Famous Quotes & Sayings

The league is very enthused about the prospect of having a flagship facility in the New York metropolitan area, and they're liable to be focused on helping assist this project with a retractable roof.

P. J. O'Rourke

Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.

(The departments) have worked very closely together for years and years and years. It has been pretty much the assumption that, at some point in time, the fire and EMS departments would merge.

The Department of Homeland Security did not provide any assistance or endorsement for this series.

Artur Davis

The devastation in the Gulf is so great that it will be very difficult for many of these campuses to reopen without significant assistance, particularly historically black colleges and universities, many of which have been devastated by the disasters and we ought to help provide that assistance right away,

The detectives are working the case very hard. They've been canvassing the neighborhood, talking to associates of the family and trying to find any possible leads.

John Carroll

The consistency of our performance, and assignment performance, was greatly improved over last week.

Larry Brown

The direction is not going the way we would all like and we've got to do something about that. This is a pretty good time from now until All-Star break to kind of assess where we're going, but I do really feel good about a lot of the pieces here and I think a lot of them have a chance to get a lot better.

The dilemma is that there was no direct contract with ICE, because that was handled through the one Bureau contract. It's possible that ICE may now want to work directly with us, but because we don't have any assurance of that, we have given every employee a notice of termination.

An alliance, joint venture or minority investment with option for increased ownership would enable Home Depot to participate in China's economic development without the difficulties associated with navigating its political and cultural challenges alone.

a minimal, not a maximal agenda, a starting point, not the end. This basic commitment must be assumed by all the governments of the world.

An associate and I bought it, and we're going to restore it, ... I'm going to be principal owner and president.

An asset on the surface like this is invaluable. We certainly wouldn't want to prematurely cut them off." ()

Radhanath Swami

To be in the association of those aspiring to love God is the ultimate gift of God.

Laurie Helgoe

When an introvert is quiet, don't assume he is depressed, snobbish or socially deficient.

Terry Pratchett

Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.

Terry Pratchett

Assassins did have a certain code, after all. It was dishonorable to kill someone if you weren't being paid.

Marcus Aurelius

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Marcus Aurelius

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

Henry Giroux

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

Mila Kunis

I don't live lavishly, so it's not like I have 20 assistants and travel privately and shop every day.

Margaret Spellings

In Connecticut, my understanding, although I haven't seen the actual litigation, is that they want to measure every other year and not provide annual assessment as is required in the statute.

Jose Mujica

I was no assassin. I got out during the amnesty because I had not committed any violent crimes.

John Charles Polanyi

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

Jerome Bettis

You'd have to assume that he'll stay in the lineup. He gives this offense a big-play dimension in the running game that it has never had.

Derek Jeter

You'd assume that somebody would score yesterday. That's how it goes.

You could destroy your 401(k) by buying horrible stocks. It's probably the single biggest asset people have besides their homes. A lot of people shouldn't do it.

Colin Montgomerie

You come here with so many pressures that to score nine-under after two rounds is some result, ... I made it look easy out there but it wasn't, I can assure you. In fact, it was bloody hard.

You can't get to a solution until you get a diagnosis. If you don't see the role of the junk food industry in causing the problem and in continuing to maintain the problem, you've missed a big part of the diagnosis. Things that dramatically assign blame, like a lawsuit, help people make a diagnosis.

You can't get caught up in what they're trying to do. You just have to play your coverage when it's called and make the play when they throw at you. It doesn't matter if they come out and throw it 50 times or run it 50 times. You have to play your assignment and execute.

James Hansen

You can't turn on your television without seeing these advertisements about clean coal, clean tar sands and the claim that there's more jobs associated with fossil fuels than other industries. That's of course not true. But they're hammering that into the voters' heads.

You can't take it home with you. When my son was wrestling, we never talked about it at the dinner table. You do it in the practice room where it matters. Kenny's a good assistant coach. It can work for you if you do it right.

Michael Nutter

You can't really escape the fact that more reasonable gun regulations and procedures need to be in place, a strengthening and tightening of the national background check system. I don't know why any civilian would ever be able to purchase an assault weapon or the parts that go with it.