Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Edward Norton

Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'

Kofi Annan

Libya has also agreed to a trial in a third country and believes that it ought to be possible to find answers to all other outstanding issues relating to this matter,

Adnan Pachachi

Leaders of political parties have agreed to postpone parliament. There are still some issues that have not been resolved yet.

Steve Lewis

Scott has told us that he wants to stay in Wales, but he has some issues to sort out in Australia and he has kept us informed about his position. We have agreed to meet at the end of the Six Nations to thrash out his contractual position.

Charles Schumer

Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is there, so we have agreed to delay the vote,

Kevin Bishop

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Arlen Specter

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient,

James Rubin

Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences

Giri Cherukuri

Many of the large-cap tech stocks, including Intel, are undervalued. Any move strengthening their position in the market, makes their stocks more attractive.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it, ... But we're trying to work with it, to do something with it.

Christopher Hill

Several delegations, including ours, had some difficulties with it,

Dana Perino

Security measures were thoroughly reviewed, including intelligence matters.

Jim Hendry

None of us, including Dr. Kremchek, are anticipating anything significant, but it is a shoulder.

Igor Ivanov

must be searched for through dialogue, including with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

Yossi Alpher

We've never encountered this situation before. Everyone, including the U.S., is playing this by ear.

Tom Lochner

She took over. She took the team on her back and made some tough shots, including that three. I thought she was the difference.

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Michael Ritchie

If we don't do it, it will be lost to history. Plays like this were a big part of the theatrical landscape for a long time.

George Eliot

Wrong reasoning sometimes lands poor mortals in right conclusions

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Richard Nichols

We feel as though the town is at a turning point. If we don't slow things down now, these lands could be lost forever.

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Gale Norton

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Lee Quillen

The plants that are going to be the largest 10 years from now should be the largest ones you put in the ground.

Henry Paulson

China and the U.S. are the two largest importers of oil. They are the two largest emitters of carbon.

Nick Frey

I don't have any problem with it. It may not be the largest in volume in the state, but the old vines have the longest tradition of the major varietals.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To wish to progress is the largest part of progress.

Zac Goldsmith

More than half the world's largest 100 economies are corporations. They have no loyalties to place or citizens.

Billy Graham

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Howard Stern

Yeah, OK, Michael, ... That's why I've received the largest fines in history.

Patch Adams

We are a breathtakingly alienated people... One of my props is the world's largest underpants. I've had the president of Costa Rica in my underpants with me.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Matthew Scully

'Cost-saver' in industrial livestock agriculture may usually be taken to mean 'moral shortcut.'

William Edwards

In livestock production, you want to make sure you can manage your losses as well as your profits.

Collin C. Peterson

It's time for us to keep better track of our livestock as they cross borders.

Jeff Ward

This is aimed at those small and medium-sized livestock producers, ... This could be a valuable tool for them.

Nobuyuki Idei

So far, Sony management has no reason to make any revision in sales targets for the PlayStation,

Van Honeycutt

One thing that we've seen difficulties with is recruiting of senior management.

Mitsuo Kinoshita

Getting overseas staff to share our views on management and quality is very difficult. But that task is urgent.

Jack Sebbag

From a management standpoint and a cost-reduction standpoint ... you can now with a single console, with reduced costs, manage all these point products with just one resource and one just one technology.

Mark Horstman

From a management perspective, if it surprises you that someone leaves, it's because you weren't in touch with them.

Eliot Spitzer

Shareholders have the right and obligation to set the parameters of corporate behavior within which management pursues profit.

Marc Savard

I'd like to be back here, but that's up to management. We'll see what happens.

Rob Guinn

I don't know what management is thinking. But I think we've got a good, solid team, and I think teams are going to be scared to play us in the playoffs.

Mark Siegel

This streamlines the management structure in terms of the way we respond to our owners.

Mark Cooper

Basically, you've got one and two in programming and one and two in system operations now all interconnected in a little knot.

David Moffett

I feel that the operations could and should have been performed a lot sooner,

Cilla Black

I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.

John Byrne

Ultimately it's going to be better for the patient. It's going to transform otherwise high-risk operations into lower-risk operations.

Paul Costa

There is a possibility that we will have to stop operations by the end of the year.

Graeme Souness

He will have his operation tomorrow and he will be out for three months.

Shamil Basayev

live participant of that operation who is ready to testify.

Hong Zhijian

We've been preparing for such operations ever since 2003.

Ajay Singh

But since they have been a part of similar operations previously we are not ruling out the possibility.

Rig Veda

May the truth protect me in all ways.

Mark Davies

Now we know even that remote possibility makes protection cost-efficient.

Aslan Maskhadov

to protect the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Bob Rue

I got to protect my eggs. I've got food, I've got toys, I'm having the time of my life.

Michael Essien

I don't know why (Lauren) should make out I elbowed him on purpose. All I was doing was protecting the ball... For me, it was not even a foul.

P. J. Harvey

Ideally, you want to protect all of the important pieces, as much as you can.

Daniele Audetto

We are only trying to protect our investments.

Francis G. Slay

Violence is not a constitutionally protected right. Damaging property is not a constitutionally protected right; inciting violence is not a constitutionally protected right.

Eve Ensler

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

George Galloway

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Greg Knudsen

We're not saying let's make everything easier. There will be the need for a new test because of the new standards, but they have not been reduced in difficulty.

Roy Blunt

I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.

Madonna Ciccone

When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

Siri Hustvedt

Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.

Mitt Romney

I'd rather see the tax for innovation reduced rather than expanded.

Mike Adams

We've reduced it significantly ... but I don't think we've stopped it completely.

Marcus Valerius Martial

Glory comes too late, after one as been reduced to ashes.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

If religiousness can be reduced to one single thing, it is non-identification.

Michelle Laughlin

The thing yesterday for the first time in a long time was reduced risk-aversion...it was the reverse of the flight-to-quality.

Charles Mackay

Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at.

Jason Chaffetz

The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period.

Anton Chekhov

All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

Bryan Gilmore

I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine.

J. M. Coetzee

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

Publilius Syrus

He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself.

Margaret Sanger

Life has taught me one supreme lesson. This is that we must—if we are really to live at all, if we are to enjoy the life more abundant promised by the Sages of Wisdom—we must put our convictions into action. My remuneration has been that I have been privileged to act out my faith.

Mason Cooley

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

Xosha Roquemore

I'm sassy, even though I hate that word! I'm sensitive and cry real easily.

Peter Thomson

A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn

Deborah Kerr

When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older.

Dianna Agron

Having a dance background, I became used to rejection at an early age. Dance is very competitive, especially for a sensitive person like me. But I realized it’s better not to take it so seriously. If you beat yourself up, it’s hard to keep going.

Bob Dylan

Either I'm too sensitive, or else I'm gettin' soft

Torin Francis

He just has a good, sensitive game. And I think with time he's going to keep getting better and better.

Bette Midler

I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

Dennis Farina

We keep monitoring ourselves, censoring ourselves, being too sensitive to this, too sensitive to that. We can't keep doing that.

Ben Howland

We were really sensitive to him shooting threes.

Michael Crichton

We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

Bill Nye

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Jasmine Guy

We are a complex species to observe

Barry Schuler

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

Chris Servheen

There are so many species that need help,

Bryan Pfeiffer

There are many gull species in the world. This one is noticeably different from any gull we have in Vermont.

Bill Bryson

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

Lynn Margulis

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

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.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Dennis Whitling

My inclination is to support this letter, and support it now.

Ron Wilson

Obviously, it was an ugly scene. But I support (Parker) 100 percent.

Dennis Weaver

We should be able to support our own economy within our own borders.

Maria Zampaglione

If an outbreak of avian influenza were to be proven, there would be a lot of support needed.

Kevin Browne

If an immigration makes things better for them in the country, we will support it.

Dave Morin

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Abraham Lincoln

The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders.

Scott Strauss

I got to support my family. That's how I was raised.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.