Famous Quotes & Sayings

In our view, there is the feeling that the adoption of this resolution might have a negative impact on the prospects for concluding a peace agreement within the time period.

Tony Bennett

I'm the kid of baby boomers, and the baby boomers listened to rock-and-roll, not thinking that Sinatra and Bennett were cool. I discovered this music on my own, which is why I really adopted it as my own music.

In view of the biased policies adopted by the court's chief judge to push for a quick conviction, we are demanding that the trial be moved outside Iraq to put an end to this farce.

In those markets, people have more of a choice because they're not forced to adopt the product that comes with their operating system.

Morshed Khan

In traditional terms security is about threats to the existence of a nation state and adoption of emergency or extraordinary measures to deal with them. But non-traditional approach to security tends to make it all-inclusive.

In the long term, an easier balance may be restored by competition from other fuels ... and from the adoption of known energy-efficient technologies.

In the next 5-10 years, property owners will increasingly adopt cost segregation to minimize federal income taxes.

Lleyton Hewitt

In practice he's always been a great player, where he's very flashy and, you know, doesn't take it all seriously the whole time. Whereas I think he's adopted that a little more in his matches. It may pay off for him.

If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if you're serious about adopting the vulture. - Deep Thoughts (Saturday Night Live)

If you study the period of time that Jiang has been in power, he has assiduously and meticulously sought the support of several different constituencies within the party, army and state apparatus, and I think has rather successfully co-opted those constituencies and adopted their programs as his own.

If you want to adopt an animal, please think of your local Animal Control Center where there are animals who need homes desperately, ... However ... it is vital to offer help to the shelters in the Katrina disaster area because they have little hope of being able to place animals locally as they are so overrun.

Inevitably, anything you write that's not sunshine and roses will upset some people's sensitivities. However, if adoption is finally to get on a level playing field as a normal, natural way of forming a family, we have to look at it in all its dimensions and revel in the great stuff and talk about the not-so-great stuff. That gets a national conversation going.

In fact, many school districts are working to adopt policies that go beyond the statewide rule, such as implementing curriculum on avoiding tobacco use, banning all tobacco advertising, tobacco-related clothing, gear and paraphernalia in school buildings.

In addition, two of the participants made a trip to the humane society to adopt animals, and several began volunteering to walk the dogs at the shelter. Many of them told us that they didn't necessarily walk in the study because they knew it was good for their health; they enjoyed walking because they knew it was good for the animals.

In 2005, the industry witnessed great momentum around open source databases, from product enhancement, improved customer support and increased adoption to new vendors jumping on the bandwagon. Open source databases continue to make inroads into enterprises, offering low-cost database management system alternatives to support all types of business applications.

Ernie Els

In 2003, the South African adopted a regimen of twice-daily workouts to improve his fitness. His game improved significantly ... until he hurt his right wrist walloping a boxing heavy bag. 'I was thinking of taking out a little frustration on the punching bag, but I'm not a pro,' he said.

Cisco has been slow to adopt SIP. It has become clear to them, though, that SIP is becoming standard in the industry. If Cisco wants to go after the small end of this market, in particular, it realizes it has to move forward with this.

Being recognized as the SOA thought leader is a clear signal that the industry is embracing our vision of how the service infrastructure market will evolve. What's even more exciting is the increase in planned adoption of SOA this year. More companies are realizing that SOA is the future of IT and business, and our goal is to help those leaders take their SOA from pilot to production.

Adoniram Judson

Christ commands those who believe to be baptized. Pedobaptists adopt a system which tends to preclude the baptism of believers. They baptize the involuntary infant and deprive him of the privilege of ever professing his faith in the appointed way. If this system were universally adopted, it would banish believers' baptism out of the world.

By adoption of a service oriented architecture focused on open standard technologies, the Commonwealth could be transformed from an IT tower of Babel to an IT United Nations,

By adopting our product, QuantumSphere enables companies to provide new product offerings in the marketplace and increase their revenue,

By adopting a prayer policy that allows only nondenominational prayer, the City Council has effectively deprived Turner of his freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

Scott Johnson

By that I mean you need to adopt a lower overhead and operating structure.

Steve Sullivan

Games and films complement each other, and next-gen consoles will require game developers to adopt new techniques.

Ronnie Spector

I have three adopted children with Phil, and for years I was fighting in court with him over being able to see my kids. I was always going back and forth to California, going to court, and I was never able to get a project going.

I just like the idea of people adopting them and turning them into really nice pets. They've had kind of a hard life, and they still love people.

Eric Turner

I just hate to see us adopt another ordinance that is a feel good ordinance that our police officers who are extremely busy right now are not going to enforce and it becomes another nuisance,

I don't know if you'd say we're adopting this place, but if it goes well, it's a place we'll keep in our minds.

Sheila Nevins

I didn't realize, actually, at the time how terribly important this documentary was. I didn't know that the issue of gay marriage, gay rights, gay adoption was going to actually become an issue that would probably tear this country apart.

J. I. Packer

Adoption is the highest privilege the gospel offers.

Cillian Murphy

He's this kid growing up in a small town in Ireland in the 70's--you know the height of the troubles in Ireland, ... He discovers he's an adopted orphan and that his father is actually this parish priest, played by Liam Neeson. So it's just this crazy mad journey that he goes on to find his love.

Alan Autry

The Landscape of Choice addresses those concerns and we should create a plan based on it, adopt it, have faith in it, implement it and stick to it.

David Kelley

The message this conviction sends to the financial community is clear: Those who adopt a 'don't ask-don't tell' approach toward the money they manage do so at their own peril.