Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Daschle

A new year brings a new opportunity to start over,

Jeffrey Baker

The burden is on the ESDC to show that they will bring in the whole community. This is a state project where they are taking away the city's right to review it under the city's zoning laws. It's an enormous undertaking, and they'd better be careful how they do it.

Ed Clark

Back in high school, I really wanted to be a diesel mechanic. I was building pools and it was still working with my hands. I was installing the (reinforcement) bars, shaping the pools and then they'd bring the cement in. It was great. . . . Then I had my accident.

Carli Smith

As of now, it's still in the park and they're just trying to put it in a cage and bring it to another location.

Jason Kadah

A slight shift to the left of this storm would bring big changes. We all need to keep an eye on this system.

Shannon Schonrock

As leaders, coach is looking for us to bring composure. For the rest of the season, you will see us do that.

Andrew Hoffman

As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it.

Nan Sundeen

As painful as this is to say, it isn't fair to bring them up here when the cost of living is 300, 400, 500 times higher than what they're used to. Will we love and embrace them? Yes. Is there a future here for this population? Probably not.

Tom White

As intelligence moves to the network edge and end-user devices, we're looking to capture new data that will bring an even more complete picture of customers' service experience.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The moment of truth has come. I cannot sanction a decision which threatens state security,

Al Harrington

Defensively, I guess you could say they took us out of it. They are playing much better defense than they have in the past. With a team like that, with so much offensive firepower, you cannot get behind.

Enrique Manzanilla

Companies distributing products over the Internet cannot ignore federal pesticide laws. Due to the scope of the Internet, these products have the potential for negative impacts on human health and the environment over a wide geographic area. All pesticide producers need to ensure that their products meet all federal and state regulations.

Peter Bakker

Companies cannot solve worlds problems all on their own, that's not what we are trying to do with our partnership with WFP,

Randy Rogers

Code Enforcement will be provided noise meters. Off-highway vehicle riders cannot disturb the peace.

Abhishek Singhvi

Coalition partners do not or cannot have veto power especially on matters related to foreign policy.

Marc Grossman

Other countries have an interest in UN reform as well and not just in how the Security Council works.

Amr Moussa

Of course the transfer of power was decided on by the Security Council and we wish them good luck and that the Iraqi government is able to exercise its sovereignty.

Dan Gillerman

An informal discussion that was merely a waste of time took place. The Security Council has more important issues to deal with.

Kathy Baker

The spending in this town has gone insane. Year after year, council after council, property taxes are running amok.

Tony Bennett

The sign says 'Welcome to Lancashire', it doesn't say 'Welcome to the administrative unit of Lancashire County Council - that would be all right.

Caitlin Moran

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Ted Wilson

I've been on the council for 10 years. I think it's time to pass the torch on to someone else.

Zhang Yishan

They all hope that the council will play its due role, and more effectively enhance all human rights and fundamental freedoms at global level.

Michael Clara

The very thing we're teaching our young men, the council is not doing to us.

Beat Siegenthaler

Any sophisticated investor will recognize the country is not about to fall apart.

Dick Mountjoy

Rank and file Democrats are very patriotic. They love this country and support the military.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Ed Conley

People come and go voluntarily, some moved to friends' houses, others found a house, went to other parts of the country or any sort of arrangement. They need to feel home somewhere after what they experienced.

Doug Holland

People grumble about Hispanic employees being here, but they're the only workers we can get. They take jobs that no one in this country wants.

Kevin Daugherty

Offensively we were very patient and made sure we got great shots. Defensively our 2-3 zone was tough. North Country didn't have a great shooting night, either, and I'm sure that helped.

Red Berenson

Offensively, we've scored a half-goal less than last year, when we led the country in goal,. and we've given up a half-goal more than last year.

John Chaney

Of course they earned them. They make more free throws per game than any other team in the country attempts. That's because they're a great team.

John Milton

Of herbs and other country messes, / Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses.

Ron Klein

It would be wrong for any Legislature to overturn the will of the voters, ... It would be a dangerous precedent ... It would be a constitutional crisis ... To overthrow the will of the people would be such a huge political mistake and such a huge moral mistake.

Gerry Adams

the worst crisis this process has been in,

Bruce Nissen

We're heading into a crisis. It's got to be a critical question for public policy.

Lyle Gramley

Crisis management has been elevated to a very fine skill under his tutelage.

Peter Cardillo

Energy prices are the reason for this. The crisis in the Middle East is obviously going to keep the price of energy at a strong level and that means this market is going to now be fearful of inflation exploding. We could be in for a further bumpy ride.

Liu Jianchao

During his three-day working visit to Iran, Lu will discuss with Iran's foreign ministry officials ways to prevent the nuclear crisis from escalating, given the current developments.

Sheldon Steinbach

Duke has already done more ... than any other institution facing a crisis in the 21st century.

Marc Touati

Even before the negative impact of the (youth employment measure) crisis on the economy, the evolution of industrial production in February already gives a picture of the current state of the French economy - in free fall.

Amanda Lindhout

The big-time journalists generally had kidnapping insurance through their news organizations. Usually, it would pay for a crisis response company to help negotiate for a hostage's release. Freelancers most often had none.

Gerhard Schroeder

Ratification must continue. We must decide what to do at the end of that process,

Lord Mansfield

Decide promptly, but never give any reasons. Your decisions may be right, but your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Abdul Hakimi

The supreme shura will decide on demands and his fate.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.

Jerry Gray

I've always felt like you want to do things to make the quarterback uncomfortable in there. But there's a line there between fooling him and fooling you. Mistakes are touchdowns, so you have to look at your people and decide what you can do, how much you can do.

Asahi Shimbun

A difference in the level of eagerness decided the outcome.

Ned Riley

A demon in the market decided to punish us on the last session of the year.

John Carney

After a couple of attempts at making shorts, I decided to make a feature film with a friend, Tom Hall, whom I've worked with ever since.

Epiphanny Prince

After I scored 29 points in the first quarter, I didn't think much of it. After I had 58 points at the half, and especially after having in the 80s after the third quarter, I just decided to go for it.

Scott Harris

Another thing that went into the decision to come up here was it wasn't as hectic. And we kind of felt more comfortable in the small-town setting.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Tracy Bunge

After the Fall season, we made some decisions about some players and positions in particular in order to help stabilize our lineup early.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Ted Thompson

Decisions like this are never easy. They require a lot of thought and consternation, but at the end of the day I felt like we needed to go in a different direction.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Prakash Karat

The situation has changed. We just want the government to take a decision in national interest.

Graham Thorpe

The selectors have made their decision and they will be happy with the way things have gone - you can't argue,

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Mike Baker

Our effort and desire were there throughout the game. We just weren't very smart with some things we did.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Baha'u'llah

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

Bertrand Russell

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Juvenal

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Stan Heath

Auburn is a difficult team to play because they have so many different defenses. We wanted to make sure we had a high energy level. I thought we responded pretty well in the second half.

William A. Ward

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.

Kathleen Gurney

often have the most difficulty because they put everything into their businesses. These people often find themselves misplaced a bit.

Ruben Escudero

The situation is difficult but I can't say if the whole mine is contaminated and there are no survivors.

Ibrahim Rugova

The situation in Kosovo is very difficult and dangerous. The offensive by Serbian police and military forces continues, as well as the shelling of Albanian villages ... In other parts of Kosovo, repression continues.

John Sutherland

The selection of a shortlist, the judges felt, was an unusually difficult process this year. There was sufficient quality for two distinguished lists.

Jim Leach

The second round is going to be much more difficult than the first.

Frank Hadden

The simple fact is that we will need our most experienced guys for what will be a massively difficult game.

Bob Baldwin

The silence is deafening. It's very difficult to get people engaged in talking about this problem in the community.

Al Edwards

Defensively, we picked it up and got some easy steals.

Scott Barnes

I wanted her to look clean. Her hair is loosely up. She's just, like, I threw my hair up, my all-star T-shirt, and I am cool. It's all easy and relaxed because she is still young at this point.

Warren Shouldice

Stress City. There's a lot of nerves because you're kind of expected to make finals. It's tough because it's not as easy as it looks.

Chad Wampler

Some streets don't have curbs, it's not easy to monitor. That's one of the gray areas.

Joe Girardi

Some people always say (managing the Yankees) is an easy job because of all the players you're given. But that's not an easy job, because you're managing personalities, the press ... there's a lot to manage there and Joe's really good at it.

Jack Elliott

so to me that was an easy way to go.

Tony Domenech

So you no longer have an absentee landlord - easy solution.

Bob Gainey

One-goal games are easy to hide behind. One-goal games are two goals away from winning, and that's a lot in the NHL.

Brandon Bochenski

Now I can finally start gripping my stick a little less tight and start playing my game hopefully. It was a good way to get the first one. It just bounced right to me for an easy tap in.

Jon Bolin

Randy puts more effort into his game than any player I've worked with. Sometimes he even goes a little overboard with (weightlifting).

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

David Brock

These are all parts of an effort by the administration to manipulate information.

Jane Hirshfield

I see poetry as a path toward new understanding and transformation, and so I've looked at specific poems I love, and at poetry's gestures in the broadest sense, in an effort to feel and learn what they offer from the inside.

Rob Stutzman

that they're supporting efforts that have a long-standing positive influence on the state.

John Tortorella

That's not saying he doesn't have the ability, but he gets everything out of himself every night. And when he's not going, it's not working for him, you know the effort is going to be there.

Pete Hoffman

That's not really the effort I was looking for today. This group's been able to get up for some big games, but today they just didn't get up for it.

Toby Bickel

We've struggled the last half of the season off and on. I was pleased with our effort and our execution, for the most part.

Bob Punter

We want to come out and play like it's 26-24 and we're playing a huge game down the road. We need to have 32 minutes of good, solid effort and focus.

Nelson Peltz

My kids are exhausted every day, and I keep them that way. It's gym, ice, homework. They're too tired to get in trouble.

Mike Sivertson

The way to score with our system is to force turnovers and to not give up big plays. That is one of the reasons that the game went the way it did.

Mark Pendleton

Beau had a good game. He is a force in there and has been for three years. He is a hard worker.

Gerard Latortue

Disarmament is a problem, and we are going to need the international force to help us,

Pieter Zeeman

We studied the light source in the direction of the magnetic force, we perforated the poles of the magnet; but even in the direction of the magnetic lines of force we found that our result was confirmed.

Larry Coker

We didn't need to force the ball. We had timeouts left and probably could have thrown something underneath.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We didn't have to force anything. We had great shots. And we've got to make shots. It's that simple.

Ray Looze

We are going to be a force to be reckoned with in the future. We have the potential to be a top 10 team.

Tim Griffin

We found that waddling didn't actually require increased work. Instead, walking is costly for penguins because they have such short limbs, which requires their legs to generate muscular force very rapidly.

Todd Cherry

Though not all people leaving the work force leave the area, a persistent reduction in the labor force may indicate an outward migration of skilled labor.

Paul Jewell

There is a lot of goodwill towards us, but only because people don't see us as a threat,

Dominique de Villepin

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Donald Trump

I would say, we have had a lot of problems with radical Islamic terrorism, that's what I'd say.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

And I should like to assure you, my Islamic friends, that under the American Constitution, under American tradition, and in American hearts, this Center, this place of worship, is just as welcome as could be a similar edifice of any other religion. Indeed, America would fight with her whole strength for your right to have here your own church and worship according to your own conscience. This concept is indeed a part of America, and without that concept we would be something else than what we are.

David Petraeus

The Islamic State fighters in Mosul are dead men walking and I think they increasingly know it.

David Hackworth

Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.

Alice Schwarzer

Of course we in Europe also have epidemic, structural sexual violence. Violence is always the dark core of dominance. The men who are now coming to us from Islamic cultural circles are, of course, shaped by conditions there, which are still much more antiquated than here. That's a problem that we have ignored for far too long. In the name of a false tolerance, we have accepted that women are kept at home like prisoners and are forcibly married.

Alice Schwarzer

We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.

Anjem Choudary

Muslims consider the honor of the Prophet Muhammad to be dearer to them than that of their parents or even themselves. To defend it is considered to be an obligation upon them. The strict punishment if found guilty of this crime under sharia (Islamic law) is capital punishment implementable by an Islamic State. This is because the Messenger Muhammad said, ‘Whoever insults a Prophet, kill him.’

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Benjamin Disraeli

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Jane Austen

She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding.

Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Albert Einstein

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

Anthony Hamilton

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

D. H. Lawrence

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

Alice Walker

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Thomas Huxley

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

Dalai Lama

A truly peaceful mind is very sensitive, very aware.

Kim Harrison

Inside Junior’s it was peaceful. I can change that, I thought dryly,

Publilius Syrus

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

Langston Hughes

Everything there is but lovin' leaves a rust on your old soul

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Ted Eubanks

People travel for the experience. They want to try on your lives.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Philip Hoffman

People thought they had me pegged because of the way I am, because of the way I talk, ... And they're always wrong.

Doug Myers

People think we're taking something away, but they've never been listed.

Worsie Gregory

People think we have nothing to offer. They'll be amazed.

Angela Leisure

People think they know him, but they don't. I see him only as my child.

Waris Ahluwalia

People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

Kay Bell

People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Sandra Day O'Connor

You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

Karl Albrecht

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Brett Gardner

I never go up there trying to hit a home run

Brett Favre

With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.

Brandon Sanderson

Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Barbara Jordan

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

Barbara Kingsolver

Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cataclysm can make the electrons rear up in shock and slide over into another channel. The human mind seems doomed to believe, as simply as a rooster believes, that where we are now is the only possibility

Ashton Eaton

I always liked running as a kid. You know how eating chocolate or ice cream makes you feel good? That's the same way that running and competing makes me feel.

Baruch Spinoza

[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.

Arthur Lydiard

The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.

P. J. Harvey

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.

William Shakespeare

She's beautiful, and therefore to be woo'd She is a woman, therefore to be won

P. J. O'Rourke

I usually agree with Rush Limbaugh; therefore I usually don't listen to him.