Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Stewart

We have scheduled a mediation session with the firefighter union and its representative for Friday, March 3. It is in the interest of the city and the union to settle the contract to avoid the time and cost of Act 312 Arbitration.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Jack Roush

The fact that Matt didn't have a flat tire, and he didn't break anything, and Carl narrowly avoided a crash that would have been a disaster, was great. The litany of things that can happen and didn't, that can get on top of you, they stayed away from us tonight.

Stuart Rothenberg

The problem with the big issues, Social Security reform, campaign finance reform, fundamental tax reform, is that they are so politically dangerous that I think both sides want to avoid them.

Therese Fowler

Conventional wisdom tells us to avoid taking unalterable action while at a low point in life. I have never been conventional.

A. S. Byatt

I'm quite interested in my own mental processes, simply because I'm a failed scientist, and because I'm interested in how the brain and the mind works, and I like to avoid easy descriptions.

Thomas Pogge

Medicines are unusual commodities. Important drugs can save the lives and protect the health of millions. Their consumption can bring huge benefits, by helping patients to avoid infection and preventing serious damage to the economies of families, nations and even humanity at large.

Tim Bray

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

Tim Russert

Should we freeze or postpone prospective tax cuts and avoid any new tax cuts until we are sure we have the money to pay for the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq.

John Fitzgibbon

We have seen an increase in postponements or cancels due to market conditions. That's now starting to become more commonplace than it was three months ago.

Steve Stallone

We've seen them use technology as a subterfuge to take work away from us. We have to make distinction what jobs will be lost due to new technology and what jobs will be lost because they use the technology to move the work to other people.

Laila Robins

I've paid my dues in the classical trenches.

Judy Blume

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

Mohammed Habib

The others have refused due to personal problems that have to do with home, children, breast-feeding or husbands.

Steve Crawford

We stand for liberty. We stand for due process of law. And yet we're keeping someone locked up and away from his family that has been found not guilty. It's embarrassing. We need to do something about it.

Edward R. Murrow

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.

Eric Behrens

We are taking this very seriously. The process is cumbersome, but it does provide for due process.

John Horner

We might be due for a pause near-term in the dollar's gains.

Ted Cruz

We should work to de-link health insurance from employment so if you lose your job, your health insurance goes with you and it is personal, portable and affordable.

Jared Bernstein

The full employment situation reinforces itself.

Janet Yellen

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Janet Yellen

I'm just opposed to a pure inflation-only mandate in which the only thing a central bank cares about is inflation and not employment.

Jane Austen

The pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.

Masaaki Kanno

We are seeing a series of good indicators pointing to solid recovery: improving production, improving exports, improving employment and improving spending.

John Waller

When you take out the lands that are encumbered or don't have servicing, you come down to an 11.8-year supply of employment lands,

Karina Litvack

We have hired employment lawyers to come up with model language for contracts. We are hopeful this will be emulated by others in the industry.

Calvin Coolidge

Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Jahangir Khan

Squash was my livelihood and as in business, I had to stay on top.

Ghulam Vhora

It is a question of livelihood for 5,000 families. We are all jobless.

David Chang

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Verron Haynes

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Lily Nicksay

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Jeffrey Joerres

We've got the spinnaker up, but the sail is sort of flapping at the moment,

Priscilla Feral

When Murkowski sailed into office, everything went to hell.

Dave Barry

He's a boating enthusiast, although that phrase seems too weak to describe the level of his interest, kind of like describing someone as a heroin fancier.

Dave Barry

You have to be careful on the deck, because of the "hatches," which are holes placed around a sailboat at random to increase the insurance rates.

Dave Barry

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

Verron Haynes

We're still sailing right now. We've done nothing yet.

Edward Heath

I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so.

Elizabeth Bishop

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

Charles Kingsley

Three fishers went sailing away to the west,/ Away to the west as the sun went down.

Paul Carvel

Who is staring at the sea is already sailing a little.

Albert Einstein

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

We are commanded to seek out those who are lost. We are to be our brother's keeper.

Charles Miller

My understanding is we were seeking what keywords are put in and URLs. Nothing personal.

Mahatma Gandhi

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Robert Hamilton

We are seeking any new work we can get.

Cynthia Kenyon

I was a little truth seeker as a child. I wanted more than anything to understand myself and also other people.

Danys Baez

We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration, it made sense for us.

Julie Myers

I will seek to work with those who are knowledgeable in this area, who know more than I do.

Saudi Arabia

Tell me what you are seeking to hear--

Alan Shepard

The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder

Jane Austen

I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

Alan Watts

The wake doesn't drive the ship

Barbara Kingsolver

Loose lips sink ships.

Benjamin Franklin

Little leaks sink the ship.

David Dreman

Investors repeatedly jump ship on a good strategy just because it hasn't worked so well lately, and, almost invariably, abandon it at precisely the wrong time.

Catherine Ponder

Your ships come in only after you have sent them out.

Thomas Moore

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

Randy May

We need to step up to the 21st century. It's important that we can get ships in that can unload quickly.

Charlotte Church

The cast and the crew made me feel really welcome. Towards the end it just got better and better.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

John Calvin

dispensers and administrators of the Devine beneficence towards us.

Samuel Larsen

I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

Allison Scagliotti

I do feel more towards certain characters who have depth and intelligence.