Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Straw

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

Tom Coburn

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

Gregory Coupet

There is no need to start panicking. Our recent results have only confirmed that we are merely human beings.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Reinhard Kurth

Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that the swans were infected with H5N1 from Asia. We have no doubts whatsoever any more.

Doug Macdonald

Legislators and voters confirmed that they are willing to invest in highway improvements to help alleviate traffic bottlenecks and enhance safety.

Kofi Annan

Libya has confirmed its seriousness and readiness to find a solution to the Lockerbie problem,

Norm Coleman

senior Iraqi officials have confirmed that you, in fact, received oil allocations and that the documents that identify you as an allocation recipient are valid.

Ozren Muller

She did not train today because she is not feeling well. The doctor has confirmed that she does not have the flu or a temperature. She is resting.

Rod Brind'Amour

We know what we're supposed to be doing and you don't magically come up with a new plan. It's execution. At the end of the day, either your goalie stands on his head or you had better execution, and I think we had better execution.

Laith Kubba

We know well that either way, if it is a 'yes' or a 'no,' it is going to be a tough outcome that we need to handle.

Joseph Bologna

When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.

Tim Roberts

There are some good individuals there. You can either help yourself or hurt yourself for seeds (in the Individual District) Saturday.

Chuck McMeekin

We're in a quandary on what we can and can't do. Either you let the garbage sit outside or people are going to put it in their neighbor's yard.

Stephen Harper

What the prime minister doesn't seem to face is the election is either going to occur now or it's going to occur in January, ... We're not going to wait another four months.

Ivan Radenovic

Whenever we played them, we played well in either the first half or the second half. This time we've got to put it together for 40 minutes if we want to win.

Philippe Val

When extremists extract concessions from democracies on points of principle, either by blackmail or terror, democracies do not have long left.

Tim Parmeter

When he gets the opportunity to be in the open court, he's so good with the ball. He makes good plays by either scoring or kicking it out to other people.

Ian Stannard

The reform mandate is probably not going to be as strong as it would have been under an outright victory by Merkel.

Charles Hasse

It doesn't work well to mandate that from the state.

Gene Smith

Much of what they do is mandated. They then take the mandates and massage them to meet the needs of this community.

Jonathan Todd

It is part of the trustee's mandate to have these contacts.

Ted Levy

That just mandates that they take this move.

John Earl

OPG is not considering anything as a site. We have no mandate for that.

Ken Trump

The problem is that most of this type of legislation has little to no resources for schools to do anything other than having an unnecessary and unfunded mandate that's really questionable whether or not it's needed.

Larry Smith

There's no mandate that they be open. There's no mandate that they pump gas. There's no mandate to do anything.

Jenji Kohan

We're throwing everything in ... I think Showtime's mandate is to make some noise. And this is a pretty noisy show.

Charles Taylor

What should have died along with communism is the belief that modern societies can be run on a single principle, whether that of planning under the general will or that of free-market allocations.

Charles Dudley Warner

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

Charles de Lint

It seems like I always wrote, I just didn't think of it as a career choice. I just liked to tell stories ... to myself, to pen pals (I had a lot of them, all over the world). Of course this was in the days before computers were everywhere, and anyone could access the Web. You had to make an effort keeping up a correspondence, and the arrival of the mail once a day was a big deal. I think if modern technology had been around when I was a kid, I would never have left my bedroom except to take the dogs out for their run three times a day.

Charles de Lint

She hoped he was running to his red deer woman, and that when he tapped on the door of her heart, she'd open it wide and let him in.

Charles Dickens

He lived in chambers that had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Dean Laidley

Until this day, we didn't have any injuries, but now we've got this one, so that's the disappointing part.

Dennis Wharton

Until there's a selection, NAB is not commenting.

Tommy Lapid

until the disengagement ends. It is about to end soon.

Jerry Angelo

We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved.

Ed Troyer

We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears.

Tim Anderson

I think that the stock's probably washed out for a while,

Joe Baker

Between Avon and Buxton, it's completely washed out.