Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

Style, personality -- deliberately adopted and therefore a mask -- is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

Stephen Green

You've vested authority in your executive director. Two minutes ago when you adopted those bylaws, you empowered him.

Michael Barry

You have a situation where the board made a commitment to the shareholders and adopted a policy in response to the clear majority of the shareholders. Now, they're turning their back on that and with impunity just disregarding it.

Emma Biel

My mother died young. A lot of people wanted us to be adopted out, but before she died, my mother asked Dad to please keep the children together. He did.

Lleyton Hewitt

He played a lot looser than he's normally played in the past. He's playing more like in practice, where he has always been a great player where he's very flashy and doesn't take it all seriously the whole time. I think he's adopted that a little more in his matches.

Michael Gould

If Endnotes was adopted university-wide, CSU could turn out the most competent secondary research students in the world. It will increase student and faculty research capacity and productivity because it is flexible and saves time by integrating programs.

Billy Graham

If every church in America adopted a family, it would solve the problem of how to house and help so many evacuees,

Marvin Harris

If everybody adopted a peaceful, loving, generous, non-competitive lifestyle, we could have something better than counter-culture - we could have the Kingdom of God.

Orrin Hatch

I am opposing my own relative so citizens of Utah will finally have a real choice since Democrats have adopted so many Republican policy positions in recent years,

Jermain Defoe

Style is important for me. I want to be different and now, when I go out on the field, it'll be my choice what I'm wearing.

Jason Mitchell

'Straight Outta Compton' is not a story we didn't know about or anything like that, but it's just something that resonated really well... It had no choice but to explode.

Miles Busby

Source Technologies is focused on making hardware and software purchasing as seamless as possible, regardless of a company's acquisition strategy or constraints. Performance Leasing provides the flexibility, choice and superior support our customers need.

Tom Stewart

Notwithstanding that choice of theirs, we've offered to lease a portion of Coronet property at a nominal fee that would provide them with a yard.

Christine Maggiore

So, our choices, however radical they may seem, are extremely well-founded.

Source Unknown

Technology is the drug of choice for most Americans. Source unknown Theory: when you have ideas. Ideology: when ideas have you.

Aaron Mokoena

Ted left me with no choice but to make this sad decision.

Gabriel Byrne

Seeing this film will be an individual choice for people.

Don Charles

R-P is the county's zoning tool . . . of choice for the vast majority of the county.

Howard Osofsky

People's emotions are very frayed, ... And returning citizens will often be more irritable dealing with their own issues. People coming back will be under more pressure more stress.

Mark DiCamillo

The survey just looked at registered Latino voters. Had it included non-voters and non-citizens, the numbers likely would have been different.

Paul Hancock

Public officials have a responsibility to count and recognize the votes of all Floridians who voted in this presidential election, ... Factors such as administrative inconvenience, expediency or the limitations of vote-reading machines pale in comparison to protecting the voting rights of our citizens.

Fatos Nano

These elections are of extraordinary importance. This will be a society of free citizens no different from other European nations. Tomorrow will be a new day.

Elliott Abrams

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

Candace Cameron Bure

I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in my closet! It's warm in Florida, so I wear jeans and a tank top every day. I love my True Religions, my Rich and Skinny, and Citizens of Humanity. But I also love getting dressed up!

Alan Dershowitz

Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for citizenship.

Desiderius Erasmus

I am a citizen of the world, known to all and to all a stranger.

Dennis Prager

The bigger the State, the smaller the citizen

Barney Frank

Now, most of the time I'm going to agree with the Democrats and disagree with the Republicans.

Dennis Hastert

I pledge to work with those Democrats who want to work with me.

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Lauri Hakala

Sometimes it goes that way, sometimes it doesn't. I've been really mindful of my footwork. I'm happy it finally worked.

Darin Erstad

We're happy that spring training is finally over. It's always fun to get the season under way and to keep score for real.

Dynelle Tadlock

We ran our offense to get open shots and it finally paid off. I wanted the girls to recover from those two losses as a team, and I think we showed we can play team basketball.

Pete Carroll

Tonight the offense was just rolling. We finally got rolling in the turnover situation. We've been quiet lately. Stanford has been such a stingy team. We wanted to turn that thing around. To get five and give none, we loved that.

Mikhail Youzhny

I am really happy because I finally won a tournament after two years, ... I had been playing well but, for some reason, I couldn't win a tournament.

Willie Randolph

I guess I finally made it, ... I'm legit now.

Kiaran McLaughlin

She finished second so many times, and I'm glad she finally got a graded stakes win. She's a very good filly.

Jeff Probst

I finally met someone who could teach me about love.

William Shakespeare

Policy sits above conscience.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Jimmy Wales

IAR is policy, always has been.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Sarah Fisher

Six years ago when I started this whole fiasco, there were not this many women in these positions to get the attention,

Brandon Flowers

That's my instrument, ... It's been underutilized over recent years.

John Browne

The recent hurricanes in the US have impacted our results.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Jonathan Burns

What we're talking about here are relatively small co-pays.

Jon LeCroy

I think they're relatively cheap. What we saw was a big run-up toward April, and now we're seeing a little more profit-taking.

Nick Holmes

I think every relative we know will (be at the game).

Hu Shih

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood.

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Richard Preston

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.

Ian Hart

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

Donna Brazile

We were not republicans or democrats during Katrina. We truly were all Americans, and Trent Lott came through for me.

Stephanie Miller

I was actually abandoned by wolves and then raised by Republicans.

Megyn Kelly

Reagan Republicans do not criticize the other Republicans

Joe Lando

I'd be honored to be playing a Republican, although I'm not.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Republicans simply don't know how to manage the economy.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Wang Yongzhi

This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology since the successful spaceflight of manned spacecraft Shenzhou-5.

Jim Melcher

This is probably the most unusual week we've had in the stock market, at least since 1929.

Shannon Sharpe

You've talked about it since 2001, and here it is 2010 and you're still talking about it.

Joe Jamail

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

Jim Carrey

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

James Nesbitt

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Anne Hathaway

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.

Robert Redford

Utah is changing. There are good people in Utah. More people want to change the discriminatory laws than want to keep them. People should be able to marry whomever they love.