Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrian Gonzalez

If there's to be a call-to-action by Congress, from a technology standpoint, it should be focused on making sure detection technology being used overseas is up to the task. This would make global trade much more secure than blocking a business transaction here in the U.S.

If there's some action, it's going to depend on how we come out. If there's a swift retaliation, and it's seen as successful, it could make people feel good, spur celebrating and give us a lift.

Mark Zandi

If there's any disruption anywhere, actual or perceived, prices go higher -- which reflects the very thin excess capacity in the global oil market. Clearly, the record-high levels for energy prices meant a windfall for related industries.

Ehud Olmert

If the Palestinians agree to act soon, we will sit at the negotiating table in order to create a new reality ... . If they do not, Israel will take its fate into its own hands.

If science is the driver, what scientific activities are going to dominate? Decisions on this will affect the structure of the science effort as a whole, the landing site selection, the nature of robotic predecessors, the types of experiments developed, and a host of other issues that require sustained thought and planning.

If rooting out corruption in the House of Representatives is truly a priority for both parties, then we ask a member, any member, to put their money where their mouth is and file this complaint against Acting House Majority Leader Roy Blunt. We urge members to end the ethics 'truce' and cease abdicating their responsibility to police the conduct of their colleagues.

If proper procedure is followed, Sprint acts very quickly.

Bertrand Russell

If politics is to become scientific, and if the event is not to be constantly surprising, it is imperative that our political thinking should penetrate more deeply into the springs of human action

John Spencer

If passed, the government could rewrite almost any act and, in some cases, enact new laws that at present only Parliament can make.

If our republican form of government is perishing because communications - the infrastructure of that republic - is under the yoke of international business how, at last, do we save it? We must build a confrontational movement to reclaim our democracy, a movement committed to active and sustained protest against the present order.

Geraldine Brooks

If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I have to hear that voice, the voice of the narrator. How she sounds will tell me who she is, and who she is will tell me how she will act - and that starts the plot in motion.

If software manufacturers and computer manufacturers act responsibly, they have nothing to fear.

Mark Pryor

I oppose same-sex marriage, and I have struggled and prayed about the best course of action I can take, on behalf of Arkansans, to ensure the sanctity of marriage exists only between a man and woman.

Robert Menzies

I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

Glen Campbell

I had albums before that, but once the TV show started everything really took off, ... I used that show to get every country act I could onto television.

Rachel McAdams

I guess you have to be really open to your acting partners and believe in the story.

I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven... I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can't figure out my gender.

I had already cleaned up my act two years ago now, before my wife was even pregnant. But I suppose that having a baby daughter gives me a reason now to stay off drugs. Everything's going right. So I mean -- touch wood -- we'll get to the end of this, and that will be the last you'll see of us, and everything will be cool.

If we can come out in the first four minutes and be close, even or ahead we will be in it. If we get overwhelmed, make mistakes and are not ready for that intensity or action it is going to be a long night. We have the talent, but we just don't have the experience. Hopefully we can gain it in a quarter or less.

If we can actually catch these things in the act . . . we'll begin to know what's going on, in terms of the frequency and how big they are.

Abdoulaye Wade

If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.

Igor Ivanov

If the United States unilaterally begins military action in relation to Iraq, it would violate the U.N. Charter and, of course, when the U.N. Charter is violated, the Security Council must gather, discuss the situation and make the corresponding decisions,

Hector Ruiz

If the United States does not take action to change these statistics, there is no doubt in my mind that it will lose its global reputation for 'American ingenuity'.

If users and businesses take proper care over their computers, and act sensibly, then they should be able to reap the advantages of online banking without compromising their security,

Greg Long

I fully support their activities. NIU, like most college campuses, can always use more disability-related activities and awareness.

I just remember how good it felt to stand on that ladder and cut down that net. Just to remember putting on that hat and saying that we were champions. To come back to Tallahassee and everybody act like we were celebrities was great.

I just think that the people involved had as much talent and brains as they had, and they went as far as they could go, swimming as I say against the current. Trying to make over an entire society, trying to get people to act decently toward each other, is a big job.

I really think when we have a good offensive possession, we're more active on the other end of the floor and we make things happen. We get rebounds and we get out and run. When we run, that's when we're at our best.

I really think that studying theater early on really helped me to be able to identify how to get into a character, because it's such a mysterious thing. Learning objective acting in the beginning of my career was the best thing I could have ever done.

Nicolas Cage

I really want people to know that despite the title, and despite the fact that weaponry plays a major role, this is anything but a typical action movie, ... It's a movie I hope brings some attention to what is a very serious issue for me, and one that a lot of people just aren't aware of.

I recognize that it may be difficult and perhaps cumbersome during the course of a meeting to enter into executive session, return to an open meeting and later enter into executive session again, should the need arise. However, those kinds of actions by the Council may be fully appropriate and necessary to comply with the Open Meetings Law.

I received a letter from Betty Friday announcing that she will not seek re-election as probate judge and I was disappointed to hear that. In her letter she thanked the party and her supporters and stated that she plans to remain active in the party.

Donna Mills

I really want to spend as much time as I can with my daughter and really participate in her growing up. I'm very active in her school.