Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Dennis Ross

Our concepts are still basically the same, but we have made some modifications and that's what I've been going over with the leaders today,

Marianne Williamson

People are starting to wake up to the fact that a media/political party-complex basically decide our candidate, then create the illusion for the rest of us that in fact we're the ones who did the deciding.

Quetel Osterval

People can have the mentality, the mindset and basically you can't change that. But what we can . . . establish some form of relationship so people can see that everybody is able and capable of helping each other. We have to work together to make that happen.

Vanilla Ice

People don't understand it's really a hard thing, because I was here in the early '90s and... basically I was gone from over here. I've been doing my thing over in the States, but it's more underground than pop-ish, mainstream-ish, radio-friendly stuff, it's more underground. People have no clue what the hell Vanilla Ice has been up to.

Bryan Pierce

People basically want to protect their family land for the future. Basically, they love their land and want to see it stay the way it is now.

Steve Giambanco

Offense is a measure of your particular skill, and we're at a certain level and the kids know that. Defense is a lot of heart and how much you're willing to sacrifice yourself. And our kids basically have, and I've been proud of them. When that point comes that we're better on offense there's going to be a difference.

Steven Cohen

Officer Rhodes has basically been flushed down the toilet.

David Lemmon

As always, our first concerns are for protection of people and our environment. With this in mind, we continue to work closely with the electric utilities as they re-establish service in Mississippi,

Amanda Sturges

A nice option is to own a few closely connected condos where individual households can stay. Groups also usually need a gathering place of some sort, like a reception room or clubhouse that can be reserved for a function.

Doug Duncan

After discussing all the risks, Greenspan summed up by saying the share of households who are very highly leveraged is lower than expected and is not correlated closely with high home price states, other than California.

Hideyuki Suzuki

One closely watched point is whether the year kicks off on a plus or a minus.

Leif Johansson

now investigating the matter more closely to determine what has happened.

Jim Knight

Teachers tell me that they'd like to work more closely with parents.

Lisa Holden

These specialized courts offer enhanced victim safety while holding offenders accountable. Family violence victim advocates who are involved with these dockets will work closely with victims to relay their concerns to the court, develop safety plans and uphold the victims? rights to obtain helpful information about the progress of the case.

David Nielsen

The seed for our tobacco originated in Venezuela. We grow it because it most closely resembles 18th-century Virginia tobacco.

Walter Rodgers

This is a terribly closely contested election in a very tough campaign.

Ray LaHood

People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.

Robert Blake

I wanted to convince him (the security) problem was real. And these were the probable reasons.

Abraham Lincoln

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

John Adams

Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and power, created, and preserves for a time innumerable millions, to make them miserable forever, for his own glory? Wretch! What is his glory? Is he

Dominique Moisi

President Chirac has told him to back down as he was leading the country to the wall. He tried to convince himself he could be France's Margaret Thatcher, but forgot he was only the number two.

Tom Harkin

I've said time and time again, there is little risk of BSE in U.S. beef, but it is obvious that we have not yet convinced key trading partners of that.

Richard Lachmann

These young women aren't going to convince their boyfriends to go see chick-flicks and watch Lifetime,

Martina Navratilova

I've been talking to Martina about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

Francesco Storace

The whole world is worried and we want to convince everyone, starting with the European Union, to coordinate measures in the face of a possible pandemic.

Rodney Lovell

A 'work around' simply means your system doesn't work.

Ryan Anderson

The switchover means you need a digital-ready TV, not a high-definition TV.

Ross Mathews

I've met Oprah Winfrey twice, but I want to spend some quality time with her. I want to sit her down and talk at her for a minute about what she means to me and why she means that. Then I have some advice for her, too... I have an idea or two.

Mahmoud Othman

Someone should have said something. The other side is talking, and the American side is silent. To be silent here means you are on the weak side.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PREJUDICE, n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

Dick Murgatroyd

I simply can't tell you how much this means to me.

Mike Mahoney

That's going to be up to him because it's a new position. By no means is he being banished from anywhere.

Stephane Dujarric

Zero tolerance means zero tolerance. We have a responsibility to act.

Zell Miller

The president has come up with a bold, well-thought-out plan that will let virtually every American who pays taxes keep more of their hard-earned money,

Barbara Jordan

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

Fredi Gonzalez

Pratt wore his shirt on the plane home.

Mack Brown

I've been planning this one for 33 years and now I really don't know what to say.

Brian Black

This is not just a program doing its own thing. We want to be a part of the whole success plan of the school.

Ramonce Taylor

The way we're planning for Teddy Ginn, I don't think he's going to get away from our defense.

Dean Darling

That's what we plan to do and we'll take this into consideration then.

Jack Lamb

That's not a plan that I would support at all. I think there are other things we can do.

Larry Giangrosso

You never plan for something like this to happen.

Pam Baker

You never plan anything for the third Saturday in April.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Plants live; how much they feel and enjoy, who shall say?

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Ayn Rand

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

Daniel Ellsberg

It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Edward Snowden

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

e. e. cummings

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

Adolf Hitler

Czechoslovakia provided Soviet Russia with landing fields for aircraft, thereby increasing the threat against Germany.

Angus King

What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

Bill Cleary

The Russians were the ogres then, you know. Mysterious.

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Danny Hall

You spot somebody 10 runs, it's pretty tough to win.

Manti Te'o

Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.

Bob Bernstein

We wanted to put up enough to get somebody talking. What's a bun worth? It's kind of a strange question.

Mark McKinney

What? No one wants my bouquet! Somebody better pick it up! Somebody better pick up my bouquet!

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Brad Clark

You have to be able to take somebody down to win these days. You have to be tough on your feet.

Mike Williams

You get somebody in here and they say they only need it two or three months, and they'll stay a year. We have 800 units here, and I'm full.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Diana Vreeland

Poor, darling fellow - he died of food. He was killed by the dinner table.

Boomer Esiason

I got the title for you, ... Table For One.

James A. Garfield

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

Ethel Merman

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

Fran Drescher

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Jeannette Walls

One thing about whoring: It put a chicken on the table.