Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Leavy

We have seen continued fighting and reports of atrocities. It only underscores the brutality of the Milosevic regime and his blatant disregard for human life, and the necessity for NATO's strong response to his repression.

Michael Murphy

As much as people are expecting the Christmas card hoax or the New Year's hoax, attackers are moving to fly under the radar and not using such obvious or blatant threats.

Michael Specter

The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's race can, and often should, be used as a tool for better diagnoses and treatment.

Edward Greenspan

This is a blatant example of overreaching by the prosecutor.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

This is the most blatant example of 'mob rule'.

Jimmy Wales

People shouldn't do it, including me. I wish I hadn't done it. It's in poor taste...People have a lot of information about themselves but staying objective is difficult. That's the trade-off in editing entries about yourself...If you see a blatant error or misconception about yourself, you really want to set it straight.

Boomer Esiason

They all like to chirp, ... There is such a blatant level of competition between these guys. It's like the scoring title in the NBA.

Kay Daly

This is an extraordinary and blatant display of judicial activism.

Ellen Anderson

This is not a trivial matter. From my perspective, this case demonstrates a blatant disregard for the privilege of owning a liquor license and for city ordinances designed to regulate the sale of alcohol.

Keith Allen

We are going to set up a committee of three members from the Land and Development Committee and three from the speedway to sit down to try to work out some of the issues. That's where we're at.

John Kramer

We have no money, so the committee will have to go out and raise it, period.

John Luckhardt

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

Barry Diller

We are all prepared to meet with the special committee and its legal and financial advisors at your earliest convenience,

Tom Browning

We're going to be working with a community committee, a committee of people from the school district, teachers, support staff, all of them will collaborate to look through the applications, then we will umm whittle it down to a group of 6 we hope sometime toward the end of September.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.

Jerry Cook

The more than 100 people we had on the committee said the voting public would never go for a second high school,

Spencer Scharff

The more permanent voices you have, the better the committee is going to be and the better we are going to be able to represent our constituencies.

Teri Kelly

A committee doesn't cost us anything. It's not a committee to do anything, but gives you an idea of the possibilities. It's worth weighing the pros and cons.

Paul Ellis

We've actually had complaints about dogs pooping on Liberty Bridge.

Chris Swecker

We have seen a five-fold increase in our caseload since 2000, ... We went from 4,000 complaints a year, from 4,000 referrals a year to 17,000. And we think that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Mark Foster

We have no complaints with bottom-line earnings growth in what we've seen so far. The economy is going to hold together, earnings growth is going to hold together, the Fed's going to stop raising rates and that will give the market an opportunity to move forward.

Laura Stromberg

What they're complaining about is the law. It's not fair. We're not happy about it. But it's the law.

Patrick Burns

We're satisfied with it. I have no complaints.

Nigel Worthington

The referee was spot on and I've got no complaints. You can't react the way Darren reacted towards the referee. If it's for foul and abusive language, then I support the referee's decision 100 per cent. There's an internal disciplinary situation that will be put in place.

John Linehan

There evidently were no complaints before this; he just collapsed.

Ray Murrihy

A complaint has been lodged with stewards and we need to first determine whether it falls within our jurisdiction and then determine the merits of the complaint.

Jane Lindskold

A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'

Paul Jensen

unprofessional conduct not related to the quality of patient care.

Leon Cubillas

We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join with the county and share in the election cost.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

For most of human civilization, the pace of innovation has been so slow that a generation might pass before a discovery would influence your life, culture or the conduct of nations.

Doug Mosier

We're making criminal enterprises look to different means to conduct their business. We see it as a desperation move.

Sheriff Norman

We're so fortunate that we can now conduct an investigation into how this thing got going rather than have to explain to the victims' family members why something like this could have happened. I don't know what we would have done if something like this had really happened.

Saifur Rahman

As we have no experience on this type of big project, huge money will have to be spent on foreign consultancy to conduct the study of the project.

Joshua Bell

A conductor can do wild things which can feel forced, but if you're directing from within the orchestra, you can't do that, things have to feel natural.

Lord Mansfield

A man wants no protection when his conduct is strictly right

Ron Allen

This facility will not only create a presence of our sovereignty collectively, as well as individually, but it also provides a station from which they can conduct business. Most of Indian Country comes into town for a few days, maybe a week, and most often don't have a place to operate out of. We hope we might provide work stations.

Amanda Hearst

Whenever the subject of doing reality television comes up, I immediately disregard it, because most people don't come off well, and it's embarrassing.

Paul Walton

We're going to prove the defendant displayed a wanton and willful disregard for life,

Cynthia Phipps

What has been returned has been recorded. If they turned it in, they can disregard the letter.

Andy Downs

It seems to me that there is sort of a pattern here of disregard for the law.

David Smith

The Republicans displayed an unconscionable disregard for victims of anti-gay violence and their families for purely political reasons.

David Powell

One can't disregard the short-term effect of market psychology, and it looks like that's what was going on here today.

Charles Grassley

The wisest thing to do is disregard revenue that was never supposed to come in anyway,

Gary Speed

A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.

Stephen Urban

Seven people (council members) and the mayor (Tom Leighton) seem to disregard the will of the people, ... When is (council's) vote going to take place ... 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010? Is it ever going to take place?

Bertrand Russell

Science, by itself cannot, supply us with an ethic.

Ingrid Reed

It's exactly what we want the ethics rules to prevent.

Deirdre Fedkenheuer

There was nothing in the file. What was in her file said that, 'Her services were no longer required.'There was nothing in there about ethics violations.

John Gibson

Really all I can say is whenever there have been problems with contributions they have been sent back. There's nothing in the ethics ordinance that prohibits contributions.

Lawrence Bochkis

Professor Frank Nelson, he teaches ethics for God's sake. These people are pillars in this community. But they don't have the moral fortitude to understand that his musical achievements are completely trumped by the fact that he ruined more than one child's life.

Richard Gephardt

This is not something where I go off and make decisions. I have to talk to my colleagues, talk with the caucus. We have an ethics process in this House that has to be respected. We're going to do these things in the right way,

David Williams

You might think, 'How can I get it all right?' ... You have to put it into day-to-day practice. Ethics to me is when you internalize it.

Bob Davis

We're having an ethics session in the first place because of these folks that got in trouble.

Alain Badiou

There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.

Carl Harris

They have a year to file a complaint. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

Jay Cairns

They are the ones who handle the files and are responsible for sending out the notices. The letter was a reflection of the great job they do.

Mark Luscombe

You don't have a filing requirement because you don't have a tax due. But if you had withholding, you've paid tax. It's worth your while to file a return to get your money back.

Paul Foster

Another two weeks of oil like this and I think they'll have to file (for bankruptcy).

Gene Russianoff

Arbitration - in which the rank and file will have no vote - is a recipe for potential unrest for years to come.

Rick Harper

You normally file 13 to keep your house out of foreclosure.

Hashim Siddiqui

We have hired some lawyers to file a petition.

Glenn Wilson

Don't wait to file an insurance claim, ... Do not make permanent repairs to your property until you have a final settlement from your insurance company.

David Stewart

Even if you file electronically on the 17th (of April) you should still get your refund in two weeks or less.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

Edward Hopper

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

Edward Gibbon

Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.

Eddie Marsan

I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.

Michael Specter

It doesn't seem to matter how often vaccines are proved safe or supplements are shown to offer nothing of value. When people don't like facts, they ignore them.

Cynthia Rezentes

It sends a strong message to the administration that we can't just ignore this and take our time.

Jack Curtis

It's exciting. We talked a lot about this being just another game. But you couldn't ignore all the people. It was always there in the back of your mind.

Bill Bradley

For 10 months that I was running for president, you ignored me, you pretended I didn't exist,

Tom Burchill

You can't ignore it. When the kids go out, step out of the doorway, people are talking about it. We're known for that. This can't go on forever. That's just an impossibility. But maybe it can go on for a long time.

Adam Ereli

This is unfortunately not inconsistent with past North Korean practice, which is to ignore the needs of its people and let them starve for inexplicable reasons.

Ronald Walters

They (Republicans) have pretty much ignored them, and it's not Mel's fault.

Lone Star

It was signed by like 110 little signatures. Who can ignore that?

Clive Sinclair

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print.

Charles Dickens

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Charles Caleb Colton

The integrity that lives only on opinion would starve without it.

Alan Watts

There is an ineffable mystery that underlies ourselves and the world. It is the darkness from which the light shines. When you recognize the integrity of the universe and that death is as certain as birth, then you can relax and accept that this is the way it is. There is nothing else to do.

Alan Greenspan

There is nothing to guarantee the superior judgment, knowledge, and integrity of an inspector or a bureaucrat-and the deadly consequences of entrusting him with arbitrary power are obvious.

Alan Greenspan

Capitalism is based on self-interest and self-esteem; it holds integrity and trustworthiness as cardinal virtues and makes them pay off in the marketplace, thus demanding that men survive by means of virtue, not vices. It is this superlatively moral system that the welfare statists propose to improve upon by means of preventative law, snooping bureaucrats, and the chronic goad of fear.

Alan Bullock

No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.

Alan Autry

We must do more to protect our neighborhoods and give integrity to our community plans.

Chris Cannon

Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.

Chloe Sevigny

I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Charles Dickens

Equity sends questions to Law. Law sends questions back to equity; Law finds it can't do this, equity finds it can't do that; neither can do anything, without this solicitor instructing and this counsel appearing for A, and that solicitor instructing & that counsel appearing for B.

Charles Dickens

But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

Charles Dickens

If the law supposes that,' said Mr Bumble...' the law is an ass - an idiot.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Jim Moore

As you can imagine, it's been an ordeal for all members of the family.

Yuvraj Singh

They have become responsible and seasoned. They are senior members of the team in every way.

Mark Blondin

They had their way with our members in 2002.

Joe Mullins

This allows us to customize our services to the membership base.

Sheldon Goldman

This is a member of the president's official family.

Beth Givens

The requirement that military personnel use the Social Security number for practically everything is nothing short of criminal, ... I got an e-mail from one military member who said he was required to stencil his name and Social Security number on his duffel bag. It's really outrageous.

Richard Grasso

This is a violation of the trust that all members have in each other here,

Rep. Baudler

They're predators, and they're predators on our most vulnerable members of society.

Brian Robertson

There's an old rule in politics: If you're explaining, you're losing.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

Antony Starr

I've always had this rule of thumb: If you have fun making it, then someone will have fun watching it.

Patrick Leahy

I want an end to this thing. But where are we? Do we know what the rules are going to be?

James Thomson

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year.

Peter Ueberroth

The rules have changed, ... The old thing of 'getting in line,' that's gone.

Harry White

The rules have changed, post-9/11. We have seen some real tightening of security and for all the right reasons.

Ryan Horn

The rule is if you take something out, put something back.

Antwaan Randle

It was a bonehead play. The team rule is: If you're going to try that play, you'd better make it.

Ed Sullivan

I wouldn't have Elvis Presley on my show at any time.

Terry Wogan

All reality TV shows are a triumph of voyeurism. They choose contestants who are ill-suited and slightly freakish.

Steve Forbert

It's not like making records is terrible. Still, I do find the writing of the songs and the live shows to be the things that give you the most clear picture of what it's all about.

Norman Wisdom

I've done seven shows at the Palladium - long running shows I'm talking about.

Paul Pierce

I majored in criminal justice. I like 'CSI,' all that, '24.' I watch those shows on A&E, if I watch TV. I don't really watch TV shows.

Drew Bledsoe

A win like this shows what we can be when we get out of our own way,

Judy Gold

I've never been on one of these shows where you have to make alliances and be a team player.

Carine Roitfeld

The most important thing is posture: when you get old, it's the way you walk, the way you stand, that shows it.

Sean Hayes

The writers have slowly taken the show, with subjects other gay shows have dived right into, slowly. It was over a year before Will even started to date.

Jan Egeland

It's even more urgent than it was in these other hurricanes or tsunamis.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Mark Butler

There is a real urgency here and there is an irreversibility. Look at the waters here, there's no groundfishery left.

D. J. MacHale

I have a sudden urge to pee.- Spader

Tom Hayden

We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Kate Fleetwood

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Jan Egeland

We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.