Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Falk

I would think at this point that everyone in the legislature would want to stand up and say that we abide by the notion that courts decide questions of constitutional law. And I note from the resolution that they are not in any way arguing that they should disobey the court. But I think at this point we need to sit back and let the courts decide the case.

Jack Straw

have worked very hard for two years to resolve this difficult issue. The only way to resolve it is diplomatically. But the Iranian president has offered nothing in this speech to suggest that he wants to abide by the agreement Iran has made.

Orrin Hatch

He's going to have to abide by the canons of judicial ethics, which basically state you never discuss things which might come up before your court in the future, ... no matter how much they badger him or say they aren't going to vote for him.

Bob Day

I was astonished that five council people would put their opinions above the 7,000 people who voted to have two-year terms starting in 2004, ... As mayor, I'll abide by the decision of the council, but I am also a private citizen and a constituent of John Garner, and I will defend my right to vote in May 2006.

John Hackett

It is not an issue about people, but about policy. By enforcing the laws for some people and allowing others not to abide by them, it leads to hate.

Ronnie Mamoepa

It is not South Africa's decision. Whatever decision will be made will be continental in nature and we will abide by it.

Mary Harris Jones

I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

Scott Thomas

Hurricane Katrina, the Mother Earthers say, is the result of the failed environmental policies of the Bush administration. This disaster is because the United States has not agreed to abide by the Kyoto Treaty protocols. According to those who worship the spinning dirt at the altar of Kyoto, their god, the environment, has exacted justice through Hurricane Katrina.

Khaled Mashaal

Resistance is a legitimate right that we will practice and protect. Our presence in the legislature will strengthen the resistance. If people raised the issue of targeting civilians, we said and we say that when our enemy stops targeting civilians we will abide by that.

Li Hongzhi

It is forbidden, and these people will be punished according to the law,

Stephen Wren

What is a patent troll? According to some, a patent troll is a firm who licenses patents they do not themselves commercialize. Yet, many of the large firms who are most critical of the practice do it themselves.

Mikel Olaciregui

We make festivals according to the films that are out there now. We've tried to do a balanced selection of interesting films responding to a great variety of tastes.

Robert Maire

Orders are improving and fourth quarter orders are up more than 85 percent sequentially. According to management, order timing should continue to improve and revenue levels for global sales are expected to increase for the fourth quarter.

Nathan Brookwood

In the case of Japan, there was smoke and there was fire, at least according to the FTC there, and we'll see what happens to the Korean one.

Toshihiko Fukui

Interest rates will stay at zero for a while, then move to extremely low levels before being adjusted according to economic conditions.

Philip Larkin

In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love. / To some it means the difference they could make / By loving others, but across most it sweeps / As all they might have done had they been loved. / That nothing cures.

James Devlin

In a company of 50,000 employees, it is a great honor to receive this distinction. Five years ago, Waste Management implemented an exciting new customer service program that operates according to the premise that perfect service can be achieved through effective employee education and communication. This initiative is called Service Machine and relies on effective tracking, timely review, analysis and ongoing coaching to ensure that these standards are consistently achieved. This group of men and women consistently lead the way, from financial performance to collection productivity improvements to growing the company's revenue.

John Thune

If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.

James Loeb

I was also encouraged by the opinion of several experienced publishers, who agreed that the time is ripe for the execution of such a project.

Pete Domenici

Jack Lew (President Bill Clinton's budget director) and I just made the deal, ... ... The budget bill has been agreed to.

Sven Eriksson

I talked to the Swedish coach before the draw and we agreed we did not want to meet at this World Cup. But overall we are happy with the draw, its not easy but it could have been worse.

Gina McCarthy

It actually meets a standard agreed to by New York, Connecticut and the EPA that doesn't need to be in place until 2014.

Mike Long

I talked to pros like Shaw Grigsby and Roland Martin after John won that year, and they all agreed that it probably was the first time a guy who fished in his first pro tournament ever won over $100,000 at it. I wasn't surprised John won at Mead, though, because he always fishes well there. We always say it's tougher to fish in San Diego tournaments because you end up fishing the clock, people and in such a small area of fish that we're lucky to get our spots. At Mead, unless someone is following you, you get big parts of the lake to yourself.

Walter Dellinger

has agreed to an extension of the terms of her home confinement until August 31.

Sergey Lavrov

There is no collectively discussed and agreed strategy of what we all will be doing in the Security Council if the issue is there.

Julie Briody

We took it really personally that we played so badly on the Utah trip. We all agreed that we had to play better. We refuse to lose any more games this year.

Jim Cicconi

We're pleased the court agreed that these terms are in the public domain -- available for all to use, ... AOL's claim that it owns the everyday language of the Internet is another example of AOL's attempt to monopolize all aspects of services over the Internet.

Spanish Proverb

He will never worship well the image on the altar who knew it when it was a trunk of wood in the garden

Michael Shaw

You don't know what a fanatic Judy Garland fan or an Oz fanatic is capable of. They think they want to have them, even if they have to keep them at some sort of twisted altar someplace down in the basement.

David Poland

Basically, every movie has to come and bow at the altar of the Golden Globes.

Jack Moran

I'm a lacrosse player and I'm not rowdy. I was an altar boy, The kids here know the difference between what's on the field and off.

William A. Ward

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altars of conformity and popularity.

Cynthia Ozick

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.

Iris Apfel

My mother was a big influence; she was exceedingly chic, completely dressed in a completely different manner than I did. I was a child of the Depression, so she taught me all about accessories, and I always tell everybody she worships at the altar of the accessory.

Stephen Mangan

My mother was gentle and warm. She was the sort of person you could really open up to. I was the eldest and her only boy, so I guess I was treated differently. She did bring me up as a Catholic, and at one time I was an altar boy, but I lost my faith, as did my father, when my mother died at 45.

Al Gore

I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error or misinterpreted or miscounted, and I don't think Governor Bush does either.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I think it is very important not to make a big deal out of it, because it is not, ... President Bush is always welcome to California.

Tony Juniper

He is right. The storm should be a warning to President Bush about the consequences of his climate change policies.

Roger Kubarych

Here's an appointment where Bush really can't make a mistake,

Paul Light

I think Bush takes a big hit. He's vulnerable on it, even if it's not totally fair.

Scott Milburn

President Bush is committed to fostering an environment where innovation succeeds and small businesses can flourish.

Kate Saunders

President Bush is certainly expected to raise the issue of a possible visit by His Holiness to China and express his support for the ongoing dialogue between the envoys of His Holiness and Beijing.

David Drier

President Bush is at the helm and he is making a great deal of history.

Ed Markey

President Bush has threatened to use his first veto to prevent scientists from using Federal funds to search for these cures. This is wrong.

Charles Johnson

He didn't lift a single scoop of dirt from my back yard.

Jeremy Mincey

He's a dirty guy under there. I don't know if he spits on people. I would say a little grabbing.

Carl Jung

Six hundred years is an awfully long time, Ever. So long it's impossible for either of us to imagine. Though it is more than enough time to rack up a few dirty skeletons for the old metaphorical closet, right?

Gerard Butler

He goes on the dirt at home and he has raced on the dirt in Dubai, so he knows it,

Richard Dawkins

Reductionism is a dirty word, and a kind of 'holistier than thou' self-righteousness has become fashionable.

Rex Harrison

Having been challenged by Colonel Pickering, Higgins: You know, it's almost irresistible. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.

Ronald Wright

Like most problems with technology, pollution is a problem of scale. The biosphere might have been able to tolerate our dirty old friends coal and oil if we burned them gradually, but how long can it withstand a blaze of consumption so frenzied that the dark size of this planet glows like a fanned ember in the night of space.

Raymond Chandler

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

Robin Wright

I just love getting dirty.

Suzy Pelican

Going in without a list is usually kind of a disaster for most of us. You're going on hunger and a whim and not planning well.

Dan Schnur

There aren't a lot of votes to be gained by overseeing a disaster relief that is handled the way it should be, but there is a political downside to not doing enough, or not doing it fast enough.

Stephen Hess

He has come to symbolize how unprepared this administration was for this disaster, fairly or unfairly,

Yasser Arafat

Still, the American administration is following blindly the Israeli advisers in your policy, while they are pushing you to more and more disasters.

David Walker

responding to floods and other natural disasters by FEMA.

Srikantha Herath

In general we are observing more and more heavy rain-associated disasters in the region.

Valerie Plame

the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.

Jan Egeland

This has never ever happened before, that two weeks after a disaster that we have $717 million that we can spend on the immediate emergency effort.

John Livingston

The food that we are sending out for the disaster response is food that we would normally distribute here to the food shelves and people of Minnesota, ... We're hoping that people in the state will step up and help us replenish those supplies.

Nina Totenberg

He might well win his case. It is something of a bellwether (for environmental cases).

Walt Whitman

Where the earth is, we are.

Joni Mitchell

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

Jeffrey Koplan

The evidence is stacking up that indicates it is not environmental,

Matthew Yglesias

The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me.

Jacque Fresco

If our system continues without modification involving environmental and social concern, we will face an economic and social break down.

Jacque Fresco

Science and education, when devoid of a social conscience or environmental and human concern, are meaningless.

Henry David Thoreau

We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.

James Fallows

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Chuck D.

He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,

James Perry

If the model is River Gardens, it has failed miserably.

Mike McGlone

The market failed to see a smoking gun or anything too worrisome.

Manfred Guellner

Supporters of the CDU failed to vote because of reservations about Merkel.

Wayne Patterson

Foolishly, the Korean government had failed to post diplomats in Mexico and Hawaii to protect its immigrants.

Julie Zawisza

It's only for treatment-resistant patients -- people who have failed many other treatments and are very very sick with few other options.

Thomas Doll

We failed to score the third goal and they played all-or-nothing. Maybe we were scared a goal would slip in there somehow.

Andrea Seigel

As evidenced during my failed audition, I'm a thorough introvert who would completely hate living in a 'Real World' house. I would have taken my Ikea comforter to the confessional room and never come out.

Dmitri Young

As a player, especially me, I feel like I failed the manager, ... Unfortunately, he has to be the fall guy. If we were 91-71, he'd be voted Manager of the Year.

Timothy Conder

The magnitude of the hurricane season last year has people a little skittish.

Michael Leavitt

The big lesson I learned from Hurricane Katrina is that we have to be thinking about the unthinkable, ... because sometimes the unthinkable happens.

Richard Wright

It looked like a tsunami with hurricane winds.

Stacy Stewart

They better take this hurricane dead-serious or they're going to be dead.

Lawrence Eagles

The market has coped very well with the hurricane situation on the surface, particularly on the refinery side,

Mitch Frazier

There is not the hurricane protection here that there once was. It is significantly compromised. The hurricane level protection we have had here prior to Hurricane Katrina will not be able to return. It will be years, not months.

Mike Trevino

We've got another 800 (adjusters) or so standing by waiting to work Hurricane Rita.

David Beasley

Unfortunately, it looks like Hurricane Bertha is making a major turn for the worse,

Salvation Army

Rally for Relief: Oriental's Response to the Victims of Hurricane Katrina

Nina Totenberg

He may be for conservatives what (Justice William) Brennan was for liberals.

Rebecca West

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

Reinhold Niebuhr

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

William J. Brennan

We current justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as 20th-century Americans.

Woodrow Wilson

Justice has nothing to do with expediency. Justice has nothing to do with any temporary standard whatever. It is rooted and grounded in the fundamental instincts of humanity.

William J. Clinton

Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.

William J. Clinton

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

William Blackstone

It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.

Van Jones

I want to be remembered as one of the great innovators among social justice advocates of the 21st Century.

James Hansen

The danger is that the compromises and special interests inherent in Kyoto-style targets and cap-and-trade will be accepted because of bureaucratic momentum.

Enric Sala

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

Laurent Fabius

The U.S. withdrawal from the Kyoto protocol endangers the entire process.

Nigel Lawson

Not only is the Kyoto approach to global warming wrong-headed, the climate change establishment's suppression of dissent and criticism is little short of a scandal. The IPCC should be shut down.

Christopher Flavin

The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

Jacques Chirac

For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument Kyoto Protocol of global governance,"..."By acting together, by building this unprecedented instrument, the first component of an authentic global governance, we are working for dialogue and peace.

Joseph Lieberman

We have until 2012 to meet Kyoto ... and it doesn't make sense

John Nicks

Her mother called me, and I think she was perhaps a little apprehensive about my reaction. But I was very positive. I was only too pleased.

Susan Wyderko

We treat callers as if they were our own mother or a relative.

Anton LaVey

My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic. I rebelled, not but because of a religious or repressive childhood. I wanted to join the French Foreign Legion.

Elizabeth Black

I didn't want his mother to see his blood.

Kerry Leitch

I did the same as my mother would have done me in a situation like that.

Linda Lavin

He taught me how to sing, how to belt, what my mother was talking about all those years. I had no idea I had that power in my voice.

Robert Cormier

A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.

Rob Thurman

All I cared was that she had never lied. She was honest in a world just the opposite, and a cool oasis in my life. She was who she said she was, and everything Sophia, my mother, the pathologically manipulative liar, had never been.

Rob Corddry

My mother was very, very Protestant. I grew up Presbyterian, and I went to church every Sunday until I was 18. I was forced to.

Susan Borelly

It is not the way we wanted to do this, but we don?t know how else to get these policies changed.

Heinz Kramer

A lot remains to be done when it comes to Turkish policies towards minorities.

Tom Daschle

All along, the administration vowed their policies would be painless,

Craig Hill

We did all we could. Policies and procedures were followed. Everything went very well and effectively.

Wesley Clark

I think his disadvantage is that he doesn't seem to know who he is and he doesn't know what his policies are.

Erik Jones

We don't even have any policies and procedures, yet.

Bobby Seale

I'm a progressive. The progression has to be manifested in a new direction in policies and legislation.

Sharon Reid

We are now in the process of reviewing our policies and procedures.

Elizabeth A. Sherman

It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

David Healy

I would say that's the best-ever result we've had,

Chuck Hill

I think that Q4 results will be terrible.

Andrew Johnson

I think that's been a really important, big step in the U.S. having more competitive results internationally.

Robert Toth

Truth in my love for the subject will produce superior results.

Zig Ziglar

Concentrated thoughts produce desired results.

Nancy Wright

I look at it as prevention, being proactive. A lot of what we treat here is the result of unhealthy lifestyles.

Norah Alberto

The end result is a much more comfortable garment.

David Sowerby

The end result is a ho-hum year for the market.

Mr Bush

Ahmadi-Nejad is a result of all this appeasement,

Justin Berfield

The wheels are spinning in my head all the time.

Mahatma Gandhi

Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Anne Patterson

In our opinion, there is no international support for this idea. I don't think this idea is going to work in the future, and the United States will not support this.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Jimmy Page

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

Kate Winslet

My favorite breakfast probably in the whole wide world, real treaty favorite breakfast, is eggs benedict.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Wesley Clark

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Jim Chase

In the southeastern United States, especially Georgia, termites are very active.

William Rehnquist

Conservatives are those who worship dead radicals.

Kurt Cobain

I will get stoned and worship Satan.

Pete Wilson

The question isn't 'Do we worship?' The question is 'Who (or what) do we worship?'

John Calvin

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

By nature, worship is not some performance we do, but a presence we experience.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

Alexander MacLaren

Fruitful and acceptable worship begins before it begins.

David Foster Wallace

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay