Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Franklin

Presidents who are low in the polls have a hard time getting Congress to go along with them. He has to persuade the people in Congress to follow his legislative agenda and they're all worried about 2006.

Kofi Annan

I urge you, as world leaders, individually collectively, to keep working on this reform agenda to have patience to persevere, and the vision needed to forge a real consensus,

Scott McCallum

You still try to be open, you try to answer these things, but there are some that clearly have an agenda and may not even fully realize it themselves.

Tim McCormick

There are differences in personalities, in the city agendas and goals, but the IT systems are what stand out as the common thread." ()

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

J. C. Watts

We hope we go back with them being educated about what the agenda is and willing to mobilize, ... Our objective is to get people to help us help them.

Graham Smith

And these are social groups which governments don't normally readily put on their agenda in terms of allocating resources for health care.

Helen Hudson

Dr. Martin Luther King, his whole agenda was good works, and in the labor world we all have the day off. So instead of sitting at home, watching television, we decided to come out and do some good throughout the community. And this is the result of it, this is our seventh annual clothing and food drive.

Steven Pinker

During the past century the doctrine of the blank slate has set the agenda for much of the social sciences and humanities, ... ... Psychology has sought to explain all thought, feeling, and behavior with a few simple mechanisms of learning.

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.

Michael Imperioli

Tony literally makes you an offer you can't refuse. He's always there for you, for everybody. So when he asks you to be there for sick children, you're there. Period.

Joe Solmonese

When a man walks into a bar, asks if it's a gay bar and starts shooting, there couldn't be any more glaringly obvious and enraging example that we need a uniform hate crimes law and that Congress has stubbornly failed to act.

Ann Wagner

When a governor asks you to come and serve... or a president, subsequently in my life - you do so.

P. Herbert

When a friend asks there is no tomorrow

Bill Wright

The preliminary stage of screening in my church is that everyone who volunteers fills out an application. It asks whether they have a criminal history and gives the church permission to do a background check.

John Jenkins

Tyco, having been victimized by these defendants, respectfully asks the Court to impose a sentence that reflects the complete impact of the defendants' crimes and makes restitution to Tyco and its employees,

Mack Brown

You know your life is different when your first call is from the president of the United States at 6 in the morning, and your wife asks you if you want to take it.

Ruchi Sanghvi

If I don't ask for something, I'm not going to get it.

Marin Cilic

Probably around 14, when I was finishing primary school. I'm coming from a pretty small city in Croatia, not too many options to train, not too many players. So I had to either choose to stay at home to do more school or move to Zagreb to the national training center. That was when I made decisions to do something better in tennis.

William Shelton

I've reached a time in my life where I want to give something back to this community. Also I have four sons who I want to have opportunities to grow up and stay in the county if they choose to.

Arnaldo Otegi

We did not choose violence, but there is no other path.

Amy Green

We hope we are preparing these young individuals to enter the world of agriculture. And for those who choose not to return to the family farm, we hope they will be successful with other skills they learned in this program.

Jon Katz

Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

Every decision we make - when we choose a vehicle, when we pump gas into that vehicle, when we order food - is not just a personal lifestyle choice. It's an environmental and moral choice.

Carol Hamilton

We started using celebrities back in the '70s because we wanted to convey a sense of confidence in women. But the celebrities we choose are chosen because they are also role models and something more than a celebrity.

Lech Walesa

When there aren't any fish in the sea, a crawfish can pass off for a fish. I tried to choose as wisely as I could, given the line-up, which was not to my liking. Still, if you can't get what you want, you make do with what you have.

Oleh Rybachuk

When the president had to choose between his friends and stabilization, the president chose stabilization.

Kevin Good

When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market and producers have leverage. When the spread narrows, packers have the leverage.

Heather McAdams

That was just to get our intensity back, and not settle for low-percentage shots. Because of those strict rules, it forced them to start looking for each other again.

James Cash Penney

I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Daryl Hall

If you're African American, you are forced into making different choices, in a lot of cases, than you are as a white person.

Randy Dunn

In one sense, we have now a much better picture about (how) various groups of students are doing, because this law has really forced us to peel back and look back at performance for various groups of students.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

David Murphy

I just forced myself to relax today. I've been very tense up at the plate.

Rick Barnes

I keep harping on turnovers. They forced some of those, some they didn't.

Joe Wurzelbacher

Private unions, such as the UAW, is a choice between employees and employers. If that is what they want, then who am I to say you can't have it?

Greg Evans

Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them.

Tom Watkins

We need more entrepreneurs in private and public life,

Lynndie England

I was used by Private Graner. I didn't realise it at the time.

Frank Melton

I think if it's a private investment, it's a private investment,

Mark Delegal

What they say in public and what they say in private are so different.

Jeb Bush

We are just going to keep at it, ... We have no alternative. It's not just to protect private property. It's our lifeblood.

Wil S. Hylton

The tension between public and private science is powerful.

John Twelve Hawks

Without private thoughts and actions, we can never truly be free.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Jim Bailey

public safety reasons and for your own safety.

Tom Bailey

We have a responsibility to the public to do the right thing, ... We've got 14-year-olds that read the newspaper.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Ben Schott

The radio's pretty much always on, and I also listen to some American podcasts, such as for 'National Public Radio' and 'Newsweek'.

Darryl Strawberry

didn't want to make a public thing out of it.

Bob Elliott

We want a more comprehensive look at public safety.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Auguste Comte

Woman is the most moral element in all humanity.

Juvenal

There's no effrontery like that of a woman caught in the act; her very guilt inspires her with wrath and insolence.

Cameron Diaz

What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.

Jane Austen

With women, the heart argues, not the mind.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Barry Watson

It was tough trying to figure out how to put on all the women's clothes.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.