Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Hall

We applied in response to a request put out by FEMA for two-man teams to help on the Gulf Coast. At this point we don't know where we will be assigned, but we know it's going to be in the Gulf Coast region somewhere,

H. Hunt

We applied for food stamps and we've gotten it. We have no money.

Chris Horner

We applied for a patent ... for some specific reproductive processes in swine. Any pigs that would be produced using this reproductive technique would be covered by these patents.

Luc Montagnier

We believe that these treatments are not sufficient and are also too expensive to be applied to many people in the developing world.

James Buchanan

We spent some time at practice finishing. We tried some new things and setups and the boys went out and applied it. We're still not quite there, but we're getting the opportunities now.

Irish Sayings

When fire is applied to a stone it cracks.

John Pace

There is no question that terrorism has to be addressed. But we are equally sure that the remedies being applied ... are not the best way of eliminating terrorism. More terrorists are being created than are being eliminated.

G. H. Hardy

There is no question that philosophically he is pro-life, he is a very religious individual. But I think in his stint as a governor and attorney general of Missouri, he was fair and balanced and a person who applied the law fairly.

Matt Mullenweg

If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful.

Pam Brown

Unsolicited donations have doubled since the campaign started.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Jan Egeland

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

Jean Chretien

We spoke in this campaign about preserving social programs and Medicare and that we will do,

E. O. Wilson

We want people to look twice to save a life. That's our campaign slogan.

Thomas Mann

Whether this has any long-term impact depends on whether a party or presidential candidate seizes the opportunity to elevate political reform as a campaign and governing issue.

David Guarino

Tom's campaign had nothing whatsoever to do with this. He knows the Murphy family but had no contact with them about this case.

Dick Cheney

We're going to take our campaign right through the heart of the swing states, the battleground states,

John Edwards

We're going to have a campaign and an election, not a coronation.

Alan Mollohan

Violent crime rates fell steadily from 1993 to 2002, and this nearly coincides with the establishment of the community policing program known as the COPS program under the Clinton administration.

Alan Autry

Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.

Carmen Garcia

We want to support our community even though we are not illegal, but we come from an immigrant community.

Jim Knight

We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.

Barney Frank

Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.

Audre Lorde

stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.

Antonio Villaraigosa

We in Los Angeles, who have ourselves been helped to stand up - to recover and rebuild after a disaster - want to help the families and communities of the Gulf Coast,.

Linda Lewis

We also want to find out what the community wants here.

Karen Burk

We also understand that it's a competitive marketplace and our customers count on us to have the 'hot' toys at the top of their holiday lists and to be the low-price leader in their community for those toys.

Boris Nemtsov

This is simply quite stupid ... The American electoral system needs modernizing. An American comedy!

Chuck Schumer

The way to lessen the grip of the Tea Party on the electoral process would be to do what a handful have done and have a primary where all voters, members of every party, can vote, and the top two vote-getters then enter a runoff.

Timothy Noah

President Obama seems to think that you win by demonstrating that you're a more reasonable person than your opponents. It didn't work too badly, I'll grant, as an electoral strategy in the 2012 election.

Rene Preval

We have questions about the electoral process. We want to see how we can save the process.

John McKay

We're protecting Florida's 25 electoral votes and its 6 million voters,

Marianne Williamson

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel like I'm already involved.

Blanche Lincoln

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

Martin O'Malley

The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.

Romano Prodi

On the unity, there is no doubt, We have to reconsider this unity after the new electoral law - how we shall work together.

Andrew Patel

The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.

Stuart Hoffman

There is no question that we've entered a new era. The question seems to be how long it will continue, and the jury is still out on that one.

O. J. Simpson

They had entered it the last three or four seasons and had made it to the title game, but lost. For the seniors, they felt a little vindication after winning it.

Jack Kemp

Pro football gave me a good perspective. When I entered the political arena, I had already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded, and hung in effigy.

Bono

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

Perry Edinger

Running is something I do a lot of and I've entered a lot of races and I can tell you I've never been around an event that had the spirit that this did.

Granth Sahib

Praying him, the inexhaustible treasure has entered into my being

Robert Rosenberg

The U.S. streaming media market has entered a growth phase, meaning it is experiencing realistic and sustainable growth.

Malcolm Gladwell

That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.

African Proverb

We start as fools and become wise through experience

Mariel Hemingway

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

Nick Woodman

Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.

Eric Anderson

We want to provide the opportunity for people to experience space in as many ways as possible.

Anthony Davis

We have to go out, and whatever happens on one play, whether good or bad, we have to go to the next play. We gained valuable experience since the game we played them. We've executed better, so I just can't wait to see us putting it out there.

Chris Carpenter

We have a solid staff and we have five guys that have experience and know how to pitch. It's going to be a fun year. We've still got to go out and play the games, but we have the potential. We'll see how it plays out.

Sal Fasano

Whenever you don't have fastball command, it's pretty tough to get everything else to work. If anything, it's a good learning experience to know that the fastball is the most important pitch you throw.

Gayle Devin

We were trying to be everything to everyone. My experience tells me that sometimes that doesn't work. You can't really differentiate yourself in the marketplace.

Amy Heckerling

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.

Bruno Latour

You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

Ron Scott

It's an ironic time to be having a party in Detroit.

Demetri Martin

One of the most difficult and ironic murder weapons is the life jacket.

Susan Sontag

Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism

Sxip Shirey

I'm the anti indie-rocker. My stuff isn't ironic.

Tony Robbins

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

Michael Buckley

How ironic, she thought, as she fell to her certain death, that at that moment she would have given anything to be a giant goose again.

Mason Cooley

After ages of bombast, the rhetoric of virtue has become ironic and shy.

Oscar Wilde

Even things that are true can be proved.

Josh Childress

The most disappointing thing is that we can't stop the bleeding. They kept scoring. We couldn't stop them.

Red Cloud

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.

Brett Graham

They played well. (Corbin) Donaldson was tough. We kept getting it down to 2 and 4 and we couldn't get over the hump.

Eric Thompson

They got rid of the sex and drugs but kept the rock 'n' roll.

Chris Mooney

They got us out of what we were trying to do and kept us from getting any kind of rhythm going.

Courtney Ward

They tried to take away the penetration at first. We kept going in and making the passes knowing something had to give.

Thad Lear

They're a big, physical team, and they just kept coming. Their kids run hard.

Jim Crace

For all the splendours of the world's greatest galleries, visitors are likely to be kept at arm's length, spectators of a world that can seem too rarefied to let them in.

Uri Geller

For a moment I thought he would faint. But then he suddenly looked at me and said 'I love these people' and I said 'Are you okay?' He said 'I am okay' and kept waving to his fans.

Chelsea Handler

This women/ killer was a testament to my theory that the crazier you are, the more calories you burn. That's why psychos are always so skinny.

Laura Wade

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

Elie Wiesel

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

Gary Stein

E-mail is the killer (application) for getting people to share information.

Tracy Conaway

At this point we don't feel like we have a killer that's out there randomly doing this, otherwise we would have alerted the public.

Dave Allison

Your best penalty killer is your goalie.

Anais Nin

Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.

Matt Mullenweg

You can't build everything and there is no more a killer feature. Everyone has a different killer feature.

Patricia Cornwell

If it turns out that something indisputably proved that this notorious killer was someone other than Walter Richard Sickert, I would be the first to offer congratulations and retract my accusations.

Paul Broun

I'm very disappointed with the McCain campaign. In my opinion, it was inept.

John Dowd

McCain told me this was worse than being in the Hanoi Hilton.

Gore Vidal

McCain is significant in the sense that he has no significance at all on any subject.

Warren Tompkins

Having run before and served in the U.S. Senate, McCain will start out as a front-runner nationally and that translates to South Carolina.

Eric Bolling

What did [Donald] Trump say about John McCain?

John Dickerson

The McCain people are chalking up Tuesday as nothing to worry about.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

I'd vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin

John McCain has already tapped me

Charles M. Schwab

For my own part I am more interested in my work than its mere money value.

Susan Danly

They have a viewpoint, they have a story to tell, and all of their photos tell that story. This isn't merely a record of something, it has an implication.

Jose Vistan

It merely compounded the problems that have been hounding the country,

Benjamin Franklin

A poet is the mere wastepaper of mankind.

C. S. Lewis

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

Eric Rasmussen

The problem with much of that thinking is that it's taking something from today, like movies, and merely putting it on the Web.

Niels Bohr

You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Adolf Hitler

All those who are not racially pure are mere chaff.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Michael Leunig

My father was a meat worker. He was a union organizer in the meat workers union.

Alan Bradley

Liberals have always been the most fervent Imperialists.

David Hume

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics.

Charles de Gaulle

I'm not at all embarrassed to be a revolutionary.

Charles H. Percy

Unless we increase our economy's productivity-its vitality and competitiveness-we will face pressure for increasing controls.

Norman Finkelstein

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.

Caspar Weinberger

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Dennis Miller

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

Dennis Miller

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

Dennis Miller

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

Carlos Arroyo

They've already proved so many things, but they always feel like they have to prove something. That's part of what makes them the No. 1 team.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

Mike Hass

Even after the years I've had in college, having proved myself, everyone still wants to see something else from me.

William Blake

What is now proved was once only imagin'd

Lauren Goodman

More than just being the voice of a generation, Marvin Gaye proved to be its very heartbeat.

Trevor Goddard

Someone said he wouldn't make a run in Australia, he sort of proved them wrong.

Bryan Whitman

That was rumored a year ago and never proved to be confirmed.

Margo Wootan

I work in this area, and I don't even know what some of those things are referring to.

Peter Liguori

Well, I was referring to the spider more than the aftermath,

Chuck Klosterman

ANYWAY, by the time you read this sentence, the song I am referring to will be ten thousand years old.

O. Henry

We have started, but very briefly. I don't know when we will resume negotiations. We're at the first stage. I am here, I'm waiting.

Bud Perrone

We welcome the government's willingness to resume negotiations.

Dave Calloway

A lot of the teams we've seen this year have seemed to have that inside-outside punch.

Mike Morse

They seemed a little surprised when I said that, but I didn't think anything of it.

Joe Macri

For an 8-9 game, I don't know, it seemed more like an 8-1 game.

Mike Lentz

It was quick, but it seemed like forever.

Todd Blackadder

Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours.

Bill Rowe

The situation seemed like it was just right.

Matt Foy

It was unbelievable. Everything just seemed to click. It seems like everything I did went right.

Aaron Miles

It was a long possession. It seemed like 20 seconds.

Terry Kratovil

Nothing ever seemed to ruffle him. He always had a smile. He was always cheerful.

Edward Gibbon

In the productions of the mind, as in those of the soil, the gifts of nature are excelled by industry and skill . . .

Arne Jacobsen

There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt

Antony Sher

The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.

Denis Waitley

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier.

Charlotte Bunch

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

Bill Walton

Doug Christie, what skill, what strenght, what power, what quickness. The visionof Magic Johnson, the athletisicm of Michael Jordan, the toughness of larry Bird. Dough Christie has it all

Carl Icahn

Don't confuse luck with skill when judging others, and especially when judging yourself.

Dennis Kucinich

Dialogue is good, America used to talk to Iraq all the time. Members of Congress don't have any special skill in weapons inspection. However, if members could be accompanied by weapons inspection experts, that could be a step in the right direction.

Denise Morrison

The thing that I learned early on is you really need to set goals in your life, both short-term and long-term, just like you do in business. Having that long-term goal will enable you to have a plan on how to achieve it. We apply these skills in business, yet when it comes to ourselves, we rarely apply them.