Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Falk

I would think at this point that everyone in the legislature would want to stand up and say that we abide by the notion that courts decide questions of constitutional law. And I note from the resolution that they are not in any way arguing that they should disobey the court. But I think at this point we need to sit back and let the courts decide the case.

Jack Straw

have worked very hard for two years to resolve this difficult issue. The only way to resolve it is diplomatically. But the Iranian president has offered nothing in this speech to suggest that he wants to abide by the agreement Iran has made.

Orrin Hatch

He's going to have to abide by the canons of judicial ethics, which basically state you never discuss things which might come up before your court in the future, ... no matter how much they badger him or say they aren't going to vote for him.

Bob Day

I was astonished that five council people would put their opinions above the 7,000 people who voted to have two-year terms starting in 2004, ... As mayor, I'll abide by the decision of the council, but I am also a private citizen and a constituent of John Garner, and I will defend my right to vote in May 2006.

John Hackett

It is not an issue about people, but about policy. By enforcing the laws for some people and allowing others not to abide by them, it leads to hate.

Ronnie Mamoepa

It is not South Africa's decision. Whatever decision will be made will be continental in nature and we will abide by it.

Mary Harris Jones

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Scott Thomas

Hurricane Katrina, the Mother Earthers say, is the result of the failed environmental policies of the Bush administration. This disaster is because the United States has not agreed to abide by the Kyoto Treaty protocols. According to those who worship the spinning dirt at the altar of Kyoto, their god, the environment, has exacted justice through Hurricane Katrina.

Khaled Mashaal

Resistance is a legitimate right that we will practice and protect. Our presence in the legislature will strengthen the resistance. If people raised the issue of targeting civilians, we said and we say that when our enemy stops targeting civilians we will abide by that.

George Beranek

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

Hu Jia

I think it's ironic that the way the Chinese government prepares to host the United Nations Commission on Human Rights is by placing dissidents under house arrest.

Bill Gates

I think (the internet) is contributing to Chinese political engagement...access to the outside world is preventing more censorship.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Whatever Tencent can see, the Chinese government can see.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is a great deal of concern in the Chinese military that Taiwan's reunification with China is drifting further and further away.

Jim Campbell

To get any volume for the Chinese it will take a couple of years to ramp up.

Mark White

I agree totally with Metheny regarding the sound influencing the way you play.

Robert Fortune

I have, however, often seen Chinese gardeners selecting suckers and plants for this purpose from the other plants which are growing in their garden.

Peter Thorne

I don't know many companies that have made a lot of money in Chinese banking, but clearly the potential is there.

Bruce Lanni

Knowing that the oil sands projects are capital-intensive, companies are signaling that oil prices will remain high and that supply and demand will remain tight.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Michael Farr

I also like Microsoft, and I particularly like EMC, ... These companies are going to come back.

Wade Jones

What we want is to improve the quality of life for everybody. We want to improve the standard of living. And the way we do that is by providing good-paying jobs, secure jobs, so that we know the companies are going to prosper and do well here and help expand our economy.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Alan Foreman

Here and there, we may have a ray of sunshine. Some companies may report better-than-expected earnings, ... But, on balance, in this climate, those reports are not likely to fuel markets to move much higher.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

Michael Allweiss

I think the industry would view this as a significant defeat. This allows us to explore, I think, what they've been able to prevent from being explored in the past. It's very meaningful.

Bob Scully

I thought that getting into finance would be a good way to explore many industries.

R. Robinson

We may explore the universe and find ourselves, or we may explore ourselves and find the universe. It matters not which of these paths we choose.

James Sensenbrenner

We have to be forward-looking in how we explore space,

Pat Metheny

I like to explore the full gamut of possibilities ... as many possibilities as possible. With David's saxophone in the mix we have a full palette to work from. With the four of us together on stage, watch out.

Kim Fisher

The green truck ran the red light and hit the white explorer. Then, the explorer flipped.

Michael W. Smith

The atoll was poorly explored with only about 35 fish species known previously. Including the new species we found in total about 200 species of fish.

Sasha Roiz

It's been a lot of fun from script to script to get inside the mythology of 'Grimm.' We've been given a lot of freedom to explore the mythology as well as the backstories and interpersonal connections of the characters.

Timothy Lord

That Internet Explorer does not have tabs is puzzling to me because users who try them seem to like them a lot.

Jesse Eisenberg

I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is.

Warren Spector

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

Carine Roitfeld

I'm not a Facebook girl. Even though there is a fake Facebook with my name, it's not me. I'm not on Twitter; it's not me.

Luke Nosek

I have realised more and more that great companies, founded for a long-term purpose, such as Google or Facebook or SpaceX, may do more good in the world than any other vehicle that we have.

Dennis Crowley

Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Yuri Milner

Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.

Mark Zuckerberg

When we were a smaller company, Facebook login was widely adopted, and the growth rate for it has been quite quick. But in order to get to the next level and become more ubiquitous, it needs to be trusted even more.

Mark Zuckerberg

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Mark Zuckerberg

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Adam Ereli

He is a member of the government of Iraq and an official of the government of Iraq, and there are things that are important for us to talk about with him.

Rick Jones

I have the same feeling, you know. We're taxpayers providing a service to the needy, and somebody's taking advantage, and that is wrong.

James Perkins

We wanted to respect him and that is why we are providing the appropriate honors,

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Charles Wang

We have to see the follow-through in terms of implementations and providing support for foreigners.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Todd Swindall

We're not just providing shelter, we're providing housing.

Joseph Pierce

Can I make the play, ... Am I willing to make the play?

Nathalie Sarraute

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

Nikki Sixx

Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.

Rita Mae Brown

Don't hope more than you're willing to work.

Mike Tomlin

It's not about what you're capable of, It's about what you're willing to do.

John Piper

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.