Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allison Tolman

I liked in television that you do some work, then you perform, then you stop and you have a break because they have to set up lights, and then you do some more work. I really liked the pace of it; it really agreed with me. I enjoyed it.

Ari Fleischer

After two years of fighting, government shutdowns and little to no agreement on anything except welfare reform in 1996, President Clinton was re-elected and decided it was time for compromise.

Andrae Crouch

I'm a pastor. I say, 'Let the church say amen,' and that settles it. Everything has been said, you know; it's like we have to agree with God.

Stephen F. Lynch

Now, given the experience that we have had thus far, with our subsequent trade agreements with NAFTA and others, you would think that with our experience of job loss that we have had there that when you find yourself in a hole that you might stop digging.

Helen Thomas

All of us who covered the Reagans agreed that President Reagan was personable and charming, but I'm not so certain he was nice. It's hard for me to think of anyone as 'nice' when I hear him say 'The homeless are homeless because they want to be homeless.'

Hassan Nasrallah

When a peace agreement is concluded between the Lebanese government and Israel, we would surely disagree with the Lebanese government about that, but we would not make any turmoil out of it.

George Will

Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.

Gerhard Schroder

The question of feasibility, the question of cost, the question of including partners elsewhere in the world, the question of the effect of this project on arms agreements - all these issues are in discussion.

Dan Savage

In an open adoption agreement, you agree to a minimum number of visits - a floor, not a ceiling. It's enforceable.

Howard Dean

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.

Dick Smith

We came into agreement that although not all of our reasoning was accepted, they did agree on part of it and said something needed to be done to fix it.

Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

When language (in the agreement) requires local labor, we want to make sure our guys have the opportunity.

Jacqueline Novogratz

When Jeff Sachs says every poor person should receive a free bed net, I agree - but in reality, many end up not receiving one. And I don't live in a world of shoulds.

While our 'pay-for-performance' executive compensation system is already structured to significantly reduce total compensation when our business performance and stock price are underperforming, we all agreed that this is the right step to take at this time.

While not that material to the company, it is a step in the right direction. The bigger opportunity to Microsoft might be to encourage corporate customers in China to sign up for enterprise agreements to help better manage the implementation of new software such as Vista and Office 2007, although we see no reason to be encouraged at this stage.

Bill Gates

While Microsoft does not share all of Sun's ambitions for Java, we agree that it is a very valuable tool for software developers.

Who will decide the quantity of our deterrence? The agreement limits the size of India's deterrence.

The people that you work with, the organizations that are committed to the same objectives. If they know that you're in it together, and you're working towards the same objectives, and you agree on how to do more with less, you can actually have a greater impact.

Ruth Rendell

I agree with what Mark Twain said - we're all mad at night.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Where they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.

We weren't able to establish an exact date and time when we will reach or sign the agreement, but certainly what was reiterated at the last monitoring committee meeting is that we are aiming to have an agreement on salaries and allowances by the 31st of March.

We walked around for two or three hours and we agreed to things and we began to work. It was very simple.

We've worked with the sheriff's department for 60 years. It's always been a verbal handshake agreement, but now it's in writing.

We've worked very hard on our relationship with the players association. The economics of the sport are strong and the current agreement has worked very well. Those three things are good reason to be optimistic we can get a new agreement without a dispute.

We were very pleased that he's faster than he was at conference last season. Our goal -- he set it, I went along with it because I agree with him -- is for him to make state. Once we're there, we want him to score in the top eight.

We don't negotiate agreements through the media. But I will say our relationship with the Town of Johnston has been fantastic and our negotiations fruitful.

We don't need to worry about the Indian nuclear tests if India has agreed not to have these weapons in the first place,

We asked the Alliance to agree to this arrangement while litigation is pending, but they refused. It left us no option but to seek a legal remedy. We want to assure that during this period it's business as usual at the Christ Hospital for the benefit of the patients, their families and our employees.

Will Carleton

We arg'ed the thing at breakfast, we arg'ed the thing at tea, And the more we arg'ed the question, the more we didn't agree

We are working past the deadline and through the night to reach new agreements with the USWA. We are encouraged by the substantial progress in negotiations but there are some remaining issues and the parties are continuing to work diligently to resolve these as soon as possible.

We are working on the details of the agreement, which may or may not be finalized in the next 24 hours.

We are working hard with the aim of reaching an agreement, and we are not thinking about failing, ... We are at the final stage of the negotiations and we are gradually getting close to turning the corner.