Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Rogers

We want to send a clear message that we will not tolerate people threatening or intimidating victims or witnesses in any case we work.

Louis Stokes

There are, in the King case in particular, some names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony. We have put their testimony in the public domain, but feel that their names should continue to be anonymous.

David McKeown

The outbreak remains under control. The good news is that the number of new cases has really dropped off.

Dan Bartlett

The plight of the Palestinians has always been on the president's mind and a part of his statements. But sometimes when we state our case not all of it gets out. So we reorder the priorities to make sure our entire policy and positions get out there.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it (the girl's) is a human case of H5N1.

Guenael Rodier

We are pretty confident that unfortunately it is a human case of H5N1.

Joe Gibbs

We've all kind of been in a similar situation. In my case it was a racquetball tournament,

Grant Hedgepeth

We've actually run into one case that was well over $100,000 in damage and it's still a misdemeanor. That's bad.

Bob Bowlsby

There are certainly more teams that are in the pool for consideration than any year I've been involved, ... I'm sure given some of the upsets and the things that have gone on already this year, there will be many people who are making a case for themselves that they should be in the tournament field where they might have been left out in the past.

Gideon Gono

We are a guilty party from a technical point of view, ... All we can do is to plead mitigatory circumstances to our arrears situation and pray that the jury will see for itself how genuine our efforts at self correction are.

Peter Power

We're not going to say anything tonight, under no circumstances.

Edward Gorey

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.

Bertrand Russell

Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.

Tony Wagner

We're sorry about the circumstances, ... but we're glad to have a young man and a football player of his caliber.

Greg Craig

When we have received assurances that Juan Miguel will be able to take custody of his son, but under circumstances that require him to remain in this country for a period of time, we will also be seeking permission for a support group of Elian's classmates, teachers and doctors to come to the United States to help smooth the transition,

Anton Chekhov

There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune.

George Peterson

We've also discussed the possibility of a swimming pool at the school. Who knows. We are taking it one day at a time.

Neil Howard

We've already discussed it, and it's a good possibility.

Patrick Smith

We've already been discussing that. It will probably go to two shifts a day before it goes to that.

Bob Kelly

We are going to shape the industry discussion on this.

Catherine Peters

We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.

Viktor Khristenko

When you start to think about energy security, you must discuss global energy security, because there is no other type.

Dick Hamm

We're meeting and discussing and we really have a lot of things on our plate. We're trying to come to a conclusion.

James Wolfensohn

We respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems?

Mike Combs

We're going to get back together next week and discuss a strategy for next year.

Alan Jackson

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

Al Sharpton

If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why can't grandma have a constitutional right to health care?

Chris Colfer

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

Chris Colfer

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

Chris Bohjalian

My grandparents, like many genocide survivors, took most of their stories to their graves.

Bryan Sykes

By looking at the details of the DNA, it is possible to chart the flow of your ancestry from your ultimate grandmother to more modern times.

Caroline Kennedy

I feel like my grandparents and parents gave me a tremendous amount. And if I can pass some of that on, then I'll be very happy.

Camille Paglia

Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism . My grandmother was sill scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard !

John Page

We've already done our investigation and presented it to the grand jury,

Joel Androphy

Some jurors may feel that (the reason) he can't remember or recall is just that he's honest.

Robert Richardson

I knew it was a lie. The 12 jurors knew that.

Estelito Mendoza

This is, to me, an unfortunate situation, because we have a constitutional process ... you have to make sure that the jurors are unaffected by extraneous pressures and influences.

Michael Winter

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out.

Evelyn Ezell

They wanted me off -- jurors themselves were trying to get people kicked off.

Joseph Wambaugh

The time has come for professional jurors.

Trey Gowdy

If you were summoned for jury duty and you didn't show up, what would happen? You'd be in jail!

John Maloney

Obviously, we're disappointed that the jury didn't see it this time the way the jury saw it the last time.

Anthony Mizzi

If only lawyers could be sworn in like all the witnesses to tell the truth in a jury trial, so justice will not only be seen to be done but be done !

Andy Birchfield

I don't have any qualms about the short trial schedule. There was not time for the jury to get bored, I hope.

Mark Barrett

he respects, as we respect, the verdict of the jury on that.

Thomas Bergstrom

It could have been a lot worse. Obviously, it could have been better, but I think the jury worked very, very hard...

Dick DeGuerin

I think the jury is there to be entertained, in part, and to listen to something they can make sense of.

Condoleezza Rice

I think the jury is out on whether the North Koreans are serious.

Bruce Brody

I think the jury is out on that.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Bill Dunn

She was D.O.A. when officers got to the scene.

Linwood Norman

But we are, too. We're putting 50 more police officers on the streets.

Ron Moran

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Robert Patton

I wouldn't use the word embarrassed. The officers performed admirably, so I'm proud of them.

James McGreevey

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year,

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Joe Rios

While investigating, working this case, a rider started making threats to the police officers and their lives.

John Wilson

Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

Sabrina Harris

We ordered it, and it took a year to get here.

Mark Zauderer

They have been ordered to do what they should have done a long time ago, which is to process the club's application.

Alan Perlis

We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.

Al Sharpton

Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

David Graeber

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

Byron Katie

Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself.

Randy Waynick

We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago.

Edward Gorey

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Loretta Young

Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time.

Edward McKendree Bounds

Bread for today is bread enough.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Murray Walker

Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.

Kristin Bauer van Straten

Unless you're a serial killer, you're worried about being liked by somebody.

Elizabeth Peyton

I don't rise to the occasion unless I'm really moved.

Dean Ornish

There's no point in giving up something you enjoy unless you get something back that's even better, and quickly.

Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.