Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Walters

My assessment of his role on the council is that he has been effective. He has gotten himself into the thick of the baseball politics with his own backing and plan, and has carved out some attention to development projects in Southeast as a part of the construction.

Dick Cheney

My assessment is there is no comprehensive oil policy today,

Michael Spence

My father once said about being a parent that it is the only thing you do that requires a very long period of learning, and at about the time that you are becoming competent, you don't need the skills anymore. Notwithstanding this modest assessment of their parenting skills, they were wonderful parents.

Lynn Franco

Growing optimism about the overall health of the economy continues to bolster consumers' short-term outlook. But consumers' assessment of current conditions, which strongly hinges on improvements in the labor market, remains both weak and volatile.

Brendan Morrison

Fragile is pretty accurate. I think that's a good assessment of us right now. I'm not saying we don't want to do something, but we're not making plays. This is pretty much a must-win game. I mean, we need the points.

Lawrence DiRita

I would expect fully that he will come back and give an assessment of where he thinks he is. I don't know, I simply don't, whether that will include his recommendation on the way ahead.

Rob Danielson

If they do, they will have the best opportunity to perform well on the next Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA).

David Norris

Should any of these assumptions change, then the company's assessment of its financing requirements also would change.

Clark Jacobs

If they say their goal is just to get a job, there is help with resume writing and interviewing techniques. If they want to look at other options, at that point we begin an assessment process. We identify their skills and abilities, then look at different clusters of jobs that might be available, based on those skills and their interests.

Allison Teeters

Many household chemicals meet at least one of these criteria to varying degrees.

Craig Venter

One important part of scientific training is that scientists learn the boundaries, the safety issues, how to properly deal with and dispose of chemicals and reagents.

Jane Lauder

From a sustainability standpoint, look for natural products, but not all chemicals are bad. Learn what works for you.

Ian McCafferty

Only two of the 10 industry groups surveyed this month - chemicals and metal products - expect prices to rise in their sector over the coming three months. Cost pressures from high oil and transportation prices will only serve to depress profits further,

Kurt Vonnegut

It is a big temptation to me, when I create a character for a novel, to say that he is what he is because of faulty wiring, or because of microscopic amounts of chemicals which he ate or failed to eat on that particular day.

Bruce Lipton

If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.

Gary Linden

We are not mixing our chemicals in Orange County in a tank next to million-dollar homes.

Richard Wiles

We know that these chemicals are toxic. And we know that they're exceeding the levels the government has set for these chemicals in water,

John Pearson

We were delighted with the outcome of this important event, which took place at a critical moment for global petrochemicals supply and demand. The Middle East will become pivotal in global chemicals trade and the location of many exciting new projects, sponsored by regional governments as well as the private sector.

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

William Cowper

Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care,/ First wish to be imposed on, and then are.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Frederick M. Vinson

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Gordon Campbell

We know from the past that when these solutions are imposed from the outside they have failed,

Leos Carax

I've always been interested in invisible worlds, and I like to visit digital worlds, you know, any world that's imposed on us.

Lynsey Addario

I had imposed unspeakable worry on my husband, Paul de Bendern, on more occasions than I could count.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Roger Toussaint

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

Steve Alford

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament.

Matt Will

No one is better situated than we are in Indiana to do this.

Richard Sheirer

Giuliani visited Indian Point and said, 'It's a reverse of Marion' high-security prison in upstate New York. It's as secure as Marion, but not in keeping people in but keeping people out.

Larry Brilliant

I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

John Trudell

I'm a member of the American Indian Movement, and I'm from the indigenous nations of the Western Hemisphere.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

Bodhidharma

The mind is the root from which all things grow if you can understand the mind, everything else is included.

Sundar Pichai

What strikes me every single time is that the aspirations of Indians are unique and unparalleled. They're very demanding, regardless of background.

Dayananda Saraswati

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.

George Pataki

We can't just throw a switch and say Indian Point is going to be safe, we have to look long-term because it will ultimately be decommissioned and we have to work aggressively now to bring in new sources of power.

Will Rothhaar

I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people.

Lars Peter Hansen

I view the work I've done related to statistics and economics as, roughly speaking, how to do something without having to do everything.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Bobby Vinton

I wrote 'Mr. Lonely'. I wrote that song while I was in the army. Still today I think it relates to a lot of G.I.s. It'll be around for a long time.

Sergei Lavrov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Mario Pescante

Penal sanctions are O.K. for those that peddle ... For athletes, sporting sanctions are much more severe.

Jochen Clausnitzer

Sanctions weld together the state and the population.

Ahmad Khatami

They threaten us. Their threats and sanctions have made us independent.

Bob Williams

I'm not sure any sanctions would have any effect.

Ralph Nader

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Ofer Lefler

The transfer of semen will not be allowed.

Peter Takirambudde

Any transfer to the UN could take months.

Jose Pertierra

If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.

Hillary Clinton

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.