Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Kors

He needs to make an unequivocal statement that he opposes any ballot initiative that takes away the rights of gay and lesbian couples. That is unclear in his statement.

Larry Moore

Our position is that Ms. Wade has not met her burden to show that there were improper ballots that were counted here.

Bryan Williams

If there's any question to the propriety of accounting, we always have the ballots so they can be examined. That's something that doesn't exist with the touch-screen voting.

J. Murphy

I have testimony and written statements from over 185 judges of election, and lengthy lists of vote counting and ballot security problems.

Justin Trudeau

I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

Dana Doiron

The man ran in, grabbed the ballot box, then threw it under the wheels of his truck and took off ... the box was flat as a pancake.

Alan Doss

The Liberian people have made their choice through the ballot today, and we are all obliged to respect the choice made by the men and women of this nation,

David Segal

This is a gross injustice. Boca Raton is one of the best-run cities in Florida and yet our mayor and council members are the lowest-paid in the region. We should put this issue on the ballot because this is the right thing to do.

Nick Pappas

The ballot was a secret ballot for good reason and the way in which members voted should remain confidential to each and every member, except in the most extraordinary of circumstances.

Carl Tobias

He is saying as little as he needs to be confirmed and hasn't made many mistakes that trouble a majority of senators whose votes he needs.

Diane Forden

For me, one of the most important issues that needs to be addressed by Judge Roberts is the constitutional right to privacy. ... It would be very difficult for me to vote to confirm someone to the Supreme Court whom I knew would overturn Roe v. Wade .

Syd Kitson

It confirmed people are looking for a community. A safe neighborhood where there are a lot of eyes on the kids.

Dick Thompson

We can confirm that the 15-year-old girl was infected with the H5N1 avian flu virus as a result of the London testing.

Shinobu Asagoe

I thought the (seventh) game was finished and when I askedthe umpire, she confirmed it, ... Then they started counting the points and nobody could rememberthe third one, so in the end it looked like it was all my fault.

Phil Garner

He'll go back there just to confirm this is a tweak.

Kevin Gould

CMBX has been designed to provide investors with an efficient means to gain diversified exposure to the U.S. CMBS market. The standardized nature of the index, coupled with the fact that trades can be confirmed through DTCC, will pave the way for a liquid and operationally efficient market.

Tsutomu Takebe

I heard a parliamentary officer contacted my son and confirmed there was no such fact.

Edward Kennedy

I hope I am proven wrong about John Roberts. I have been proven wrong before on my confirmation votes. I regret my vote to confirm Justice Scalia, even though he, too, like Judge Roberts was a nice person and a very smart Harvard lawyer.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

Ahmed Nazif

If there are demonstrations, they will be sabotaging the elections,

Gerald Barzan

You don't have to fool all the people all of the time; you just have to fool enough to get elected.

Jon Corzine

It's disappointing where the race went in the last week, ... Elections are about the future and that's what I'm going to stay talking about for the next three days.

Chamlong Srimuang

I want to reaffirm that after the election, we will stage protracted protests until the prime minister resigns.

Steven Boylan

Nothing has been announced. We still have to get over the elections and see what happens then and what the (new) government of Iraq wants,

Tom Rath

It's March, and there are congressional elections in November, and at some point it's every person for himself.

Jeff Flake

It's more than likely there will be leadership elections in January. We don't want to go into an election year without a permanent majority leader.

Norm Dicks

It's going to be a 2006 elections issue.

Alice Lowe

I was in something called 'Garth Marenghi's Darkplace' which was a real cult comedy; it's sort of a spoof horror sort of thing, and it only ever had one series, but I liked the fact that it only had one series because it's kind of got this little gemlike quality to it that there were only ever six episodes.

Smush Parker

Kobe is always a factor in the game. I don't think Golden State stopped him from scoring the ball. He just got other guys involved in the offense. It was a game Kobe didn't have to force the game until late.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques agonized over it. Not so much in a financial way, but it increased our recognition factor - it's become a hook for us.

Robert Sarver

I would say it did surprise me. When I heard Toronto was interested in talking to him, that didn't surprise me. The fact that he wanted to pursue it surprised me.

Michelle Reinig

Just the fact that you're on land, and you know there's somebody out there and you can't do anything.

Rejean Beauchemin

Just the fact that we?re playing this well right now with what we have, it?s really exciting. Hopefully we keep getting better and keep riding it into the playoffs.

Jane Harman

Just the fact that the Iranian government is making a lot of noise doesn't prove their capabilities.

Orlando Cabrera

Just the fact that I didn't sign back with the team, you can tell from there that I don't like the situation.

Joe Torre

Just the fact that he was able to throw from the mound probably tells us it's not anything serious.

Tucker Carlson

I wouldn't say I'm happy now. My skepticism is warranted, given what I've seen over the decades.

Muhammad Yunus

I had no idea that I would ever get involved with something like lending money to poor people, given the circumstances in which I was working in Bangladesh.

James Salter

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

Jerry Stracke

We're pretty balanced. I think that is what has gotten us this far. We have different players that can step up on any given day. It makes it hard for other teams to play us because we are so balanced.

David Bennett

We think he can. I hope we wouldn't have given him a scholarship if we don't think he can. He's a talented young man. He's got a lot of grit to him. He's a little fighter.

James T. Walsh

We think given what they know now they have sufficient money to get through the year.

Casey Long

We took every shot that was given to us. If it was open, it had to go in. That's the way we felt. We'd worked too hard for it not to.

Bill Doba

We've given up some yards and we've got to get that locked in.

Charles Kupchella

We've given them a resolution, ... The only way I can understand it is that they are saying to Spirit Lake 'are you sure you want to do that?'

Richard Paul Evans

A man's worth isn't measured by a bank register or diploma... It's about integrity

Tyler Perry

God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.

Sarah Brightman

People have said there is an integrity about me, and I think there is. I don't try to follow a trend. I have my own little path.

William Ellery Channing

Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates. Consider what is right as to what must be done. It is not necessary that you should keep your property, or even your life, but it is necessary that you should hold fast your integrity.

Red Auerbach

To be a successful coach you should be and look prepared. You must be a man of integrity. Never break your word. Don't have two sets of standards. Remember you don't handle players-you handle pets. You deal with players. Stand up for your players. Show them you care-on and off the court. Very important-it's not 'how' or 'what' you say but what they absorb.

Rebel Wilson

Work hard to achieve integrity in your work and your relationships with the people you work with.

Richard Carmona

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

Trevor Nunn

If you feel very deeply about something, it's not possible to sacrifice your integrity about that.

Trevor Nunn

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

Charles Moore

In the same way that it's multiple sources, it's multiple solutions.

John Irving

I have a very poor record at multiple choice questions.

Demetri Martin

When I am given a multiple choice test I choose not to take it.

Kim Maher

(Mitchell) is very athletic, so she can play multiple positions. She swings a powerful bat.

Lamar Alexander

We don't have a president who is our agenda-setter, so we have multiple voices on every issue.

Raymond Seed

You have multiple agencies, some of which aren't on speaking terms with each other.

Larry Rockwell

There are 101 uses for duct tape and multiple uses for plastic sheeting.

Diaa Rashwan

Here in Egypt, his name doesn't represent anything for us.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion.

Rick James

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

Raymond Chandler

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Virchand Gandhi

All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.

Woody Allen

Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around.

Woody Allen

There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.

William Whewell

We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.]

William Wordsworth

Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

David Goldberg

Lasers are very much like computers. They don't like to get bounced around. And a rental laser is in a van going from doctor's office to doctor's office every day.

Richard M. Nixon

Why would anyone want to be President today? The answer is not one of glory, or fame; today the burdens of the office outweigh its privileges. Its not because the Presidency offers a chance to be somebody, but because it offers a chance to do something.

Wallace Stevens

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

Warren Beatty

I was friends with President Ronald Reagan and he once said to me, 'I don't know how anybody can serve in public office without being an actor.

Wernher von Braun

Get me a broom. I'll sweep my own office.

Sally Ride

One thing I probably share with everyone else in the astronaut office is composure.

Wanda Sykes

To me, political office should be like jury duty. You should just get a notice in mail one day and be like, I'm Secretary of State next month!

Steve Womack

At the end of the day, there's not an office complex anywhere on these grounds that I wouldn't be honored to have as a sitting member of Congress.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Darian Townes

We've got to protect our home, and we let this one get away. It's very disappointing.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Richard Louv

We cannot protect something we do not love, we cannot love what we do not know, and we cannot know what we do not see. Or hear. Or sense.

Tricia Primrose

In the standardization of e-mail, one of the unforeseen offshoots was spam (junk e-mail). Let's make sure we don't rush to put in place a standard that doesn't protect consumers.

Steve Young

I just throw that brace on there, it's supposed to protect the knee. I just feel that the little brace, when I put it on, it's impenetrable.

Jacob Lawrence

I have an assuredness of myself. I never protect myself against it.

John Abizaid

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

Ron Harris

Then I think BYU could say they have done all they can to protect their students.

Ronald Hill

When you research companies, they now have a statement on Y2K compliance, which they are required to give you,

Marilyn Moon

We are not in a situation where we are required by desperation to make structural changes.

Fred G. Gosman

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

Crystal Merillat

He had to go sign up. There was no stopping him then.

Theo Holtwijk

In concept, I'm willing to sign off on it.

Adam Fritz

Their absences are excused with a signed form.

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Eric Alterman

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

Joe Hurwitz

There was a sign that said, 'Church for sale' and some of the parishioners were upset.

Grant Thomas

Once he's signed off he's able to play and I take that as if he's able to play anywhere.

Margot Asquith

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Kazimir Malevich

To the Suprematist the visual phenomena of the objective world are, in themselves, meaningless; the significant thing is feeling, as such, quite apart from the environment in which it is called forth.

James Joyce

Signatures of all things I am here to read.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Riccardo Muti

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Sarah McLachlan

I didn't get hugely famous really quick. It was a slow, gradual process, so I was able to sort of grow into myself and figure out who I was and what I wanted without the glaring spotlight on me telling me who I was.

Vincent Cassel

I always had the sense of being in the spotlight, being on stage, being looked at.

Nelson Mandela

It is your duty to examine the conduct of public figures and to place them in the spotlight - that is your duty.

Marion Cotillard

It's pretty refreshing to be in a situation where the spotlight is on someone else.

Grady Sizemore

That's what you play for. You play all year in a lot of games. This is the spot you play for.

Grady Sizemore

That's what you play for. You play all year, a lot of games. This is the spot you play for. We know what we can do. We know what we have to do every day. We just worry about ourselves.

Bob Bathalon

The only trouble spot is parking, and we are working on that.