Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Zahler

As a species, the cheetahs are still in dire straits in Iran, so it is extremely encouraging to see an apparently healthy family in their native habitat.

Joseph Bruno

apparently said some ugly things to my client. And my client said, 'I think that's unprofessional.'

Lemmy Kilmister

Apparently people don't like the truth , but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, "Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong." I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you.

Tim Dunn

The stakes are too high to not be able to devote every bit of my being into winning this race. But after being in this campaign for over six months, it is very apparent that I will hurt my family and also the ultimate goal of this campaign if I continue in this race. It has come down to a choice between my family obligations and the campaign for Congress and my family will always come first.

Alan Greenspan

Nowhere in the world are the synergies of small and large businesses operating side-by-side in a dynamic market economy more apparent than in this country.

Elbert Hatchett

These allegations are all news to us. There is way more to this situation than meets the eye and it will all come out during the course of the trial(s). Mrs. Brown is deeply saddened by this apparent conspiracy to besiege her perfect record.

Chris Petersen

It was very apparent that this guy is a first-class football coach.

Mike Rose

I've been looking forward to this time for the past six months, ... Since I got the job, this is the first time I've been able to really coach. It was a good start. I thought everyone really competed out there. That's what we are looking for. The roles the guys will play this season will become apparent through competitive practices.

Robert Winn

They apparently beat, kicked and hit him with an object,

John Johnson

As for going on the show, I would not have minded one bit to meet him face to face and look him in the eye, ... But I feel the deck is stacked on that one and the show is Dr. Phil, not Jerry Springer. The title is ?Falsely Accused,? not?Guilty as Sin.?

Rand Paul

As a doctor, I will take it and make it my mission to heal the nation, reverse the course of Obamacare, and repeal every last bit of it.

Jim Furyk

Our team tends to be a little more loose, ... We have a little bit more fun during the Presidents Cup.

Sean Dillon

Our defense kind of locked them down a little bit during that run.

Jools Oliver

People pick up on some bits of the book in particular, like the bit about Jamie's sperm,

Luke Waddington

People are taking a little bit of risk off.

Mike Viracola

People are still focused on the outlook for interest rates. The general sense is that interest rates are going to continue to creep up a little bit but not run away from us. The financials have been under pressure most of the day.

Jim Dyke

People are still a little bit leery of programming their TV. They want to watch it. They don't want to build it.

Gregg Popovich

People get a little bit more cautious. People want to take care of the ball, value possessions a little bit more.

Rene Preval

During the electoral campaign I felt the enthusiasm. This is my third campaign, my second running for president, and this was the most enthusiastic.

Richard Engel

The Muslim Brotherhood, or 'the Brotherhood' for short, is an Islamic group founded in Egypt in 1928. It has been pursuing a secret campaign to take over the government since its creation.

Ali Behnam

These data show that there's a lot of value to branding. A lot of times when you're trying to promote your product, you may not see immediate results, but in the customer's mind, that campaign may be contributing to some of these bookmark conversion rates later on.

Paul Dergarabedian

The very strong marketing campaign will produce some strong numbers this weekend.

Michael Cornfield

This is an opportunity for citizens to have an impact on campaign practices next year and beyond. We want to learn what people want to look at and what they regard as true or misleading in what they see.

Larry Makinson

There are two ways of looking at campaign finance,

Al Franken

What you see on the campaign trail is me. It's easy being me.

John McMillan

Every day, you and I get requests for campaign contributions from people in public office or people seeking public office.

Al Gore

As the campaign moves forward and when appropriate, I will have more to say about this.

Benjamin Cardozo

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

Jane Bryant Quinn

Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.

Anton Yelchin

The ability to have a choice in what you do is a privilege.

Atul Gawande

Life is choices, and they are relentless. No sooner have you made one choice than another is upon you.

Deepak Chopra

Happiness can be woven into every aspect of life once you make new choices.

Deepak Chopra

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

Dominic Monaghan

I like films that deal with some of those questions that you can never answer: 'Why are we here? What's it about? What happens to us with the choices that we make? What are the ramifications for doing something right, or doing something wrong?' Those universal questions, I enjoy.

William Wordsworth

And yet not choice but habit rules the unreflecting herd.

George Russell

Electra shareholders now have a very clear choice between 3i's offer and the restructuring proposals put forth by Electra,

John Breaux

a sense of what's happening in Congress and what's not happening.

Neena Moorjani

We're adjourning the negotiations for Thanksgiving and for consultations with Congress and industry,

John Keeley

At the first hint of a stalemate in the Senate and the House, Congress may try to pass the elections first and delay this to 2007.

Dennis Hastert

Congress has always been for the people and by the people. And in keeping with the great traditions of our country, we need to keep it that way.

Lillian Koller

Congress considers (the TANF program) a successful program, and that's why they reauthorized it. It addresses how to get people out of poverty, get them into mainstream jobs. But it's not just providing individual job training and placement. It's also doing prevention.

Henry A. Kissinger

Congress can't do much more damage to us than they already have. To this extent we're liberated to do what is right. ... Our successors will be living in a nightmare if we don't do what is right.

Walter Cronkite

Congress & the Presidency in the Television Age.

Ramesh Chennithala

We want all those who drifted away from the Congress to return. And if they re-join the party, they would be treated with utmost respect.

Christopher Dodd

Twenty-three months ago, our nation was thrown into turmoil because we learned a painful reality -- that our democracy did not work as well as it should. ... The legislation we present to the Congress today rectifies those wrongs, does justice to the American voter.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Flex Plexico

Prior to returning this detainee to Egypt, the United States received appropriate assurances from the government of Egypt regarding this detainee's treatment upon his return to Egypt. This includes assurances that this individual will continue to be treated humanely, in accordance with Egyptian and international legal obligations, while he remains in Egypt,

Eddie Jones

Our thing is we're trying to win and just get in a groove where we can continue it and get into the playoffs. If you start worrying about seeds then your focus isn't on winning games.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Jen Warden

Defense and rebounding will continue to be the focal point of our development. Obviously, we are working on some offenses that will give us some more options, but defense has a greater presence in our practices than at any other time.

John Challenger

Companies, through their downsizing, continue to take the steam out of the wage inflation engine by cutting people when the pressure gets too high,

Patrick Allen

Despite the prayer vigils, the special services, and the prayers of many mothers and fathers, the ranks of the ruthless and the lawless continue to swell,

Gary Richardson

Despite the loss, it was still an encouraging outing because all six of our varsity golfers improved on their season averages. I hope we can continue to lower our scoring averages.

Mick Cronin

Devan indicated to me in our first telephone conversation that his family wanted him to have options regarding his future. Devan has conveyed to me that he has not made any decisions, only that he wanted to have options. We are communicating daily and will continue to do so. Obviously, we hope Devan decides to remain with our program.

Larry Peterson

As he has done before when he's been president, he will do an excellent job. He's been devoted to the port and to the things we're trying to accomplish.

Sandi Gibbons

We have a whole division devoted to filing these types of cases,

Whit Ayres

People on either extreme would not be thrilled. But the vast majority would be extremely pleased if the president could find another Judge Roberts out there. Somebody of superb and unquestioned legal qualifications, devoted more to the law than promoting a particular agenda.

Kurt Simon

That's the kind of kid he is. He's had a tremendous off-season and devoted a lot of his time to football. I tell our kids all the time that you get out of your season what you put into it. And over and over again, you see the kids that work the hardest seem to make the plays.

Errol Flynn

The rest of my life will be devoted to women and litigation

John Eccles

I am passionately devoted to the study of life, and particularly to the higher forms of life.

Martha Stewart

It could be a lifestyle suite devoted to exercise or to love...but you have to have a vision.

Cindy Heuer

He spent a lot of years devoted to his family. There was never a break.

Matt Ridley

I'm perfectly happy to eat organic food, but if I choose to pay more for it, I don't pat myself on the back ethically. Quite the reverse. I think I'm actually being quite greedy, because what I'm doing is essentially saying, 'I want more land to be devoted to growing my food.'

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Megan Jones

The teams we're working with are used to working at a lot quicker pace than regular workers because they have a time crunch. We took that same outlook for this family and worked twice as hard.

Kenny Williams

The most important thing he taught me was being a student-athlete. He puts your family and your grades first. Then basketball.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

John Updike

Thinking it over, I can't locate another artist in the Updike family.

Josh Landis

The whole regime has been indicted. It's Family Inc. here.

Ellen Kossek

The work and family problem has not yet been solved.

Brad Hunter

This is a new legal frontier .... (This is) somewhere in the family law world we've never been before.

Johnny Damon

This is going to be my family for the season and for the next four seasons.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Bashar al-Assad

My primary goal is to create prosperity.

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

Brad Friedel

For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place

Celine Dion

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Richard Engel

Any information about U.S. special operations forces is highly sensitive.

Manuel Miranda

These counsels are people who are not only people of high intellect, they have forgone much higher paying jobs to work in public service.

Michael Butler

The stakes are much higher than they used to be.

Eric Maskin

Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Matt Rosoff

Some versions of the product are priced higher than they need to be.

Shawnee Smith

So much of life is just talk. At the end of the day, you're just serving the higher thing.

Alan Greene

Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.

Fadel Gheit

These stocks are not reflecting $50 or $60 oil. They are probably reflecting $40 oil. But this is not realistic. The fundamentals support a higher price.

Bobby Clark

A tie on the road at Michigan State wasn't the worst result. It's not going to hurt us if we can take something out these three games.

Bob Rose

Northwest is hurting. They're hurting themselves, and they're hurting the passengers.

Kip Carpenter

The starter is really hurting people. You're supposed to be down for 1 1/2, 2 seconds at the most. When you're down for 2 1/2, 3 seconds, it's a tough position. I tripped up and it just got my timing off.

Les Brown

Somebody's going to get hurt because of it,

Ron Jirsa

Once you solve something, the next thing you see might be tougher. The second half, when we didn't push it up the floor, that hurt us. You want to make them move. When they get back and it's 5-on-5, it's tougher.

Tommy Maddox

It was time to quit working on things and just go play. If we could stop hurting ourselves, we're going to be pretty tough.

Brandon Sanderson

[Omin] ...All things must progress, and progression is not always a steady incline. Sometimes we must fall, sometimes we will rise - some must be hurt while others have fortune, for that is the only way we can learn to rely on one another. As one is blessed, it is his privilege to help those whose lives are not as easy. Unity comes from strife, child." Page 193

Leslie Alperstein

This problem with the President makes it even dimmer yet, ... He's hurt by this. No question.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As an actor and as a performer, I'm very much aware of the fact that my job is to change both physically and emotionally and that was what hurt the most - the fact that people were judging me based on nothing.

Argus Hamilton

No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen.

Augustus

Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

Ayn Rand

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

Benito Mussolini

We must give Italians a sense of race.

Cameron Diaz

I'm not really in any competition with anyone, I'm not in any race.

Calvin Coolidge

There are racial considerations too grave to be brushed aside for any sentimental reasons. Biological laws tell us that certain divergent people will not mix or blend. The Nordics propagate themselves successfully. With other races, the outcome shows deterioration on both sides. Quality of mind and body suggests that observance of ethnic law is as great a necessity to a nation as immigration law.

Janet Guthrie

Let me ask you. If someone called you and offered you a ride in the Indianapolis 500 and you were a male race car driver, would you turn the ride down?

Dan Aykroyd

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

Connor Franta

Race, gender, religion, sexuality, we are all people and that's it. We're all people. We're all equal.

Evan Osnos

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

Michael Robotham

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Jessie Pettit

Six times now, huh. That's not too bad.

Jennifer Morrison

I have seven scars from having moles removed. One was a melanoma, six were precancerous. Get your moles checked!

James A. Michener

In six pages, I can't even say "Hello.

Tori Kelly

My first competition, I guess, singing-wise, I was six years old, and there's a video of it, too. I'm just, like, stick straight. I'm not moving at all, and I'm just singing.

Ned Yost

I said, don't worry about it. He's only going to throw about 50 pitches. That's about six innings, and then he'll be done.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Jason Baker

This one was the ultimate whiteout - a wall of snow.

Bai Ling

I'm one of the best actresses. One day I will win an Oscar.

Benito Mussolini

Tomorrow, the Tripartite Pact will become an instrument of just peace between the peoples. Italians! Once more arise and be worthy of this historical hour! We shall win.

Brian Blessed

Ninety nine per cent of the time, for anyone who wins or makes money, it makes them happy.

Jamie Foxx

I never planned to win an Oscar. When I auditioned for 'Ray,' I was just thinking about what a great project it would be.

Carroll Shelby

Horsepower sells cars, torque wins races

Al Franken

When you win an election, what you really win is a chance to go to work for working families who need a voice in Minnesota.

Charles R. Swindoll

Consistency: It's the jewel worth wearing; It's the anchor worth weighing; It's the thread worth weaving; It's a battle worth winning.

Charles Darwin

With mammals the male appears to win the female much more through the law of battle than through the display of his charms.

Jamie Redknapp

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that.