Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Davis

The call up is a great opportunity for Pat, hopefully he can do well and force himself into the World Cup finals this summer.

Rosemarie Arnold

The call to report this incident was that of a compromised gas pipe, not of an ordinary smell of gas.

Baron Hill

The call to public service is stronger than the politics of fear, ... I'm going to take back this seat in the 9th District.

Jason Schenker

The call to establish more refineries is likely to be sounded again.

Jamie Dixon

The call on the five seconds was strange because there was no count.

Linda Parker

The call needs to be put out to all the people of Macomb County. This is not an issue only for African-Americans. If ... you care anything at all about your county, you have to speak out,

John Gill

The call itself is gonna prove those other factors.

Jeff Benjamin

The call at this point in the year is for people to help pull it off by doing the preparatory ground work.

Pam Olshanski

The call actually came in as a mental subject call as officers were responding. The mother had called, concerned for her son's welfare. We're familiar with the house as we've responded as recently as last week under similar conditions.

Leo Bosner

As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

Mark Baldwin

Depending on the school culture at the site where they student teach, our teacher candidates are either very involved in faculty meetings and workshops, or they are not involved at all. We want to improve this because one of the most critical parts in laying the foundation for a quality teaching career is the student teaching experience.

Paul Maryniak

Perhaps at no time in the recent past has the need for quality city leadership been more critical to Mesa than it is now. We want Mesa residents to know as much as possible about the people who are running for a chance to provide that leadership, and The Republic's forum gives citizens an excellent chance to eyeball the candidates and give them the kind of job interview necessary for an educated vote.

George Fetherling

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together.

Paul Barrett

Essentially the same men who would be candidates for a prostate surgery are also candidates for radiation therapy.

John Prescott

At present there are more Tory candidates than I've had hot dinners - and you can see I have had a few,

Fred Eckhard

Twenty-five candidates already considered and rejected doesn't suggest that there are many names left to consider.

David Yepsen

The race is a jumble. There are half a dozen candidates who are in double digits, low double digits in the polls. Nobody's a front-runner.

Jim Terry

You get 16 candidates on the stage, it turns into ... there's not a lot of meaningful information that's going to be exchanged.

Ray LaHood

People can say all types of stuff, ... When I lived in Peoria before, people tried to convince me to run for things. I had an opportunity then and I didn't. I will say I'm never going to rule that out in the future. Politics is a lot about being in the right place at the right time.

Robert Blake

I wanted to convince him (the security) problem was real. And these were the probable reasons.

Abraham Lincoln

''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.

John Adams

Now, my friend, can prophecies or miracles convince you or me that infinite benevolence, wisdom, and power, created, and preserves for a time innumerable millions, to make them miserable forever, for his own glory? Wretch! What is his glory? Is he

Dominique Moisi

President Chirac has told him to back down as he was leading the country to the wall. He tried to convince himself he could be France's Margaret Thatcher, but forgot he was only the number two.

Tom Harkin

I've said time and time again, there is little risk of BSE in U.S. beef, but it is obvious that we have not yet convinced key trading partners of that.

Richard Lachmann

These young women aren't going to convince their boyfriends to go see chick-flicks and watch Lifetime,

Martina Navratilova

I've been talking to Martina about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.

Francesco Storace

The whole world is worried and we want to convince everyone, starting with the European Union, to coordinate measures in the face of a possible pandemic.

Madeline Albright

role as the leading upholder of democracy and law.

Barbara Jordan

Today, I am an inquisitor. I shall not sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.

Al Gore

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

Robert Broadfoot

Is the Philippines a real democracy or just an elitist group going through the motions of democracy?

Jack Schwartz

Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East.

Dick Cheney

We will ... succeed at getting a democracy established in Iraq. And I think, when we do, that will be the end of the insurgency.

Adolf Hitler

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

Ann Coulter

Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

Alexander Hamilton

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

Bob Tate

Something like that is just uncalled for. We want to get a good, positive experience for the kids that play basketball. Win or loss is not the important thing.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Veronica Corpuz

It would leave the producers and our patrons in a fix and we don't want to jeopardize the experience for anyone.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Ronnie Johnson

After a year in combat, these soldiers are handling this well, ... It's always good to have our soldiers back home with their families ... It's good to be home.

Tesema Negash

The most vulnerable families are those who have seen all their livestock perish or are unable to plant for the next harvest because they have no money left for seeds or fertilizer.

Steve Schirripa

Some people will humiliate themselves or their families just to be on television.

Robert Greenstein

So there's actually big differences for low- and moderate-income families -- better under Gore. Big differences for very high-income families -- they get a lot more under Bush.

Kenny Mossman

So much of our roster is from Texas and Oklahoma that it's harder for some of our families to get out this far. We hold our regular number until they verify they're not coming.

Richard James

School leavers and their families are starting to raise more questions about the worth of going on to university.

Glenn Backes

Proposition 36 is tremendously successful at saving lives, at saving money, at keeping families together and at turning people into taxpayers instead of tax users. It is not a silver bullet. But nothing better has been proposed by anyone.

Robert Torricelli

It would be unforgivable if a corporation, or a charity, or a church, or a family member were to provide financial help for any of these families only to have the government take a share in taxation,

Charles Bronson

These families have been able to retain ownership of their land through the Depression, droughts, freezes and the urbanization of Florida. That is a great tribute to the many generations of these families.

David Jones

People don't mind spending money on their homes and basement.

Kathy Miller

Originally we were going to find a home for him, but people would look at him and go, 'Ooh.' He looked so terrible.

Jim McGowan

Of course, we're retired, so we're usually home -- if we're not volunteering.

Horace Horace

Often the truth spoken with a smile will penetrate the mind and reach the heart; the lesson strikes home without wounding because of the wit in the saying

Andrew Baird

Normally we think of our home ... as a safe haven. (The suspect) made it a mausoleum for Mr. O?Malley.

Dan Parker

No sir, we don't have a home left.

Yvonne Martinez

No one was at home at the time.

John McPherson

Do you want your home to be a museum, or do you want to live in it? ... We're not trying to do a museum.

Sam Harris

Como's probably never going to stay the same. This is home though. And I can never say that I'm going to a better place. We'll survive.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Denise Bishop

You're sitting here listening to everything we have to say, but there's nothing we can do about this.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

George William Russell

It is true the orator may make a myriad replica of his own passion out of those who listen to him. But that does not prove he is right or they are not fools.

Carla Bley

Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.

Alan Vega

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

Austin Carlile

To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.

Bo Ryan

As I've been saying all along, they just have to play a little older,

Larry DiRita

The secretary is not saying anything like what the memo's been characterized,

Jalen Rose

I've never said that I wanted to play for another team. I'm not saying that now,

Jason Fraser

It was all determination. As the old saying goes, ?Where there?s a will, there?s a way,? and as you saw, we had the will, literally.

Don Helling

I've been saying all year that our strength is in the relays.

Melissa Kleinman

That's why we're here tonight. (Sexual violence) touches everyone tonight we're taking the first step in saying we are not going to tolerate it.

Fidel Castro

You've put me on three times and I keep saying the same thing.

Jane Austen

They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.

Anna Kendrick

The sneaker heels thing is a myth. They were saying, 'They're like sneakers.' No, they're like heels is what they're like. That's like saying a denim skirt is like jeans. It's not.