Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jacques Rogge

The IOC is absolutely clear that it wants full respect of human rights. It is clear that the staging of the Olympic games in Beijing will do a lot for the improvement of human rights and social relations in China.

Jacques Rogge

The IOC is absolutely clear that it wants full respect of human rights.

Their work on behalf of the state of Texas was absolutely appropriate, and a good return on our investment.

The false rumors spread yesterday from Belgrade about the arrest of Mladic have absolutely no basis whatsoever.

Jerry Kelly

The fall is absolutely important. The top 10 guys can say 'OK, the season is kind of over once the majors are over,' but you have another 200 guys trying to make a living.

The federal government, the DEA, handles just one percent of marijuana cases in this country and they would have absolutely no way of controlling the private adult use of less than one ounce in the privacy of someone's own home. This would in fact change state statutes and lead to marijuana being legal under state law.

The federal government makes a living off tapes and snitches. It's absolutely standard operating procedure.

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

David Pogue

There's very definitely a learning curve, ... I made it work because I absolutely had no choice.

These people have absolutely nothing to go home to. They've seen their area on television, and they know there's nothing there.

These two actions are absolutely not connected. We talked about this publicly in (Fish and Game) commission meetings for the past year.

Terry Teachout

The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.

Jack Smith

These synergies will help each of us formulate our brands, ... We want to work together to reduce our cost structure by generating synergies. So far we've seen significantly opportunity to reduce costs and we think that's absolutely necessary in order to compete in this global arena.

This is a very friendly town. Every visit, every conversation I've had since applying for the position has made me feel like this is absolutely the right decision.

Bob McKenzie

This is just the beginning. This isn't going to take days or hours to complete, this is going to take weeks and maybe even months to complete. And I think you can be absolutely certain more charges are going to be laid.

Julie Gerberding

This is just an absolutely extraordinary disaster and if we have any frustrations here it is a lack of communications and a lack of situational awareness in these areas that are just completely cut off,

This is completely and absolutely unacceptable. The FAA has a lot to answer for.

Lisa Murkowski

I want to make sure that my children and all the kids have absolutely the greatest educational opportunity that we can give them.

Javier Solana

Once again, the European Union recalls that it is absolutely against terror and that these actions kill the hopes of peace.

Will Rogers

Once a man holds public office he is absolutely no good for honest work.

Soren Kierkegaard

Nothing, nothing, nothing, no error, no crime is so absolutely repugnant to God as everything which is official; and why? because the official is so impersonal and therefore the deepest insult which can be offered to a personality

Not only do the students enjoy being here at the building but the staff is absolutely loving this too. They are able to collaborate with their colleagues as they are all in one building rather than spread out all over the district.

Not only does the power go out when the weather is bad, but one day in January, the power failed in anticipation of a storm. A storm was predicted for Jan. 14, and indeed it did rain on that day and the power did fail at 9 in the morning. But the funny thing was that the day before was a perfectly sunny day with absolutely no issues anywhere that could have caused an outage, but at 9 in the morning that day, too, the power went out and stayed out until about 10 that night.

Not one bit. That St. Louis thing played absolutely not one shred of a role in this.

Not to say that a monster storm couldn't take us out--that could absolutely happen.

Nothing suggests that they wanted to know who did the searches in any way. Having said this, such a move absolutely should breed some paranoia. They didn't ask for data this time, but next time, they might.

Achieving the goals detailed in the plan is absolutely critical to our future and will require tough decisions, including addressing the rising costs of health care, which we've heard so much about.

Ledley King

The new deal has taken a while to sort out, but there was never any question about me staying. I just wanted to ensure all the details were absolutely right. I want to captain this club in what is hopefully going to be a very successful period.

The negative aspect is people will have a false sense of security. Because the beer is mixed with caffeine, they think they can drink more than they would regular beer. That is absolutely not the case,

Against a team like this, you have to do everything perfect. They absolutely cleaned up on the backboards tonight. That was really the biggest difference.

After the third rally, Steve looked absolutely shattered, but that's the way he often looks.

John le Carre

It's necessary to understand what real intelligence work is. It will never cease. It's absolutely essential that we have it. At its best, it is simply the left arm of healthy governmental curiosity. It brings to a strong government what it needs to know. It's the collection of information, a journalistic job, if you will, but done in secret.

Chad Reed

It's real exciting to have two weeks to go and all three of us in it. Really the previous 14 races mean absolutely nothing at this point. I'm excited to see how these last two races go.