Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bible Bible

Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.

Stephane Dujarric

Mr. Steiner was appointed after a long and exhaustive search. We were aware of all the facts and the secretary-general still felt that he was the best person to lead the organization.

Jon Foreman

Mayor Miller, you have a history of attacking appointed African-American representatives on boards and commissions.

M. Wolfe

One Supreme Court justice went to law school after he was appointed to bone up on the law,

Jonathan Turley

Obama is as likely to be impeached as he is to be installed as the next pontiff. And I say that as someone who has testified in Congress that this president has violated federal laws, unconstitutionally appointed various executive-branch officers and improperly transferred money.

Clay Richards

Newly appointed Sen. Robert Menendez leads Tom Kean by the narrowest of margins only because there are more Democrats than Republicans in New Jersey.

Robert Morgenthau

I would rather have my fate in the hands of 23 representative citizens of the county than in the hands of a politically appointed judge.

John Coffee

I would expect that both sides now are struggling to control the board. It may be that there are directors who were appointed by each side, but outside independent directors are not going to be loyal to someone if there is strong persuasive evidence that that person was involved in fraud.

John Roberts

If we're relying on a German judge about what our Constitution means, no president accountable to the people appointed that judge and no Senate accountable to the people confirmed that judge. And yet, he's playing a role in shaping the law that binds the people in this country.

Juan Palacios

Making it to the Final Four last year was amazing. It was special.

Michael Graf

Looks like we're finally going to make it this February.

Jimmy Johnson

Last year was tough at the end. This year we want to make sure that we're mentally able to make it through all 36 races and especially in the final 10, regardless if we're on top of the world or if we're going through a tough time.

James Augustine

Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and get back to the Final Four.

Carlos Emmons

Last year we would look at film and see linebackers not getting touched and making plays. I was like, 'If we don't get touched I'll make every play.' So finally we get to run around and make plays.

Jeff Caldwell

Last year we were the host and we didn't have a lot to be happy about because we weren't playing - especially when we made the Final Four the previous year.

Rory Bremner

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

Oprah Winfrey

SEND ME BACK TO PRISON! My final plea is to you Miss Winfrey, ... The Oprah Winfrey Show.

David Gallop

So finally it is time for kick off ... and what a season it is going to be.

Unknown

May the roof over your heads be as well thatched As those inside are well matched.

Paul Hewitt

My first year at Siena, my first year here, they were teams that people looked at and were scratching their heads thinking, 'How are they ever going to win a game?'

Katie Douglas

Obviously, our thoughts are with her, but at the same time, the show must go on. We just have to pick our heads up and know that with or without Lindsay, we?re going to have to do our best.

Harold Prince

I feel so much more comfortable when I'm working on material which makes other people scratch their heads and ask, 'You're going to make a musical out of that?'

Doc Rivers

When Wally went down, you could tell everyone's heads went down a little bit, too.

Tom Bentz

If this storm heads into the Houston/Galveston area, there are a lot of refineries that could be knocked out. It's still a very nervous market.

Charles Stross

I don't do villains often enough. There are two approaches: give them sympathetic, reasonable motivations for doing the most unspeakable things, or get inside heads that are interestingly broken.

Wendee Warg

We played with much more intensity tonight than we did last night (a 49-15 loss to Union Grove). We kept our heads in the game, and that kept us in the game. I think we played with confidence.

O. Singh

We are putting our heads together to see where we go from here.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Mikael Silvestre

Maybe we are relaxing too much in defense. At international level you get punished.

Bob Gansler

No one else has this specific kind of (artificial) turf. You have to up your level of concentration, because you are not going to get used to it in 90 minutes. We concentrated and strung some passes together and did well with it.

Larry Fitzgerald

My energy levels are off the charts. I can run all day, I breathe well, and I sweat a lot, so the toxins and impurities come out of my body.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Annika Sorenstam

I can't seem to make a putt and it's just very, very tough to be level par. I'm playing the way that I normally play here. Just nothing is happening.

Deepak Chopra

The solution is never at the level of the problem. The solution is always love, which is beyond problems.

Jason Kello

We need to meet the same level of funding.

Robert Kargon

We want to make sure that the level of student is high, and I would say we're selective, but not as selective as the undergraduate program (at Hopkins). Not yet, anyway.

M. Wolfe

On one level it is humorous, ridiculous and absurd. On another level it is scary.

Mike Leavitt

No one in the world is ready for it, ... But we're more ready today than we were yesterday. And we'll be more prepared tomorrow than we are today.

Daniel Inouye

I am ready and prepared to work with the President, but I will not be a rubber stamp for any president.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Seth Greenberg

I don't think anything in my training has prepared me for this season. I'm not sure there's ever been another season like this. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

Deepak Chopra

You can never receive more love than you are prepared to receive.

Melaney Arnold

We need to make sure that we are prepared when and if something does happen.

Carlos Gonzalez

Only when the ETA killers served out their sentences will we be prepared to talk.

Fernando Gonzalez

I was prepared for a tough match. In the second set, he started to serve much better. He started to come on and he had me under pressure.

Aaron Gelobter

I got the call, and I immediately prepared myself for what I had been seeing on TV.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

O. Henry

The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Charlie Rose

The younger generation watches what's interesting, not whether it's presented by someone who is as old as I am or someone who is as old as a 21-year-old. It's the material. If I did a series of conversations on things most interesting to Millennials, they would respond to it, and I do.

Jean-Marie Lehn

My first scientific paper in 1961 reported an additivity rule for substituent-induced shifts of proton NMR signals in steroid derivatives.

Ronald Biggs

One report said that since my time on the run I've had 2,500 girlfriends. I mean you got to realize, I've been on the run for more than 30 years, I have got to have had more than that!

Kent Cooper

One tribe has been reported with over 75 different names.

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.

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.

Tony Fratto

We're always willing to talk about how to make reports like this as useful as possible.

Melvin Maddocks

Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!

David Epstein

When we started studying it in 1998, frankly, it worked much better than we ever anticipated.

Maria Mitchell

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Prince

I have friends that are gay, and we study the Bible together.

Charles Spurgeon

The closet is the best study. The commentators are good instructors, but the Author Himself is far better.

Howard Schnellenberger

We'll be getting the tape tonight and be studying them.

Bill Johnson

Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.

Joe Pannunzio

We're going to have a two-a-day, but it's going to be academic. We're going to study two times today.

Madeleine Albright

I spent my life studying communism and Soviet systems.