Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bloomberg is impressed by the speed with which the FBI and the U.S. attorney for the central district of California has acted in charging an individual they believe is responsible for perpetrating this hoax.

It's not the kind of normal thing we do, but we have done so because Microsoft is alleging the trustee acted in an inappropriate manner in terms of contacting other companies. We wanted to make crystal clear that he is obligated to be proactive.

It?s the duty of every service member to report human rights abuses. I acted in my role as a chaplain.

It's the basics presented in a pretty powerful way. It lays out the problem of global warming. They have some of the leading scientists describing the situation. They have some good case studies of businesses that have acted on it and provide some inspiration.

Craig Conroy

It's always a tough thing. He was playing so well in the beginning of the year and then his back acted up. It would have been nice to fly over with him.

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.

For our purposes, we define (William James) theory of pragmatism to mean that instead of just talking about something, you should get out and do it. An idea doesn't have a worth until it is acted upon.

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.

Isaac Newton

An object in motion tends to remain in motion along a straight line unless acted upon by an outside force.

Nikos Kazantzakis

all these days acted with responsibility and seriousness over the matter.

the employer ought to be given the benefit of the doubt here if they have acted in a reasonable way.

The coastal migration theory has yet to be proven with hard evidence, but we have been finding earlier and more widespread evidence for coastal settlement around the Pacific Rim. The fact that productive kelp forests are found adjacent to some of the earliest coastal archaeological sites in the Americas supports the idea that such forests may have facilitated human coastal migrations around the Pacific Rim near the end of the last glacial period. In essence, they may have acted as a sort of kelp highway.

Larry Gelbart

You could say the network was beating up on you, and he acted as a very benign and positive kind of chief justice.

Janet Weiss

You can ride your bike to anywhere in Portland if you want to. I think there was a charming underdog mentality when I first moved here in the late '80s that is definitely gone. People acted more like underdogs, dressed more like underdogs.

Peter Greene

The market has acted well and longer-term, the trend remains positive. But right now there's some exhaustion,

Rick Barnes

I'm not going to take anything away from them because I thought they beat us in every way you could be beaten today. From looking at my team out there, I thought they acted like it was going to be (like the first game) again.

Garrett Gomez

This was the first time he was running against these kind of horses, and he had been off for a while. With the combination of the two, I really didn't know what to expect. He acted like he was getting a little tired at the top of the lane, but he switched leads and found another gear.