Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ensign

We know what we did was right and fine and within ethics rules, and we wanted a stamp of approval from the Ethics Committee.

Dave Chappelle

Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.

Wayne Lee

The only difference between our August announcement and today is that the SEC put its stamp of approval on it,

Greg Abel

We are pleased to have received approval of the transaction in all six states served by PacifiCorp. We remain on schedule to close the transaction by the end of the first quarter.

Mary Andrews

We believe that no child should suffer from a preventable or treatable disorder. With today's FDA approval, we are happy to know that there is a new treatment option for children suffering from short stature caused by severe Primary IGFD.

Matt Howard

We've very pleased about the approval and we're looking forward to the process going forward.

Naresh Goyal

There is no problem about the deal. I have got information today that we have received the approval from the Department of Company Affairs. We are completing necessary formalities of the acquisition.

John Bryant

Whether it takes us one day to approve a loan or 40 months, we find out why you were denied for a loan, and we back into a loan approval by working with you and carrying you through the process, which starts with economic education.

Craig Moffett

Watchdog groups and tech companies are likely to press for 'Net neutrality' as a condition of merger approval in Washington.

Pam Richardson

We usually discuss the goals in August and don't end up approving them until November.

Donald Thompson

I will be approving the appointment, however, because I think it will be irresponsible if we don't have proper leadership in the high school.

Gus Van Sant

I don't usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what's going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they're doing.

George Beranek

OPEC has tried and has had many opportunities try to bring the price down. At this point most OPEC member countries don't have much spare capacity. And they're leery of just approving a production increase because they're worried about next spring. What happens when all this oil is lying around and the demand goes down?

Larry Snow

For me personally it is a vindication. ... I said this $13 million was meant to scare voters into approving the referendum. There was no cash-flow crisis.

Eric Schmidt

He seems to understand the industry's need for straightforward communication on the drug review process and the fact that time is money. Also, he realizes that there is a risk and a benefit to approving any new product and that decisions should be based upon this balance.

Alan Hansen

If the sheriff is cutting the program on drug testing, why are we approving a contract to show videos to inmates?

Michael Copps

More (conditions) would clearly have been better, ... This is better than approving these mergers without any conditions.

Ben Jordan

We can't keep going like this when we don't have roads and schools to support all these homes. I am glad commissioners understand they can't keep approving these things without the roads and the schools to support them.

Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles Dickens

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Roger Morris

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Diane von Furstenberg

Italy will always have the best food.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Catherine Bertini

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Ron Gettelfinger

We've got a pretty unique situation involving General Motors . That's why I'm optimistic.

Marcel Proust

The regularity of a habit is generally in proportion to its absurdity.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Charles Tupper

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

Charles Edward Merriam

Rights are considered to have their source not in nature, but in law.

Charles Dickens

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

Charles Dickens

It is a pleasant world we live in, sir, a very pleasant world. There are bad people in it, Mr. Richard, but if there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Gene Smith

Much of what they do is mandated. They then take the mandates and massage them to meet the needs of this community.

Ted Levy

That just mandates that they take this move.

Balthazar Getty

I had a very modest upbringing.

Alan King

Modesty is not one of my virtues.

William Shakespeare

Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty.

Robert Buchanan

She just wore Enough for modesty - no more

Coco Chanel

Modesty is the highest elegance

William Collins

If aught of oaten stop, or pastoral song, / May hope, chaste Eve, to soothe thy modest ear.

Jacques Attali

It is a modest budget. We wish to start with a small amount.

Bharati Mukherjee

A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Drew Brees

I'm a very modest person.

Pam Walker

The possibility for the process to be tainted is just too much.

Pascal Hundt

We are seeing a process of spreading poverty.

Bill Joy

Interleaf is based on the formatting process.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.

Audre Lorde

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Diana Wynne Jones

...don't spoil my learning process!

Bill Nighy

I don't dislike the process of animation... I find it daunting, but only as much as I find everything daunting.

Bruce Miller

We have no idea how long this process will take.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Deborah Harkness

Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting.

David Linthicum

What this provides us is a quick turnaround. We get there, we get to go do the tips on the show, and we come back tomorrow.

Randy Williams

It provides reassurance to students they will have a safe place to learn,

Daniel Edwards

Spears provides inspiration for those struggling with the right choice.

James Goss

They had talked about that possibility. Between publishing and broadcasting and interactive, that provides them with enough to do.

David Morris

Flintshire provides one quarter of Chester hospitals' work - look at an atlas.

Madeline Albright

We were always willing, if they cooperated, to go to a comprehensive review

Gordon England

We had a very comprehensive and in-depth review of this transaction.

Dr. Wyman

Somebody has to review everything to make sure it was done right.

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

David Murray

I said we would review the situation in December,

Michael Kirby

that are continually being developed, reviewed and prioritized.

Margaret Moggio

I would like to be sure this has been reviewed by the G.L.E.N. Committee. We want to save as much as possible.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Carlos Slepoy

For now, we're in a suspension of the extradition request,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.