Famous Quotes & Sayings

This is a terrible number. The economic recovery is almost three years old, and the economy should be producing 200,000 to 300,000 jobs per month.

This is a team that's finding its identity, ... We almost had a repeat of West Forsyth (an overtime loss Sept. 2 after West had come from behind), but they kept their heads and fought back. You got to commend that.

This is a team that I was allowed to build. The players will give their all in the field. I can assure you the players will play their hearts out. Our fans will see us playing to our optimum capacity.

Jacques Lemaire

This is a team that controls the puck well. You can't allow any mistakes here.

Brian Clarke

This is a storm of unprecedented proportions. Such a donation will allow us to serve people at the point of need.

This is the first we'd heard of it. The listing is being pulled down as we speak. It's a clear violation. We don't allow people to offer escort services or services of a sexual nature.

This is the first time they've said explicitly that the intelligence community should be allowed to treat prisoners inhumanely,

This is the first time in more than 20 years I've known a chairman not to allow a committee member to speak on a bill in committee.

This is the first step to allow Iraq to have a unity government, but it's only a first step. The question is, will the new prime minister be capable of leading the country?

This is not an issue that is breaking along partisan lines. That's one reason I think you didn't see them there, because the battle lines are just not the way you'd expect.

This is not an election that will impact on the peace process. The peace issue was left out of the campaign by almost all the key parties.

This is not about setting up the licensee, this is about deterring both the customer and the licensee from breaking the law. Young people can get into difficulties very easily after consuming alcohol and are not equipped to deal with the consequences, it is our responsibility to protect them. We do this by tackling both the supply and the demand for alcohol.

This is not about just removing the awnings. The main focus is repairing the sidewalks, and this comes along with that.

This isn't a surprise, but you don't want to take it for granted because a lot of things can happen. The competition was really steep. The wrestling was outstanding in almost every weight class. I feel very fortunate that they made it because that was their goal. They're both undefeated. ... We all would like to see them in the finals and be a state champion.

This isn't a power grab. Tough decisions need tough legislation to allow us to be able to do it.

Pavel Nedved

This isn't an easy game. We can't leave anything for granted and we can't allow periods of craziness like what happened two weeks ago.

Shai Agassi

This isn't about assembling Lego blocks but rather about building a backbone that can scale and that can allow others to build on top of it.

This is not the only television programming that people have. They have the Internet. There is almost nothing on television to which people don't have an alternative.

Richard Alley

This is not the biggest problem in the world. The biggest problem in the world is getting along with each other. But it's part of that because we're not going to get along with each other if we're not getting along with the planet.

This is not our first rodeo on an EIS. We've been through a few of these. We know what the process is. I'm a little concerned. It almost makes me say, you should start all over, and do it right, because this process has not included the tribe.

This is not only a death, with all the sadness that brings, this is a killing. For that, we not only grieve that Terri has passed, but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this, and we pray that it will never happen again.

Barack Obama

This is not one of those situations where I think you can just jawbone industry into making the investment, ... This is not something that the markets alone will correct. We will have to use the government as a market-maker.

This is significantly higher than the 2000 municipal elections. There is almost a 50% increase in the total number of candidates, from 30 477 to 45 179. Parties contesting the elections have also increased by 19%, from 79 to 97.

This is run almost like a special situations fund.

This is real research - slow, serious, scientifically rigorous and painstaking work. It will go in strange directions, produce ambiguous results along the way, and raise a lot of new questions, but we're convinced that in 10 to 15 years, we will change history.

Max Mayfield

This is really scary. We're seeing 12-foot seas along the Louisiana coast already.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

This is really not about counting votes. It's about allowing the rule of law, checks and balances.

Robert Zubrin

This is really groundbreaking research, ... There has been almost no research on artificial gravity in space and none concerning martian gravity.

This is really a great prize -- all the bowl games, flying on a private jet, staying in nice hotels. I'm a big college football fan so I'm looking forward to seeing some great games. I still can't believe I won. My sons put me in front of the computer almost a dozen times to register, and luck took care of the rest.

This is really a good group of kids. They get along very well and really have worked hard. We're all very excited about this season.

Kerry King

This is probably the most prepared we've been to record an album since the '80s. We've been writing and cutting demos for months.

O. Henry

This is probably the greatest amount of change since I've been in the organization. Not allowing a school to play up without a vote by the principals has caused a lot of this change. It's funny; at one time schools would fight to change districts.

Michael Vaughan

This is probably the first time the knee has felt like a concern. I'm very optimistic and enthusiastic about the game of cricket, so I'm certainly not going to say it's the end of my career and I won't allow it to be. There's been older and better players than me that have spent years out of cricket with injury and come back pretty well, so, hopefully, I'll be the same.