Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

Senator, that's a question that I don't think can be answered in the abstract. You need to know the particular circumstances and exactly what the facts are and what the legislation would be like, because the argument on the other side -- and as a judge, I would obviously be in a position of considering both arguments: the argument for the legislature and the argument for the executive. The argument on the executive side will rely on authority as commander in chief and whatever authorities derive from that.

Bible Bible

So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? / And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, / Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: / And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.

John Nields

Mr. Hubbell during 1995 answered over 10,000 questions from various investigators. It's child's play to go through those 10,000 statements and pick out a few on which his answers were inaccurate or on which they differed with some other witness.

Bill Cowher

One thing you see now is when Willie makes a decision, he's going north and south. You see him hitting the pile and going forward. I know one of the questions was, 'Can Willie run inside?' and I think he's answered a lot of that.

Amy Johnson

My date was really good-natured about it and happily answered all of my dad's questions. I couldn't believe my dad would do that to me! Apparently it didn't scare my date too badly because he asked me out again!

Charlie Coe

I would be shocked to see him fall past the fourth round. From the people I've talked to, I'm thinking there's a good chance he could be taken in the third round. A lot of that fourth- and fifth-round talk started after his combine work when some people still had some questions about him. But since then, he's held a lot of workouts for different teams and answered a lot of those questions. He's been moving up.

Tom Hontz

Basically, around the district and the state -- and even the nation -- people are rooting for A.J. But Brent handled it well. He answered A.J.?s strengths.

Kami Roeder

She was just more confident. We told her she has the potential to do whatever she wants and she answered the call.

David Long

She was in there. She answered the questions.

Lori Montag

Like I said for the past 17 years there has always been an assistant to the clerks office.

Randy Dunton

Life is a do-it-yourself project and we Jack Kevorkian-ed ourselves tonight. It was assisted suicide.

Theresa Grentz

Maggie had that twinkle in her eye today. Maggie was everywhere. She does such a great job running our offense, that if others just knock down shots, she's going to get big assist numbers. Both Maggie and Janelle, the two seniors in our back court, have stepped up their play this year.

Ray Drake

Liam (Smith) stepped up in the second half. That's kind of how he's played all year. Ben (Parker) played good defense, but his shot wasn't going in. Jon is the real quarterback of the team. He's a real point guard and he'd rather have the assist than the basket. Sometimes I wish he'd shoot more.

Jim Boeheim

Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of those guys come up to me and say that. He's been double-teamed all year, and the coaches voted him first team all-conference. The head coaches, they don't know (expletive), I guess.

Jim Gerlach

Low-income seniors who choose to enroll in a drug discount plan will receive $600 of Federal assistance in 2004 and 2005 to further defray the costs of their medications.

Mike Browning

Lou is a great, multi-talented (guy). He does great work (in sculpture). He brought his expertise from Don Haskins, used his big-man coaching. He played quite a bit with the kids. That was my first two years at the Academy; I was his assistant coach, his JV coach. When he was at the Academy, I was at Holy Ghost.

Matt Savoie

Lori Parker, one of our assistant team leaders here in Calgary has a daughter attending Kansas, who Bradley already beat this tournament so I had fun teasing her about that.

Frank Haith

Last year was our first year in the league and my first year in the league as a head coach. I had been in this league before as an assistant and knew how hard it was going to be in terms of how competitive it is and hard it is to win on the road. I think our kids are better at it after going through it one time. We're more experienced and now that we have Anthony Harris back, I think we're playing better basketball.

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Antonio de Mendoza

Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.

Christopher Lawrence

Mozart's symphonies are quite special. One of our landmarks is our recording of all of his symphonies, which means that we've recorded not 41, but 68 symphonies. Many people are unaware that there are many unnumbered symphonies.

Andre Agassi

means as much to me as doing it in the finals.

David Hopkins

More people means there is more of an opportunity for crime,

Jim Haslett

Obviously, that means a lot to me -- that's what friends are for.

Orel Hershiser

obviously keenly understands what it means to be a Dodger.

Taron Egerton

Of course, everyone would like to play a superhero, but this is by no means me saying I would like to go play Cyclops.

Timothy Noah

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Bob Hunter

I can tell you this thing is by no means is it going to throw up a lot of cash.

John Grace

Macquarie may have to raise the offer. It's a question of what shareholders want.

John Hunter

set out systematically to question every established process.

John Fitzgibbon

Semiconductors have always done well, ... The question is how well.

James Rubin

Mr. Haider is still going to be governor, as I understand the reports, and still going to be in the party. So the question is what the party's role will be in the Austrian government.

Jeffery Smith

Now, there's not a question about it. They know that to participate at Woodward, you have to have a helmet.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

Robert Shaffer

There are many different types of logging. The question is, how much is enough?

Francis Gaskins

If they're profitable, they could go public. The question is, if they want to.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

Fred Jacobs

We need to take steps to restore credibility to the administration and accountability to the university, and we have to do it tangibly.

Erin McKean

We've been using 'rejuvenate,' meaning to restore youth, to make young again, as a verb for at least 200 years.

Michael Donovan

Everyone who could be restored has been restored.

Isabella Rossellini

disappeared or haven't been restored or rights haven't cleared.

Karen Woodall

You have to restore the outreach and you have to be in the community.

Abu Bakr

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Kathleen Blanco

We have to restore the state and its people. This is important work you're about.

Tom Vilsack

He steals second, and I hereby restore his voting rights.

Bo Ryan

This is all about trying to restore confidence.

Ken Sawyer

My first thoughts were we need a new arena.

Edgar Allan Poe

It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession.

Edgar Allan Poe

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man.

Edgar Allan Poe

A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

Edgar Allan Poe

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

Edgar Allan Poe

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.

Edgar Allan Poe

To observe attentively is to remember distinctly.

David J. C. MacKay

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.

Abdu'l Baha

Let them at all times concern themselves with doing a kindly thing for one of their fellows, offering to someone love, consideration, thoughtful help.

Yul Brynner

Now that Im gone, I tell you; Dont smoke. Whatever you do, dont smoke.

William E. Conway, Jr.

If I'm going to create 1,000 jobs, or 10,000 jobs, or whatever the number is, wouldn't we all be better off?

Phil Kessel

I don't have to worry about it right now. I'm just going to go out there and play and whatever happens, happens.

Alexandra Adornetto

Xavier: They, whoever they are, shouldn't have control over our lives. I'm not about to lose you. I've been through that before, and I'll do whatever it takes to make sure it doesn't happen again.

John Erwin

We'll do whatever we can do to assist,

Mike Singletary

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

Byron Katie

Whatever it takes for you to find your freedom, that's what you've lived.

Anderson Hernandez

Yeah, I think I have a chance. I'll do whatever they want me to. I'll be ready.

Pat White

We're going to play to win, that's all I can tell you. Whatever it takes.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.