Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Reilly

Many of the closeted people ... do use the Internet, because of the anonymity afforded by e-mail address. We're hoping to reach people who may not hear all the fuss.

Marsha Blackburn

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

Masayoshi Son

Softbank's Internet-focused strategy in recent years has served its shareholders well, ... We believe we have just scratched the surface of the opportunities afforded by the Internet.

Eric Stern

Mrs. King argued that our nation would not fulfill its promise unless all Americans, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizens, were afforded equal treatment under the law.

Terri Johnson

My impression is there haven't been many complaints filed either in employment or public accommodations, but that isn't a very old law. Maybe a lot of persons aren't aware that sexual orientation is afforded protected standing.

Source Unknown

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

Chris Stiepock

There are many athletes out there who would covet an X Games gold over an Olympic gold. I've heard it come from athletes mouths - and I'm sure their agents are standing next to them smirking - but when you win an X Games medal, you are instantly afforded a reputation that perhaps you aren't afforded in the Olympics.

Dean Winters

New York being the greatest walking city in the world, I tend to walk everywhere as long as I am afforded the time.

Mark Rush

She wishes to hear all of the relevant information before she makes a decision, so she has afforded us the opportunity to meet with her.

Isla Fisher

When you shoot an independent movie you have a very limited amount of time, and you don't want to be that actor, when a poor director is trying to get through a movie, that you're asking at every second to discuss performance.

David Shulman

Make no mistake. This is a soft landing. Typically, peak-to-trough declines amount to 50 percent.

Limas Sweed

Making a catch like that with that amount of time left in a hostile environment, it's definitely a confidence builder because I was able to help our team keep its dream alive.

Winston Churchill

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought

Richard Carmona

Let's not automatically just rebuild a hospital because it had a certain amount of beds,

Jim Graham

Let's have a determination to really make this the year of the bus. This is a relatively low amount of money for the system. Surely it can be found.

Angie Cox

Last year we gave six scholarships of $1,000 each. This year we would like to give four scholarships of two grand each. We decided to increase the amount given per student to help more with the cost of college such as books and enrollment fees.

Mike Bracko

Less rest time can sometimes increase the amount of testosterone your body is producing.

Cedric Garland

Many people are deficient in vitamin D. The easiest and most reliable way of getting the appropriate amount is from food and a daily supplement.

Ronald Kessler

As the Marine One helicopter lifts off from the White House, the Prowler team watches for snipers. The team also responds to any threat that may arise at the White House itself.

Swami Vivekananda

Let new India arise out of peasants cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.

Brian Polzner

Make friends with other musicians. If you have a group of people who want to play bad enough, you'll be able to find a place to play. Opportunities do arise if you work hard enough.

David Dye

MSHA is moving quickly and aggressively to evaluate technology that may help save the lives of miners in this nation. We will test these systems - as well as other promising technologies that arise - to provide miners and mine operators with useful data on the effectiveness of devices such as these in making mines safer workplaces.

Kevin Bloom

One of the things that has arisen is what can be done to lessen the damage if, in fact, we are now in an era of high (hurricane) activity.

Bhagavad Gita

Nonviolence, equanimity, contentment, austerity, charity, fame, and ill fame; all these diverse qualities in human beings arise from Me alone.

Matthew Gervais

One type of laughter arises spontaneously from the perception of a certain class of events, while the other is used strategically in interaction to influence others or modulate one's own physiology.

Phil Gramm

No other issue has created as much concern in this bill as the issue of whether employers can be sued as a result of a dispute that arises out of the liability sections of this bill,

Gabriella Goddard

From no thing, movement arises naturally.From inaction, comes action.From emptiness, comes shape and form.And from stillness, comes energy and flow.

Isabella Rossellini

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Carolyn See

Life is a matter of courtship and wooing, flirting and chatting.

Jim Daugherty

Last year we had a recruit in here, and all we had to show them was the blueprints. Now the courts have made us feel like we have had a home from Day 1.

James Valentine

Senior Burlington management have been saying since March that if the moratorium is (upheld), the deal is in trouble. (The court decision) last Friday was the big event.

Tom Donohue

Missouri is a great example of a state that has taken substantive steps to fix its legal system. In the last year, Missouri has passed one of the most comprehensive legal reform packages in the country, including legislation that keeps people from shopping around the state for the friendliest courts in which to sue.

John Myers

Miss Ciccone (Madonna's given name) struts in this courtroom and thinks she's the star. Her problem is she comes in here and can't stop acting.

Stephen Saltzburg

Miranda was meant to be easy to use. I think what you have is a court interpreting Miranda in an overly technical manner.

Mary Stillinger

Mr. Crawford has had this hanging over his head for two and a half years, and we are glad to have the opportunity to go to court and defend him.

Eugene Lawrence

Me and Quincy go way back. We talk on the court all the time. I was trying to mess with him. I was telling him, 'Settle down. I know you're going to shoot.' He can really shoot the ball.

Lee Hartmann

One donation a year is great, but two to three would help us become self-sufficient.

Stephanie Nichols

Fresh produce is just a wonderful donation for us.

Mark Love

If they (businesses) make a donation for two years, 90 percent of their tax liability is forgiven by the state.

Les Newman

I have called some places, like Germantown, that have done something similar. It is hard to figure out how much to suggest as a donation for the named bricks. I've been told that about $25 may be what would be a good figure.

Carroll Klein

I'd like to see more donations from retailers and wholesalers. The store has a lot more potential.

John Mackey

The outpouring of love and support via donations will really make a difference; we are so appreciative of our shoppers.

Darius Rucker

We are grateful to our faithful fans and friends who helped us set a new donation record.

Tom Logan

Those first trips were to Zaire, and we made sure that 100 percent of the donations we received made it to the field, ... Dr. Morgan, an orthopedic surgeon, did 65 operations in a little over six weeks. Dr. Pueda went to a hospital with no electric power and took out a little girl's spleen by flashlight. He saved her life while we all stood around and held Wal-Mart flashlights so he could see.

Dan Carter

We're more a service organization to the community. I don't know the percentage, but for us here, it's just like any other donation you'd give: You know if you give it locally, it'll help the people you want it to.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

H. Hunt

Get referrals from your former clients, and even join their organizations so that those members can be your clients.

Charles Greene

Former workers are most at risk for asbestos exposure.

John Fortier

Former members are only a percentage of lobbyists.

Pierre Blayau

I have a lot of respect for the former player, for what he did for the club.

Greg Allen

Since I got here, one of our goals has been to reach out to our former players. Having them come back and support our team means a lot to me and our program.

Brad McClellan

She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Leigh Crawford

Like everyone, I wish Katrina would have never happened. But, you can learn a lot through experiences like this.

I. Stone

Many scenarios had been run prior to Katrina years ago, and with that type of storm, the scenarios should have been taken seriously.

Paul Gillmor

In the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, our nation has been put under considerable fiscal pressure.

David Vitter

We'll only victimize the victims of Katrina all over again.

Jack Reed

We're about see a second tidal surge from Katrina and Rita,

Mary Fetchet

Katrina should be enough to wake people up.

John Metz

Katrina produced a catastrophic storm surge, it was one of the worst we've seen in this country,

Kim Stewart

Katrina knocked us down, but it's not going to keep us there. I think things should be a lot faster.

Peter Morris

Katrina is like a very large pile of stones on top of a mountain. Standing by the pile of stones it's a big pile. But when you're looking at the mountain, it's not going to be that dramatic.

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.

John Schaeffer

Obviously, we need to look into what our legal rights and responsibilities to our ratepayers are, so we'll be studying that.

George Bernard Shaw

Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Doug Ferrari

I did not have a sober, straight, legal day from 1974 to 1994. Not one.

David Crane

From a legal perspective, it is going fine.

Alberto Fujimori

I have strongly rejected the proposal to pardon and transfer her to the United States, ... I do not have the legal power to pardon terrorists and even if I did, I would not use it.

Linda Powell

If I'm going to do it, I want to make it legal.

Don Waddell

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

Ludwig von Mises

The consumers are merciless. They never buy in order to benefit a less efficient producer and to protect him against the consequences of his failure to manage better. They want to be served as well as possible. And the working of the capitalist system forces the entrepreneur to obey the orders issued by the consumers.

J. M. Roberts

We won't go hostile. We want to own the whole of the business. Therefore we want to own over 90 percent in order to squeeze out the minorities.

Dennis Prager

The welfare state is predicate don collecting money from today's workers in order to pay for those who paid in before them. But today's workers don't have enough money to sustain the scheme, and there are too few of them to do so. As a result, virtually every welfare state in Europe, and many American states, like California are going broke.

Dennis Prager

The biggest obstacle to people becoming better is that you have to really want to be a good person in order to be a better person, and most people would rather be other things.

Deniece Schofield

Work at getting organized like a hobby. Set aside a certain amount of time each day (or whatever time your budget will allow). While it may indeed take a fair amount of time to establish order, once it is achieved, you will save more time than you have ever spent.

Denis Diderot

What is a monster? A being whose survival is incompatible with the existing order.

Denis Diderot

What is this world? A complex whole, subject to endless revolutions. All these revolutions show a continual tendency to destruction; a swift succession of beings who follow one another, press forward, and vanish; a fleeting symmetry; the order of a moment. I reproached you just now with estimating the perfection of things by your own capacity; and I might accuse you here of measuring its duration by the length of your own days.

Denis Diderot

In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.

Denis Diderot

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless.

Cecil Ratliff

I don't have to repeat anything this year. I tell him what to run and there's no questions about whether it will work or not. He's a senior now and much more confident, a leader.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Michael Vick

We're going to sit down and talk about everything, ... I've got a lot of questions for him. I'm going to spend all the time I can with him.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Clint Hurdle

We have as many questions as we do answers. We have in-house candidates.

Mark Norell

There are still a lot of big questions about what they would have eaten.

Kat Clark

If they're in a destructive mood, we'll remove the mat, too.

Ginni Rometty

When you remove layers, simplicity and speed happen.

Patti Smith

We did get a request from the publisher to remove the title and we've done so.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Li Deshui

Through the survey, we are able to remove the 'water' from the statistics of the manufacturing sector, in particular, from small-sized enterprises.

Terry Greene

The scare is if they remove the steroids, it can return.

Jack Kerouac

Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition,

Joan Lunden

Remove failure as an option.

Robert Mugabe

Only God who appointed me will remove me.

Chuck Wilson

We have all new duct work and a new heating and ventilation system in there, so we won't be using the old system,

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Albert Schweitzer

In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'

Mariano Rivera

Like I said before, I can't stop. If I have to go two, I have to go two. That's the way it is. And tomorrow is going to be the big one, so if I have to go two, I will go two.

Leonard Lauder

No one stopped buying I.B.M. because Tom Watson wasn't there, but they stopped buying Elizabeth Arden because she wasn't there.

Dennis Flanagan

Actually I like the idea of being a Renaissance hack. If tombstones were still in style, I would want to have the two words chiseled right under my name.

Edgar Allan Poe

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.

Jose Andres Puerta

For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.

David Bowie

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming

Don Meredith

Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.

Rand Hoch

Tom Lynch may not be the only one who could use a sensitivity workshop.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

Charles Spurgeon

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Charles R. Swindoll

Two words will help you cope when you run low on hope: accept and trust.

Dennis Rodman

I don't trust what this life has given me.

Demosthenes

There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.

Demosthenes

There are all kinds of devices invented for the protection and preservation of countries: defensive barriers, forts, trenches, and the like... But prudent minds have as a natural gift one safeguard which is the common possession of all, and this applies especially to the dealings of democracies. What is this safeguard? Skepticism. This you must preserve. This you must retain. If you can keep this, you need fear no harm.

Democritus

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Elbert Hubbard

The hundred-point man is one who is true to every trust; who keeps his word; who is loyal to the firm that employs him; who does not listen for insults nor look for slights; who carries a civil tongue in his head; who is polite to strangers without being fresh; who is considerate toward servants; who is moderate in his eating and drinking; who is willing to learn; who is cautious and yet courageous.

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Robert Wilson

My work has always dealt with a kind of space that allows one to daydream.

Malcolm McDowell

I've always been one to do the work and just hone my craft.

Jorge Cruz

We're not doing anything bad. We just need the work.

Adoniram Judson

Missionaries must not calculate on the least comfort but what they find in one another and their work.

Kathryn Minshew

Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.

Andrew Hooper

McKay really sparked us. He was very big tonight. He really worked his butt off.

Kathryn Bigelow

My interest is to work in as uncompromised a way as possible.

Jim Hodges

My latest works are these things with light bulbs.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.