Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arlen Specter

I don't like to put it on an appropriations bill, but we waited long enough, ... fall-back position which I have avoided up 'til now.

I don't like the pot calling the kettles black. It's something that has to stop if we're going to get along. Tonight, sores have been reopened with many statements made by new and old board members. Those things could have been avoided here tonight, and should have.

Our schedule makers tell me we haven't had this situation since 1989, where Christmas fell on Sunday game day. Back then, we avoided the day.

Dan Boyle

Our first goal is on the worst shot of the night. But we could have avoided making a couple of mistakes in our defensive zone.

John C. Calhoun

It is a fundamental rule with me not to vote for a loan or tax bill till I am satisfied it is necessary for the public service, and then not if the deficiency can be avoided by lopping off unnecessary objects of expenditure or the enforcement of an exact and judicious economy in the public disbursements.

Nick Clegg

I wish more people knew that the only one of the three main parties where not a single MP flipped from one property to the next, and not a single MP avoided capital-gains tax, where every single London MP did not claim a penny of second-home allowance, was the Liberal Democrats.

Felix Rohatyn

In the 1970s, New York City avoided bankruptcy because wise political leaders like Gov. Hugh L. Carey believed both in strong labor unions and robust banks and companies.

Bette Midler

My husband calls it winging it - the way I just took what the studios gave me, didn't do my homework and avoided roles that would risk my image.

We could have avoided all these problems. The clubs are paying the price for this. The intensification of the goalkeeper issue has become a huge problem. The hunt for the job has caused a lot of problems.

Raymond Kelly

It sounds corny, but I never have avoided the challenges - I relish them - I think it's what make me tick, to a certain extent.

We were struck by how it avoided sentimentality, in the way the great John Huston movies did.

We need to think about how that situation could have been avoided in the first place. Legislation or regulation may not be appropriate in all cases, but it may be warranted in some circumstances.

Frank Rich

Nationalization would likely mean wiping out the big banks' managements and shareholders. It's because that reckoning has mostly been avoided so far that those bankers may be the Americans in the greatest denial of all.

Barack Obama

As we speak, Iran has rolled back its nuclear program, shipped out its uranium stockpile, and the world has avoided another war.

We avoided the sticker shock from high heating bills in October because it was so warm. If it stays warm through Thanksgiving, we should have a good holiday shopping season.

Chuck Noll

I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.

Issey Miyake

I did not want to be labelled 'the designer who survived the atomic bomb,' and therefore I have always avoided questions about Hiroshima.

With another storm threatening the half the Gulf that avoided Katrina, it has traders spooked this morning,

We think they purposefully avoided the truth here.

Pete Domenici

We can talk about who was one day late, who was 36 hours late. But the truth is, it was so big. I hope the people don't think one day, two days here or there, would've avoided the devastation.