Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hu Jintao

China will steadfastly adhere to the road of peaceful development,

David Burke

There are so many obstacles to go through. They can't just wake up one morning and say, 'We want to get rid of this league and it's done.' There's a lot of red tape to work out and procedures and rules that they have to adhere to.

Peter MacKay

The people who are involved in these type of shootings are not the type of individuals who are going to adhere to a gun ban or ever register a gun, period. The Liberal party has proven time and time again that they're more concerned with the optics than the practicalities of these issues.

Jay Reiff

We adhere to the rule that if your opponent is digging a hole, you don't take away his shovel.

Mike Martz

We've kept the standards up pretty high. I think everybody goes through the personnel changes that are fairly dramatic and can affect your team. We've been able to fight through that and still win our share. We've tried to adhere to that standard that was established in the first few years. We're still trying to live up to that.

Hilary Mantel

The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.

Christopher Nolan

As soon as television became the only secondary way in which films were watched, films had to adhere to a pretty linear system, whereby you can drift off for ten minutes and go and answer the phone and not really lose your place.

Richard Attias

Even an unsuccessful Olympic bid can be the source of change within a city if organizers adhere to their vision.

Rick Wagoner

Any time GM and UAW has something going on, we're all curious about how that may affect us,

Fadela Chaib

An outbreak of cholera, affecting probably several hundreds of people, is occurring,

O. Singh

As far as I know, the hotel project at Providence, close to the stadium, has enough cement in supply at the site. The shortage is basically affecting the small man rather than big companies.

Todd France

As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys differently over the years and you cannot predict the future. ... Bottom line, we have always wanted to get this deal done ASAP and Ronnie has been working out very hard everyday.

Chris Warren

As far as contests go, this is the last big event of the season. It's affects us greatly. Normally, we don't get as much walk-in traffic.

Eddie Jones

As a team the increased fuel costs, naturally, affect your budget. Figure this: the transporter that we run gets about 6 1/2 to 7 miles per gallon at best, 4 1/2 at worst. Obviously, the increased fuel cost makes a considerable difference, especially with all of these trips we're making to the West Coast now.

Mark Billingham

As crime writers, we put these characters, year after year, book after book, through the most horrendous trauma, dealing with grief and death and loss and violence. We can't pretend that these things don't affect these characters; they have to. If they don't, then you're essentially writing cartoons.

Brian Mitchell

As a place of some resources we had a responsibility to reach out to those who were affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Dean Duerst

As a group, I don't think it was our best effort. It is always tough to tie. It was a very exciting game and both teams could have won it. Our first-half performance was a level down and it affected the outcome of the game. We need to learn from that. We definitely came back in the second half and played with a lot more energy. It was a great battle.

Frank Vargo

As helpful as these individual steps are, they need to be followed by systemic changes that will put our trade relationship on a more fair basis.

Steve Letarte

As far as pumping up the team, we reorganized a little personnel on the team. I'm excited with the changes we've made.

Jon Cox

As expected, (there was) some confusion about the impact of IFRS changes but the underlying result was solid given the impact from negative currency and higher commodity prices.

Candace Smith

The big question is looking at the cost of all this. Is it worth making the changes or retiring old cars? The cost of this could be well over $2 million.

Raj Desai

A vehicle can be used for 10 years, but technology changes every two years or less.

Spanish Proverbs

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

Spanish Proverb

A wise man changes his mind, a fool never

Nina Olson

As it stands now, there is more testing for a plumber or a person who cuts your hair or who changes locks than for someone who files your tax return.

Bruce Buchanan

Reading the tea leaves of what they have been saying, there are more changes coming.

Robert Webb

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

Carmen Electra

I like everything loud, over the top, dramatic.

Edith Wharton

A frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Damione Lewis

The thing that worries me most is McNair, because he hasn't been running these last two games, and everybody knows what he can do when he gets in the open field,

Reggie White

The thing I love about Ashley, especially this year, is she tries to make everybody better.

Ruth Reichl

The thing I like most in my kitchen is my marble counters. Everybody said not to use marble because it's fragile, it stains, it cracks, and it doesn't remain beautiful. But I love marble.

Ben Carson

I've advocated a proportional tax system. You make $10 billion, you pay a billion. You make $10, you pay one. And everybody gets treated the same way.

David Gibbs

I've always been on the field. The guys I grew up under always did it. The guys who taught me what I know were on-the-field guys. That's my background. I don't know the other way. I guess everybody here has been upstairs.

Joe Biden

I used to stutter really badly. Everybody thinks it's funny. And it's not funny. It's not.

Gary Qualls

The ones that are over here whining and crying, all they're doing is proving they're not winners, they're whiners. Most of everybody over there has never had anything to do with the military service.

Michael Leunig

As a child, I heard many warnings from teachers about the perils of talking with strangers. Yet now, fairly late in my life, I can think of not many things better than to talk with strangers. The idea of being a stranger is also very appealing.

John Morton

These newspapers generally have by industry standards fairly fat news staffs, so generally the layoffs are not draconian,

Dave Nonis

The style of game they play is fairly open and they have some offensive weapons.

Chris Mudd

I've always been able to, when I first meet someone, get a good read on their personality, and I'm fairly observant, so I can tell what people will do and won't do. I pick up on that quicker than some.

Colin Love

Notwithstanding Steve Rogers' pure qualities as a footballer he will be remembered as much for the way he played the game - always cleanly and fairly and in the true spirit of sportsmanship.

Anita Allen

Sometimes it's fairly obvious they're trying to hide their face. That's a first tip maybe they are trying to hide something and it's obvious from the picture they aren't who they say they are.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

Dennis Yaw

You need to find out if they have been fairly consistent.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

James Flecker

A ship, an isle, a sickle moon - / With few but with how splendid stars / The mirrors of the sea are strewn / Between their silver bars.

Allan Heinberg

As for 119, there are a few twists and turns and one revelation in particular that I think readers won't be expecting.

Jochen Clausnitzer

As a result, there will be very few orders won (by German companies).

Tom Herrion

As a team we take a lot more free throws than we used to. And we've improved greatly at it. But it's like every other team sport, the team that makes the fewer mistakes wins.

Kevin VanDam

As a group, we spend a lot of time at functions, and we are pretty tight from that standpoint. But in the events, you see smaller groups of guys who work together and try to help each other out. Stacey and I are really good friends, and he is one of the few anglers on tour that I share information with. We don't go out of the way, but I stop if I see him on the water. We help each other with patterns and stuff like that.

Jonathan Anderson

The big question is what will happen over the next few years,

Marco Polo

At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.

Russell Smith

A song is a short composition for voice and instruments. It is a piece of sung poetry set to music. It is usually only a few minutes long.

Karen Garmon

That play was the turning point. Brittany's a finisher, and she has a left hand like few girls have.

Gerald Walsh

People got their money's worth. Lincoln's a good team and they're fighting for that fourth (playoff) spot. We're happy with the win.

Freddy Robinson

No one wants to go home at this point. We're fighting to keep our season alive, and we'll come with everything we've got.

Paul Robeson

Once we are joined together in the fight for peace we will have to talk to each other and tell the truth about each other. How else can peace be won?

Christopher Macgowan

Dealers will have to fight for every sale.

Chris Paul

Anything can happen. As long as we have a chance, we're going to keep fighting and keep playing.

Ronald Koeman

Anything is possible in football. Everything is open. We're going to fight until the last minute - just like we did in the first game.

Stephanie Dujarric

The secretary-general is greatly troubled by the worsening security situation in Chad, resulting from the ongoing fighting between government forces and rebel fighters.

A. Johnson

The technology and resources are there to effectively fight this. We just need to work smarter to do this.

Patrick Faure

The target is to be next year really fighting for the title.

George H. W. Bush

as a president it goes with the territory.

Bobby Cox

This ranks right up there. This goes back 14 years.

Shaun Alexander

We have an unbelievable team, an unbelievable group of fans. Prayer works. I get knocked out and guys step up. One guy goes down and another guy steps up.

Sonam Kapoor

No relationship works without making an effort. That goes without saying. But you should never overcompensate.

Andy Nash

As it goes down the mountain, it's accelerated. It results in stronger gusts of winds that you normally wouldn't have if the mountains weren't there.

Patty Griffin

There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.

Alice Sebold

When the dead are done with the living, the living can go on to other things," Franny said. "What about the dead?" I asked. "Where do we go?

Andy Rooney

If you get murdered because you go on a date with someone you met on the Internet, you probably deserved it.

Anne Frank

I want to go on living after my death!

John Doran

Asher Woods kept saying, 'I couldn't get him. I couldn't get him,'

Kevin Turner

The big story of our team this year has been our old stalwarts. Someone had to pick up the slack, and they have kept our team going.

Rich Anderson

(Azevedo) didn't have his stuff today but he just kept kind of competing.

Ken Goldstein

Productivity is the wild card. It's the one thing that has kept the tension between prices and wages on a low simmer.

Torry Castalleno

People started liking The Donnas name, so we kept it but merged the music styles.

Chris Martin

Off the bat, I played bad. But I didn't let that get to me. I just kept scrambling.

Eric Gutierrez

No one was going to quit. We kept plugging away.

James Saville

and that's kept a lot of the newspapers happy.

Jacob Tamme

The second quarter took it out of us. Losing takes its toll on anybody...we kept playing hard, though.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

James Johnson

This is exciting. By earthworm standards they're pretty cool.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Doc Sadler

We tried some things. A triangle-and-two, some zone. And they made some shots.

Phil Budervic

We tried not to do that, because that's kind of unfair. But when we need a basket...that's who we're going to.

Dirk Nowitzki

We tried a lot of things that game, but he's just that good.

James Simpson

We all tried to get the word out any way possible. Did it help? Who knows. For all we know, the chopper was already on the way. But it did get attention, and now they're safe.

Denny McCrotty

We tried to manufacture some runs, it was too much. That's kind of been our story for some kind now." ()

Kylan Robinson

She tried to make it, but it was too late.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Cilla Black

Really, I'm trying to retire. It's just nobody will let me!

Ian Mckellen

On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

Ariel Rechtshaid

I've always had this impression that notoriety came when you're trying to get notoriety.

Joss Whedon

I usually write things in my head before I ever write them down. When I write it out, usually I've already figured out what it is I'm trying to do.

Jeremy Moore

I've always been trying to be a writer. This is the first thing I've ever finished.

David Dunn

The most important thing that we're trying to do,

Domo Genesis

Sometimes, when I'm trying to get my thoughts out, and I'm thinking too fast, I stutter.

Marsha Thomsen

Right now, we are all just trying to adjust.

Craig Venter

I spent 10 years trying to find one gene.

Lawrence Jr

A win is a win. We'll take them any way we can.

Jammal Brown

A win is a win. We got tested, and that's good.

E. Hicks

As long as we win by 17, I'm with it.

Will Blalock

That was a big win for them. They are probably in.

TR Harlan

That's where we're at. We know how to fight. But we need to win one of these.

Earl Boykins

Definitely. It's going to be very important for us (to win the division).

Carlos Boozer

Any win for us right now is a big win.

Steve Begin

The most important thing is it was the first win here,

Elton Brand

Once we win and get to the playoffs, it's all going to change.