Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Johanns

We want to send a signal as to what the farm bill will be so that producers can make decisions.

Chris Chocola

Anytime a large, emergency spending bill makes its way through Congress, the potential for mischief is great.

Chirlane McCray

I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.

George Bell

We lack billing relationships. We lack credit-card relationships with our consumers,

Kofi Annan

We know from experience that if the international community does not support these control measures now, the potential cost to the world will be much higher in the long term. Past outbreaks have already cost more than $10 billion in economic losses.

Mark Siegel

Ultimately we want to provide people with as complete a communications and home entertainment and information system as they want, ... with one bill if they want, one number to call for customer service, and one price per month if they want it that way.

Michael McKinney

The person I'd feel sorry for would be the first man, ... I'm not sure Bill could handle that.

Nathan Myhrvold

The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.

Jiang Zemin

The people will always remember him, ... We have 1.2 billion people, but the life of every Chinese person is precious.

Franco Pavoncello

The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.

Beverly Sills

There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat.

Steve Woll

We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.

Edwin Louis Cole

Truth cannot be defeated.

Benjamin Franklin

Venison and venery defeated me.

Carlo Ancelotti

We didn't deserve this defeat. I think we have played at the same level as Barcelona. We've had good opportunities to score but we've missed them.

Charlie Sheen

Defeat is not an option. Period. The End.

Benjamin Disraeli

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Thelma Drake

We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy.

Alan Rickman

The directors you trust the most are the ones, when you ask them a question, they've got the guts to say, 'I don't know.'

Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I've often worked with them just to see how they work.

Bob Stein

We know he has done a very retail-oriented campaign, going right to individual voters and surgically finding those who will vote and vote for him. His message is directed at reminding voters what he has done for them.

Marco Muller

Venice can become the place for confirming the importance of seven new directors that are now becoming, for everybody, the most important contemporary directors.

Van Baker

Ultimately, for them to sustain their growth and be successful in the long term, they're going to have to move in new directions and tackle some new product lines that they don't have and haven't historically done. That's going to take significant investment.

Don Bluth

How can you have a director that doesn't go to work with the crew every day and talk to them?

David Graeber

Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.

Catherine Deneuve

Directors have to push me. I have to be pushed up. Not all the time, but often.

Ludivine Sagnier

To me, the director is the most important, rather than the story.

Charles Dickens

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood... The yet unfinished and unopened Railway was in progress.

Alan Paton

One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.

Alan Rickman

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

Alan Alda

I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

Al Sharpton

If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.

Chris Christie

There is only one group to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims: the House majority and their Speaker, John Boehner.

Darren Shan

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

Dave Barry

Congress shall also create a tax code weighing more than the combined poundage of the largest member of the House and the largest member of the Senate, plus a standard musk ox.

William Bastone

We were sitting here with our jaws dropping.

John Grogan

It looked like the Jaws of Life had pulled it open.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Into the jaws of death,/ Into the mouth of hell/ Rode the six hundred.

Charles Caleb Colton

Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.

Charles Spurgeon

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

Alan Greenspan

When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.

Chris Cornell

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

David Castillo

When you've lost something, and you find it again, it has so much more meaning.

Kyle Petty

When you've lost a son, there's no price you can put on safety for the driver.

Lewis Carroll

‎You're not the same as you were before," he said. You were much more... muchier... you've lost your muchness.

Eddie Guerrero

How can you beat someone thats already lost everything?

Beatrix Potter

Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.

Mike Jacobs

We're in for a period of uncertainty as we wait for new ownership to emerge, I really don't feel unwanted. I think there's going to be quite a lot of interest.

Ed Miliband

A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.

Vince McMahon

So, I don't know why Bret would think that he should have some right to ownership or right to usage of videotape, which is no different than any actor who performs in any sitcom or television show.

Dan Rooney

I would say we're partners with the players now. There's owners that would resist it now, but ... I really think that's the way it should be.

Bob Stevens

The owners were receptive to donating the River Queen to us if we can raise the money. If can't get pledges or make a significant impact, we'll back out.

Michael Hoffman

The owners have not been particularly forthcoming ,

Gene Upshaw

I won't come down. The players know that. Only the owners can make a proposal.

Delmon Young

That was smoothed over when they took the prior ownership out.

Eduardo Galeano

From their castle in Zurich, the owners of soccer do not propose, they impose. That's their way.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Jon Banner

We've been wanting to do it for a while, we talked about it more seriously after Peter passed away.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Mike Tice

I think we've passed the point of having him anointed at any position. I think anything he earns now, he's got to work his way up the ladder.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

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.

Mario Pescante

We are preparing very well but it is not possible to be 100 percent secure.

Don Davis

We usually keep it between 40 to 50 percent relative humidity, and around 65 to 70 degrees.

Scott Smith

When you think about it, 'Siskel and Ebert' is reachable by 95 percent of televisions in U.S.,

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent. If he's 100 percent after today, we'll probably let him go at it. But if he's not, then we will wait until Saturday.

Nicki Grossman

We have never, ever been 100 percent full. There are always rooms.

Steve Groene

Until someone tells us 100 percent sure that that's Dylan, we still feel that he's out there and he's safe and is going to come home,

Heizo Takenaka

Whether we reach 1.7 percent this year does not really have much meaning.

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.

Rep. Chalk

My whole view is that we can't legitimately look at property tax reform if we don't look at all these things.

Hank Klumpp

My property value has been stolen from me and my family.

Laura Wood

little disappointed, but satisfied (the prosecution) proved he was on the property for an unlawful purpose.

Mike Allen

Most homeowners, if not all homeowners, should have experienced some reduction in their property taxes.

Linda Newman

I always wanted waterfront property but this is ridiculous.

Charles Yates

I'd like to sell them some oceanfront property in Dickenson County.

Paul Wolff

if we don't support that tourist industry, our property taxes are going to go through the roof.

James Wray

If this can be done to us, no one's property is safe.

Catherynne M. Valente

Family is a transitive property.

Janis Ian

A radio show recently did a beautiful eulogy of me.

Marcelo Porto

Stocks that were most favored recently are being penalized now.

Evanna Lynch

My cats - I have Luna who's just had kittens recently and we called one of them Dumbledore. They're nice but they're not like their characters.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

William Shakespeare

My desolation does begin to make A better life.

Jin Renqing

The reform also contributed to the resolving of the imbalance development of the world economy,

Susan B. Anthony

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.

W. C. Fields

Go back to reform school, you little nose-picker!

Tomoko Fujii

He hasn't done any reforms yet, so they would like to see the results.

Melanie Sloan

Lobbying reform is going more the enforcement route. What's that going to do? Nothing much.

Enrique Pena Nieto

There have been no voices against the structural reforms that I have proposed, especially the energy reform.

Barbara Mikulski

There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.

Charles Sumner

Give me the centralism of liberty; give me the imperialism of equal rights.

Charles Edward Merriam

In speaking of natural rights, therefore, it is essential to remember that these alleged rights have no political force whatsoever, unless recognized and enforced by the state.

Charles Dickens

I'm awful dull, but I hope I've beat out something nigh the rights of this at last. And so GOD bless you, dear old Pip, old chap, GOD bless you!

Diane Watson

Historically, the judicial branch has often been the sole protector of the rights of minority groups against the will of the popular majority.

Dianne Feinstein

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has been especially noteworthy in the arena of civil rights.

Dianne Feinstein

I'm concerned about the role the court will play in protecting individual rights in this and the next century.

David Shapiro

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to assume that their president, hostile to the principles that formed the nation and determined to act with malice toward its inhabitants by suppressing their rights and enabling its enemies to prosper in their attempts to destroy it, must be confronted, a rational response for the nation is to encumber itself no more with such a president and reject his authority and the acolytes who carry out his wishes.

David McCullough

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

David Korten

In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of 'the Haves' over the human rights of 'the Have Nots' is inevitably called into serious question.

Abu Bakr

If anybody seeks your advice, offer right and sincere advice.

Atharva Veda

Servant Nanak seeks Your Support; he has come to Your Sanctuary.

John Ortberg

Evil exists. Evil is real. One of the hallmarks of evil is that it seeks to convince its victims that it exists 'out there.'

Italian Proverb

He that seeks to have many friends never has any

Kojo Annan

What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?

Marvin Kalb

I don't find Senator Frist to be a social fundamentalist. . . .

Arlen Specter

No senator that I have talked to has come down and made up his or her mind.

Robert Torricelli

I know that's your testimony, Senator Torricelli, but it is not accurate.

Harold Ickes

The trouble with Senator Long is that he is suffering from halitosis of the intellect. That's presuming Senator Long has an intellect.

Antonin Scalia

I would not like to be replaced by someone who immediately sets about undoing what I've tried to do for 25-26 years.

Ingvar Kamprad

Most things remain undone. Glorious future!

Kate DiCamillo

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

Gertrude Stein

I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.

Horace Mann

We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

Plautus

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]

Victor LaValle

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.