Famous Quotes & Sayings

Todd Akin

We have never embraced a system in which it requires 60 votes to confirm a judge, and we should not be doing that now.

Tom Coburn

We want judges who are well qualified. Ginsburg was confirmed with 96 votes. . . . I would hate to see a double standard,

Jack Straw

very distinguished and experienced internationally. If his appointment is confirmed we look forward to working with him.

Kamal Ahmed

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.

Randy Hampton

We did have a report of one in that area. We haven't been able to confirm it.

Allan Mayer

We have heard second-hand reports that the tape allegedly shows consenting adults, including someone identified as R. Kelly, engaged in sexual activity. Since we haven't seen the tape, we can neither confirm nor deny that it is in fact Mr. Kelly,

James E. Faust

I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.

Bob Woodward

would only guide us and steer us. And when we would find out something, he would confirm it.

Eric Williams

We're still recovering survivors and bodies. I can tell you right now, we have 11 confirmed dead.

Tawni O'Dell

Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

Ian Mckellen

There are deaths in public places on the grounds that the victim is gay.

Gary Eddy

I can't help but think that some of these deaths could've been prevented, if people had simply slowed down.

Gordon Campbell

My expectation today remains exactly what it was nine years ago, even, six, five and four years ago. I expect children's deaths to be investigated,

Christina Rocca

without shelter to protect them from the rapidly deteriorating weather, a second wave of deaths could occur if efforts are not stepped up immediately.

Uttam Khobragade

The government should have been informed that that there were deaths in such large numbers.

Diane Forden

To the loved ones of those who have been killed or injured I extend my deepest sympathy, ... Their deaths must not be in vain.

Bruce Jackson

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

Hal Stratton

Back in the 1960s, the number of deaths each year from unintentional poisoning was 15 times greater than it is today.

Carre Otis

My doctor felt that the main contributing factor was so many years of malnutrition, especially during my formative years, even before I got into modeling.

Carlos Mencia

When women can't climax, it's our fault, but when we can't get an erection, we have to go to the doctor.

Aasif Mandvi

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

Aaron Sorkin

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

Robert Williams

There are a lot of doctors of faith, and they're quietly ministering to people in need.

Thomas Frank

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Tomas Borge

The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illusions that I'll soon leave this world.

Dianne Feinstein

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

David Agus

I want doctors to treat toward health and not treat toward disease,

Jan Egeland

Somaliland and Somalia at large have been receiving now hundreds of thousands of returnees that they had to accommodate with very small resources.

Cass Canfield

A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.

Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Brittany Snow

My greatest accomplishment is receiving my role on 'Guiding Light.'

Sophia Amoruso

Don't act like you've arrived when you're just receiving the invitation.

Donald Miller

And so I have come to understand that strength, inner strength, comes from receiving love as much as it comes from giving it.

Debbie Reynolds

I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.

Coventry Patmore

Ask abundantly, for the measure of your asking shall be that of your receiving.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Phil Bronstein

We stand by our reporters and the reporting they did.

Richard Barnes

Until the IPCC report is published, we are all in the realms of speculation.

Dr. Shannon

I am thrilled to report we have had terrific success overnight.

Nigel Cameron

Certainly, if these reports are true, it's a tragedy for science.

Mark Fuhrman

Nobody's reported my victories, my accomplishments, my true personality - the way I treat all people.

Anthony Chan

Nothing in this report tells things are running out of control.

Jack Rio

I don't have anything to report other than he was awake, alert, still conscious.

Ronda Tompkins

I didn't do anything extraordinary. I just reported what I saw that night.

Charlotte Bronte

God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward. Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness -- to glory?

Charlotte Bronte

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory Wait God's will.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

Charles Dickens

When the time comes, let loose a tiger and a devil; but wait for the time with the tiger and the devil chained -not shown- yet always ready.

Charles Stanley

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

Charles Stanley

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

David Anders

I love TV, don't get me wrong. But with film, you're just banging out this one product and you're not waiting on another script. You have your script. It's great, in that way.

Darren Shan

Maybe we should wait....wait for him to kill another five or six, huh?

David Sedaris

Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. "And you actually saw people smoking in restaurants? Really! And offices, too? Oh, tell me again about the ashtrays in the hospital waiting room, and don't leave anything out."