Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Nixon

John Ashcroft's actions there were using politics to really play to the far right. The fact that it was an African-American judge made it an even more acceptable argument that this man was soft on crime, and that's just not true,

Gerry Brownlee

Helen Clark must explain why it is acceptable for a minister who has admitted 'cutting corners' on returns to the Companies Office to retain the critical transport and energy portfolios.

Maureen Johnson

'Harry Potter' achieved a very special act of actual magic: it made it completely acceptable for an adult to carry around, read and enjoy a children's book.

Shah Rukh Khan

In the world of creativity, laziness translates into an inability to be rigorous enough to create fearlessly. It makes us plagiarise or water our creativity down to make it more acceptable to the public.

Clarence Briggs

There are some who've asked us if this isn't simply part of the cost of doing business. That high a cost is neither acceptable nor tenable.

Ted Liu

Hawaii's overdependence on imported oil is not acceptable and we need to address it with something more than short-term policy of price controls.

Jorgen Vig Knudstorp

I think it's becoming very acceptable for adults and teenagers to be playful lifelong. You know, it's very acceptable to be a video gamer and be 35 years old. It's acceptable to be a Lego adult fan and build amazing things, even though you're 40 or 25 years old.

Zhang Ning

It is acceptable to me. The tank top is all right, just not the string top.

Richard Cripps

I think (the market) needs the ECI price deflator numbers coming in at acceptable levels, meaning that they don't raise the fear of inflation, it needs the Fed not raising interest rates in August and as we move toward the fall, continuing signs that the economy is moderating and that inflation is low.

Laurey Stryker

Just last year is the first time that housing costs lost us a few candidates. I think the thing that we'll have to do over time is to pay higher salaries; that's the only way to address it.

Dave Frohnmayer

Keep in mind that we are only halfway through the season, and there remains a lot of football yet to be played. So it's impossible to address the dozens of hypothetical situations with the BCS standings.

Capt. Ready

I suspect that the division commanders are aware of this. As your story breaks, I'm sure it'll bring some attention to it and they'll address it.

Jeff Conine

I take that very seriously. I think management, that's one of the reasons that they brought me back. They know I am going to play hard and lead by example. If there is something that needs to be addressed, I don't mind addressing it.

Mike Turpin

It can self replicate, so it can spread itself to other systems. Through e-mail attachments sent on your behalf in your address book. People open the attachments because they come from a trusted source.

Melih Abdulhayoglu

ITA SAFE not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions for their customers. By doing this, banks can recognize reduced operational and customer support expenses, mitigate risk in a proactive manner, and most importantly, increase customer trust online.

Melih Abdulhayoglu

ITA S.A.F.E. not only helps banks best address regulatory compliance, but enables them to provide the most secure online transactions for their customers. By doing this, banks can recognize reduced operational and customer support expenses, mitigate risk in a proactive manner, and most importantly, increase customer trust online.

Rep. Litvack

It answers the call from the public to address this issue. It gives law enforcement and prosecutors the tools to address these issues.

Holly Armstrong

It also puts everyone on elevated alert that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the governor expects you're going to be ready to address those.

Richard Platt

In fact, until that point, there had only been tariffs on imported goods.

Harry Parmar

The kites and all the strings were imported from India just for this celebration. The string is specially made for this.

Diwa Guinigundo

Setting interest rates is not just about one thing. You don't say, the peso is strong. So, in a sense, imported inflation can be managed. That's just one part of the story.

Irene Khan

Torture should have been kept where it belonged, in the 16th century, instead of being imported into the 21st.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Sarah Palin

Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore and offshore. And it seems to be only the Republicans who understand that companies should be competing for the right to tap those resources, and get that energy source flowing into these hungry markets so that we will be less reliant on foreign sources of energy. In a volatile world, relying on foreign regimes that are not friendly to Americans, asking them to ramp up resource production for our benefit, that's nonsensical.

Rodrigo Rato

Oil prices have certainly become a threat for the world economy.

Robert Rauschenberg

A pair of socks is no less suitable to make a painting with than wood, nails, turpentine, oil and fabric.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I didn't sign any contracts, and I didn't see any oil.

Walter Benjamin

Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.

Veerappa Moily

Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.

Veerappa Moily

Petrol price is a deregulated commodity, price of which is decided by our oil marketing companies based on input cost and other parameters.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Karen Davis

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

Nicholas Stern

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Christopher Murray

Just like in real farming, you want to sell when prices are high.

Tom Crosby

I think we'd better get used to it. I think we're going to see prices roller-coaster like this for a long time.

David Patterson

I think all the prices are crazy. They are just very expensive.

Mike Fitzpatrick

It is not surprising that prices are retreating.

Robert G. Allen

Your network is your net worth. How do you value your network? Well, if you don't value it, cultivate it, nurture it, it becomes worthless. If you do value it, it becomes priceless.

Bob Quinn

By making my own fuel, I can have a stable price and use my own resources in the process. I'm working to do that on my own right now, but on a smaller scale.

Andrew Logan

If prices keep going up quickly, you?re going to see a real shock to the economy.

Richard Taylor

If prices got out of whack and stay out of equilibrium for a long time, then we'd want to know why and we'd go and find out why.

Amy Ryan

I'm out there with a $32 price target on Barnes & Noble,