Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Melville

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with ourfellowmen? and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run ascauses, and they come back to us as effects.

Herman Melville

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

Sol Wachtler

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.

Brian Baird

We cannot let our nation's parks deteriorate beyond repair. It is essential that Congress act now to protect and restore our National Parks System.

Cary Sherman

We cannot ignore the growing misuse of campus LAN systems or the toll this means of theft is taking on our industry. We hope administrators will take this opportunity to fully evaluate their systems and take action to stop theft by all means.

We cannot comment further until we have a chance to review all the reports, the coach's actual statements and to speak with the coach personally.

Jose Antonio Vargas

We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation.

Frederick W. Smith

We cannot be certain right now how the events of last week will ultimately impact the U.S. and global economies, the air transportation industry and FedEx, ... Nonetheless, we see our company well positioned to significantly increase growth, profitability, returns and cash flow as the global economies improve and trading activities increase.

Robin Cook

We cannot ask British pilots to patrol the no-fly zones and not act when we see Saddam Hussein preparing to shoot them down. That is why we took the action yesterday.

Steve Spurrier

We want to play big time, so we have to act big time all year long.

We want to not only be stewards of the property, but also act as a leader by doing the right thing by current construction standards.

Pat Williams

We want to go beyond what we read in the paper about what is happening on The Hill. We all agree America's immigration policy needs work and we are urging our congressmen to take a bold, active leadership role to work toward immigration reform.

David Wright

We want to expand our investment banking activities especially in risk management and financing,

We want to err on the side of caution. We're not child psychologists so we don't know if there's a problem, but it may merit further action or intervention.

We want to ensure that energy does not become a limitation on growth. Since we have not been able to conclude a trilateral agreement, the pact would enable us to carry out actual exploration through other alternatives.

Christine Taylor

We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.

We want to emphasize other actions like municipal energy management of electricity, gas and fuel consumption.

Mahmoud Abbas

We want to do the right job at the right time because we want to act as a state, as a responsible authority. Therefore, we are following up on the subject seriously with our brothers in Egypt. Until we reach agreement, we should be patient.

We want to do it full time. It's a big commitment. Josh has been on the road before. He played with a well-known bluegrass band. He had to drive to Nashville every week and take off, then drive home from Nashville every week. We want to do it full time and we've all committed to it. At the same time, we're trying to do the balancing act because some of us are getting older, thinking about getting married and settling down later on. But right now we're all committed and right now we're pushing as hard as we can push. It's one of those things we're going to figure out as we go along.

Al Gore

We want to do all we can to encourage trade and investment here, so American businesses can be an active partner in your growth and recovery,

Liz Miller

We just don't have a good catalyst in these last few days to end us on an up note. The latest excuse is focused again on any military action in Iraq -- but certainly that's not new news and some portion of that should be discounted in this market. So, it's just these rival shots from different corporations -- today we get a little bit of better news.

We kind of overuse the words 'good kid,' but he really was the young man you wanted the kids to act like and emulate. He always had a smile on his face and a handshake for everybody that came by.

Pete Carroll

We just learning about this. At this point, this is being handled by the university's Student Affairs office, and we'll follow along with whatever action the university takes.

Through the first half of 2005, supply and demand has remained in relatively stable balance. However, compared to historical activity levels, the amount of space completed this year has been somewhat modest, but we expect the pace to quicken during the second half of this year.

Through such work, we have frightened piracy activities and established a good image for the Chinese government in intellectual property right protection.

Maurice Allais

Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community.

It would be inappropriate to comment as this is a matter of an ongoing investigation. We have been cooperating with law enforcement and the governor took action when it was appropriate to do so.

It would be helpful if someone would lay out exactly the economic mechanism that gets us from yet lower interest rates to actual economic activity.

It would open us up to workplace causes of action such as sexual harassment and hostile environment and things of that nature, ... This is the kind of thing that just can't be done in the workplace ... It runs the risk of offending people.

Michael Gudinski

It wouldn't surprise me if a few acts don't come to either Australia or just to Melbourne because Rod Laver Arena isn't available.

Tom Daschle

It would not be my assumption that the military course is the only action available to (the president) today,

Jack Balkin

It would not be (illegal) under child pornography laws because no actual child was used in the act. Child pornography laws receive special treatment under the First Amendment because children are sexually abused and people traffic in the results of that abuse.

Silvio Berlusconi

it would have been better to avoid military action.