Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Nia Long

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

Newt Gingrich

Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years.

John Boehner

When there's no agenda and no real message what happens is you can't really have a message. You can put lipstick on a pig all you day long but it's still a pig, ... This Week.

Tim Laatsch

We're going back to the table with the understanding that the top agenda item that we're going to be dealing with is going to be the whole issue of contracting out.

Sarah Leonard

Make no mistake the status quo in Sacramento is corporate control and the governor's agenda is not only to maintain corporate control but increase the grip of corporate special interests.

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Michael Weatherly

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.

Julie Andrews

The pleasure is in being allowed to play in so many different sandboxes.

Rich McKay

We've allowed those things to creep back. They are not necessary and should not be allowed.

Alan Curbishley

We've allowed him to go out on loan because he needs to play some first-team football,

Sol Trujillo

We, U S West, are not allowed to be in the long-distance business today. But we wanted to make sure that we could bring the benefits of services of companies like Qwest to our customers.

Michael Holton

We started to get some defense stops and that allowed us to run.

John Ramunno

We started out well, and then when we made substitutions and allowed them to get stuff going.

Andrew Booth

We stopped running and played at a slower tempo, which allowed them to sag in and double team.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Jody Williams

Since World War II, most of the conflicts in the world have been internal conflicts. The weapon of choice in those wars has all too often been landmines - to such a degree that what we find today are tens of millions of landmines contaminating approximately 70 countries around the world.

Jonathan Proctor

We hope to save wolves by preventing conflicts in the first place. Who could disagree with that?

Lord Robertson

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

Pete Hegseth

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.

William Butler Yeats

Of conflicts with others we make retorica, of conflicts with ourselves poetry

Robert Zoellick

Helping to end violence, ease suffering and forge a lasting political solution for Sudan's conflicts remain high priorities for the United States, ... The situation remains tenuous.

Charles Kennedy

When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.

Jill Soloway

I always love the soapy conflicts between somebody's family of origin and their new family - 'Do I have Thanksgiving at my husband's parents' house, or at my parents' house?'

Michael Posner

We're drafting rules of the road in the new global economy. We've made progress, but there's still a long way to go.

Dan Woods

Measure 37 has not been a model for us. We're drafting something that will work for Washington.

Jon Gruden

Monte's been here and had his system in place for some time, ... It's a one-gap scheme, and they've been drafting players that fit it. We're trying to do that on offense.

Reed Sorenson

I didn't get much drafting help. If I made a move, I didn't get many people going with me. I couldn't be too aggressive. I was just seeing what I could get done.

Colby Rasmus

Who wouldn't want to go in the first round? But I think sometimes I did look at it like they put all that into me, into drafting me that high that there must be a level they expect me to play at right away. It was kind of new, trying to do too much, but I'm getting over that pressure and just playing.

Karen Russell

Writers get embarrassed sometimes in talking about how much fun writing can be, but drafting is often really enjoyable. Often, you're tumbling in the dark, and you don't know where the story is going to lead.

Bob Hayes

After me, everybody started drafting speed. But they used to laugh at a lot of those guys because they couldn't catch. Otto Graham once said that I had 9.1 speed and 12-flat hands, but I proved him wrong. I was the leader of the pack.

Alex Gordon

I know they've been drafting lot of good players, and they have a lot good young players. It might take a while, but I'm fine with that.

Mark Norris

If we think it will further the purpose of considering and drafting remedial legislation as we move forward, then it's appropriate.

Lynsey Addario

The possibility to mobilize the international community to act on human suffering is what drives me every day as a photojournalist.

David Jones

The point about labor market weakening suggests the Fed's ... worried about that. That drives home the point they're going to keep these rates unchanged for a long period of time.

Castor Pang

The plunge yesterday was driven by panic selling, the rebound today is a strong signal for buying.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

Kevin Malone

We've actually had to pull out the stops and have supervisors working the windows and pull in everyone who can give a drive exam and try to accommodate them.

Sal Basilone

We are looking to identify that driver and piece together exactly what happened.

Donald Selkin

Where's the motivation to drive stocks higher?. I thought that we could have done better, but there was no real motivation to move things higher or lower.

Paul Lundberg

When you took away the 3 they drove right by you and you took away the drive they hit the 3.

Martin Freeman

I think people just like seeing friendship. I think people like seeing people who just drive each other up the wall, but at same time, can't live without each other.

Kevin Quinn

We started the program nine years ago with kids that were just learning to play hockey, so this is a fulfilling day for me and a lot of original parents who helped for the organization. We're extremely proud of these kids, particularly, and for all the people who laid the groundwork.

Robbie Stancil

We started out in a match-up zone. But we've worked and worked and worked on our man defense, and we did an outstanding job with it after the first quarter. I think we got Murdock extremely frustrated, and we kept (Marietta's guards) pretty contained.

Sam Allardyce

Where our finishing was very, very good last weekend it let us down tonight. We really should have put the game away in the first 90 minutes and we haven't done that and have paid a heavy price for it. We are extremely disappointed.

Leonor Varela

I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. It hurts sometimes, but it's good. I'm little extreme in that sense - the middle ground is not my forte.

Laurent Brancowitz

I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.

Nick Woodman

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Loic Fauchon

We want man to once more become a friend of water, so let's hurry up, as there is extreme urgency.

Kevin Norrish

US product markets remain extremely weak at present, with most of that weakness focused in gasoline markets.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Alan Mollohan

I have never, not once, violated my public trust.

S. Hughes

Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....

David Duchovny

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

Carl Andre

Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good.

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon, Voltaire, or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

Robert Reich

When times are tough, public employees should have to make the same sacrifices as everyone else.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Sharon Stone

My personal style and public style are very different. When I go out, I play dress up.

Brendan Behan

There's no bad publicity except an obituary.