Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Douglas

As effective as he's been. I agree with that (decision), I think it's an effective cost savings move. Our office largely deals with three department heads directly.

Ben Phillips

A world conference in 100 days time could agree to the principles of ATT to control international arms transfer and India can be a key influence at the UN conference.

Javier Lopez

Our experimental results agreed with the computational findings, indicating that these ratchetting points mediate the removal of intron subfragments in one direction as the gene is transcribed initially from DNA into RNA,

Kobe Bryant

People that know me understand that's just me. That's not something that was fabricated. The people who don't side with you or agree with you, you use that as fuel. You use that as motivation.

Rafael Ramirez

Of the 32 (companies), we have agreed with 30. We believe this was a mistake on the part of Total and Eni.

Frederick Chiluba

Details of the agreement will be released tomorrow.

Sam Brownback

The Senate Judiciary Committee has been hard at work for over a month on comprehensive immigration reform. No bill before the committee proposes blanket amnesty. ... Border security is our main priority. We are working to merge the best of several proposals, and hopefully we can all agree that we must protect our borders, enforce the law, provide legal means for people to work in the United States, and fix a broken system.

Colin Steele

The signing of the addendum to the MoU addresses the valid concerns of the labour movement and speaks to the resilience of the original agreement and reinforces the fact that social partnership and dialogue is possible, orderly and mutually beneficial. Indeed, members of the union movement have signalled that while a new MoU would not include a wage freeze, there are several critical matters which are better dealt with in the spirit of partnership benefiting from research not rumour, candour not deception.

Don Norman

The technical problem is trivial. The hard part is getting everyone to agree on the same protocol.

Jeb Bush

Our economy grew at double the rate of the nation. We created 1.3 million jobs. We led the nation seven out of those eight years. We were only one of two states that went to AAA bond rating. I cut taxes, $19 billion. If you do that and apply conservative principles the right way, you create an environment where everybody rises up.

Mark Hooker

The show was closed unjustly because the licensing ordinance that the city claims was the grounds for closing us does not apply to nonprofit and charitable organizations like the Milwaukee Gay Arts Center.

Mahmoud Abbas

The most important message is our readiness, our full readiness to work for the internal security, ... We have deployed forces and we have taken a final decision on uniting the security apparatus, and we will continue applying this decision.

Stephen Gillers

The rules dealing with gifts don't apply to Justice Thomas because the rules only apply to lower court judges. People give gifts to judges and justices because they have power. And they have power because of their position that they hold in trust. And to suggest that it doesn't matter, no one will care, seems to me to be whistling in the dark.

Greg Garrison

That's kind of their trademark, to play hard and apply pressure. I think we came out a little timid and didn't attack their pressure like we probably should have. And that was the difference in the game as far as our approach to attacking their pressure.

John Bolduc

(Albert) facilitates the short and long-range policies. Her main responsibility is to coordinate the research and apply it.

Richard Peterson

You should apply the same classic investment principles.

Struan Robertson

Your staff policies on bullying and harassment and discrimination still apply at the office party. Just make sure everyone knows this and knows what they are.

Gideon Koren

The only problem really is with occupational exposure where day in, day out, women are exposed to these potentially very harmful chemicals, ... It does not apply to women who are painting a room or doing very brief exposures to organic solvents in the household.

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Jim Hunter

Back then, they (Congress) were targeting NASCAR as a waste of fuel,

Ted Cruz

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

Ronald Reagan

Cures were developed for which there were no known diseases. (Commenting on Congress and the federal budget, 1981)

Sheridan Samuels

Evans said I sought and got a loan of $30,000 from him in the lead-up to the 2003 JFF congress and I found that to be most offensive and embarrassing, because it is not true.

Mark Twain

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can

Ben Phillips

Tuition, housing fees, even textbook costs are difficult to meet these days. Why Congress feels the need to cut student loans and drag our faces in the mud, I do not know.

John Cornyn

While the president continues to highlight the successes of our troops, and the plan for victory in Iraq, his opponents in the Congress have yet to provide a plan of their own.

Leigh Matthews

The poor bugger. It's been 12 months (since he initially damaged his knee).

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Ken Bacon

This operation will continue. Nothing has damaged our resolve.

John Garamendi

The problem is hidden. It's hidden in the electronics that have been damaged with water.

Miles Frieden

We'll go to Hemingway's house if it's available. It was damaged by one of this year's hurricanes, and I'm told it's been deteriorating for years.

Wendy Needham

Obviously they're trying to repair that reputation. But since their reputation has been so damaged in the aftermarket, it's unlikely they are going to fill the lost orders with replacement tire sales.

Michele Aurella

If it wasn't damaged by water, looters took it. We can't find out until we can get in there.

Kevin Barnes

One of their sealing guns exploded and he severely damaged his hand.

Hugh Laurie

I find it preposterous. I can see in some ways I am playing a sexy character. The idea of a damaged genius is an interesting, intriguing character, but it has nothing to do with me . . . I think whoever is playing this role would be in the position I am now.

Scott Gediman

If we get flooding next month in May, it won't be anything like 1997.

Roger Evans

London is vulnerable to flooding -- be it from the Thames tide, from rivers as a result of heavy rainfall, or from our drainage system,

Kathy Walt

We're preparing for potential inland flooding and tornadoes.

Kris Mangum

I'm just worried about the wind damage. The flooding I am not worried about, at least not at my house.

Edmund Stoiber

We have a flooding catastrophe, but we also have another catastrophe ... our exceptionally high unemployment,

Sushil Kumar

The problem is that the villagers leave their houses only at the last moment when the waters start flooding in. We really have to persuade them to leave earlier,

Tony Nunan

The situation is unclear because output is still down in the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. refineries are having problems.

J. Taylor

If all the steel is heading to the Gulf for rebuilding because of (Hurricane) Katrina, it could increase our costs.

Bill Parsons

You just can't watch it on TV and get a feel for the devastation that I've seen down here on the Gulf Coast. It's just unbelievable,

Richard Gephardt

inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and old energy.

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Tom Holland

When I'm acting, it's like I am the character - no one can talk to me. But I'm not so method I'd sell my house and live on the street to play a tramp.

Howard Stringer

Sony BMG did not intend to punish the consumer.

Phil Gramm

Quite frankly, I'd rather go to the dentist. But I intend to go,

Gary Condit

I've been married for 34 years, and I intend to stay married to that woman as long as she'll have me.

Joseph Fuiten

This isn't something we intend to just let slide. In the view of a lot of evangelicals, they have overstepped their bounds. It's muscle time.

Edward Brooke

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

Alan Pardew

That's what I intend to do as soon as possible.

Ken Leavitt

We intend to meet our obligations, one way or another.

Alex Villalobos

I do intend to get my votes back.

Michael Garcia

He knowingly, willingly participated in this crime, ... He wanted to kill, he intended to kill, and he did kill.

Tim Smith

People tend to pass judgment on teenagers too quickly.

Jane Fonda

I've worked really, really hard on myself to not be judgmental.

Jeff Lyons

We had the judgment before they did the seizure.

Donald Trump

I have much better judgment than Hillary Clinton does. There's no question about that. I also have a much better temperament than she has, you know?

Donald Trump

I have great judgment. I have good judgment. I know what's going on.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every word is a preconceived judgment.

Jay Leno

Courtney Love said she once escorted Kerry to a concert. John Kerry once went out with Courtney Love and he's questioning Bush's judgment.

Janet Evanovich

In spite of all the sparring that went on between us, I sort of liked Morelli. Good judgment told me to stand clear of him, but then I've never been a slave to good judgment.

Rick Perry

Between Katrina and our preparations for this, people understand this isn't something you're going to play around with,

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

Richard Cobb

On the supply side, we are about the same as after Katrina and before Rita.

Diane Swonk

Once they got the uncertainty of Katrina out of the way they just got back to their boilerplate statement,

John Franklin

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects; it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Antonio Porchia

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

Edgar Allan Poe

Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!

Aristotle

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

Pocahontas

What I love most about rivers is you can't step in the same river twice. The water's always changing, always flowing.

Orson Scott Card

He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

Daniel Boone

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

E. B. White

His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Aldo Leopold

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

Rumi

What you are seeking is also seeking you.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Malayan Proverb

If you have, give; if you lack, seek

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Marsha Sharp

Every single trip down the floor, we're going to take a look at LaToya first and see if we can find her.

Sally Adams

Every single day I think of it, and I always will.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

But while I breathe Heaven's air and Heaven looks down on me, And smiles at my best meanings, I remain Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.

Drew Barrymore

I love being single. It's great. I get to be who I am and do what I want and be with the people I love. I feel like I have everything and I'm very fortunate, and it's very rich fulfilling time in my life.

Chuck Palahniuk

I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map. A real adventure.' A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.

Amanda Schull

Every dancer has injuries, and your injury could happen that season that you were getting that one part that you've wanted to do your whole career. So you have to appreciate every single moment until it happens.

Robert H. Schuller

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Rajneesh

I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don`t think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

Daniel Handler

The moral of Snow White is never eat apples.

Charles Evers

I'm against an all-white anything or an all-black anything.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Once a president gets to the White House, the only audience that is left that really matters is history.

Cynthia McKinney

In November 2000, the Republicans stole from America our most precious right of all: the right to free and fair elections... Now President Bush occupies the White House, but with questionable legitimacy.

Countee Cullen

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.