Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Bunning

I and millions of fans think that's pathetic, ... It's obvious to everyone in this room that baseball and the players only act when Congress threatens you.

I am very sorry and I deeply regret my actions on Sunday. In the heat of a tense game, I lost my head and made a bad decision. I'm not making excuses for my actions and I take full responsibility for what I did. I want to take this opportunity to apologize to Loren Stokes, who I have great respect for. I also want to say I'm sorry to Hofstra University's players, coaches and fans. They played a terrific game and that should not be overshadowed by what I did.

Certainly, the antitrust actions against Microsoft and Intel have raised the visibility of the industry substantially.

Certainly seeing more merger and acquisition activity going on encourages people too because it's a signal to them that things are undervalued.

Certainly merger and acquisition activity will pick up. There are many small- and medium-size companies that need to consolidate to compete, especially in Italy.

Certainly Katrina eliminated boating activities in that part of the Gulf Coast, but for West Marine, 15 stores were directly affected by the hurricane. Last year, they had 60 stores in the path of major hurricanes, and it affected earnings by about a penny. At least with respect to the hurricanes, it should be less (of an impact) than what happened last year.

Ron Francis

Certainly, I wouldn't be opposed to any of that if the right opportunity came along, I would certainly look at it. But right now I'm under contract to coaching 11-and 12-year-olds on a boys' hockey team this year - my son's team. Between the boys and hockey and my daughter, who's actively involved in volleyball at school, it's been nice to make it to all their practices and games and watch them. It's been fun being with them.

David Newman

Certainly it's a juggling act when it comes to scheduling tennis. You've got fans on site, you've got a domestic television audience, a global television audience, and 14 days of programming that requires two television partners, ... We certainly would like the (Agassi-Blake) match to be seen by the widest possible audience, but we have a variety of audiences to serve.

John Browning

Certainly 1998 was worse than we expected. We saw the oil price falling at the beginning of the year and we took quick action to recognize that falling price and it kept falling,

Certain comments and actions in the build-up to the England and Poland games have made my position within the Welsh squad untenable for the time being.

Chris Jones

Certain cities are poised to become satellite commercial centers. White Plains is analogous to Stamford in Connecticut and New Brunswick in New Jersey. But New Rochelle will probably never reach that level because it's not as centrally located, and it doesn't have the critical mass of commercial activity to begin with.

Cliff Sloan

Certain characteristics about 'Marbury v. Madison' are, I think, indisputable. Marbury was the first Supreme Court decision ever to strike down an act of Congress as unconstitutional. Marbury stands for the authority of the Supreme Court to have and to exercise that power.

certain acts but didn't commit any criminal acts.

CEOs will rarely admit it in public, but privately they say they're worried about having enough qualified people to fill leadership roles as baby boomers retire. So more big companies now are actively analyzing where the gaps are likely to be, and which skills they need to be giving people the chance to develop right now.

Francis Bacon

Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new.

David Johnson

Celestial Gold will have to find a few pounds to be in with a real shout but he does act on the course, which is a big help.

Tom Ridge

Celebrity or unknown, our job is to act on information that others have given us,

But we shouldn't act as though the private sector doesn't have its act together and the government does. There are also significant vulnerabilities in government.

Craig Stevens

But we really need to look at the Port Arthur region and other areas directly impacted, ... It may still be two or three days before we get a sense of the actual picture.

But we can act and not react, ... We need to know where we are going before we can make decisions.

But when oil goes up, stocks go down. Crude prices have to crash, but it won't happen until about six weeks after the election. We'll see a lot of activity no matter who's in the White House.

But those filters are no longer made of cotton. There are over 90 active toxins in cigarette filters. And because they're light, they can travel by wind or water and get into water systems. They're little, but lethal.

Lou Gramm

But it was moving so fast that we didn't have time to dwell upon it, we went from an opening act to headlining, and we were out touring a long time.

But they are by no means yet approaching the levels of activity seen in 2004.

But the Taliban are still active in the area, so are drug traffickers, ... NATO must send more troops than are currently operating in the north today. We are discussing with NATO what those additional forces should be.

But the strongest factor by far is water temperature. If the temperature drops, walleye activity will slow along with it.

But these things tend to be cyclical. I'm sure action is going to make a comeback.

But there's a yellow light for inflation, since they show unused capacity has come down. That, combined with high prices for fuels will force the central bank to act with a lot of caution.

Tim Brown

But there is a shortage. And that's one of the issues that were discussed at a recent legislative meeting. And that shortage still remains until we can at least get some programs a little bit further along into active mode, which we expect very shortly.

But the reality is H5N1 activity in a certain place does not mean that we will see a pandemic start there. It could start anywhere. And as always, poorer nations are more vulnerable to disease than wealthier ones.

But the real engine of the Coast's resurrection will be the powerful tax incentives provided by this legislation, principally the accelerated depreciation and private activity bonds.

William Rehnquist

But the greatest injury of the 'wall' notion is its mischievous diversion of judges from the actual intentions of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. . . . The "wall of separation between church and state" is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.

Businesses are regaining confidence to the point where they are now actively hiring new workers.