Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dingell

We want to see to it that we still have medical decisions being made in favor of and on behalf of the patients, ... This is to see to it that the HMOs are treated the same as anybody else, not given preferential and reverential treatment. That's what the Norwood amendment does.

John Carlson

We are seeing a perfect example of how campaign finance laws are regulating the First Amendment out of existence. The idea that I cannot talk about Initiative 912 in the last two and a half weeks of the campaign, which are the most pivotal, is just outrageous.

Ann Beeson

There are considerable First Amendment issues involved in such a move.

Yasmin Sewell

We stock the world's best jeans, including James and Sass & Bide. Sass & Bide jeans are basic and super-comfortable, but the 18th Amendment jeans have just that little bit more detail; they are slightly more refined. Customers love them.

Niger Innis

The First Amendment allows Nazis and white extremists to do what they are going to do, and it allows for black extremists and all other types of extremists to do what they are going to do. I understand that, and I'm not opposed to that.

Peter Murphy

What this bill would do is a poison pill amendment to require the school board to approve the existence of a new charter school going forward. So this idea that this is some kind of compromise measure, that it lifts the cap but provides the oversight, is completely misleading. In fact, it's designed to pretend to lift the cap, but in fact, squash any new opportunity going forward.

Jim Peterson

We would welcome the decision to repeal the Byrd amendment. But we strongly maintain that the Byrd amendment should be eliminated immediately. The WTO ruling was clear.

Pat Toomey

Unless and until they actually manage to repeal the First Amendment itself, we are going to find a way to give voice to the tens of thousands of people who share our views and want to have a voice in the political process.

Ritchie McKay

Very emphatically, I never, ever in my 18 years of coaching have forced a young man or demanded or made it mandatory for a young man to attend church, ... I appreciate the ACLU, but to not listen to my bosses and to file a complaint, maybe its mission is to be controversial. Obviously I know the difference between making it mandatory and personal convictions and what the First Amendment says.

Billy Beane

The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Paul Kemp

There are some disasters beyond comprehension, and I think this is one of them.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Josh Bolten

We're in a transitional period, and I want to make sure I have a team in place that is with us for, at a minimum, the remainder of this year and to some extent beyond that.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Michael Dell

We're not going to provide any visibility beyond what we provided for the first quarter.

Lanny Wadkins

Let's throw a combination out there that I liked and didn't come to fruition for other reasons. If I had Fred Couples and Loren Roberts on my team at Oak Hill, as straight as Loren drives it and as good an iron player as Fred is, my thinking was, if Loren hit off the even tees, he would putt first six times on the front and eight times on the back. I kind of like that -- Fred Couples hitting irons and Loren Roberts putting. That's a helluva combination.

Michelle Smith

This works well for couples with no kids, no ongoing financial obligations and similar spending habits.

David Alan Grier

I want to see gay couples stuck with their significant other at Home Depot with that far away look in their eye, get me out of here.

Andrea Lewis

I was scared. I thought we were turning into one of those couples that fight all the time.

Laura Wasser

Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.

Michael Tucker

There are something like 1,000 rights that accrue to married couples under state law.

Calandra Terry

Newsletters and Web sites are a great opportunity for couples to put all of the information about the wedding in one place -- where they're registered, guest hotel accommodations, events that will be going on surrounding the wedding. And you could also include events leading up to the wedding, such as showers and parties.

Carley Roney

I can't say I'm a big fan. I understand where the pressure is to do this because so many couples pay for their weddings themselves these days and they don't want to give up that dream of having a big wedding. But it seems like kind of a sell-out. This is a major life moment and I think you should do it within your means rather than trying to turn it into a marketing event.

Jacqueline Bisset

Ideally, couples need three lives; one for him, one for her and one for them together

Steve Harmon

Very few have been successful. Nuance is really defining voice interface.

Rick Perlstein

As a general rule of thumb, Democrats do better in national elections when the year's defining issue is economic fairness, and Republicans do better when the defining issue is national security.

Brian Bosworth

All I want is the defining moment.

Britney Spears

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

Lisa O'Hare

I've always known that performing is what I want to do. There was never a defining moment. I just came out that way.

Gavin O'Connor

Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.

Tony Fadell

I don't want the iPod to be my defining thing.

Amanda Palmer

My number-one goal is to never feel like I'm strictly defining myself. The minute I feel like I'm doing that as anything - as theatrical, as feminist, as songwriter - I feel like the minute I name it, I'm stuck in a box.

Max Lawson

We are really depressed. We are left clawing our way back to commitments made three years ago. When we start defining success as simply standing still, that's a terrible situation to be in.

Jenn Davis

We want to take this as far as we can. We hope to play three more games. Right now, our goal is to win (Saturday) and get to the state tournament.

Louise Jameson

I only have three scenes and each is a turn and she gets progressively drunker. It's all terribly funny and its main challenge is that it's so far away from what I usually do.

Russell Crowe

The people who don't have a good relationship with me from a good performance point of view are very few and far between.

Dave Rose

We are a far better team when we get out and score in transition.

Flip Saunders

We are at the tip of the iceberg as far as where we are and where we could be.

Flip Saunders

We still only had 10 turnovers for the game. They were magnified as far as when they happened a little bit. When you're playing well, they try to throw everything at you. From that standpoint, as I say, the more things that are thrown at you, the better prepared you are come playoff time.

Jimmy Garris

We're in favor of (the recommendation); it just doesn't go far enough.

Lodrick Stewart

We're in (a tie for seventh) place, but that's not that far out of a really good spot this year.

Dave Haywood

We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

John Tortorella

We've won one game, that is it. I think what we did is just turn this into a series. ... As the series goes on, you have to play better. We know Ottawa is going to play better the third game.

John M. Ford

The people who don't like it tend to dislike it intensely. That's unfortunate, but not surprising when one deliberately goes against audience expectations.

Jack Horner

where it actually goes from land into the water.

McKayla Maroney

When you're competing, you have to wear a sleeve that goes all the way down to your wrist. When you're training, you usually don't wear long-sleeved leotards, so there's a difference between training and competing.

Nigel Barker

My go-to necktie is jet black, skinny, and simple. It goes with everything. I really like that mod-ish punk look.

Mel Rapozo

When you talk to the officers, it's pretty bad. Every day that goes by without some intervention, it's getting worse.

Alan Alda

I've never tried to manipulate my image.

C. Northcote Parkinson

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Brian Trehearne

The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I'm not naturally manipulative.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Edward Everett

Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice.

Ed Koch

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

Edward Kennedy

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

David McCullough

My wife, the star I steer by.

Dave Barry

As you get older; you've probably noticed that you tend to forget things. You'll be talking with somebody at a party, and you'll know that you know this person, but no matter how hard you try, you can't remember his or her name. This can be very embarassing, especially if he or she turns out to be your spouse.

Caitlin Flanagan

Marriage remains the most efficient engine of disenchantment yet invented.

Cary Grant

When I'm married I want to be single, and when I'm single I want to be married.

Condoleezza Rice

The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare.

William Shakespeare

As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor.

Aisha Tyler

Marriage isn't a carnival ride.

Bob Newhart

I'm most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don't have that, you really don't have very much.

David Reuben

A marriage is like a long trip in a tiny row boat: if one passenger starts to rock the boat, the other has to steady it, otherwise, they will go to the bottom together.

Roger Hill

We did not find, at this stage, any sign of prohibited items.

Tom Condon

I don't think it's a loophole as much as a utilization of the rules. The rule is that anything not prohibited is allowed.

Jello Biafra

For every prohibition you create, you also create an underground.

Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu

The new UN resolution should prohibit defamation of all prophets and faiths.

Capt. Moad

It's not a prohibited substance; it's a toxic weed. That's part of the problem.

Hillary Clinton

We know the IRS has made clear there is no prohibition on releasing it when you're under audit.

Pope Benedict XVI

In this regard, I reiterate that the prohibition against torture cannot be contravened under any circumstances.

Robert A. Heinlein

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

Dinah Shore

Why should unmarried women be discriminated against - unmarried men are not.