Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Adams

Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all.

Steve McDermott

It is somewhat arbitrary because it's a moving average. How do you determine what you would have earned on that particular date?

William S. Burroughs

Be just and if you can't be just, be arbitrary.

William Proxmire

The recommended daily allowances are based on arbitrary, unscientific, and tainted standards.

James Franklin

In terms of the wind speed, it's not really significant. It's only significant because we have these arbitrary boundaries between categories.

Kong Quan

The Chinese government, in handling such complicated international disputes, opposes the arbitrary use of sanctions or the threat of use of sanctions in the efforts to solve the question. It will only complicate the issue.

Edmund White

The great triumph of the Sixties was to dramatize just how arbitrary and constructed the seeming normality of the Fifties had been. We rose up from our maple-wood twin beds and fell onto the great squishy, heated water bed of the Sixties.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

Eric Ueland

You can only judge him by his accomplishments, not the arbitrary yardsticks thrown around here in the run-up to the presidential campaign.

Pierre Pettigrew

He is ultimately a man of distrust. Mr. Duplessis engaged in the same dialogue of distrust toward Ottawa.

Erin Healy

It is a dialogue to discuss realistic, comprehensive immigration reform. We are in the consultation phase.

James McTeigue

It is a controversial subject matter but it is also a dialogue we have every day.

Javier Solana

to enter into a dialogue of mutual interest before the end of July.

Brad Smith

I think we had a very constructive dialogue yesterday.

Richard Lake

I think we ought to have more dialogue on this. It's so different from what we've done.

Richard Dicker

I think we need to dial down our expectations of the history-telling functions of these trials.

Wolfgang Petritsch

I will not hold any dialogue with extremists who use violence,

Robert Hartman

He was holding my hand and he goes...what do you want me to do? And I told him to dial 9-11.

Keith Urban

I wrote it and God said 'Well, I'm gonna' hang on to them and when you're going through this I'll give it back to you.' And that's exactly what happened.

Michael K. Powell

Keeping the rules exactly as they are, as some so stridently suggest, was not a viable option, ... Without today's surgery, the rules will assuredly meet a swift death.

Joe Clabby

I think it's a huge step in the right direction. It's exactly what they should be doing.

Kirk Smith

It always does increase in the winter, we don't know exactly why.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist. He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Matthew Johnson

He was a happy-go-lucky nihilist, ... He took things exactly as they were. No more, no less.

Todd Pletcher

He was a fresh horse and ran exactly the way we wanted him to.

Robert Dallek

He was able to put them on the trail of the truth to find out just exactly what was going on in this scandal.

Janet Brown

He wanted to be exactly where he was when he made that phone call.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Flavio Briatore

I was looking at the No. 1. That's the only thing I was looking at.

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Dan Bonner

Just looking at the process, and seeing how things worked, I just thought that I would like to get involved.

Joe Filoteo

I would tell here to spot us 10 points before I play her. They're tough.

Jeff Capell

Jamal can do that. He can score points in bunches.

David Grant

It can point at 100 applications at once. As a developer, I don't have to run the scan myself.

Lee Salem

He didn't want to get to the point of being repetitive, not fresh.

John Farrell

He could be there at some point this year.

Andrew Kohut

His ratings for being trustworthy, which were his strong point for all of his first term, have tumbled rather substantially this year.

Robbie Bach

Historically, there's been one price point and one configuration. You got it whether you wanted it or not,

Fred Couples

His swing is getting tighter, getting better, and he's getting back to a point that he's dominant, which he's been this year.

Fred Couples

His swing his getting tighter, getting better, and he's getting back to a point that he's dominant, which he's been this year.

M. Wolfe

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decision.

Joe Wooden

Just like the old saying goes, "Vasser's boon-doggling again.

David Shearer

What we were warning before was that stocks were getting low. Today we are saying stocks are gone, and the end-point has been reached.

Ruby Dee

We've got to start saying 'No further. This must stop,'

Tyson Chandler

We stunk it up in the first half. I'm thinking we've got a chance. I'm thinking, get it within 10. That's the only thing I'm saying on the bench: 'Get it within 10.

Scott Simms

I think this is what we expected, ultimately. We didn't do anything wrong -- that's what we've been saying all along.

Greg Rucka

When they're saying 'it's too dark,' they're saying, 'I'm scared.'

Ranit Schmelzer

He was not saying anything the administration has not said -- that we need to find these guys.

Giulio Tremonti

I have been saying for three years that Fazio is not suitable for this job.