Famous Quotes & Sayings

Larry Smith

We understand that this is long overdue. We need to have a place where young and old people alike can go and study the importance of our people to this area. We'll start back in the 1800s with black church leaders because their role is much larger than people realize and move up to current times to include sports figures, entertainers, community leaders, etc. We see this as a focal point of the area's black population.

We understand that proposed non-labor benefits include such items as full estimated benefit of the alliance with US Airways -- items whose economic value is uncertain in amount and timing, ... Everything we see in this glimpse at a key piece of UAL's loan application suggest a low probability that they will grant approval.

Cristobal Huet

We showed a lot of guts and made some desperation plays, we had guys going down to block shots, it was crazy. I stopped the puck with my stick, then it almost hit me and went in, but it stayed out. I was a bit lucky too, I have to admit, but I'll take it.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We should remain humbled by what we have learned from the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We cannot allow sixty years to soften our memories of how devastating such weapons are.

We should refuse to allow this show, which promotes communist ideology, to come to a democratic country.

Rob Portman

We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.'

Martin O'Malley

We should not try to make the federal government our first responders, ... But when a disaster of the size of this hurricane hits, we should have better mechanisms in place that allow our federal government to restore order and provide relief.

Rob Bishop

We should not allow our second amendment rights to be infringed through frivolous litigation.

We should not allow decisions about giving away our money to be made in a room in a room in the back filled with smoke. That's not the way we do business anymore.

we should not allow a dispute on a single issue to derail the important work we're doing on a wide variety of issues.

We should just not allow new piers and buoys period until we are able to study the effects of mitigation measures we do put in place.

We shot the ball really well. I was almost worried that we were shooting it so well that we'd forget about doing other things.

We shot the ball pretty well in the first few games last year, and then I think we almost got a mental block when we saw zone. Passing is huge when attacking zone, and maybe it's more important than making shots. Obviously when you make shots, people don't zone you.

We shot pretty well at the line. It almost cost us in the second overtime. They were making their free throws, and when they missed, they put in the rebound.

Gary Ross

I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.

Research by James Poterba at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that the wealth of the U.S.'s elderly is highly skewed. About half of retirees have little or no financial wealth when they retire and depend almost entirely on Social Security for their income.

It is probably the case that some regulation of financing will make crises less likely, and I would say higher capital requirements are an almost fail-safe way to make banks safer. But there are a lot of other things that may not be doing that, and so we need to be careful about sort of, like, rushing to one conclusion or another.

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds.

The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.

In the United States, nobody needs to remind people of their own role or their own power in creating the future they want to see. Perhaps it is something that is almost written into your cultural DNA: a desire to answer your Founding Fathers' call to create a 'more perfect union.'

Gertrude B. Elion

I was a child with an insatiable thirst for knowledge and remember enjoying all of my courses almost equally. When it came time at the end of my high school career to choose a major in which to specialize, I was in a quandary.

Gertrude B. Elion

Although I never married, my brother fortunately did, and I have had the pleasure of watching his three sons and daughter grow up. Several of them now have children of their own. We have been a close-knit family, although often separated by distance, and have shared each other's happiness, sorrows, and aspirations.

Wal-Mart carries a lot of electronics and Christmas was coming up, so we decided to go with it. We traded stocks once a week and would check our portfolios almost every day.

Oscar Hammerstein

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone; you'll never walk alone

Stephen Hawking

Although almost every theoretical physicist agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

Joel Salatin

We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and synergy. Portable shelters for livestock, along with electric fencing, insure hygienic and sanitary housing and lounging areas, not to mention clean air, sunshine, and exercise.

Brian Schweitzer

I don't know a single Republican in Montana who would get in a fight in a bowling alley for John McCain.

Bobby Cox

Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.

Boris Trajkovski

I intend to be the president of all citizens of Macedonia, regardless of their ethnic or religious background, regardless of their political standing. I shall not allow ethnic hatred and intolerance to undermine Macedonia's stability.

Boris Trajkovski

I understand the protests, but not the shooting and the attempts to bring down the state. We cannot allow hatred to control our lives. We must remain unified to defeat this evil.

Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse.

Ahmed Zewail

Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.

Adora Svitak

I need to be allowed to make my own decisions and mistakes, take leaps - and fall - without receiving too much help, because it's what I'll be doing for the rest of my life.