Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tagg Romney

My grandfather was an amazing man. You talk about character and integrity, everyone who knew him, whether they agreed with him or not, said, 'George Romney is a good man, and he sticks to his principles: a man of honesty and hard work, integrity.'

Tadanobu Asano

I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

Vicente Fox

Mexico is the only country in the world that has a trade agreement with United States and Canada, and at the same time has one with Europe. These are the two largest markets in the world. By the same token, Mexico has one of the most open economies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

Alberto Fujimori

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

Alfred P. Sloan

If we are all in agreement on the decision - then I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

Albert Einstein

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

Alexander Hamilton

They are not rules prescribed by the sovereign to the subject, but agreements between sovereign and sovereign.

Saeb Erekat

We want to agree on preparations to resume final-status talks which should commence in the middle of next month.

We want this to create a more open, transparent, consistent and predictable environment. Industries like autos and pharmaceuticals have had challenges here with previous agreements not being honored. This will make improvements in those areas.

Adolf Hitler

The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world of ideas is closer to Christianity than those of Jewish liberalism or even atheistic Marxism...

Victoria Osteen

Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.

Barbara Ehrenreich

A research group found that 56 percent of major companies surveyed in the late '80s agreed that 'employees who are loyal to the company and further its business goals deserve an assurance of continued employment.' A decade later, only 6 percent agreed. It was in the '90s that companies started weeding people out as a form of cost reduction.

P. J. O'Rourke

The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.

Bliss Carman

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

Political art expresses the cliches you agree with, unlike propaganda, which expresses the cliches you don't.

David Weinberger

If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

David Weinberger

We've organized ourselves as cultures, to a large degree, around what we agree we know. And when you have multiple ways of knowing, multiple ways of organizing, the society loses one of its deepest organizational principles.

Akira Suzuki

The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous.

Alan Cumming

Sometimes with people I know, they're playing the hunky action guy and there's resistance to them coming out because it's so connected to straight masculinity. There's a plastic kind of movie star who has a very short shelf with very small kind of ambition. I see that but I still don't agree with it.

We're not excluding anyone as long as they agree diversity is a desirable goal in county government.

David Trimble

There are parts of this agreement that we are not happy with. But we have judged that we have enough here to build on.

There are Palestinians who see (Sharon) as someone who did a lot of practical harm to the Palestinian cause. And some people who feel he is the only strongman in Israel who would be able to implement any agreement and enforce it on his own people.

Eliot Spitzer

The only delay, ... is that when you are dealing with 50 states, 12 investment banks, a significant number of regulatory entities, simply getting sign-offs, drafting agreements on stray words takes a bit of time.

We sent in proposals since 2004 to the CPO to sit and negotiate for the new collective agreement, and it is going into 2006 now and no agreement has been met.

We still hope that Poland will join this agreement.

We still have to put together a revised site plan and have agreement with the residents. Really, what we want to demonstrate is that we want to work it out with the neighbors.

We still have negotiations to do. Our goal is to reach an agreement as soon as possible.

Ken Thompson

We are confident that shareholders will agree when they look at the facts, ... We believe that the SunTrust proposal simply won't work, and we are glad that the board has validated our view.

This never went to a court and it was just an agreement between both parties. They claimed to have a vested interest in the club, the operation of the club. They had used it as their home for many, many years.

Bertie Ahern

was prepared to take risks for the peace process, risks to secure agreement and risks to implement it.

We agreed to say I broke some team rules, and we parted ways.

We agreed to reduce our proposal and make improvements to the overall package recognizing the likelihood the pilot pension plan would be terminated.