Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Chocola

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

Chris Christie

I support Planned Parenthood privately with my personal contribution, and that should be the goal of any such agency, to find private donations.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.

Doug Risebrough

Unrestricted free agency is not a savior. I've never seen an unrestricted free agent carry a team. But it is a tool.

Jack Stewart

We started this vote record last year to highlight the legislators who show an understanding of the economic and employment benefits of manufacturing and the cost burdens manufacturers incur to operate in this state. With over 340,000 lost manufacturing jobs in California over the last four years and no state agency in charge of retaining, recruiting and promoting manufacturing, we count on the Legislature to make this state more competitive for manufacturers.

Martin Van Buren

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.

Chris Kennedy

We always hope our federal bureaucracy is going to do a good job responding to the needs of Americans. The painful fact is, this is a bureaucratic process. Unfortunately, there are complaints all over the place out there about the speed with which the agency is dispensing with these claims.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You are to do the choosing here and now during this exciting and wonderful time on earth. Moral agency, the freedom to choose, is certainly one of God's greatest gifts next to life itself. We have the honorable right to choose; therefore, we need to choose the right. This is not always easy.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

You have agency, and you are free to choose. But there is actually no free agency. Agency has its price. You have to pay the consequences of your choices.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Chet Atkins

If you hear something you like, and you're halfway like the public, chances are they'll like it too.

Cale Yarborough

If you don't take a chance-you won't have a chance.

Luke Perry

It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

Louis Sachar

Every time I start a new novel, it seems like an impossible undertaking. If I tried to do too much too quickly, I would get lost and feel overwhelmed. I have to go slow, and give things a chance to take form and grow.

Mike Shanahan

The one thing we have in our division is everybody tries to get better. We've got ownership throughout the division where teams are looking to improve. . . . If you're not improving in our division, chances are you're not going to win.

Chad Hurley

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Lee Scott

The potential right now for success at that school is very, very high. Of the 30 kids in my class, about 10 are Hispanic. It's very difficult for me to look at those kids that I'm teaching now and know that statistically there's a good chance some of them will drop out of school.

Martyn Thomas

The performance in Paris was unacceptable. We will do what is necessary to enhance our chances of doing well in the World Cup. If that means making changes, so be it, but we are not going into panic mode.

Hilary Clinton

The Post's icon status was earned through hard work and nerve under fire, not through fear of criticism,

Richard Boucher

We reject any criticism, any allegations that our human rights efforts have diminished.

Mack Brown

We'd like for those two guys to get settled and started and learn the offense before they are criticized.

Tennessee Williams

Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics.

Winston Churchill

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Beverley Mitchell

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

Cyril Cusack

It is plain to me now that the Irish Producers, quite as strongly as the Critics, have neither sympathy nor understanding of my mode of playwriting.

Winston Churchill

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Frank Clarke

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent -- criticism.

Alan Watts

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

Elizabeth Moon

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Bill Nighy

The degree of notoriety I have is fine and easy. There's nothing hysterical about it.

Chetan Bhagat

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian

Alan Greenspan

Whether those adjustments are wrenching will depend ... on the degree of economic flexibility that we and our trading partners maintain, and I hope enhance, in the years ahead,

Herb Guenther

We're going to seed the clouds. To what degree and how we do it and how we fund it is yet to be determined.

Desiderius Erasmus

The highest form of bliss is living with a certain degree of folly

David Alan Grier

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

K. Eric Drexler

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world.

Al Sharpton

How do you make things fair?

Jon Holmes

The performance of the national team is very important. This season soccer has been fairly abysmal.

Frank Poirot

We struck a fair balance. We feel we've been fair with all our customers.

Gunter Grass

When I am working on an epic-length book, the writing process is fairly long. It takes from four to five years to get through all the drafts. The book is done when I am exhausted.

Madeleine Albright

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not.

Liz Boyd

We have seen an increase in prices and inflation. It is about time we give people a fair wage for a fair day's work.

Mark Connor

We want him to keep starting. If he goes 80 pitches and five or six innings, it's fair to say he's now an option for us.

Charlotte Bronte

You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

Alan Lamb

We're snowbirds. This is a lot better fair than we have back in Michigan.

Lithuanian Proverb

The person who gives is a person who has

Pedrito Estrill

We are pretty happy about winning a championship. It's always good when you win a championship. It means that you have represented your school well and gives the school something that you can positively identify with.

Dave Littlefield

We're in a position where we can look years down the road and plug in other things. I think that gives us hope for a stronger future. Now, they've got to win and perform well and all that stuff, but you've got to get yourself to that point where we are now.

Ashley Burnett

We're in a good position, but we still have to go out there and compete. At least this gives us an opportunity to practice and go over some things and get rested up for Friday.

Source Unknown

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

Mike Donahue

We have a smaller showroom than a lot of other dealerships. That gives us room for more inventory (on the lot).

David Booth

When you see a player go down like that and is really hurting and can't come back, I think that sends a message to our team. It gives you fire.

John Hanley

We're going to remove that portion first because it gives us more room to remove the main portion.

Jay Wright

We're going to need him. He gives us more size out on the perimeter.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Alan Rickman

I have just returned from the dubbing studio where I spoke into a microphone as Severus Snape for absolutely the last time.

Eric DiBiase

We've won nine of the last 11, so I like our chances.

Andrew Palmer

We want to show that we're no joke. People thought last year was a fluke. We can make improvements from last year. We're ready to see what's out there.

David Mitchell

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

David Sanborn

You're only as good as your last record.

Camille Paglia

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

I need some kind of... like... last minute, poorly-set-up deus ex machina!!

Victor Hugo

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

Paul Rudd

It's weird because we are under the microscope in a way that other shows might not be.

Lamar Odom

I'm always going to be under a microscope, and I haven't always handled it well.

William Jennings Bryan

If the Bible and the microscope do not agee, the microscope is wrong

Stanislaw Lem

Skepticism is like a microscope whose magnification is constantly increased: the sharp image that one begins with finally dissolves, because it is not possible to see ultimate things: their existence is only to be inferred.

Beth Moore

God often proves Himself when we feel we have the least to offer.

Ralph Nader

We're going to prove them wrong in November,

Jewish Proverb

What soap is for the body, tears are for the soul.

Lee Hamilton

We're getting better at this. But we still haven't proved we are safe.

Jozef Stumpel

We know we can play with any team in the league. We've proven it before, and when we play hard, we play desperate, we're one of the top clubs, too.

Thomas Keller

ultimately, the system proved instrumental in fostering an undeniably unified restaurant staff.

Ewen Bremner

I've proved to myself I can get along in different kinds of parts and different kinds of productions.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O!My many friends proved all untrue;But now I have no money, O!My friends are real though very few.

William Davis

When I had money, money, O! My many friends proved all untrue; But now I have no money, O! My friends are real though very few.

Bruno Tonioli

I like to read about subjects unrelated to my work, especially history.

Barry White

Everyone to me has to pick a subject to talk about in music if you're going to be a writer.

Elizabeth Bowen

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.

Nigel Barker

If I am to judge others, I should be subject to be judged. You make your bed, you must lie in it.

Garry Wills

I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

Gin Wigmore

I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.

Robert Luskin

Mr. Rove is still a subject of the investigation.

Robert Bennett

I am subject to expulsion if I divulge anything that is going on.

Joe Solmonese

I don't think it has anything to do with the subject matter.

Charles Stanley

It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships.

Charles Spurgeon

Great faith must have great trials.

Bernhard Goetz

The whole trial seemed surreal.

Bill McCollum

A trial without witnesses, when it involves a criminal accusation, a criminal matter, is not a true trial.

Patsy Ramsey

let's have a trial and get it over with

Richard G. Scott

Trials are not consequences of your disobedience, they are evidence that the Lord feels you are prepared to grow more.

Connie Willis

I watched the entire O.J. Simpson trial, and he was guilty.

Elizabeth Warren

I'm really concerned that too-big-to-fail has become too-big-for-trial.

Ann Coulter

[Alan] Dershowitz has also offered to defend Osama bin Laden in court, saying it would be an act of high patriotism. It's kind of too bad there isn't going to be a trial. Having Dershowitz defend him could be Osama's only shot at not being the least popular person in the courtroom.

Charles Stross

Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.

Charles Spurgeon

If I knew I had 25 years left to live, I would spend 20 of them in preparation.

Alanis Morissette

I'm a bit of an alchemist sorceress. I've collected probably 1500 oils from around the planet over the last ten years. I'm kind of obsessed with the sensuality of it.

Alan Watts

...for thousands of years human history has been a magnificently futile conflict, a wonderfully staged panorama of triumphs and tragedies based on the resolute taboo against admitting that black goes with white.

Alan Mulally

Although the quality of the vehicles is tremendously improving year after year but the underlying reasons that people are buying cars have really gotten focused. It's for high quality vehicles, reliable, fuel-efficient, and safe of course.

Alan Moore

I've known a lot of people go mad over the years, and it is more distressing than people dying. People dying is quite natural, people going mad is the complete antithesis of that.

Alan Moore

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.

Alan Moore

It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

Alan Hovhaness

I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.