Famous Quotes & Sayings

Walid Jumblatt

Let them hold the elections according to the electoral law they deem suitable, but we will not participate in the government.

Michael Medved

Look, this is not a movie for kids. It is a movie that does put that violence in context and it shows the idea of sacrifice, and it emphasizes -- in a way that I think a lot of people don't expect -- that this sacrifice, this death, this suffering was chosen by Jesus, at least according to the Gospels account.

David Rosenberg

So many clients are telling us that we are just plain wrong and there is inflation everywhere. But ... the bulk of these complaints come from folks who have kids in college ... Prices set according to supply and demand are flat or falling for the most part.

Francis Bacon

Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom

Rebecca Solnit

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

Francis Bacon

Men's thoughts are much according to their inclination, 1 their discourse and speeches according to their learning and infused opinions.

Brooks Bollinger

My job is to fulfill the role that they give me. That doesn't mean I always like it, but again, if they tell me I'm going in, if they tell me I'm not, I'm going to be the best No. 2 and be ready to go in case something does happen. I'm going to do my job according to what they tell me what my job is for that week.

Kathi Moore

One significant provision calls for ships to meet ballast water discharge standard according to a schedule of fixed dates -- beginning with certain ships constructed in 2009. These fixed dates serve as a signal to both the shipping industry and the emerging ballast water treatment industry of the need for investment, plans and ballast water treatment equipment inventory to meet ballast water management requirements.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Donald Evans

Let me tell you the basic fundamental principle by which we sit down and negotiate agreements with our friends: nobody wins unless we all win.

Jeffrey Vanderbeek

Let this definitive and final agreement leave no doubt that the New Jersey Devils will start the '07-'08 season at this world-class, state-of-the-art facility. This means the Devils are satisfied that the city of Newark will fulfill its obligations.

Gerry Adams

make it very very clear there is no way forward except the Good Friday agreement.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball looks forward to signing a lease so that Washington's baseball fans can enjoy watching their team in a new, state-of-the art stadium. We believe it is important for all parties to honor the terms of the agreements that were made.

Rich Levin

Major League Baseball has not yet been provided with the filings made by the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Commission with the City Council last Friday, nor the text of the legislation passed by the Council last night. We are very concerned about what we heard during the debate, and we need to read the materials and the legislative language so we can determine whether they are consistent with the agreements between Major League Baseball and the city.

Jay Foley

Make them prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they actually had an agreement and a contract with this individual.

Bob Stec

Lexington and Bob Timberlake have a long-term agreement for the future to design, market and produce furniture. There is no plan to discontinue the original line from production and offering to the consumer.

Pope Benedict

Let us pray that the Holy Spirit illuminates, inspires and guides the work of the synod and pushes us to charity, agreement and the service of the truth.

David Rice

Let's put it this way: The billboard exceeds the allowable height and area for an on-premise sign, and there are probably other issues that will keep it from being approved. We'll see what the NCC and Cooper work out, but it'll probably be disapproved if they don't come to an agreement of some kind.

Isla Fisher

When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor, when a poor director is trying to get through a movie, that you're asking at every second to discuss performance.

David Shulman

Make no mistake. This is a soft landing. Typically, peak-to-trough declines amount to 50 percent.

Limas Sweed

Making a catch like that with that amount of time left in a hostile environment, it's definitely a confidence builder because I was able to help our team keep its dream alive.

Winston Churchill

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought

Richard Carmona

Let's not automatically just rebuild a hospital because it had a certain amount of beds,

Jim Graham

Let's have a determination to really make this the year of the bus. This is a relatively low amount of money for the system. Surely it can be found.

Angie Cox

Last year we gave six scholarships of $1,000 each. This year we would like to give four scholarships of two grand each. We decided to increase the amount given per student to help more with the cost of college such as books and enrollment fees.

Mike Bracko

Less rest time can sometimes increase the amount of testosterone your body is producing.

Cedric Garland

Many people are deficient in vitamin D. The easiest and most reliable way of getting the appropriate amount is from food and a daily supplement.

George H. W. Bush

legal but taxed and regulated like other goods.

Robert Casey

Legal abortion will never rest easy on this nation's conscience.

John Schaeffer

Obviously, we need to look into what our legal rights and responsibilities to our ratepayers are, so we'll be studying that.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Doug Ferrari

I did not have a sober, straight, legal day from 1974 to 1994. Not one.

David Crane

From a legal perspective, it is going fine.

Alberto Fujimori

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, ... I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Linda Powell

If I'm going to do it, I want to make it legal.

Don Waddell

Some of his patterns come in legal and some come in illegal.

William Roth

let Americans keep more of what they earn, and use their money as they see fit.

James Hong

Sentiment is weak right now and we're seeing a lot of short-term retail money selling.

Adrienne Worthy

One of the wonderful things for us is that people who give money also tend to give time.

Kevin Krewell

One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.

Bob Hall

Obviously, you've got to have some money for a state-wide race, but the point is to have it not be an auction.

Mike Blum

No one really makes money on shorts. Probably one in 10,000, at the most.

Guy Ritchie

On Lock, Stock, we didn't know where the money for shooting the next day was coming from.

Cindy Hall

One time we saved up enough money for a saw.

Michael Arcuri

One thing we know is that he can raise money whenever he wants to, so he can still run if he wants to.

John Hogan

If I had to predict, I would say that this year, 2005 to 2006, was probably the worst of it, in terms of the percentage increase. Things seem to have stabilized a little bit.

Jeff Judkins

Since I've been here, we've never had six teams in the (Ratings Percentage Index) top 60. I think that says a lot for our conference.

Abdullah A. Badawi

The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

Serj Tankian

The percentage of Americans in the prison system, Prison system, has doubled since 1985

David Hillery

The percentage of African-Americans at (SDSU) in proportion to the population isn't equal.

Walt Jocketty

I think you need to turn the roster over. I think turning a percentage of your roster over every year is healthy.

Craig Shniderman

Percentage of sales--the table contributions, which often represent about 50 percent of the table revenue--actually go up.

Jay Speer

There is a very small percentage of dealers we're worried about. But they can do a lot of damage.

Colleen Reitan

What is the total percentage of premium we spent in administrative expense? And we are under 10 percent of the premiums we spend on administrative expense.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Harry Markowitz

I would never be 100 percent in stocks or 100 percent in bonds or cash.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Kate Warne

Everybody's worried that the stocks that have done so well have really overshot,

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Harry Eisenberg

If you look at the universe of the 7,000 or so stocks that are priced this way, most of them you wouldn't want to touch,

Steve DeLuca

These stocks come in and out of favor.

Barry Ritholtz

Tech stocks are probably a little pricey. But they're not stupid pricey.