Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Baker

Approximately 26 percent of the surrounding property owners within 200 feet of the property have officially registered opposition to the request. Because of this, a super majority vote (six of seven council members) is needed to approve the requested zoning change.

Peter Takirambudde

The U.N. mission must be much larger, more mobile and better-equipped than the AMIS force. The Security Council should approve at least 20,000 troops to deter unlawful attacks, backed by a substantial international civilian police force and support personnel.

Jack King

We have approved giving them this money, but if they can't get the improvement district together the project won't go forward.

Kofi Annan

Blix until now has been guided by approved Security Council resolutions. If the council were to pass a new resolution giving him fresh guidelines, he will have to factor that in before he continues with his work, which will be up to the council ... to determine what the next stage will be.

Jane Walsh

Council approved a whole slough of information around green roofs, one of which is that there be an incentive program, on a pilot basis that would provide incentives up to $10 a foot for green roofs.

Tom Williams

We are asking you to not approve this plea. It is completely inappropriate for the nature of the crime and for the lack of remorse Daniel Robbins has shown since Jeffrey Harris died.

Ruth Reichl

What often, too often, happens in magazines is that you end up with a great editorial product, and then you're selling things that you don't really approve of.

Gregory Kutz

We found weak or non-existent controls in the process that (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) used to approve assistance payments that leave the federal government vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

Rich Young

Tonight we're presenting our package to the mayor and council. They can approve it tonight.

Larry Woolsey

A week ago Saturday we saw five moose on the trail. These ladies from California were asking if we ordered them up special for them.

Carrie Fisher

People are still asking me if I knew it was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

Dr. Tullman

Of course, youve also got to follow up and make sure that the changes youre asking for get made. Excuses or apologies which arent accompanied by changes in behavior (and real results) are just insults.

Cliff Floyd

Day games here are definitely different than night games. The ball travels a little bit more. He ran out real quick. You're asking a guy who is very, very talented - very athletic - but who doesn't play as much to get a good read on the ball over his head off the wall. Your normal center fielder has a slightly better chance because he's out there every day.

Larry Pearl

Developers have been coming to us and asking us to do something special for their buildings.

Dave Tippett

Are they bad mistakes by the goalie? No. But are they goals that we expect Marty to stop? Yes. And that's the difference. We can be an average or below-average goalie and just wallow along, or we can we be a really good one and give our team a chance to win, and that's the responsibility we need Marty to take. And he's done it in the past, so it's not as if we're asking for something that we don't know is there.

Chris Atkins

An HOV enforcement right in the middle of the HOV lanes is just asking for a backup. Enforcement is good, but the way they enforced it this morning, I'm not sure the benefits outweighed the costs.

John Cameron

The strike is on day 99, and we think it's gone on too long. We're asking Mr. Peters to raise his voice and help find a solution.

Mike Tice

The story got in the paper, then it got on the web, then it went worldwide. Then our phones started ringing and people started asking about Moss so we had a meeting and said, 'Since these calls are coming, what is the value of Moss?' We said it was three No. 1s because we knew no one in his right mind would ever give up three No. 1s.

John Ashcroft

perhaps the largest group of crime victims in our history.

Steve Parker

This is an extremely serious crime where the victims have been threatened with extreme violence.

Edward Garnier

This Government has tied our police up in so much red tape that instead of being on the streets dealing with crime they now spend half their time at their desks.

Gerhard Schroeder

This crime deeply shocked all of Germany and united it in sadness and sympathy,

Jim Carlin

This crime can be solved here in Calhoun County. There's a lot of people that know what happened.

Jeff Hawkins

This could be a crime of opportunity where someone saw it, hot-wired it and drove it off,

Brad Pitt

Crime is just unvarnished capitalism, after all.

Asa Butterfield

Don't do piracy. Piracy is a crime.

Bill James

Crime cases tend to be fascinating until you figure out what happened.

Tim Able

I can't say enough about our line. We were able to move our linemen around and get them some good angles. Obviously, Daniel will say that's always the key for him. They make the holes and he just runs through them.

Daniel Boulud

Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.

Ruth J. Simmons

There's nothing worse than a leader who lacks ambition.

Source Unknown

He that lacks the time to mourn, lacks time to mend.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Godfrey Reggio

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

Rod Schwarz

It's real disappointing. I think it shows a lack of preparation and a lack of concentration. We just weren't ready to play.

Gerhard Schroeder

It's cold, it lacks solidarity and it's inhuman,

Kevin Logan

It's a very thin market. People don't want to take any risk because of the lack of liquidity.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Eric Butterworth

Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things.

Barbara Sher

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Auguste Rodin

To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature

Bertrand Russell

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent

Benjamin Disraeli

Nature is stronger than education.

Calvin Coolidge

There is new life in the soil for every man. There is healing in the trees for tired minds and for our overburdened spirits, there is strength in the hills, if only we will lift up our eyes. Remember that nature is your great restorer.

Bryant H. McGill

Command the space of your beingness - a space where you are allowed to grow into your true, unique nature.

Charles Darwin

We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes in a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.

John McCarthy

When thugs by nature meet thugs by political conviction, 5-0 is not surprising.

Blaise Pascal

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

Joyce Smith

She's shown us things we didn't know about.

Ted Johnson

shown you no hair, no fibers, no eyewitnesses. Not one.

Peter Sorensen

Using these extracts has been shown to work,

Stephen Hawking

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Mickey Blake

I've worked here since I was a kid. I've always been part of the business.

Wang Yongzhi

This is a significant breakthrough of China's space technology since the successful spaceflight of manned spacecraft Shenzhou-5.

Jim Melcher

This is probably the most unusual week we've had in the stock market, at least since 1929.

Shannon Sharpe

You've talked about it since 2001, and here it is 2010 and you're still talking about it.

Joe Jamail

Ever since I was a kid, I've known I could talk to people.

Jim Carrey

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

James Nesbitt

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

Gloria Naylor

Lord keep her safe since you can't keep her sane.

Anne Hathaway

I've wanted to be a mother since I was 16, but I also just knew I wanted to have a career as well.