Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Doolittle

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

Michael Shifter

If Uribe's allowed to run he's in an extremely strong position, but it's not necessarily a foregone conclusion.

Paul D. Boyer

I recall mother's tolerance when she allowed me, at an early age, to take off the hinges and doors of cupboards if I would put them back on.

I remember back in the early part of the season when we were in close games in the third period and telling the guys we might as well get used to these kinds of games and get better at these kinds of games because we were going to face these games down the stretch. Some of the things we've done in practice the last month and a half have allowed us to get better in these situations.

I remember San Rafael had a kicker who was a soccer player who just kicked for them on the weekends so the league must have allowed it and it seems natural in baseball and track. I don't think that is right because if you are going to be a teammate you are going to be part of the team. We stress punctuality and being at all the functions. Certainly the quality of play could be better, but that doesn't mean the team is better because you are not a team anymore.

I'll insist he goes to Watford, or on loan somewhere else. He'll not be allowed to go to Watford on loan.

Illinois statutes do not clearly spell out what municipalities are allowed to do and what alternatives property owners have when the power of eminent domain is brought to bear in any situation.

I know he was tested before the games, and I'm pretty sure if something came up positive, he wouldn't have been allowed to participate. I don't know how much credence we can put into it.

Mark Kotsay

I know contract offers were exchanged, and they probably couldn't foresee themselves coming to terms. I think he definitely had a respect for the players and allowed us to handle ourselves as professionals. He was just a good guy.

Matt Hasselbeck

I know in college there were certain places we weren't allowed to live or go after dark. It was kind of silly. That is not going to solve problems.

Kofi Annan

In the short term, the most pressing issue is the continued existence of predatory armed groups, ... Although there is no easy military solution to this dangerous phenomenon, those guilty of the worst atrocities and human rights abuses -- and especially those guilty of genocide -- must not be allowed to escape unpunished.

In this country, we haven't allowed people to be prosecuted based just on what someone said to a cop on the street. There is not a domestic-violence exception to the Constitution.

Robert Englund

I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.

Louis Leakey

I held a research fellowship at St. John's College, Cambridge, and had been allowed to retain my rooms there while I was away in Africa.

Deion Sanders

I have the opportunity and time allowed to make the commitment to really build this franchise and take it to the level we all desire. We desire to have the best talent, best team and best organization.

Natasha Lyonne

I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.

Jason Marquis

I really had a good tempo with my delivery, which allowed me to work balls down in the zone and have life on the ball. It allowed me to get a lot of quick outs early and get my arm in a good slot every other pitch.

I really feel that's been why we've been successful over the last two years. We were stepping into a big gap in NYC. Funnily enough, in our first year people used to joke about how big a risk we were taking, that at least I could go back to Australia after it was done. But I knew there was an audience and a need for this - I knew that if there was something like NYMF that allowed writers to get their work up and seen, then audiences and producers and writers would be excited by it and support it.

Kurt Warner

I really don't. The thing is, of course, the way it ended wasn't how I dreamed it up. It was disappointing to me. But how do you have any animosity to an organization that gave me the opportunities that they gave me, that allowed me to fulfill a dream when no one else would?

I really feel that my life story is a continuation of the Great American Dream - the immigrant who comes to this country and is allowed to excel. How many other countries would let me do that?

Juwan Howard

I point the finger at myself early on. We allowed Wilcox to get very comfortable out there at the start of the game. It got his confidence going. We allowed him to dominate the paint inside.

I probably get 15 to 20 calls a day about him. But I won't be bothering him every two hours about something. ... It's not his priority now that camp has started. It's important he's allowed to be an 18-year-old kid.

Raja Bell

I'm pushing, pushing the guy as much as I can to get him a little. So when he pushes me, you're not allowed to do that. I'm going to fall.

Jason Alexander

I met the real George Steinbrenner on only one occasion when he actually came and played himself on an episode of 'Seinfeld.' He seemed to really enjoy himself. I did not get to know him, but the fact that he allowed himself and his beloved team to be satirized on our show is an indication to me of his true character.

If mom did survive, she will probably come and stay with me when she is allowed to travel. I could not go to school on Monday because of being so exhausted with worry.

Robert Krulwich

If I were king of the world, babies born in airplanes, balloons and blimps would, instead of choosing to be German, Maldivian or American, all get special heavenly blue passports with a stork on the cover labeled 'Sky Baby' - and they'd be allowed to come and go anywhere they please.

If I would have known, I wouldn't have allowed him in my car. Imagine, we get pulled over and I get caught with an armed felon in my car. Since I've been in the movies, it would have instantly drawn attention.

I have no reason to believe that he is not heeding the criticisms that have been made. It is important that he is allowed to get on with it.

Tony La Russa

I had started law school at Florida State University as a part-timer. I would go two quarters, and they allowed me to drop out to play baseball, and then I'd get readmitted in September. I was convinced I was going to be a lawyer and was using my baseball salary to pay my way through school.

I'm very thankful God allowed me to stay home with Vincent.

Jean-Marie Lehn

In 1998, I set up and directed a research group at the Nanotechnology Institute newly created in the Research Center of Karlsruhe. This allowed to offer to former post-doctoral coworkers the opportunity to develop and to progressively set up independent research activities in nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Emanuel Steward

I never saw him being successful past 26. His style was strictly youth and instinct, based on driving through people. It never allowed for a long career. All youth and aggression, fighting with your head up front. The second you slow down, for whatever reason, you lose it. Because your face, which is 10 inches closer, isn't getting out of the way like when you were young and fast. You just can't get away with it anymore.

I'm sure that state and local officials, given enough time, will come up with a sky-is-falling study saying that if they're not allowed to tax this, they'll lose a trillion dollars a year.