Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Martin

I think it has a snowball's chance in hell of getting royal assent by June. Perhaps the most compelling point that Mr. Reid makes is the glaring contrast between the Conservative platform promises and what we actually find in the Accountability Act.

Marquis de Lafayette

No man can be subject to any laws, excepting those which have received the assent of himself or his representatives and which are promulgated beforehand and applied legally.

Warren Christopher

We urge the President of India not to give his assent to this undemocratic legislation, and initiate public debate on the complex causes of conflict, rather than treat it as a law and order problem.

Emily Dickinson

Assent -- and you are sane -- , demur -- you're straightway dangerous -- , and handled with a Chain -- .

Francis Spufford

I am a fairly orthodox Christian. Every Sunday, I say and do my best to mean the whole of the Creed, which is a series of propositions. But it is still a mistake to suppose that it is assent to the propositions that makes you a believer. It is the feelings that are primary.

Steve Wingfield

We want to take it to a community and give everyone a chance to come on board.

Martin Gerber

We knew they were a desperate team. This is their last chance to make it. I thought we were confident going into the game. We lost a little step in the first period. Things just didn't go our way.

Rosemary Palmer

We knew. They didn't even get a chance to knock.

Jon Nebel

We knew they'd come out hard in the third. They created a chance early and put it away.

Ronald Steele

We know we've got to win a couple more to have a chance to make the NCAA tournament.

Abbie Letz

We know we messed up there and didn't play well at all. We made a lot of mistakes and didn't focus. This is our chance to fix that.

Maurice Garner

We know we have to step it up now. One loss and the chance for the city championship goes out the window.

Mike McGann

We know we have to play a perfect game to have a chance to win. We've got to prepare and give it all we've got.

Raul Gonzalez

We know we haven't got much chance of the league but what we have depends on us winning in Barcelona. We need to have the conviction that we can do it and in the dressing room the feeling is there.

Arthur Goldberg

The basic guarantees of our Constitution are warrants for the here and now, and unless there is an overwhelmingly compelling reason, they are to be promptly fulfilled.

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Peter Power

There is compelling evidence of serious state intervention.

David Delainey

We had a very compelling story that we were telling, and we weren't telling the complete truth.

Chris Hill

So it's very difficult for them. But there are compelling reasons for them to come to the talks. The settlement on offer is a good one and I'd hope they would see their way to doing that.

Keith Lockhart

She's just an amazing, compelling performer. She has a wonderful vocal presence and really knows what to do with a song. She'll be fun. I guarantee it.

Aaron Karo

"You only live once" is also an equally compelling reason not to do something

Tim O'Day

What we really do is tell entertaining and compelling stories, through our rides, shops, restaurants, entertainment, even our resort hotels.

Michael Gartenberg

There are some real competitive issues going on, and (Microsoft) needs to respond, not just with products and offerings for consumers but also (with) compelling products and APIs for developers, ... There's a recognition that people are embracing the Web as a platform, and they (Microsoft) want to be there as well.

Lee Raymond

With the improvement in oil prices, second quarter net income increased 18 percent from the first quarter of 1999, in contrast to the seasonal earnings decline that we usually see from the first to the second quarter of each year,

Greg Perry

to protect their industry, in contrast to the efforts of health ministers, who struggle to keep pharmaceutical expenditures to sustainable levels.

Michael Cherry

What I have to contrast it with is Apple. They only have one version of OS X.

Kevin Cronin

It has a nice crunch to it, which is a contrast to the soft texture of the avocado.

Franklin Raines

It creates a contrast between their ideas and ours. We are perfectly happy to be judged by that contrast.

Erika Christensen

I guess if you didn't know me -- or even if you did know me -- the contrast is pretty real. It is something I am really proud of, ... Traffic

John Oates

The contrast is that we're very different people, in terms of our personal lives and our personalities. We don't step on each other's toes. It's a delicate balance.

Laura Bush

The contrast between what we've seen on the TV screens here, what's taken place in London and what's taking place here is incredibly vivid to me,

Tim Brooks

The contrast between Jack Paar and Johnny Carson was marked,

Richard Shelby

I think it is working, but I don't think you could say it is working well -- not after such a glaring mistake.

Bob Gainey

I thought we made some critical, glaring mistakes.

Jim Stafford

To me that is a pretty glaring problem,

Gary Pinkel

There's some glaring numbers. He's done things no one else has done.

David Seiders

It's healthy. We do need to have that happen -- gracefully, though. Affordability problems are glaring in the hottest areas. We've reached the point where something's really got to give.

Larry Kupczyk

After the game, I thought we played all right. But after watching the tape, we didn't play well at all. We made a lot of glaring mistakes that shouldn't be made at this time of the year. And it wasn't just our younger guys. Hopefully we can put it all together for one game.

Jerry Bernstein

It was a glaring omission. It speaks volumes about what they think about their case.

Ned Yost

I don't see where it's going to get any more glaring than it's been from the minute he signed. How much more hype does a player have than him? So it's not going to get any tougher, it's only going to get easier. The toughest thing to do is to get to the big leagues and produce.

Alan Cooper

Form follows function straight to hell.

Ben Stiller

What the hell am I doing with my life?

Edmund White

Hell is God's Absence.

Diana Vreeland

I'm for everybody. There are no set rules. But if one's not a joiner. To hell with all of them!

Diana Vreeland

Truth is a hell of a big point with me. Now I exaggerate—always.

Billy Sunday

When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.

William Shakespeare

The cunning livery of hell.

Ricky Gervais

Do this or you’ll burn in hell.

Tommy Armour

Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Jose Sulaiman

I think that perhaps this has more to do with physiological aspects, I don't know,

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think it's time to see what the marketplace really wants, and perhaps we can better accommodate that,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Juan Carlos

Perhaps we are all suffering from Stockholm syndrome,

David Brown

Perhaps this is the first step on a long road.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Amy Jo Martin

Instagram has become one of my favorite platforms because of its simplicity.

Michael Morse

When it (the crane) moves, the whole platform moves. It's kind of scary,

Chris Donlay

We're just the platform to sell the items. We're not selling anything ourselves, like QVC.

Shari Arison

I don't think of myself as a powerful person. But I do use the platforms I have to make a difference in the world. Anyone who has a position where they can make a difference should use it.

Danielle Lee

My platform ties right in with what I do.

Sundar Pichai

Obviously, you will always see more malware targeting Android because Android is used more than any smartphone platform by a pretty substantial difference.

Sundar Pichai

When you run a platform on scale, you have to make sure it's truly open. That way, not only do you do well, so do others.

John McArthur

Networked controllers, and networked storage controllers together with supporting software, will become the strategic platform for application-aware storage.

John Jansen

We went out to inspect this one platform and it wasn't there.

Satya Pradhuman

The point is, we're not out of the woods yet,

Michael Vickers

The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.

Craig Martin

The point is to get it right, not necessarily to get it done early.

Father Thomas

The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.

Livan Hernandez

The point is, it's now or never. You try to make the playoffs.

Jan Egeland

The point here is it could have been avoided. It didn't have to reach these proportions.

Jim Clarke

We are at the point where we have succeeded in accomplishing what we wanted to do.

Tom Renney

We have to get to the point where he thinks he could play, and I don't think we're at that point.

Michael Ondaatje

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Mahmoud Othman

When he promises something, he'll get it done. If he can't do it, he won't promise it.

Bob Martin

He didn't make promises he couldn't keep. If he couldn't do something, he would tell you.

Barbara Mikulski

I will stand sentry to support Medicare. I will stand sentry to make sure the promises made are promises kept.

Bob Beauprez

We need to stay to the promise. Promises made need to be promises kept.

John Sparkman

We can't make promises that we can give you assistance.

National Press

Undelivered Promises and Betrayals of the Uruguay Round.

Gil Gutknecht

This is the first salvo in what promises to be a very interesting battle,

Benjamin Franklin

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

Kenneth Roth

These promises of proper treatment are unenforceable. Any suspect who reveals mistreatment risks being sent back to the torture chamber.

Bill Nighy

I'm not a royal family watcher.

Christo

Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.

William Shakespeare

Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious.

Alastair Campbell

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Alastair Campbell

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Susie Pelzel

They were grateful. And we were treated with royal southern hospitality.

Christa B. Allen

I want to play a princess or some woman from royalty or aristocracy. If I get to have an accent, even better. And I want to play a butt-kicking superhero, like Catwoman.

William Wordsworth

Tax not the royal Saint with vain expense.

Hannah More

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.