Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Brown

It is such an outrageous break with accepted practice that these documents are sacrosanct. This type of information could seriously damage a company's position. The upper echelons of the Revenue will be cock-a-hoop.

It is scheduled for Prime Minister Blair to visit the country next month. However, we haven't accepted any official agenda for the visit.

It is sad that Mr. Hamilton resorted to conspiracy theories rather than just accept the consequences of his doping.

It is recognized towers are needed in virtually every community. But there is also a notion to make them as acceptable or attractive as possible.

It is up to the Yugoslav authorities to fully accept the international demands and begin immediately with their implementation,

It is up to Brian if he is willing to accept it.

It's a gamble, a risk. What kids forget about is that when a coach is offering them, he's also offering to two or three other guys. Sometimes the first one to accept gets it.

Ted Leonsis

It never should have happened, ... I remain committed to being an accessible owner. ... Additionally, I accept the league's findings and understand that regardless of the circumstances, I must be held to a higher standard than the general public.

It's an unfortunate experience for both universities. We accept the apology that Montana has provided and we just have to find a way to move forward. I trust Jim O'Day and I know it wasn't intentional, so we'll just move on.

It's an unfair system, ... You can go to one particular block in Long Island, for example, where 11 houses got a tax reduction last year because they filed grievances. The remaining 4 homeowners who didn't file a grievance are still overpaying. In most municipalities, if you don't file it means you accept the assessment value of your home.

It?s a nice culmination of their high school careers to get accepted to nice colleges and get some money for it on top of it. They?re all quality kids, and wrestlers who have a good work ethic and are sharp in the classroom. It?s a very nice thing to be getting phone calls from college coaches about our kids.

Hugh Johnson

It's a reasonably accepted conclusion that the Fed will raise rates in both June and August; that's what the market has discounted. I don't know if Friday's employment report will change that, no matter what it says.

A business plan was established where the budget prepared was accepted by IFNA at the presentation.

Martin Freeman

It's been systematic low-balling, high-pressure tactics to get people to accept pennies on the dollar of what they're entitled to. And as a result, these families are being destroyed.

It's just not acceptable anymore to litter, just like it's not acceptable anymore to dump anything into rivers or streams.

James Posey

It's just a matter of accepting your role. I just have to take advantage of the opportunity. The advantage is that you get to see what's going on out there and then, when you get in, you can be a step ahead.

It's just a fiction that we made progress. The only progresses we have made is we are more culturally accepted today.

Kathy Johnson

It's just talking about all of our cultures. And how it's ok to be comfortable with who we are and accept everybody for who we are and we can all get along no matter our color our ethnicity...anything.

Michael Josephson

Its a sign of troubled times when the concept of pressure becomes an acceptable excuse for ethical shortcuts and moral shortcomings. Pressures are just temptations in disguise and its never been acceptable to give in to temptation. Ethics is about the way things ought to be, not about the way things are. When it comes to ethics, motive is very important. A person of character does the right thing for the right reason. Compliance is about what we must do; ethics is about what we should do. Ethical people often do more than the law requires and less than it allows. The area of discretion between the legal must and the moral should tests our character. Noble talk and framed ethics statements are no substitute for principled conduct. The test is doing the right thing.

John Wilson

It's a responsibility that everyone has to take if they want to live in hurricane-prone areas. We're a nation that wants accountability and that's good. But we all need to accept the responsibility that we have a part in this role and it's not up to a few agencies to bail us out.

It's a tradition that continues, and yet we have opposition from groups that think that animals should have equal rights to human beings, and that's probably the biggest threat we have. Other than that, I think there is general acceptance that we need to have wildlife, we need to have outdoor recreation of all kinds.

It wasn't perfect, of course. I made a big mistake in the middle part, so it wasn't good for me. But I've got to accept it and look forward. I have to fight.

Missy Elliott

It was both scary and liberating, ... When you've been working with someone for that many albums, you feel the world won't be able to accept you without him.

It was bittersweet. For me, it's tough to accept the fact that things didn't work out that well for me in Miami. On the other hand, it's a fresh start here, and it's an opportunity, and it's all you can ask for. It's a positive right now, but at the same time it's tough to swallow a defeat a little bit.

It was best that me and him not be in the same area. What he did was out of line. I can understand in terms of being emotional. But to just go out and take a shot at someone's face like that is not acceptable. I don't accept that and I don't appreciate it being a teammate.

It was the first time I blasted them all year. You can always accept physical mistakes. But there were 5 or 7 times where we got the ball inside and the guy didn't even make a move to score. We've just been struggling on the offensive end.

It was the coaches' decision, but I accepted it,

Scott Skiles

It's concerned me all year, but it's part of who were are. At this point, I've got to accept it and we've got to find other ways to win.

It's clear the Bush administration isn't willing to accept its responsibility.

It's clear that Virgil has lost his way and should have known better than accepting nearly $80,000 in the contributions.

Amity Gaige

It's dangerous to accept crisis as your baseline. It gets harder and harder to see the anti-crises that are so requisite to happiness: the quiet times, the crucial pauses - like those in a poem.

Yasser Arafat

I told Foreign Minister Ivanov that we officially accept the joint Jordanian-Egyptian initiative as well as the report of the Mitchell commission and view those documents as a basis for rapid and resolute actions towards ending the dangerous escalation of developments in the Middle East.

Brandon Roy

It's a matter of how much they accept him. I can't see him coming up here, I think it would be tough for him to show his face. If I did that to an Oregon player and walked into their gym in the summer, people would wonder what I was doing there.