Famous Quotes & Sayings

We are asking for one more chance. We are confident we can turn things around.

We are asking for donations for food and clothing, and volunteers to help us sort through the donations,

We are asking for damages. We are also interested in that, but also we are interested in making up for past wrongs.

James Wolfensohn

We are asking for calm, and the opportunity to build a bridge, ... But it's very difficult to build a bridge if only one side is building it.

We are asking each business unit to manage their work flow, which means managers' jobs have been eliminated, not the union positions, and we have eliminated contract work,

Dick Pound

We are asking baseball to come clean and set the record straight.

We are asking a specific question -- should sex selection play a role in terms of family balancing,

Kenneth Williams

We are asking any evacuees to go shelter farther west of Lufkin. That's putting them out of harm's way, basically.

Kenneth Williams

We are asking any evacuees to go shelter farther west of Lufkin, ... That's putting them out of harm's way, basically.

Oscar Lua

We are always wondering what we are going to get. Guys start asking around, and a lot of guys mess around and start little rumors about what we are getting, and set us up for a disappointment.

We'd heard rumors all along. We got enough calls from victims' families asking us to look into it that we did.

We didn't know, since she was asking for water, we assumed maybe he was still conscious and maybe still coughing.

Is there an inherent liberal bias in some of our leading news organizations or, asking the same question another way, is there an inherent anti-conservative bias in some of our leading news organizations?

Is that someone like Mike Weir or Chris DiMarco, is that what you're asking me?

I started out just helping out here and there, but soon teachers were asking 'Can I have him for this? Can I have him for that?'

I started teaching lessons on the side because there were a lot of people asking me if I gave lessons.

Deepak Chopra

I started asking people, 'Where has he gone?' ... I couldn't believe that somebody could be with you and take you to the movies and then disappear completely. And so it's been a life-long quest. Where did we come from? What are we doing here? Is there meaning or purpose to our existence? Do we have a soul? What happens to us after we die?

I sent a few text messages, but I couldn't call a lot of people because I was still getting calls from people asking me about signing as a free agent. When it gets in the paper, that's when everybody will know.

I've been trying to use baseball as a vehicle to teach life skills. We're always asking for donations for ourselves, and for people to help us, so in turn I try to get our kids to give back to the community.

I've been in the game for eight years. I'm just asking what's going on. I'm not going over there to argue. I've never been that kind of guy my whole career. I just wanted to know what he called.

I've been doing this for so long, ... it's like asking 'Dude, do you take coffee in the morning?'

Things are so chaotic down there that governments are asking people to stop sending items,

Things that come to mind are things like getting a mini plate instead of a regular plate, asking for tossed salad instead of mac salad.

William Walker

They approached citizens as they walked or drove by, asking for money and saying it would go to charity.

The whole team gives me all they can. That's all I'm asking for.

They seem determined to push this promotion through, ... We're not asking that he be dismissed. We're only asking that he not be promoted in the middle of a controversy.

The word is out. All the top programs think of us as one of the top two or three tournaments. We hear from every major school asking questions about coming down here. They all know about us now.

Tori Amos

The word 'confession,' to me, means needing to be absolved, ... I'm not asking for forgiveness. I'm not asking people to understand. I'd like to think that I tell stories and sometimes my life weaves through it.

The women also ... are given a quiz asking them what's their primary form of contraception and their second form of contraception, and it has to match up to what the practitioner said.

The wolves are at our door and we're asking for support, really. And that's clearly what it is. The wolves are at our door.

The wolves are at our door and we are asking for support. Really, that's clearly what it is. The wolves are at our door,

What am I to do now? That's what I've been asking for four days. I can't even get up off my bed I feel so bad. I can't even cook dinner for my kids I feel so bad. My kids are worried because they see me sick like this and they're like, 'Do you have to go to the hospital?' They can't take this. I've been in the hospital all my life. And they do this to me so I have to go back into the hospital? This is not fair.

We've been telling people in Washington for years we don't have time to wait; now they can see for themselves why time wasn't on our side. We're not asking for exemptions from NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act), regulations concerning environmental safeguards. We want all those in place. But we can't wait the average of 10 years it takes to get a single project online.