Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our general feeling is the agency should give us a chance to comply with the current standard.

Brad Jones

Our work was awarded based on performance, certainly not political connections. We went through the process with -FEMA, the agency awarding the contracts, and we have always followed the scope of the work and done it to the best of our abilities.

Luke Harding

The FSB's invisible presence continued; the agency became an intangible part of my Moscow life - sometimes loudly, sometimes quietly, with someone in a back room clearly turning the volume of minor persecution up and down.

We disagree with the substance and characterization of the alleged violations. We'll be seeking an informal settlement conference with the agency to resolve these differences.

We are delighted that Geronimo Wales is going from strength to strength and hope to build on our existing portfolio of clients in order to grow the agency this year.

Charles Schumer

When an agency becomes as large and bureaucratic as they are, there's trouble, ... This Week.

Jack Straw

We have looked at the letter very carefully. The Iranians are under an obligation to respond positively to the resolution of the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency ... and we look to them to do that,

Yves Behar

When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

Virat Kohli

I don't believe in signing anything and everything that comes my way. I leave it to my agency to help narrow them down for me, but I do research it myself before signing. The image of the brand and its ambassadors go hand in hand.

John Foxe

You'd like to keep everybody. The reality, though, with free agency and the salary cap, is that you're not able to,

Allison Tolman

I taped my original audition for 'Fargo' with my agency in Chicago, Stewart Talent.

Meg Whitman

There is immense legal and regulatory compliance. When you're handling people's money, every legal and regulatory agency in every country is very interested in that. That is some of the expertise we've built up over the last five or six years.

Working for a federal agency was like trying to dislodge a prune skin from the roof of the mouth. More enterprise went into the job than could be justified by the results.

The promotion of the Defense Agency to ministry status has been a issue for a long time. Following the scandal we must first make a new start at the Defense Agency and win public understanding.

We have tried to touch every agency involved to get a good representation. We hope to bring back valuable information to share with the community.

Sean Covey

You are free to choose what you want to make of your life. It's called free agency or free will, and it's your birthright.

Matthew Lesko

I can't help thinking if she - the director of a government agency - is this ignorant about what funding is available and where the money comes from - how often lower-level bureaucrats must give wrong answers when people are looking for help to start a business.

I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

Pat Gillick

No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

TYPE, n. Pestilent bits of metal suspected of destroying civilization and enlightenment, despite their obvious agency in this incomparable dictionary.

Siri Hustvedt

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Ada Louise Huxtable

All autonomous agencies and authorities, sooner or later, turn into self-perpetuating strongholds of conventional thought and practice.

George H. W. Bush

Thousands of trained killers are plotting to attack us, ... Employees of this new agency will come to work every morning knowing that their most important job is to protect their fellow citizens.

Tom Coburn

Today's misleading recommendations by the F.D.A. are the latest example where the agency has put the public at risk by providing inaccurate information about condoms,

Howard Coble

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

Under the constitution, federal laws take priority over inconsistent state laws. Decisions about whether particular rules should preempt state laws are made agency by agency and rule by rule.

We get most of our funding from the Department of Natural Resources. And when any natural resources agency experiences tight budgets, the first thing to go is an educational program.

Julie Harris

We came today deeply saddened. It's a small agency and we are such a family.

Peyton Manning

We have a high sense of urgency on this team. We realize with free agency and with injuries, the days of building and talking about playing for 2006 and 2007, that doesn't make sense anymore.

Mike Holmgren

We wanted to keep Ken Lucas. And in free agency ... Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial package, and he was gone.

We have told the (International Atomic Energy) Agency that we are going to inject new initial materials (uranium ore) into the production chain.

Orrin Hatch

using the appropriations process to 'go on the offensive' and seek to restrain a federal law enforcement agency that has an obligation to enforce the laws.

With the fan support that we have in this stadium, in this city and in this state, we are going to be the most attractive team for free agency whether we have a salary cap or no salary cap. We have the resources to compete either way. Just tell us what the rules are and we'll play by them.