Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucius Thomas

The bottom line is, if the service pay works, the constable with 15 years' service won't be too worried about promotion because it will put him above the young man who is promoted to sergeant.

Carrie Graf

Our aim was to try to keep our head above water. Unfortunately, our head was under water. But we went blue in the face, we came up for air and we're going OK now. We've learned to swim.

Lin Wood

Despite their threats and assertions to the contrary, the AJC, its attorneys and its employees are not above the law and the authority of the court,

Matthew Parry

Despite our belief that crude prices will slowly trend down over the remainder of the year, further escalation in the U.N.-Iran standoff could quite conceivably send oil to a new record above $70.

Martin Charnin

'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the balloons above the characters than practically any other comic strip that was around. The strip told tales instead of jokes.

Ameen Rihani

An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.

Josh Bernoff

Any strategy that gets a message to rise above the clutter is terrific from the advertiser's perspective. Even if it's not much of a secret, it's still a pretty good marketing idea.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Steve Brozak

The silence was really deafening, given that everybody cares about one thing - Guidant. Above all, the future of J&J is dictated by what happens with Guidant.

Wayne Hudson

As far as African-American lieutenants, I believe I am the first.

David Perlmutter

The bottom line is that this author, a practicing neurologist dealing with Alzheimer's disease on a daily basis, believes we need to expand the public awareness that modifiable lifestyle factors have a profound role to play in determining who will or won't get this disease.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Jim Tressel

Of course, we believe the greatest rivalry is Ohio State-Michigan, ... It's played each year at the end of the regular season, many times impacting the Big Ten championship, and it's played in front of more than 106,000 fans every year.

David Page

Of course, ... this is a hypothesis that we have no way to scientifically prove or disprove. However, we believe it's currently the best explanation.

Ryan Reynolds

Oh God, 'the game,' ... From what I remember, it's just a really disgusting exercise in homophobic futility ... I cannot even believe it made it into this movie. It's disgusting.

Sydney Smith

Oh, don't tell me of facts -- I never believe facts: you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

Peter Fiske

no reason to believe these allegations are true.

Michael Carty

The oil prices are creating a few problems, ... Prices are impacting the PPI report and also consumer prices and are also hurting our trade balance, what with the weaker dollar, because we have to pay more to import oil. However, there aren't a lot of inflationary pressures here beyond that.

Pansy Tlakula

I urge voters to register or re-register as a matter of urgency and not to delay it beyond this week. They will only be able to do so until the elections are formally proclaimed in the Government Gazette, and that could be imminent.

Sean Brown

The victim here is a local attorney, and I am familiar with him. That may cause a problem with my being able to represent her beyond today.

Charlie Pierce

There are few colonial nations anymore. Instead, we are colonized by financial institutions beyond our political control. We are colonized with pens and papers and millions of little digital bursts transferring billions of dollars all over the globe in the blink of an eye.

Travie McCoy

I feel like a lot of people in the hip hop world don't take me seriously as a rapper, and I feel that first-and-foremost I came up as a rapper before I started singing. All a lot of people know from me is 'Cupid's Chokehold,' and they don't scratch the surface and see beyond that dude who sings the song about his girlfriend.

Jesse Reynolds

The expectations have started to be lowered, but I think expectations were raised beyond justification.

Anne Lindbergh

Don't wish me happiness-I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor-I will need them all.

T. S. Eliot

And what the dead had no speech for, when living, they can tell you, being dead: the communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Bill Taylor

And we've got more depth. We will run as far as we can take it and that goes beyond the county.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Brett Eldredge

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Anthony Weiner

I see a trend here where the President seems to think his job is to count votes and then try to make a deal That's what we in legislatures do. Mr. Obama's job is to travel the country, fight for the values that he cares about.

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Barbara Jordan

If you had to work in the environment of Washington, D.C., as I do, and watch those men who are so imprisoned and so confined by their eighteenth-century thought patterns, you would know that if anybody is going to be liberated, it's men who must be liberated in this country.

Barbara Kingsolver

Most people no longer believe that buying sneakers made in Asian sweatshops is a kindness to those child laborers. Farming is similar. In every country on earth, the most human scenario for farmers is likely to be feeding those who live nearby-if international markets would allow them to do it. Food transport has become a bizarre and profitable economic equation that's no longer really about feeding anyone ... If you care about farmers, let the potatoes stay home.

Barbara Kingsolver

Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone tries to claim sole custody of the flag and weild it as a blunt instrument. There are as many ways to love America as there are Americans, and our country needs us all.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Chico Lynch

We were fortunate. And the rest is history.

Rich Miller

is suspended the rest of this season and the start of next.

Susan McWhorter

We tried to use more subs and rest our sick players.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

Clint Eastwood

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Barry Bonds

Right now, I'm just day-to-day, trying to get through the rest of the season,

Bible Bible

But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.

Joan Claybrook

These standards are written for Detroit, by Detroit.

Thomas S. Monson

I urge you to hold fast to your standards. I plead with you not to waver.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.