Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Malpass

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

Andrei Popov

The American side deliberately distorts facts related to a visit to Minsk by U.S. and EU representatives. We proceed from the assumption that Belarus and the United States have relations of their own, determined by a whole set of different factors. That's why we suggested separate visits. We hope our American and European partners will demonstrate in deed and not in word their constructive attitude towards cooperation with Belarus.

Rob Daviau

The assumption with Trivial Pursuit is never that one person would know all the answers, because it would be a very short game. The assumption is that one person should know half the answers.

Kevin Gray

The assumption that when you go out to rescue a bunch of poor, black people, that they are going to be criminals, is racist. The only plan they ever seem to have for poor people is a jail plan.

Kathleen Hall

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deceptions

Dore Gold

The assumption that just being there and talking about democracy and elections would work was naive.

Maribel Lopez

The assumption that everybody wants a bundle is flawed.

Mark Shieldcastle

The assumption right now is that wild birds are vectors.

Steve Swasey

The assumption is that you're comfortable with the Internet and e-mail already.

Gwen Moore

The reality is is that Congress is a very male-gendered oriented institution. Out of the, you know, more than 10,000 people who've ever been elected to Congress, you know, only about 250 of them have ever been women.

John Ashcroft

The pending hate crime legislation in Congress is under review in the Justice Department at this time, ... We're inclined to prosecute hate crimes like this one.

Dana Perino

The appropriate members of Congress have been and continue to be informed with respect to the Terrorist Surveillance Program.

Ron Bonjean

The American people want Congress to find sincere ways to pay for Hurricane Katrina, and we are pressuring ourselves to get this done.

Nancy Pelosi

The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

John Boehner

The American people know that our government's too big, and it spends too much. And they expect Congress to do something about it.

Mark Lassiter

We could not arbitrarily do this on our own. This is an issue that Congress will have to decide.

Jim Saxton

We have uncertainty resulting from international events -- the Iraq situation, as well as international terror -- while domestically, in Congress, we have done our part to create uncertainty with regard to spending policy, as well as tax policy, ... We passed some tax cuts that are going to expire, and that creates uncertainty when people plan for their future.

Larry Meyers

To let the senators know how we feel about the legislation in Congress ... It's a peaceful assembly.

Steven Milunovich

The PC is not the driver of technology anymore, ... We are big believers, however, in handheld devices, such as those made by Palm and Research in Motion. A lot of applications are going to migrate to handhelds.

Tom Byrne

We need to know what happened, ... We haven?t ruled out anything, from vehicle malfunction to the driver being at fault.

Mark Zuckerberg

We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.

Penny Marshall

I do talk like a truck driver sometimes, or I curse. What can I say?

Dietrich Mateschitz

We have more drivers than cockpits and we had only two possibilities,

Tim Collins

We're using every piece of equipment and every driver we have available.

Tim Cindric

You like to see someone like Sam do well. He's been in this series for quite a while, either as a driver or an owner. He's done a lot to get it off the ground and to see him get in the show is good for everybody.

Richie Gilmore

Junior wants to be the oldest driver at DEI. That's kind of one of the things he wants. I think the main thing we're looking for is a good teammate for Junior and Martin.

Joe Spraggins

I'm hearing reports that a lot of tanker truck drivers won't come into southern Mississippi because they don't have hotel rooms. I'm just pleading to help us if you can.

Mark Zuckerberg

We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.

Dietrich Mateschitz

We have more drivers than cockpits and we had only two possibilities,

Joe Spraggins

I'm hearing reports that a lot of tanker truck drivers won't come into southern Mississippi because they don't have hotel rooms. I'm just pleading to help us if you can.

Darren Heathcote

It doesn't look like we've got any particular drivers to push it either down or much higher.

Jamie Smith

New Year's Eve is notorious for lots of people going out and having a good time and having a few drinks. So, there's a likelihood of more drunken drivers being on the road. (All officers) are going to have their eyes peeled even more.

Brian Stine

One of the main drivers right now for the market is this worry about interest rates.

Ian Satter

I would probably suggest to drivers if you're heading north to take the (U.S.) 60 to I-10 to the (Arizona) 51 if they want to stay on the larger freeways.

Saumitra Chaudhuri

I expect growth to be around 7.7 percent in 2005/06. The main drivers will be services and manufacturing.

Casey Mears

For me to be the first guy, considering all the other drivers who have tried to do it, is pretty unreal.

Thierry Henry

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Dale Romans

The pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too.

Dennis Christopher

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bethany Hamilton

There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Gareth Bale

I was never too much into school. I liked lunchtimes and breaks, but nah, I hated sitting at a desk. I was always looking out of the window, looking at my watch, thinking about when I could play football.

Evangeline Lilly

I hated being a flight attendant. I did it for a month and then quit.

Chuck Schumer

What the public hates the most is when they think the politicians aren't listening to them. They understand that we can't solve all their problems with a snap of our fingers, but they sure want us to try because we are public servants.

C. S. Lewis

For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself.

Catullus

I hate and I love, and who can tell me why?

Catullus

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

Catullus

I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how can that be? I know not, but I feel the agony.

Cecelia Ahern

A veil hangs between the two opposites, a mere slip of a thing that is transparent to warn us or comfort us. You hate now but look through this veil and see the possibility of love; you're sad now but look through to the other side and see happiness. Absolute composure to a complete mess - it happens so quickly, all in the blink of an eye.

Cecelia Ahern

There's a fine line between love and hate.Love frees a soul and in the same breath can sometimes suffocate it.

John Casesa

which is a tough number to justify without tangible results.

Curt Schilling

I'd love to sit here and justify why I should throw more (on Friday). But I can't do that.

Richard Gephardt

What we're seeing is a talking down of the economy, the suggestion of a recession, the suggestion of a slowdown in order to justify what looks like it's going to be a $3 trillion tax cut,

Sandra Goldstein

What have they done there to justify that?

Aaron Swartz

I'm not such a nuisance to the world, and the kick I get out of living can, I suppose, justify the impositions I make on it. But when life isn't so fun, well, then I start to wonder. What's the point of going on if it's just trouble for us both? My friends will miss me, I am told.

Harold Vogel

The question is, will there be enough new advertisers to justify the cost.

B. R. Hayden

Most people spend a lot of time justifying why it's got to be this way, ... they can put away something.

Jim Hazen

The numbers did not justify a wholesale rewrite of the rules. What really needed to be done was a simple fix.

Don Vincent

They have to really justify it well, I don't know what their logic is or anything.

Jim Lovell

I didn't go into the NASA program to pick up rocks or to go the moon or anything else. I went in there because I was a military officer, and that was the next notch in my profession.

Mike Griffin

NASA has been favored by the administration, but it's still a very tough environment.

Christopher Russell

NASA did not react well to that news.

Bart Gordon

should not be done by cannibalizing other NASA missions.

Robert Zubrin

the first rational plan in any sense that I've seen from Nasa in decades.

Sally Ride

For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.

Sally Ride

I did not come to NASA to make history.

Kathleen Bergen

Many airports operate very safely without an ASDE system.

George Allen

I think if you're going to operate a motorcycle, two wheel vehicle or three wheel vehicle you out to be insured just like I'm insured.

Paul Takemoto

If they operate within the parameters that we set out, yes, they will be safe.

Bob Castellini

We operate it. We don't own it. That's a big difference.

Thomas Hansen

We operate in this state under a series of rules.

Jim Frederick

Our restaurant is operated by our family, for families.

Steven Taylor

I will have it operated on as soon as possible now, and get back as quickly as I can.

Josh Lewsey

I was only operated on a week ago and I have made spectacular progress since then,

Carl Forti

Obama has been well-received on the world stage, but that doesn't help him operate domestically.

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

CC Sabathia

It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.

Cecelia Ahern

Aim for what u want and the year will all make a sense.

Cecelia Ahern

I had a million plans. I knew what I was going to do. I had the next few years of my life all figured out. But what I didn’t know was that within a few hours all those plans would change. Ms. Know-it-all didn’t quite know it all so much then.

Carrie P. Meek

Just about every year, Congress passes another crime bill - spending billions of dollars to build more prisons, to place more band-aids on society's scars.

Carrie Fisher

Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?

Carrie Underwood

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Carrie Underwood

I stopped eating beef at 13 and stopped eating all meat a few years ago. I would feel guilty that what was on my plate was walking around yesterday. Either I could live with that or stop eating meat. I choose the latter, and I'm happier for it.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I am a celebrity for no reason, like people are resentful I didn't have to play bars for 10 years to get a record deal.

Carl Rogers

Over the years, however, the research evidence keeps piling up, and it points strongly to the conclusion that a high degree of empathy in a relationship is possibly the most potent and certainly one of the most potent factors in bringing about change and learning.