Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Tauscher

We appreciate the chairman responding to us but we also find his response deeply disturbing. The letter appears to have been written without any investigation of the specific facts in this case. It also appears there was no consultation with the Democratic members of the House Administration Committee.

Leigh Foreman

We are proud to play even a small part in helping our industries provide emergency shelter for the victims of this tragedy. It appears that most of the shelters ordered by FEMA have now been produced, but we do expect to see some carryover into 2006. In addition, industry sales in 2006 may increase due both to the need to replenish dealer lots that were depleted while manufacturers diverted their production capabilities to filling FEMA orders, and the permanent rebuilding of the hurricane-stricken areas.

John Ashcroft

We are alerting law enforcement and financial institutions and the American people to be vigilant and to be aware of anything that appears suspicious,

John Ziegelbauer

There are definitely more bankers sitting on the fence this year when it comes to the state of the national economy. There appears to be much indecision about how things will fall out in 2006 with such important things, such as gas prices and the housing bubble, still so uncertain.

Thomas Day

There are certain forms in which vice appears not only monstrous, but ridiculous; the cruelty of Nero is more disgusting than that of Tiberius.

Martin Selmayr

There are some black sheep countries in Europe, and one of them was Ireland and it now appears that a second one may be France.

George Harleigh

We're talking about a basic violation of the Constitutional guarantee of a free press as well as a violation of the rights of privacy of American citizens. I had hoped we would have learned our lessons from the Nixon era. Sadly, it appears we have not.

Gary Thayer

We were anticipating that we could see a little bit of an improvement in October because the rebuilding after the hurricanes appears to have started and energy prices have stabilized, but it appears that it will take a little longer for consumers to feel better about things.

Ron Carey

While Mark Dayton has made it abundantly clear how out of touch he is, it also appears the current crop of DFL Senate candidates are out of the mainstream by failing to come forward to support Judge Roberts' nomination,

Atharva Veda

Unity can only come when there is better co-ordination and mutual understanding in the society; when there is no friction of thoughts and clash of ideologies. We should therefore follow the ideals established by the scholars and engage ourselves in virtuous deeds.

Krista Tippett

One of the things I reject in our cultural divisions is the clash between faith and reason, and I would say the same about mystery and intellect. They are somehow mysteriously akin to each other.

John Fitzgerald

We shall need compromises in the days ahead, to be sure. But these will be, or should be, compromises of issues, not principles. We can compromise our political positions, but not ourselves. We can resolve the clash of interests without conceding our ideals. And even the necessity for the right kind of compromise does not eliminate the need for those idealists and reformers who keep our compromises moving ahead, who prevent all political situations from meeting the description supplied by Shaw: ""smirched with compromise, rotted with opportunism, mildewed by expedience, stretched out of shape with wirepulling and putrefied with permeation.""Compromise need not mean cowardice. ...

Louis Leterrier

What's great about 'The Avengers' is that it's the next step. It's not just superhero fights super-villain and superhero wins. It's about superheroes that come together and interact. It's a clash of the egos. You could do 'Avengers 1' without a villain, just with all these guys coming together. They could sit down and just have a discussion.

Lars von Trier

My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.

Yanis Varoufakis

The social inefficiency of capitalism is going to clash at some point with the technological innovations capitalism engenders, and it is out of that contradiction that a more efficient way of organising production and distribution and culture will emerge.

Mike Casey

We work for this all year. We go to The Clash and those other tournaments to be ready for state. This is what our whole season is geared for.

Michael Gomez

Right now I would rather fight for the WBO World title later this year than clash with Gomez.

H. Hunt

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner

Charles Caleb Colton

Most importantly: Don't adjust your results to build up the ego of the chief strategist. Especially if the strategist is you.

Alanis Morissette

The ego is a fascinating monster.

Alan Watts

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Alan Watts

The biggest ego trip going is getting rid of your ego

Alan Watts

To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.

Alan Watts

I find that the sensation of myself as an ego inside a bag of skin is really a hallucination.

Alan Ball

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Chogyam Trungpa

What is needed is the constant unmasking of ego's strategy.

Chogyam Trungpa

The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Jermaine Dye

We don't have any egos on this team. I think that was what was really special about this club,

Leroy Foster

Like everyone's been saying, it was a wake-up call. They're playing more as a team now, and you can see it in practice, where before individual egos were getting in the way.

Timothy Noah

Politicians have such large egos that it usually takes them an inordinately long time to grasp when they've become a pathetic joke.

Dave Smith

The only game we've got is the one in front of us. We've really come together and gelled. Everyone knows their role. There are no egos -- we just play. We have a lot of talent.

Heston Blumenthal

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

Austin Peebles

There are no egos on this team. No problems. Everyone is happy when someone else does well.

Shandon Anderson

I think it's because we're a veteran team and we understand what we're trying to do at the end of the day, and that's win a championship. To win a championship you can't have any egos on this team.

Jeremy Bloom

There aren't a lot of egos on this team.

John Oates

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

David Brown

It turns out the Titanic was more merciful.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.