Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Baird

The bottom line is, even if the player was unaware they've been given the drug, the test doesn't require intent. The standard is so strict, if the NFL wants to enforce it strictly, you're basically sunk.

Frederick Moran

The cable division came in with 13 percent cash-flow growth, which is basically the strongest we're going to see out of the whole cable industry this quarter, ... They're showing some real power.

Bill Richardson

And the president is basically saying, on Social Security, 'This is my issue. This is my proposal. Take it or leave it.'

Bob Podges

These last two games we've just been running basic stuff. But in practice the last two weeks, we've been working more specifically for next week's game.

Sean McCormack

The secretary emphasized our conviction that the people of Hong Kong should determine the pace and scope of political reform in accordance with the Basic Law." ()

Max Sawicky

The striking thing is just the falseness of the claim that 1.4 million jobs are created, in light of their own model. There's a basic element of fraud in that claim.

Steve Friswell

The strike, in reality, has no purpose as the minister, in terms of Chapter eight of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, makes the final decision...

Ian Stewart

The successes of the differential equation paradigm were impressive and extensive. Many problems, including basic and important ones, led to equations that could be solved. A process of self-selection set in, whereby equations that could not be solved were automatically of less interest than those that could.

Kathleen Blanco

The simple fact is that we needed something as simple and basic as buses delivered in a timely fashion from FEMA in order to save lives. They didn't do that,

Christopher Davis

This is going to be a time that tests people's conviction, and people have thought often of how much money they can make and not enough about the question: How much can you lose? I'm reminded of a great quote by Warren Buffett when he said: 'It's only when the tide goes out that you see who is swimming without a bathing suit,'

Phil Gramm

The fact that I may not vote for conviction doesn't matter, as long as there is justice,

Kenneth Sheinberg

There's really no conviction. The market is churning. That's all it's doing is churning.

Ron Suskind

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

George Crane

You can have such an open mind that it is too porous to hold a conviction.

Howard Coble

An indictment is not a conviction.

Susan Collins

I am willing to travel the road wherever it leads, whether it's to the conviction or the acquittal of the president. But in order to do that, I need more evidence, ... I need witnesses and further evidence to guide me to the right destination: to get to the truth.

Alan Skrainka

I don't think we can read anything at all into it. It's a lack of conviction and a lot of fence-sitting.

Kofi Annan

he is unwavering in his conviction that nothing can justify terror.

Tom Goldstein

As a result of our investigation, we've determined the information did not reach its destination, and is missing and presumed lost.

Shyam Saran

As a humanitarian gesture, we are willing to release Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails. The verification process is still going on to determine their nationality,

Tim O'Brien

A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.

Josh Teeples

Determination. I was just determined that I was gong to do it this time.

Charlie Brotman

The starting time of the parade is actually determined by the length of time of the traditional brunch,

Jamie Zuieback

After further review, it was determined that it would be appropriate to grant humanitarian parole for this child.

Toni Chovanetz

After interviewing the passenger, it was determined to be appropriate to release him at this time.

Saeb Erekat

so the truth can be determined once and for all.

Lori Walker

The rhythm for our team in the first half was strong. We are starting to see some personality emerge and in the second half we were determined to pull things together. The game was really flowing together for us.

Abe Badmus

He?d see us tense, like he used to be. He just emphasized us to go have fun and enjoy the moment.

Jaime King

We got to jump on, like, trampolines, learn flips, learn karate, kung fu, Hong Kong street fighting.

Rob Portman

We should not be lowering the expectations, nor lowering the ambitions in the round, ... Hong Kong is not the end of process.

Sarah Howard

It was weird. I had no idea where I was or what kind of pace I was swimming.

Christian Slater

I enjoy the process of TV; I like the pace of it; I like the continual work.

Kent Houser

We played it for three quarters at the pace we wanted.

Hal Borland

There is a leisure about walking, no matter what pace you set, that lets down the tension.

George Herbert

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

Richard Ford

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

Edwin Way Teale

For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

Jacques Rogge

We are pleased by the pace of progress now,

John Barrett

We don't always get from slow-motion the pace at which they play.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.

Michael White

People train for this all year like the Olympics.

Sarah Davis

People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do.

Dave Chanley

Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.

Ben Gordon

Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1.

Patrick Taylor

Other people could come up with different models.

Richard M. Nixon

People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead.

Nick Kamberis

People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.

Sarah Waters

People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Barbara Mertz

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

Calvin Coolidge

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

Carla Bley

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

Alain Badiou

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

Al Gore

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Baltasar Gracian

You should avoid making yourself too clear even in your explanations.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The judiciary must be strengthened and released from political interference.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Miguel de Cervantes

He who reforms, God assists.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lunatic fringe in all reform movements.

Ezra Cornell

There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

George Eliot

We cannot reform our forefathers.

Melanie Sloan

Lobbying reform is going more the enforcement route. What's that going to do? Nothing much.

Bill Vaughan

An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.

Hosea Ballou

True repentance always involves reform.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right.

Jim Balsillie

It was very important to get the scope we wanted.