Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Zwilling

We have asked the teachers union to delay the normal time for contracts in order to allow us to work on the process.

Xue Donghua

We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health.

Ron Moore

We have no language to allow wind energy systems in our existing zoning ordinance.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Bob Combs

We have no current plans to change our regulations and allow their use during competitive play on any of our three tours. Of course, their use continues to be permitted during practice rounds.

Jim Collins

We have never made it a secret that we allow commercials on talk channels.

Bruce Bowen

Whenever you allow a team like Dallas to shoot more than 50 percent, things aren't good for you.

Darrin Zeer

When everyone is really busy and feeling stressed out, often the time with your partner is one of the first things to get bumped. Stretching with your loved one turns the tables on the rat race, allowing you both to be in the moment and renewing your connection.

Claudia Vercellotti

When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias.

Dan Mullen

Whenever you capture information, there should be checks and balances. It's certainly important to bear security in mind whenever you're working with databases.

Robert Redford

We were at 10,000 feet in Utah and I was running out of gas. I was in boots that were leather-soled. The bear was closing in. Now, he's supposed to be playing. Once I started to run, he got really excited. Pretty soon he was chasing me. And I said if this guy gets me, his idea of play is going to be the end of me. So I threw the rifle out and got on that tree so fast. Now, once it was done, I mean, I was sweating bullets. I said, not again. Not again.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?

Eliza Cook

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

There is but one philosophy and its name is fortitude! To bear is to conquer our fate.

Tom Hougaard

There is no doubt that the recent rally is fueled by a lot of short covering from bears thinking the New Orleans debacle would cause jitters on Wall Street.

Bobby Wallace

When I met his dad (Chuck), we talked about Toby, but that didn't have any bearing on me hiring him.

Roy Harper

When I was 15, I was wearing sandals and corduroys, Guernsey, striped pullover, a beard that was hardly there, shades and a beret, and the goal was hanging out.

Ricky Gervais

I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off.

Alan Doss

We have to give the new government, initially, the benefit of the doubt. Help them get moving quickly so people see a difference. If a few years from now they sense that nothing has changed . . . there could be trouble again.

Sunita Narain

We have to get away from tiger conservation for the rich, by the rich. There has to be benefit sharing.

Darrell Braden

We have no benefits at all -- no sick leave. What most people have, we don't have it.

Ed French

We want our members to be able to maximize their point earning potential. This card not only allows members to earn more Marriott Rewards points, and it also gives them many benefits such as a free-night certificate yearly, and 15 nights towards Elite status.

M. Wolfe

We want market share at the end of the day, ... You've got to have it because those are the companies that are going to have pricing power, and  they are going to enjoy the benefits of margin expansion on the back end of this.

Margaret Blohm

We want full and fair disclosure before the members vote. I want to know how this will benefit me.

Charlie Chaplin

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Mark Richt

We have rules that must be adhered to by all members of our team. It's sometimes an unpleasant duty of a coach, but discipline is an important part of team unity and ultimately, team success. Hopefully, an important lesson is learned that will be of benefit in the future.

Kathleen Blanco

Louisiana is in line for a possible direct hit. We know that we're going to take the brunt of it.

Tony Jones

We're getting back incorrect deductible amounts, incorrect co-pays. We're here on the front lines, getting the brunt of it all. Not every patient has these problems, but there's a lot of it going on.

Bob Farrell

We're looking at another fine day (Tuesday), but it might not be so fine Wednesday and Thursday. I don't think the Big Island will catch the brunt of it.

John O. Brennan

If a person is a U.S. citizen, and he is on the battlefield in Afghanistan or Iraq trying to attack our troops, he will face the full brunt of the U.S. military response.

Damon Hollins

With our lineup, there's going to be somebody new every night to get a couple of big hits. We don't have one guy who's going to stand out and take the brunt of it. We're just scrappy, and I think that's a good thing.

Kathleen Blanco

We know that we're going to take the brunt of it. It does not bode well for southeastern Louisiana.

James Hines

He's going to take the full brunt of this hurricane coming in,

Joel Seligman

Most of our schools and other divisions have taken concrete steps to determine how they can support university students whose families have felt the brunt of Hurricane Katrina, ... Several are accommodating students from Gulf Coast colleges whose plans have been entirely disrupted this fall.

Kobe Bryant

It meant a lot to me that he saw the difficult time I had last season, taking the brunt of the load, and him wanting to come back and help me out through the process, ... It's important for me to get his back.

Carolyn Jackson

We'll be looking at charters of similar-sized cities, what their differences are and whether those differences would help our city run better,

Jim Randall

A story is word-of-mouth marketing at its most powerful. People are finding out that vision statements, mission statements, corporate charters ? they just don't inspire people. A story, on the other hand, helps create a community or family.

Caprice Young

High-quality charters are competing for scarce philanthropic dollars, and million-dollar donations are rare. In Kendra you've got an educator with a game plan and a good track record.

Chris Reid

In Paradise, that's one of the nice things about how charters operate, ... We're very much connected with the district. And we pay for those administrative services, so it keeps us connected.

Paul Thompson

We have to go with the decision that's been made and they're going to give him a shot. I definitely want to get back out there and do what they expect me to do.

Emma Udwin

We have no intention of taking any measures that would harm the population of Belarus if a decision is taken to undertake further restrictive measures. Those measures would be targeted on those who are deemed to be responsible for elections which have been judged not to be free and fair.

Bruce Bochy

We have some decisions to make, and we need to get the staff together and talk.

Dawn Ostroff

We have some big decisions walking into our scheduling meetings with as few holes as we have.

Henry Leger

We have some big decisions on our plate.

Jeff Beeman

When you're up by four in overtime, you should win. But in that last minute, we made some very poor decisions with the ball.

Bob Woods

We want our members to be able to make a decision without being intimidated. Nothing in the letter (from Bass) is illegal, but there are subtle threats in there.

Spencer Abraham

We want fewer 'Washington knows best' solutions and more people at the local level making education decisions for America's children,

Aaron Sorkin

Decisions are made by those who show up. Don't ever forget that you're a citizen of this world.

Charles Dudley Warner

The most popular persons are those who take the world as it is who find the least fault.

Bram Stoker

Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.

Jane Austen

...faultless in spite of all her faults...

Jane Austen

This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults.

Charles Spurgeon

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

Martin Luther

We are at fault for not slaying them (the Jews)

Charles Marion Russell

Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.

Bernard Levin

It is assumed that when anyone gets into debt, the fault is entirely and always the fault of the lender.

Bill Gates

To be born poor is not our fault, but to die poor is crime

Tom Jones

So when I realised I could sing for a living - do what I loved and be paid for it - I thought, 'This is unbelievable. Unbelievable!' And that feeling has never left me.

Jose Serrano

The poor were just left to fend for themselves.

Brian Cox

There is so much left of it to explore.

Logan Mankins

I hurt my left knee playing left tackle. I had surgery on my right knee.

Jeremy Luke

In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.

Janis Joplin

Freedom is just another word for when you have NOTHING left to lose.

Chris Cooper

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Lorraine Toussaint

Once I'm on set, the only thing I'm really interested in is being in the room. Being present. And trusting that what I've done is sufficient, and I'm also trusting that I've also left room for magic.

Ryan Holmes

We've all been inundated with so many ingenious, must-have, time-saving apps and tools that we really don't have a second left to spare.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Jeong Kim

We have a woman who tied for third place in the national spelling be as a kid, and just really wanted to come back and do this.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Eric Swalwell

I think having a national system that tracks who owns guns is fine. I don't think we need to be printing it on the Internet.

Don Cooper

We did everything we can do with these guys. They're like the National Guard. They're on 24-hour call.

Josh Pastner

We're here to win a national championship. This is not a rebuilding stage. It's not a question of talent. We've got pros on our team.

Kofi Annan

What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the international interest - is also the national interest.

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Jay Taylor

Everything was pretty slow, which is fine. We want to stand in solidarity on the issue.

Martin Schulz

You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.

Jose Bergamin

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

Pope Francis

We must not be afraid of solidarity; rather let us make all we have and are available to God.

Charles de Gaulle

One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.

Charles de Lint

It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are

Charles Caleb Colton

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Kevin Everly

We use them in different combinations to get each other the ball. They work together and do a lot of screening.

Brian Eno

My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not yet exist.

David Guetta

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

David Graeber

Anarchism and anthropology go well together because anthropologists know that a society without a state is possible because so many exist.

Cab Calloway

And then there's my Grandson: He's certainly got the music together, there's just no question about it.

Catherine Deneuve

The only human being I could tell everything was my sister Françoise. She and I were so diametrically different; put together we would have been a fantastic woman.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Carl Edwards

Whatever it is your doing out there, don't lose hope, you just keep digging and things can work out. I'm proof.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. []

Said Musa

We have much work ahead, to stand still.

Chris Garza

When you're young, you don't know why you do what you do. But 14 to 18 are the most important years. That's when you have to work the hardest.

Stephanie McGilvrey

We want her to go back to Mexico. That was all she worked for.

Trent Yawney

We've still got some work to do. It's a work in progress.

Aaron Tveit

Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of treat everyone as 'All right, throw the paint against the wall and see what I can do with this and what people say.' I think it's a great mental workout because you have to ready something, learn something fast. It's good to stay on your toes and keep sharp if you're auditioning.

Alan Ladd

I'm working myself to death.

Kim Delaney

We've still got a lot of work to do.