Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've been involved with college baseball for 30 years, and this is something that's always come up, but nobody's ever acted on it.

Billie Armstrong

I've been married for 11 years. When you have children, the picture changes all of a sudden, you become protective. It's an instinct, your anger: you almost act out mentally in a violent way to protect the things that mean most to you.

We were pretty active in our press tonight, and it allowed us to get into a flow and get some easy baskets.

What the governor doesn't want to see is people buying junk food out of vending machines between classes, ruining their appetite for meals, and we're hoping the state board is going to take action to stop that.

David Gill

What the clubs would like to do is look at the actual format of the Champions League run by UEFA.

Jacob Sullum

What the anti-fat activists are saying is, people don't want what they ought to want, and therefore the government has to coercively change what they want.

Mikhail Gorbachev

What the 21st century will be like depends on whether we learn the lessons of the 20th century and avoid repeating its worst mistakes - For example, it would be disastrous if we began to renew our entire system of social relations by acting like a bu

What's surprising and alarming is the fact that too many people weren't taking active steps to do anything about the stress they're feeling. People don't really appreciate how detrimental stress is and the ways they're trying to manage stress can be as detrimental, if not more so.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

When all is said and done, Nokia is primarily a mobile phone company. Any additional activities are largely incremental.

E. P. Thompson

We lose sight of the fact that this is a lawsuit under specific statutes, and that certain activities have to constitute a violation under those statutes.

Jack Straw

We look to the Iranian government to sit down with us, hear what we have to say and take action where appropriate.

We look forward to working with the Legislature to determine whether additional actions are necessary to better provide the necessary benefits for those who gave so unselfishly of themselves.

We monitor customer card activity on an hourly basis. We generally know about fraudulent purchases before the customer knows and notify them when we believe a fraudulent transaction was made.

We missed Valentine's Day by about a week. You can tell your guy you'll trade him this play for three action movies -- football or sports stories or blowing up cities. Just make a deal.

We might skirt near a recession, and this could change tomorrow ... but layoffs aside for a second, there are some positives. The government is being very active by putting liquidity back into the economy, and recent tax rebates and cuts in the tax rate have helped consumer confidence.

We have to do a little better about putting teams away. I have to create more action to take pressure off our guys.

Ehud Olmert

We will use an iron fist against any attempt to renew terror activity anywhere.

We will try to stop the military activity in Chechnya before the election,

We will take only those actions which are needed to the security of the Israelis,

We will take legal action. They want a confrontation, a clash, but it is better to take legal action against the leader, not crack down on the people.

Jim Leach

We will take a look at why it wasn't reported when it started. We will determine at that time if there is any enforcement action that's going to be taken.

We will still have activities going on and we still want people to come out.

Sean Moore

We will stay on as long as we can during a hurricane ? we now have two generators working for the station and the tower in Lake Harbor. We know a lot of what we did came after the actual storm last year, with information like what's open, etc., and we will do that again this year.

We will set up a new catalysts division where we would pool Engelhard's activities with our own existing ones.

We welcome this visit from Paul Goodman, MP, which is all about acting in partnership. By shadowing our officers in the workplace, our local MP can see at first hand how we work with local people to find solutions to housing challenges on a daily basis.

We welcome the prompt action taken by the Burnley magistrates to jail Michael Lewis for five months today.

What is wrong with people having their act together?

Corazon Aquino

What is this emergency act all about? Is it another name for martial law?

What's great is to see the Gunderson folk made it through the downturn and made it to the other side and that they are thriving and growing. They are actively recruiting here locally.

We had the Nasdaq acting poorly all day, even when the Dow and the S&P were doing well all day, ... But breadth has gotten increasingly negative. We are just seeing technical action here and higher oil is just exacerbating the move.

Nicolas Sarkozy

We will now be able to act in a preventative manner to avoid these incidents, ... The policy of the government is firm, level-headed and measured.