Famous Quotes & Sayings

On the one hand, the cost of raw materials and energy are going up, and on the other hand customers like Wal-Mart and GE ... are reluctant to accept price increases.

I believe this offer to be in the best interests of Hearts, its shareholders, staff and supporters and urge shareholders to accept it,

Howard Dean

I believe they do not care what Americans think and they do not accept the legitimacy of our elections and have now, for the fourth time in the fourth state, attempted to do what they can to remove democracy from America.

I believe there's - now, don't get me wrong; I'm not prejudiced - there's some white people in this country who'll never accept the black man as a golfer. That's true.

I believe that number one, we owe it to our taxpayers to explore what our lands are worth and what we want to do. This in no way obligates us to accept offers.

I believe that the very message of me going up to accept the flag is a powerful statement about our city.

Ibrahim Rugova

I am two times (their) elected leader, I have a right to speak ... and even these days ... the (refugee) camps of Macedonia, Albania accept me, respect me.

Ai Miyazato

I am sorry it happened and accept the ruling.

Melvin Mora

I apologize to Venezuela. They know how much I love my country, but I cannot accept what they proposed to me. I respect the Florida Marlins because they tried to push Miguel Cabrera into third base, but this is not spring training. This is a big competition and you represent your country.

I apologize to the team, to the coaches, the university and the fans for my violation of a team rule. I accept the coach's decision to be suspended from the Pac-10 Tournament. I wish the team well and hope for its success. I'm looking forward to participating in the NCAA Tournament if Arizona is invited.

Bryan has decided that his preference is to leave the Suns, and under those circumstances, we saw no other option other than to accept his decision.

But can I live with celibacy? That's a hard decision to make. Some people don't understand why somebody would choose that. But it's part of the vocation, so how are you going to accept it in a healthy way?

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

China realizes that the world is watching and it must play fair in the implementation of the Anti-monopoly Law, ... Given the long history of state-managed enterprises and protectionism, it still is going to take time for China to fully accept cross-border mergers and acquisitions.

China may not view it (Disney) as a cancer, but it won't accept it that easily.

China has been successful - let's accept it. We want to emulate China no matter how we say we are different and want to be different. The fact of the matter is that they're on top.

No officer of the court or citizen of this commonwealth wants to accept that wrongs of this magnitude occur in our system. Unfortunately, the reality is that they do.

Only 5 percent of the death sentences were actually implemented, and I think that would be difficult to accept if you were a victim or believe in the system because there is supposed to be some finality,

My experience was to the contrary, ... He would not accept all our analysis without skepticism and believed we were better on some subjects than others. But those are the characteristics of a good customer.

Must we accept that the only alternatives are to either incrementally improve our current patchwork of identification documents, drivers licenses, Social Security cards and the like, or alternatively, move to some centralized federal data bases that aggregate all sorts of privacy-sensitive information,

Dhirubhai Ambani

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

My advice to him after consulting other officials is that he should not accept the appointment.

Jan Egeland

More is currently at stake in terms of lives saved or lost in Africa than on any other continent. As humanitarian workers, we cannot accept that so many lives are lost every year on this continent to preventable diseases, neglect and senseless brutality.

My dad has always told me to accept who you are. I'm sure people said stuff, but it never mattered.

No one was willing to accept the fact that we were going home.

Nynex has had an ongoing volunteer retirement program and some folks may slide over to those positions as people accept the buyouts.

Cris Carter

Now there are certain aspects of football that we all know. They are not your typical, average 9-to-5 jobs, but why do we have to get to the point that we have to accept stuff like this? This behavior is not acceptable. Romanowski is a bad guy. He is a jerk every day of the week, and I hated playing against him.

Now you have to accept that there will be communication between the lakes.

Pierre Pettigrew

never accept such hatred, intolerance and anti-Semitism. Never.

Getting a dog is like getting married. It teaches you to be less self-centered, to accept sudden, surprising outbursts of affection, and not to be upset by a few scratches on your car.

Robin Cook

For years Libya has promised that it would accept a court without jury meeting in a third country. That way forward is now open to them,

Fraud is a very high standard. For a court to accept this for fraud, it's going to have to be a very egregious situation.

If anyone wants to look at the quantum leap at IBM, they should look at profit margins. Investors have to be savvy enough to accept the fact that sometimes smaller is better, but that's not the mentality on Wall Street. That may be why IBM is not getting the credit they deserve.