Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Bill Nye

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Paul Tagliabue

We have to have a sober assessment of what kind of rebuilding and defending new investment of the Superdome if any makes sense. These are all complicated decisions.

Fidel Castro

We have no objections at all to the three officials visiting us, to know their assessment and exchange views on these matters, ... We won't close the door.

Bill Ackman

Short-term market and economic prognostication is largely a fool’s errand, we invest according to a strategy that makes the need to rely on short-term market or economic assessments largely irrelevant.

Shane Rattenbury

We're making an assessment of our food and fuel and our own energy levels, it's very exhausting being in small boats in such a hostile environment.

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

David Icke

There are many things that we can understand, but in the end it is a case of 'anything is possible'.

Freddie Shepherd

We always intended to take our time over the appointment of a full-time manager and that is still the case as we consider our options very carefully.

Mike Foley

We also think they're trying to take the other parks and slice off pieces of them too. This is sort of a test case to see if they can get away with it.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

Joe Gibbs

We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament,

Bob Bowlsby

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

Chinua Achebe

As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all of us.

Edward Gibbon

But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.

Ben Whishaw

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

Benazir Bhutto

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

Athol Fugard

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Arnold Bennett

The price of Justice is eternal publicity.

William Shakespeare

Poise the cause in justice's equal scales, Whose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails.

William Shakespeare

Justice always whirls in equal measure.

Bob Gibbons

No question, the No. 1 overall player is Greg (Oden).

Carlos Asilis

Yes, it's an unambiguous positive. But in terms of its overall importance, it's only marginal.

Dennis Kelly

We were flabbergasted by the overall size of the market. It's incredible.

Craig Drury

We got some turnovers that were big. I'm sure we got the most transition hoops, but the tempo overall was set by Orem.

Charles Hennekens

My overall reaction is that I'm pleased, because we need the data.

David Cohen

Manufacturing is picking up in the second half. Pharmaceuticals can be enormously volatile, but overall they are on an uptrend.

Hessam Nadji

That's the primary reason overall volume went up.

Pat Summitt

I think overall Candace had a solid game, ... I was pleased with her defense.

John Collins

I think in some ways those conversations, as well as our overall conversations of the organization and how to make it better, may have spun some rumors out that essentially were tagged to the GM.