Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matt Ridley

I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal.

Larry Sabato

I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.

Lyndon Johnson

I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president,

Rob Kardashian

I've been surrounded by women my whole life, so obviously I love fashion... But I'd like to do my own thing and focus on what I love. If people accept it, they accept it. If they don't, they don't.

Wayne LaPierre

I've come to believe he (Clinton) needs a certain level of violence in this country. He is willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda. The vice president, too. How else can you explain this dishonesty we get out of the administration?

Walter Mondale

I understand that by a close vote, you have nominated me to run for the U.S. Senate, and I want you to know I gladly accept the nomination,

Bob DuPuy

I urge the City to accept this compromise. We all have worked long and hard and it's time to give the Nationals a new stadium and a strong future by bringing this matter to a successful close.

Lusia Strus

I used to say yes to everything. Now I have to be excited about a script before I accept a role. I've been able to let a lot of things go-like worrying-in a good way. I wish I learned that 'wear-it-like-a-loose-garment' attitude earlier.

Phil DeMeulenaere

I used to be opposed to the racing, but when you see how dearly these dogs love to run, you accept it.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Gregory Rowland

We weren't sure she would make it, but at least we could name her. We chose 'Faith' because we felt it was our faith in God that allowed us to get pregnant in the first place, and the disorder was in God's hands.

Greg Andrews

We weren't sure if he was going to play, but we had a plan for him if he showed up. We'd have a player shadow him the whole game. But since he wasn't there, it allowed us to go into it the same way we usually do.

Bobby Johnson

We were ready to kick, and they had their regular return team on the field, ... They were allowed to substitute their whole team before we were allowed to kick. That's why I was upset.

Josh Jenkins

We were ready for them (FC). We made a few mistakes on defense and allowed them to score once, but we had a good game, a very good game.

Richard Buchanan

What's understood is that the newspapers are allowed into the building to take photos for news purposes. We are more than happy to have them take pictures. It's good for us and it's good for them.

Mike Black

We have to do a better job of closing out a game. Our inability to hit free throws in the late stages almost allowed them (Averill Park) to slip back in.

Jack Straw

We will take stock of our next steps after the Israeli elections and intend to have a further meeting as soon as the Palestinian delegates are allowed to travel,

Bill Cowher

We went back to the pure basics, with the mindset that has allowed us to get to this point. We can't change that now.

Dick Cheney

A senator can be wrong for 20 years without consequence to the nation, ... But a president, a president, always casts the deciding vote. And in this time of challenge, America needs -- and America has -- a president we can count on to get it right.

Caroline Levy

North America volumes were below our estimate, but pricing was strong.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Edward Snowden

After 9/11, many of the most important news outlets in America abdicated their role as a check to power - the journalistic responsibility to challenge the excesses of government - for fear of being seen as unpatriotic and punished in the market during a period of heightened nationalism.

John Prendergast

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

Seth Godin

The most popular TV show in America is a game show, ... People have been playing our games for years and are playing more and more games. The relationship they build is similar to a magazine that has a subscription base or a newspaper with home delivery customers.

Simon Winchester

A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906.

Gary Orfield

Suburban America has no idea about this crisis. But we are all going to pay for it in the end.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Some European countries and America are using the Security Council as a threat. They threaten us so that we give up our rights,

Joe Crede

During the fifth inning, that was not a playable surface.

Colin Edwards

It?s not front row, but it?s not the fifth row.

Robby Gordon

No. Let's race to win every race. If we can't win, let's take a fifth or 10th or 12th-place finish or whatever it may be. But let's go to try and win every race.

Rabbi Zell

They took leave of us doing what they loved. They took leave of us traveling.

Chris Powell

When 150,000 people leave at once, it's a challenge.

Rick Riordan

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job.

Ricardo Garcia

We don't want to leave because then we won't even get the bodies.

Donald Trump

I have a very, very great balance sheet, so great that when I did the Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, the United States government, because of my balance sheet, which they actually know very well, chose me to do the Old Post Office, between the White House and Congress, chose me to do the Old Post Office.

Alice Schwarzer

For the first time a woman is campaigning for the office of chancellor. And that is not supposed to play a role for us women?

Ella Baker

After the '57 initial meeting - I was up this way working, not as a staff person - there became the need for a much more definite organized office. What you'd had prior to that time were these big meetings in different places, and there was nobody to pull anything together. Everything was left to [Martin Luther] King and the group that was around him.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

Wallace Stevens

I certainly do not exist from nine to six, when I am at the office.

Mikhail Prokhorov

My love affairs are just between my office and gym.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat.

Jose Marti

He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.

Jay Zagorsky

You can?t go to work if you are in a lawyer?s office.

Willie Smith

If the students see it as something they can put to use, then they are interested.

Kenny G

I don't go to clubs. I don't know what club mixes are supposed to sound like.

Frank Gehry

We want that center, we yearn for it, we need it. It shouldn't look like New York or Paris, it should look like us.

Bobby Womack

I started with Sam Cooke when I was 6 or 7 years old.

Bobby Scott

Each year over 2,500 commercial vessels enter the Port of Hampton Roads alone, so adequate funding for port security is a significant issue for those of us who live in Richmond and Hampton Roads.

Bobby Sherman

In the last 5 years I've been working with the LAPD, training police officers in first aid and CPR.

Bobby Knight

At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

Charles Spurgeon

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

Denis Hayes

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent of its energy from solar resources.

Britt Ekland

I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.

Ben Hecht

For many years Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.