Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are pleased that the Council on Foundations has acted to restore our membership status. We have worked closely with the Council to address its concerns, and we are confident the Council's decision was based on a belief that the measures we have taken to strengthen existing policies and implement new measures will set a high standard going forward.

We are one of the few places that have zoning in place. The city acted even before the legislature changed the law. I think council and staff saw the very likely possibility that tattooing would be allowed in South Carolina and wanted to be prepared and wanted to have something in place if and when it passed. There's no reason to wait until the last minute if the train is coming down the tracks.

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career.

People were uncomfortable. They acted like we didn't know what we were doing. I was hoping that if you give this system an opportunity and the time that it takes, it will work.

Cass Sunstein

On the facts thus far, the president has a decent argument that he acted lawfully. There's also a decent argument that he didn't. But if the president has a decent argument, he can't be impeached for getting it wrong.

I was for Gore. I thought that Gore and the Democrats were pretty clueless as to what Nader and the Greens represented, and they acted like bullies.

Lusia Strus

I worked in restaurants and did what I needed to do to act. Theatre is a hard life. It sucks a lot of time, and you're rejected a lot. For six years, I acted for free. Now I make a living acting, but I think there are only five percent of us who can do that. I'm ready to try more.

I was pleased with what I saw. We're not out of the woods yet, but it certainly looked, acted and felt better than it did last night. I say that with guarded optimism.

I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

Davy Crockett

I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried that to be hypocritically immortalized.

What we've got to show at the courthouse is what actually occurred: that Merck acted responsibly every step of the way, from discovery of the new drug to testing it to putting it on the market,

He really threw well. He threw a lot of pitches there. He just hung in there. Our defense is still struggling a little bit. We had those errors and acted like we wanted to give it to them. We tried everything we could to give it to them.

Had I been made aware earlier of the rule, I may have acted on it. In my opinion, the horse would be better suited in the weaker race.

John Buford

Had any of them given me timely information and acted as a guide that night, I could have surprised and captured this (Rebel) force.

Ken Salazar

Having received such information, Mr. Brown should have acted more quickly than he did - and should not have suggested to the American public that he was given contrary information.

He's been the best player I have ever coached because he can do so many different things. He?s very well-grounded and understands the game. You can't really rattle him. He's always acted the same way from the time he was a freshman until now. He has been very mature for his age and that has helped him.

Al Groh

He seems to have been very comfortable back there from the start. It's pretty amazing his first day back there how quickly he acted right at home as far as making the calls.

Ken Lay acted as any reasonable CEO would have acted in the same circumstances. He made correct, proper and reasonable decisions in what he said.

Kelp forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.

Jesse Bradford

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

I think investors are asking why the Fed acted so quickly and so decisively.

Cameron Crowe

It blew my mind, ... There were two girls who acted out the poster of the movie. They had a little red sofa by the side of the road. One was dressed up in a black suit like Orlando with a black wig and an urn. And the other was Kirsten with the champagne glass and her legs crossed; it was so sweet. I was truly in shock.

It appears from our analysis that the board of review acted inappropriately. Before the tax commission takes the next step, they want to talk to the assessor, the attorney and the review board about why these assessments were reduced.

Frank Rijkaard

It could have been a penalty. But the referee is the one who has to judge and he thought that Motta acted involuntarily.

Thomas Campbell

This was not the very finest quality of weaving with gold thread, of the kind that was being produced for the leading courts of the day by the Brussels workshops. Rather, it reflects the sort of medium-quality tapestries that the Florence workshops were producing at this time for use in the Medici palaces. Still, the pride they must have felt, knowing this would be destined to go to Como. Tapestry was such an important part of the theatrical presentation of the day. It was the whole stage set against which the formal side of life was acted out.

Sasha Alexander

I acted when I was younger, mostly stage, but when I got to college I really wanted to expand my knowledge of filmmaking. I just loved movies.

Rob Reiner

I acted when I was young, but at 19, I had my own theater company where I acted but also directed. I also did some theater in Los Angeles. So I was always wanting to direct, even before I became an established actor.

James Franco

I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'

Jeb Bush

I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

I acted like it was the most normal day. And that took so much energy out of me. I got my cup of coffee, read my e-mails. I let all the news come to me.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching.

I acted in a couple friends's short films and thought I was gonna be really good and mysterious and sexy. And I was just terrible and self-aware.

I acted dishonorably, and now is the time to act honorably.