Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Evans

We've seen an increase in training requests by agencies due to an increased need for the security of our ports. They've done a good job with securing the airways, but now ports are the more likely areas to be hit when you have three sides of the country bordered by water.

Jane Garvey

The FAA realizes these restrictions inconvenience general aviation pilots and airports, ... As the FAA and other federal agencies continuously review measures to ensure national security, we look for the understanding and cooperation of the general aviation community.

George Magliano

The fact credit rating agencies haven't changed their ratings is no surprise. I wouldn't have expected them to right away and it will take some time, but it now is more logical that credit ratings should go up rather than down.

Wayne Cornelius

The process that was devised for casting a ballot was simply too cumbersome, too time-consuming, and involved dealing with too many government agencies to make it a usable process.

Tariq Ramadan

The 'army camp' that coordinates the agencies of our brain is vulnerable, both in itself and from within. In effect, he who can know and master its functioning and psychology from outside can become twice its master.

Eliot Spitzer

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

Elaine Sciolino

The Bush administration actually started out with an open mind towards Iran, by all indications. In fact, early in the administration, the White House tasked the various agencies of government to do an inter-agency review of Iran policy, as it did with Iraq policy and most of the big areas of the world.

Julie Regan

We want the (partnership) agencies to think outside the box for the next regional plan, but we're also not looking at changing the rules overnight to throw the community into chaos.

Patricia Brown

We want to talk about outcomes for the people who benefit from the United Way and how just a few dollars out of a person's pay can help improve the community. We have spent a lot of time here talking about improving our campus and building new buildings, but we can't lose sight of the fact that every community needs a safety net nonprofit agencies that support the needs of the people who live there. There are numerous United Way agencies around our campus, and one way to ensure that East Baltimore's safety net is both available and thriving is to invest in the United Way.

Jim Gingrich

What these guys are saying effectively is that pricing is tough. There's not a lot of growth, so you've got to get your cost structure in line to be able to play.

Rob Lowe

Whenever you do a revival it begs the question 'why now and why here?'. I can't think of a better place to do the show than London right now, and I can't think of a better theme to do than the cost of protecting the world.

Doug Jackson

We want people to understand that we have to look at maintenance costs and staffing in decisions on design elements for the pool.

Andy Burnham

We want people to come forward with different ideas. We are learning from procurements past that if you go out with a wholly prescriptive vision of what you want, very often you end with a product that isn't as good and costs more. You have to be open to innovation.

Alan Curbishley

We were tough tonight though, I don't want to make out we weren't. We battled and scrapped, but we also switched off, and that undid all the good work, and cost us two points, and that's why I'm frustrated.

Zhang Jun

The extra cost is the major reason why the market is slow to react to the campaign.

Jim McDonald

The fact is, we are going to get it done sooner and it will cost customers less.

Dr. Fossbender

There are a lot of fixed costs that we are not able to control.

Richard Williams

The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,

C. S. Lewis

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Charlie Haden

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

David Eckstein

There is definitely a lot more to it than show up and swing. I'm working on staying inside the ball, working on different hit-and-runs, moving runners, creating situations in your head. So when the game comes up, you're prepared to execute whatever needs to be executed.

CEO Bowen

There is currently substantial interest for multiple tenants, but the announcement is premature. The names you are going to like, but the flip side to creating something this great means it will take longer.

Ricky Gervais

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

Tom Hodgkinson

Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do.

David Selby

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

Tracie Peterson

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.

Jim McFarland

We're still not expanding in the right areas, ... We have a waiting list for nursing and we talk about expanding in other areas.

Paula Otto

Media General has been very successful in expanding its reach through strategic purchases.

Nedra Turney

So far, we're opening no new shelters. We're just expanding where we are.

Robert Collins

We're hoping it is one of those things that will never be finished. We want to keep growing and expanding to have more facilities.

Kelly Parisi

The program struck a chord, so we just kept expanding it.

David Gross

Until I see an announcement that they officially have a league, I'm not going to comment. The NLL throws some things out there. They talked about having a second indoor league, the NLL2, and they've talked about expanding to something like 29 teams. None of that has come to fruition.

Gerry Harvey

We're supposed to be an entrepreneurial company; we're meant to be expanding and looking for opportunities - but the minute you do it, you get your head bashed in.

David Chen

We would like to maintain whatever market share we have right now. We are expanding our dealership and production to meet the target.

Mike Stoops

We keep expanding each time we step on the field. We try to implement new plays, new defenses and new adjustments to each formation every day. We're just trying to get in more stuff each day.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Sarah Koenig

I love serialized stories of any kind. I'm a huge sucker for any kind of series.

Uzo Aduba

I used to be a huge fan of 'Lockup' on MSNBC, and that certainly has helped with my understanding of the world.

Kim Yuna

The popularity of figure skating has increased tremendously, and Koreans have a huge interest in figure skaters - not only me, other international skaters as well.

Bram Stoker

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.

Ellen Stofan

There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life.

Joan Cusack

Mum has always been a huge anti-war activist. She would go off to protest and get arrested. I have her passion, but it is not for politics. I am much more interested in psychology. It's more my job and my natural inclination.

Scott Borg

We started seeing huge vulnerabilities. And portions of those systems were extraordinarily secure. But they were Maginot Lines.

Luis Rivera

We still need to win three games. I feel like if we win those three games, there's going to be a huge celebration.

Bill Halbrehder

When you take a player off the ice, even if it is your own team, that opens space and can be a huge advantage, especially when you have a player like Allie. She is just so dynamic... one of those worth-the-price-of-admission kind of players.

Carol Shields

Happiness is the lucky pane of glass you carry in your head. It takes all your cunning just to hang on to it, and once it's smashed you have to move into a different sort of life.

Carol Shields

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

Carlos Mencia

I have little compassion for people in trailer parks who refuse to move after getting tornado warnings. How hard is it for them to relocate? Their houses have wheels.

Carl Andre

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

C. S. Lewis

Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still.

C. S. Lewis

To love you as I should, I must worship God as Creator. When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I shall not love my earthly dearest t all. When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed bu increased.

C. S. Lewis

And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience.

C. S. Lewis

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

David Pickering

We have a strategy, we have shown leadership, we are moving forward.

Wayne Peters

We're here. We're ready. We have proposals on the table that haven't been responded to.

Erskine Bowles

Romney said that his tax reform proposal is 'very similar to the Simpson-Bowles plan.' How I wish it were.

Pele

When I retired, at that time I had a lot of proposals to play in Europe, England, Italy, Spain, Mexico. But I said no, after 18 years I want to rest, because I want to retire.

Charles Kennedy

Why is it you remain so wedded to this proposal for 90 days? Surely it's wrong. Surely you are going to have to back down.

Tony Blair

Why is it you remain so wedded to this proposal for 90 days? ... Surely it's wrong ... surely you are going to have to back down.

Tony Blair

We don't have a specific proposal on the table yet, ... But I understand and share the American concerns, as I've said many times before.

Ken Karl

Under my proposal there?s only one wire to move.

Sergei Ivanov

If such proposals come -- we have not yet received them -- I am sure that they will not solve the ABM issue,

Sergei Kiriyenko

Our proposal remains in force, but only as part of a comprehensive approach.

Hugh Johnson

There are big risks when you get leveraged,

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Jane Addams

We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.

Chris Cooper

It's not the size of the hard drive that counts, it's how you download it.

Jane Goodall

Mainly because as women's education increases all around the planet, we find that family size tends to drop.

Chan Gailey

Size is definitely relative. If you're bigger, they can see you easier.

Delta Burke

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Never underestimate the size and scope of my problems.

Bill Johnson

Sometimes our breakthrough begins when we refuse to be impressed with the size of our problem.

Edwin Moses

I overcame size with mechanics.

Dick Cavett

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg.