Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ira Loss

I suspect that this is a relatively isolated event. I don't think there's a crime wave under way in biology research. These actions usually come about because someone is under tremendous pressure to perform.

Kofi Annan

I think it is all right for one ambassador to come and push, but an ambassador always has to remember that there are 190 others who will have to be convinced, or a vast majority of them, for action to take place,

Richard Holbrooke

He was a communist opportunist and became an opportunistic nationalist. His actions led to the deaths of over 300,000 people, four wars, the instability in Europe, creation of criminal gangs ... he was never going to see daylight again and that was appropriate and now he's gone.

Richard House

We are going to move forward and try to get as many definitive answers and as much input as we possibly can. I think all of us are in agreement that we want to make this something where we have action plans and a decision at that time to go forward as opposed to having a study that recommends certain things. We are trying to be more all-encompassing and get the best bang for the buck.

Adam Goldberg

The only thing that could stop it now is action in Congress.

Bob Metz

Going into a situation like this, we are concerned about the safety of all of our kids. We need to make sure we take the proper action to make sure our kids are safe.

Mohandas Gandhi

God never appears to you in person but always in action.

Jet Li

He said, 'Here is the deal: Play the bad guy first, then I give you a good guy next,' ... I asked him what the movie was called, (and) he said 'Romeo Must Die.' (It) sounds like a romantic story, not an action movie.

Bob Costas

He's got to do something (because) his tenure is going to be largely defined by this punishment. Bold action here is not the same as rash action. If he's got the evidence and he's in the right, he should take bold action. Even if he's defeated in court, he will win in the court of public opinion -- if he takes bold action. ... You can be deliberate and you can still be bold. Once he has it, he should do what he feels is in the best interest of baseball and let the chips fall where they may.

Ken Ham

What is sad to me is not what Bill Nye thinks about me. What I found really unfortunate is that after presenting my stand on God's Word, there were a number of Christians who were more complimentary of Bill Nye than of me because Bill Nye was defending evolution and billions of years.

Gene Munster

Hitting the 1 billion mark means that the business of selling music online is real. Over the next 10 years, the retail music industry will be turned upside down and 25 percent of worldwide industry sales will be made online.

Jean Lapierre

I think the only thing the government can do in a concrete way is to look at the supplementary revenues we have with the GST and ... return them to the poorest people of our society who have to pay more for their energy bill in general,

Henry Hyde

I think the bill that the Senate passed is a good bill,

Karen Ryan

It is charged on the total bill before taxes.

Chris Lynch

We expect total expenditure to increase to around $6 billion (in 2006). This will include around $4 billion spent on growth projects and $550 million on exploration.

Orrin Hatch

I think Bill Rehnquist would be the first to say he wants them to go forward.

Bob Herbold

I think it's way too early to speculate on that kind of thing. Bill and Steve have got lot of spunk left, so I think that any speculation on that front is probably a waste of time at this juncture.

Pete Domenici

I think the across-the-board budget cut is if we cannot find about $4 billion in savings any other way, then we'll look to that,

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.

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.

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...

Vladimir Putin

We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts.

If you get invited to your first orgy, don't just show up nude. That's a common mistake. You have to let nudity "happen.

John Mitchell

If there was a common theme to his stories, it was misuse of power. He knew who his readers were. He knew that if something outraged him, they would be outraged, too.

Mike McGavick

I plan to take common sense and stability back to Washington.

Jenny Eclair

I only socialise with people that I have a lot in common with.

Money Magazine

The remedy is to have the five major domestic U.S. manufacturers disgorge the illegal profits that they've made over the decades that we allege that they engaged in these illegal, anticompetitive activities,

Derek Bok

What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Jim Lee

I think there's a responsibility of the publisher, of the company, to make sure the staple books that have been around for decades come out in a timely manner.

Michael Rubin

To have a result like this after two decades is extraordinary.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The success in the determination of the high-resolution structures of ribosomal subunits and eventually the whole ribosome was the culmination of decades of effort.

Cathleen Schine

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Steven Pinker

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

Paul Stamets

My team and I have discovered, over decades of study, that mushroom mycelium is a rich resource of new antimicrobial compounds, which work in concert, helping protecting the mushrooms - and us - from microbial pathogens.

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.

Willie Green

I know I've been in motor sport for 46 years and some might think it is time I grew up, but I am still here, despite smashing up my legs.

Jane Jensen

I love 'Gabriel Knight' and will always be proud of it. Despite the fact that I've done many other things, it seems to be the one thing that people remember. I hope 'Gray Matter' is as memorable.

Robert Hall

The health fears are what stuck out the most for me, but I think the stuff we see on television and all of the victims affected, pushes me into helping, despite the fear.

Margaret Atwood

I planned my death carefully, unlike my life, which meandered along from one thing to another, despite my feeble attempts to control it.

Patrick Fearon

So despite the indicator today, the report for February might not be quite as strong as this is suggesting.

Stuart Hoffman

At the same time, many retailers and the automakers have had good June numbers, despite the rise in oil prices (over the last month), ... Overall, there's some relief right now that the economy is indeed strong, but not overheating.

Rick Foster

It's just the technology, but it's expensive technology.

James Evans

It's too expensive for us right now. We're researched it somewhat. Some of those systems take up to three hours to make all their calls.

Greg Smith

It's the most expensive home ever sold in La Jolla,

Agung Jaya

It is quite expensive for most Indonesians. But I can show how to finance this hobby.

Lorenzo Carmon

Some people will wait until they see the pipes going in the ground to come sign up, but it gets to be more expensive when you do that.

Larry Sabato

This is going to be a very expensive race between an incumbent and a quasi-incumbent.

John Truscott

This isn't a public service announcement, it's a very expensive radio campaign. It's unfortunate that a seemingly good program has been tainted.

John Townsend

You're standing on hallowed ground here. Sometimes hallowed ground is very expensive ground.

Tom Barton

We like to refer to those servers as the most expensive they ever purchased.

Allen Johnson

We've been told they have to be 'completely self-sufficient,' ... so they have to take their own food, water and clothing. There is no local support.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

To buy very good wine nowadays requires only money. To serve it to your guests is a sign of fatigue.

Roald Amundsen

A rich and varied menu is for people who have no work to do.

Samuel Hoffenstein

My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.

Sally Schneider

Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.

Robin Leach

In Italy, they add work and life on to food and wine.

W. C. Fields

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

W. C. Fields

I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?

Voltaire

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

Joe Battista

I think in the end, in the future this team is going to make things happen.

Samantha Bond

I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

Thomas Piketty

I don't pretend that I can predict the future value of the growth rate or rate of return.

Eric Davis

We've got to think about everything possible that there is to think about. We have got to turn over every stone, and look into the future to find out what's waiting for us. What can physics do ... where should physics be going?

Craig Patrick

He wasn't playing like he was two years ago, and I didn't see us re-signing him. This was a good opportunity to get a player for the future and someone who can do the job defensively this year and possibly beyond.

William Winwood Reade

And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.

Wernher von Braun

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

W. S. Merwin

We are the echo of the future.

Roberto Unger

At every level the greatest obstacle to transforming the world is that we lack the clarity and imagination to conceive that it could be different

John McDowell

In Texas, they make you jump through hoops to get on the ballots.

Aaron Nida

He (Cordell) is right where he should be. He is jumping well and I think he is going to continually improve.

Brick Haley

He jumps out and scares the (explicative) out of them,

Ryan Lochte

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

Richard Pryor

I expected Dracula to come jumping out any second. If he did I'd have held up a cross, cause he's allergic to bullshit.

Ryan Reynolds

I'm the guy doing calisthenics. I'm doing jumping jacks and deep knee bends. I work out like a British person.

Krystal McKenzie

If she jumps as well as she did this weekend she may pull it off.

Mike King

I have not seen tremendous change, but I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see one or more jumps here real soon.

Tedy Bruschi

I'm not setting any because I'm sort of doing something I've never done before and that's jump into a season six, seven weeks in.

Jim Heath

That?s a big jump in a sprint like that.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Steve Young

I just throw that brace on there, it's supposed to protect the knee. I just feel that the little brace, when I put it on, it's impenetrable.

Tim Powell

It's kind of scary, because, I mean, I don't have any idea how to protect myself.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Louise Hay

Love surrounds me and protects me.

Madeleine L'Engle

Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

Vince Young

The takeaways are the big thing. You've got to protect the ball.

Roy Romer

With lab courses, we may be able to simulate a lot of that and reduce costs.

Rex Wilmouth

If they are making that much profit, they should reduce rates.

David Mitchell

You'd have to reduce a whole lot of ammonia before you get any benefit.

Dave Johnston

We are not trying to criminalise more people, we are trying to reduce the supply and demand.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Robert Maxwell

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Wil Wheaton

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Zach Wamp

In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

Winston Churchill

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Louise Erdrich

Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.

Manmohan Singh

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

Martha Beck

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

George Pataki

I'm very proud of what we've done with the State University and the City University. They're totally different institutions than they were when I took office.

Dave McCoy

I'm real ecstatic. This the first time we've won in the state team tournament. We did very well. I was kind of surprised." ()

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Khadijah Rushdan

They have what we want -- the state championship.

Ethan Zohn

I wake up in a different state every day, but that's important to me.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

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!

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Angela Merkel

There's a rumour going around that states cannot go bankrupt. This rumour is not true.