Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Reid

Let's have a real investigation and a vote here in the Senate. What the president has agreed to is no review.

Edward Norton

Lewis and Clark's expedition is as great a story as you could ever hope to tell, and like so many people, Brad and I have both been drawn to it for years, ... We both always agreed that compressing that story into a feature-length film ruined the spirit of it ... so we sat down and said, 'How can we really do this justice?'

Kofi Annan

Libya has also agreed to a trial in a third country and believes that it ought to be possible to find answers to all other outstanding issues relating to this matter,

Adnan Pachachi

Leaders of political parties have agreed to postpone parliament. There are still some issues that have not been resolved yet.

Steve Lewis

Scott has told us that he wants to stay in Wales, but he has some issues to sort out in Australia and he has kept us informed about his position. We have agreed to meet at the end of the Six Nations to thrash out his contractual position.

Charles Schumer

Sen. Graham and I do not think it would be appropriate to vote on this bill while the president is there, so we have agreed to delay the vote,

Kevin Bishop

Senator (Lindsey) Graham has not agreed to delay a vote on the China currency legislation. No decision has been made and any insinuation to the contrary is nothing more than uninformed speculation.

Arlen Specter

Senator Leahy and I took a look at it and agreed that it was insufficient,

James Rubin

Secretary Albright just got off the phone with Prime Minister Netanyahu and they agreed to meet here in Washington on Wednesday to discuss ways in which we can overcome remaining differences

Howard Simon

She was part of a team that did not implement policies that were protective of the right to vote. They made the right to vote more perilous.

Surapong Suebwonglee

If they still insist on using the Royal Plaza but lack any sensible reason for doing so, we will have to strictly implement the related law.

Don Sherwood

I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.

Victoria Strauss

If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

Nicholas Ray

I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then to implement it.

Veronique Rugy

Wasteful spending is wasteful spending. The Republicans need to return to their message that being compassionate is doing what it takes to implement a system that works.

Dave Kingham

We're really moving on to the practical questions now to see how we can implement some of these recommendations.

Joe Main

Work was in progress to implement some of these protections.

Mark Seery

When you're using quality of service to implement a priority-based system, someone is always losing.

James Frecheville

Luckily, I haven't been offered any $300 million movies that I hate. So I'm not in that predicament just yet.

F. Stone

Let's just say it would be in the millions of dollars,

Mike Burkett

So many millions of people don't feel like their vote has any meaning. There is no reason why younger people can't be a unified force.

Susan Ertz

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

William Stafford

One way to find your place is likethe rain, a million requestsfor lodging, one that wins, findsyour cheek: you find your home.

Kevin Wilson

Money's not everything - the volunteering professionals to get this thing done is worth more than anything ... that's worth a million dollars,

James Williams

No one thought - not a single person - that it would be this severe, this tragic. No one thought the levees would break. Not in a million years.

Erin Dawson

Never in a million years would I have thought that I would be where I am.

Andrew Bogut

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

Kacy Gott

Making that transition from paycheck to no paycheck scares a lot of people.

Chris Sheridan

So far, we haven't had any trouble getting it, but we're paying 10 percent to 15 percent more for plywood,

Dylan Penn

Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.

Allen Douglas

No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault.

Terry Davis

No one can suppress the truth forever, but some people never stop trying. It is the journalists who pay the price.

Carlos Delgado

One time, they didn't pay me. But for the most part, they have treated me well.

Rich Vallinaggi

No one wanted to volunteer, so I did. I thought I'd try it. They were paying for the course.

Charles Moskos

now that we pay soldiers to die for us, that Americans don't want to be reminded of sacrifice?

Sen. Argenziano

Now you can pay for it. Now it doesn't feel sticky. It used to feel sticky.

Darcie Vincent

Megan and Lisa reflect our attitude. They never give up. They do whatever it takes to win.

Charles R. Swindoll

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Edgar Allan Poe

If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection.

Edgar Allan Poe

The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.

Deepak Chopra

All relationships are a reflection of our relationship to ourself.

Deepak Chopra

The world is a reflection of who we are and if we don't like the reflection, it doesn't really help to break the mirror.

Deepak Chopra

The interesting thing is that you don't have to know the answers - simply asking the questions and your reflection itself causes the rewiring of the brain.

Enrique Pena Nieto

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

Tomoko Fujii

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

Cherry Loney

We are already strained in terms of our staff and space.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Allen Weinstein

NARA must provide security at our facilities to protect our public patrons, our staff, and our holdings.

Cynthia Johnson

Our staff don't take to rhetoric, they need proof.

Andy Miller

Right now our support staff is really under the gun,

Ralph Brennan

Staff is our most significant challenge. We already know that many of them will not return.

Jay Carson

Forty-one just wanted to come by and say hello. He was really great, and our staff really appreciated it.

Ed Fulton

We've got a better infield that we had a year ago. With the staff that we have that should work pretty good.

Mike Gonzalez

We're struggling in the bullpen, too. The whole staff is struggling.

Albert Schweitzer

Our degeneration, when it is traced back to its origin in our view of the world really consists in the fact that true optimism has vanished unperceived from our midst.

Albert Schweitzer

Awakening of Western thought will not be complete until that thought steps outside itself and comes to an understanding with the search for a world-view as this manifests itself in the thought of mankind as a whole.

Albert Schweitzer

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

Albert Schweitzer

Any profound view of the world is mysticism. It has, of course, to deal with life and the world, both of which are nonrational entities.

Ludwig von Mises

All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

Chris Crutcher

No amount of effort could have stopped that, because our points of view - the way we perceive things - are inextricably linked to our beliefs, ... ,our beliefs color what we see.

Dennis Ritchie

From an operating system research point of view, Unix is if not dead certainly old stuff, and it's clear that people should be looking beyond it.

Dennis Prager

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Dennis Prager

To understand the Left, one must understand that in its view the greatest evil is material inequality. The Left is more troubled by economic inequality than by evil as humanity has generally understood the term.