Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Washington

If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led like sheep to the slaughter.

Tristram Stuart

Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do - but it's alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don't keep track of the food we've spent our money on.

Kelly Miller

Taxes are increasing at an alarming rate for our citizens. You look at your surrounding jurisdictions and see what they're trying to do and have done for their people. We should do no less.

David Schofield

It's an alarming trend to see two and we're basically in the middle of whale season.

Andy Alexander

An alarming amount of public information is being kept secret from citizens, and the problem is increasing by the month. Not only do citizens have a right to know, they have a need to know.

Neil Higgs

An alarming 41% of those who say there are many good reasons to vote in the elections also feel that there are many good reasons why they do not feel like voting.

Donna Kane

As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and help reduce the alarming statistics among Hispanics related to automobile fatalities,

Lucy Sharratt

Australia's brazen move confirms that an alarming government-industry strategy is in play to overturn the UN moratorium on Terminator. The process and outcome dismiss the contributions of Indigenous and local communities.

Herbert Meade

The situation is not an alarming one. It is a concern that we have a constituent in the groundwater that should not be there, but we don't see this as a large-spread contamination. We believe it is in a small area that we're able to control and do corrective action.

Dennis Patterson

It apparently was a similar type deal. They operated the same pitch, the same approach, no matter the government level.

Tony Blair

Having read in the papers that apparently I was warned of the chaos that was going to ensue in Iraq, I actually got the minute Jack sent me. It didn't do anything of the sort,

Alan Feldman

Here we watch it minute by minute. When you force it underground, anything is possible. Apparently that's a risk the NCAA is willing to take.

Chris Rankin

What is believed at this point, based on information obtained after the accident, is that she had a flat tire, and she apparently stopped the car in the traffic lane, ... From the preliminary investigation, we believe she stopped in the northbound lane and she had her hazard lights on.

Mark Valley

I did the voice of Cyclops on 'Shrek the Third'. I don't know how I got that. They said they wanted a Michael Chiklis type, and apparently it came down to me and Michael Chiklis, so how they gave it to me, I don't know.

Meaghan Jette Martin

I am good at baking. I don't know if that counts as a talent, but I love to bake. Everybody says I'm good at it, so apparently I make the best banana bread.

Bill Sullivan

In our judgment, this pattern could be another exhibition of household balance sheet stress, as the shift would seem to suggest that a relatively small rise in 30-year rates apparently excludes a significant number of prospective home buyers from qualifying for mortgage credit.

Ryan Baker

I noticed nothing was tampered with. All my gas was apparently there from the night before.

Juan Mendez

In one of them, the attackers went in on horseback, and in the other one apparently trucks of the Sudanese army.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Colin Greenwood

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Dennis Quaid

I didn't want to throw like an actress.

Geri Halliwell

I didn't want to leave the Spice Girls and immediately have a record on the back of that fame, so I waited to find out who I am and what I want.

Joseph Fiennes

I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about them and has got me onto them.

Claire Bloom

I don't enjoy the life of an actress, but I don't want to go into that.

Sarah Sutton

I'd like to write a novel more than anything. I'm reading Tess of the D'Urbervilles at the moment, which is depressing me no end!

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Cesar Conda

Josh will be a policy-oriented chief of staff. I think that will be reflected in his hiring decisions.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Matthew Szulik

Hal is an talented chief financial officer who has made valuable contributions to the company, and we wish him well in the future,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Peter DeLorenzo

Heroic in scale and impact, the Super Chief was what concepts should be all about: 'blue sky' thinking combined with an unmistakable foundation in reality. Take a long look at that front end, pickup fans, because that's what the next generation of the F-150 is going to look like.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Zainab Salbi

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Kenneth Chenault

My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Bob Hunter

Hockey is steeped in our city's history and is a common touch point for Torontonians. It's time that Toronto hosted the world juniors. We know Torontonians will embrace this championship tournament, which will leave a lasting legacy for our world-class city.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Mick Leary

We've given Craig the courtesy of talking to him at a later date.

Saint Basil

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Samuel Johnson

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Dan Washburn

This is just a courtesy because we were invited. We have no reason to move the regional.

Michel Alaby

It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man.

Oliver Lozano

They locked me out from the meeting. They did not even give me that courtesy to inform me whether I was invited or not. They made me wait.

Frank Rogers

At this point the courtesy ride ended. Makes you wonder what some people are thinking.

Fat Joe

I feel so safe tonight with all of this police protection courtesy of G-Unit,

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

John McDonnell

He didn't go home for spring break. We told him he had to get in shape and get his weight down. He's looking much better.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Eric Burns

Her opinion is that the people who got us in this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it.

Ray Nagin

I think it's going to send a wonderful message to the world that New Orleans is on the road to recovery.

Terry Wood

We try to get the message out there that the ongoing support of our organization is essential,

Russ Adams

I was just tired of messing with my hair.

Shirley Eaton

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

Susan Collins

He was unambiguous in his message to us,

Ryan Church

He doesn't really go back in the past. All he's about is now and getting us ready to play. He can be fiery. He can get after you if you mess up and let you know about it.

Richard Dawkins

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

Richard C. Armitage

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

Kathleen Carroll

While it's true that power is being restored and schools are being painted and progress is being made

Blake Anderson

I just bought a Jeep painted like an American flag. No one better question how patriotic I am.

Enrique Salem

It complements what we already have in our portfolio and makes it so we don't have to provide signatures to this technology.

Rick Danko

Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Richard Carroll

Chimps are portrayed as the super-ape and gorillas are the big brutes in the forest.

Mark Brunell

I'm not thinking about my portfolio in the huddle,

Mario Gabelli

Always keep your portfolio and your risk at your own individual comfortable sleeping point.

Hugh Johnson

It's not the stocks you pick, it's the structure of your portfolio that counts,

Don Cornelius

Blacks on prime-time TV are only portrayed as comedians - and often in no better a light than 'Amos & Andy.'

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Wavy Gravy

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

Chuck Close

Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

George Eliot

Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering.