Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Schulz

Untie the hands of state and federal judges and prosecutors, ... Give them options other than turning the courts into assembly lines that mass produce mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children.

Lou Hatter

The reason for that is because the General Assembly has yet to pass a budget. Therefore, we have to base our six-year plan update on the latest revenue estimates from the Department of Taxation.

Saleem Cheeks

We've always been urging the Senate to join the Assembly in passing it.

Mike Hess

We're going to really start getting into the assembly of the space station in very short order here, and I feel like this spacewalk set the tone for what's about to come.

Mark Peperkorn

When we came back for that pep assembly (Sunday), I think Rae Lin had her picture taken with about 20 kids who were between third and eighth grade. They fell in love with her and they idolized her.

Stephane Dujarric

Ultimately, this will be a sovereign decision by the Iraqis, and it's up to the Iraqi National Assembly to decide on the appropriate electoral framework. That being said, it is our duty in our role in Iraq to point out when the process does not meet international standards.

Julia Child

When you have a few cake formulas and filling ideas in your repertoire, you will find that it's pretty much an assembly job - you can mix and match a different way every time.

Louise Arbour

Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a perfect solution.

Ray Haynes

Most of the Senate and Assembly education committees are wholly owned subsidiaries of the California teachers union, ... Any bill they oppose dies.

Randy Daniels

We're not going to spend the next ten years debating what should happen here.

Justin Gatlin

Most people would be debating in their heads what to do in a year like this. It is all about preparation and I am just looking at putting out superb times. All I have to do this year is focus on my race.

Pope Shenouda III

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

Tuppence Middleton

I'd love to have a room full of taxidermy. I'd be devastated if my cat, Archimedes, ever died. I was debating the other day with a friend whether I should stuff him, but don't know whether he would end up looking like himself. I'd be really sad if he looked strange.

marie herman

My friends and I are debating about optimism, whether the glass is half empty or half full.....Well it really doesnt make a difference to me since all my glasses are paper cups.

Jen Bluestein

Freddy is going to speak from the heart to all New Yorkers, and he is especially looking forward to debating Mike Bloomberg himself instead of Bloomberg's $50 million smear machine,

Jeff Wagner

I don't have any negative opinions about him. I think he's a gentleman, and I look forward to debating the issues with him.

Dana Johnson

What we're spending our time debating is whether the Fed goes a quarter point or a half point.

Tim Eyman

The only thing we're debating is whether 900 is unnecessary or makes the Legislature's version better.

Alan Watts

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

Alan Rickman

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Al Oerter

As long as I can concentrate and remain somewhat calm, I can normally do very well.

Al Ries

Good things happen when you narrow your focus

Akon

Any album that you pick up of mine, you know it's an Akon album. The guests are very limited, and you get to really feel the experience. You get the Akon experience when you get the albums. I always want to make sure that stays the way it is. I don't want to flood the album to where you lose focus on why you bought it.

Chris Christie

The message [of Donald Trump] is that that type of thing happening. Let's focus on what happened.What happened was the murder, the murder of this person pushing a stroller, it's unacceptable in an American city to continue to have this level of violence and the level of violence in Chicago is unacceptable.

Chris Albrecht

The expensive ones are for Starz. No. We decided, as part of our Encore strategy, to broaden and strengthen and help focus the Encore plexus by adding original programming.

Chin-Ning Chu

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

David Rusenko

To gain paying customers you'll need to focus on attracting the right followers, and not just on attracting the most. Communicate often with useful information to increase your value, and focus on pitching your product in a genuine way. Make sure you have a professional web presence, and with any luck, you should start noticing your efforts pay off.

Johnnie Cochran

What he's doing is violating attorney-client privilege in this whole situation and I'm not sure he fully understands or comprehends the import of what he's doing,

James Anderson

We're just watching the other things unfold in the east. We're fully operational.

Richard Rowe

We're fully integrated with the Special Operations Command. We have people who've done operations from a Special Ops perspective.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Terry Richardson

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

John Mortimer

should recognize the true importance of a single moment in time, the instant when you are fully and completely alive.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Melanie Gruer

Mr. Murphy co-operated fully with the RCMP review and is pleased with the outcome.

Josh Billings

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared and that is twins

Brent Neiser

The perception is that it is more generous than it is. Grants are generally only for those that are completely wiped out or uninsured.

Leander Paes

If I have a reason to do something, and I have enough passion, I generally succeed.

Rick Glancey

When you think of the military that's generally what you think of, green style uniforms and green style armory.

Henry Samueli

The owner's job is to hire the general manager. The general manager's job is to run the hockey team.

Rick Adelman

We're not going to sit back and let this continue. We're not happy about what's going on, and I know Mr. Geoff Petrie (the general manager) is not happy either. We have too much talent for this.

Phil Garner

We're going to leave that to our general manager. Sure, I'd like to have Clemens back.

Richard Armitage

Yes, and it's generally on. And I won't tell you what it's on,

Jim Harrison

We're generally opposed. We feel there is already a high return rate.

James Sinegal

If you hire good people, give them good jobs, and pay them good wages, generally something good is going to happen.

Doug Scofield

Throughout his first term, the governor has won key victories for working people.

Dick DeVos

There are too many people who aren't able to find work. For the governor of this state, that's Job One.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

Howard Dean

Luckily, I'm a governor -- so I get to tell you what I've already done not just what I'm going to do.

Kenneth Blackwell

I am running for Governor of the great state of Ohio and welcome your support.

Merle Black

Most voters don't judge a governor on one decision,

J. C. Watts

Yesterday Governor Perry declared Texas a state of disaster.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Fritz Hollings

I'm truly worried about the country's direction. I can tell you this categorically, we've got the weakest president and the weakest governor in the history of my 50 years of public service.

Chogyam Trungpa

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Don Arnold

When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.

Mark Davies

Shane has resumed light training and hopes to progress this with a view to being included for the Ospreys match.

Uma Bharti

She hopes that she will get support from the BJP. I am supporting her because I don't think that I am separated from BJP.

Paul Nelson

We are going about this in hopes in will identify system problems.

Joe Haldeman

One hopes that they'll never be able to use mind control weapons, because we're all done for if that happens. I don't want military people, or political people, to have that type of power over those of us who just get by from day to day.

Melissa Wilson

My hopes right now are to be able to walk again, because you realize how important walking really is to you.

Richard Hills

My hopes for Newcastle are the same as they were before Bath,

Samuel E. Morison

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.

Carl Sagan

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

Carl Levin

We should be hell bent on getting those weapons of mass destruction, hell bent on having a credible approach to them, but we should try to do it in a way which keeps the world together and that achieves our goal which is removing the... defanging Saddam..

Ruud Lubbers

We are preparing for a massive relief operation,

Henry Samueli

You can't create a mass market if you don't have a common standard.

Armstrong Williams

The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.

George W. Bush

Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere... Nope, no weapons over there... Maybe under here.

Dennis Kucinich

Fear is a weapon of mass destruction.

Edward Kennedy

There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.

Edward Kennedy

We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction.

David Guetta

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Caio Fonseca

It's not until the very last phase that you know how good the works are going to be.

Ariel Pink

I had my gothy phase, but I was never a troublemaker or anything like that.

Candice Bergen

I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.

Ashley Benson

I had a gothic phase, and now I'm more edgy chic.

David Barry

Since then, we've always been in one phase or another,

Jim Higgins

Phase three is going to be the really tough one. They need phase three to make this a viable company.

John Cook

Phase 2 may have to be altered. It may need to be shrunk because of parking.

Kate Thompson

The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.

Eric Hausler

What's proposed in New York is not competitive.

Abbas Zaidi

We have proposed Karachi as a Test and a one-day venue.

Stephen Byers

The proposed merger...might result in a substantial lessening of competition,

Marty McOmber

This wasn't a surprise. This is why we proposed the legislation.

Howard Miller

I think what he's proposed is accommodating It's gorgeous.

Christo

Some of the projects we've proposed over the years have been refused. But we never do other people's ideas; our ideas come out of our two hearts and our two heads.

Edward Hennessey

There was no relationship, there was a proposed relationship,

Hans Eichel

Everything I proposed and much more still will be done now,

David Lennon

That is false. They have proposed nothing to us other than threats, concessions and substandard conditions.

Erik Solheim

Let us keep expectations at a realistic level.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Abdolkarim Soroush

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

Hiroshi Kamide

No one is seriously thinking a spring release is realistic any more.

David Henkin

I don't think it's at all realistic for them to get the EIS done before they deploy in August.

Clint Eastwood

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Debby Ryan

I'm very practical and realistic.

Dwayne Johnson

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Al Jarreau

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Chet Williamson

Publishers love to compartmentalize, and Second Chance was not an easy novel to define.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Bertrand Russell

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Charles Rangel

I am a firm believer that upon release, ex-offenders should be afforded a second chance to become productive citizens by providing rehabilitation and education that will help them join the workforce.

Roger Peak

Simply go to the site and sign-up for a session at your convenience.

Jim Butler

When this session started, we were going to get killed. We've come a long way.

Jonathan Coe

From our perspective, the session was a success.

Rahul Dravid

I think the first session tomorrow is going to be very critical,

O. J. Simpson

This session is all about trying to get well with the voters before November.

Chris Duffy

We had a heart-to-heart talk and let it all out on the table. It was more of a venting session for everybody.

Lior Horev

It could very well be that this winter session is shorter than expected.

Mike Mills

We never give up until the legislative session is over.

Christopher Hill

We can't just sit there stalemated session after stalemated session.

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Mark Cuban

There are no shortcuts. NONE.

Beverly Sills

There is no shortcut to anyplace worth going.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Brett Favre

We have to get something going and have a short time to get there, ... I couldn't go out like that. If you're going to go back in, do something good.

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Bill Vaughan

It doesn't set off any alarm bells. As is typical with T. Rowe, no transition comes about abruptly; they tend to be planned pretty well.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Brandon Sanderson

It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Alfred Rosenberg

We are the transition from one education to the other.

Alan Dundes

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Greg Buckner

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).

Chaz Bono

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

Mohammad Saeedi

We are in the transition state, and the inspectors will work under the NPT.