Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken King

We want to stress that the Mississippi will remain at high levels and above flood stage for weeks yet.

Michael Specter

The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation to drown. In Alaska, entire towns have begun to shift in the loosening permafrost.

Maajid Nawaz

In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.

Rakesh Shankar

The possibility of a warmer than expected summer, along with a spike in crude oil prices and a freak heat wave in Texas that led to a surge in demand for natural gas all helped boost natural gas futures prices to well above $8 this week. Prices look to stay there in the near term, despite the record inventories.

Brendan McDermott

The person that was skiing was actually able to get themselves up onto a tree and keep themselves above the snow so that person was unharmed. The second person, a female, was caught in the avalanche.

Gitesh Pandya

The performance so far has been well above expectations.

Bruce Campbell

The perception was it was a college movie, but it really wasn't, ... It was a completely professional venture where we formed a limited partnership and gave out shares. It was all above board. And we're so glad it was, because 25 years later we can still keep track of it. No one's suing anyone because we all know what happened.

Cecilia Zalkind

The point of adoption is to create a new family with all the rights and responsibilities that go with that. Our law recognizes the importance of the family in making decisions, especially for younger children. To go above a parent's decision is unusual and has to be considered very carefully.

Kevin Martin

until broadcasters understand they are not above the law.

Maurice Healy

The position on homosexual acts is pretty well founded. It won't change until Dignity drops their rationale, which is contrary to Catholic teaching.

Montel Williams

I think that now that we are seeing multimedia types of productions with videos and pictures and human beings performing the acts that animals used to perform, such as in Cirque du Soleil and other traveling troops, there is no need to parade animals around anymore in cages for personal gratification.

Michael Shermer

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the identification of such mysteries is only the beginning. Science picks up where theology leaves off.

Christopher Shays

Tom's problem isn't just this. It's continual acts that border and go sometimes beyond the ethical edge, ... They may not be illegal, but he's always pushing that ethical edge to the limit.

Christopher Shays

Tom's problem ... is continual acts that border and go sometimes beyond the ethical edge,

Larry Wachtel

When we arrive on Monday, we may or may not know the full extent of Hurricane Rita. The stock market can attempt to discount what is discernible, but when it comes to acts of nature, it can only make assumptions.

Nick Bollettieri

What he has done for those children, making it possible for them to attend a school named for him, makes him more special than anything else, ... Andre is the spirit of the game. He speaks brilliantly, acts like a gentleman and fights like a teenager.

Joe Cappiello

We're going to hear of a thousand more acts of heroism. But the bottom line is that having a response plan that relies on heroism is not tenable.

Patrick Collins

Unless and until the state, city and county learn there are victims of corruption ... (and) unless and until people who vote understand that there are important consequences in their public officials' acts of dishonesty, this system will not change.

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

Donald Borut

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Natasha Trethewey

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Gernot Erler

Yes, attempts of this sort are being made.

Jim Hoffa

We're sending a united message to Waste Management that it's time to do the right thing by the people who keep New York's neighborhoods clean and disease-free. One hundred and twenty hardworking men and women with families were forced on strike by this company's attempts to gut our pay, benefits and particularly our health care. Sanitation work is a dangerous job with a high injury rate. Yet Waste Management is drastically raising the price of our health care while cutting coverage -- at a time when they're making record profits.

Til Schweiger

We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed.

Louise Jameson

He was incredibly good as Dr Who. He brought all his eccentricities to the role and was so charismatic and charming. He must be the fans firm favourite.

Michael Strahan

As an athlete, you're brought up with that mentality that you finish everything you start. If you're going to start a meal, you're going to finish it until the plate is clean. I had to change that mentality to one of where, 'I eat until I'm full and leave the rest.'

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Richard Tucker

The person we chose brought a lot of skills and experience and credentials,

Alberto Romulo

The perpetrators of this heinous crime shall be brought to justice,

Mike Ryan

We are probably looking at six months to two years before some of these outbreaks can be brought under total control in the poultry population.

Roger Hatch

We've already brought people up for Akio and Christoph and the guys who just got onto the fire department. Between that and the injuries it's been unreal this year. I mean. it's great that our guys make the national team, but all this really tests our depth.

Paul Grayson

We started the game like a house on fire and scored three tries, then we lost our shape in the middle a bit, but brought it back towards the end.

Nate Dahlman

We started looking, and God brought us here.

Catherine Fisher

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Eddie Irvine

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

Tammy Cox

We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.

Theresa Adams

We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.

Faye White

We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty,

Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Lauren Worsham

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

Jose Cruz

We want to show Congress that we're not criminals, we are hard-working people.

Carter Canada

The point is, am I going to let Mary Smith and these other nice, older women be sent out of here thinking they'll have a voucher for the rest of their lives, when Congress is looking to cut the program? They're going to be in Miami somewhere, and they'll be homeless. That's why the fight is going on.

Alex Conant

We have no problem notifying Congress and sharing information with the Hill.

Al Gore

What the United States Congress does on this issue will have an enormous impact on the prospects of peace and prosperity in the far East,

Tamar Jacoby

What the public wants, and what Congress will focus on, is getting control of our border.

Bill Clinton

When first graders shoot first graders, it's time for Congress to do what's right for America's families.

Martin Frost

While many members of Congress have some reservations, members of Congress by and large have decided this is the right thing to do at the right time. But now he must take this to the public,

Sherwin B. Nuland

Whether wisely or not, one of the first priorities of the incoming Obama administration was to present a package of healthcare benefits, which, to no one's surprise, produced an uproar in Congress and an assortment of polls declaring that the majority of Americans were opposed to it.

David Lewis

Whether it's the courts or regional offices of executive agencies, members of Congress want some control over how things are done in their states or districts. As long as they have some influence over the picks, they like the patronage system.

Sarah Santana

We want them to have a full year of grieving before they volunteer.

Bob Day

The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.

Justin Jeffre

We've all been living life to the fullest during our break,

Jacques Santer

We are at the end of an historic process, ... It has been a long path, a path full of successes and failures.

Ken Vaughn

We are at all full production and we have increased staff, with some openings at mines.

Mark Hansen

We split it up so the Sunday devotional is more spiritual and the Saturday show will be full of all different kinds of music so it lets people know we do more than just soft piano ballads.

Mike Sherman

We're not going to make it look pretty and say, 'Well, we've been here before,' ... We have 14 games to play and we can't panic. But I don't think you can tell them the glass is half full when it's not.

Glenn McGinnis

We have narrowed it down to those who are providing full financing.

Army Sgt.

When he first signed up, he wanted to go for the full 20 years, but we had to talk him into four. He knew the military, he knew what was involved with it the separation, the risks.

Ariel Pink

It's not illegal to be an asshole.

Rocco Buttiglione

We request ... the return of all the material that proves to have come from the illegal market,

Tommy Chong

The trouble when you're doing something illegal is that you know what you're doing. You're lying to your parents, you're lying to your kids. The only person you can't lie to is yourself.

Jo Handelsman

Some of it is outright illegal behavior, but most of it is subtle. It makes women feel undervalued and not respected.

Dan Stein

Millions of American workers, in all sectors of the labor market, have seen their jobs and wages undercut by the phenomenon of mass illegal immigration.

Barbara Kingsolver

A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.

Jan C. Ting

Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.

Alexander Woollcott

Everything I like is either illegal, immoral or fattening.

Robin Cook

We are looking for a strong declaration that there must be a return to the rule of law and an end to the illegal occupation of the farms,

Eric Cantor

It is time for us to insist that we are accountable for the money that we are spending.

Frances Mayes

When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.

Laura Anne Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

Kai Bird

The reality is that Israel is a multi-ethnic, multireligious society, and it makes no sense to insist as a precondition for peace that its neighbors recognize it as 'the Jewish state.'

Robert M. La Follette

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

Robert Aventajado

If they insist on their original demand, that would be a deal-breaker.

Ireland Baldwin

When I was young, I'd fight everyone who insisted I'd be an actress. I'd say, 'No way. I'm going to be a veterinarian. I'm going to work at Wetzel's Pretzels.'

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some of the happiest people I know have none of the things the world insists are necessary for satisfaction and joy.

Damian Lewis

I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.

Mayor Barse

We are looking for the removal of radioactive materials instead of sealing it. This is a Vineland issue.

Ken Banks

We'd like to do more of these instead of ships. If people go back to these over time, they'll see them develop.

Ross Levin

We're spooning money into the market now instead of dumping it in.

Martin Brodeur

We're going to shadow a line instead of one player.

Matt Pfau

When we get open, we shoot right away, instead of taking a look at where the goalie is at and placing the ball. (Scoring) is going to come as the season goes.

Melissa Dennett

We would settle and think that it was OK instead of going, going, going.

Kelly Clark

Unfortunately, it went 9 yards instead of 10.

Norma McCorvey

They could have been nice to me instead of treating me like an idiot." ()

Odette Annable

If women just got into it a little more, then the world would be happier. Instead of stabbing each other behind the back, just get into a fight, and then everything is out in the open.

Charles Dickens

Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

Charles Caleb Colton

In civil jurisprudence it too often happens that there is so much law, that there is no room for justice, and that the claimant expires of wrong in the midst of right, as mariners die of thirst in the midst of water.

Charles Caleb Colton

The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.

Charles Caleb Colton

The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the land; unwholesome expedients were the bud, dilemmas and depravities have been the blossom, and danger and despair are the bitter fruit.

Charles Caleb Colton

If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by the governors, as often as by the governed.

Charles Caleb Colton

With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

Charles Dickens

You hear, Eugene?' said Lightwood over his shoulder. 'You are deeply interested in lime.' 'Without lime,' returned that unmoved barrister at law, 'my existence would be unilluminated by a ray of hope.

Charles Dickens

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Charles Dickens

The law is an ass, an idiot.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Jim Ratcliffe

Unions do have a proper role in negotiating for employees and advising employees, but they have to engage with the employer.

Donald Trump

I've become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Louis Post

The proper way to welcome him would be to slap handcuffs on him.

Mike Cohen

The property is zoned agricultural-residential. This is not agricultural or residential.

Peggy Moriarty

The property is rare. It reminds you of Camelot. It's just perfect.

Betty Wright

I respect women that have a voice and use it for a proper reason.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Rafael Benitez

We were trying to protect him and other tired players.

Bill Maher

It's all been satirized for your protection.

Marvin Lewis

We're making plays, ... but we have to protect the football.

John Ashcroft

We're going to do what we need to do to protect the American people.

Arlen Specter

When the 14th Amendment, equal protection clause was enacted, the galleries in the Senate were segregated. Now we have integration.

Brandon Sanderson

I will protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Golshifteh Farahani

I have scars from every film I have made. There is nothing to protect actors. They treat you worse than a dog. You work like a slave, and you know, I like it. That is the way it should be. Every film should be like your last.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

Charles Stanley

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

Charles Spurgeon

If you get condemnation out of the Gospel, you put the condemnation into it yourselves! It is not the Gospel, but your rejection of it that will condemn you.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

Carlos Gutierrez

We strongly urge the Senate to reject this unwise amendment,

Derek Jeter

Everyone fears rejection.

Dick Clark

I'm a survivor in a business that constantly rejects you.

Carol Leifer

As a writer, the worst thing you can do is work in an environment of fear of rejection.

Beth Moore

The next time you feel rejection's sting, remember God's words to Samuel: "It is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected me." (1 Sam. 8:7)

Aya Cash

I work constantly to be better at being rejected.

Tasneem Ahmed

We are awaiting New Delhi's response on it.

Kurt Vonnegut

Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Larry Steach

When this all started, I didn't know what to expect. But, the response has been phenomenal.

Shaukat Aziz

We are satisfied with the response but we want more,

William Shawcross

Writing or talking about famine and the world's response to it is not very easy.

Jeff Koenings

My first response --- shock and awe. It's like, Where did this come from?

Jesse Cole

We did not get any response with that either.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.