Famous Quotes & Sayings

Timothy Ramey

Kellogg continues to be the best managed of the large-cap packaged foods companies and remains committed to making the investments today that assure growth in the future. It consistently outspends and out-innovates its competition.

Edward Davis

Judge Moore assured me that he would be able to meet the deadlines that judge Hoeveler set,

Marine Pace

It boils down to the way that each service employs its force, and how best then to assure that they get the most out of the people they have.

Antonio Tarver

He was beat by a better fighter. Period. I am one of the best fighters in the world. Give me my credit. You all thought I would be one-punch happy but I passed my test. I did my homework. I took nothing for granted. I wasn't assured of victory until they raised my hand.

Mark Regev

has expressed concerns about the situation to the government of Egypt, and we've been assured the current situation is temporary.

Ellen Johnson

We are going to reach out to them and assure them the country is also theirs,

Vince Bonvento

What we've told people here is that if they're able to contact their family and need transportation home, be assured the community would provide it. The generosity of the community has just been overwhelming.

Shannon LaRocque

What we don't have is the luxury of time for south county. So it's all the more important for them to get us information as soon as possible... to assure that we've had the proper due diligence.

Robert Half

Having respect for your own time will assure respect for the other person's time

Z. Sheppard

I was like, man, it?s going to be a long day because that takes points off the board when you don?t have a kicker. We were in field-goal range a couple of times and we had to do other things to get points on the board.

Donald E. Graham

I was lucky to become a Facebook board member in late 2008. Restricted stock units granted me at the time have increased many times in value.

Quin Snyder

I was inquiring as to a little more detail, and he informed me that he had been told that the president and the chancellor and key members of the board had approved. At that point, there was no confusion in my mind. I knew it was over.

Dwane Casey

Kevin did a masterful job of rebounding. We have to have somebody to help out on the boards in the paint.

Jon Gruden

Kenyatta started every game last year and helped us make the playoffs. We made great strides on offense last season and it was our goal to keep everyone on board so that we could continue that improvement.

Ron Parks

Knowing this could happen, our board actually negotiated two years with our teachers.

Suellen Reed

Know that you are making a difference, ... They are going to be future school board members, doctors, lawyers, pilots.

Don Bell

I would say the board is more interested than they've ever been since I've been here to look into permitting home schoolers to be involved in extracurricular activities.

Jermareo Davidson

I wrote on the board in the locker room that we're happy, but not satisfied. It was a pretty good win but we're going to learn from our mistakes and things we did better.

Dave Forney

I would think that the committee would certainly look at that and say that South Carolina has done well and deserves a chance to be part of this new format. I don't think it would be automatic. I think a lot would depend on how we play in our next couple of games, win or lose.

Raymond Felton

J.R.'s got some hops, so it was really fun playing out there with him. He's part of the family, and the whole event signifies our Carolina family.

Tedy Bruschi

He showed me he's a player. It would have been easy to pack it in early. But he kept coming. I think he's a guy, if you're a Carolina fan, you have hope you have a good one there.

Kathy Sullivan

I think the concern was that North Carolina has worked so hard to raise standards for teachers and maintain those standards.

James Clyburn

What I'm doing is trying to make sure that the people of South Carolina do not get short-changed in the guise of helping South Africa,

Steve Troxler

We take it from that they are very, very interested in North Carolina fruits and vegetables.

Drew Martin

I thought playing at Carolina would be a lot better and I went with it. Every time I get in there, I try to do something, just try to swing the bat.

Gail Goestenkors

I think we all need to do a better job of bidding to have sites. Carolina was fortunate to have a home site last year, as was Maryland. I think every year, year in and year out, we need to be bidding.

Charles Sanders

It is not our intent to give the entire lottery management to a vendor, ... A vendor is going to supply us a product. The lottery is going to be run by a North Carolina lottery (commission) ... by a director who staffs up.

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Laurie Rozakis

Know thyself. Really think this through before you make a commitment to a lifestyle and work style you just may not be suited for.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Nathan Stevens

I think it's a good development for the program to get the commitment from the kids to do that. It's going to be a big step.

Marybeth Lebo

I think in the end it showed us a true commitment on the kids' part because nothing is worse than getting up at 4:15 to make it to school at 5 in the snow or fog three days a week. Every single girl we kept this year was there. It was really impressive to see the kids and the commitment they put in.

Hanan Ashrawi

He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Ron Sims

has made a commitment that what they recommend will be implemented.

Massimo Franco

Italian voters are not going to be overly impressed by television footage of Berlusconi with George Bush. The overriding issue in these elections is the economy. In 2001, Italians voted for Berlusconi because he promised they would be better off: actually they feel worse off.

Paolo Bonaiuti

Here it comes, in time for the elections, the voting statement of the Milan prosecutors' office.

Guillaume Soro

Here, in our territory, the elections will not take place on October 30.

Duncan Hunter

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

Karl Eikenberry

I think that tomorrow what we are going to have with the elections here, we're going to have a record turnout,

Jyoti Basu

I don't know why are we having elections in five phases. Maybe because workers and officers of the State have helped us in implementing our policies.

Tommy Franks

I don't know Senator Kerry's plan for victory,

Manish Gupta

I am expecting more to be happening here. In the elections, employment of people and development are going to be the main issues.

Nicola Sturgeon

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

Mr Howard

I think it is the obligation of senior executives of Telstra to talk up the company's interest, not to talk them down.

Larry Lucchino

Henry said. ''He may, however, go to Palm Springs to talk with possible candidates, if there are any executives he has been given permission to talk with.

Frank Dunham

There is a food fight going on there in the Executive Branch, I am sure.

Sue Shipman

What I have found working with entrepreneurs and executives is what they really want is their life back.

Sumner Redstone

We are extremely fortunate to have John, a top-notch executive with more than 25 years of experience in the service-oriented retail business, as the new leader of Blockbuster Entertainment,

Sharon Fearey

I thought we had it all worked out from executive (closed) session.

Linda Hirshman

I think it's not just the universities. It's the executives in the boardroom.

Harry Shearer

It grew out of the fact that so many record executives had seen Judith, and had said, 'She's great, we know she's great, we love her, we don't know what to do with her,'

Martin O'Shea

There are officials who think they can go into executive session whenever they feel like it.

Donna Brazile

Hey, hey, ho, ho, Gary Condit must go.

Ethan Suplee

I like Seinfeld when I see it and The Gary Shandling Show, but nothing that I watch religiously. I actually hate watching television.

Joel Kinnaman

I love watching Samuel L. Jackson do anything, but for me, Gary Oldman is the grandmaster of the game.

Mark Mangino

It's up to Clark. He can look at it and say, 'I've got to be the main guy.' Or maybe he'll look at it and say, 'Jon Cornish and Gary Green are doing some good things, so I'd better keep going strong.

Josh Bowman

I want to do films that challenge me. I want to do what the actors I look up to are doing - the Gary Oldmans and Daniel Day-Lewises.

James Corden

I want to be Gary Barlow and peak when I'm 40. That's my plan - he's who I'm modeling myself on. Most people are completely beautiful when they're young, and then there's always a point when they get older where they say: 'Oh, what happened?!'

Ron Darling

Oh, the pressure, Matt. You have to replace Gary Cohen on play-by-play.

Mats Sundin

Not as long as I have Gary (Roberts) standing next to me.

Arthur Miller

It looks like Gary Bauer is winning, but it also looks like there aren't enough of them to swing this in his direction,

Jay Blanton

We've been very gratified with the conversations we've been having with policy-makers.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We're obviously very gratified by today's verdict. It was a very important case.

Patricia Wright

I honestly am gratified that the process works. I don't want to do away with our system. I want to make it work for everyone.

Kenneth Williams

I feel gratified by that. It's been a long battle.

Mark Hilson

We are gratified that shareholders have supported our recommendation.

Rand Paul

I would support immediate construction of the Keystone Pipeline.

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Doug Young

Going to a pawn shop is a short-term solution to meet the immediate cash-flow crunch.

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Roger Clemens

I know my immediate plans are I'll go back to Florida.

Michael Silver

Immediate is pretty quick. It would be nice if there was some sort of time line that says you have to do it within six months or a year.

Tony Nunan

Immediate fundamentals look bearish, ... Weather seems very mild and inventory levels are high.

John Morgridge

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Jo Koy

I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.

Richard Jenkins

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.

Umberto Eco

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

Reza Aslan

The religiously observant is lumped in with the nominal Muslim, the nominal Muslim is lumped in with the non-Muslim and the radical. If we want to make sense of this mess and stop pushing Muslims into the arms of the extremist, we need to make meaningful distinctions between the religion of Islam that a billion Muslims follow and see as a guidance as a peaceful righteous moral life and the puritanical Islam of a minority which so captures the media's attention.

William S. Burroughs

Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.

William Kristol

Yuppies don't have loyalty. They have useful relationships and meaningful encounters.

Viola Spolin

The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

Woody Hayes

The only meaningful statistic is number of games won.

Woody Harrelson

Since half of all trees cut go to making paper, the only meaningful way to address destruction of our forest is to change the way paper is made.

Woody Allen

[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Jo Bonner

In the time since passage of the act, there have been many successes as a result of the measures put into place by the PATRIOT Act.

Sheila Thomas

A lot of times, patients can't think of a single thing they like about their body. The number on the scale, this measures how they feel about their body. They have a very abusive relationship with their body.

Stephen Byers

These are measures which we will need to look at,

David Henderson

They are going to reduce privacy if these various measures go through,

Ehud Olmert

It is time for the Palestinians to take measures to stop terror,

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Richard Blumenthal

The modified measures should deflate Microsoft's overblown rhetoric and apocalyptic predictions about the proposed remedies,

Lance Berkman

There's not another starting rotation that measures up to ours. And then you get to the back part of the game, with (Brad) Lidge. That's who we are. We don't outslug teams; we outpitch them.

Paul Dee

He's always talking about all the members of the NFL that had played at the U.

Jim Moran

I think it's difficult for members of Congress to be as independent as they need to be in their voting.

Brad Dayspring

I think a lot of members will be supportive of the legislation.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Westbrook Pegler

I am a member of the rabble in good standing.

Warren Cuccurullo

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

John Thain

pleased with the resolution of this litigation, which allows our members to vote as planned on the proposed merger on Dec. 6.

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Robert E. Lee

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

Robert Crippen

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Perle

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Russell Baker

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

John Williamson

Hopefully, this will be used by all of the county. It's more than just North High.

Chelsea Cain

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Lena Headey

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RED-SKIN, n. A North American Indian, whose skin is not red --at least not on the outside.

Scott Hand

Our North American operations remain a vital base,

Brian Michaels

If you think back to Oldsmar in 2000, before I got elected, there were no parks on the north side.

Rob Collins

If there's a better player in Northern California, I haven't seen him.

Jerry Brems

If we took that north to Mink and Broad, I think we could alleviate the truck traffic on 310.

George Reed

I have no reason to think that the same situation won't take place in North Carolina.

Kevin McCormick

He didn't want to sit for two or three years before he had an opportunity to play." ()

Chris Murray

He didn't really get a shot. They didn't give him much opportunity in the pre-season.

Conroy Hines

He is probably our go-to receiver right now. He's making plays. He doesn't do it right all the time, but when he has an opportunity to make a catch, he'll do it.

Greg Brenneman

I pass on any opportunity I see that I can't add value on.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders. This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

Dusty Baker

He's going to play now because we're out of outfielders, ... This is an opportunity to salvage the season.

John Reed

I think it's a transformation in terms of the U.S. and the industry. It will give us the opportunity to take it globally.

John Campbell

I think it's an opportunity to have some new blood,

Sabby Piscitelli

I think it's important to have fun, but you have to look at this as another game. It's another opportunity to get better and be the best. You take it a little personal, but you have to have fun, too.

Chris Moller

It's important to understand that it's actually the broadcasters, the overseas broadcasters that have said 'no'.

John Pomfret

Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Adam Marcoux

I just think it would be more professional to have permanent maps.

Harvey Mackay

Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

Larry Sabato

It's permanent now in peoples' minds. It will be in his obituary.

Charles Jones

It's like a permanent campaign. You need to sell yourself on each policy.

Mike Ditka

Success isnt permanent & failure isnt fatal.

Neil Peart

No changes are permanent, but change is.

Rob Mullens

They don't have a permanent license, but they do get first shot.

Stephen Hess

This may be something that is not as permanent as it may look at the moment.

Thomas Kilroy

I look at my writing as the primary activity,

Phil Wold

They need to let us know what their primary source is and if they have a backup.

Richard Giannini

The one thing that has been a primary priority has been facilities. That's the vision that we've got to continue. We've made tremendous upgrades since the year 2000.

Peter Mills

the shape of this primary is not yet firmed up.

Eric Fischl

My primary thing is to make a painting, not necessarily to make a painting to sell for gazillions of dollars, but just to make a painting.

David Gerke

The primary word is ?fun'; it's about fun.

James Wallace

Before you can play basketball, you need to make the grades. That's my primary concern.

Fred Becker

I think it's always important to think about what the other side is going to do before you do something or how the other side is going to react, and he will be able to provide that to our thought process.

Joseph Kabila

Whatever happens, if there are summits we will be there, provided it takes place after the funeral,

John Rutledge

There is enough saving in the world to provide the capital.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Amy Gabriel

We have to be able to provide these services.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Tim Duffy

In some of these areas, we are the only provider of coverage.

Joseph Stefanov

It has to provide a return (for the village).

George Foulkes

I wouldn't be surprised if he was having second thoughts,

Simon Spurr

Spring 2010 is the second season that I'm showing the double-breasted suit. I think the right double-breasted suit is young again.

Jeff Gundy

He seems really tired at the start of the second half.

Doug Tolin

I thought we would come out and play better in the second half. But we could never really get anything going. It kind of went the other way on us.

Vini Dawson

It is a lot better the second time around.

Jim Court

I thought about it for 10 seconds or so.

Keith Wilkes

I was disappointed in our second string guys, because their shouldn't be that kind of drop-off when they come into the game,

Sue Donohoe

When he wanted to know what time it was, you had to get down there. You didn't tell him that it was 30 seconds left.

Jim Calhoun

We've got to take away 3-point shooting and not get fatigued by the shot clock. They make as many shots under 12 seconds as any team you're going to play.

Roy Moore

I don't have a solution right now. I haven't studied that.

Dave Tippett

You think about a lot of situations. That's just part of coaching. You're trying to find solutions every day. We haven't had enough of them in the playoffs.

Margaret Atwood

We are very short on organs, and the pig solution is probably a lot better than the human clone solution - though maybe not for the pigs.

Paul Wolfowitz

To stay back from an intervention is not always a good solution.

Emmanuel Jal

Education is the only solution for peace.

Charlie Kaufman

I really don't have any solutions and I don't like movies that do.

Andy Miller

We'll see. We are trying to find a solution that works for all parties' interests.

Gregory Nunn

A writer is a person who has solutions for which there are no riddles.

Fadel Gheit

And there is no near-term solution for any of these things.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Scott Lewis

I didn't give my trust to my guys,

Rebecca West

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Umberto Eco

Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means...

Woodrow Wilson

There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.

William Morris

We are only the trustees for those who come after us.

Richard Fleeshman

I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust and the ability to identify trustworthiness are not the same thing, although trust and trustworthiness are logically linked.

Robert C. Solomon

Trust is a skill learned over time so that, like a well-trained athlete, one makes the right moves, usually without much reflection.

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.

John DeVilbiss

If you don't put it on as continuing, you'll have to be back to the voters all the time.

Kesha Rogers

I'm appealing to voters by actually telling the truth.

Nelson Mandela

Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

Mike Huckabee

Improved AR roads, via voter-approved tax increase.

Carly Fiorina

The most effective way to beat Hillary Clinton is to remind voters of Hillary Clinton's behavior.