Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Zwilling

We have asked the teachers union to delay the normal time for contracts in order to allow us to work on the process.

Xue Donghua

We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health.

Ron Moore

We have no language to allow wind energy systems in our existing zoning ordinance.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Bob Combs

We have no current plans to change our regulations and allow their use during competitive play on any of our three tours. Of course, their use continues to be permitted during practice rounds.

Jim Collins

We have never made it a secret that we allow commercials on talk channels.

Bruce Bowen

Whenever you allow a team like Dallas to shoot more than 50 percent, things aren't good for you.

Darrin Zeer

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Claudia Vercellotti

When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias.

Andrew Roskill

We have said for some time that Windows 2000 will have a slow ramp because companies take time to test and deploy new operating systems. Windows 2000 is basically a second half of 2000 story.

Stephen Thom

We have no legal binding, we basically are trying to work with the parties to see if there's an interest on their part to resolve this amicably. If we feel that the parties are not willing to resolve it, then we're done.

Flip Saunders

We wanted to try to start establishing our bench more, so basically we're playing three guys and giving those guys a little bit more minutes.

Jen Dibble

We were basically priced right out of Orleans.

Pat Walsh

We were basically on the edges of roads. When the wind starts kicking up again, any of those fires could get pushed on to roads and in to grass.

Dennis Roland

We were trying to pin them deep. And we just had a breakdown in our coverage. The films may show something else, but it was basically a breakdown. We took chances the whole game, and sometimes you get hurt by them.

Bob Hayes

We have basically been just trying to calm people down, let them know, once again. this is another kind of mistake made either by the federal government or the insurance companies or both.

Lynn Reaser

We have basically an optimal present economic situation, with solid growth and benign inflation.

David Thwaites

We've seen a sharp sell-off, bond markets have risen strongly, equity markets have basically collapsed very, very quickly.

Shimon Peres

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

Alan Shearer

I'd like to play for Newcastle United before I retire. The club is in my blood.

Charlotte Bronte

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated.

Charles Dickens

He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying up, on every side. There was another vessel before them, toiling and labouring in the howling storm: her canvas fluttering in ribbons from the mast.

Charles Caleb Colton

If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way.

Richard Eastman

The problem with the former cutoff of 140 is that by the time people were diagnosed with diabetes, about 20 percent already had complications, ... We know that the risk goes up sharply for those complications when the blood sugar gets to be about 126.

Yaron Ezrahi

The real change is that for the first time we have three people in the leading parties ... and none have the reputation or the record of a heroic military general or a bloody ruthless fighter.

Ehud Barak

The real cause is Arafat, ... paid with the blood of his people.

Isotonu Achor

There is blood all over him and I'm scared they'll come for him here. If he doesn't get urgent treatment he will die.

Mike Babcock

We want him to feel good and be an important part of our team. He told me the other day that he feels he's skating well, and that his leg doesn't hurt. Well that's great news for us. He's dominant in the face-off circle, his brain works all the time; he knows how to play in all situations.

Charlie Crist

I’m not a scientist either, but I can use my brain, and I can talk to one,

Charlie Cox

All we can do now is try to prevent secondary damage by relieving pressure on the brain caused by the initial injury. There is no reparative treatment for traumatic brain injury.

Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence, to produce her full effect, should start from the head of the orator, as Pallas from the brain of Jove, completely armed and equipped. Diffidence, therefore, which is so able a mentor to the writer, would prove a dangerous counsellor for the orator.

Terence

They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than in their head

Don Cooper

That whole thing about, 'Hey, ex-catchers are the best managers.' Listen, pitching coaches have some brains, too. Sometimes they're not all there, but sometimes they are.

David Brooks

The brain is not the mind. It is probably impossible to look at a map of brain activity and predict or even understand the emotions, reactions, hopes and desires of the mind.

David Allen

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

David H. Murdock

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chains I forged in life.

Henry Lewis

We have people who are willing to chain themselves to that house to prevent them from tearing it down if we have to,

Ken Bacon

The extent to which disparaging speech or expression with respect to sexual orientation occurs or is tolerated by individuals in the chain of command will be assessed.

Reinhard Buetikofer

There is a long chain of diametrically opposed positions, not least on social issues.

Tim Flock

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Kim Cattrall

A successful television series can chain you to a schedule of long hours and can put your personal life on hold. But after it is all over, if you survive, then anything is possible.

Kurt Burkhart

There are some climbs but not much for these riders. A lot of those guys will probably be going up in their big chain rings a lot of these climbs.

Gabrielle Union

I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else. Maybe I'll open up a chain of Popeye's Chicken.

James Calvin

We respect the right of Native American tribes to operate commercial enterprises, and the right of licensed distributors to supply them with legal products. But in conducting commerce with non-Native American consumers, everyone in the supply chain should play by the same rules, including collecting state and local taxes.

Geoff Coulson

We've seen worse, but I'm sure there are people in parts of Toronto who were not happy to see any rain after the events of Aug. 19.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

David Sedaris

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

Robin Tobias

We did not do as well as I thought we would in relay events. We have some work to do in the relays. There is a lot of time before sectionals, so hopefully we can find some answers.

Jane Addams

National events determine our ideals, as much as our ideals determine national events.

Cheryl James

Change is not an event, its a process.

Marilyn Fitzgerald

We still need to strengthen ourselves in the sprints. We're pushing hard in those events this week in practice.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Matt Mullenweg

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Kim Clijsters

There are a lot of good players here this week, but Amelie is in form and playing well so she will be tough to beat.

Tori Amos

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Gary Wolf

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Carre Otis

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

Carol Mann

The arc of your swing doesn't have a thing to do with the size of your heart.

Carol Shields

A woman's life isn't worth a plateful of cabbage if she hasn't felt life stir under her heart. Taking a little one to nurse, watching him grow to manhood, that's what love is.

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Universe, vast universe, my heart is vaster.

Carlos Castaneda

Eventually I saw that the path of the heart requires a full gesture, a degree of abandon that can be terrifying. Only then is it possible to achieve a sparkling metamorphosis.

Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Carlos Castaneda

My benefactor used to say the seeds are the 'sober head' -- the only part that could fortify the heart of man.

Carlos Castaneda

Before you embark on it you ask the question: Does this path have a heart? If the answer is no, you will know it, and then you must choose another path.

Carlos Castaneda

All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Take less time to read the scorecard and more time to read the hole.

Tommy Amaker

We started to get some stops in the second half, and that was a key for us. We did some things that kind of put us in a hole early, but we showed some maturity to claw our way back in, and we didn't panic.

Nigerian Proverb

When the mice laugh at the cat, there is a hole nearby

Bill Trumbo

We were in a hole early. We just couldn't let Williams shoot anymore. I was really pleased with the way we played defensively in the second half.

John Henderson

People will come here and they'll stare at a hole in the ground. There's nothing there to see.

Tiger Woods

No. 7 is one of the narrowest holes on the course, if not the narrowest.

Ken Johnson

I was impressed with our depth. We didn't miss a beat. There's no big holes in (the lineup). That's the key for us.

Brett Bergman

I was so nervous. It seemed like the quickest nine holes I've ever played, it went so fast.

Jim Cassidy

I don't want to be in the one hole or the 13 hole because you have to do things you don't want to do.

Nick Barnett

We've still got a lot of work to do. We're nowhere near where we need to be.

Kate Micucci

Near the end of high school, I was always super shy, backward.

Bob Stull

We are pleased with our progress, but we are nowhere near where we want to be yet.

Rick Pitino

We've accomplished what we've wanted to accomplish, record-wise. But we're nowhere near where we should be or where we ought to be.

Eddie Jordan

We started as if we were on a qualifying lap, got a puncture near the end but we got it home,

George Hecht

We have a number of people we just dispatched all day long to go to the nearest place where the water is problematic.

Todd Rundgren

I write in a very strange way. Things are very fragmentary for a very long time, and then they come together very quickly near the end of the process.

Nick Harkaway

I think the reason I wrote screenplays for nearly a decade was because it was my territory. I could stake that out.

Laura Perkovic

We'll be contacting each other by telephone in the near future.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Doris Williams

Women can do a lot of things when they have to, and she was a prime example.

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Malik Rose

We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something.

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

Alija Izetbegovic

pushed Dayton forward, while they were obstructing it.

Richard Remus

Correctional officers, you really can't tell them what they can't do. They like to stand their ground. They don't get pushed around. They get that confrontational attitude.

Brent Pohlonski

We always say our team is like a family. With so many sets of siblings, it just makes it more like a family.

Cass Elliot

I've been fat since I was seven, and being fat sets you apart.

Amy Cooper

When Kyra sets it makes her a lot more vocal and involved. She has a tendency when she's not setting to become an island. Kyra's a really smart player.

Dinah Maria Mulock

It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.

Gregg Marshall

It all sets up for a lot of drama.

Alastair Reynolds

I think the danger with using the term 'trilogy' is that it sets up particular expectations in the reader's mind.

Mark Polansky

When the application sets are similar, there?s movement.

David Hallberg

When stress sets in, and pressure, I focus.

Matt Hasselbeck

He sets the standards really high, especially at the quarterback position, and he isn't going to settle for anything less.