Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ahmed Akkari

We want either an apology or some kind of explanation as to why they chose to do the cartoons.

David Kay

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

Jami Attenberg

With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.

Chris Christie

I was appointed U.S. attorney by President [George] Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state.I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.

Cher

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

Barbara Johnson

violets are God's apology for February ...

Cathy Guisewite

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

Bill O'Reilly

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

Bernard Ebbers

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Dean Ryerson

We have seen an increase in pregnant students coming into the university clinic. Our clinic also hands out free condoms, and we have seen an increase of students asking for them.

Jimmy Neal

We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States,

Imad Moustapha

Whenever the United States came to Syria asking us for assistance, on issues they wanted our assistance ... we immediately engaged with the United States. This has included our support for the elections in Iraq, our securing the borders. We have done everything possible to secure the borders between Syria and Iraq.

Carol Williams

When you saw Dwayne in his front yard, you saw Shawn. Dwayne always came by asking for Shawn, until Shawn went missing. They used to just hang in the yard, laughing and joking.

Jason Klein

We want shorter contracts, because the times change. And we haven't had a pay raise since 1997. That's what this whole strike is about is unfair labor practices. We're asking for a livable wage.

Michael Ramsey

We want her on the stand. We will put in all the notes from those meetings. They'll show that (Enron) was a well-run organization and a lot of people were asking righteous questions. They demonstrate an intelligent corporation in action.

Agnes Repplier

There are many ways of asking a favor; but to assume that you are granting the favor that you ask shows spirit and invention.

Marcy Forman

We were asking for provisions, but we didn't have provisions. But we knew with the number of people walking the streets in the city that we clearly had to provide shelter.

Lorenzo Codogno

There is clearly a risk now that they might be bold enough to tighten policy in December, We think they will wait until March.

Kevin Reilly

This project is a noisy, compelling combination of bold drama and laugh-out-loud comedy,

Laura Mvula

I envy those who can wear red lipstick or any bold lip colour, really. My top lip just doesn't seem to take colour - there's nothing I can do to change that, so I usually just use a nude on the bottom lip.

Dorothea Brande

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

George Borrow

Sherry . . . a sickly compound, the use of which will transform a nation, however bold and warlike by nature, into a race of sketchers, scribblers and punsters, in fact into what Englishmen are at the present day.

Neil Strother

Motorola is big and bold enough to do things on its own.

Bible Bible

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Shelby Seyrafi

She was very bold when she said that she would hit that 12 to 15 percent revenue growth number, and she is hitting it in the first quarter after she said it.

Michael Nelson

We're going to have to wait a few more years before we can decide where it belongs. The fact that we don't know shows you how hard it is sometimes to tell how they're going to look with the passage of time. When a president makes a bold decision, it carries great opportunity but also great risk.

David Trimble

We have said repeatedly that we jumped first and gave them the chance to act... and a second chance. Doing nothing is not a cost-free option to republicans,

Gene Upshaw

We have to give them a chance to have their meeting and vote on our package. They can vote yes or no.

Andy Reid

We have to give Lamar a chance to get acclimated. We will see how he progresses there and then we will get him in and utilize his talents.

Bruce Williams

We have to give everyone a fair chance to register,

Bob Hartley

We have to give credit to Tampa Bay, New Jersey and Montreal. They have put on some great streaks, but by winning our games, we stay in the race and stand a chance to win.

Claude Julien

We have to get more traffic in front of the net. Those second and third chance opportunities won't come unless we start getting our sticks on some rebounds. But Belfour didn't make our job easy tonight.

Tom Renney

We have to get Kevin going, get him rolling. I wouldn't mind giving him a chance to go back and play the Islanders. He had a tough game the last time he was there.

Mark Leno

We have a small chance of changing his mind,

Willnett Crockett

We have no complaints about our bracket. The committee did what they did for a reason and we're happy where we're seeded and we're happy we have a chance to do what we hope to do, which is to come back home and play in front of our crowd.

Juan Gonzalez

We have (second-place) Southwest this coming Wednesday, then Sweetwater and Eastlake. All three will be tough, tough games, so hopefully we can finish on top and go for the No. 2 seed.

DeMarcus Nelson

We have to get better. There are a lot of things we can do to get better. This feeling that this team is feeling tonight. This hurt and this pain has to motivate us this coming week to get better and to prepare and get refreshed for the ACC tournament. We really have to come out in the ACC tournament and really have an edge and a fire in each and every one of us.

Dave Schmotzer

We have to get better at that daily grind that all ballplayers have to go through. Right now, we have too many inexperienced players being put into pressure situations and not coming through. But it's just two games, so it's not time to panic yet.

Lovie Smith

We have a stretch run that we're coming up on and we need all of our guns, really, for that. And Cedric is a big part of what we're trying to do running the football. Other guys will have to pick up the slack until he gets back.

Marci Skeen

We have a solid team coming back. I was really impressed with our freshmen. They turned in some big scores at the OCC and at the district meet. Being a freshman at the district meet didn't seem to phase.

David Starkey

We have musicians coming from Chicago, St. Louis and New Orleans to play in the band.

Jeremy Gunn

We have so many people coming back, and with the new additions, we're in a good position. We have lots of people vying for time, and there's definitely competition for places, which is nice. It's a nice problem to have.

Scott Ford

Whenever you exert that much energy coming back, it's so hard getting over the hump. Defensively, we picked it up a little more in the second half.

Kathy Gibson

When everybody left the locker room, there was a lot of talk that we're going to come back next year already. Every player that walked out said we're coming back here next year.

Pervez Musharraf

The process is moving forward and whenever there would be a concrete and solid advancement, it would be made public,

Louis MacNeice

Good poets have written in order to describe something or to preach something - with their eye on the object or the end. The essence of the poetry does not lie in the thing described or in the message imparted but in the resulting concrete unity, the poem.

Jimmy Cliff

I grew up twelve miles outside of Montego Bay. In my early teens, I went to Kingston. It was like a different planet for me. In the country, people are kind. In the city, people are hard an' cold, like the concrete and steel.

Richard Williams

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

Nong Duc Manh

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.

Callan McAuliffe

I don't like concrete jungles.

Rick Heinrich

We're still looking at the tire and trying to find a concrete determination as to why the tire went down. We don't know if it was a puncture or wear-related at this point.

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.

Duleep Mendis

We have to give the players back the confidence because we are approaching the World Cup (in early 2007).

Jim Tufts

We have to get our confidence up and used to the puck.

Chad Ambuehl

We have to get better every day. If we can do that, if we can keep winning games and keep gaining confidence in ourselves, we could win a regional. That's been the goal since day one, and nothing has changed.

Craig Craft

We have some confidence that we can go in and do something (at the tournament). If we can get our game on the floor, we'll have a good chance.

Pierre Littbarski

We have some confidence from the last game in Sydney but they (Adelaide) are 10 to 15% stronger at home in Adelaide.

Russ Crist

We have so many talented guards and we wait to see who?s going to step up on any given night. Tonight was Kristin?s night. She did everything well. ... She played with confidence and that?s something we need out of her.

Mike McKinney

Whenever we are running it, we were successful at it. It gave them more confidence for the next time we did it.

Mike Kitchen

When he first came, his play was OK and then it's dropped off of late. I think he's lost his confidence a little bit. He's got to shoot more. He's got to go to the net and be a little more greedy with the puck.

Jody Rhodes

We wanted to try to get back on the right track and get some confidence early.

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Thomas Galvin

Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.

Mark Foley

We've seen how (terrorists) have used our state to assemble, so it's really critical we have the voice of Floridians represented,

Jim Walton

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

Sherwood Smith

When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.

Stewart Udall

Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Eric Liu

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Vitaly Mutko

We want to return our team to the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Debbie Martinez

We have seen a lot of heavy traffic in the last week or two. The warmer days in early November were slower than usual, but it has picked up and doubled up since the weather has cooled off.

Todd Kapala

We have seen a good three or four days of trading so (investors) are taking profits at this point.

Chris Saunders

We have no excuses. They just didn't play good today. I don't think playing two days in a row makes any difference.

Ricky Craven

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

Tim Tebow

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

Thomas Massie

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

George Nichols

We are going to look back at 2000 as the glory days that crashed.

Elon Musk

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Atsushi Yanagisawa

We have no problem in our formation. This is a result of our hard work. I'm going to show what I've learned from my experiences in Italy from now on. I'm going to play my best, looking forward to the World Cup.

Howard Wolfson

We want New Yorkers to see the real Hillary and obviously we're looking forward to it.

Lindy Ruff

We were a shadow of ourselves. I couldn't find one forward I liked tonight.

Paul Casey

There is a lot of golf still to be played this year and I'm really looking forward to the rest of the year.

Rachel Means

There is a lot more responsibility on us this year. But we're looking forward to it.

David Trimble

The process is moving forward and the process is moving forward towards a particular result and towards completion. and the sooner we get there the happier everyone in Northern Ireland will be,

Tom Hodgkinson

We can live frugally. The less you work, the less you spend and the more time you have for loafing about. But when I put forward this simple notion, I was greeted with a volley of resentment.

Tim Hearn

We're just trying to find that path forward and we'd like to go to hearings, but we're not there yet.

Tom Gonsalves

We're just trying to become a better team. We've got to get better for the playoffs. We take two steps forward and one step back.

Carol P. Christ

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

Jeffrey Williams

We have salvageable patients we are going to lose because we can't get these people out of here. They are human beings, after all.

Elias Canetti

We have no standard any more for anything, ever since human life is no longer the standard.

John Salmons

When you're up like that it's human nature just to be like, 'We've got this game. But we've got to stop doing that.

Alan Rudolph

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Charlotte Bronte

You are human and fallible.

Charles Wagner

Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.

Charles Dickens

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

John Cassavetes

We have problems, terrible problems, but our problems are human problems.

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have no problems or issues with screenwriting in general.

Dennis Schain

Ultimately, before they build, we'll inspect to make sure the plan has addressed all the issues and will be implemented properly.

David Allen

You can't manage time, you actually only manage what you do during time. So the management issue is not so much about time, it's more about how do you manage your focus, how do you manage your actions and your activities in terms of what you do.

Charles Spurgeon

Without the Spirit of God we can do nothing. We are as ships without wind or chariots without steeds. Like branches without sap, we are withered. Like coals without fire, we are useless. As an offering without the sacrificial flame, we are unaccepted.

Brett Gardner

We have had a lot of requests about our Y2K status, but no one has offered in any way to give us a hand.

Kelli O'Hara

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Brian Eno

When you make something you are always offering some choices and denying others.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We ought not to be looking for a place to hide, but a place to give ourselves as an offering to God.

Chris Chocola

By offering individuals ownership and control of their health care coverage, we return control to the patients; and that is exactly where it should be.

Palitha Kohona

We are awaiting a response from the Tigers to an offer of a private sea plane for their use.

Larry Templeton

We started by offering tickets to evacuees in the Starkville motels. We thought we would give out about 200 or so.

Victoria Moran

Vegetarian is like raising a kid Mennonite. It's difficult but not that different. Raising your kid vegan is like being Amish. A totally different world.

Nancy Kress

Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to (do) better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Ray Fleming

We're doing very well. But we can do better. We'll have to better, because they keep raising the standards. This is one of those things where you can't rest on your laurels.

Bob Stern

I think Harman should be commended for raising so much in the district.

Martina McBride

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

David Richardson

It will be 'Roseanne'-ish in nature, a real woman raising two kids. There won't be any winking at the camera, no double-entendre jokes.

Joe Andrew

This is big and this is important. This is not about raising money, it's about raising interest.

Mark Zandi

Implicitly, ... 'I can keep raising rates, and most homeowners won't suffer.'

Carol Moseley Braun

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

Carlos Fuentes

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

Agnes Repplier

The thinkers of the world should by rights be guardians of the world's mirth.

Alan Keyes

Our founders understood that divine authority was necessary in order to establish a ground on which the weak, the defenseless, the powerless, the poor and the wretched would be able to stand, in the face of every human power whatsoever, and demand respect for their human rights and dignity.

Alan Keyes

Rights come from God and only from God.

Charlotte Bronte

Unlawful pleasure, trenching on another's rights, is delusive and envenomed pleasure—its hollowness disappoints at the time, its poison cruelly tortures afterwards, its effects deprave forever.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Jane Smiley

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

David Cornwell

We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Brandon Sanderson

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Jack Jones

We are taking steps one at a time.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.