Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eliot Spitzer

I have acted in a way that violates my obligations to my family and violates my, or any, sense of right and wrong. I apologize first and most importantly to my family. I apologize to the public, whom I promised better.

Paul McHale

DoD felt a sense of urgency and acted upon it.

Jane Harman

Twelve sick, sadistic kids could not have acted alone,

Bill Thompson

The resolution on Jesus was tabled and never acted upon,

Robert Green Ingersoll

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

Ansyaad Mbai

Many residents who had noticed strange activity from that house only stepped forward after the raid. If they had come out earlier, we could have acted faster.

Ann Strother

Obviously, there's a certain amount of time you have to put in before you're even allowed to be nominated for something like that. Realistically, I think that it's something he should have and could have gotten a lot earlier if the time restrictions hadn't been put in. I think he's always acted like a Hall of Fame coach.

Paul Boyce

Obviously any time there is an allegation against a general officer of personal conduct, it's taken very seriously. It is looked into and examined and acted upon as appropriate.

Leonard Hamilton

People were uncomfortable. They acted like we didn't know what we were doing. I was hoping that if you give this system an opportunity and the time that it takes, it will work.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Billy Crystal

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

Bobby Fischer

I hope the Icelandic government grants me political asylum.

Ludwig von Mises

If the practice persists of covering government deficits with the issue of notes, then the day will come without fail, sooner or later, when the monetary systems of those nations pursuing this course will break down completely. The purchasing power of the monetary unit will decline more and more, until finally it disappears completely.

Gopalakrishnan Venkataraman

The world has realized that India has many things to offer, not only from a tourism point of view, but economic, science and technology, biotechnology, pharmaceutical and information technology points of view. India is increasingly recognized as a destination with many facets.

Waqar Younis

Nothing bad can happen to us if we were on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.

Dee Brown

I'm just looking at Indiana on Sunday. You just have to worry about yourself. You have to win and see what happens.

Steve Alford

Indiana went about it a little different in how they did their search. I never got a phone call. I was never contacted.

Mahatma Gandhi

I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst.

Mel Gibson

In India it is believed that all creatures have a purpose.

Moss Hart

Playwriting, like begging in India, is an honorable but humbling profession.

Shekhar Kapur

In India, the corrupt accuse the corrupt of being corrupt and the corrupt investigate the corrupt and absolve the corrupt of being corrupt.

Peter Roebuck

On a train from Shimla to Delhi, there was a halt in one of the stations. The train stopped by for few minutes as usual. Sachin was nearing century, batting on 98. The passengers, railway officials, everyone on the train waited for Sachin to complete the century. This Genius can stop time in India!

Richard Leakey

To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.

Victor Hugo

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Tipu Sultan

It is far better to live like a lion for a day then to live like a jackal for hundred years.

Jermaine Jackson

I believe if there is any place left where the humanity is still visible, it can not be anywhere else than in an Islamic society. Time would come when the world would be obliged to accept this reality.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Muhammad

It is not within the character of a believer to curse, to damn, to speak or act improperly.

John Cusack

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Israel must be wiped off the map.

Hassanal Bolkiah

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

Abdolkarim Soroush

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.

Mike Sanford

I don't think it was 10 to 12 yards. We were soft on Spencer.

George W. Bush

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

Cat Osterman

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going.

Frank Shorter

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Ginger Rogers

I enjoy sports, and love being involved in any outdoor sport from volleyball to softball. I'm not being immodest when I say I'm a natural athlete.

Joey Porter

He's too soft to say something like that.

Joey Porter

I don't know how you can get a soft 1,800 yards.

Fuzzy Zoeller

You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

Jennie Finch

College softball each year reaches new levels of interest.

Milton Friedman

The use of quantity of money as a target has not been a success. I'm not sure that I would as of today push it as hard as I once did.