Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Akin

We have never embraced a system in which it requires 60 votes to confirm a judge, and we should not be doing that now.

Tom Coburn

We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,

Jack Straw

very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.

Kamal Ahmed

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Randy Hampton

We did have a report of one in that area. We haven't been able to confirm it.

Allan Mayer

We have heard second-hand reports that the tape allegedly shows consenting adults, including someone identified as R. Kelly, engaged in sexual activity. Since we haven't seen the tape, we can neither confirm nor deny that it is in fact Mr. Kelly,

James E. Faust

I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.

Bob Woodward

would only guide us and steer us. And when we would find out something, he would confirm it.

Eric Williams

We're still recovering survivors and bodies. I can tell you right now, we have 11 confirmed dead.

Marcus Giles

We want to prove that we're going to be someone to deal with in this division.

Richard Costigan

We have no idea until the federal regulations are promulgated how, in fact, they will deal with California.

Charles Sumner

We have never dealt with the dollars we are dealing with today,

John Howard

What the show deals with is how difficult it can be. It involves people from every walk of life and they all take an enormous risk.

Art Hogan

When you see a deal of this size, obviously (Washington Mutual) is still acquirable,

Rich Cleveland

When you score five points in a quarter, even when they score only 10, it's hard to deal with. The guys lost some confidence.

Billy Duffy

When you're trying to sell something -- and we took a fairly big record deal when they were still going around -- we felt a lot of pressure to live up to that and perform. I think that at this point, we're a lot happier just playing live music. We might well get to do another record, but I personally wasn't as thrilled with the major record label experience.

Mark Hamilton

We want seminars that will really engage these delegates in discussions about the issues that must have been dealt with at the Constitutional Conference,

Eddie Jordan

We wanted to win this game in the worst way. Its a tough, tough loss, but we have to deal with it and get ready for Miami tomorrow night.

Charles E. Wilson

The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly enough.

Charles Dickens

I have been very fortunate in worldly matters; many men have worked much harder, and not succeeded half so well; but I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time, no matter how quickly its successor should come upon its heels, which I then formed.

Charles Caleb Colton

How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

Charles Dickens

Over the whole, a young lady presided, whose gloomy haughtiness as she surveyed the street, announced a deep-seated grievance against society, and an implacable determination to be avenged.

Charles Simmons

Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish.

Charles Simmons

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

Mac Gifford

There is no doubt in my mind after seeing the Southern Miss match, West Virginia match, and even the Troy match, there is a lot of fight and determination in this team. And if they are healthy they can (win).

Dianne Feinstein

And, I know the sense of helplessness that people feel. I know the urge to arm yourself because that's what I did. I was trained in firearms. I'd walk to the hospital when my husband was sick. I carried a concealed weapon. I made the determination that if somebody was going to try to take me out, I was going to take them with me.

Dexter Fletcher

As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination.

Doug MacGregor

We have no interest in a name on a masthead. With any partnership, you want the whole to be greater than the sum of the parts.

Bill Buckner

We want it to be a great destination year-round, make it a place to go play and stay.

Dusty Baker

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

Alan Ladd

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me

Charlie Chaplin

There is greatness in everyone.

Charles Sumner

The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual.

Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.

Charles de Gaulle

France cannot be France without greatness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Louise Arbour

My main interest, to be very frank, is to solidify the judicial system.

Luo Gan

Judicial work at the grass-roots level has bearings on the overall situation of the judicial work of the country.

Dick Armey

Sometimes you get judicial rulings that gladden you and sometimes you don't,

Prince Nayef

Do we have anything other than sharia? We don't have a judicial system other than sharia.

Anne Foley

Then I think judicial notice can be taken to that effect,

Sheriff Stankus

It's become a circus. It's become entertainment. It's no longer a judicial procedure, and that's scary . You wonder, where is this society going?

Sam Brownback

A lot of us wanted somebody who has a pretty well-established and thought-through and set judicial philosophy,

Charles Schumer

The idea that Americans shouldn't know what the judicial philosophy of the nominee to this powerful, powerful position is, is wearing thin with the American people, whether they be liberal, conservative or moderate,

Gloria Borger

They wanted a symbol. They wanted someone who openly supported their views of the Supreme Court. But they know nothing about her judicial philosophy.

Stephen Hess

The most important thing in the long run in the United States was the appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court.

Edward Lazarus

This is a situation where, from the very moment the justices start back up in October, they're going to be very divided,

Jiro Yamaguchi

What we're seeing is a result of Koizumi's diminishing popularity -- the 'Koizumi effect' is wearing off.

Bill Pullman

The writers are pretty political and they want to get as big an audience as they can - they want the popular vote.

Masha Lipman

(Motherland's policies) are very, very popular with the Russian people.

Baltasar Gracian

There must be something good in a thing that pleases so many; even if it cannot be explained, it is certainly enjoyed.

Todd Young

We're getting in their face. And I'm sure it's not very popular with management.

David Brin

What point was there in pursuing an ever-elusive popularity?

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PLEBISCITE, n. A popular vote to ascertain the will of the sovereign.

Baruch Spinoza

Popular religion may be summed up as a respect for Ecclesiastes

Janie Allen

Murals were very popular then and the idea was pretty well received.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Sergio Perez

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Callie Khouri

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.