Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Pearson

Like all people of good conscience, the state's hunters and sportsmen are sickened by the murders of innocent children. It's disturbing to think that there are people out there who will pepper a home full of children with bullets for the sake of securing a corner drug outlet. But those people are out there.

Jack Fox

Let me tell you something, Johnson. I hope it's Dillon. I've been waiting a long time to put a bullet in his brain. And in yours.

William Bratton

Make no mistake about it: We dodged a bullet here, perhaps many bullets, ... As outlined in this indictment, these individuals had devised a plan, selected targets, obtained the weapons, set the date and chosen their victims.

William Bratton

Make no mistake about itwe dodged a bullet here, perhaps many bullets.

Allan Kush

Many parents want a magic bullet to keep their kids safe, but kids can usually find a way around this parental control software. In protecting kids, the key element is education and getting parents involved.

Brian Billick

Obviously we dodged a major bullet there, ... He seems to be doing fine.

Roslynn Mauskopf

Money is the lifeblood of terrorism, and one of our number one priorities is to stop money flowing to terrorists before can be used for bullets and bombs.

Alan Ruskin

My gut says the Fed doesn't have too many bullets left to fire, and therefore they have to use them sparingly, and we'll see a (quarter percentage point) cut at the next meeting.

Denis Johnson

Talk into my bullet hole. Tell me I'm fine.

Italo Calvino

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

Richard P. Feynman

The situation in the sciences is this: A concept or an idea which cannot be measured or cannot be referred directly to experiment may or may not be useful. It need not exist in a theory.

Richard P. Feynman

It is always good to know which ideas cannot be checked directly, but it is not necessary to remove them all. It is not true that we can pursue science completely by using only those concepts which are directly subject to experiment.

Richard P. Feynman

It has not yet become obvious to me that there's no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there's no real problem, but I'm not sure there's no real problem.

Mamata Banerjee

Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.

David Shore

We're not closing any doors. What we've found is everybody's so fallen in love with these characters that we have to explore it, but we cannot simply throw out the essence of the show, which is the procedural element.

Barbara Jordan

Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

Mohandas Gandhi

Let no one say that he is a follower of Gandhi. It is enough that I should be my own follower. I know what an inadequate follower I am of myself, for I cannot live up to the convictions I stand for. You are no followers but fellow students, fellow pilgrims, fellow seekers, fellow workers.

Ralph Peters

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

Robert Osborne

Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.

Marc Morial

A great American city is fighting for its life.

David Keller

Light rail has given Salt Lake City a new kind of ambience. It feels like a real city.

Michael Stern

Like in every city, some are healthy, some suffer. We try to establish a criteria and separate one mega city from another. The crucial points we look for are that the city has to be a critical place (whether regionally or globally speaking) and it needs to have a critical system which the entire city depends on,

Mike Woods

Life in the city is schedule after schedule.

Jennifer Post

Making it easier for people to travel throughout the metropolitan region includes giving them confidence about knowing how to use mass transit. And because thousands of people travel in and out of New York City every day to the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey, it makes perfect sense for us to take a broad, regional approach.

Michael Stoops

Las Vegas has always gotten an F (in those areas). Someday I hope the city will quit criminalizing homelessness and they'll get off the list.

Peter Ueberroth

Leaders who aren't on the radar will emerge. If the city is going to recover, they must emerge.

Jim Brandt

Many of the previous powers the City Council enjoyed are now largely irrelevant under the current conditions.

Kathleen Taylor

Major Margaret Witt has been an exemplary member of the military with a distinguished record of service. To discharge her simply because of her sexual orientation is unfair and does not make our military stronger.

Don Abell

Much of what they do there is discharge planning, trying to get patients back out in the community. Patients do leave the facility and go out on discharge sorts of activities. That's when many of those have occurred.

Charles E. Merrill

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

Mayor Clark

I would not want the public to think that, because we talking about spending this kind of money, we are not meeting our discharge permit requirements. We are.

Jamshyd Godrej

Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

John Wagner

If (the water discharge applications are) legal and in good shape, we will process those applications normally.

Tony Oppegard

If you have a foreman who is not doing pre-shift examinations properly, you should discharge that person, because every miner working there is relying on that person.

Penny Bartley

With this situation here, as long as we had a suspect that had firearms that we knew was shooting at law enforcement and shooting at the helicopter we knew it wasn't safe to leave the freeway open.

John Ashcroft

We think any time firearms are missing, it's a serious circumstance,

Alan Gottlieb

We've learned from the police that starting Monday at 8 a.m., New Orleans gun owners can get their firearms back.

Adrian Leppard

During the last 24 hours we have executed a number of search warrants. A number of those search warrants because of the risk posed have involved pre-planned firearms operations.

Wayne LaPierre

The presence of a firearm makes us all safer.

Robert Mankoff

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.

Jack Brooks

Luke's a pitcher. There are not many 'pitchers' around. He had to work at the end, but he worked through it. No matter what happens he goes after the next batter.

Ken Lynch

Life goes on. We are not moving at all.

Craig Frederick

Life goes on. I have to worry about other things. If that's what they think is best, there's nothing I can do about it.

Steve Tambellini

Let's go one step at a time. We'll see how the procedure goes Wednesday. Hopefully he'll be back.

Craig Fugate

Many homes were impacted and shelters were opened, ... In some of these neighborhoods, till the water goes down, people are not going to be able to get back in their homes and start making repairs.

Tasia Scolinos

Much thought goes into how and why various tools are used in these often-complicated cases. The important thing is for someone not to come away thinking this whole process is arbitrary, which it is not.

Dominic James

No day goes by without planning my future. I really try not to think about it (NBA), but that is one of my goals. That's why I'm here.

Jack Stephens

One of the things this system offers is redundancy, and so if one tower goes down, there will be another that will pick up the communications and that you can patch into.

Robert Toll

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Michael Carty

We are not looking for any major increases in interest rates.

Linda McMahon

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Chris Neal

We don't like rate increases as much as anyone, but we think 8.6 percent is as modest as possible.

Martin Cohen

What we're seeing as we look into the futures markets presently are increases that seem to be never ending,

Jack Kyser

What's promising about this report was not only were November-to-December job increases strong, they went back and revised up the October-to-November increase.

Nigel Evans

There are millions of people out there who don't get inflation-busting increases whatsoever.

Sung Sohn

Until and unless there are significant increases in jobs over a period, tighter monetary policy is out of the question.

Kim Beazley

It increases the pressure for Howard to appear.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

John Kline

Let's get one thing straight: No one wants Stafford loan interest rates to increase.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

John Parsons

The (property tax) rate stays the same, but the taxes go up all the time.

Michael Lewis

We probably won't need a rate rise now until September,

Leon Black

Different industries have different risks and growth rates and volatility.

Yoshihiko Noda

There's a tendency for the yen to strengthen because it's rated highly, but I don't think that accurately reflects Japan's economic performance.

Elizabeth Warren

Homeowners refinance their loans when interest rates go down. Businesses refinance their loans.

Ali Babacan

Turkey does not have an official exchange rate target.

Glenn Thomas

We'll probably have to look at some rate increases.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Craig Conroy

We had opportunities where we could use our speed and get going on them, ... And we capitalized.

Jay Wright

We were having a tough time speeding them up.

Bob Newhart

I've been told to speed up my delivery when I perform. But if I lose the stammer, I'm just another slightly amusing accountant.

Dave Russell

What's not to like? For $1999 you are going to get the processor speed you thought you had to spend $2499 to get.

Franz Grillparzer

Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.

Carol Alt

I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.

Owen Schmitt

We have just as much speed as they do.

Gary Thompson

We have very well-trained RAs and RDs within residence halls,

Kerry Bailey

Typically within two weeks, we're done with the analysis.

Nizam Idris

I would say it's more within my expectations.

Michael Mann

We're number-crunching to see what we can do within our mandate.

Jeremy Duxbury

We will have to work within the budget.

Bill Richardson

What I worry about is a new fiefdom within an already big fiefdom,

Kate Looby

Within about two weeks, we'll have made those decisions.

Checky Herrington

We should be able to energize it within one or two days.

Harry Larrabee

We're very balanced. Within games, we get spurts from different players.