Famous Quotes & Sayings

Manmohan Singh

We remain hopeful that solutions acceptable to all sides will be found.

Kofi Annan

work this out and come up with an acceptable resolution.

Joel Klein

We requested the opportunity to analyze those suggestions, and there may be a few that are acceptable to us.

Matt Hall

With the real estate property and valuations continually increasing in that area we just can't continue to operate that kind of retail store. We weren't able to secure another lease that was acceptable to us and acceptable to the owners.

Bertie Ahern

A comprehensive deal is a comprehensive deal, which means all issues are addressed by everyone. Otherwise, it's a piecemeal deal. ... It is not acceptable that we should fall short.

Tracy Bowen

It's just not acceptable anymore to litter, just like it's not acceptable anymore to dump anything into rivers or streams.

Steve Smith

Although, the ULDB launch and ascent were very close to normal, the balloon's internal pressure was less -- but within acceptable margins -- than we expected on Saturday afternoon and evening.

Tom Grey

America is on a gambling binge. The more available and accessible it becomes, the more gambling is acceptable to people. But shouldn't government be encouraging people to save their money instead of encouraging them to gamble?

Harry Reid

This bill is not acceptable in its current form. It's not even close.

Larry Burns

The postal service operates everywhere in the U.S., giving us maximum flexibility to expand the relationship in areas or regions where a hydrogen infrastructure gets kicked off.

Mark Dantonio

We are pretty banged up in some areas on our team, but our attitude was outstanding this spring, and we look forward to the 2006 season.

Jim Murphy

'West To A Land Of Plenty' shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.

Jeff Fleming

We are looking for what is best for Kingsport and most of our plans for annexation are for areas east to Kingsport.

Bill Belichick

There are certainly areas that you can improve in and develop more consistency (in).

Terry Ryan

There are certainly areas in the rotation at which we can improve, like any club. But you look at what we have and it's something definitely we can work with. We have history and we have depth. Those two things give us a chance, once again, to be a formidable staff.

Mike Kelly

There are certain areas where we need to get better. Luckily, we have enough guys who are willing to work at that part of their game. We're playing pretty solid defense when our starting unit is out there. Our starting pitching is improving. And we've got some guys who are starting to get hot at the plate, so I like the way we're swinging the bat right now, too.

Steve Wolfson

There are certain areas where the rental market is being totally depleted. I would venture to say that a significant number of the Red Rock Station employees are going to be renters, where are they going to rent, we don't want people to live on the east side of town and work on the west side of town.

Ned Riley

There are certain areas that seem to be giving a little better story, not a great story, but stabilization.

Atharva Veda

Wealth, treasures, and household are all just ruins; the Lord's Feet are the only treasure. Nanak is a beggar standing at Your Door, God; he begs for Your charity.

Denis Waitley

There never was a winner, who wasn't a beginner.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

John Anderson

The poverty that you see at such an in-your-face level, and so much of it, gets really tiring. You get up and drive to work in the morning, and every day four little girls come up to you and beg for money.

David McEntire

The potential for damage by this storm is significant, and the risk of flooding and tornadoes exists after the hurricane has begun to dissipate. ... Texas has learned from Louisiana's example. No one wants to repeat those mistakes.

Richard Wiles

The persistent, toxic chemicals we identified in this study are important, heavily used industrial substances, some of which are produced in quantities up to 500 million pounds a year. At the very least, Americans have a right to know if companies are releasing these pollutants into their communities. In fact, we should have begun tracking these pollutants years ago. Instead of curbing reports on the most worrisome pollutants to please industry, the Bush Administration should be expanding the tracking system to inform and protect the public.

Kimberly Williams

The people who do survive - when they get that last treatment - they begin seeing the light.

Jo Leadbeater

Until a one billion-dollar fund exists, the chaotic passing of the begging bowl will go on and people who survived disaster will continue to die while they wait for aid.

Denis Pombriant

Unlimited Edition is a very important development. Companies have had a very fragmented view of business processes; there hasn't been anything that allows them to get a 360 degree view of the customer. Now those using Unlimited Edition can standardize on the same kind of environment for all occasions. They can have integrated processes from one end of the enterprise to the other so that the problem of information silos can begin to abate.

Joey Adams

A bikini is like a barbed-wire fence. It protects the property without obstructing the view.

David Epstein

A bikini bottom is not much different from what we're wearing. A few inches of flesh isn't going to make a difference.

Cindy Crawford

I have cellulite. I admit it. But sometimes I just say, 'Screw it, I am going to wear a bikini.'

Katie Mast

Let's get those bikini bodies in shape - except you, Wayne.

Faith Hill

Wearing a bikini on a magazine cover is my 41st birthday present to myself.

Richard Hastings

The assortments weren't there when cold weather snapped back, and shoppers were curious about something other than a bikini to match their mittens.

Megan Follows

That whole thing: the paparazzi, a gazillion magazines. You can't lie on a beach. God forbid your bikini rides up too far or you've eaten too many doughnuts and they catch you wiping your mouth. That must be exhausting, that lack of privacy.

Jessica Alba

I do not like being in my bathing suit. Especially in front of strangers, especially in front of cameras. I can't say that I would ever do a movie in a bikini again,

Ben Rekhi

It gets a lot of ears perked. But it's in no way a bikini car wash movie.

Sergei Prikhodko

A brief exchange of views on energy security is planned, in the light of the upcoming G-8 summit in St.Petersburg.

William Bryan

a brief address, in which he said that one of his chief reasons for wanting to go to Washington was that it was so near to Virginia.

E. Hicks

They gave us a brief synopsis of their interviews. They said they were going to go back and put their notes together,

Andrew Flintoff

It's Michael's team, I just need do carry that on for a brief time.

I. Stone

There were some brief conversations with city officials, and we all dropped the ball.

Elizabeth Watson

This is the only model that actually works -- that seems to sustain improvements rather than having just the brief dip in crime.

Maelle Gavet

There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.

Maurice Luque

It was some type of package that was described as looking like a small briefcase or a box.

Steve Swallow

As for the Beatles: I was very taken by them during their brief career. I was impressed most by the quality of their songwriting, and by George Martin's production. But their importance to me faded fairly quickly after they broke up, as my interests shifted. I think in the end I was much more decisively influenced by some of their influences, most particularly Motown.

Matiwos Zeray

We want to test ourselves. It's a tough race, because we have to cover more than 100 kilometers every day.

Mike Parker

We want to take the rate up to cover the rate of the contract,

Kelly Freeland

We've actually, on occasion, had a few things over evening times, like HIV screenings or flu shot clinics, but they really weren't that well-attended. We've tossed it around, but at this moment we felt like we didn't have the staff to cover those, especially if we kept the existing hours that we have.

Linda Bell

We spent hours trying to determine what the top 25 stories are and what the impact of these was, ... We're really going back to the vault and putting new tops on stories we have covered for so many years.

Rich Herrin

We didn't cover the three and all we had to do was put a hand in their face and make them put it on the floor.

Tomas Vokoun

We didn't cover the slot. A lot of goals were off of rebounds or passes in front of the net. We have been on the fortunate side a few times this season, but you can't think any game is going to be an easy game.

Lesley Manville

I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.

Liu Bolin

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

Scott Henderson

Watching the coverage yesterday, all of the places the reporters were looked real familiar,

Dennis Lehane

Or maybe I'd do what I always do - hang out and see what develops. Fatalist to the core.

Marty McNeill

With the Iran situation hanging out there, people are not going to sell their positions, and that supports the market.

Keke Palmer

I'm totally normal. I love watching movies and hanging out with my friends at my house. I still go to the mall; I love to text and go on my computer. I'm totally normal - sounds kind of boring, right?

Ann Hartman

It's the walking down the middle of the street en masse, it's just hanging out on the corners, it's just milling around somebody's house.

Duane Blackburn

You can't miss it with all the pictures we have hanging on the walls (at school) of our (34) state finalists.

Joe Torre

This kid, ... has been hanging around until we noticed him.

Dennis McAlpine

There is still that onus hanging over the teams as to what happens if there is another strike, and that is preventing some long-term commitments, particularly in some of the ancillary markets.

Ron Cameron

At least we know something now. We've been kind of hanging out in the wind for a while.

J. Hoover

It was close, ... They were on the 1-foot-line. They just kept hanging in.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.

Chris DiMarco

This is a marathon. We've still got 54 holes to go.

Jeff Tedford

There's a lot of potential there. We have some skill and we have some holes to fill. The spring will be really important to us.

Stephen Hawking

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

Tim Lincecum

I will send a fastball into the cyber hole.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it’s capable of putting a hole in my back. (Astrid)

Plautus

A mouse never entrusts his life to only one hole.

Plautus

A mouse relies not solely on one hole.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Mary Leith

It's more about who has the proper credentials to be a leader.

Publius Tacitus

Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader.

Dan Quinn

I told my wife this would be the only lakefront property we'd ever have,

Tamsin Greig

In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

John Pistole

The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.

Allen Lichtenstein

Proper review is not particularly burdensome, so there is no real need for this. It's like they're saying we don't need judges, we don't want any review at all.

John Jones

Proper legislation can put a stop to many of these practices, but politicians need to know their constituents are being ripped off and are upset about it.

Samantha Fox

Listen, it's very easy not to be ripped off, you know. Get yourself a lawyer.

Alice Temperley

I was always in trouble at school for what I was wearing; I was never made a prefect because of the way I used to dress - I ripped my tights, my skirts were too short, all sorts of things.

Pete Domenici

My constituents, and actually most Americans, think that somebody rigs these prices. That in the process, somebody's getting ripped off, and they think it's them.

Andrea White

She said, 'Should I try to do the splits?' and I said 'Yeah!' and she ripped her pants!

Terry Bradshaw

I ripped that. Is it the same spot?

Mark Dindal

Just ripped the Band-Aid off. He's kind of like that.

Lloyd Smith

I just feel like I'm getting ripped off by Rockingham County.

Cesc Fabregas

If I ever wear a Chelsea shirt, you have permission to kill me.

Ray Parlour

John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve

Thomas Carlyle

It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.

Lisa McMann

So, ah, I'm not sure if you know this, but you're not wearing a shirt." "Distracting, isn't it?

Travis Johnson

He took like twelve shirts from my closet.

Nate Parker

You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.

Maria Schmidt

We're overwhelmed by the bidding. This is already way over what any of us thought the shirts would bring.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Oh my gosh,Nick. You're not wearing a shirt! This must be one of those exciting days ending in Y.

Adam McKay

A lot of shorts spend too much time setting up the idea; sometimes they meander.

Rafael Nadal

I just wanted to see how the shorts felt again.

Christian Cooke

I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

Robert M. Pirsig

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

Patrick McVerry

Defensively, again, we are going to be tops in the league.