Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jose Barroso

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

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,

Paul Donovan

The issues that we addressed in our commitments were not material ones. At the request of the commission we made a number of commitments in order to resolve potential antitrust issues, as did Abbott.

Peter Power

The Commission is confident in the objectivity and thoroughness of its investigative procedures, which presuppose no outcome to this case. This investigation continues.

Johannes Laitenberger

The commission has noted the decree with concern.

Thomas Vinje

The commission has a very strong case, I think the strongest it's ever had.

David Fiske

The commission has always taken its responsibilities to enforce the laws seriously.

Ken Ford

The commission had no alternative than to let the textiles through the ports. As the commissioner said - who would pay for the mountains of trousers and pullovers if we sent them back to China? But this situation should have been anticipated and avoided.

Stieg Larsson

I know what kind of things I myself have been irritated by in detective stories. They are often about one or two persons, but they don't describe anything in the society outside.

J. Horton

He's a big-time point guard. You don't have enough text in your newspaper to describe how good he is.

Don Morrow

I think you could probably describe our play for the whole season as skittish; that's the word I've been using. We have moments of doing spectacular things, and then we have moments where we turn around and shoot ourselves in the foot pretty good. We're trying, I swear, to get over that.

Stephen Breyer

I have to, of course, describe the views of those who disagree with my approach.

Bow Wow

I'm loving N.Y., and words can't even describe how happy I am to be here.

Bob Sanders

I guess 'harassing' is a good way to describe us.

Wes Jr

I'm emotionless right now. It's hard to describe how I'm feeling.

Keanu Reeves

I liked his richness of feeling. I don't know how else to describe it. No matter what he was doing, he felt it. He just seemed so open.

Aaron Eckhart

the highest regard you can receive. That photo can describe an entire life, just an honor, as well as a fun moment.

James Bennett

I think we ought to make it a first-class facility. If it takes more than $50-million, we will have to make sure we find the funds to make it right. It's pretty important to get it right.

Angus MacMillan

There are no signs that funds have lost appetite. As long as you have a list of problems, funds will keep piling in.

Christopher Sullivan

I didn't give a legal opinion on any of the funds in question,

Paul Gada

The machine moves slowly, but the IRS has more funds and is increasing its enforcement activity.

Dominic Konstam

They have to tread carefully, they don't need to raise rates so they become restrictive as there is no inflation, so they are fumbling for a neutral funds rate.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

Saifur Rahman

Availability of funds is not at all a problem for implementing any development project.

James Sarni

It wouldn't surprise me if we get to 4 3/4 percent, but it would surprise me to see the funds rate go higher than that.

David Rose

You're going to see a lot more mutual funds owning international securities.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

John Mueller

His main pitch will be that you're safer with us than with the other guys.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving...

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Sophia Amoruso

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

Shawn Fanning

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Nicole Kidman

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.

Gina Gershon

If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

Chris Bartlett

I'd be called to one site, 'Oh, Chris, we need you,' and then the other site would need me too.

Danny Sullivan

If you are unsure whether or not a site can support a subdomain on its own, it can't,

Sarah Hall

Dystopian novels, such as Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four,' often tend to site their despotised or deformed civilisations in urban environments.

Stephen Cohen

The site is safe... everything is functioning as normal.

Johnny Rivers

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

Marc Geiger

We think that the artists' sites could be virtual ticket outlets.

Charlie Gilson

We're working on a Web site right now.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Plutarch

It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears.

Terence McKenna

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

Lewis Mumford

What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?

Linda M. Godwin

Although I know a lot of the previous shuttle flights, in theory, had their tasks laid out; but there were still some changes that came along for them.

Julie Garwood

courting is for those who have not declared their love for one another- should not be considered a task.

Otto Weininger

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Ban Ki-moon

We have all heard of the web of life. The way we live threatens to trap us in a web of death.