Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jedd Gould

We want to try to bring services to our community that would not otherwise be here.

Don Reynolds

We want to take the concept as big as we can. To really ramp the company up and roll it out the way we want to, we really wanted to take some time and bring somebody in of this caliber.

John Shadegg

The other two candidates are good people but neither one of them would bring real reform.

Johnny Davis

The other thing you get with Grant Hill is the leadership, the professionalism and the good, strong positive character. He brings that element into the locker room and into your team as well. He's just doing really well and it looks to me that this time he'll be able to sustain it the entire season.

Carl Krauser

The other teams I played on were more keyed in on defense. The defense was going to bring our offense and that was it. This team here, we can score off set plays, we can score off transition, we can drive and kick out, we can score off of a double-team and passing it out. We have a lot of weapons to play with. We're just using them out there and it's helping us score points.

Vikas Khanna

The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together.

J. M. Roberts

The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Chris Hernandez

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

Keith Roberts

We have in custody seven males and one female. They are being processed at Pembroke Pines station and eventually they will be sent to Krome detention center.

Donald Rumsfeld

We've spent the day talking to people and seeing the steps that have been taken to see that those types of abuses to people for whom we have a responsibility and custody will not happen again,

Dan Roberts

Nobody's ruled out. The girl isn't back in custody and until that happens nobody will be ruled out.

Mark Fagan

He cooperated and was taken into custody without incident, as were all the others.

S. Walker

Her husband would just walk right in her house. She told him to get out. I heard them yelling over custody of the kids.

Greg Craig

When he receives assurances that he will have custody of his son.

Roger Waters

He was in custody when our officers got there, ... There's no need for an investigation. We didn't lay a hand on him.

Emily LaGrassa

He is in police custody in England at this time.

Capt. Conklin

He is a good guy to have in our custody at this time.

Sharda Persaud

We are going to see more small falls for two to three months and then some summer optimism.

Billy Donovan

We felt like Darrel Mitchell was the key to their team, so we tried to run at him and trap him as much as we could. When he gets his 18 or 19 points, everything else falls into place.

H. Hunt

We feel that Niagara Falls will be on the upswing and we want to be a part of it.

Ken Leung

I have an awareness of a spiritual realm, and I see signs that I feel speak to me - I don't know if that falls into superstition.

Kweisi Mfume

When the television-viewing public sits down to watch the new prime-time shows scheduled for this falls lineup,

Jack Canfield

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

Sathya Baba

Life is a mirage; It comes from no visible rain; It falls into no recognizable sea.

Eric Whitacre

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.

Bob Semling

We had a very solid performance, especially as good as River Falls has been playing lately. A 14-point win on the road is nice to see.

Jerry Taylor

What I am asking, I guess, is do you intend to work on it?

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Edward Brooke

I don't intend to leave the Republican Party, but I would like to move the Republican Party more to the center.

Donald Rumsfeld

sit down with the Russians in a way that's rational, and professional, and we don't intend to violate the treaty.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Michael Cunningham

We've been here for 150 years and we intend on being here 150 more.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Gavin O'Connor

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Akio Morita

If you don't want Japan to buy it, don't sell it.

Akio Morita

Amenities are not of great concern to management in Japan.

David Milne

Clearly, Japan is a most important market for digital consumer products.

David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid.

David Suzuki

On December 7, 1941, an event took place that had nothing to do with me or my family and yet which had devastating consequences for all of us - Japan bombed Pearl Harbour in a surprise attack. With that event began one of the shoddiest chapters in the tortuous history of democracy in North America.

David Suzuki

Each time I visit Japan, I am reminded of how Canadian I am and how little racial connection matters.

Lucio Tan

There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

Billy Higgins

I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan.

Bill Plympton

America is behind Europe and Japan in terms of accepting adult ideas in animation.

Stewart Baker

The point is, you can't be sure if you're legal in a lot of areas.

Tom Jackson

What he said to me was that it's the right thing to do. It might be legally gray, but it's the right thing to do.

Alexei Navalny

I'm concerned with protecting the legal system.

Don Waddell

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

Tom Tancredo

The Democratic Party looks at massive immigration, legal and illegal, as a source of voters.

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.

David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Sandra Day O'Connor

I've always said that at the end of the day, on a legal issue, I think a wise old woman and a wise old man are going to reach the same conclusion.

Dr. Prescott

We want to see him wake up. There is a medical reason (for the coma). We don't know what it is.

Nathan Barankin

Whenever the medical profession steps into these social policy issues, things get really complicated in a hurry. Quite frankly, that's the reason San Quentin has never required medical professions to be involved.

Barbara Matthews

With the medical evidence, we could prove that was not the case.

Leroy Hood

All of the details that most of us memorize in medical school - you don't have to learn those things. They're going to be in your computer.

Kevin McCarthy

We know Africa does not have the same medical treatments as we do.

Eric Kandel

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

Marty Bahamonde

Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical. The sooner we can get the medical patients out, the sooner we can get them out.

Aretha Franklin

I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.

Dick Cheney

I got sick, hospitalized, had no insurance. And the money I had saved for our honeymoon went to pay medical bills. So I had been in the position of not having insurance when I needed health care.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Alan Moore

It does not do to rely too much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a fragile thing, one loud noise, and its gone. But the people are so cowed and disorganised. A few might take the opportunity to protest, but it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness. Noise is relative to the silence preceding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Alan Green

I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.

Phil Orlandella

There are (contingency) plans in place for strikes.

Jim Wilkinson

We're not going to sit here and say that all the plans are perfect.

David Rockefeller

I hope the Guggenheim plan will be revived.

Joe Dumars

We have no plans to do anything with Derrick at the moment.

Charles de Lint

There is no plan, no future laid out for any of us beyond what we make for ourselves.

Dianna Agron

My back-up plan is always to take a trip. That's never a bad option. That's always a good option.

Ricky Gervais

I never had a plan. I just sort of ambled along, doing exactly what I wanted every day of my life.

Charles R. Swindoll

God's heavenly plan doesn't always make earthly sense.

Daniel Handler

Even the best plans can change if there's an accident.

Kenneth Blackwell

The fact of the matter is that they are entitled to request a recount. We're entitled to give them a recount.

Kathleen Battle

When I do concerts and recitals, the two most common requests are spirituals and opera.

Justin Long

So I made a request. I said to the writers, I have a minor request that I just want to play a loser.

Kim Brown

The only request is they make it healthy.

Ariel Sharon

I don't think it would be suitable (to request aid) at this time so we will wait a while.

Barbara Jones

He cooperated with our request to come out and SWAT was there and we took him into custody.

Daniel Joseph

He had many requests to have someone end his life.

Debbie Breen

We've had so many requests for groceries. The groceries take up one-third of the store.

Bill Steele

Our trustees are not employee-friendly. We request you appoint new trustees who are employee-friendly.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Garry Kasparov

Question the status quo at all times, especially when things are going well.

Helen Mirren

A woman with knowledge is something that frightens the status quo quite a lot.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Alan Moore

As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding.

Chinua Achebe

If you only hear one side of the story, you have no understanding at all.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy

Carl Sagan

The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.