Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kim Petersen

We've spent barely $700 million in federal grants to U.S. ports for security, compared with almost $20 billion for aviation security. And most important, we are doing an abysmal job in assisting ports in the developing world in improving security to even minimal acceptable standards.

Sen. Hanabusa

No extension should be granted to the city and its operator (Waste Management of Hawaii) because of its abysmal record.

Dennis Hastert

Given the abysmal failure of state and local officials in Louisiana to plan adequately for or respond to the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans, and given the long history of public corruption in Louisiana, ... I am not confident that Louisiana officials can be trusted to administer federal relief aid.

Brendan I. Koerner

Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending were slim. After the epidemic ended in 1973, what folks tended to remember most about the skyjackers was their futility.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

Having been kept pretty strict in prep schools, I guess I couldn't cope with all the freedom at Yale. I had a wild, wonderful time, got abysmal grades and was bounced out in my freshman year. I then came back the following fall as a repeating freshman, lasted until April and got bounced out again - for the same reason.

Pat Riley

We came in here and that team just took it to us and took it away from us. It was an abysmal night.

Paul Blank

We call on Ambassador Andrew Young to use his new position to help us change Wal-Mart for the better, rather than defend its abysmal record of child labor violations and poor health care.

Robert Hayes

The (poll) numbers suggest an abysmal program. This benefit was designed to make it impossible for consumers to understand it.

Lisa Wathne

We're pleased that they (USDA inspectors) did go out there but still feel cautious about this situation because the regulations that the USDA enforces are minimum, and I emphasize minimum. In cases where they declare that there are no violations of the Animal Welfare Act, animals can still be languishing in really abysmal conditions.

Herbie Hancock

When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism adds something, too, which is that your life also never begins. It's eternal.

Thomas E. Mann

Incumbency adds a layer of advantage on top of this party dominance. But rather than foster an environment in which members of Congress feel free to buck popular sentiment and wrestle seriously with the problems confronting the country, it reinforces the ideological divide between the parties.

Carl Tannenbaum

The pool of available labor is diminishing and worker efficiency is growing more slowly. This adds up to a higher level of pressure on wages, and, by inference, on inflation.

Octavia E. Butler

Every story I write adds to me a little, changes me a little, forces me to reexamine an attitude or belief, causes me to research and learn, helps me to understand people and grow.

Kevin Kane

until an application is derived that adds true value and intrigue to this product.

George Young

We are pleased to retain the excellent technical expertise of Don Foot in a position of responsibility and impact. At this point in the development of our Comstock/Mountain Lion iron project and the ongoing work at the Western Utah copper project, their background and technical expertise will be invaluable to us. Likewise, Dr. Nelson adds a tremendous dimension of knowledge and technical capability to our board of directors.

Bob Reed

We are pleased to be leaders in this effort among U.S. companies. Our entire management team considers diversity a business imperative, and our commitment to diversity -- besides being the right thing to do -- adds value to our company and our communities.

Chuck Jones

We're in a slower-growth environment and as Larry said, if you can get 10 percent growth from organic growth and 10 percent from acquisition, it adds cash and adds earnings. That's as long as they can make the integration work.

Jennifer Bowers

When you teach the way we do, you need some time off. The work day is longer than eight hours, and it's not just grading papers that adds to the time.

David Harris

There are a lot of criminals in this city, ... We were the first on the water, we were the first to rescue people.

Dave Nabity

I have just lost my patience with the criminals and the thugs and the sexual predators. One thing I'll do, I'll find the toughest legislation out there and enact it in Nebraska.

Marsh Myers

I find these crimes to be very insidious.

Alan Fry

I am linking the crimes. We are treating this as a racist offense.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Ray Schultz

We're not positively sure these crimes are related, but we are reasonably sure they are,

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

One crime has to be concealed by another.

Greg Thompson

We are seeing more juveniles involved in more violent crimes, ... I think that's a trend nationwide.

Voltaire

History is no more than the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes

Eion Bailey

I'm very interested in soldier recovery projects and in Bradley Manning's story, the army intelligence officer who's being held as a detainee and is going to trial for crimes of treason.

Craig Etcheson

We have investigated that back and forth and up and down, and there's just no evidence that he was involved in any prosecutable crimes during the period of jurisdiction for the tribunal. He looks clean.

Stockwell Day

Since 1962, violent crimes have increased from about 219 per 100,000 people to over 1000 per 100,000 people-a 500% increase. Divorce has increased from 36 per 10,000 people to 250-a greater than 600% increase.

Deborah Ellis

When the Taliban took over in 1996, the news of their crimes hit the Toronto papers. As a feminist and as an anti-war activist, I heard about what was happening to women, and I wanted to do something to support those folks.

Bob Gould

This was an excellent result. The sentencing reflects the crimes committed.

William Wood

There can be no impediment to his extradition for the very serious crimes with which he is charged, ... We urge the government to move expeditiously so that he can be extradited.

Bill Young

We've come to a situation where those crimes are ignored,

Jeff Kline

To say there's no more of a heinous crime, you must not be reading the newspapers or watching television because there are all kinds of stories out there of little girls getting taken and killed. I can think of thousands of crimes that are more heinous.

Rafael Correa

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

Lee Nelson

She plopped it into my office and said she'd been saving for a cruise but there is no way she could go after all this,

Anthony Amero

Mike says he's taken more cruises with me than he has with his wife. Which is true.

Robert Forney

Several ships have (the outbreaks), but it's not a cruise ship problem. It's a people problem.

Richard Hendrix

We felt like even though we were down, the game was still ours. Even down to the last shot, we thought we'd cruise into the next round. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way.

James Graf

We are getting into the dangerous portion of the mission. The cruise has not been easy, but now we are starting to enter into the realm where we have lost two spacecraft in the last 15 years.

Sandra Dials

I was scheduled to go on a cruise in January.

Jonny Lee Miller

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones aren't. It would be wonderful to have that particular skill, and maybe people like Tom Cruise have it more than most, but you go into each project hoping that a good, if not great, film will come out the other end.

Frankie Avalon

I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life.

Rufus Sewell

I was the lead in 'Interview With The Vampire', until Tom Cruise decided he was interested. I was in 'The Wings Of The Dove' with Uma Thurman, until that got cancelled. I was in 'Shakespeare In Love' with Julia Roberts, until that fell apart.

Luc Robitaille

What the Sharks did, it shocked the heck out of me. We've always been rivals, but I think they know how much I love this game, and how much I've given to it.

Justin Murphy

We have pursued her with that and given her more and more time to come up to code.

Tom Penders

We've shown a lot of resiliency. I've been real happy with this team because we haven't given up on the season.

Tom Watson

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect.

Shaun Sipos

That's what people want to watch - somebody telling a story. So if you go in and tell a story that makes sense to them, that touches them, then they're going to watch; then they'll tell a friend and that type of thing. In terms of how many people are watching in a given week, it's more the advertiser's job, not mine.

Troian Bellisario

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips.

Tony Hawk

When I landed the first 900 at the XGames, it was just - it was a personal achievement. It was something that I have strived for for years and years and years, and in a lot of ways had given up on it. But I just didn't think of the resonance that would have.

Brian Dawkins

Respect is not given, it is earned.

Tom Daschle

very curious, given this has been under way now for this long.

Carl Bernstein

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.

Tommy Amaker

We have no more information on him. He's out indefinitely.

Bryan Whitman

We have no information to suggest they have done so.

Dr. Gerberding

We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.

Dennis Brugos

We have no information that words were exchanged between them . . . or of any prior neighbor dispute. We have no information about what Miller was doing outside. The motive is unknown.

Florence Hartmann

We have no information that something particular has happened.

Bobby Hernandez

We have no information on who did it or why, and (we) are investigating.

Alexandra Milenov

We have no information. He is not in the tribunal.

Aaron Swartz

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Al Alvarez

It is easy to smile at an insult and pretend it's funny when the person insulting you is hosing you with money.

Juvenal

If you are capable of submitting to insult you ought to be insulted.

Demetri Martin

The easiest time to add insult to injury is when you're signing somebody's cast.

Tom Waits

Somebody said I sound like an old lady, and I was really insulted by that. I'm trying to sound like Skip James and Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye.

John Grant

A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

Elbert Hubbard

Imitation is the sincerest form of insult.

Eleanor Roosevelt

No one can insult you without your permission.

Artie Lange

Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.

Bruce Lee

If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you.

C. S. Lewis

For jokes as well as justice come in with speech. - Aslan, The Magician's Nephew

Chris Young

We have no alternative now but to seek justice in the courts.

Robert Davis

When, exactly, did the American justice system become a competitive team sport?

Alan Lomax

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

Charles Sumner

The age of chivalry has gone; the age of humanity has come.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim of the fanatical persecutor will find that the stronger the motives he can urge for mercy are, the weaker will be his chance for obtaining it, for the merit of his destruction will be supposed to rise in value in proportion as it is effected at the expense of every feeling both of justice and of humanity.

Susan B. Anthony

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

Diane Watson

Justice deferred is justice denied.

David Ruggles

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Bryan Piskorowski

We've seen late day short rallies on low volume that are exaggerated by lack of supply. The move has been overrated,

Andrea Bocelli

People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Jillian Michaels

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.

Kim Jee-woon

I think my tendency when working is to try and find what's lacking in my current project and then tackle that in whatever I do next.

Democritus

There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

Natasha Tsakos

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

Kim Priez

While Mardi Gras may be smaller this year, the pageantry is not going to be lacking in any way.

Lee H. Hamilton

What's lacking here is a sense of urgency, a political will to get these things done.

Phillip Brown

With the lack of support there last night to stop the A&P tax, I don't see the need to do anything further.

Carl Bernstein

You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

Bob Watters

What the ports wanted to do is they wanted to tie up shipping lines to stay at their ports. The ports really in a sense put the U.S. terminal operators, more of them, out of business, because they were targeting the shipping lines.

Charles Dickens

You are in every line I have ever read.

Brian Eno

For me it's always contingent on getting a sound-the sound always suggests what kind of melody it should be. So it's always sound first and then the line afterwards.

Dave Barry

There is a very fine line between hobby and mental illness.

Jase Robertson

It seems a fine line between being a matador and being a rodeo clown

Alan Rickman

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

Alan Bennett

f they'd been working with Alec Guinness, for instance, they wouldn't have known they were born if they'd not towed the line!

Charlize Theron

I've never been the kind of actress that just likes to show up and say my lines. I'm fascinated by what the crew does.

Michel Brunache

We have no objection that he travel if ultimately this is what needs to be done for him to get treatment.

Alan McCoy

We have needs for people with specific backgrounds and training." ()

Alan Sugar

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away.

Charles Stanley

If we walk in the Spirit daily, surrendered to His power, we have the right to expect anything we need to hear from God. The Holy Spirit living within us and speaking to us ought to be the natural, normal lifestyle of believers.

Roy Blunt

The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,

Brian Cox

Science is different to all other systems of thought because you dont need faith in it, you can check that it works.

Brian Eno

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples' attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

Boomer Esiason

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Diane Wood

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

Byron Katie

Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head.

Al Sharpton

I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim,

Charisma Carpenter

I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.

Billy Tauzin

Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims.

Deepak Chopra

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Cameron van der Burgh

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

Frank Haas

Basically, we've become a victim of our own success.

Susann Griffin

We don't want to do anything that would impede the investigation for the victim or the suspect.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am the victim of a fortunate series of accidents.