Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Larry Hansen

The only authority we had was to interview. Everybody made recommendations from different panels, and the city manager picked who he felt were the top three.

Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Charles Territo

We believe that the (federal government) has sole authority to regulate fuel economy in order to avoid a patchwork quilt of fuel economy regulations.

George Postolos

We stand ready to honor the bargain we struck with the sports authority, and we hope and expect that the sports authority will do the same.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

My relationship to power and authority is that I'm all for it.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Christ is the source of all true priesthood authority and power on earth. It is His work, in which we are privileged to assist.

Craig Turner

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

Joe Condit

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

Michael Callahan

Ultimately US companies in China face a choice -- comply with Chinese law or leave.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

I. Stone

We are looking forward to performing in China for the first time.

Chuck Hagel

We are at a very important and delicate point in our relationship with the People's Republic of China and how this is handled will go a long way as to the future of that relationship,

Alex Wong

There are concerns that new competitors like China Netcom and China Telecom will enter the domestic market once 3G services are introduced next year. The focus now is on such uncertainties.

Mats Olsson

We're in close cooperation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Mats Olsson

We're in close co-operation with China Telecom and China Netcom in preparing for 3G. We're also in development of service networks for China Telecom.

Steve Schneider

We actually find it not at all difficult in China -- it is more about how you drive growth; how you utilize technologies and how you train people.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Adam Cole

What we're likely to get is no move but all the comments suggesting that there will be a move next month.

Robert Long

We got whacked on the Fed comments (Wednesday), but that reaction doesn't make sense, ... Don't you think if the Fed is hinting that interest rates will go up sooner, that suggests the economy is doing well? I think the comments bode well for the GDP (gross domestic product) report tomorrow and next week's monthly employment report.

Peter Cardillo

Unless he should say something really out of the ordinary, which is unlikely, I think his comments will likely have a limited effect on stocks,

Adam Ereli

We're issuing this in the wake of some comments by President Chen in Taiwan that we don't want to be inflammatory or send the wrong signal, so we thought it useful to reiterate US policy on the subject.

Keke Palmer

Just as many people that love me, hate me, too. I get really mean, mean, mean, mean comments on Twitter, and it just comes with the territory.

Adam Ereli

We've seen the reports of comments attributed to other party officials.

Tom Noonan

I tend to be very private. It's easier for me. When you're acting, you're very susceptible to comments that somebody makes, so if they know something is going to happen on the show, and they say something, it can actually throw you off. So I tend to not share things with anybody.

Ralph Kauffman

Many members' comments expressed concern about the continuing rise in oil and gas prices.

Masaki Fukui

Olson's comments reaffirmed our views on the Fed's stance for further interest-rate hikes. The Fed's focus is on inflation. The dollar remains strong.

Charles Tillman

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Raheem Brock

We want to show our defense is going to be better.

Kyle Loomis

We knew they'd been a hot team this whole tournament. We had to play good defense if we wanted to win a championship, and I think we did a good job.

H. Hart

We lacked intensity on defense in the first quarter. After the first quarter we played a pretty solid game, so things are looking up for us.

Flip Saunders

We know when to lock down. Our defense hasn't slipped at all.

Tayshaun Prince

We know what our capabilities are: to have our defense get some stops and try to get started on our offensive game, which wasn't happening for us.

Joker Phillips

We know we've got to use the run to set up the pass. If we can do that, we can keep the score down and we can help the defense stay off the field.

Rashad Anderson

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

Manny Legace

We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.

Dwight Littlefield

We knew they were a good shooting team. In the first half we didn't get a hand up and we gave them good looks. In the second half, the defensive intensity picked up.

Bill Cowher

We've all had heroes, and I know Jack Lambert was for me because I was a defensive guy.

Dennis Richardson

We are a hard working, defensive driven team. We were very competitive in all our matches this season.

Jim Elliott

We are a good defensive team and we are getting better. This is a team that hasn't played together for a long time and we are still trying to figure out who we are on offense. But we are getting there.

Sal Follo

We are a defensive hockey team and we have a system that we are going to stick to and it has kept us in game all year; even the games we lose are only by one goal.

Terri Holmes

We struggled early, but the nice thing about it we rebounded in the third inning on great defensive play.

Jason Mathenia

We strive to deny the other team any opportunities in the defensive third. We've taken pride in that this year and it's really paid off.

Jared Jeffries

We're in a rhythm right now, especially at the defensive end. We're getting stops, and we're getting out and running. And we're taking good shots. That allows us to get back at the defensive end.

Josh Smith

We started hot, but couldn't maintain it. We got tired and couldn't sustain our defensive intensity. They wore us down and killed us on the glass in the second half.

Grace Speare

When you think something, you think in picture. You don't think a thought in words. You think a picture that expresses your thought. Working with this picture will produce it into your experience.

Keith Hennig

Leader No. 1 is Courtney. In second, you have Lindsey. She gets fired up in games. She expresses herself and her teammates respond.

Ariel Sharon

shares in the grief of the U.S. administration and expresses its condolences to the American people.

Henri Frederic Amiel

It is not what he had, or even what he does, which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which can not be said and on which it is impossible to be silent

Philip Hilder

Mr. Baxter had the utmost integrity and she respected him immensely. Mrs. Watkins expresses her heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family.

Jeff Buckley

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.

George Pataki

First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.

Erica Jong

I think that Sappho expresses the orphaned part of ourselves. The orphaned part of ourselves that reaches out to passion for completion. That reaches out to motherhood for completion.

Brad Pacheco

We are pretty tough on fees. We are not going to pay a firm more because they have some overhead with a placement agent.

Anne Bremner

We still stand firm in our view that there should be two newspapers. It would be a shame if there was arbitration, and only one newspaper left standing after all of this sound and fury.

Benjamin Franklin

Stand firm, don't flutter!

Brian France

We're getting down to the wire. Looks to be in the next four to six weeks or sooner there will be some firm announcements of where we'll land.

William Shakespeare

For who so firm that cannot be seduced?

Generoso Senga

We have remained firm in our position that we shall remain united in this stand not to intervene in any of the political undertakings,

Andre Dreicon

The expectations are firm after the U.S. held rates steady.

Kenny Chesney

I'm pretty firm in my sexuality and my love for women.

Andrew Heyward

Leslie has not set a firm timetable. But we're making good progress.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Vladimir Putin

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

John Prendergast

Sudan policy has run off the road into a ditch.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Charles Taze Russell

In view of this strong Bible evidence concerning the Times of the Gentiles, we consider it an established truth that the final end of the kingdoms of this world, and the full establishment of the kingdom of God, will be accomplished by the end of A.D. 1914.

Charles Sumner

The press, watchful with more than the hundred eyes of Argus, strong with more than the hundred arms of Briareus, not only guards all the conquests of civilization, but leads the way to future triumphs.

Charles Dudley Warner

Public opinion is stronger than the legislature, and nearly as strong as the ten commandments.

Charles de Gaulle

The perfection preached in the gospels never yet built an empire. Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness, and cunning.

Charles de Gaulle

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.

Charles Dickens

Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.

Charles Caleb Colton

No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.

Charles Caleb Colton

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.