Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liza Maza

The approval of the resolution is urgent. In light of the US government's intransigence on the issue of custody, it's imperative that we take measures to assert our sovereignty and show our determination to expedite justice.

Anders Rasmussen

The approval of the Nice Treaty is essential if we are to proceed on schedule for enlargement.

Chris Browning

The application and registration process at the ministry of environment requires criteria like community involvement, training of community game guards, management skills, and management plans must be drawn up to obtain approval by the authorities.

Toni Harris

We could get that approval any day now. As soon as we get federal approval, the patrols we fund will start back up.

Larry Andrews

We have to wait for the successful outcome of that litigation before we'll be given final approval in Canada.

Chris Corrigan

Toll have effectively negotiated with themselves a transaction which is not in line with the board approval that was given,

Russell Mael

We've met with the band a few times in Los Angeles. The original idea was to gather a dozen or so Sparks songs as sort of a stamp of approval of our band. And they want to do one or two songs where we write and perform them together. We hope it will happen as soon as there is a gap in both bands' schedules.

Jason Keadjian

We're very pleased with the result. We got unanimous approval and we'd like to see the project move forward.

Todd Taylor

Utah is an exception to the rest of the country mostly because of partisanship. Here, it's 'my party right or wrong.' If Bill Clinton had done the things Bush is doing, his approval ratings in Utah would be in the basement.

Seiji Maehara

The people are questioning if the DPJ is really serious about taking the helm of government. (I'll) first gather the party's opinions together and let important issues be argued out in the Diet. That's my fighting stance.

Rod Parsley

This is a man who graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University in three years, editor of the Harvard Law Review, argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

Jack Germond

I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.

Greg Valliere

I have argued with great futility that this entire argument is based on a flawed premise. If you use a more realistic GDP assumption, based on what we've seen over the past few decades, Social Security won't go bankrupt.

Russell Smith

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

John Leguizamo

He was like twitching and frothing and it was my father, ... I went like all pale. I felt all the blood leave my body. And then my father was like, 'How dare you?' And he stormed out of the theater and I followed him and we fought and argued and hugged and he cried and we made up.

Steve Earle

If they're as committed to mine safety as they say they are, then they need to incorporate these things into their bill. These are things that shouldn't be argued over.

Harry Edwards

I can't say that it's inconceivable that a situation could arise where there would be... ... You haven't argued that.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gail Kelly

I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Yotam Ottolenghi

I'm a firm believer that the world should be your oyster when you're cooking. People should open themselves to other cuisines - there are a lot of hidden secrets all over the world.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Wesley Morris

'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Billy Graham

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Isabella Bird

It is extremely interesting to live in a private house and to see the externalities, at least, of domestic life in a Japanese middle-class home.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most of my recipes start life in the domestic kitchen, and even those that start out in the restaurant kitchen have to go through the domestic kitchen.

Elizabeth Warren

For many women, the on-time payments of domestic support obligations are essential to economic survival.

Pedro Chequer

The alternative ... is domestic production of the medication, preferably by the government. Today we pay up to nine times the fair price.

Samantha Power

The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.

Jen Kirkman

Use your passport for domestic trips, so that way you don't risk losing your license.

Jim McCafferty

Mid-cap stocks are more domestic and much less reliant on overseas markets and overseas concerns.

Jane Liu

While the domestics are still spending far more proportionally, the numbers are not as far off as they had been. Our January sales forecast predicted that domestic automakers earned approximately 54 percent market share of new vehicle sales, and that Japanese, European and Korean automakers would earn 35 percent, 6 percent and 5 percent, respectively.

Kiran More

Whoever performs well in the domestic championships will be eligible for selection. The performance of India 'A' players will also be taken into account.

Iain Duncan Smith

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

Gladys Knight

God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory.

Peggy Noonan

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

Joe Wilson

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

Timothy Brown

Typically, you can get 20 to 25 years out of a mechanical operation system like a pump station. So obviously, this station was due for an upgrade.

Scott Lasswell

We've had great efforts all year and I think tonight was a real good example of when you're in the hunt for second, third or fourth and when you're not. We were due to have a lackluster effort.

Dean Ellis

We've made the ones that have counted, though. We haven't lost a game due to poor free throw shooting.

Alan Jones

We have been trying to secure Ryan's services for quite a while now but, due to other commitments, he was unavailable.

Howard Kramer

Usually the vacancies don't last that long, and I'm sure they'll get filled in due course.

Steve Shaw

The 3GPP really legitimized UMA. It's no longer just a vendor-driven initiative; it's now a global effort.

Lee H. Hamilton

We have thought about what to do, a global strategy, and how to do it: A different way of organizing our government.

David Ball

Today's students are more global in their perspective, taking Spanish and even Mandarin Chinese, as part of attaining a well-rounded education. That's a wise move considering the likelihood they will supervise, or be supervised by, someone whose first language isn't English.

Joe Johnson

We have a global Navy, and we're not going to restrict where the system will be deployed. It could be worldwide.

Tim Laatsch

We have to look at us as a global entity.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Robert Kiyosaki

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam.

Kevin Lowery

We're a global company. We need people who understand global issues.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Rob Portman

Overall, our U.S.-China trade relationship today lacks equity, durability and balance.

Simon Power

National has been saying for some time that the parole system lacks credibility and is not working.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Christopher Shays

This report demonstrates the United Nations lacks the institutional red lights and alarms necessary to warn of misconduct,

G. Stanley Hall

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Bruce Feiler

There is profundity to explore, but also laundry to do.

Nicholas Sparks

You know, I do do the laundry in my house!

Amy Ryan

I know how to separate my own laundry.

Jude Law

In a way it was like washing your laundry in public and, yep, there you go, you've seen my underwear. And now I feel like there's nothing left, you've seen it all and I can get on.

Jerry Seinfeld

You'll fold faster than Superman on laundry day

Kesha

I do my laundry on a weekly basis.

Corinne Kowpak

The laundry room will be expanded and much nicer.

Jenni Allen

The first question was a laundry list explanation of peoples' activities.

Lindsey Vonn

I find folding laundry very relaxing.

Guy Moszkowski

Mergers and acquisitions have been very strong and produced a lot of ancillary financing.

Michael Lloyd

If they screw it up, there probably won't be another rail merger approved, at least in my career.

Frans Houten

There are various merger and acquisition options that we can and will explore.

Tony Fadell

Typical mergers happen when there are two competitors coming together, and they reduce overhead.

Edward Menashy

It has been another storming day with plenty of mergers and acquisitions activity.

Duncan King

There are so many more mergers going on now.

Angela Braly

We get talent and scale from mergers.

Dilip Shanghvi

Whenever you look at any potential merger or acquisition, you look at the potential to create value for your shareholders.

Martin Reynolds

For Dell and IBM, the HP-Compaq merger is a win,

Bill Hader

The nature of 'SNL' is that it's so in-the-moment.

Carl Reiner

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

Carl Sagan

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

Bill Bryson

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Benoit Mandelbrot

If you assume continuity, you can open the well-stocked mathematical toolkit of continuous functions and differential equations, the saws and hammers of engineering and physics for the past two centuries (and the foreseeable future).

Benoit Mandelbrot

The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel.

Tom Leighton

That was a very sophisticated attack; the nature of it was novel,

Sebastian Horsley

I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe.

Manoj Bhargava

The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

Kris Janowski

Virtually all of the 28 have received verbal threats and begged to be evacuated.

Sen. Nass

I think it will receive an even more overwhelming reception in the Senate.

Robert Lawson

I was unaware of water in garages in The Vineyards until I received these letters. That's disturbing.

James Rubin

We received assurances at a variety of levels.

Chris Beard

We received a lot of user requests for this.

Eric Dubin

When you received Rosie, did you say, 'It's now you and me, kid?'

Horton Foote

I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years later.

Harold Williams

I was going through various hypothetical situations: What if we receive a stolen object? What if it turns out one of our dealers say someone like Symes turns out to be a fence?

Hariadi Wibisono

I have just received confirmation from Hong Kong.