Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Tulgan

A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.

Kofi Annan

The permanent mission of Cuba to the United Nations wishes to protest strongly at the arbitrary decision and to state that it disagrees completely with the pretexts given.

David Hume

The most pernicious of all taxes are the arbitrary.

Leonard Susskind

I often feel a discomfort, a kind of embarrassment, when I explain elementary-particle physics to laypeople. It all seems so arbitrary - the ridiculous collection of fundamental particles, the lack of pattern to their masses.

Michael Winter

Through an arbitrary problem, I had arrived at a tenet of good writing: brevity wins.

Anthony Lewis

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

Tony Blair

I don't think we should have some arbitrary timetable ... You give it as long as it takes to come to a conclusive and final judgment they're not cooperating. And at the present they're not.

Steve McDermott

It is somewhat arbitrary because it's a moving average. How do you determine what you would have earned on that particular date?

Kenneth Burke

It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly.

Tom Jackson

Looks like he may have been down just before fumbling the football. However, it was not conclusive enough to overturn the call.

Shaun Pollock

If they (the umpires) can't be 100 percent conclusive on what they've seen, I don't see why they can't judge it with the third umpire.

Adam Ereli

We do not have enough to make a conclusive judgment, I think, one way or the other.

Louis Graham

My issue with the fiber evidence is that it is not conclusive -- never has been, never will be,

Jim Haley

It was conclusive after we used the string. There was nothing they could say.

Howard Archer

The MPC still has to see conclusive sustained evidence that 2006 pay settlements are remaining contained.

Richard Kite

We're not 100 percent conclusive on that. They're still looking into that. . . . I don't want to get into it yet, into how they actually entered.

Ivan Pavlov

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.

Elaine Chao

These are strong numbers, but they are not conclusive numbers,

Charles Dickens

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

Scott Skiles

We know we're not a title-contending team right now, but in the history of teams winning titles they tend to take their lumps for a little while before they finally get there.

David Rudisha

I missed the final of the World Championships in 2009, but I told the coach I would break the world record in 2010. Which I did. Then in 2011 I won the World Championships and now in 2012 it is the Olympics. That is how I have been working.

H. Hart

We are pleased to finally restore a more competitive schedule into and out of Yuma.

Sergey Lavrov

We are awaiting final confirmation from the American side,

Gayla Benefield

We're not going to rush into anything that has final on it.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Stew Morrill

We've got good shooters. That's finally starting to pay off for us at the line. Our percentages have steadily gone up as the year has gone on.

Michael Levy

We've wanted to be in Napa for a very long time. We finally got a great location.

William Shakespeare

A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

Baltasar Gracian

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

Ed Durkin

Shareholders will be able to make better judgments about compensation, and that can translate into how you vote for directors.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Barbara Deming

I learned always to trust my own deep sense of what I should do, and not just obediently trust the judgment of others - even others better than I am.

Ben Braun

I thought there was some questionable judgment in those situations.

Tom Wright

He was put into positions that tested very quickly his style and his judgment,

Beck

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Alexa Von Tobel

When you're at work, it's about being present and getting as much done as humanly possible.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Source Unknown

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Glen Smith

We know what it takes to get them satisfied. They didn't just walk up and give us a jackpot. It's not like that.

and City

When you vote yes or no, ... it takes you out of the negotiations, and I don't ever want to be out of the game.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Kelly Sears

We're going to do the things that it takes to manufacture those runs.

Charlie Smith

We're just not doing the things it takes to win.

Mark de Mori

Sexy boxing is something that takes away from the brutality of boxing.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Sherrod Brown

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Rosa DeLauro

What we should be is on the people's timetable and not on a congressional timetable.

Andrew Friedman

With hamstrings, it's tough. We don't want to put a timetable on it.

Ashton Eaton

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

Bob Gainey

It'll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.

Tom Wright

There really is no timetable for us to do that.