Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Lurie

Lead wicks are unnecessary in candles, and the industry has acted recklessly by continuing to manufacture them, ... Now the agency should complete the notice and comment necessary to complete the rule making as rapidly as possible.

Ansyaad Mbai

Many residents who had noticed strange activity from that house only stepped forward after the raid. If they had come out earlier, we could have acted faster.

Yasushi Fujibayashi

Mr. Tsurumi never acted like a teacher, but only asked us, 'Isn't it interesting?' when he found something unique.

Lee Blalack

Mr. Cunningham acted not out of passion, not a crime on the spur of the moment, he acted out of greed.

Edward Greenspan

Mr Black asserts his innocence without qualification... (and) has, at all times, acted in good faith.

Fred Peters

No one else has shown any symptoms. We believe we have acted quickly.

Wole Soyinka

Obasanjo has acted sufficiently against the constitution to warrant his impeachment. There is more than enough evidence to warrant his impeachment.

Ann Strother

Obviously, there's a certain amount of time you have to put in before you're even allowed to be nominated for something like that. Realistically, I think that it's something he should have and could have gotten a lot earlier if the time restrictions hadn't been put in. I think he's always acted like a Hall of Fame coach.

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

Rick Perlstein

Richard M. Nixon honestly believed in his bones that an organized conspiracy of liberal media insiders had literally been plotting against him ever since he broke Alger Hiss in 1948 (he never shifted course, and lost his soul).

Robert Walpole

And therefore, for the sake of my mater, without any regard for my own, I hope all those that have a due regard for our constitution and for the rights and prerogatives of the crown, without which our constitution can not be preserved, will be against this motion.

Robert Mueller

In order to be successful against each of these threats, we have to have a presence overseas, work closely not only with our counterparts in the law enforcement community, but also with the intelligence community.

Kurt Student

The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters.

Kristin Cast

I don't watch 'Glee,' not that I have anything against it. Whenever I miss the first few episodes, I won't watch the series.

Marcy Kaptur

I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.

Larry Foote

Man, he could he play some ball. I never got to play against him in football, but I watched him play my high school in basketball. He dominated. He led his team to the state championship. You knew back then he had all the talent to be a great one.

John Locke

Man... hath by nature a power .... to preserve his property - that is, his life, liberty, and estate - against the injuries and attempts of other men.

Leon Panetta

My conclusion is that at this late date, it's just not realistic to expect that I could put together an effective campaign,

Hossein Entezami

Negotiations to reach a final conclusion are going to be continued on Feb. 16 in Moscow.

Joseph Cohen

The principal conclusion is that we expect profit growth to continue through our new forecast horizon,

Kary Mullis

I hate this kind of crap. I'd like to write about something that's easy to write about, where you don't have to come up with a conclusion in the end.

Nicholas Garganas

If inflation risks increase and if the council reaches the conclusion interest rates have to rise, then they will increase.

Roger White

She was worried for a long time about getting home runs and triples. Finally she's come to the conclusion that singles and doubles aren't bad.

Larry Silverstein

I have come to the conclusion that the most important thing at this juncture is to resolve things so that all the finger-pointing can stop and the rebuilding can proceed.

Edmund Stoiber

I have come to the conclusion that as leader I can represent my party's interests better in Munich.

John Kostecki

I don't know exactly the situation, but for sure my conclusion on the whole thing is everybody's competitive and wants to do well. Everyone has high expectations, and it hasn't really been happening. For sure, there's some frustration. That's about all I know.

George Herbert

Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.

Jerry Rice

My hat goes off to Drew and Cheryl. It's well-deserved.

Tom Izzo

I don't think I can be harder on Drew than Drew is on Drew.

David Ware

If ballplayers were women, Drew Rosenhaus would be a pimp.

Dick Vermeil

I hand drew all of them with a template.

George Lois

From the time I was three or four years old, I drew all the time. Drew all the time, every second.

Gail Carson Levine

I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.

Nolan Bushnell

When I was running Atari, violence against humanoid figures was not allowed. We'd let you shoot at a tank... but we drew the line at shooting at people, with blood splattering everywhere.

Deryn Brace

When they drew at our ground early in the season, I was impressed with them. It was one of the few games we didn't look like winning.

Peter Schuyler

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

Antonella Notari

We were able to tour the premises, and we were able to speak to Mr. Saddam Hussein in private without any witnesses present.

Barton Gellman

The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.

James Rubin

We're not going to lose any sleep if Saddam Hussein suddenly isn't their leader, from whatever reason. No tears will be shed.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to keep Saddam Hussein guessing. He'll just have to wonder what the United States has in store for him.

Brent Scowcroft

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Mohamed ElBaradei

the opaque nature of that Saddam Hussein regime.

John Hewson

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

Sam Richards

Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.

Michael Aston

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

Paul Sergeant

May will be a massive month for Cardiff and Wales.

Tim Russert

Meet the Press ... But there has been no weapons of mass destruction.

Deng Xiaoping

If the masses feel some anger, we must let them express it.

Jose Pena

I was struck by all of the victims and the massive destruction.

Bill Stewart

Because of the size of it, just the sheer mass and configuration ... it would take me not only twice as long, but we have a situation for snow mass and where we would put it.

Judah Friedlander

I'm a massive Steven Seagal fan. I know his movies are horrible, but I've watched all of them over and over again. I'd want to do a movie with him and Van Damme.

Donald Rumsfeld

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

Nikolay Davydenko

I can keep playing, get a massage at the start of every set,

Ayad Allawi

Today we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein,

Joe Biden

One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power,

H. Hart

Saddam is in box. We can tighten that box, and we don't need to go to war,

Joseph Cirincione

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.

John Krasinski

I'm not trying to be the triple threat guy. I'm still working on this one threat; acting.

Kevin McCarthy

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Donald Trump

Nuclear is the single greatest threat.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Howard Dean

Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about?

Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.