Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is too risky to have a substitute like him. You never know what he is up to next. We have advised him many times to stay cool. However, he usually acts on the contrary.

It is too early to draw conclusions. Greek prosecutors are investigating the possible illegal acts linked with the presence in the Getty of the Greek antiquities.

They earn that trust and build it over a period of time. That starts building that partnership, the partnership being that the community acts as the eyes and ears of the community, so the police department depends on that.

Michael Chertoff

This practice acts as an enticement for additional border crossers, ... It's unacceptable.

There was lap dancing with a fair amount of cash floating around the floor with the dancers, leading quickly into sexual acts in a nature so explicit imagination wasn't necessary.

There were people sentenced before and after my client whose acts were far worse who didn't receive a fraction of what we did.

There were layers of reasons why we did the re-recordings, but one was that we could hand over our tracks and let new acts we rated do something interesting with them.

The report provides extensive data on domestic institutional capacities to prosecute the alleged perpetrators of criminal acts against the voting and elections process - committed during the 2005 Local Elections - and a detailed analysis of the prosecutions undertaken and sanctions imposed.

Simon McBurney

The repeated action of working and playing acts like a trowel that uncovers a hidden structure under the earth. It is an action that deepens and develops.

There's a huge conviction in the Wall Street community that this will be a successful, surgical, short-lived military incursion. That it will not cause any collateral damage to oil fields, that it will not destabilize Middle Eastern governments and that it will not lead to acts of terrorism in the United States.

Young people really live on the Internet, and a lot of these bands are being marketed on the Internet -- they're able to bypass the traditional methods. In some ways, these young pop acts are being marketed like indie rock bands because the bigger media tends to be more conservative and less open to change.

This is due partly to the fact that Americans are much better fed than Europeans, and partly to the undeveloped resources of a new country, but more largely to our climate, which acts as a constant stimulus.

This is a new venture. (A judge says) even though it looks like a slot machine and acts like a slot machine, it's not really a slot machine.

This is the first experiment to show that chimps don't share the same concern for the welfare of others as do humans, who routinely donate blood ... volunteer for military duty and perform other acts that benefit perfect strangers,

And these horrible acts almost always include terrible death and destruction,

An investigation continues but at this point there is no evidence of improper acts by any specific individual or slate of candidates. I urge all parties to the election process to refrain from accusations against other candidates.

Shaun O'Hara

Eli's not a scream-and-shout guy. He's a quiet, lead-by-example type. Won't say much, but when he does, it means something. He doesn't just talk to talk. He's just the most humble guy in the world. He's got the Manning name on his back and he's the No. 1 pick, which means he carries around all those expectations, but he never acts like anything but one of the guys in this locker room, never puts himself on any pedestal.

William Shakespeare

Each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.

The resort will not commit illegal acts at the direction of government officials including those who have no jurisdiction in the matter.

There was a feeling of too many uncivil acts on campus. This was to inform the floors and have the floors take a stance that this is not acceptable.

Boris Yeltsin

A total of 1,580 people, the civilian population, suffered as a result of the bloody wave of terrorist acts that swept over Moscow and other towns and villages of our country.

Concerns about higher interest rates and the yield on the 10-year note may keep stocks on the south side again this morning. The higher yield ... acts as a tax on corporations, and it may also attract money to the bond markets from equities.

Hu Jintao

We should all oppose acts of encroachment on other countries' sovereignty, forceful interference in a country's internal affairs, and willful use or threat of military force,

Laura Bush

view the rise of democracy in Iraq as a powerful threat to their ambitions. In this, they are correct. They believe their acts against our coalition, against international aid workers and against innocent Iraqis will make us recoil and retreat. In this they are mistaken.

Donald Kennedy

We are very, very thankful for the acts of kindness.

Javier Solana

We are going to continue to damage as much as possible those units that are responsible for the criminal acts that have taken place in Kosovo,

Ben Lovett

I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.

Ben Lovett

There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.

Very talented but very dedicated, accomplished musician. The way he goes about his music business, he looks at this as a business. He wants to become a professional player and he acts that way.

You have to see it to believe some of these trapeze acts they do. There's a school in China that trains them. They are very diligent.

Bob Geldof

You have to really pick and be careful about what is going to get you the biggest mass audience where you could talk about the conditions of the poor people in Africa. That's what we're doing. If you can suggest to me British blacks acts that should be one, that sell in the same quantities as the bands we've got, fine.

You get better control and it acts more like a pancreas.

Pankaj Mishra

Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.