Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Cody Provenzano

North and South, it's all these people causing drama, going over to fields and doing things. We basically just want to beat their butts.

Simon Crisford

Normally we'd think between 10 and 12 Group Ones in a year was pretty good. Group One victories are basically how we judge ourselves, as winning the best race is what we are about.

Michael Herring

After the first seven minutes, we basically played them even. There are no moral victories but I liked the fact that we didn't back down and we didn't go away.

Brian White

A fund could have the greatest track record in the world, but if the portfolio management team that posted that track record is no longer running the fund that history is basically irrelevant.

Tom Adams

After winning three out of five years, Brad Carlin, the guy who came up with this, was basically kicked out of his pool. I think that may be a hazard of this.

Kurt Barnard

The name Burlington Coat Factory is a misnomer because they carry a full line of fashion apparel, including coats in the winter. It's basically an off-price operation. You get good value there, very good value.

Ray Brown

Actually, I was starting to feel like my abilities were best suited at tackle, because I'm not as fast as I used to be. As you get older, it's a leg-strength game. I'm able to sort of trick the team and trick this league that I can play inside. That's basically what I got by with - a little guile, a little veteran savvy, and also leaning on my teammates.

Derek Loomis

As far as designing for girls, certain designs will cross right over.

James Wolk

As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.

Pankaj Mishra

As an Indian, you feel easily connected with certain histories in places like Indonesia, where one sees, because of the presence of the Hindu-Buddhist past, Hindus still living there or Muslims performing rituals that are instantly familiar.

Rob Smith

The Big Ten is so competitive. You don't know where certain teams are going to be two weeks down the road. We are just going to try and clean up our game and take it one game at a time.

Joe Theismann

Back when we played, they were like molded to your head. Football players are a finicky bunch. A running back likes his leg pads to fit just right. Some players like their shoulder pads to fit a certain way. We all have our idiosyncrasies and quirks.

Richard Yamarone

As long as there is a perception that higher prices are in the tea leaves, that's a problem certainly for policy makers. And I think that's why the Federal Reserve seems hellbent on raising rates.

Jim Henderson

As long as you warm the seat for a certain number of hours, you walk out of the classroom with that certificate.

Mary Osako

As in most jurisdictions, governments are not required to inform service providers why they are seeking certain information and typically do not do so.

Colin Shaha

Ralph Waldo Emerson had this philosophy about be silly, be honest and be kind. I really try to talk to a lot of people about that on the team, and Joy is certainly all those qualities.

Marc Grossman

Other countries have an interest in UN reform as well and not just in how the Security Council works.

Amr Moussa

Of course the transfer of power was decided on by the Security Council and we wish them good luck and that the Iraqi government is able to exercise its sovereignty.

Dan Gillerman

An informal discussion that was merely a waste of time took place. The Security Council has more important issues to deal with.

Kathy Baker

The spending in this town has gone insane. Year after year, council after council, property taxes are running amok.

Tony Bennett

The sign says 'Welcome to Lancashire', it doesn't say 'Welcome to the administrative unit of Lancashire County Council - that would be all right.

Caitlin Moran

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.

Ted Wilson

I've been on the council for 10 years. I think it's time to pass the torch on to someone else.

Zhang Yishan

They all hope that the council will play its due role, and more effectively enhance all human rights and fundamental freedoms at global level.

Michael Clara

The very thing we're teaching our young men, the council is not doing to us.

Jill Lepore

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research science, science journalism, and science fiction were born.

Richard Peddie

I've been reviewing (the performance) of senior people since the start of April. That will have an end date and a whole written component.

John Kostecki

This is going to be the most challenging venue to date because there are so many variables.

David Simons

This is not one of those situations where we can sit back and say well we've got a study plan and 6 months from now we should be well. How many people are going to die between now and 6 months from now when supposedly that get well date hits?

Jim Higgins

This is part the jousting that goes on with these things. The pilots will use every significant date to try to highlight the fact they're in disagreement with management.

Jonathan Todd

This date has now been pushed back to Feb 15.

Glynn Turman

My wife and I have our date nights. We love the Showtime shows like 'Shameless,' 'Homeland' and 'House of Lies.' And of course, 'Scandal' is high on the list; you've got to do 'Scandal.'

Shaun Alexander

To me, I'm not one of those guys that do things just for the fun of it. If we're going to date ? there's a potential for marriage. And that's how I am.

Steve Johnson

We will always do whatever we can to help our promoters, and if moving the race to a more accommodating date helps the event and helps our loyal Mexican fans, we are happy to do it.

Jose Maria

As far as we can, I hope and desire that they are soon out of prison.

Robert Clarke

Our desire is to be involved in a series as we view as the pinnacle and the premier open-wheel racing series, ... and see that as maybe a priority over the need to have competition.

Mike Baker

Our effort and desire were there throughout the game. We just weren't very smart with some things we did.

Alphonso Jackson

Of the families I talked to, 90% of the families have no desire to go back, ... But that's not what I'm hearing from Texas. It's a whole different perspective.

Joe Browne

Some people, you can tell if they want it bad. He always was a kid who wanted to be a good player. He had that will and desire to play. Everyone around the pool room saw that.

Baha'u'llah

The true seeker hunts naught but the object of his quest, and the lover has no desire save union with his Beloved.

Bertrand Russell

I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

Juvenal

Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.

C. S. Lewis

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were created for another world.

Donald Powell

I've talked to people in all walks of life, from elected officials ... to the guy who repaired my shoes.

Uri Dromi

There is a school of thought here that says we are too quick to undermine our elected leaders.

Michael Brady

elected to make tough decisions, and this was one of them.

Henry Stern

Bloomberg could not have been elected with the Independence Party,

Barney Oliver

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

Ismail Haniyeh

We were elected on a different political agenda.

Dave Taylor

We think Mathieu is at the point where we think he's ready for the No. 1 role, ... We've liked him in the Montreal organization and traded for him. He elected to play in Manchester (AHL) during the lockout and had a great year.

Shaul Goldstein

was elected on a totally, totally different agenda.

Michael Nutter

I got elected as the mayor of Philadelphia and yes I am black. But my responsibility is to all the citizens of the city.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Albert Speer

I was not a member of the SS.

Amartya Sen

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

Daniel Defoe

Wit, like the Belly, if it be not fed, Will starve the Members, and distract the Head.

Clay Shirky

In a profession, members are only partly guided by service to the public.

Rick Nielsen

If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.

Thomas E. Mann

Congress requires states to draw single-member districts.

Rick Ross

Most often the earlier a cult member is approached through an intervention the more likely they are to be responsive.

John Wilson

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Stephane Dion

People who have sent their delegates here want real progress, ... That's why here in Montreal, we have to get results.

Lucy Mathiak

People who feel that things are going well will vote for Juan.

Raf Simons

People who don't know me look at my world as something very hard-core, and I don't feel it that way. It's not what attracts me.

Bobbi Brown

People used to look out for their brothers. I'm going to look out for James.

Jay Stewart

People understand we're not deviating from our plan. We're sticking to it.

Paul Adams

People understand it's a robust role and they're comfortable with it. But we're not suggesting it (support for the mission) is so strong it can't be moved.

Josh Fox

People treat citizens like they're some kind of unreliable source, but citizens are data. They are a data set.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

If woman's sole responsibility is of the domestic type, one class will be crushed by it, and the other throw it off as a badge of poverty. The poor man's motto, 'Woman's work is never done,' leads inevitably to its antithesis - ladies' work is never begun.

Barbara Jordan

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Ayn Rand

A man who seeks escape from the responsibility of supporting his life by his own thought and effort, and wishes to survive by conquering, ruling and exploiting others, is NOT an Individualist.

Ayn Rand

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Ayn Rand

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

Benito Mussolini

We affirm that the true story of capitalism is now beginning, because capitalism is not a system of oppression only, but is also a selection of values, a coordination of hierarchies, a more amply developed sense of individual responsibility.

Brian Sandoval

I know that many students take personal responsibility for their education and succeed as a result. I want them to know they are not alone - that Nevada's system can and will support them.

Brian Tracy

The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Brian Tracy

Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Brad Pitt

There's peace in understanding that I have only one life, here and now, and I'm responsible.

Cameron Diaz

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

Alain de Botton

For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Damon Lindelof

When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

Bodhidharma

When your mind doesn't stir inside, the world doesn't arise outside. When the world and the mind are both transparent, this is true vision. And such understanding is true understanding.

Nelson Mandela

I voted for myself. Even if I go to my grave, I will wake up and come and vote.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Anna Howard Shaw

The millennium will not come as soon as women vote, but it will not come until they do vote.

Alice Cooper

Old enough to be drafted but not old enough to vote.

Donald Trump

We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but HillaryClinton did vote for it. We shouldn't have been in Iraq, but once we were in Iraq, we should have never left the way.

Anita Roddick

Every time you buy something consider it a vote of confidence in the company that produced it.

Steve Israel

I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Tom Brokaw

Votes are something that you earn.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Everybody expects that their vote's going to count.