Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Donald Walker

(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when we're running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.

Wayne Richardson

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

Sean Miller

Recently against us, if you're that guy that can't make a 3, you usually knock a few down. It was good to see that percentage come our way.

Lawrence Eagles

Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.

Jamie Dixon

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePaul.

John Shoffner

Records and style of play go out the window. I think we match up well against them.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Recent rises in yields of Japanese government bonds, combined with this emerging uncertainty over prospects for US interest rates, are expected to weigh on the US currency against the yen in the near term.

Martin Laurendeau

Recently, we have played very well against Mexico. We will work hard over the next two months to prepare for this contest and give ourselves the best chance to win.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Tim Schuldt

Regardless of how things are going, it's prudent for us to see what the market will bear. We've had a couple of calls to say other parties are interested in our rights.

Diane Watson

Refugees' calls up to mind that people come from different lands and have to be taken care of, ... These are American citizens.

Diane Watson

Refugee' calls up to mind people that come from different lands and have to be taken care of. These are American citizens,

Amy Olson

Our rent calls have really gone up. People pay their heat and can't pay their rent, or pay their rent and can't pay their heat.

Mike Flanagan

Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is a specific event like a traffic jam or a big rugby game there is a big spike in mobile phone calls in a concentrated area. Traditional network design can't cope with those changes in network usage very well.

Stephen Walkom

Our motto is to stay the course and the playoff intensity will still be there. I don't look at just one game. I'm very pleased at the way the guys have called it all year. The players dictate whether there will be a lot of calls or not.

Ron Myers

Our most significant calls related to this power outage have just been stuck elevators. We're just urging people to stay put.

Pete Sepp

People have a right to be concerned. If a private firm calls about collecting debts, a taxpayer should check with the IRS first before giving out any personal information or making payments.

Marjorie Anders

People have told us in letters and phone calls that they have to jog from Lincoln Center to make their train. We hear plenty of tales of missed trains.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

Reflection is only a partial understanding of truth if it does not translate itself in practice into commitments to the common good and justice. Truth is not mere abstraction but something to be done and is only apprehended when this is realized.

Praveen Khandelwal

Our movement shows what people, united for a common cause, can do even without the support of political parties.

George Simpson

Such gradual transformation is also fairly well exemplified for subfamilies and occasionally for families, as the groups are commonly ranked.

William Teague

Our results suggest that waves in excess of 90 feet are not rogue waves but actually are fairly common during hurricanes.

Michelle Thomas

Our goal isn't to dumb down the rules. It's to use some common sense in what we regulate.

Jaipal Reddy

Our friendship was for a common cause- secularism.

Vladimir Putin

Our two countries share a common position on the international strategic balance, ... In the world today, in the international situation, this position is very important.

Arthur Doyle

Our young friend makes up for many obvious mental lacunae by some measure of primitive common sense, remarked Challenger.

Ron Logan

Right now the competition is such that zero fee in the first year is the most common thing you'll see.

Robbie Bach

Price cuts come when you see a need in the marketplace, ... We saw a lot of momentum during the holiday at good prices.

Michael A. Stackpole

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

Jose Andres Puerta

Steakhouses serve these big steaks. The first piece is hot, and the last piece is cold. The way I like to eat is to try three or four cuts of meat. People should actually be eating less meat, and the meat they eat should be special.

Jim Green

Some of the cuts will have to be jobs.

John Challenger

Overall, job cuts are down from last year and significantly lower than the record numbers we saw in 2002 and 2001, but there are still some worrisome trends,

Jeff Laing

Our backdoor cuts helped, but what I was really pleased with was our points in the paint.

Bill Cowher

That was really one of the tougher cuts that we've made.

Becky Lucidi

I was pretty much playing paycheck to paycheck. So instead of playing to win, I was playing to make cuts and earn checks, and you can't play like that.

Bill Clinton

I think it's very important that Americans understand... tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent. I've gotten four tax cuts. They're responsible for this big structural deficit, and they're not going away, the deficits aren't.

Michael Thomas

Recent events overseas have probably elevated the global economy to the top of the RBA's risk list,

Jason Schultz

Really, ... what we're talking about here is the U.S. struggling to find its place in an economy where the labor markets are just so vastly different.

Andrew Rudnick

Our relatively strong economy is showing itself in the real estate market.

James Fiorillo

Part of the problem to the ailing economy of Japan is the sloppy hiring practices in the 1980s.

Don Brunell

Our members (are) unified around the fact that without workers who are presently here, our economy is in trouble.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks. The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Doug Myers

People here are selling stocks, ... The GDP report might have been sort of a catalyst. Some people think the economy is either not slowing down enough or slowing down too much. In my time, I don't recall any soft landing.

Dave Edwards

People like to give to where they live, and after these episodic events they tend to give more. A lot of this has more to do with the economy than with the cause.

Ron Lehman

Sustained job growth speaks well for Texas employers and the Texas economy.

Tom Kloza

It is not a name that the public has an association with. In fairness to them, it is Russian-owned but U.S.-managed.

Jack Dunn

For us it's a fairness issue, it's a justice issue, and it's a legal issue.

Teresa Heinz

I fight, and have fought, for political freedom, for justice and for fairness and freedom of speech.

Eric Smith

I think we should go back. In fairness I don't think they should get two years of free taxes.

Dick Gephardt

We can take an important step today back to the politics of respect and trust and fairness and forgiveness,

Dennis McMillen

Fairness is so important because some sponsors are very generous.

William Shakespeare

Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you.

Michael R. Bloomberg

We really should in all fairness get some help,

William Shakespeare

Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee.

Ibrahim Jaafari

Regarding the sort of federalism and its details, he thinks that federalism is not obligated to anything other than being general.

James Frederick

Our overall goal is to see the federal government step up to the plate.

George Grace

Some people are mad that I 'let' the federal government set up this operation in the town, ... I didn't really have a choice.

David Strow

Our company, and really the gaming industry as a whole, complies with federal law on hiring.

Eric Lamoureux

Other states rely much more heavily on their state government and the federal government to come in and manage the support. In California, emergencies are managed on the local level.

Jessica Thill

Right now our two U.S. Senators and our U.S. Congressman are all over the place in terms of what they're thinking and how they're voting on this issue. So, I would really like to see our Federal Government representation get on the same page.

Ben Bernanke

Roger made invaluable contributions to the Federal Reserve and to the country.

Steve Cooper

I will not support putting the responsibility of the plan in the hands of the federal government.

George H. W. Bush

I think the most important thing government can do is provide flexibility for federal monies.

Janice Miller

Part of Planet Digital's mission is to provide people with the highest standard of hands-on training possible,

John Prescott

Our primary responsibility ... is to do everything possible to provide the highest level of protection to the public.

Tom Daschle

Our right to privacy is at risk. As a result, some of our most sensitive, private matters end up on databases that are then sold to the highest bidder. That is wrong, it's dangerous, and it has to stop.

Robert Khayat

Rod means a lot to all of us. He's been wonderfully successful. He's an honorable man and I have the highest regard for him.

Jim Tharp

That's the highest percentage of women I can ever remember for one of our films. Clearly, we needed more romantic-minded men to show up.

John Beilein

I think Louisville is playing at the highest level they have all year.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt, and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I think that's probably the highest score I could have for the way I'm playing.

Bonnie Warschauer

KFC uses only the highest quality ingredients in all the meals we freshly prepare in our restaurant kitchens.

Lauren Bacall

Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly.

Kofi Annan

particular to the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the service of the ideals of the United Nations.

Source Unknown

Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough.

Lynn Coady

The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong.

Norman Douglas

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.

Andrew Motion

Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share.

Coco Chanel

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them.

Bruce Gordon

Not only is he diametrically opposed to all that the NAACP has worked for, but ... is intent on promoting his personal ideals and beliefs.

Friedrich Nietzsche

He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it.

Abraham Cowley

Hope! of all ills that men endure, the only cheap and universal cure.

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

John McArthur

Networked controllers, and networked storage controllers together with supporting software, will become the strategic platform for application-aware storage.

Sundar Pichai

Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

McGregor Scott

We have been a platform aspirant previously. This is our coming-out party.

Dick Costolo

When we think about the characteristics of Twitter that make it unique, it is all of public, real-time, conversational, and distributed. We are the only platform that is all of those at scale.

Danielle Lee

My platform ties right in with what I do.

Chris Donlay

We're just the platform to sell the items. We're not selling anything ourselves, like QVC.

Michael Morse

When it (the crane) moves, the whole platform moves. It's kind of scary,

Teresa Schilling

Play it safe, protect yourself and stay with the tried and the true.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Haley Jowle

I think she was trying to protect me.

Jim Fassel

I thought Jesse did all right, considering some things. We had some routes that weren't where they were supposed to be and protection problems.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

JoAnn Carrin

He just wants to make sure the wetlands are as protected as they can be.

Janet Norwood

He just hugged me and said, 'You've done your job, mom. It's my turn to protect you now.' I was just floored, you know, it was pretty unreal.

Curtis Sliwa

It all starts with the protection of the victim.

John Lasseter

Stay at the end of the credits. I pulled out the stops on the credits.

Bob Hofman

Man, that was like pulling teeth out there tonight.

David Aebischer

That's the way it is. You just have to play well and don't give him a reason to pull you.

Jimmy Williams

I was out there fumbling the ball, and you just can't do that. We pulled it out (Saturday), but that just can't happen.

Walter Dorman

I think it's the first time this season that we were rattled. It's unfortunate that we couldn't pull it out.

Juan Dixon

I was wrong, I was frustrated. I apologize. I just wanted to try to pull through and get us the win.

Susan Rosenberg

I was thinking, straight zipper. But when it was installed, and you could see the undulations and the pull ...

Melissa Fumero

I think comedy is so specific, so hard. I'd audition for comedies and think, 'I can't pull this off.'

Anthony Robbins

It doesn't pull away any wax that it says it's supposed to.