Famous Quotes & Sayings

S. Hughes

We were bailing out water until 1 a.m. and pumping out the basement. I can't figure out why everyone else pays city taxes but mine are four or five times higher because I have to spend $4,000 every four years to fix my house. I thought taxes fixed problems like these.

Shannon Bailey

When I explained to him what happened, he was furious and confused. Bailey and Frank never, and I mean never, ride in the opposite direction. They always ride in the same direction.

Bob Blick

We know we're a lot better team than what we've shown. There's motivation there to show our fans and school that we're a better team that what we've shown. Nobody's quitting and nobody's bailing out. We've just got to stop the turnovers and that type of thing.

David Herron

We're seeing a lot of volatility, a lot of indecision as people bail out of stocks and other people jump in. We could be seeing the classic signs of bottoming, but we thought the market was topping for three years before it went down, so maybe we're going to be thinking it's bottoming for three years before it goes up.

David Icke

Goldman Sachs was fundamentally responsible for the crash of 2008, but by that time its former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry 'Hank' Paulson, had been installed as US Treasury Secretary to begin the bank bail out policy, with enormous benefit to Goldman Sachs, in the closing weeks of the Bush administration. Goldman Sachs was also instrumental in the collapse of the economy in Greece that started the 'euro panic' that later engulfed Ireland.

Jason Scanlan

(Sisters) was trying to sub guys in every two minutes and shoot three's. Our kids like to play the passing lanes -- Chris Bailey did an excellent job getting out there (and getting steals).

Robert Herzfeld

Mr. Bailey has obviously paid a very steep price for his mistake, and I think this is an appropriate resolution.

Harvey Rosenfield

Solving the energy crisis in California does not require bailing out Edison,

Randy Osnes

She's exceptionally quick and extremely knowledgeable. She gets a great jump on the ball and is very aggressive. We're happy that Henderson State saw in Bailey what we've seen for four years.

Vic Lawson

We want to put elected representatives in Bradford County and our state representatives on notice that their jobs now depend on property tax relief for the residents of Bradford County, that lip service now is not going to get any of them elected any more.

Steve Smith

We want to provide appropriate education for all students, no matter what the student needs. I think all of the districts in the county are really making a concerted effort to serve kids as much as they can in the regular classroom.

Paul Tesi

We have saved the county millions since its inception.

William Bailey

We have no credible or reliable information that it's valid, ... We contacted our county gang unit, the State Police gang unit, and they have no information to verify this.

Al Sevier

Whenever (the county commissioners) see that, they acquiesce and kowtow to the numbers of voters. It's mob democracy.

Larry Hopkins

When you say county farm today people wonder what you are talking about.

Ann Wilson

We want people to gather, have fun and get to know local artists. Young couples and professionals are important to this scene because they know what's cutting edge and spread the word to others. Once people step into our activity, they realize there's a lot of talent here in Polk County that many others haven't yet experienced.

Joe Thomas

We were trying to get a feel where they will do the job in the county meet. I wanted to find out what we have. I just want them to go and do their best.

Mike Wright

We've won three games in a row with Cocke County up Monday and we've got a little momentum, which is what we're looking for heading into the district run.

Larry Robinson

What makes him the player that he is, ... is also a detriment too.

Larry Flynt

Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

Chris McNeil

Our state representative has been in office for (nine) years, and we still have not gotten this roadway expanded to the detriment of all neighborhoods and businesses.

Paul Dergarabedian

But if it's a really fine film, it won't be a detriment to its success.

Gbola Amusa

You might have less competitive intensity than you think. It will be competitive, but not to the detriment of players involved. There's room to grow for the entire business, and rising tides will lift all boats.

Arlen Specter

your adversaries to speculate on this issue to the detriment of your nomination.

John Moores

In such a small county, that is a great detriment to the district attorney's office.

Jim Higgins

I'm feeling personally that 24-hour operation is going to be a detriment to the neighborhood.

Carlos Beltran

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Carlos Castaneda

It was stupidity that forced us to discard anything that did not conform with ourself - reflective expectations.

Johnny Damon

We have to go out and expect to win every game. I think everyone knows it's our job.

Steve Ballmer

We have no plan in place. We don't expect that to happen.

Kiran More

We have named him in the team. We expect him to be fit. Let us wait till tomorrow.

Stephen Reitman

We have moved to expectations of a loss of 100 million euros for the fourth quarter of this year from Chrysler, whereas we had previously been expecting a small profit.

Jamal Mayers

When you're up 5-3 going into the third period, you expect to win. They won because they worked harder than we did. It's as simple as that.

Brian McCutcheon

When he gets the puck, people start to come out of their seats. It's expect the unexpected with Max." ()

Charles Dickens

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

David Mitchell

How lazily "xperts" dismiss what they fail to understand!

Mark Cuban

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail.

Ben Parr

If you can't build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.

Ben Marcus

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

Brian Tracy

Good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.

Calamity Jane

Those as don't eat, without exception, fail to survive.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Charlie Trotter

I love faltering. I love, in a sense, coming up short. Because you learn nothing from success. You learn so much from failing.

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!