Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bud Brannon

President Bush had the highest approval ratings ever after Desert Storm. Then Clinton took a role leading the party and won the presidency.

Anthony Romero

President Bush and his surrogates can justify this program all they want, but they cannot change the underlying fact that it remains an illegal program. The continued approval for this unlawful program undermines the very freedoms and values that define America.

Ed Sarpolus

People in Michigan, by a 2-to-1 margin, blame President Bush rather than the governor for Michigan's economic problems. While her job approval ratings are up from being below 50 percent in August through October, they are not at the 60 percent level she once had.

Gary Forsee

Sprint Nextel shares with Nextel Partners a commitment of excellence to our customers, employees and shareholders. As we work through the regulatory approval processes, we intend to focus on plans for efficiently integrating Partners' business into our operations in a way that is seamless for customers and employees.

Mary Richardson

Our standards have been on the cutting edge of service for two decades. With the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval, our clients and employees are assured of our ongoing commitment to excellence.

Mary Richardson

Our standards have been on the cutting edge of service for two decades, ... With the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval, our clients and employees are assured of our ongoing commitment to excellence.

Jim Grant

We need an approval soon. Every delay at the Planning Board level pushes the dates back.

Liza Maza

The approval of the resolution is urgent. In light of the US government's intransigence on the issue of custody, it's imperative that we take measures to assert our sovereignty and show our determination to expedite justice.

Anders Rasmussen

The approval of the Nice Treaty is essential if we are to proceed on schedule for enlargement.

Jimmy Carter

Some have asserted that the proposal is just a weak compromise.We challenge this claim.

Sebastian Pinera

I think the U.S. should assert its leadership in a more effective way.

Rajeev Sharma

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

Jeff Gundy

That was by far the most passionate that McGrady has played in some time. I thought he was off the charts tonight, just very assertive on offense, vocal, on the board, defensively - I just thought he was great.

Scott Mossman

That's what he has grown into. He was finding his way last year but he is more assertive now.

Dave Johnson

I think it's Rachel starting to show what Rachel can do. Rachel's a very quiet kid who I think has always been very unselfish. We want her to be more assertive and now she's starting to be more assertive.

John Waller

He certainly made big plays. He recognizes that he?s the guy who can make them. He has a great work ethic and I think he?s more assertive going after the football. We must have had 25 seven-on-seven (games) and you could see his confidence level rise. He expects to get the job done.

Brian Mulroney

He certainly made an important mark on Canadian journalism. I viewed him as a highly principled journalist with well developed views on the world. He was unafraid to assert them and, of course, to defend them.

Jay Osborne

(Hastings) is starting to assert himself on the offensive end. I turned to my coaching staff and told them that one big shot would get us over the hump and Chris was the one that hit the shot.

Marcus Williams

Staying poised. That's what really won us the game. Also determination in the second half.

Al Groh

Really, we haven't addressed that or made any determination.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The only things you learn are the things you tame

B. H. Liddell Hart

While there are many causes for which a state goes to war, its fundamental object can be epitomized as that of ensuring the continuance of its policy - in face of the determination of the opposing state to pursue a contrary policy. In the human will lies the source and mainspring of conflict.

B. H. Liddell Hart

A commander should have a profound understanding of human nature, the knack of smoothing out troubles, the power of winning affection while communicating energy, and the capacity for ruthless determination where require by circumstances. He needs to generate an electrifying current, and to keep a cool head in applying it.

Bill Shankly

I have always had the deepest respect for Bill Nicholson as a person and as a manager. The Spurs boss is an honest Yorkshireman and you will go a long way before finding a straighter character than that. Bill has never wavered in his determination to give White Hart Lane fans the best.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

Bidzina Ivanishvili

A difficult regional situation doesn't justify one man's determination to hold onto power. It's clear to me that democratization is a very complicated process.

C. S. Lewis

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

Kathleen Blanco

For these reasons, it is imperative that the investigation into the response to Katrina be comprehensive, probing and non-partisan.

John Engler

Whatever occurs, it is imperative that you do not overreact.

Chico Buarque

Whatever is original in my writing comes from my musical apprenticeship. I look for rhythm in words. I imagine words as if they were musical chords. Often I'll write something, read it, and find it musically unsatisfactory. There is a musical imperative in my choice of words.

David Bowie

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.

Josh Fogg

That's a start, but in order to get where I need to be, I need to be a little better with the off-speed pitches. That's something that you've got to take away from this, realize that it's Spring Training and the results now are not as imperative as they are during the season. But it's time to start getting people out and try to win a job.

Carol Rosenberg

This skin surveillance imperative may serve to be lifesaving in predisposed women.

Bryn Terfel

It was imperative when I started my training to have a teacher who would really look after whatever talent I had as a youngster.

Mark Ruffalo

It's imperative that we opt out of the fossil fuel endgame.

Patti Reali

It's imperative that a lot of these operators get into this.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Leonid Kuchma

Such talks are accompanied by unacceptable preconditions and have no positive issue for discussion,

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Sean McCormack

Our views on that issue are well-known," ()

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Adam Howard

Our lights are probably on until 3 in the morning because there is always somebody here doing something.

Yiddish Proverbs

Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.

Frank Anzures

Our XD80U is smaller and lighter than most laptops, making it perfect for the mobile presenter.

Grant Wilson

Robert was a shining light in a day of unrelenting gloom.

Dan Wheeler

Physically, having yesterday completely off was huge. We had a light workout today and we're ready to go.

Colleen Jones

Maybe I'll take a little consolation in realizing that ? even if I'd played lights out too, she was just going to one-up me all the time.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In order to cure a feeling of malaise, you have to throw light on it.

Beck

Sometimes, reissues can be revelatory, or put the original record in a different light, but those are rare.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay.

Thomas Flynn

It'd be that much more if we didn't have some of the conservation measures we have here,

John Proctor

There are similar security measures to those of online banking.

Raila Odinga

Kenyans should rise and stop this draconian measures by a dictatorship government.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Tom McCall

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Chris Gibson

We have a lot of safety measures in place already, so I feel pretty comfortable with those,

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Sudhir Kumar

We have taken all measures to see that passengers are not affected. Security has also been tightened.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

Ken Williams

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I didn't think about it until now.