Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Regan

We want to totally reconfigure this model so that the purchasers have available information before they make a purchase. Our concern is how soon can consumers get the info how soon can NMVTIS get the information. If we're dependent on federal agencies, we're not going to get it as fast as if the private sector is allowed to leverage that info manage it and interpret it and send it back out.

Tayshaun Prince

We knew they played that overtime game. We didn't play that many minutes last night. So the key for us was just to get out quickly, make some stuff happen. It seemed like they had slow feet from the start of the game, which allowed us to jump on them early.

J. J. Johnson

Ultimately, public-safety concerns will determine when businesses can reopen and residents are allowed to return, even in areas that appear to be undamaged.

Ingrid Newkirk

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.

Michael Weatherly

I had done a couple of plays, but I was a clueless boob. 'Cosby' allowed me to have something on my resume that was real and then the producers of 'Guiding Light' let me play a preppy killer just the following month. Suddenly I had two gigs on my resume that made me look like a real actor, although I was far from it.

Julie Andrews

The pleasure is in being allowed to play in so many different sandboxes.

Rich McKay

We've allowed those things to creep back. They are not necessary and should not be allowed.

Alan Curbishley

We've allowed him to go out on loan because he needs to play some first-team football,

Sol Trujillo

We, U S West, are not allowed to be in the long-distance business today. But we wanted to make sure that we could bring the benefits of services of companies like Qwest to our customers.

Alanis Morissette

You live, you learn, you love, you learn, you cry, you learn, you lose, you learn, you bleed, you learn, you scream, you learn

Al Pacino

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

Al Kaline

Switching to the outfield was the best break I ever got.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

Becky Miller

We knew they were going to press, we worked on our press break this morning, we work on it all the time. We did not handle their pressure well. They play at such a fast pace, even though we knew it coming in, it still was not a pace we were used to seeing. We didn't do a good job running our offenses, especially in the first quarter we took crazy shots because we panicked.

Marty Holah

Very disappointing, we certainly had the opportunities to put the game away in the first half. We made a lot of line breaks and didn't convert them into five pointers.

Jamie Munro

Ultimately, we didn't end up getting some breaks we needed to get an upset. Virginia has a great team and we tried to take it to them. ? We played hard. They played hard.

Djuna Barnes

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

David Popenoe

The American family is not simply changing; it is getting weaker. . . . Family decline drives some of our most urgent social problems. . . . The heart of the family problem lies in the steady breakup of the two-parent home.

David Crockett

The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be intrusted to man

Bob Ayers

Some nation states prohibit the police from collecting information on their own citizens. But they don't prohibit their own intelligence organizations from collecting information on their own citizens.

Lorrin Lee

Most people tend to focus on getting a dream home and car. I prefer to focus on lifelong friendships and collecting memorable experiences.

James Jeffords

We heard that the degree of environmental damage is considered catastrophic, ... We also heard that the EPA is still in the very early stages of collecting the soil and water samples that are needed to determine whether it is safe for residents to return to the area.

David Redden

We hear about the ones that are selling but in fact there are many others that are also collecting and they generally do it very quietly.

Mike Doyle

For Robb, it's a lifetime endeavor. He's been collecting ever since we were kids.

George Forney

I think they took the information we gave, and made the judgments they thought were necessary, ... And, the American people have got to know that we're collecting information, and sharing it with local authorities on a timely basis, and that's important.

Mandy Harrison

Last week I trained two OBGYN physicians at EAMC and yesterday (Wednesday) I trained six out of 22 labor and delivery nurses. I'll train more nurses on Feb. 8 and eight more physicians and the rest of the nurses on Feb. 13. Once everyone is trained, we can start collecting cord blood. We should be up and running by Valentine's Day - that's the goal. If not, it should be shortly thereafter.

Walt Kyle

We talked about the importance of collecting wins at home. We need to get wins right now. If you have an opportunity to sweep an opponent at home you need to do it.

Charles Dickens

Circumstances beyond my individual control.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest works are done by the ones. The hundreds do not often do much-the companies never; it is the units-the single individuals, that are the power and the might. Individual effort is, after all, the grand thing.

Alan Watts

Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.

Jon Allen

We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them.

Diane Wakoski

American poetry, like American painting, is always personal with an emphasis on the individuality of the poet.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Elizabeth Kostova

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Bella Abzug

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Jason Asbell

We've tried to put ourselves in position to play some really talented teams or individual players.

Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Charles de Gaulle

Leaders of men are later remembered less for the usefulness of what they have achieved than for the sweep of their endeavors.

Charles de Gaulle

Men are of no importance. What counts is who commands.

Charles de Gaulle

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

Charles de Gaulle

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Charles Dudley Warner

There is no such thing as absolute value in this world. You can only estimate what a thing is worth to you.

Charles de Gaulle

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War)

Charles Caleb Colton

Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Charles Spurgeon

economy is half the battle of life; it is notso hard to earn money as to spend it well.

Alan Watts

So many people of wealth understand much more about making and saving money than about using and enjoying it. They fail to live because they are always preparing to live.

Alan Watts

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

Charles Trevelyan

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into peoples minds better than we Liberals.

Charles Edison

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Charles Caleb Colton

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.

Charles Dickens

There can't be a quarrel without two parties, and I won't be one. I will be a friend to you in spite of you. So now you know what you've got to expect

Charles Dickens

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit, has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes, without coming to total disagreement as to all the premises.

Charles Dickens

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomised our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me.

Charles Dickens

The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to put his foot where he cannot see the ground.

Alan Grayson

Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and many of the Tea Party people don't bathe. There's really not much in common there!

Alan Colmes

If what you are claiming is true, I would have shouted it from the rooftops. I would have gone to the authorities, the FBI, the police, the Democratic (Party) anybody that would listen. I wouldn't depend on one guy with the Department of Transportation.

Jerry Gonzalez

We're making sure that we're sending the right message.

Junichiro Kawaguchi

Sending Minerva to the surface did not work.

Sunita Narain

Sending in the commandos sounds very hip, but it isn't the whole solution.

Ron Gardenhire

Sending him back out there, that's a little silly to try to do something stupid with a man's career. We haven't done that to him all year, and we weren't going to start today.

Luis Suarez

My parents separated when I was nine, but my father was always around, and he still follows me now. He is always sending me messages.

Danny Mills

On reflection, I think the sending off was justified.

Dan Carter

I was sending her all the way. There was no stopping her.

John Lelangue

But we'll be sending a competitive team to the Giro.

Robert Scoble

I get a lot of email, so if you're sending me an email, if you want to rise above the clutter, put something on it: say, 'Hey!'

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Cynthia Morgan

Workers making more than $100,000 in yearly salary,

Emilia Fox

I made it to Oxford, but it is not that I am particularly clever, much more that I am a worker bee.

A. Scott Berg

I am a compulsive worker. But I'm also a compulsive relaxer.

Paul Lopez

Every workers should be honored, every worker should be respected.

Daryl Hall

I never felt entitled to anything. I'm the hardest worker I know.

Isabel Gillies

My mother has always been a worker bee, but she's also a serious foodie.

Gregory Benford

They will do anything for the worker, except become one.

Dean Fryer

In effect, it shuts them down. They're not permitting workers to be employed.

Kevin Nealon

Workers insist that they are not disgruntled. They are very gruntled.