Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Koenig

Just saying it was approved by the board and accountants wasn't going to cut it.

John Thompson

The only thing that has been approved so far is the subdivision of the land.

Mark Simpson

It is a four-year project to develop a turf pitch yet we still do not know whether council will ever approve a turf pitch at our home base at Russell Square.

Sam Bodman

Last night I approved a company's request for loan from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve,

Jean Medina

We expect to resolve any issues and concerns so that the court can approve our disclosure statement next week and we can continue moving toward exit from bankruptcy.

Bill Walker

We maintain a campus where we would hope that people could express themselves. Obviously, any kind of physical situation like this we do not approve of.

Linda Malec

I am extremely concerned about the recent application, approved by current directors, to convert to a mutual savings bank. And I'm even more concerned about the lack of communication from board members and executive management to members.

Alan Greenspan

If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, I think you have to do it in a cautious, gradual way.

David Stern

In my mind, there's been an enormous investment made and it's the beginning of a process that's quite extensive. As far as we understand it, the Nets are planning to be in Brooklyn in the next three years or so, but we don't control that process. All we do is get to receive their reports and ultimately approve the move.

Richard Grenell

Last night and his morning, the human rights commission reform fell apart.

Kolawole Olaniyan

It is not enough for the Nigerian government to initiate an investigation. We need an international commission of inquiry that will report directly to the UN Secretary-General and make its findings public.

Jonathan Todd

It is one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed Microsoft had to comply with the March 2004 decision. The Commission regrets Microsoft has failed to do so. We would prefer Microsoft to comply with the March 2004 decision, and not with their interpretation of that decision.

Jose Barroso

I welcome the speed with which the commission and member states have been able to respond to the urgent request for help.

Mayor Mulder

I don't expect this commission to revisit every issue that we decide because there are few people that are upset. I think it needs to be re-addressed, but we need to make some sort of decision and stick with it.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Jimmy Carter

In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election,

Charles Grassley

I'm extremely disappointed that the European Commission has insisted on perpetuating this dispute,

Paul Donovan

The issues that we addressed in our commitments were not material ones. At the request of the commission we made a number of commitments in order to resolve potential antitrust issues, as did Abbott.

Simon Spurr

Spring 2010 is the second season that I'm showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.

Doug Tolin

I thought we would come out and play better in the second half. But we could never really get anything going. It kind of went the other way on us.

Bruce Bainter

I went down there and it was up over the second step.

Manny Acta

I don't know Soriano as an outfielder. He is here to play second base.

Umberto Guidoni

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

Vladimir Putin

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

Voltaire

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Trevor Brooking

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Tracey Gold

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

Pete Shelley

They weren't headlining. They were third down the bill,

Paul Duca

It's the third time I've done it. It doesn't feel weird any more.

Jack Roush

This is the third time this week you've tried to get my goat,

Dusty Baker

It was a tough day to be a third baseman.

Randy Cretors

This is his third year doing it, and I'm amazed.

Sergey Brin

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

Anne Robinson

I'm not going to marry a third time. It is just not necessary.

Jim Rich

Sen. Landrieu said she wanted to be our third senator.

Bartolo Colon

More than puzzled, I'm ticked off. I had two outs and I couldn't get the third one.

Richelle Mead

We all have moments of weakness. It’s how we recover from them that really counts.

Rick Riordan

We’ve all got weaknesses. Me, for instance. I’m tragically funny and good-looking.

Woody Hayes

A good general always makes you search for his weaknesses.

Woody Allen

Of all human weakness obsession is the most dangerous. And the silliest.

Robinson Jeffers

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Samuel Johnson

To be prejudiced is always to be weak

Laurence Olivier

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.

B. F. Skinner

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

Tennessee Williams

The helpless can't help the helpless.