Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sherry Pfeaster

We want them to get out, get a job and make progress. We want to help them make the change from being an addicted person to a recovering person.

Bob Lotane

We want them to address this aggressively and get the furthest ones out resolved as soon as possible.

Debra Sullivan

We want to take all of your comments and look at how we can address them.

David Daniels

An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".

David Suzuki

We humans have become dependent on plastic for a range of uses, from packaging to products. Reducing our use of plastic bags is an easy place to start getting our addiction under control.

Camille Pissarro

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Bill Stern

The only argument I keep hearing is you don't have the dollars to expand. Well, I'm addressing that. We are looking for a public-private partnership, but we are not looking to give up control.

Rick George

The Outback Steakhouse Pro-Am is a very strong tournament that got even stronger with today's news. Outback has been very innovative and creative since coming on board as a Champions Tour title sponsor in 2004. We are very excited about this extension through 2010 and adding yet another tournament to our lineup of events on NBC.

George Vasic

The potential for additional gains for stocks is limited given that we've had such a good run-up. We've been telling people to pare back a bit and reduce equity holdings.

Charles Dickens

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Alan Moore

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Alan Jay Lerner

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Al Pacino

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Kathleen Bergen

We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands.

Chris Carter

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

Courtney Pratt

We believe this plan does have a fighting chance of winning approval on the understanding that it's going to be discussed and probably modified or amended in some way,

Nancy Cartwright

The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

Yves Fortier

We are satisfied that the amended offer constitutes full and fair value for the company.

Chellie Pingree

It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.

Chuck Bowen

While we continue to oppose even the amended version, we knew that if we appeared before the committee, the chances were likely that the original version of the bill could be adopted.

Mike Mower

The governor was only on the (corporate) jet a few times last year, maybe only once, always with other family members on family trips; once to Fillmore for the funeral of a relative. An amended federal filing will be made next week.

Tom Rathbun

Management was a bigger concern to us than the finances. The reclamation just wasn't being done despite several amended agreements.

Paul Rakov

Our original application included projections we made during the summer of 2005. Economic effects of Hurricane Katrina and the ever-increasing cost of fuel has made construction materials more expensive than we originally planned. We amended our original application to help balance the effect of those costs.

Evan Wolfson

The Constitution was never amended to take away rights from a group of Americans.

Pope XVI

Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.

Jack Randorff

We've all seen games when they make play-by-play calls and you can actually hear the call two or three times, due to echoes in the space. That's the sort of thing you don't want here, because that interferes with what we want in terms of good, clean speech intelligibility.

Richard Friend

We started getting calls from all over town that (Wheatley) was driving at over 100 mph, ... He passed the mayor (Larance Davis) near Davis Elementary School and the mayor said he was going well over 100.

Orrin Hatch

Where they make phone calls and whether the president raises money or not is one thing. The way they've done it seems to be unethical, illegal, (and) in poor taste, ... Were foreign influences trying to influence the election?

Martin Van Buren

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Luke Mitchell

I try to stay away from processed foods. I eat lean meats and get as many veggies as I can on my plate, so when mum calls me on a Sunday, I can tell her I'm eating enough veggies! I love pasta, but I don't eat carbs a whole lot, and I love fruit.

Jermaine Wallace

Watching TV, all day and all night, it's unbelievable. I've been getting phone calls from everybody. It's been a blessing. I don't think I'll ever get tired of it.

Ken Dulaney

We're getting tons of calls on this. Customers are disappointed that RIM is putting this legal case before them.

Pat Robertson

We're getting tons of calls from people not quite knowing what to do,

Jim Rice

We want to see it cleaned up. There?s no reason to have lead on the ground.

Edmund Daukoru

We've already played this gimmick, ... We want to play clean so we don't even raise the ceiling.

Lil Mama

Lauryn Hill might have cursed a couple of times in her music, and Missy Elliot definitely just doesn't care. I'm really more inspired by their creativity more so than just the cursing. I'm really impressed by clean music.

Bob Newhart

You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.

Barry Bonds

I'm clean, I've always been clean.

Bertolt Brecht

From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Carol Leifer

My stand-up act is very clean.

Martin Lee

We have to get all that cleaned out.

Charlie Parker

It's just music. It's playing clean and looking for the pretty notes.

Paul Ellis

We've actually had complaints about dogs pooping on Liberty Bridge.

Chris Swecker

We have seen a five-fold increase in our caseload since 2000, ... We went from 4,000 complaints a year, from 4,000 referrals a year to 17,000. And we think that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Mark Foster

We have no complaints with bottom-line earnings growth in what we've seen so far. The economy is going to hold together, earnings growth is going to hold together, the Fed's going to stop raising rates and that will give the market an opportunity to move forward.

Laura Stromberg

What they're complaining about is the law. It's not fair. We're not happy about it. But it's the law.

John Millington Synge

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

Sam Wright

Were seeing the same names and new names with complaints over and over,

Tim Ray

We're complaining he used words which are false and intentionally reflect negatively on the municipality,

Katharine Graham

I didn't really want deadlines and editorial work. I wanted something mechanical and eight hours a day. So I went to work, thinking it was easy - ha, ha - on the complaint desk at the circulation department.

Greg Evans

Minimum wage is either a complaint or a reason to work that much harder. It has no medium.

Roger Valdez

When you think of all the thousands of places in King County, to have two that are not in compliance is pretty remarkable. We see this as working really, really well.

Mike Gardner

We're formulating plans to comply with the order. That's our primary objective, to make sure we are in compliance with all of the laws of the commonwealth.

John Ferguson

Major shippers expect C-TPAT compliance from their carriers.

Steve Bernard

We have probably the strictest standards on earth in terms of compliance with anti-money-laundering measures.

Bradford Smith

Today we are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table so we can put technical compliance issues to rest.

Patrick Cooney

We are concerned about being in compliance with federal law.

E. B. White

We are continuing to work with the airport, and our hope is they will come into full compliance with our regulations.

William Neukom

We are confident that the court will find we are in compliance with the consent decree.

Dai Junliang

Though some local governments have published their own regional administrative maps before, quite a number of regional borderlines are vague and the place names are not in compliance with government standards.

Jim Smith

What we're seeing is that most of the compliant product lead times are firming up and creeping out. If the lead time was two weeks, now it's four. If it was four weeks, it's going to six or eight weeks.

David Saunders

We want to be a good neighbor. We want to run a facility that's compliant and easy to live with.

Colin Clarke

We want to look at the young players as quickly as possible because we have to be roster compliant by March 1.

Jeff Shafer

From what we've seen in the last 30 days, lead times are stretching out a week, but no more than two weeks for compliant parts. It's slight, though, not like four or eight weeks.

Brad Little

There are still people who want us to produce something, ... Sustainable timber harvesting, environmentally compliant mineral extraction. Mining is a net gainer in the tax situation.

John Hall

We're often criticized for being seemingly compliant in these situations.

John Shepherd

We are fully compliant with the law, and we are very strict about it. Our legal team and staff are well trained - we have never had one of our adverts stopped.

David Storey

The P25 public safety technical standard is driving accelerated growth for land mobile radio (LMR) equipment as government and public safety radio users nationwide increasingly migrate to compliant digital radio equipment. RELM is one of only a few manufacturers with functioning products that presently meet the demanding P25 specifications.

Paul Wallace

Florida is nowhere near compliant with what the recommendations are.

Graeme Souness

The other pleasing points are that we've got through and won a tie 5-1 when we've played, first after only two weeks, and then after only 17 days of training.

Robert Kabushenga

The posters are depicting government in a negative light and this comes only a few days to the polling day.

Rick Michaels

We are pleased that we were able to reach record production levels, despite losing several days due to the holidays.

Dusty Baker

There are days when you don't have your premier stuff,

Donna Wisniewski

There are days they pick up two or three, but there's days that they come in with over 40 of them.

Walt Harris

There are days the offensive line looks like they're putting it together. At times we see the light at the end of the tunnel. They're starting to respond, but they've got to grow up fast.

Jody Conradt

There are days it's really been fun. And there are days when it's really been, well ... trying.

Karen Allen

There are days he just reads my mind.

Nicky Byrne

There are some days when you just want to push Shane off his chair.

Jim Leach

We stressed that delay was not in anybody's interest, either procedurally or substantively,

Joe Hills

We're talking about an attitude. Delayed gratification is there, planning, be able to give up something now to get something later.

Barney Frank

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Prescott White

We actually delayed the encore so West and his management could see what was going on.

Ban Ki-moon

The longer we delay, the more we will pay.

Tom Cirigliano

We're filing the suit to make sure our interests are protected. We have no intention to interfere with or delay the pending transaction between BP Amoco and Arco.

Chris Riley

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

Boris Yeltsin

We lack rubles, and that's where the delays come from,

Boris Gryzlov

The process of Russia joining the WTO should only be favorable. There are no alternatives ... Otherwise it will be delayed for the long term.

Jim DiNello

We knew we would be undersized tonight. We thought we could disrupt their offense if we could force the tempo and get some turnovers. The ladies executed tremendously.

David Thurtell

We're just going into the peak season. Anything that is going to disrupt supplies is very unwelcome.

Kris Gopalakrishnan

FreshWorld is in line with my vision of supporting sustainable technologies in solving problems. I feel this is the next-level disruption in the fruits and vegetables industry.

Lucy Jones

We are going to lose all of our natural gas lines, all of our water lines, many of our power lines, most of our transportation systems. We are going to have a disruption to our infrastructure in a way that is going to take months to recover from.

Bill Adams

We regret any disruption of service or inconvenience our patients and local physicians have experienced.

Will Rogers

There are two things that can disrupt the American economy. One is a war. The other is a meeting of The Federal Reserve Board.

Tom Hintelman

We thought we could disrupt them with the press.

Lawrence Eagles

We have responded to a very specific physical supply disruption and we will review that response as we go further forward.

Rob Yingling

The extent to which the disruption is being felt by passengers is minimal at this point because there's been enough taxis from outside operators making pickups.

Charles Rossotti

Most taxpayers will be able to file on one page and pay at one rate.

Hashim Siddiqui

We have hired some lawyers to file a petition.

Tamba Hali

We were blood-born (to his father). He was already (remarried) here. She was married as well. So she couldn't file for her.

Jimmy Collins

Last year we had to file an extension, and we had to pay penalties with interest. It was around $300.

James Dunn

Less than 10 percent of the people actually file a claim,

David Duncan

search personal files and search extraneous items that wouldn't be part of final work papers and get rid of them.

Woody Norris

I spent much of my life dying for somebody to help me even file for a patent or make a prototype. I understand that.

Samah Haggag

We don't know how this is going to impact the propensity to file bankruptcy.

Sue Hales

One of the big reasons I think this money is just sitting out there is because people think they don't meet the filing requirements for their income. A lot of people don't need to file, and they don't have to file, but they really should file because a lot of people who have income under the income requirements actually had taxes withheld and they should get that money back. We want them to get their money back.

Brian Greene

By dimension, we simply mean an independent direction in which, in principle, you can move; in which motion can take place. In an everyday world, we have left-right as one dimension; we have back-forth as a second one; and we have up-down as a third.

Atharva Veda

Nothing comes, and nothing goes; this play is all set in motion by the Lord, the Sovereign King.

Jack Thompson

No one has ever before survived a motion to dismiss, so we're excited.

Gerald Vizenor

It's so difficult to write in motion and get rid of the past tense, and also to create a sense of impermanence.

Sean McDonnell

His range of motion is a little limited. But he'll be fine.

Michael Malin

It is possible they were set in motion by strong wind or by a 'Mars quake,'

Vincent Sarubbi

He was the one who really put this in motion and organized the other two younger youths.

James Calhoun

If we're ready to make a decision, I'm sure someone will make a motion to put it on the agenda.

David Decker

We'll just step out on the highway, motion them off to the side.

Cher

One thing about prejudices -- once you break one of them, you're screwed, because then they all have got to go.

Charlotte Lennox

Truth is too weak to combat prejudice.

Charles Lamb

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

Bram Fischer

The glaring injustice is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.

Charles Bukowski

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

Elizabeth Blackwell

Prejudice is more violent the blinder it is ...

Deepak Chopra

Don't shut down the feedback loop with judgment, rigid beliefs, and prejudices.

Abdu'l Baha

Prejudices of any kind are the destroyers of human happiness & welfare.

Francis J. Grimke

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Justin Long

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Kim Brown

The only request is they make it healthy.

Ariel Sharon

I don't think it would be suitable (to request aid) at this time so we will wait a while.

Barbara Jones

He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Debbie Breen

We've had so many requests for groceries. The groceries take up one-third of the store.

Bill Steele

Our trustees are not employee-friendly. We request you appoint new trustees who are employee-friendly.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Catherine Ashton

In the EU you have half a billion people who share a common belief in democracy, in rights, in the kind of economic life we want.

Madeleine Albright

Our strategic dialogue with China can both protect American interests and uphold our principles, provided we are honest about our differences on human rights and other issues and provided we use a mix of targeted incentives and sanctions to narrow these differences.

Ai Weiwei

For all the tough talk about China during the presidential debates, Romney and Obama evaded any mention of China's suspect human rights record, corruption, and rule of law. By not tackling these controversial topics, the candidates are protecting a strategic partnership with China at the expense of essential human values and beliefs.

Ai Weiwei

Liberty is about our rights to question everything.

Bob Menendez

We should seek international support for our mutual objectives abroad, in promoting freedom, democracy, respect for human rights, and also the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.

Sam Sheppard

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.