportunity to expand their knowledge within the normal working environment.

Dore Gold

I think today's the day of tremendous national anguish. Many people thought this whole process would polarize Israeli society because that seemed to be the environment here leading up to the national disengagement effort.

Ron Clark

It is not our purpose to do missionary work and expound the gospel. Our purpose is to expound upon the environment and 'feeling' of BYU.

Iain Dowie

I think that in a week to 10 days, he could be back in the running environment.

Mike Love

It is like any family, ... In our family, we have had people who have responded very differently to the same environment and same stresses.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Russell Baker

The twentieth century seems afflicted by a gigantic... power failure. Powerlessness and the sense of powerlessness may be the environmental disease of the age.

Will Durant

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Samuel Wilson

The infrastructure for linking environmental health and public health is not working as well as it should.

Samuel Wilson

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met.

Warren Christopher

Environmental degradation, overpopulation, refugees, narcotics, terrorism, world crime movements, and organized crime are worldwide problems that don't stop at a nation's borders.

W. S. Merwin

I wouldn't be happy about being considered a love poet or an environmental - I don't want any of those tags.

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

Yvon Chouinard

Everything we personally own that’s made, sold, shipped, stored, cleaned, and ultimately thrown away does some environmental harm every step of the way, harm that we’re either directly responsible for or is done on our behalf.

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Russ Diamond

I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.

Michael Wright

He hasn't said anything inconsistent with what we are finding, but systemic problems just doesn't really fully characterize what we have been told and what we are seeing.

Manish Agarwal

He is a much-threatened VVIP. We are fully geared.

Nel Parado

He had a good game, I'm surprised that he played that well because he hasn't fully recovered.

Michael Huff

He'll never know, I guess, fully what we go through. But I think he has a lot better understanding.

Ron Hays

We can learn from Katrina to make sure our plans are in order and our network fully connected.

John Millington Synge

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.

Bob Sowders

I guess we can't seem to retire, not fully at least.

Charles de Montesquieu

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Matt Will

The market insisted that this is the way to go.

Charles Grassley

No Senator has the right to insist on his or her own issue-by-issue philosophy, or seek commitments from nominees on specific litmus test questions likely to come before that court.

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Robert Bonner

Those who insist that marijuana has medical uses would serve society better by promoting or sponsoring more legitimate research,

Source Unknown

There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Damian Lewis

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

Rudy Rucker

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

Jose Morales

The Mexicans are going to keep coming, wall or no wall, new laws or old laws.

Brian Oxman

This is a lawsuit that never should have been brought. I'm pleased it's over.

Bobby Schindler

It's going to take a little while before these laws are actually changed.

David Goodwin

She'll mostly stay with me, and I try not to keep her on a leash because she's active. She's very nice, and I don't think there should be leash laws because it's not fair.

Robert Frost

A successful lawsuit is one worn by a policeman

Mike Garcia

A lot of states have laws where you can't get into school without proof of immunization.

Rosemarie Arnold

This plea is Step One in the vindication process. The lawsuit is Step Two.

Ziad Asali

As a practical matter, they think that the new members of the parliament will be more amenable to pass these laws than the present one. They're comfortable that it will pass then. But they do not rule it out now.

Frank Martinez

We've been told to say that. (And say) whatever it takes to get that phone line in the receiver.

Mike Boyajian

We've got to keep on scoring. Right now, all three of our lines are starting to score. A team can't concentrate on one of our lines. We're pretty deep.

Mario Lemieux

I thought the other lines were pretty good, as well. We'll see what happens.

Nariman Behravesh

I think that whole line of reasoning is overdone.

Antoni Gaudi

There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.

Dale Mitchell

He was lined up straight with the ship canal,

Joy Harjo

I come from a long line of revolutionaries.

Rick Carlisle

He has an NBA skill and that's that he can post up and score. He can also shoot from midrange and I think he'll be able to stretch it maybe to the NBA 3-point line down the line.

Richelle Mead

My life didnʹt need to be on the line for me to enjoy dessert.

Bill Freeman

Just patriotism, ... No matter what went down, we were supporting our own nation and land.

David Eckstein

Just stepping to the plate, just understanding it's you vs. him, that's all that really mattered at that point.

Greg Puhalski

He didn't play too badly. It's just a matter of getting a little rust off.

Doug Miller

He comes up with a lot of big plays no matter where you put him.

Sally Field

The only thing that matters to me is getting to the work - getting to do the work. And I don't really care where it is: whether it's on stage or on television or in film.

Sloane Crosley

Going to a museum is one of those inexplicably tiring things. You're not actually doing anything, more shifting your weight from room to room than walking. And yet it is one of the more tiring things one can do, no matter how thrilled you are by the exhibits.

Brian Beckwith

His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for each game.

Dave Duncan

His stuff is there, it's just going to be a matter of time. He'll get into the swing of things.

Arlen Specter

I think it's more a matter for them than us because we've got ... a lot of matters which take precedence over this for our own time,

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Troy Polamalu

Being compared to the greatest-ever safety is pretty ridiculous. I continue to work toward that, but I'm not there and I know that.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Will Smith

Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing.

Warren Buffett

The three most important words in investing...Margin of Safety.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Robert Maxwell

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Wil Wheaton

Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow.

Wil Wheaton

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Donte' Stallworth

I don't know what it was, ... but I know it wasn't us being shut down.

Mara Wilson

I get a lot of "Shut up, Matilda." I probably get as many "Shut up, Matildas" as Wil Wheaton gets "Shut up, Wesleys." That was an actual line on his show, though.

Khaled Hosseini

Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.

Ogden Nash

When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.

Marty Schottenheimer

We still could have shut them out and won by four.

Shi Zhengrong

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan shut down most of its reactors and said it would move to renewables.

Shaun Cody

It's painful. It's really frustrating, and it makes you want to shut it down. You want to, as a player, say 'I can't take this no more.' But I'm a professional.

Kevin Roy

Sunday at 6 p.m., we shut it down.

Brandon Rush

It just shut them up. You lost, what more can you say?

Blake Shelton

Nobody's gonna beat Taylor Swift in a fan-voted thing. And nobody should, by the way.

Yanni

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.

Mike Ditka

In life, you get what you tolerate.

Pete Williams

At least as long as we can tolerate each other.

Gary Mickelson

We do not tolerate discrimination in the workplace.

Michael Chertoff

We will not tolerate lawlessness, or violence, or interference with the evacuation,

Mike Tomlin

I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

Nora Roberts

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

Jane Rule

Human beings tolerate what they understand they have to tolerate.

Henry Hazlitt

A hundred welfare programs, spending more and more billions, lead to chronic budget deficits, which lead to increased paper-money issues, which lead to higher prices.

Henry Hazlitt

Once the premise is accepted that poverty is never the fault of the poor but the fault of 'society,' or of 'the capitalist system, then there is no definable limit to be set on relief, and the politicians who want to be elected or reelected will compete with each other in proposing new 'welfare' programs to fill some hitherto 'unmet need.'

Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

James Cook

The more welfare, the more crime.

Larry Elder

The welfare state is an assault on families.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Barney Frank

For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.

Bob McDonnell

I wrote my thesis on welfare policy.

Gary Griffiths

The welfare of our young is really everyone's business.