Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Rafael Chaves

There are decisions we have to make that we don't like a bit. This was the hardest thing I've had to do. I was his first pitching coach.

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Jeff Beeman

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Spencer Abraham

We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,

Tyler Cowen

Economics is everywhere, and understanding economics can help you make better decisions and lead a happier life.

Rob Salter

We're starting to be unselfish and make good decisions.

Skip Holtz

We're going to treat it like tryouts, and after the week, we're making our decisions and we're going with them. We can't wait any longer.

Darrell Bevell

We're still looking at everybody. We haven't made any decisions yet.

Fran Quigley

We have no idea. We will never know, because so much being done by the federal government now is shrouded in secrecy.

J. Horton

We're making history again. Never before have we supported so many state and federal missions.

Stephen Moore

What has been the fastest-growing federal tax imposed on middle-income Americans over the past 20 years?,

Ben Bernanke

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Charles Lindbergh

From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.

Michael Chertoff

Unless it can be credibly established that a mobilizing Federal resource ... is not needed at the catastrophic incident venue, that resource deploys,

Kenneth Langone

I should not get Social Security. I think it's a travesty for a man of my success and of my means to get anything from the federal government.

Dan Lipinski

With the overall size of the federal marketplace expanding, we should be seeing opportunities opening up for our nation's small businesses.

Claire McCaskill

It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams.

Chris Chocola

Prior to the PATRIOT Act, the ability of government agencies to share information with each other was limited, which kept investigators from fully understanding what terrorists might be planning and to prevent their attacks.

Chris Christie

China need to be fought back on. And what we need to do is go at the things that they are most sensitive and most embarrassing to them; that they're hiding; get that information and put it out in public. Let the Chinese people start to digest how corrupt the Chinese government is; how they steal from the Chinese people; and how they're enriching oligarchs all throughout China.

Chris Christie

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

Chris Christie

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Edward Gibbon

The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects.

Edward Gibbon

The image of a free constitution was preserved with decent reverence: the Roman senate appeared to possess the sovereign authority, and devolved on the emperors all the executive powers of government. During a happy period (A.D. 98-180) of more than fourscore years, the public administration was conducted by the virtue and abilities of Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, and the two Antonines.

Edward Gibbon

The two Antonines (for it is of them that we are now speaking) governed the Roman world forty-two years, with the same invariable spirit of wisdom and virtue. ... Their united reigns are possibly the only period of history in which the happiness of a great people was the sole object of government.

Ed Balls

I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,

Earl Warren

The mere summoning of a witness and compelling him to testify against his will, about his beliefs, expressions or associations, is a measure of governmental interference. And when those forced revelations concern maters that are unorthodox, unpopular, or even hateful to the general public, the reactions in the life of the witness may be disastrous.

Peter MacKay

There's a lot of possibility that there could be a motion (on Thursday) that could be tantamount to confidence.

Mike Degory

The talent's there. And the togetherness is getting there. If you start putting all the wheels in motion and all pieces together, it's a pretty good-looking puzzle.

Norm MacDonald

I never had any interest in sitcoms or motion pictures or anything like that.

Atharva Veda

Nothing comes, and nothing goes; this play is all set in motion by the Lord, the Sovereign King.

Jack Thompson

No one has ever before survived a motion to dismiss, so we're excited.

James Calhoun

If we're ready to make a decision, I'm sure someone will make a motion to put it on the agenda.

Jerry Reed

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Michael Bennett

My neck's doing good. The motion is there. The pain is pretty much wearing away. I want to be safe about it, but I'm ready.

Harvey Pekar

I worry about getting work, and then when I get it, I worry about doing it well. I don't want to just go through the motions and give people stuff. This stuff is really important to me.

Tom Smith

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we're going to give them a whole lot of pictures.

Stephen Foster

This picture represents all the contributors to the arts, taken in 1988.

Mike Byers

That picture was taken at 8:27 a.m., May 18, 1980.

Peter Bart

The temptation to do remakes is simply that, if the picture worked once in the past, why not try it again?

Samuel Goldwyn

("You say you've never made a picture before?") Yes, but that's our strongest weak point

Hulk Hogan

You need to know the whole picture of this business.

Pam Shoemaker

When you put the whole picture together, recycling is the right thing to do.

Willie Smith

Everything you can think of, he was there taking people's pictures and he was just an outstanding person.

Joan Miro

You can look at a picture for a week an never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life.

Bobby Robson

I took a risk in putting Dyer on because I trusted our public. They didn't let me down,

Tyler Oakley

For any YouTuber, if you're too nervous to have somebody else document, it may be that what you're putting out there isn't authentic.

Michael Rodgers

The situation is serious. That's why I recommended no travel for this year. We've been putting this off, and the situation hasn't improved.

Gene Luen Yang

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

Maxwell

Songs are not on a conveyor belt. I'm not chopping them up and putting them out.

Philip Kerr

Publishers just want you to write the same book over and over again. But why would I want to do that? It would be like putting on a threadbare dressing-gown day after day.

Kourtney Kardashian

Nothing comes before my children. I find that putting everything else in order of importance also helps to get everything done.

Ernest Borgnine

Even radar was unheard of when I first went into the service. Then suddenly, they started putting bedsprings up on the tops of ships.

Joe Klein

We're putting our teams together now. If he comes, it's a bonus.

Paul Holmes

They put on Ernie Dingo and their ratings went UP!

Marc Ganis

Ratings are down because ratings are down for every network.

Larry Peck

It doesn't get much better than that. It's phenomenal. Those ratings rival those of the majors.

Drew Lachey

In terms of TV and for the ratings that the show gets, it's ridiculous.

Tom O'Neil

It's possible. There are ratings spikes for shows that win the top awards, ... The Emmys.

Regis Philbin

They could have had Regis back this year if they wanted. Ratings were pretty high.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about the ratings of Congress. I really don't.

Carol Peters

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.

Patricia Vance

The system is working effectively now. There's nothing broken.

Alan Paller

It would have been terrible (without the widespread patching). That got a lot of systems fixed.

David Garrett

This is a system that we take for granted,

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Tom Davies

could not have been in his system the day he testified.

Jason Tapp

We got a lot of work done during break. They really used the system well. They really trust each other now.

Clare Short

There's not enough movement. We've got a system that is completely stuck,

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.