Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arlen Specter

It naturally raises cynicism when you have so many 5-4 decisions from our Supreme Court and 4-3 decisions out of the Florida Supreme Court and that is not healthy, ... But our republic will survive.

Tim Henman

At least I know that it's still possible for me to do well even if my time on the practice court needs to be limited,

Corey Parker

We definitely feel a lot better having him out there. I felt we played real good as a team and emotional-wise it was a big lift having him on the court again.

Brian Dartt

We definitely want to use the whole court and pressure you full court. Basically, we want to pressure the ball. If we can do that for four quarters, we're going to get a four- or six-point run late in the game.

Janet Reno

We are pleased that the court has sustained our judgment that Elian should be reunited with his father, ... The court's decision reaffirms our position that only Elian's father can speak for his son on federal immigration matters.

Mike Thornton

We're a team that likes to move, and I think the tight 2-3 was like a fence out there. They had everything jammed up inside and our dribble penetration wasn't working. We like to be able to get up and down the court and we weren't able to do that.

Gil Garcetti

The proponents of Proposition 22 say that (it) doesn't deny hospital visitation or inheritance rights for lesbians and gays, ... But in Florida and Virginia, arch-conservative legal organizations have used similar laws as tools in court to deny lesbians and gays fundamental rights -- like the right to visit a sick or injured partner in the hospital, the right to inheritance, or the right to health insurance.

John Cummings

We have known, as the trust has known and the court has known all along, that the day would come when the trust would monetize its investment in Johns Manville and diversify its portfolio.

Bobby Bayliss

We've kind of done a full court press as far as our doubles lately, evaluating where we are, and we're not worried as much about the combinations. It's about everyone developing better skills.

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Sathya Baba

It is very appropriate to infer that the Veda was given to the world only by persons endowed with all powers.

Virat Kohli

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

Shirley MacLaine

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

Neill Blomkamp

I still really love the world and the universe and the mythology of 'Halo.' If I was given control, I would really like to do that film. But that's the problem. When something pre-exists, there's this idea of my own interpretation versus 150 other people involved with the film's interpretation of the same intellectual property.

Ed Orgeron

We didn't play well on the corners, and their receivers made plays we hadn't given up most of the year.

Oscar Wilde

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Atom Egoyan

unwarranted response given the story it's telling and the way it needed to be told.

Mary Manin Morrissey

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

Steve Jones

You can see it won't be very long at all before they're turning a house into a home.

Christine Peters

This is our house now. And we're moving past it.

Frank Brown

This is a house that could have been demolished. We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

Frank Brown

This is a house that could have been demolished, ... We take pride in saving a piece of Pittsburgh's architectural history.

Gao Zhisheng

They were worried that I was going to try to go to Zhao's house to pay my respects and they increased security outside my house from 20 to 40 agents.

Jerry Putnam

They let people sign up. We've yet to see an offer of a house or trailer. As I understand it, they don't have any space.

Johnny Jessop

They won't let you come in the house because you'll desecrate it. They'd have to rededicate the house.

Arlen Specter

It simply wasn't possible to accommodate the schedule that the White House wanted.

Martha Babson

I've known my house was under the threat of being taken. I'm not selling because I want to. I'm selling because I have to.

David Miller

The performance of the stock is going to come down to the movies. It's that simple. And there are no sequels in store for next year.

Carolina Kluft

Everything I do is geared towards improving my next performance.

Ben Horowitz

You can't worry about the mistakes, because you're going to make a lot of them. You've got to be thinking about your next move.

Ted Bahhur

We have to come back next week with a vengeance.

Elizabeth McGovern

Whenever I work on anything, there's always the fantasy that what one is doing is the next 'Citizen Kane'-slash-'Sopranos.'

Alex Wheeler

We're not out of the woods yet. It will be an interesting next six months.

Jason Schrotberger

We think the fundamentals are just phenomenal. For the next 6 months, they've got the wind at their backs.

Kris Draper

Why are you sitting next to me? Get out of here.

Elizabeth Porter

This time next week, we'll be up in the air.

Stana Katic

I don't believe in weak women, I believe women in general are pretty powerful beings. I don't know anything else.

Stanley Milgram

I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

Tamora Pierce

Indeed Not. Stop kicking me, Daine. You understand, she is very important to a number of powerful nobles and mages in Tortall." Numair's voice was quiet, almost friendly; his eyes were hard. "Their majesties. Lady Alanna and her husband, the baron of Pirate's Swoop. Me. All of us would take iit amiss if we thought for a moment she was being trifled with, particularly by a young man who wasn't free to do the right thing by her." "Numair," Daine growled. "Can I speak to you privately for a moment? "No. Stepping on my foot won't work either. Do I make myself clear, Prince Kaddar?

Tacitus

Legions and fleets are not such sure bulwarks of imperial power as a numerous family

Tacitus

Power acquired by guilt was never used for a good purpose. [Lat., Imperium flagitio acquisitum nemo unquam bonis artibus exercuit.]

Tacitus

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]

Sylvia Plath

I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.

Sylvia Plath

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.

Swami Vivekananda

The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils.