Famous Quotes & Sayings

This letter should be judged for what it is ? a statement made at a moment of understandable frustration which, in the end, has never been and will never be acted upon.

This kind of news makes the market feel better for the moment, but when you're in this kind of bearish trend, some small concession isn't going to reverse direction. A lot of people thought Bush should have acted sooner. Even with this moving forward, the market has other things to worry about, like the economy, corporate profits and Iraq.

Instead of the Air Force acting as an independent reviewer of this nearly $30 billion deal, they've acted as a silent business partner of Boeing.

In my opinion, it was just total self-destruction. We acted like we had never played a game of football before. How many times is Herrin going to run the mid-line? They're going to run it 20 to 25 times a game and we let the first one go for 70 yards and a touchdown.

In my opinion, DLJ acted in a completely irresponsible fashion in selling a retired couple's bonds and putting them in an aggressive stock portfolio.

Investors, surprisingly, acted rationally this quarter and had low expectations.

Ezekiel Emanuel

In the 1950s and 1960s, many parents were generally standoffish with their male children and acted as if they were raising a generation of would-be soldiers. I remember some of my friends' parents who would shake their children's hands at bedtime.

He acted out of conviction and showed great courage when he stood up for the rights of all Americans.

He acted like he'd been there before. He was phenomenal.

Jane Withers

He acted like a little kid and when someone acts like a kid, I treat them like one, ... I didn't put up with any guff, and because of it, we had a very warm relationship.

He acted like a gentle breeze, but his impact on us was definitely larger than life.

He acted like a champion. I guess I'm partial to him--he helped me out of that.

Fabio Capello

He acted in the same way as he has always done,

He acted honorably, as far as I'm concerned.

He acted as though he didn't know where he was, and he immediately got the attention of the producers and the director of the film. He was chosen for the part on that basis -- they didn't know what to think of him. They were astounded by him.

He really acted like he was coming in to talk with a group of people he had known all his life. It has been a pleasure and an honor to be elected as mayor of Picayune over the years, but I believe one of the highest honors I have received is that I got to be introduced to the president of the United States,

He pushed it, pushed it and pushed it until it was an election year and then acted like he'd never heard of it.

Michael Chiklis

He oversaw the production from a distance. He had casting approval, and script approval. So he acted as the big man on the mountain.

Jacques Chirac

I felt they acted frivolously because entry into the European Union implies a minimum of understanding for the others,

If evil is being acted upon in the world, everybody has an obligation, especially if only you had the power. Only we understood the technology. Only we could defeat this guy.

Hun Sen

I can assure you that the demonstrators had a number of agent provocateurs who were anything but peaceful and that our security personnel acted with great restraint, acting forceful only when forced to do so by the mob,

Arlen Specter

I certainly would not want to see a situation evolve where some intervening event occurred which might have been prevented had Congress acted more promptly,

I'd say, really, late January or early February is when we got our rotation down. I think the most exciting thing about Marissa and Kristi is they haven't played or acted like freshmen.

Richard Shelby

I believe it will be some time before we have a true understanding of the actual damages and recovery needs in the region, ... We have already acted and will continue to act in the Senate, on both sides of the aisle, to make sure the victims have everything they need to be made whole, to be back on their feet, make no mistake about it.

By and large the industry has acted in good faith. And (the Clipped Tag) is an example of that. It is an elegant reaction to concerns that are vastly overblown.

Ian Mckellen

Before I ever acted as an amateur - which I did a great deal at school and at university - I used to go to the theater with my parents in the north of England, where I was born and brought up... Theater of all sorts.

Jan Schakowsky

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

Henry Hyde

In doing this, William Jefferson Clinton has undermined the integrity of his office, has brought disrepute on the presidency, has betrayed his trust as president, and has acted in a manner subversive of the rule of law and justice, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States,

I'm happy the governor acted in a timely fashion in naming the members. Now we can get to work.

David Pierce

I had always acted for fun, and I wanted to do that. I really didn't have the talent. I loved to play, but that's a whole different level.

I really thought my first two (takers) were sure goals and that is why I put them in there, but my last two guys are really good players, but (scoring goals) is not their job. We acted as a team and played as a team, and that is how we got a result.

Antonio Davis

I know I should not have acted the way I did, but I would have felt terrible if I didn't react.

In this context the imposition of sanctions on our firms, which in our view have not acted in violation of our laws or regulation, is not justified.