Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Reilly

Many of the closeted people ... do use the Internet, because of the anonymity afforded by e-mail address. We're hoping to reach people who may not hear all the fuss.

Marsha Blackburn

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

Masayoshi Son

Softbank's Internet-focused strategy in recent years has served its shareholders well, ... We believe we have just scratched the surface of the opportunities afforded by the Internet.

Eric Stern

Mrs. King argued that our nation would not fulfill its promise unless all Americans, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, were afforded equal treatment under the law.

Terri Johnson

My impression is there haven't been many complaints filed either in employment or public accommodations, but that isn't a very old law. Maybe a lot of persons aren't aware that sexual orientation is afforded protected standing.

Source Unknown

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

Chris Stiepock

There are many athletes out there who would covet an X Games gold over an Olympic gold. I've heard it come from athletes mouths - and I'm sure their agents are standing next to them smirking - but when you win an X Games medal, you are instantly afforded a reputation that perhaps you aren't afforded in the Olympics.

Dean Winters

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

Mark Rush

She wishes to hear all of the relevant information before she makes a decision, so she has afforded us the opportunity to meet with her.

Kevin Mitnick

If hackers, if anyone committing a criminal act, wants to reduce their risk, they obviously don't involve anybody else. The greater the circle of people that know what you're doing, the higher the risk.

Jim McKenna

We're not defaming AOL or the corporation or anybody that does business with them, ... We are asking them politely to stop. And we're just doing it in a creative way.

Kevin Garnett

We're not consistent for 48 minutes in what we're doing, and it's our fault. We can't blame Case. We can't blame anybody but ourselves, starting with me.

Rick Stansbury

LSU is the team to beat in the entire SEC, not just in the West. ... As long as they stay healthy and avoid an injury, they're as good as anybody around.

Oliver Thomas

Let me assure you, there isn't anybody walking up and down my sidewalk these days,

Scott Brown

Lower interest rates aren't going to make anybody go out and buy new capital equipment right away. And a lot of businesses are sort of frozen because of the attacks.

H. Hunt

Lest anybody think people out here don't care. We want to show them they do care.

Parri Munsell

Many households already have a Web mail client. Anybody can purchase it, you no longer need a student or a teacher in the household and you can install it on three machines. The price remains $149.

Paul Davis

Many times they'll turn off their lights and pull out of the parking lot at a high rate of speed, totally disregarding safety for anybody else,

Avi Zelba

Several suspects were arrested after they tried to cut through the border fence in an effort to enter the Gaza Strip.

Steven Shapiro

So long as the civilian courts are open and functioning, American citizens arrested in the United States are entitled to due process protections provided by a traditional criminal trial,

Cynthia McKinney

Mr. Secretary, if the nursing home owners are arrested for negligent homicide, why shouldn't you also be arrested for negligent homicide?

Howard Williams

One of the university officers had been assaulted. Somebody had punched him in the face. He was trying to arrest the person that had assaulted him. Another person came up behind that officer and was pulling on that officer trying to separate him from the guy he was trying to arrest,

Albert Alschuler

One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?

Carla Ponte

Of course, priority is the arrest of fugitives.

Carolyn Beck

No one is being arrested for being a little bit tipsy.

Peter Morici

None of this will fix GM's systemic problems or arrest its long-term decline.

Liu Zhengrong

No one in China has been arrested simply because he or she said something on the Internet.

Italo Calvino

I would very much like to be one of those writers who have something really clear in their head to say, and throughout their life they promote this idea in their works.

Mike Enzi

Mandated hikes in the minimum wage do not cure poverty and they clearly do not create jobs.

Bob Stewart

like a baptism, it clears you out for the new year.

Al Jefferson

Like Doc said, the trade will clear out a lot of negative stuff in the locker room without Mark Blount and Marcus Banks, who didn't really want to be here. It clears the negative stuff out of the locker room and off the team, period.

Nariman Behravesh

Let's be clear -- for the next couple of months the employment numbers are going to look terrible. There's going to be a lot of noise and problems gathering the data, so it's going to be tougher than usual to sift through the tea leaves and really get at the heart of what's going on here.

Harry Reid

Let's be clear about what Katrina was: a failure of leadership.

Andre Agassi

Let's be clear about something. I wasn't the winner, tennis was. I never felt I was going to win that match but somehow it just fell my way.

Sathya Baba

Make it sooner than later. Keep the goal clear before the eye and march on.

Claudio Reyna

Luckily the doctor is one of the leading guys in Europe and I'm happy to be seeing him and getting the problem cleared up. It's a player's worst nightmare really. Hopefully it heals and everything goes to plan.

Nathan Dehne

Last years number of international students was higher than the typical historical number. We were expecting five more international students last semester, but due to problems with their Visa they had to come one semester late.

Hiroyuki Nakai

Share prices gained due to upbeat market sentiment.

Philip Dunne

Shareholders are considering the offers and further announcements will be made in due course,

Neill Pickering

Mining and resource stocks will be in the spotlight this week as another round of iron-ore pricing negotiations is due - which would provide short-term volatility and price fluctuations for the market.

Jim Landale

Milosevic is now in their (Yugoslav authorities) custody, he is under their control, so they will be obliged to present the warrant to him with due diligence, without undue delay.

Richard May

Mr. Milosevic, this is not the time for speeches. As I have said, you will have a full opportunity in due course.

Kweisi Mfume

Mr. Fangman, you know that's not the case, ... And my name is pronounced Mfume, with all due respect.

Carol Thorp

Motorists might seen prices stabilize over the next week or two, but that could only be a temporary pause. Upward pressure on gas prices will increase in February due to reduced production as refineries rush to finish the changeover from producing winter grade to summer grade fuel before the March 1 deadline.

Trevor Packer

One reason New York leads the nation is due to the tremendously strong programs in place on Long Island - it's really impressive.

Rodel Natividad

Life. You either live with or live without.

George Lucas

Luke, there is no try, there is either do or not do.

Linda Todd

Many of them left in a hurry and either forgot their prescriptions or their prescriptions have run out. No one anticipated they were going to be stranded here this long or that they would be unable to get their medications (through prescription transfers).

Bill Bray

Many of the founding fathers either traveled through or at some point stayed here in our city.

Nobu Matsuhisa

Many chefs are either technically or artistically better than me, but I know my food has soul.

Daniel Brodsky

Mr. Magee, in retrospect, would've been far better off in a penitentiary. He would've either been in a minimum-security institution by now or he would be living in the community.

Stan Domin

Maureen is either really hot or really cold. When she's on she is really on though.

Sathya Baba

Meditate on me either with form or without form, that is pure bliss.

Newt Gingrich

One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Tom DeLay

Let me be very, very clear, ... I have done nothing wrong. I have violated no law, no regulation, no rule of the House. I have done nothing unlawful, unethical or, I might add, unprecedented.

Vanessa Redgrave

Serbia has no right, under national or international law, to Kosovo.

Laura Fisher

So far, the law is working as intended.

Mickey Mantle

Mr. Mantle, do you have any observations with reference to the application of antitrust laws to baseball?

John Dingell

Mr. Pitt got in trouble. If he is not doing the job, sees to it that security laws are properly enforced, it's time for him to depart.

Lisa Gross

One reason the waiver was refused was because it's state law. And because they didn't want to set a precedent.

William Blake

One Law for the Lion and Ox is Oppression

Charles Potter

No one owns a parking spot; it's the public's right to use them, ... This law will lead to more regular enforcement of the problem. Now, using the littering law is a stretch.

E. O. Wilson

Let's not make this a black-and-white issue. It's just a name change.

Granth Sahib

Serving the Guru, the Name is obtained, and one remains absorbed in the True Lord.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Judy Carter

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Steve Farhood

One out of 15 was able to give me the name of one of the heavyweight champions. So that tells you a lot not only about the state of the heavyweight division, but also about the state of boxing.

Elizabeth McCracken

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Robert Patton

I wouldn't use the word embarrassed. The officers performed admirably, so I'm proud of them.

Bill Dunn

She was D.O.A. when officers got to the scene.

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Linwood Norman

But we are, too. We're putting 50 more police officers on the streets.

Ron Moran

But the reality is that we don't live in Mr. Rogers' neighborhood anymore. The reality is that our officers should be armed.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

James McGreevey

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year,

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Mohammad Khan

Seven police were killed on the spot and two are missing,

Wallace Anderson

When I left, policemen were in uniform. Policemen were patrolling the streets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

David DeFazio

She didn't want to make any statements (to police). Nothing was voluntary.

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Lord Salisbury

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Danilo Magampo

We are required to turn up at the police headquarters before our 2 to 10 p.m. shift for instructions.

Grace Hightower

I did everything. I worked at S.S. Kresge, the five-and-dime. I worked in a mailroom. I worked processing insurance claims.

Stan Payne

Frankly, I don't know if the uproar is the result of the process, or because of the process by which the acquisition was approved.

Dave Huppert

I have always wanted to stay in the uniform. My thought process every year is to keep it on as long as someone will let me.

Mike Sweeney

I feel the process we're going through is taking too long,

Toby Hall

I'd like to get something done before we go through the process again.

Joseph Zwilling

I don't know when a new archbishop will be named, but I am sure the process is well under way.

Brian Schmidt

The reality is that I'm making better wine than I thought I would. The whole process is simple but beautiful.

Rogelio Golfarb

We are going to start the process of negotiation now; we need competitive terms from Argentina.

John Felmy

What you've got are a whole series of requirements and processes and that takes days, if not weeks.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Hedi Slimane

Haute couture is a legitimate subject for Yves Saint Laurent and could resume one day.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Arthur Schopenhauer

That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.