Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ted Cruz

We ought to be allowing the private sector to pursue every form of energy because the energy of the future, it's not going to come from the government picking winners and losers.

We didn't want our wings dropping down and allowing them to kick it out for the three, because that's basically their offense -- to penetrate and kick for the three.

Do we think he has the same value he did two or three years ago? Absolutely. He's certainly has been the cornerstone for our business, lending credibility and brand awareness, allowing us to create a golf company within Nike.

At this point in the season, you want to make sure you're competing and that you're fighting for everything and that you're not allowing anything easy. We're making teams work.

Weaker mortgage lending in the first half of 2005 led to annual totals weaker than in 2004, but gross lending and loans approved for house purchase finished the year on an upward trend, after allowing for seasonal factors.

Loving yourself means not allowing other people's opinions of you to be more important than how you feel about yourself.

Richard Carmona

The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection - along with giving an employer permission to ask for medical records showing why a woman is taking birth control - opens up a set of problems that I'm sure its sponsors have not fully considered.

China enforces stability from the top down. Allowing everyone to gradually buy into development allows India's stability to take root from the bottom up.

Eliot Spitzer

Mutual funds, who have a fiduciary duty to shareholders, who have made the representation that they will do what's reasonable to stop these trades, and then they take payments for allowing these trades to take place -- they're in deep trouble,

My goal was to create the biggest 'theatre of war' experience that the technology would allow. This meant allowing the player to zoom in or out - and when zooming out, I mean all the way out to see the entire map - depending on the situation, and allowing them full-control over every single unit, at any time, at any zoom level.

Monie Love

My greatest contribution to hip-hop was allowing the United States of America to know and understand exactly how far they reach, and how influential they are to children in completely different countries because I am the import.

Dominique Moceanu

My father wasn't allowing me control and the financial freedom that I was asking for. I was 17, about to be 18 within a year, so I started asking more questions because I felt that I needed to start learning about those things.

Hugh Mackay

Frankly, I'm more worried about the violence we do to ourselves and our children by allowing the media to create an expectation of instant gratification.

Benjamin Franklin

Friends and neighbors, the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing abatement.

I don't think we played our best. We were losing gaps and we were allowing the O-line to get to our linebackers. So I think we can correct some of those things and get a lot better when we play UCLA.

I don't use recurring characters. I do get very interested in my characters while I'm working with them, and I find the process of fitting them into a story, and allowing them to create the story around themselves, fascinating. But no, I don't imagine they have a life outside of what I make for them.

Ruby Rose

I experimented with fashion as it being more like art, allowing what I wore to express what I was feeling on the inside. Androgyny, rock culture, and grunge - they definitely had an effect on the things that made me feel cool and comfortable.

For whatever reason our offense hasn't come together yet, but our defense has been outstanding and that's probably the biggest reason we're 4-0. Only one opponent (Martha's Vineyard) has managed to score more than 50 points (51) and counting tonight, we're allowing an average of 42.5 points. When we can do that, I have to like our chances.

giving a voice to people who have been isolated, or have been invisible and silent, allowing them to speak out regardless of their economic status, their gender, or where they live.

If the investigation is to be completed, it is essential that the government of Syria fully cooperate with the investigating authorities, including by allowing interviews to be held outside Syria and for interviewees not to be accompanied by Syrian officials.

He was crestfallen and guilt-ridden, because he was allowing at that point two boys in his group who had not been present and were not responsible for the murder to take the blame for something he had done,

I would have liked to have seen 24 players in the squad and they could have fixed it up by allowing us to put players on three or six month contracts.

Phill Kline

Sexual desires rather than communal and historical sensitivities would then define the marital relationship, ... allowing such combinations as three-party marriages, incestuous marriages, child brides and other less-than-desirable couplings.

Mike Pompeo

Old ideas of not trading because 'they won't open their markets to us' miss the entire point of allowing goods to be imported into the United States - because we want and need them and because someone here believes that the good or service received in exchange for our dollars creates value for them.

She punished him by filling the bathtub with scalding water and submerging him in it. After she inflicted these serious, serious burns on him, she turned him back over to his grandmother. The grandmother took him home on Christmas Day and kept him for a week, allowing him to suffer and gradually die.

Doug Aitken

I love art that haunts me, that stays with me, that is left embedded in my mind. I don't really think there is any use for owning or collecting art; it is more about remembering and preserving it in the minds eye and allowing it into your cultural DNA.

I give it to my coaching staff for putting as much confidence in me, allowing me to open up and grow into the player I can be.

I feel the spirit of the Sunshine Law can be violated by calling a meeting a workshop and not allowing public participation.

Richard Hamilton

I feel good, especially the last couple of games. He's been putting the ball in my hands and allowing me to create and allowing me to make plays.

Before, ranchers were taking more of their heifers to be slaughtered than they were keeping because the prices were so high that it was more beneficial to sell the animal. But, with the Japanese demand dropping off, ranchers have been able to keep those heifers for breeding, thus allowing them to rebuild their herds.

Serj Tankian

By allowing this vote, and allowing the will of Congress to be freely expressed, you will be doing the right thing morally and, at the same time, encouraging Turkey to deal honestly with its past and more openly with its future,

Ryan Holmes

By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs.

By allowing kids the opportunity to encounter situations common to everyday living, such as personal banking or going to the store, JA Enterprise Village brings what they learn in the classroom to life. Students will learn what it takes to run a business and the relationship between business and consumer, valuable experiences that they will use in the real world.