Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Copps

Don't shy away from asking the tough questions. Go wherever the facts lead. If you ruffle feathers, so be it.

Customers now are asking for that same capability in their virtualized open systems.

Richard Whitehead

Customers have been asking for a comprehensive security and compliance solution.

There's spiritual content in a lot of my songs. It comes from trying to be honest about the issues of life. But it also comes more in the form of asking questions than giving answers.

There's a fine line employers must walk between asking for enough information to verify the documents of a newly hired worker and asking for too much.

There's a discussion of an exchange of gifts (between Clinton and Lewinsky). It's a bit vague. (Lewinsky) makes reference to a dress that the president may have given her. There's also talk about photographs. They sound like official White House photographs but there's at least one where there is a personal inscription that Monica Lewinsky thinks if others see, it will be incriminating, so she's talking about calling the president's personal secretary, Betty Curry, and asking for a clean copy of that photo so she can comply with the subpoena.

There's going to be a very large number of people in Bundaberg who are going to be terribly upset tonight, ... They're asking for justice to be done through the recommendations of the commission. They were pinning their hopes on the commission.

Liam Fox

There's no point in asking focus groups. I go down the pub and hear about it there.

Glenn Turner

There's no place for vigilante-ism or anything like that. If they saw something and wanted to write it down and they weren't going to confront it, we'd be happy to partner with them. But if they're going to confront and try to become the sheriff of their block, they're just asking to get themselves in trouble.

There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach, ... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored.

There's one more member on the board who's going to be asking questions and looking for creative solutions as opposed to (saying) we can't do anything.

There's one fellow who had never shared his faith because he didn't know he could. In one day he had been able to lead six people to the Lord just by people asking him questions on the job site. People are excited about how God is using them.

Jim Martin

There's nothing budgeted for a fire class and there's no plans of having a fire class. You're asking me whether I know what the city is thinking or not. I'm going to have to say if they're not planning on putting a class on, there's a lack of foresight, a lack of planning on their part.

The town is favorable to doing what it can to make this transition happen. The town is just asking the county to take over service of the fire department.

The top of the order is doing exactly what we are asking them to do.

Michael Wolff

The traditional media are asking themselves with some degree of desperation how they can make money out of this.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Asking science to explain life and vital matters is equivalent to asking a grammarian to explain poetry.

Michelle Obama

Like so many American families, our families weren't asking for much. They didn't begrudge anyone else's success or care that others had much more than they did... in fact, they admired it.

Margaret Millar

If you go around looking for accidents, asking for them, they can't be called accidents any more.

Michael Dell

By questioning all the aspects of our business, we continuously inject improvement and innovation into our culture.

Michael Buble

I had done an interview with 'Hello' magazine. In it, they asked me if I was going to marry Emily Blunt. Of course, what was I going to say? I said, 'Oh yeah I am going to marry her and I love her and all of this stuff.' It's true. I was making a joke. They said to me, 'Have you asked her?' I said, 'Have I? Maybe I am asking her through the magazine.'

Mary Astor

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone.

Martha Stewart

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

Teri Garr

I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

Margaret Mitchell

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

Margaret J. Wheatley

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

Patrick Ness

You love him," he says. Not an asking, just a fact. "I do," I say. Also a fact.

Patrick Ness

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."

Lev Grossman

I feel that's one of the central questions of fantasy. What did we lose when we entered the 20th and 21st century, and how can we mourn what we lost, and what can we replace it with? We're still asking those questions in an urgent way.

Oscar Wilde

It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.

Seth Godin

Sign your work...If you're not proud of it, don't ship it. If you are, sign your work and own the results. We'll know who to thank. If you work for a place where work goes unsigned (internally, in particular) it's worth asking why.

Joe DiMaggio

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

He's not asking for the church to become involved, he's asking for Pastor Johnson to disseminate this through his personal network. Certainly, the pastor does not lose his right to free speech.