Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Bud Morris

We want to show the community that there are things happening at our college that are directly benefiting the community. This will also allow our students to interact directly with the public.

W. S. Gilbert

We knew they would be pressing us and trying to set the tempo they wanted. We tried everything at the beginning not to allow that. But they're just such a good team that when they decided they wanted to run, they would run.

Bob Connelly

We knew they were going to throw a lot of different looks at us. We had to take on that challenge. We can't allow people to play us standing up on defense and not be able to run the ball effectively.

Tayshaun Prince

We knew they played that overtime game. We didn't play that many minutes last night. So the key for us was just to get out quickly, make some stuff happen. It seemed like they had slow feet from the start of the game, which allowed us to jump on them early.

John North

Wait until these laws are abused or misused and then the people of Australia will turn on them for bringing in, in peace-time, laws that allow Australians to be locked up without charge.

Alexandra Adornetto

VCE exams do not showcase students' abilities. By this, I mean that the system fails to recognise the diversity of skills, and most subjects do not allow students to demonstrate skills in a form other than a written exam.

B. F. Skinner

Ultimately, we weren't ready to play, and (Murrieta) played hard. You can't let a team totally dominate you for 40 minutes and expect that, in the next 40 minutes, you can come back, because Murrieta is a good team. You just can't allow that to happen.

J. J. Johnson

Ultimately, public-safety concerns will determine when businesses can reopen and residents are allowed to return, even in areas that appear to be undamaged.

Louis MacNeice

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case. Our efforts on behalf of the victims of 9/11 will continue as we pursue the next phase of this trial.

Phil Smith

We believe that the Senate should carefully review this appointment to ensure that this nominee will be the kind of watchdog on behalf of American coal miners that they need.

Don Porter

We're going to have to go out and lobby on behalf of our sport to get the support. We'll continue to do those things that have to be done to get it back in front of the session.

Andrew Black

We've ruled out foul play on behalf of any of the passengers. We're looking at it strictly as a possible suicide or an accident.

Dewi Anwar

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

Allan Lichtman

selling out the American people on behalf of a very few, big corporate interests.

Arthur Schlesinger

She was a quiet revolutionary on behalf of all women,

Chris Grayling

The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury yachts on behalf of the security services to travel with the Prime Minister while he is on a luxury cruise is a good use of taxpayers' money,

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Martin Gerber

We knew they were a desperate team. This is their last chance to make it. I thought we were confident going into the game. We lost a little step in the first period. Things just didn't go our way.

Rosemary Palmer

We knew. They didn't even get a chance to knock.

Jon Nebel

We knew they'd come out hard in the third. They created a chance early and put it away.

Ronald Steele

We know we've got to win a couple more to have a chance to make the NCAA tournament.

Abbie Letz

We know we messed up there and didn't play well at all. We made a lot of mistakes and didn't focus. This is our chance to fix that.

Maurice Garner

We know we have to step it up now. One loss and the chance for the city championship goes out the window.

Mike McGann

We know we have to play a perfect game to have a chance to win. We've got to prepare and give it all we've got.

Raul Gonzalez

We know we haven't got much chance of the league but what we have depends on us winning in Barcelona. We need to have the conviction that we can do it and in the dressing room the feeling is there.

Charlie Daniels

Just take them rascals [rapists, killers, child abusers] out in the swamp / Put 'em on their knees and tie 'em to a stump / Let the rattlers and the bugs and the alligators do the rest,

Charlie Chaplin

Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.

Charles W. Pickering

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children.

Charles de Lint

How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

Charles de Lint

Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first crude efforts the way their early attempts at language are corrected.

Charles de Lint

The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.

Charles de Lint

It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.

Charles Dickens

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar;—it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have fixed his station in society. But now he was enveloped in the old calico robes, that had grown yellow in the same service; he was badged and ticketed, and fell into his place at once—a parish child—the orphan of a workhouse—the humble, half-starved drudge—to be cuffed and buffeted through the world, despised by all, and pitied by none.

Charles Dickens

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Alan Bennett

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

David Crosby

We know we're grown-up guys, and we have families and stuff, but we've taken that as a positive source of art, rather than as a detriment. You know, how we feel about the stuff that we've learned over the lives that we've had, and how we feel about our families. That's where we're writing from, and it's a good thing.

Trent Duffy

We are praying for their full and speedy recovery. Our thoughts are with their families and their loved ones. The White House is offering to help in any way as the government does when any American is injured in the line of work.

Rick Perry

We're going to pull together so that these families can find as much normalcy as we can. We're going to get through this together as one American family.

Bob Boone

When we deploy soldiers, we deploy the family. And we need to partner with all these groups to give these families what they need.

Shawn Johnson

What about the residential areas? What about my home? What about other families who houses that are still underwater? What are you doing to meet immediately meet our needs,

Mitchell Hurwitz

What's realistic to me is that families love each other and stand by each other. What's unrealistic is that they would ever say that.

Leonard Boswell

The pride people take in their work transcends to their homes, their education, families and communities.

Janet Taylor

Last year we gave out about $600 to help families with their bills. This year we've used $3,000.

Bill Shine

Let's be proud that we put our families first, and let's start a movement to go back home with our babies.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

Charles Dickens

... the woman who grows up with the idea that she is simply to be an amiable animal, to be caressed and coaxed, is invariably a bitterly disappointed woman. A game of chess will cure such a conceit forever. The woman that knows the most, thinks the most, feels the most, is the most. Intellectual affection is the only lasting love. Love that has a game of chess in it can checkmate any man and solve the problem of life.

Charles Dickens

There might be some credit in being jolly.

Alan Watts

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Alan Ritchson

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Alan Moore

A lot of the critique of our growing mechanization was actually at its strongest, and arguably at its most perceptive, during the late '60s.

Alan Moore

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

Alan Moore

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

Alan Moore

A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?

Gabrielle Union

In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Scott Simon

Just pretty much staying within myself with my swing and not doing too much with it. That's usually when I'm at my best.

Phil Donahue

We'll be staying right here in the neighborhood,

Felipe Alou

He's a tough kid. We're staying with him.

Lily James

There are other things I want to focus on rather than staying in shape.

Husnu Ozyegin

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

Tinashe

I'm always about having integrity with my fans and staying true to what I say.

Chris Colfer

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

Bobby Jones

We were staying at the University of New Orleans, and it was awful, worse than you can imagine.

Henry Thomas

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.