Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Grenell

Last night and his morning, the human rights commission reform fell apart.

Kolawole Olaniyan

It is not enough for the Nigerian government to initiate an investigation. We need an international commission of inquiry that will report directly to the UN Secretary-General and make its findings public.

Jonathan Todd

It is one year since the Court of First Instance confirmed Microsoft had to comply with the March 2004 decision. The Commission regrets Microsoft has failed to do so. We would prefer Microsoft to comply with the March 2004 decision, and not with their interpretation of that decision.

Jose Barroso

I welcome the speed with which the commission and member states have been able to respond to the urgent request for help.

Mayor Mulder

I don't expect this commission to revisit every issue that we decide because there are few people that are upset. I think it needs to be re-addressed, but we need to make some sort of decision and stick with it.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Jimmy Carter

In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election,

Charles Grassley

I'm extremely disappointed that the European Commission has insisted on perpetuating this dispute,

Raymond Bunn

I just want to be part of a fair and impartial commission board.

Ed Cogswell

I wouldn't say it's common - it really is dependent on a large number of factors,

Diana Oblinger

I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained.

Kenneth Chenault

My message to Washington is the United States has gone through incredible crises, and our leaders have been able to find common ground. And that's what our leaders have to do.

Ali Khan

What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.

John Prescott

have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss.

Bob Hunter

Hockey is steeped in our city's history and is a common touch point for Torontonians. It's time that Toronto hosted the world juniors. We know Torontonians will embrace this championship tournament, which will leave a lasting legacy for our world-class city.

Jed S. Rakoff

I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.

Tyler Perry

You know, people don't want their intelligence insulted. They don't want to be preached to. They don't want to be degraded. All they want to do is sit, laugh, have a good time, love one another, forget about what's going on in the world, and find something out so they can be useful in this life. Do this and you have common sense.

Rob Bell

That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things...

Mel Harris

I think all this is going to lead to a reduction in crime and more cooperation from citizens.

Klaus Schwab

In these extraordinary times, greater international cooperation is needed to reverse the global economic downturn, eradicate poverty, promote security and enhance cultural understanding,

Hu Jintao

I hope my visit will strengthen dialogue, deepen cooperation.

Amr Mussa

I hope stability and security will reign in Iraq, and that fraternity and cooperation will prevail between its different communities,

Jack Straw

I know too that the only reason we have got any cooperation at all out of Iraq is because of the credible threat of force.

Richard Boucher

Their transparency and cooperation in resolving this matter is a strong example of how states should respond in complying with their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Jorma Ollila

The cooperation we have in training personnel will increase to the number of millions we'll invest.

Johannes P. Muller

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Jeff Becker

A great deal of this success can be credited to the unprecedented cooperation of public, private, and non-profit partnerships in dealing with these issues.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Despite spending trillions of dollars and spilling the blood of thousands of Americans, we remain in servitude to Arab oil.

Jeriamy Jackson

Kenny, he's going to work harder than anyone. As for Matt, nobody's going to intimidate him despite giving up nearly 35 pounds in his weight class.

Richard Lucas

Joe was hired a long time ago, did a good job and stuck around. Despite all the changes, he's still the same. He still thinks he's a pre-law student.

Susanna Moore

Women are completely disadvantaged - despite what men will say. It is not a fair fight.

Jose Serrano

I think it says something about Freddy that, despite his ups and downs in this race, he has stayed dignified, animated, and charismatic.

Bill Gray

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Roseanne Roseanne

I think we're looking at a pretty strong housing market despite the fact that starts didn't rise, ... far from runaway.

Russ Yarworth

He's a very tough worker. Mentally, he's tough, despite what he might tell you. He's got a good feel for the water.

Byron Calame

I have had unusual difficulty getting a better explanation for readers, despite the paper's repeated pledges of greater transparency.

Bay Buchanan

He did everything correct. They feel that they have a right to all information about his life, and they simply do not.

Chris Hill

I think it's important that people get to know as much information as possible. I was very supportive of it.

Rob Baskin

I think the key is to share the information you have when you have it with the public, with the press, with regulatory or governmental officials. That's important, to be open and transparent with communications.

Jim Moran

It is premature, we don't have enough information and . . . it may turn out to be unnecessary.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any specific information on these images.

James Jeffrey

I don't have any more information for you on that.

Arlen Specter

Had that information been shared with the FBI, which was trying to get it, 9/11 might have been prevented,

William S. Burroughs

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Sam Walton

Information is power, and the gain you get from empowering your associates more than offsets the risk of informing your competitor.

Kazi Shams

Judge people not by what they did but by what they can do.

Ira Sorkin

Judge Harmon can then give Duncan whatever she likes.

A.J. Chilson

Judge a poem like you would judge a person, for it was the person who wrote the poem.

Dick DeGuerin

He should not be the judge to preside over the trial proceedings relating to a person to whom he is opposed politically.

Tim Ward

I think the jury was in a position to judge the credibility of the testimony.

Frank Cappiello

I think the judge has been very negative toward the company,

Gary Bettman

I think we will ultimately be judged on our response and the message that it sends. This is not a part of our game, it has no place in our game, and it will not be tolerated in our game.

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

Alan Cropsey

When he was in the United States Senate, he was noted as an intellectual powerhouse,

Ronaldo

I don't want my fans to have the same disappointment as me when I was refused by some players to sign my notebook when I was young.

Rick Riordan

I wondered if she'd ever written on her notebook: GEB + NUT = TRUE LOVE or MRS GEB.

Sarah Caldwell

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Rian Johnson

If I spend a year and a half writing a script, the first year will be outlining in notebooks. It's just the way I work, definitely not necessarily the best way.

Willa Cather

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the world and its way of accepting life. Such an idiom makes the finest language any writer can have; and he can never get it with a notebook. He himself must be able to think and feel in that speech - it is a gift from heart to heart.

Walter Benjamin

Let no thought pass incognito, and keep your notebook as strictly as the authorities keep their register of aliens.

Yukio Mishima

Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

Willie Nelson

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Steve Monks

He's quicker to the ball. He provided a big spark off the bench.

McGregor Scott

Trends in communications and convergence provided a one-two punch.

Rachel Johnson

Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.

Michael Burgess

When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

David Livingstone

I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.

Al Jourgensen

I'm an all-or-nothing guy. When I'm working, I work, work, work, work, work, and when I'm not, I'm the laziest sloth this planet has ever provided us.

Tom Kenny

There has been a lot of testing done on the racking strength provided by different types of spray foams, ... And the strength provided by closed-cell foams can be substantial.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Teller

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

Susanna Moore

The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Richard P. Feynman

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it.

Richard Whately

The word of knowledge, strictly employed, implies three things: truth, proof, and conviction.

Richard Baxter

It is as hard a thing to maintain a sound understanding, a tender conscience, a lively, gracious, heavenly spirit, and an upright life in the midst of contention, as to keep your candle lighted in the greatest storms.

Rick Riordan

My understanding of magic is fairly straightforward. Hit enemies with a sword until they’re dead. If they rise again, hit them again. Repeat as necessary. It worked against Set.

William Matthews

What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?

Woodrow Wilson

Understanding is the soil in which grow all the fruits of friendship.

Woody Allen

How the hell do I know why there were Nazis? I don't know how the can-opener works.