Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Christie

I was appointed U.S. attorney by President [George] Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state.I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.

David Kay

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

Cathy Guisewite

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

Charles Krauthammer

I'm The Only Entity On Earth, Other Than Rogue States, That Has Received An Apology From The White House

Deb Caletti

But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

Deb Caletti

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

Earl Butz

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

Bill O'Reilly

If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again.

Bernard Ebbers

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Charles Caleb Colton

In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?

Alan Alda

I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If you don't understand, ask questions. If you're uncomfortable about asking questions, say you are uncomfortable about asking questions and then ask anyway. It's easy to tell when a question is coming from a good place. Then listen some more. Sometimes people just want to feel heard. Here's to possibilities of friendship and connection and understanding.

Catherine Booth

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.

Caitlin Moran

Nowadays, to be frank, every week is a good week for freakshow television. we might start asking, Why are there so many freaks? And why do they all want to be on television?

Joel Klein

We stopped short of asking for enjoining the product precisely because we believe in creating options, not restricting them. We are not seeking to impose a recall.

Shai Agassi

We started our planning by asking our customers what they needed. They needed continuous deployment options and a more strategic CRM...They wanted more than just a sliver of customer information. They wanted a full picture of the customer.

Keith Dory

We started it last year as a one-time shot on a Saturday. And on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, we kept getting calls asking us if we were going to do it again.

Joe Hills

We start by asking a series of questions to try to get some clues going for us. The first is usually: Do you know which garage you're in? Not everybody does.

Rick Perlstein

When conservatives talk to one another, pay attention: they say what they want to do, and mean it. And will do just about anything to get there - even, or especially, claiming that they don't want to do the thing they want to do, until the time is ripe, and they can do it.

Tom Hansen

When we sell television properties, ... we're already claiming all of California.

Guy Gavriel Kay

When we work with history, to a very great degree we are all guessing. But by using motifs of time and history in a fantasy setting, we are acknowledging that this educated guesswork, invention, fantasy underlie our treatment of the past and its peoples - and we are not claiming a right to do with them as we will.

Bob Buckhorn

What has happened is the 'stand your ground' law has become so over-arching that the definition has been lost. There's a lot of people claiming 'stand your ground.'

Bernard Beckett

The successful Idea travels from mind to mind, claiming new territory, mutating as it goes.

John Key

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

David Bennett

Basically, we're claiming that we've opened a new window on the galaxy.

Vijay Mallya

I'm always claiming that 24 by 7 isn't enough. ... I love challenges,

Terrie McNutt

My goal is to have this be the first annual. And we're claiming it as the inaugural year, and we're giving away a lot of awards.

Robert Garcia

We want to show the company that we are reasonable and are willing to work. But we also expect them to return the favor.

Dave Chappelle

You got to be careful of the company you keep.

Christopher Opalinski

The power company shut off the electricity to the mine because the company was in arrears in paying its power bill.

Marjorie Scardino

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

Erich Klemm

We appreciate, in general, if red tape is being addressed and hierarchies are put to test. But this should not lead to centralization ... as it paralyzes the company rather than making it faster and more flexible.

Lauren Fine

We are primarily focused on revenues as this is critical to the well being of the company and the shares.

Steve Sanger

We are pleased with this settlement as a partial recovery of the costs we incurred. It's welcome news to the General Mills people who worked so hard in 1994 to help the company rebound from this event.

Stephen Bollenbach

We are pleased with the court's decision giving shareholders their rightful opportunity to control the fate of their company,

John McGonegal

We are pleased to welcome Interleukin Genetics to the American Stock Exchange. We look forward to working with the company and providing them with the value-added resources a growing, innovative company needs to succeed in today's market.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Tom LaSorda

Second, we need to set some reasonable and fair limits on damages in product liability cases.

Michael Robertson

We are going into the damages phase and we feel very confident.

Donnell Barton

We did not write any punishment or punitive damages into the policy. Hopefully, we won't have to do that.

Roe Hye

We determined that this is a grave misconduct that damages the foundation of science.

Richard Berthelsen

If the arbitrator rules our way, we're looking at damages that were occurred. Things we would be looking at is the final year of his contract.

Bill Bailey

We've been looking at the numbers and wondering just how long we can sustain the kind of insured damages we've been getting. If insurance is not affordable, it's really not available.

Michael Morris

would be surprised if we couldn't prove damages north of $1 billion.

Hisashi Hieda

We will seek compensatory damages at any cost.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Any privacy in public is a hard thing to negotiate.

Edward Snowden

We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back

Bob Iger

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

bell hooks

... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.

Bob Dylan

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back.

Dana Milbank

It is hard to violate somebody's privacy if the person is completely anonymous.

Kenneth Brown

This protects students' privacy rights as well as professors.

Dirk Bogarde

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Daniel Craig

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

Alan Greenspan

Regulation - which is based on force and fear - undermines the moral base of business dealings. It becomes cheaper to bribe a building inspector than to meet his standards of construction. Protection of the consumer by regulation is thus illusory.

Carlos Ghosn

Regulations about environments are going to get tougher and tougher.

Bob Corker

I find it very difficult to see a scenario where financial regulation doesn't pass the Senate.

Jamie Dimon

I've been regulated my whole life. We have progressive taxes. It's not a free-market free-for-all. I completely understand that society has a perfectly legitimate right to put in structures and regulations and rules that make it fairer, better, cleaner.

Jonathan Frenkel

Legislation or regulation may not be a solution in all cases, but it may be warranted in appropriate circumstances.

Alexander Cockburn

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

Al Gore

I'm a big fan of Bitcoin ... Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized.

Antonin Scalia

You could have 50 different states having 50 different regulations... until they were all litigated out.

David Cameron

Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon. Just as excessive regulation is not some external plague that's been visited on our businesses.

Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.

Kent Haruf

Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.

Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.

William Gibson

In 1981, I was a futurist - or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally - and I wrote about the 21st century.

Natalie Babbitt

My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if I was going to go on being an illustrator, I had to start writing the stories, too.

Gail Carson Levine

I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.

Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Jennifer McMahon

I wrote my first short story in third grade.

Randy Alcorn

I wrote my first novel, 'Deadline,' in 1994 as an experiment.