Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Tom Daschle

It again demonstrates why we have to address the infrastructure of our intelligence-gathering analysis and the actions that are taken as a result of that analysis, ... We've got a lot of work to do, and this is just the most recent reminder that we've got a problem here and it's got to be fixed and it's got to be done this year.

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Celso Amorim

Whatever the council decides on actions it wishes to take, they have to involve some kind of engagement of Iraq. You cannot put in place a system unless you talk to the people who have the system in place.

Hagrup Haukland

It is now instrumental that decisive actions are taken so that the perpetrators can be apprehended and brought to justice. Only then can an environment be created that is conducive for renewed peace talks.

Larry Jones

It is not fair to penalize the traveling public because of the actions of a few. But my first duty is to ensure the safety of the public.

Gordon Brown

It is no longer about promises of aid tomorrow, it is about signing up today to concrete actions starting now to deliver for every child in the world the chance of education.

Arthur Levine

I will consider what disciplinary actions are appropriate in this case pending the findings.

Robert Hall

There aren't any agencies that I know that can take punitive actions against the city in regard to worker safety.

Wu Bangguo

We may introduce useful regulation from western laws and should never blindly copy them.

Simon Cole

Rather than blindly insisting there is zero error in fingerprint matching, we should acknowledge the obvious, study the errors openly and find constructive ways to prevent faulty evidence from being used to convict innocent people.

John O'Hurley

I am excited that I have been chosen as the host of such a television institution.

Chris Powell

The judiciary in Connecticut has chosen to obey the laws it wants to obey, and to tell you folks you can't pass other laws. The judiciary has got to get out of the legislation business.

Ramon Leyba

There are other things he could have chosen and still make his point and still be as literate or as sarcastic.

Wake Wood

They could have chosen six or seven players for MVP. Everyone contributed.

Bryan Wiedmeier

It's always an honor to be chosen for prime time. We like being in the national spotlight.

Luke Evans

When you audition for something you do feel a little bit more legit. It's a validation that you are the right person for the job because they've chosen and they've seen you do something connected to that role.

Paul Armstrong

The difference between courses where students are forced to be there and where students have chosen to be there is like night and day.

Peter Hayes

They've chosen the appropriate time to discuss it is now,

William Perkins

It is unfortunate that with all the human needs in Mississippi right now, the gambling-political complex has chosen this unfortunate time to try to expand its influence.

Robert Shapiro

I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.

Mary Pierce

Kim has been incredible on hard courts this year.

Michael Adams

Josef Ackermann's personal integrity is not in question. He didn't see the red line that some courts have seen. But it's a squishy concept.

Kim Clijsters

I think I stayed very focused and very patient throughout the whole match, ... Even when I was 4-1 up, I was playing really well at the start. I was moving around, just from side-to-side, opening up the court a lot.

Anthony Kennedy

It involved a constitutional issue of the gravest importance decided 4-3 by a state court on a federal issue that it was our responsibility to take the case, ... Sometimes it is easy, so it seems, to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of our court.

Neal Katyal

It is a foundation of this court to test the lawfulness of military tribunals.

Rick Davis

I think the public vetting proves that this guy is the real deal ? bright, knows the issues and can leave a long-term imprint on the court because of his youth and intellect.

Harry Reid

I think the American people can see through this so clearly. The president should come forward with some middle-of-the-road person, somebody that is going to be a good Supreme Court justice, not somebody that's going to be writing the law from the bench, ... This Week.

Michael Bell

There is no hearing currently set in the federal court for a hearing to review the restraining order.

Barack Obama

I also think the media's presence simply raised the question: If the media could get to these places, why couldn't the federal government?

Vicki Arroyo

It is going to be a piecemeal approach, people are not going to know what their regulatory commitments are from one state to another. And you are then going to have different product standards in different states. It just doesn't make sense. We need a federal policy and that is what we are trying to promote.

Roy Wilson

I think we have some lessons to learn from the past week, realizing the federal government is not going to come to our rescue in the first 72 hours,

Graham Fraser

It is madness that the federal government is still spending millions on teaching middle-aged bureaucrats how to pass language tests rather than sending young, enthusiastic recruits to the public service to work in another language and culture.

Adam Kidan

I have cooperated fully with the federal investigation for the past three years because I have nothing to hide.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

Katsuhiko Kodama

Investors want to see the U.S. stock market's reaction to whatever the Federal Reserve says, which might set the tone for global high-techs for a while.

Detective McFadden

I suspect they may have been sold on eBay, and we're following up on that.

David Morris

He used to take my brother, Robert, and me on weekend trips. Maybe to Snowden to hunt, or to a trout stream he knew up near the Peaks of Otter. But when he got back, he always made sure he did something special with our sister Brenda the following weekend.

Boris Vian

Have you noticed with inflexible necessity of the me to insert itself between the sol which precedes it and the sol which follows it.

Kenneth Chenault

Many people don't focus enough on execution. If you make a commitment to get something done, you need to follow through on that commitment.

Hebrew Proverb

Happy the generation where the great listen to the small, for it follows that in such a generation the small will listen to the great

Marcus Williams

I thought we were going to win. We were in the same situation to Friday night. We just didn't follow through.

Christopher Brown

I think the judge followed the law. I know it hurt Mr. Parker, but the judge did what was fair.

Floyd Reese

Whatever the rules are, we'll follow them. I personally think it's healthier for the league to have a cap, but that's my opinion.

Doug Kramer

We try to follow the show, but nobody gets voted out. And of course, we make sure nobody is without necessities.

Gary Sheffield

I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.

Yiddish Proverbs

God will provide -- ah, if only He would till He does!

Samir Geagea

God willing we may be done with this issue before the (March 14) deadline.

Mark McNulty

Golf is a very humbling game. I just hope the golf gods will be good to me again.

Hal Sutton

God shined on us today with this good weather. He knows this is a good cause.

Henry Carey

God save our gracious king! / Long live our noble king! / God save the king!

Rabindranath Tagore

God respects me when I work, but He loves me when I sing.

Terrell Owens

God put me in the situation to go out here and still play the game. That's why I'm here.

Stephen Bennett

God offers - God offers hope to homosexuals.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I am going to run for governor of the state of California,

Margita Thompson

Our of respect for the will of the people, the governor will veto (the bill).

Bible Bible

And next unto them repaired Melatiah the Gibeonite, and Jadon the Meronothite, the men of Gibeon, and of Mizpah, unto the throne of the governor on this side the river.

Dan Leistikow

It's not for the governor to pick a number out of the air.

Matthew Dowd

It shows the public rewards leaders. If you lead and say 'this is what we want to do,' even if you don't succeed in the short run, the public will support you. The public supports infrastructure improvements and they see the governor leading.

Stephen Minarik

That hurdle is a big deal, ... This is a party that supports Governor Pataki.

Jerry Austin

It's what happens when you haven't had a governor for 16 years.

Dick Cheney

I want to do as well as the governor did.

Jeff Emerson

And Governor Riley has worked ever since then to implement it.

Julian Fellowes

I come from a class which used to be called the gentry - which is nowadays mistakenly used to include the nobility, but in fact is not. The gentry was essentially the untitled landowning class.

Ali Larijani

I want to say that the process of enrichment is the sovereign right of any country. You should not take away this right from nations which have a peaceful nuclear program, which consequently, includes also enrichment.

Bill Snyder

I told them just to include the really special runs, not the mundane ones. Well, there's over 200 snaps on there.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

'Babel' is about the point of view of others. It literally includes points of views as experienced from the other side. It is not about a hero. It is not about only one country. It is a prism that allows us to see the same reality from different angles.

LaJuana Wilcher

A program that does not include random testing is not very effective.

Elizabeth Miller

Appropriate attire does not include skin-tight capris, stilettos and shirts with necklines to the bosom.

Mike Phillips

The special session should be broadened to include more money for schools and teachers.

Russ Rader

Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models. If side airbags aren't included in a popular option package, most people won't get them.

Russ Rader

Safety should not be a luxury that only comes standard on high-end models, ... If side airbags aren't included in a popular option package, most people won't get them.

Murray Walker

You have to say what comes into your head, and sometimes the wrong words come, in the wrong order or I'd make prophecies which immediately turned out to be wrong.

Dave Foreman

He's just got to be consistent. In order to pitch in the big leagues, you've got to be consistent.

Ronda Rousey

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.

Richard M. Nixon

Sharp increases in the minimum wage rate are also inflationary. Frequently workers paid more than the minimum gauge their wages relative to it. This is especially true of those workers who are paid by the hour. An increase in the minimum therefore increases their demands for higher wages in order to maintain their place in the structure of wages. And when the increase is as sharp as it is in H.R. 7935, the result is sure to be a fresh surge of inflation. Once again, prudence dictates a more gradual increase in the wage rate, so that the economy can more easily absorb the impact.

Rian Johnson

The fanboy community can smell in an instant, like smelling fear, when something was tailor-made in order to reach them as a demographic.

Richard Ford

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an insanity, a misrule of some dire sort which can end life as we know it but for the fact that this very story is written, this order found, this style determined, the worst averted, and we are beneficiaries of that order by being readers

Richard Gere

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Rich Lowry

John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.

Roald Amundsen

Victory awaits him who has everything in order - luck, people call it.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard M. Nixon

We have been through, over these years, some difficult times. During the period that I have served as President of the United States, we have been through some difficult times together, and I can only say that the friendship that we have for this nation, the respect and the admiration we have for the people of this nation, their courage, their tenacity, their firmness in the face of very great odds, is one that makes us proud to stand with Israel, as we have in the past in times of trouble, and now to work with Israel in a better time, a time that we trust will be a time of peace.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

James Bell

You can't predict what's going to happen. We'll take it a day at a time and see what happens.

Julie Gerberding

This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.

Karen Thomas

You can never really predict who comes in or what they will need.

Christopher Reeve

I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.

T. Boone Pickens

Predictability can lead to failure.

Niels Bohr

It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.

Dick Jauron

I don't think it makes any sense for me to predict where anything's going. We all know things are not predictable.

Jackie Mason

Predictions are preposterous.

Frank Herbert

Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.

Roger Gerlach

I just thought every year you were going to go to the state tournament, as if there weren't other teams out there that also want to go.

Jim Hood

In doing so, they have defrauded the state of Mississippi,

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Estelle

I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Bruce Cutler

He is more upset about this than the case,

Ronald Reagan

One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all.

Samantha Bond

I have to be careful what I eat before going onstage, to avoid an upset stomach.

Kenny Rogers

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Leona Lewis

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Kyle Chandler

I was never upset that I did not get an Emmy. That I did get an Emmy nomination, I couldn't be happier and prouder.

Rainbow Rowell

I don't want you to go," Sam said. She was upset. "I don't want this to end like this." "You don't get to choose," Lincoln said. "It's just happening.

Joseph Murphy

The only path by which another person can upset you is through your own thought.

Joyce Meyer

Don't waste your time being upset about something you can't change. Begin again and do it better this time.