Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nelson Mandela

If each and every party involved in those commissions had asked me to testify, it would have completely undermined the function of government.

John Chaney

I don't want to talk about that at all. We've been asked that question for the last five or six years. I've been asked that question ever since I came to Temple. We'll talk about that some other time.

Jenny Shipley

I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.

I don't think we could have asked for more from them or our defense.

Matthew Hoggard

I don't think we could have asked for a better day.

He's never once asked me how many points he had, never once asked me about any individual records. He really doesn't care about that.

Pete Carroll

He's never been asked to be a coach for an NFL job before. It came out of nowhere.

He sold Dr. Simons one of his dove mirrors that he had made for his office and gave me a hug. Later that day he called me back and asked me for a date, and I said yes.

Paul Posluszny

He's obviously handling it as well as he could. He's taking his punishment like a man. He's doing everything the coaches have asked him to do.

Mark E. Smith

He's got a fastball, curve and change. He throws a heavy ball. That means he gets plenty of grounders. He's done everything we have asked of him so far.

However, I'm not the one that asked for the opinion. That would be the person who needs to withdraw it. I don't know what we'll gain if we continue, but maybe it's something that needs to continue so it doesn't happen in the future.

He simply told me that they had decided to give the sponsorship to another company. I asked him (who it was) and he said I would find out later.

I cannot tell you that, ... I kind of questioned their effort. I asked them why they wanted to play football, and the guys really responded good, so I'm proud of them.

I contacted the people over the festival and asked them if they would like me to organize an authentic group of dancers.

Annika Sorenstam

I could not have asked for a better start to 2006 and I hope we'll be able to come back and defend our title next year.

I loved playing both ways. I wouldn't hesitate to do it again. Defense is challenging and fun, trying to stop the man coming at you. It's a thrill. I wouldn't hesitate to do it if D-Dub (Blaze coach Danny White) asked me to.

I love each and every one of these girls. They've worked hard on the game, done everything we've asked them to do, and we're going to concentrate on the 26 great games we've played.

I never considered it, ever. When they asked me I didn't know what to say. It was a decision that had to come from my whole family. I was real happy as a high school coach. I love baseball and I kind of got to know (Kapanke and Goodell) a little bit. They must have followed my career closer than I thought.

Sathya Baba

I never asked you to earn me. I want only that you should need me. Your path is not one of merit. Bring the recurring desires of your mind to me, every time they emerge. They cannot shock me, for I willed them! Bring me your confusion, your fear, your craving, your anxiety, your inability to love the world, your hesitation to serve, your jealousy, all the deficiencies that defy your spiritual disciplines.

Dusty Baker

I never asked him. I asked other guys and they all said, 'No.' I didn't ask Barry. If you've ever been around Barry, Barry's his own man.

George Stewart

I never asked for a transcript, ... I hired him in a job where I didn't think he needed (a degree). His work experience was enough. And then with his job performance I gave him some responsibilities of and the title of chief administrative officer. . . . His educational background was never a big deal for me.

Scott Caan

I never asked for any help. I never asked for a meeting.

India is our home and we have nothing to hide in this case. We have asked the police commissioner for a meeting.

Howard Dean

In December, when we were just getting pounded by every other candidate, I asked Terry to step in because I thought it was getting kind of destructive, ... Terry decided to be neutral, so I suggest he still remain neutral.

In big time situations we couldn't have asked for better competitors.

Initially, the contact center was considered a service organization and was asked to do that as efficiently as possible. Quality monitoring as a contact center application is still very much involved in the initial goal of improving customer-facing processes. But importantly, it now has higher value for deriving customer intelligence.

In many cases they didn't have to provide a signature. Now we're being asked to provide more and more.

In May 2002, if you asked me anything about Martha Stewart, all of my responses would have been positive.

Julianne Moore

In my family, there was one parent you asked for money and the other for permission to do things. You could never get both out of one parent.

In my conversations with DNR personnel, bridges that are in now are fine, but if they have to be replaced, you can't do that. I asked about replacing a rotting bridge deck and I was told that even that is a gray area. That's when we thought we better get some wording change in the law.

In all the years I was in the legislature -- and I'll swear this on a stack of Bibles -- he never asked me to do anything or vote in a particular way, other than he always wants us to build more roads in the mountains.

Frank Robinson

I know this kid. He has never asked for more than one day off when he has thrown a lot. For him to say that he is hurting, he has got to be hurting.

Jeff Gordon

I know people have asked me, 'Why haven't you done that? Why haven't you done that?' I've never really felt like it was my place to do that. I feel like over the years that I've been here that I've earned more respect, but I don't know if I'll ever have the type of respect that Dale had.