Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Baker Kline

I don't think that trauma is an illusion; there is no question in my mind that circumstances beyond our control can shape and define us. But ultimately, we make choices about letting ourselves be defined by our pasts.

John Salazar

We have a moral obligation to stand up and protect Social Security for the next 70 years and beyond -- that means stopping privatization and dropping partisan demands for private accounts,

Bill Cowher

We have traveled a hard road, and grew as a football team, and individually. This is a very grounded and resilient group of guys. We've never taken anything for granted and looked beyond the next game. We have kind of had tunnel vision throughout the process.

Raul Julia

It was a very profound experience, getting in touch with that part of us, in all of us human beings, that is committed beyond yourself to the point of giving everything you have, including your life, for other people, for your fellow man.

Michael Arrington

If we want to get beyond this whole I'm-cool-because-I-care-about-women thing, what we really need to do is we have to start encouraging women to get engineering degrees in college.

Patanjali

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

Randy Bly

We'll probably continue to see rising gas prices just beyond the Labor Day holiday.

Tim Gleason

To make it to back-to-back finals, I'm beyond proud. It's a big accomplishment what we've done.

Larry DiRita

to look up and look beyond the treetops.

Barton Gellman

Throughout the early and mid-1990s, the Clinton administration debated the merits of paying for AIDS testing and counseling of vulnerable populations overseas.

Pete Rose

Hillary Clinton wrote a book. She got paid. I don't understand why I can't.

Peter Orszag

For example, I was privileged to be working at the White House under the Clinton administration and had not finished my Ph.D., and I thought I was the cat's meow.

Gregory Craig

William Jefferson Clinton was elected freely, fairly and openly by the American people to be president, ... We dare not reverse that decision without good and just cause.

E. Helm

It is bitterly ironic that the Clinton administration is rushing to send Elian Gonzalez back to a country that has just been singled out by the U.N. for its systematic violation of human rights.

Hamilton Jordan

I've never been a Clinton fan. He's had some accomplishments, and he's very skilled at politics, but, you know, he's had some successes and a very good economy. And the question is how much or how little of that does he deserve credit for.

Barney Frank

The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.

Jerry Herring

We are hoping to help the middle schools out and give the kids the fundamentals of the game. So that when they get there, they will ready and eventually, those kids will be moving up to the high school. We want coach Mallard to have the end product at Clinton High.

Charlie Cook

I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with people. But the fact is, the administration was so disorganized and they were so unfocused that he didn't have the luxury of being able to travel.

Zubin Mehta

Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

Bob Parker

We have very strict rules for the conduct on solicitation.

Peggy Noonan

There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

Jonathan Tucker

Most of the inspectors, even though they have technical skills, are not experienced in conducting inspections, and they'll be on a very steep learning curve.

Jane Duffield

Most investigators conducting research make that determination themselves.

Stephane Dujarric

It is critical that those Iraqi groups who have complained about the conduct of the election are given a hearing.

Dave Bristow

We've talked with students and the teacher and are conducting an investigation, but so far we haven't found anything to back up the allegations that were made. What we found so far seems to support the teacher's allegations.

Janet Reno

We can and we should use existing laws to prosecute most unlawful conduct on the Internet, ... We must ensure that regulation of unlawful conduct on the Internet is treated in the same manner as off-line conduct.

Ira Glasser

The problem is not one of rogue cops. The problem is a problem of rogue leadership. The problem is a problem of immoral leadership. We have heard a lot about public morality and moral leadership in the last year. But very little of it focuses on the immoral conduct we're complaining about today.

William Pepper

He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his phone number is, everything about him that one needs. All I need is a criminal trial so I can have him subpoenaed.

Nik Nanos

The announcement of the criminal investigation . . . made what was a relatively comfortable (Liberal) lead into a neck and neck race.

Gloria Feldt

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

Jeffrey Toobin

Michael Jackson is one of the dozen best-known people in the world, and he is facing extremely serious criminal charges. That is a very big news story.

Allen Lichtenstein

You just don't have criminal trials dismissed because of prosecutorial misconduct, intentional or unintentional.

Rush Holt

We have an oversight responsibility regardless of what criminal investigations may or may not be under way.

Andi Mallarangeng

The president also wants to make sure that our legal justice system, our criminal system is working, that they can work and function as it should be in investigating this case.

Eric Holder

I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.

Eugene Fidell

It does look like there were some major gaps in the earlier investigations, which were not criminal investigations incidentally.

Geoff Hoon

During the last economic slowdown in the 1990s, the Tories slashed infrastructure investment. I am determined not to make that mistake.

Paul Johnson

I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could have become a dress designer: Dior was willing to take me on as an assistant, but he did not have an immediate vacancy.

Ken Lisaius

The pilots determined that to be safe rather than sorry they needed to make an emergency-style landing.

Victoria Strauss

When I was submitting my first novel, I had no idea that publishing scams existed. I never encountered any, but I could have - and knowing how easily I might have been taken advantage of makes me determined to protect others from falling into that trap.

The Others

The arbitrator has determined that the counterclaim will not be considered.

Larry Rothschild

That will be determined as we go. We'll see. He's where he should be in rehab. There have been no setbacks. As long as we can keep progressing, that's what we're after.

Rob Stillwell

We've looked at who are our employees going to be and is there enough of a population to draw from, and we've determined that there is.

Steve Ivcic

We just couldn't put anything past Perry. He's been like that all year. ... It was important for us to be determined and persistent because if you put enough pressure on any goalie, eventually the wall is going to crack.

Marc Andreessen

I think the tech stock, the public market is still completely traumatized by the dotcom crash. I think the investors and reporters and analysts and everybody is determined to not get taken advantage of again, and that is what everybody who lived through 2000, what they kind of remember.

Brad Goreski

I love my dad. There is no doubt about that. He is a wonderful man and a good person. Like many father/son relationships, we have our struggles, our misunderstandings, and our miscommunications. We are very different people, but also very similar at the same time.

Carrie Newcomer

Never doubt or question the power of love or one woman with a shovel.

Carrie Underwood

I don't want to listen to everybody's problems all the time. And I doubt anybody wants to listen to mine.

Antoine Rivarol

It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.

Bertrand Russell

Tobacco . . . is not prohibited in the Scriptures, though, as Samuel Butler points out, St. Paul would no doubt have denounced it if he had known of it.

Ryan Sanchez

That was a tough one, no doubt about it. Afterwards, I told the kids to just keep their heads up. We have to move on.

David Hawkins

We need to increase capacity, there's no doubt about that,

Joe Bryant

We just didn't make the right decisions. We missed two or three point-blank shots. Could we have won the game? No doubt about it. They can be beaten.

Ray Winstone

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

Yahya Jammeh

I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.

Henry David Thoreau

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

Ben Elliot

It's not marriage that I crave. Many of my friends who have married are pretty miserable. Within a year and a half, most of them are either unhappy or divorced.

Donald Norman

And to get real work experience, you need a job, and most jobs will require you to have had either real work experience or a graduate degree.

Chris Jericho

When I was a kid, I wanted to be either a rock star or a wrestler.

Donald Trump

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

Naomie Harris

Everybody struggles with being an oddball. It's tough trying to fit in when you're a kid; then you become an adult and you think, 'I'm just going to be myself and either they accept it or they don't.' But you know what? I like me, and that's the most important thing.

Bill Clinton

The advocates for either side are under enormous pressure, and, of course, they're being pretty snippy with each other from time to time.

Hannu Toivonen

That was a game that was up for grabs for either team. It's a tough loss. We have to learn not to take that many penalties.

Beeban Kidron

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

Chris Crutcher

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

Scott Coffey

That was the strongest evidence in the case.

Russell Smith

I went to Queen's - a fine university with the proudly stupidest frosh week in the country. This was, when I was there, supposed to be somehow evidence of a higher social class.

Bob Stott

We had only circumstantial evidence tying him to the bombs. And our circumstantial evidence wasn't that good.

Tom Davies

We have to move ahead, ... There is evidence that dries up after a while.

Jay Greene

Virtually all evidence produces controversy. If it matters, it produces controversy.

Bill Schultz

Why would she have done such a thing if she knew what she was doing. She never did anything else wrong. There's no evidence she had anything to gain.

Seth Shostak

We haven't yet found a speck of evidence for biology on another world, so we have no objective way to judge whether life is a onetime fluke or a near-inevitable phenomenon.

Daniel Petrocelli

You lied to this jury when you said you weren't wearing those shoes, didn't you?

Henry Wade

I think informally prosecutors talk and say, you know, 'What can we do to get minorities off the jury panel?'

Adrian Darley

For the time being, the jury is out on whether that is a sensible strategy.

Mark Barrett

he respects, as we respect, the verdict of the jury on that.

Thomas Bergstrom

It could have been a lot worse. Obviously, it could have been better, but I think the jury worked very, very hard...

Brian Chavez

He had a trial by jury and that was his peers in his community,

Mark Geragos

If they try to imprison her for longer than six months, she's got the right to a jury trial,

Andy Birchfield

I don't have any qualms about the short trial schedule. There was not time for the jury to get bored, I hope.

Anthony Mizzi

If only lawyers could be sworn in like all the witnesses to tell the truth in a jury trial, so justice will not only be seen to be done but be done !

Donald Trump

Ronald Reagan became, you know, not only a Republican but a pretty conservative Repub - not the most. But a pretty conservative Republican. And he's somebody that I actually knew and liked. And he liked me. And I worked with him and helped him.

Will Chase

In acting, you have to know that you are worth something. I knew I had some talent somewhere.

Clint Eastwood

I knew Billy Wilder socially and would have loved to work with him.

Neil Simon

Nathan Lane always wanted to play Oscar. When he came in the first day, he already knew his lines. He said he'd known them since he was 18.

Dan Hinds

That was the turning point right there. We knew right there we'd be able to punch it in.

Jeff Hawkins

That was the turning point right there. That's when we knew we had them.

George W. Bush

That woman who knew I had dyslexia: I never interviewed her.

Pam Schild

We have always been supportive of his decision. We knew he would never do anything half-heartedly.

Matt Baker

We could have won the game. We knew we were in position. We took a shot and lost on it.

Susan Winter

I feel so bad, ... I didn't shoot from a truck; I didn't knowingly do anything that was illegal. This is embarrassing.

Mariano Puerta

My position has always been that I did not deliberately or knowingly ingest any prohibited substance. I find it extraordinary that it could ever be thought satisfactory a person's livelihood can be terminated in circumstances like these.

Chad Burns

She knowingly videotaped it. She thought she was doing the right thing.

Bonnie Fuller

The kind of picture that has a big value are of celebrities getting married. We don't knowingly purchase any photographs taken while endangering the safety of any individual.

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Henry Bunsow

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Carl Sagan

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Terry Shea

The assessor's office respectfully disagrees with some of the court's rulings.

Scott Bauer

We'll operate in Raleigh through the loan-production office for now.

Howard Osofsky

You are going to have officers with shorter fuses,

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Bill Vaughan

In foreign affairs, the president can do what he wants unless Congress says no. In domestic policy, the president can't do anything unless Congress says yes.

Bill Vaughan

In the wiretapping, despite all the momentum for a more assertive Congress, you're seeing Congress backing down, because there are many Republicans and even Democrats who are afraid of being seen as preventing the president from protecting the nation.

Howard Dean

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

Elaine Sanchez

Typically, the president is on a very tight schedule.

Donald Powell

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

Tom Ridge

will be a president we can respect and we can trust.

John Kasich

We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

Patricia Marx

I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.

Derek Dennis

We hadn't been down like that in a long time. It was up to us to go out and prove why we've been on top of the state rankings all season.

John Gibbons

We wanted to make sure he was all right. He proved that he was today.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When faith burns itself out, 'tis God who dies and thenceforth proves unavailing.

Todd Pratt

I think Ryan's proven everything he can prove.

Paul Doerrfeld

We proved we could play with them. We just have to relax and play our game.

Folarin Campbell

We proved we can play with anybody. We proved we don't back down from anybody.

Hines Ward

We proved all the prognosticators wrong. This is a big win for us.

Philip Morris

only when no other reasonable alternative testing methodology exists.

Brian Sabean

I would say it has to be somebody who's a veteran, who's an innings-(eater) who's had reasonable success on a winning team.

Joanna Lumley

I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.

Jeff Tarter

I think it's a reasonable model. It eliminates flakiness of patching and upgrading software.

Dave Scott

We're going to go to something that is a reasonable rate.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Sen Sears

I think we have come to a reasonable consensus. I think it will have strong support in the Senate.

Robert Buchanan

I think that's reasonable over time, but it's not going to come easily.

Thomas J. Stanley

Anybody with a reasonable income can become financially independent in a lifetime.