Famous Quotes & Sayings

These extremely repressive amendments to the press law are a major blow to journalists in Nepal, who have worked tirelessly to preserve their livelihood, from a king who appears determined to destroy the independent press.

The stock has become less volatile in the past two years and appears to be leaving behind a quite tight period of consolidation between 240p and 295p.

The statute appears to cover the conduct of third parties and not pregnant mothers. If you compare statutes from other places, they read significantly different. They clearly would govern the conduct of a pregnant person, but this is not at all clear in Virginia.

John Edward

I've been looking forward to the time when this is a two-person race and people will focus on Senator Kerry and myself, ... It now appears that we're very close to that place, and maybe even there.

The whole process of applying to convert from a not-for-profit credit union to a for-profit mutual savings bank appears to have been flawed. The responsibility rests clearly on the shoulders of the board of directors.

The victim was out on the balcony and appears to have been trying to sit on the railing when he fell three stories to his death,

The risk appears greatest for the gas names that have outperformed considerably over the last 12 months, even those with strong fundamentals.

This is a significant departure from previous precedent, and appears to contradict the language and spirit of the statute.

This is a significant corridor for commuter and freight traffic. We're certain there will be a need for enhanced transit there over the next five years. We need to be assured strategies are in place to meet the growing need as it appears less and less likely there will be a monorail serving this corridor.

This is a shameful exercise by two groups who it appears have bargained successfully in fat times; but in hard times, the talk turns to nuclear options .... You need to begin today, tonight ... you need to get down to this privately now.

This is good news for women who enjoy drinking coffee. Quite contrary to popular belief, it appears to not increase the risk of high blood pressure.

Barney Frank

This is a timetable for making sure nothing gets resolved before the elections. I don't understand what's going to take many, many more months other than the need for the Republicans to resolve their political dilemma, which is how do you satisfy your own people who want an impeachment with the general public who appears to be less so.

This is the first time (suburban violence) has lasted so long and the government appears taken aback at the magnitude.

This is not a new phenomenon, in Ohio, and in fact in most of the Midwest, there has been a decline in manufacturing jobs for 25 years. But the recent recession exacerbated the decline and while the economy generally appears to be improving, it's recovering more slowly in this area, meaning Ohio and the job recovery or jobs are lagging behind the rest of the economic numbers.

Pat Roberts

This is not the type of responsibility that can be delegated to mid-level officials, ... He should have told the president, and it appears that he failed to do so.

This is not the type of picture that appears on the market. This work, in fact, has never been sold before publicly and has only been sold twice before privately. So, this is a major moment in the art market and the public has responded accordingly.

Jim Crace

The western view of Christ is usually of a stainless being with fair hair who appears to have come from Oslo.

Theophrastus

The unseasonable man is the sort of person who comes up to you when you are head over ears in work and confides to you all about it. He serenades his mistress when she is ill with fever. He approaches a man who has been cast in a surety case and asks him to stand surety for him. He appears to give evidence after the verdict is given.

Steve Spurrier

The university has graciously ruled in favor of Freddy and it now appears he is eligible to be back on the team. He will begin as the third team guard and will have to work his way up.

This election appears to have suffered from very many problems. The reports have become overwhelming.

That's when people are really going to see things start to happen. All of it appears to be on track right now ... but there's still a lot of work to do and a possibility something might trip it up.

That's not the goal. It appears to be self-serving.

That's not the case. It appears some who obtained NASA's news release did not fully understand what they were reading.

That shows a bias within the lab to incarcerate innocent people. It appears there are innocent people in prison. And it appears that law enforcement has played the ostrich ? that everyone has just ignored the problem.

Alcoa's earnings appears to resemble a biblical scripture because it can be interpreted in many ways,

The most immediate concern remains Iraq, where the prospect of further severe political and economic setbacks appears to be increasing.

The miss appears to be weakness in the trading portion of the Investment Bank unit, a frequent culprit due to its excessive volatility versus peers.

Mike Williams

You saw the polarization of the community last night. It's racial polarization, clearly. It appears to the minority community that my call to the board (for Thompson to leave) is one more piece of evidence that we have racial problems.

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

We've been hopeful another year class would emerge to help support the fishery, and now it appears we have one.

The reality is that Blockbuster has burned through $267 million in cash through the end of the second quarter and it appears that they are still burning cash to date.

Current weakness appears industry related, not company specific, in our opinion.

Friedrich List

England's national debt would not be so great an evil as it now appears to us, if England's aristocracy would concede that this burden should be borne by the class who were benefited by the cost of wars, namely, by the rich.