Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

I would want us all to put real collective pressure and sustain it on President Milosevic in the hope that we will get an agreement and he will understand the implications of any escalation,

Jamie Clark

Having an endangered or candidate species on your property should be a good thing, something a landowner can be proud of, not something to avoid. With the administrative reforms we have made to the Endangered Species Act, such as safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and candidate conservation agreements with assurances, ranchers, timber companies and other landowners are able to participate in the conservation of at-risk species without the concern that their future plans may be delayed or halted.

Bruce Allen

He's a special guy. He wanted to be a Buccaneer and we wanted him to be a Buccaneer. And in just a few days of conversation we were able to reach an agreement that we think will ensure his future.

Andrew Sorensen

He's doing an outstanding job. We're in 100 percent agreement on the terms of his service.

Christopher Hill

It is a good agreement for all of us.

Carol Raulston

I think the industry has literally been shaken by this month's events. There was a broad agreement that we really needed to focus efforts, particularly looking at technology and training.

Bill Daly

I think the importance of meeting quickly after the season cancellation in an effort to get a deal done as soon as possible is maybe we can take some germs of where there was agreement before the season cancellation and build on those, but time will tell.

Christopher Hill

I think the Chinese draft is an excellent basis for reaching an agreement.

Susan Petniunas

It is clearly time for the U.S. to honor its treaty agreement with Canada, and to end these illegal duties that continue to harm American consumers.

Alfredo Griffin

I'm not sure if the USA has ever been exposed to this type of tradition. Fans in the USA applaud but are not as wild as they are in Latin America. I don't think all players in the Major Leagues show as much enthusiasm as we do here.

John Cook

If the other team makes a great play, they will applaud and recognize that. I've seen them give standing ovations to the opponent when a team beats us. It's a very sophisticated volleyball crowd.

Keith Richard

I heartily applaud what they were trying to do, except that it was tied in with government policy and I always try and separate politics and music. I mean, Bob's a nice bloke and all that, but ultimately he's the one who comes off best, isn't he?

George Vecsey

I love Major League Soccer, covered the first game in 1996 in a funky stadium in San Jose, and I applaud just about every move that its commissioners, Garber and Doug Logan, have made.

Kenny Guinn

The citizens of Nevada have already begun volunteering to assist in the relief efforts, ... We applaud them for their dedication and compassion, and urge them to work with officials from Nevada's Department of Public Safety's Division of Emergency Management to begin the process to volunteer for deployment.

Dan Becker

It's not every day that the Sierra Club is able to applaud Ford's actions.

Joseph Battipaglia

The bond market still believes that the Fed is an inflation fighter, the bond market still believes that there really isn't inflation today, and they applaud the moves by the Fed to be ready for future,

Joe Cook

This is indicative of the kind of staff we have ... and we applaud your efforts,

Jim Gilchrist

On behalf of (the Minuteman Project supporters), we applaud you gentlemen.

Paul Tracy

We took our lunch break to sneak down the beach and see the waves.

Bobby Hernandez

He flagged down the Miami Beach officer on duty there, and the officer was able to apprehend the subject.

Dayton Moore

He'll probably go to (Class A) Myrtle Beach and he'll be evaluated accordingly. The next step would be Mississippi. It's possible he could get there this year. The competition (in A-ball) will tell us.

Woody Allen

I hate the beach. I hate the sun. I'm pale and I'm redheaded. I don't tan - I stroke!

Ric Keller

If we don't act, drilling will be allowed only 3 miles off Florida's east coast beaches.

Robert Ludlum

Sundown. The distressed sloop, its mainmast shattered by lightning, its sails ripped by the winds of the open sea, drifted into the small, quiet beach of a private island in the Lesser Antilles

Wallace Stevens

Yet there is no spring in Florida, neither in boskage perdu, nor on the nunnery beaches.

Will Smith

Bouncing in the club where the heat is on, All night on the beach till the break of dawn

Virginia Woolf

She felt... how life, from being made up of little separate incidents which one lived one by one, became curled and whole like a wave which bore one up with it and threw one down with it, there, with a dash on the beach.

Keira Knightley

It's fantastic to have the opportunity to work abroad, and do all that, but there is a certain point where you're just like, 'Oh, I'd love to work at home.'

Chamberlain Oguchi

I was looking for my shot early and they were leaving me open. It's a certain way they play defense, and I wanted to get us going.

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Jan Pronk

I think it is to a certain extent youngness of the administration and overemphasis on domestic policies rather than on international policy-making,

Tom Schrader

I think investors are reacting positively to what's going on right now, with this new phase of the war. The more certain investors are that things are going well -- and they seem to be going very well -- the more hints we have that Saddam may be dead, the more investors are going to jump in.

Stephen Hess

It certainly has some effect on his immediate domestic agenda. He has no money for anything but Katrina.

Aaron Boone

It certainly doesn't impact me much this year. You never know what's going to happen down the road, but I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on me this year. If it does, then I'm not doing my job, anyway.

Art Hogan

It certainly doesn't hurt, ... It always helps to hear her say that she's still confident but it's 12 months out.

Leslie Brunell

I would say we're talking several to many years before the city can be rebuilt.

Bill Hopkins

It always concerns me when a homegrown company like Roanoke Electric Steel gets tied up with management control outside the city and state.

Mike Campbell

Having this kind of concentration of musical talent in the city over one weekend is completely unheard of.

Brian Brennan

Having more executive housing in Ventura would be a huge draw to the city for companies and investors.

Howard Williams

Here we have 40,000 people and if we had a day or two notice we could probably get everybody out if we had to evacuate the entire city, ... Every emergency plan presupposes one thing, that there will be infrastructure to work off of, a road to drive down, some way to get a generator going to get electricity. If your city is underwater, when you reach a disaster of that magnitude it simply overwhelms any plan.

Group Inc

Goldman Sachs has called Lower Manhattan its home for 136 years and we are proud to reaffirm our commitment to this neighborhood and to the city of New York,

Joe Suboticki

Going undefeated in the City League, that doesn't happen very often. I've got to tip my hat to my kids. That's an outstanding feat.

Donna Johnson

Goodbye, city life; Dream Acres, we are here!

Mark Rodgers

He's been polite but persistent. He's enjoyed the Mets, the city and the people, but he can do the math. He knows right now there's no room for him.

A. Hodge

The truth is that these very low numbers ... demonstrate a remarkable level of compliance with federal regulations exceeding 99.9%.

E. B. White

We are continuing to work with the airport, and our hope is they will come into full compliance with our regulations.

Thomas Vinje

There's a striking similarity between Microsoft's efforts to evade compliance with the European decision and its failure to properly comply with the U.S. settlement.

Josep Pique

The most important thing we can do is to continue to insist on full Iraqi compliance with the U.N. resolutions.

Karan Sampson

Roughly 95 percent of the hedge funds that we contacted said their costs had risen in 2005, and nearly half of the respondents expect their compliance costs to rise yet again.

Chris Bates

I've seen an immense improvement in environmental compliance and it's continuing to get better.

Ken Purdy

I've said this before and I'll say it again: We're after compliance before punishment,

Rosalind Cartwright

This is the first study to document if her sleep is improved, and the relationship during the day is improved, and we think the compliance with the treatment is improved.

Scott McClellan

This is not a matter of inspections. It is about disarmament of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the Iraqi regime's compliance with all other Security Council resolutions. It is time for the Security Council to act." ()

Jeff Sessions

I would suggest we'd better spend our time investigating how a top-secret program such as this, a program fully shared with congressional leaders, was breached and provided to the media and revealed throughout the world.

Hwang Suk

I take full responsibility for the papers and offer you my apology.

Todd Christensen

He said he woke up and the room was full of smoke.

Bill Durham

He said he had listened to some clips of my song and, if I wanted to get airplay, to send him a full CD.

Martin O'Malley

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Dave Annable

Hollywood is full of beautiful people - but who knows how many are beautiful inside?

Randy Pfitzer

I thought he did well. He's a sophomore, and he does a good job at what he does. He has more potential, I would like to see him realize his full potential. I would have like to have seen him move on.

Rhonda Jefferson

I think (the break) had something to do with us starting off flat. We did have practices during the week off, but Monday was the first full practice because we had the whole team there.

Jorge Camejo

What you really would have is a situation similar to when IBM was in full swing in Boca Raton.

Dave Clark

He's a big kid, but he has great reflexes. He can come out of goal. He has great hands and a solid goal kick.

Brian Henderson

I think it's a realistic goal for us, too.

Mike Thibault

I think the maturity of going through last hear helps us. We need to come out and get ready to go right away. We've been through it now two years in a row. This is our goal when we started out and now we're here to go about it.

Bill Donabedian

We're on track to hit our goal of 50,000 people.

Marian Gaborik

We've got to try to find more ugly goals out there.

Jeff Corey

We've got to shoot, shoot, shoot. You never know what kind of goal you're going to get. It can be a pretty goal; it can be an ugly goal, but sometimes it's those ugly goals that win the game.

Mike Ryn

We've got to score some goals on the power play. That's part of the reason we were winning; we were getting a goal here and a goal there.

Vic Palladino

We studied other middle schools and we went very slow. We set ourselves a 10-year goal to make a really good middle school.

Joe Thornton

We thought we played real good 5-on-5, and if we can pop another goal on the power play we'll be fine.

Howard Rubin

I'm not talking about lowering hiring standards; I'm talking about rethinking those standards.

Andrew Tyndall

Why would (CBS) spend all that money hiring her away if they weren't hiring her because she's a superstar.

Mary Landrieu

We don't need to be laying off people. We need to be hiring people.

Scott Rice

Joey's a talented kid. He did a nice job on his routes.

Matt McKay

Joe did an outstanding job on Biggs. We didn't want him shooting 3s.

Galen Hall

Joe did a miraculous job keeping that squad from not splitting offensively and defensively.

Garrett Gravesen

Jobs can wait, but the lives of these kids cannot. And because no one else was doing anything else about it.

Allard Baird

He comes into Spring Training where it's his job to lose.

Phil Garner

He just likes going out and pitching, doing his job and saying, 'Thank you very much,' and going home.

Taylor Hawkins

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

Marvin Bembry

There are a lot of storylines to that game. Two teams will line up 11 men on 11 men. We feel our 11 men will get the job done.

Larry Page

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

John Ellsworth

I want to make sure his mission is finished.

Dave Winker

It's nice to have this part of the mission done. It's been a long week.

Sam Altman

It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

Frank Robinson

They were on a mission to win three ballgames. It's probably the first times this year we thought about sweeping a series before we played the first game, and we got it done.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Don James

It puts officers in a situation where they have to think about protecting people or violating policy.

Charles Ramsey

There was a convoy of delegates that got trapped by the crowds, and the officers were trying to get them out,

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Jerry Brookings

I actually had a little R&B group, and Tito performed with me once.

Charlie Smith

Her performance really surprised me, considering she's on a taper for states.

Van Morrison

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

William Peine

Robots don't perform the surgeries, but they are tools that give the surgeon more dexterity.

Serena Williams

I just played terrible. Sun played very well and was ready for the match. I'm disappointed I couldn't perform better today.

David Beckham

I'm pleased with my personal performance but particularly with the way the team played overall.

Harold S. Geneen

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

Kim Yuna

In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

Brian Calhoun

I'm not really worried about it, but at the same time, I do have to perform better because there is no third chance. So there will be a little more pressure, but I think I'll be fine.

William S. Burroughs

Scientology is a model control system, a state in fact with its own courts, police, rewards and penalties.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Walter Mosley

The police and I have a deal. I don't talk to them and they don't listen to me.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I know L.A. well, but it's a police state.

Khaled Hosseini

You have extreme poverty and high crime and you have to admit that the governance of the Kabul regime has been poor and has been losing its popular legitimacy. You have a corrupt police force, not to mention homelessness, joblessness. The problems are huge.

Malcolm X

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

John Knight

It's running a lot smoother than what it was at the old police station.

Moby

I'm not sure how healthy it is to shoot police helicopters with bazookas.

Kurt Russell

Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say, Do you want the criminals off the street or not?

Mike Mower

We've been very public in our support of this.

Robert Winston

I do not know of any credible evidence that suggests Dr. Zavos can clone a human being. This seems to be yet another one of his claims to get publicity.

Robert Peel

No minister ever stood, or could stand, against public opinion.

Gary Peck

If I were the public officials, I would look at this ruling very carefully.

Frank Mitchell

I want the public to know I'm still in it.

William Daley

They've got observers. This has been done in an open, public way.

Alex Honnold

I've gotten over my shyness from many years of doing public events.

Lauren Bacall

I happen to watch public television more than anything else. I'm also a news junkie, so I watch a lot of CNN.

Mick Cornett

Any urbanist has to appreciate New York City and the way it works. The public transit is astonishing.

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Jesse Ventura

Some felt I'm not academically qualified, and they're right.

Ron Chernow

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

Virgil

The only safety for the conquered is to expect no safety.

Salman Rushdie

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

Robert Maxwell

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Wil Wheaton

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Zach Wamp

In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.

Yoweri Museveni

Joseph Kony is hiding somewhere in the Central African Republic. He is no longer a threat. We have already punished him. We provide our own safety.

Winston Churchill

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Samuel Johnson

The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Lee Majors

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Robert Hurt

A lot of good things start in Virginia; a lot of good things have started in Virginia. We're no strangers to firsts.

Stephen Ambrose

Washington and Jefferson were both rich Virginia planters, but they were never friends.

Jason Mraz

I came from Mechanicsville, Virginia, where you have four seasons.

Eve Hewson

Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.

George C. Wallace

They're building a bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia.

Jerry Falwell

I grew up in the segregated South, right here in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Jeff Goodell

It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

Ian Mcewan

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.