Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Ogden Nash

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,/ Is those things arms, or is they legs?/ I marvel at thee, Octopus; If I were thou, I'd call me Us.

Lloyd Coker

Technology at our call centers is much better suited to handle outage calls. We don't want to create more difficulties for people.

Elizabeth Thompson

As a Panhellenic whole, we do not support one candidate or the other, ... Part of exercising the right to vote is exercising the right to choose. We always hope for a good turnout at the elections, and we expect to see a large number of women participate this year.

Leo Bosner

As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?

Paul Maryniak

Perhaps at no time in the recent past has the need for quality city leadership been more critical to Mesa than it is now. We want Mesa residents to know as much as possible about the people who are running for a chance to provide that leadership, and The Republic's forum gives citizens an excellent chance to eyeball the candidates and give them the kind of job interview necessary for an educated vote.

Oscar Aguilar

They are all going to be making the same promises: more education, better economy. But if one candidate is more marketable, or comes out with a killer line, that could mean a lot.

Thomas Insel

The way I see it, there are three types of studies in science: one that moves a theory along, one that closes it and another that opens a new door altogether. This one opens a new chapter, introducing an entirely new molecular candidate for the study of anxiety, and we're going to be hearing a lot about it in the next 10 years.

George Fetherling

The heart was always seen as the noblest of the internal organs as well as the most vital. The hearts of martyrs or future candidates for sainthood would be preserved, but never their livers, say, or the entrails - at least not on their own; it was either the heart by itself or the whole lot together.

Terry Hall

Every single candidate for Texas governor is talking about this issue. This is a major issue in many political campaigns, because this is a major issue for the citizens of Texas. Even Kinky (Friedman) is talking about it.

Jim Matheson

We've been talking about this for a while, ... We had all the candidates in to talk to us. We talked about doing a vote long before this week.

Alberto Fujimori

I am qualified as a candidate for president, ... I want to work for the Peruvian people.

Hugh Scott

After the complaint was received by the commission, there was a series of mutual discussions between the commission and the chief justice, and she concurred with the commission that this was an appropriate way to resolve the matter.

Matthew Fox

Compassion is the essence of Jesus' teaching, and indeed of the teaching of all great spiritual figures from Mohammed to Isaiah, from Lao Tzu to Chief Seattle. Yet compassion has been sentimentalized and severed from its relationship to justice-making and celebration. Creation Spirituality links the struggle for justice with the yearning for mysticism.

Scott Anderson

The State Umpire in Chief rewards umpires who want to work top games by assigning them to national tournaments, and I have been fortunate to work three nationals.

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

Teddy Stewart

As the chief you're not going to make everybody happy. That's just part of your job.

R. Ingram

As the chief financial officer of a Fortune 500 company he knew exactly what he was doing,

Gloria Borger

What that means is that Judge Roberts is guaranteed an up or down vote and he is also guaranteed to be the next chief justice of the Supreme Court.

William Cavendish

No horse therefore is well dressed that is not light in hand; so that an easy and gentle bridle, but firm, is the chief secret to make a horse light.

Paula Brown

I got a message from (Police Chief Robert Smythe) saying a guy died in custody after struggling with officers,

Robert Barnett

I have been in contact with HUD on more than one occasion. I'm going to meet with them in the next few months, and I hope to gain a little more clarity as to what HUD expects of us.

Brian Belski

I think we received some clarity there. I think we are done with the Greenspan hangover.

Barry Hyman

I think we are just mired in interest-rate concerns until we get some clarity on rates.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

James Corden

It's enough now of being unhealthy. I have a family, and I owe it to them to be as healthy as I can. A great sense of clarity comes when you have a child. It shows the important stuff to be important.

Rick Meckler

There isn't enough good news right now to really get people involved. Most professionals and individuals are just holding, looking for some clarity on the transition in Iraq, looking for some clarity on the presidential election, and, perhaps more importantly, looking for some clarity from the Fed on rate rises.

Cheryl Strayed

Of all the things I’d been skeptical about, I didn’t feel skeptical about this: the wilderness had a clarity that included me.

Tim Heekin

People are looking for more clarity in terms of Iraq, interest rates, oil prices and the dollar.

Clay Sell

Our proposal seeks to provide stability, clarity and predictability in moving the Yucca Mountain Project forward as quickly as possible. It is good for national security, it is good for the environment, it is good for the economy, and we think it is very good for America.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Chris Dancy

The whole idea is to get someone who has thought about flying, but hasn't taken that first step, to get out there to experience it. That way he can get a pretty good idea if he wants to become a pilot or not.

Anatoly Chubais

To stop us, they want to scare us. They will never succeed, ... We will fulfill the goals she sacrificed her life for.

Damian Woetzel

Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.

Beau Bridges

Fortunately I've been able to work in a lot of different mediums in my career, and they are all fulfilling in one way or another.

Russ Reineke

I am not here to lecture you or to ruin anyone's day. Quite the opposite. I am here to hopefully help make your day and to hopefully help you have a more fulfilling life.

Finn Wittrock

Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.

Linda Lavin

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.

Manny Acta

We have big stars in our country, and it's tough to trim our roster. There are lots of expectations around our club. I think we're going to fulfill them.

Cedomir Jovanovic

We will march ... until they fulfill our demands.

Diane Marini

When Marilyn and I started the case, it wasn't just because we wanted to get married and fulfill a dream, it was because we wanted to end the discrimination.

Cierra Ramirez

I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.

Anne M. Mulcahy

When you get in a job, the tendency is to say, 'I've got to know it. I've got to give direction to others. I'm in this job because I'm better and smarter.' I always took a different view, that the key was to identify the people who really knew and learn from them.

William Johnson

If they are not in school and they are supposed to be in school you can identify the ones that are supposed to be in school and the ones not supposed to be in school.

Ben Horowitz

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

Ed Cogswell

We can use them and if a need presents, I'm sure we do. But we do not want to identify what our sources are.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

Marcia Townsend

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Today when we say the West we are already referring to the West and to Russia. We could use the word 'modernity' if we exclude Africa, and the Islamic world, and partially China.

Tipu Sultan

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Jermaine Jackson

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Harold Hamm

Climate change isn't out biggest problem. It's Islamic terrorism.

Jerry Falwell

And, these Islamic fundamentalists, these radical terrorists, these Middle Eastern monsters are committed to destroying the Jewish nation, driving her into the Mediterranean, conquering the world.

Glenn Beck

Thomas Jefferson creates the Marines for the Islamic pirates that were happening.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Reza Aslan

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

William Kristol

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Barbara Olson

Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Calvin Coolidge

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

Amelie Nothomb

I thought maybe I would become a god, or a goddess, or a president or a Nobel Prize winner.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I can be President of the United States, or I can control Alice. I cannot possibly do both.

Ambrose Bierce

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Eric Hoffer

Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy.