Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack VanDerhei

I would say that a huge percentage of them who don't already have automatic enrollment would adopt it overnight.

Howard Dean

John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George Bush's position because George Bush adopted John Kerry's position after John Kerry won the primaries.

Anne Hendricks

I think it is important for businesses and industry to adopt anything that is environmentally friendly. We all live on this planet.

Joe Laszlo

It certainly has not been adoption at the rate that some companies in the industry, some of the early entrants among the broadband providers, were expecting.

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Jason Taylor

He did his time and paid the price that he had to pay for what he did and he is back. From Day 1, we've adopted him as back in the family, and everything is fine. ... Hopefully he can help us get some victories.

Josh King

Greenwood for a long time has wanted to compare itself to Carmel. But I gotta say that Greenwood has fallen behind. I would very much like to see Greenwood adopt the kind of image that Carmel has.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Al Gillen

There is a huge installed base of customers (over 400 million) using Windows XP, and Microsoft would gain nothing by causing pain or concern among those customers to somehow manipulate their adoption plans for Windows Vista.

Lee H. Hamilton

He certainly has kept his agenda in front of us,

Shakira

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

Howard Dean

Hard-working Americans will see through this President's effort to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Jim Brandt

It is a highly focused agenda on storm recovery issues, as well as seeking the budget she wants.

Bill Ritter

It is not any part of my agenda to change the law. My agenda is to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies.

Shaul Mofaz

It is not on the agenda at the moment. We still have room for maneuver and for other activities.

Mike Fennell

It is not on our agenda at all.

J. J. Johnson

I think the administration has an agenda to keep themselves in power.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Victor Navasky

Kennedy used him to mediate on civil rights issues. Ramsey is seen these days as a very polarizing force. But, in fact, one of his talents is mediation and reconciliation.

Lawrence Wilkerson

Katrina gives us no confidence, ... I am 10 times more worried about what happens to civil liberties after that attack.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Americans in the Civil War period were very interested in Heaven and what it might be like, because they were having to face the fact that many of their loved ones were gone and many of their loved ones, they hoped, were in this other realm called Heaven.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.

Drew Gilpin Faust

Before the Civil War, there were no national cemeteries, no processes for identifying the dead in the battle. There weren't any dog tags, and there was no next-of-kin notification. You didn't necessarily even hear what the fate of your loved ones had been. It was up to their comrades to write and inform you.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

Xiao Yang

To date, China's criminal, civil and administrative procedure laws have combined to form a relatively comprehensive system.

Kenneth Pollack

Having a good constitution is far more important than having an immediate constitution.

Su Chi

He knows that the constitution will not pass the Legislative Yuan.

George William Norris

The constitution ought to specifically state that every nation is left entirely independent and supreme in its internal affairs, such as regulating emigration and all other similar matters.

Corrine Brown

Historically, amendments to the Constitution have been utilized as a tool to protect or defend the rights and liberties of American citizens.

Taku Yamasaki

Today, a major step was taken toward the revision of the constitution.

John H. Reagan

I clung steadfastly to the hope that the democratic party would maintain its nationality and preserve the Constitution and the Union.

Francis Escudero

Peaceful protests are guaranteed by the constitution, rallies should not be prohibited.

Mike Malone

Part of the Constitution is the First Amendment, ... We have the right to disagree with the government.

Joe Wilson

I pledged 27 years ago when I first went overseas to defend the Constitution of the United States. I've done so throughout my career.

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.

Jack Wyant

I think it'll be nice because we get the courts all to ourselves. It's our show.

Jose Vivanco

Whatever the ruling party?s intentions, this reform will increase the vulnerability of Argentina?s courts to political pressure. It's a big disappointment given all that this government has done to restore the credibility of Argentine justice and strengthen the rule of law.

Edward Markey

I think we should be able to resolve this more peaceably. It's in the federal courts now and hopefully will be resolved in the near future,

Adam Barrett

I think we all feel better going into the tournament, including me. We know the layout of the Dome. We understand that the courts and the backboards are different. It's a different environment, but we've been there, so we understand that.

Gary Wagher

In the '80s, the water would seep up through the cracks when it warmed up and the courts would be slick. Plus, they sloped the courts from the east to the west instead of putting a slight grade on each side so that it would slop either direction. That didn't help with the drainage.

John Blackburn

Instead of going all the way to Alabama, Murray was kind enough to give us some neutral courts so we could meet Jacksonville and Samford half-way.

Matthew Myers

In this case, the courts are going to find that the FDA is right,

Dennis Miller

Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on.

Sigi Schmid

Joel is a versatile defender who was here for our mini-camp in November. He can play centrally or on the right and is a young player with great potential.

Willie Savannah

Juan has been wanting to fight. If it was up to him, he would have defended his title three or four times in the past year instead of once.

Jeff Zucker

He didn't know if the man would back up and try and run him over, or whether he had a weapon, so he defended himself and hit the gentleman two times. Unfortunately, they were fatal blows.

Alan Cook

He likes to dribble a lot, ... so I told our defenders to just stay on his back, don't let him turn. Make him play the drop ball, and they did a good job of doing that.

Dick Morris

her right foot is nailed to the floor in having to defend the Iraq war.

Andrew Park

It is great that I can go to a place where I can walk on the same ground of somebody that defended our country,

Mark Johnson

I was disappointed about the way we wrestled today. We had five guys in the finals and didn't get it done. We seemed to be satisfied with qualifying for nationals and not defending our title.

Norman Ornstein

There is extreme nervousness about November. The last thing that members want is to be out there in a tough campaign, where the wind is at your face, defending the indefensible.

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.

Alex Jones

I know this, the Federal Reserve is private and the I.R.S. is screwing us.

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.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

Adam Kidan

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

Robert Taylor

I don't know what they think going federal is going to do for the local people. It's actually going to do nothing.

John Dwyer

I'd be happy to have the federal government join us in the prosecution.

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Tomas Kaberle

I talked to Jeff right away between periods. Thank God it got his helmet first.

Terry Gilliam

He didn't do anything to become president!, ... Well, thank God for Karl and Dick.

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.

Prince Abdullah

God willing, after that, this group will not be able to stand up again,

Tom Ardizone

God was there. He had his hands all over this and he was able to protect -- to protect my family, to protect my boys, to protect me.

Bertrand Russell

The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power

Richard P. Feynman

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

William Whewell

According to the technical language of old writers, a thing and its qualities are described as subject and attributes; and thus a man's faculties and acts are attributes of which he is the subject. The mind is the subject in which ideas inhere. Moreover, the man's faculties and acts are employed upon external objects; and from objects all his sensations arise. Hence the part of a man's knowledge which belongs to his own mind, is subjective: that which flows in upon him from the world external to him, is objective.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Richard Francis Burton

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object.

Samuel Johnson

Every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.

William Blake

The true method of knowledge is experiment.

Werner Heisenberg

The conception of objective reality ... has thus evaporated ... into the transparent clarity of mathematics that represents no longer the behavior of particles but rather our knowledge of this behavior.

Duncan Hunter

I think it shows they were trying to save American lives when they did that. Unfortunately, those pictures were released.

Jack Miller

He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.

Adriano Moraes

Rob is a legend. He's been saving lives for 30 years and never missed a season.

Bob Denver

Our lives will never be the same without him,

Tracie Beasley

Our lives are so full. For people to get outdoors and recreate is so important.

Courtney Anderson

I like to know what's going on in everyone's lives and how I can relate to them.

Steve Watson

I look at people who aren't doing something with their lives and I have pity on them. It's pathetic if you're not doing something with your life. I want people to do stuff with their lives.

John Ortberg

I know that those of us who go into church work are to regard ourselves as servants, are to offer our lives as a gift.

Craig Anderson

Their roles were especially challenging because they had to play Sara and Yvonne in three stages of their lives - in their 20s, 30s and 60s.

Cillian Murphy

He needs the girl. It's that simple. There's no question of morality for him.

Tullian Tchividjian

Moralism doesn't produce morality; it produces immorality.

Vincent Van Gogh

Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.

Joseph Addison

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

Joseph Addison

I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality.

James Anthony Froude

The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.

James Anthony Froude

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.

Mahatma Gandhi

Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints.

Emmy Rossum

I loved getting to investigate the grey areas of morality.

Norm Brunswig

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

Alexandra Picavet

We're not going to go fast. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.

Carlos Parreira

We want to preserve his health. He's not being dropped.

David Gross

reaffirmed the role of technology to the world and preserved the unique role of the U.S.

Derek Jarman

The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Robert Mugabe

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Joan Lunden

Remove failure as an option.

Terry Greene

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

Patti Smith

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

Li Deshui

Through the survey, we are able to remove the 'water' from the statistics of the manufacturing sector, in particular, from small-sized enterprises.

Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Westbrook Pegler

Did I say "republic?" By God, yes, I said "republic!" Long live the glorious republic of the United States of America. Damn democracy. It is a fraudulent term used, often by ignorant persons but no less often by intellectual fakers, to describe an infamous mixture of socialism, graft, confiscation of property and denial of personal rights to individuals whose virtuous principles make them offensive.

Robert Dale Owen

And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.