Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Kennedy

There is clear and convincing evidence that John Roberts is the wrong choice for chief justice, ... I oppose the nomination, and I urge my colleagues to do the same.

Bobby Martin

She's been my chief clerk for the past 17 and a half years. We've had a great relationship of working together and as for as I know, we've never had a cross word.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

David Atkinson

Taft's encouragement of McKenna's resignation illustrates how effective procedural pressure exerted by a chief justice can be. With the concurrence of his colleagues, Taft was able to steer important opinions away from McKenna until he was able to persuade him to leave.

Vinton Cerf

It's Chief Internet Evangelist, which suggests I should go from three-piece suits to some sort of ecclesiastical robes.

Marty Kaplan

It's called the right-wing noise machine, and now you have one of the chief noise-makers being given the microphone and podium in the people's house.

Jan Mills

I want to make clear that the chief and I share the strong conviction that our police officers must set an example for the entire community, ... The hypocrisy of ?Do as I say, not as I do' is not acceptable.

Elliot Mincberg

It tremendously raises the stakes. Now he'll be in a position (as chief justice) to influence the direction of the court for the next 30 years.

Jane Taylor

Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.

George Davis

Up until now, many of these folks, these past couple weeks, have had no choices. What we want to do is return that sense of control over their lives back to them. Many of them have expressed that they don't know what they want to do.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Ray LaMontagne

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Simon Sinek

Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.

Melissa Marr

to not act is a choice too

Michael Josephson

The choices you make in your life will make your life. Choose wisely.

Michael J. Fox

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

Michael J. Fox

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

Madonna Ciccone

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Jane Hirshfield

My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.

Sparky Lyle

Larry has the experience we are looking for at first base. He's a veteran who was just recently in Triple-A, and we feel he'll do well in our league.

Kim Burke

I think experience is always a major factor.

Lars Lindgren

Some of the guys are stronger than the others and for some of the guys, it's the first time they've played this type of hockey. Most of them have never played outside of Europe, so it's a good experience for them, plus they're learning how to play on the smaller rink.

Robbie Kay

Some people become so immersed an a show, they have an image that the actor is not too dissimilar, but fortunately I've never had that experience.

Linette Johnson

Actually it was more like five times. I over exaggerated.

Ichiro Suzuki

I've seen a lot of great plays in my five years in the majors. And I know we have enough talent on our team to be able to contend.

Caroline Paul

I should really be lifting only five days. I'm sort of obsessed, and I end up going in six, sometimes seven, and that's not good. Something that I preach but don't practice - moderation.

Matt Sylvester

I've been giving him assists for five years; he owed me one.

Norman Peacock

We should be looking at situations long-term. We should plan for five years from now, 10 years from now, instead of all of a sudden worrying about how to fix something.

Josh Fodor

We are a solid team of a group of guys who get the job done. We know once we get off the ice there is another five guys who will pick it up.

Gord Ash

We are going to have players who can pinch-run late in a game and then stay in, because they can play five different positions. That's a big move for a manager to be able to make.

Willie Randolph

We went in with the notion of not having him pitch more than five or seven and 80-something pitches or whatever. He went 120 last time out. He's been really banged up.

Troy Hudson

We wanted him to see five white jerseys every time he touched the ball. We have trust in each other.

Janne Darata

I was devastated. I had time to formulate a plan on how to make something positive out of this tragedy.

Bill Walsh

The men are getting larger and larger, and that puts much more pressure on their hearts. When you weigh 340 or 350 pounds and you are moving violently and working your heart, that's a formula for problems.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Robert Brown

Who fished the murex up? / What porridge had John Keats?

Steve Jordan

John wanted to make a statement that night, and he was able to do that.

Melissa Peterman

If I could have a time machine, where I could go back and tell 12-year-old Melissa that someday John Schneider was going to play her ex-husband, junior high would have been so much easier. I'd have had something to go for.

Bobby Cox

Roger should have won in the low 20s this year and John should have won 18, 19 or 20.

Johnny Weir

I want to be judged by who I am, not what I am. I mean, I am Johnny Weir. Judge me the way you see me, love me the way you see me, hate me the way you see me.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Samuel Alito

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

Tony Blair

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

Simone de Beauvoir

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Thucydides

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

Robert A. Heinlein

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Precedent goes in support of justice.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

A plaintiff who comes into a Court of justice must show that he is in a condition to maintain his action.

Terence

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

Thomas Donohue

We support legislation that would provide a step-by-step process in which an undocumented worker could qualify for permanent legal status.

Jorge Zamora

I want to work legally here; that would give my son more. If I have the chance, I want to be legal. It would be much easier.

Tom Donohue

The comprehensive legal reforms enacted in 2004 truly have made Mississippi open for business.

Curtis Withers

I don't think our team was ever cocky. But you kind of get casual. When we went to the Wyoming tournament, we were picked to win, and we kind of got casual.

Sgt. Helmer

If you are going to be truant, don't want to do it down here because you are going to get picked up.

Mark Reiland

Obviously, we won the right one. We wanted to win both, but if we had to pick one, this would be the one we'd pick.

Mads Mikkelsen

I think I've always had to pick and choose whatever I want to work on. If I'm not happy with what I'm doing, it's probably not going to end up that interesting.

Michael Chertoff

We totally understand what it's like to be sitting on top of a roof or to be sitting in a shelter where it's hot, where you're worried about when you're going to be picked up, where you're thirsty, where you're hungry,

Preston Wilson

He's picked us up all year. It's time for us to pick him up a little bit.

Steve Terry

You couldn't have picked a better day for spring break.

Kristen Meyer

They have to have an appropriate way of getting their trash picked up and removed from the facility.

Ahman Green

It was like, okay, he's back. Now we can concentrate on other things. We can talk about who we're going to talk with the first pick in the draft.

Ed Goeas

Running away from the president makes the situation worse.

Ben Nelson

Anytime the president visits Nebraska its good for Nebraska.

Calvin Coolidge

I always figured the American public wanted a solemn ass for president, so I went along with them.

Ronald Reagan

How could an actor become president?

Stephen Colbert

Northwestern's alumni list is truly impressive. This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that's just me!

Pat Paulsen

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.

Lance Armstrong

On a friendship with former president George W. Bush: He's a personal friend, but we've all got the right not to agree with our friends.

Penn Jillette

Even if I disagree with Obama on many, many things, he is certainly qualified to be president. He is certainly competent to be president.

Pedro Pierluisi

A territory cannot become a state or a nation unless Congress approves legislation and the president signs it.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Lorrie Moore

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Gordon Bethune

No one is going to stick their head out of the trenches for someone they don't respect or trust. You can get shot doing that.

Rusty Wallace

I made my decision. I'm sticking to it,

Jodi Picoult

If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.