Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Rolle

We feel we have to put concrete on every inch of land. It disturbs the ecology, and it takes away the experience of a child going out into the woods and seeing all of nature.

Richard G. Scott

The Book of Mormon is concrete and solid, they can hold it, and they can visualize that they have to pray to decide if this physical thing is true. There is no room for interpretation.

We have this intention in the long-term, but at present we don't have any concrete plan.

Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.

We haven't really heard any concrete information about it yet. We like going down to Madison, when you think of the state meet you think about Madison. I swam there for my state meet and it's always been such a big deal to go to Madison.

I think (impact fees) have been overshadowed by the increase in concrete and steel. It seems to have settled down.

We hope that in the next few hours, or thereabouts, we will get more concrete information about these hostages,

We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence.

We have taken the leadership role we promised last year. This is by pushing for concrete targets and timetables,

We have to raise the money to do this move. We're paying for that concrete slab at the VAC; it's only fair. And we'll need to sustain funding for the ongoing restoration, too.

We don't have any information on that. We've got some allegations but no concrete evidence.

Jonathan Katz

Politically, it will be helpful to Israel to say to the world, here we are, we have taken a concrete step here, and now it is time for the Palestinians to step forward as well. They are looking at this as a source of goodwill.

I would have proposed more innovative initiatives, but given our benchmark, which was zero, I think we've got to give him credit for raising the issue and putting some concrete proposals on the table.

From every indication we have from interviews, he intended to hit the concrete barrier.

I don't think his resignation actually ends the story at all. And I think it now offers the Democrats more concrete proof that there is something wrong in Washington.

Giving thanks are the concrete steps to happiness

Jack Straw

What we have done today is to set down the most concrete benchmarks by which the conditions in which the elections in Zimbabwe are able to take place, with an overriding imperative -- even at this late stage -- of trying to secure as free and fair elections as is possible.

P. J. O'Rourke

I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

I think it's important for us to not overstate what we know, ... We want to be concrete about what we know and what we don't know.

Whatever Frances didn't destroy, Jeanne took apart. We stripped the hotel down to the concrete structure.

Whatever direction we go in will not be justified by history any more. It's no longer about history, but about the concrete problems that we have. This has really changed.

We support leading scientists who make concrete and crucial contributions to the innovation of science and technology.

Red Grooms

I always dreamed of having very concrete engineering plans, something like that.

Dave Roberts

He'll hopefully be in the race but there's nothing concrete to speak of at the moment.

Ralph Klein

I didn't get the result that I had anticipated, but I am going to meet with my staff and my caucus, of course, and members of the party, and determine what I am going to do. I will have something concrete for you next week, mid-week.

I'd been doing what everyone else was -- concrete multiplexes -- and shoot, it worked. But I'd managed the old Miller downtown in the days when the movie was a total kind of experience.

I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing.

Richard Williams

Where the heck is the good news?. So far, there have not been concrete signs of a recovery.

The war against terrorism should not be used to interfere with an independent, sovereign state. We need to identify concrete terrorist targets and do no harm to civilians.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We'd like to get concrete evidence as to where we go to inspect.

Christine McVie

We're going to try and do something different this time, and away from even what we expect to do. We haven't really formed any concrete plan at the moment, but whatever it is, it's going to have a twist.

We're going to get a much longer life span out of them. We're doing them with stucco and concrete foundations.

Bill Richardson

We're going to focus on two important areas: one is verification, the second is what steps are the North Koreans taking to dismantle their nuclear weapons ? concrete steps,