Famous Quotes & Sayings

This state followed the federal government's lead and totally deregulated our electricity markets. If FERC accepts this settlement and thereby punishes Maine for restructuring, it will be a clear message that they have abandoned the nation's experiment with electric power sector deregulation.

Oliver Kahn

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

Greg Boyle

We need the disruption of categories that lead us to abandon the difficult, the disagreeable, and the least likely to go very far.

Arthur Henderson

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Teresa Medeiros

We've all but abandoned soaps in our own culture. I lost my beloved 'Guiding Light' in 2009, and 'One Life to Live' was just the latest casualty to fall beneath the programming axes.

The demolition of these vacant and abandoned buildings sends a clear message to all of our residents that Plainfield is on the move to become the Queen City once again,

In an instant, the law was transformed: from the last passenger on the safe-haven bandwagon to a pioneer into uncharted territory. For the first time in American history, it was not only legal to relinquish a baby; in Nebraska, it was okay to abandon any child of any age for any reason at any time - with the full protection of the law.

The question is whether OPEC allows prices to slip to a slightly lower range without formally abandoning its basket price,

Luke Rhinehart

When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Tyler Oakley

A lot of YouTubers get that mainstream celebrity, they get these big deals, maybe a book deal or a TV deal or whatever it is they aspired to do, and they kind of abandon ship on what got them to that point.

I think at least a third of consumers that previously bought her products will abandon the brand. A number higher than that means the brand is dead.

We're not going to abandon this ship. We believe the real work starts now in educating the public about the law. We'll use our credibility and our name to try to educate the public.

We're not going to abandon our homeland security legislation to give tax cuts to the wealthy and to profitable corporations.

David Perry

We actually have people abandoning using their computers because it's just too much trouble,

When I was younger, I wanted to be a vet or a tightrope walker. But I have no sense of balance, and I can't bear animals dying, so I abandoned both ideas.

Isabel Allende

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.

Chinua Achebe

What's important is that we recognize the falsehood of the notion that the Third World should be abandoned because it's a waste of time.

Andrzej Wajda

With it adult political audiences abandoned cinemas. In their place appeared a void. That previous political audience migrated to the seats in front of their TV.

Muddy Waters

When we needed to find a hippie bookstore that sold secondhand books, I thought of Abandoned Planet (518 Valencia St.), which is right across the street from where I used to live, ... When I was a starving writer-director-actor, I'd go to the Muddy Waters Cafe (521 Valencia St.) every day, buy a $3.50 burrito and eat half for lunch, half for dinner.

We will leave. But we will not abandon our stand.

Javier Solana

We will continue economic support for the Palestinian Authority. We want to see how the new government is formed. After that we will decide what to do, but we will never abandon the Palestinian people.

We have 20,000 abandoned mines in Utah and no way to really close all of them. The best way we can improve safety is to educate, starting with children.

We have consistently called upon the Maoists to abandon the path of violence and terror, accept the discipline of multiparty democracy, and work for a political settlement that contributes to the political stability and economic prosperity of Nepal.

We're turning an abandoned space into attractive space. With this project, we've gotten in and started.

The real question is not just a political science question of how many ministers there are. The real question is whether Mr. Arafat will abandon violence, and that can only be seen on the ground.

David Nail

The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

Adolf Loos

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.

The power-play goals were all missed assignments. We abandoned what worked in the first period: That was shooting the puck. We wanted to pass the puck into the net.

We're not abandoning the resistance for the government. We're putting the government in a position that strengthens and backs the Palestinian people when it comes to resistance. Our weapons will remain in our hands and so will the weapons of all the Palestinian people, with all its forces - security, military and popular forces, to confront any possible new aggression.

We're not looking to abandon them, we're not looking to betray them, we're not looking to do anything that is designed to harm their business. At the same time, what we can't do is we can't let a fear of that relationship being challenged or creating tension with them get in the way of following consumers who are going to other places. We just can't do that.