Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lou Holtz

I am sorry that any rules were violated and I apologize for any embarrassment in my six years at USC, ... We tried to operate not only according to the letter of the law but the spirit of the law as well.

Care to dispend according to thy store, And in like sort be mindful of the poor.

But when she had information that according to her would help demonstrate the president's innocence ... she selfishly refused to provide it to the grand jury or anyone.

But this carte blanche on day cuts could go up to 15 days ? according to what they have in their contract.

Businesses in North Dakota definitely benefited from much warmer weather for the month according to comments from businesses in our survey. It is difficult to separate out the impacts of weather from more fundamental economic factors, but even so, our survey still points to solid growth in the months ahead.

Tom DeLay

This is a direct assault on U.S. House of Representatives, and don't be under any illusions that this is a partisan affair because according to reports, allies of the president are investigating members of both sides of the aisle.

Ricardo Lagos

This initiative is part of our plans to put Chile at the vanguard of technological development. According to our projections, Chile will need more than 200,000 Internet technicians by 2002. Cisco Systems will no doubt allow us to speed up that process,

They've asked if we could provide some parking specifically for them. But according to the zoning ordinance, we're not allowed to provide off-site parking for residential in a commercial district. It's not legal.

They unsettled us with the opening goal but we did not lose our heads as we continued to play according to our plan and this allowed us to come back and win. This was a great physical battle and the final result did not really tell the true picture of this fight.

The hole was intended to be played, according to Bobby Jones, with a three iron or stronger club (for the second shot). I was behind the ropes and Phil Mickelson hit a big driver and had a pitching wedge to the green. The hole wasn't intended to be played like that.

Andre Geim

The great esteem in which the Nobel prizes are universally held is due to the fact that for several generations they have been given purely on scientific merit and not through lobbying and politicking. I do hope that it will stay this way, and the prizes will never be given according to the number of votes in live TV contests!

Ehud Barak

The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) will deploy itself within the security zone in a way that will ensure the defense of our settlements and borders, and we will decide on the timing of the implementation of the pullout according to the overall picture of our situation,

Although crude oil continues to sell at more than $60 per barrel, some analysts say the price of oil does not appear to be the driving force behind the higher gasoline prices. Instead, they say, reduced refinery output is pushing prices upward. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, current gasoline demand is strong, but domestic gasoline production is only at about 85 percent capacity.

John Seabrook

Although a crisp texture is the single most prized quality in an apple - even more desirable than taste, according to one study - crispness is more a matter of acoustics than of mouth feel.

Agricultural land is valued according to a formula processed at North Dakota State University. They take production from 1995 to 2004, including government payments, and come up with an average value per acre.

You will not need to change your life according to it, it will be changed of its own accord.

And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit of God is? / And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Forasmuch as God hath shewed thee all this, there is none so discreet and wise as thou art: / Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.

And it was according to the appearance of the vision which I saw, even according to the vision that I saw when I came to destroy the city: and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar; and I fell upon my face.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

The market appears to have migrated from something that one could readily measure and weigh according to a fairly reliable set of fundamentals into one where the tide shifts less to natural market forces and more to what is described as the 'madness of the crowds'.

This is one (year) that's gone according to the script.

All exams are carried out according to existing rules. The medical personnel is clearly identified, and the athletes can fill (out) a form or file a complaint if the are not satisfied with the procedure. So far, no issues and complaints have been received.

A key component of President Bush's claim in his State of the Union address last January that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program -- its alleged attempt to buy uranium in Niger -- was disputed by a CIA-directed mission to the central African nation in early 2002, according to senior administration officials and a former government official.

A judge's decision is to be to be fair, impartial and not according to a whim or fear of the latest opinion poll,

And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families.

And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.

And the children of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.

And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man of God, ward over against ward.

And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper; / And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah; / And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

A radical is a prodigal son. For him, the world is a strange place whose contours have to be explored according to one's destiny. He may eventually return to the house of his elders, but the return is by choice, and not, as of those who stayed behind, of unblinking filial obedience.

A novel I read when I was about 17 or 18 - 'The World According to Garp,' by John Irving - really made me want to become a writer. The character of Garp is a novelist, and at the time, the whole lifestyle of being a writer was hugely appealing to me.

Right now, we can make roughly 60 million doses domestically of a normal flu vaccine in a normal year, ... But according to recent research, the total amount of antigen required to immunize a person against H5N1 is four times as much as the total amount in a normal flu shot. In a pandemic, nearly everyone would need flu vaccines, but with the current version, we could immunize only 15 million Americans, just over 5% of the country.