Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ari Fleischer

If you allow those who are the most vocal and most antagonistic to get a meeting with the president for fear that publicity will hurt you if you don't, you're creating incentives for your critics to become even more antagonistic and more vocal. Then, you're forever stuck in: Will you or won't you meet? You'll no longer lead. You'll just wrestle with meetings.

If you allow them to, they'll try to score as many runs as they can. They'll come right after you.

If you allow Lindsay to front you, you'll get in foul trouble. You can't double team her because of their 3-point shooters. You have to play some honest defense.

If you allow him to get off, he can definitely hurt you.

If you have an application exposed to the Internet that will allow people to make money, it will be probed.

If you have a 70 to 80 percent plant-based diet, it will allow for a low-fat diet. If a person eats fruits, veggies, legumes, and grains, they will be healthier, and weight-loss will follow.

If you had too many elk, deer and mountain goats in a given unit, they eat the vegetation and they would actually destroy their own habitat if we allowed them to grow without check.

Christopher Wills

If you damage a forest a little bit, the forest can recover. Even damaged ecosystems can be restored to their former diversity through natural processes if they are allowed to do so.

Manny Acta

If you're going to get hurt, you're going to get hurt, whether you're in spring training or the World Baseball Classic. But I want everybody to understand, we're not going out there only trying to win and forgetting about our players. We have a responsibility to the organizations that are allowing the players to play, and we're also going to try to get them ready for the regular season.

If you're really, really conservative, then you start with a very strong attitude that companies should be allowed to do whatever they want and the government shouldn't interfere with that. If you fix prices, that's a different story, but we're talking about behavior that isn't clear cut like price fixing.

If you're not ready to go in and fight, we won't let you in. There's been others who thought they were ready and we didn't allow them to fight, so they left us, but we're not going to put our guys in the ring if they're not ready.

Joanna Newsom

If you are too serious, you are in danger of having everything taken at face value, instead of being allowed to have layers to it.

If you look at the season stats, we're about even (with opponents) in hits, but in earned runs we've actually allowed fewer. But we are way up in errors.

If you just allow passions of the day to rule in the decision-making process, I?m under the opinion you?re almost sure to make a bad decision.

Marcus Miller

If you listen to Donny Hathaway, he had a lot of jazz elements in the way he sang, ... For me, the two styles borrow from each other so much that sometimes it's hard for me to make a distinction. When you hear Lalah sing the combination, that's when she really shines -- when she's allowed to dip into her jazz when she wants to and then get soulful and do the R&B thing.

If you look at us at the beginning of the year, we were inexperienced and lacked a true point guard. We've been able to improve ... and that's allowed us to do more things offensively.

Gregg Williams

If you could have those two runs back. But you can't. Normally, we take those plays away. We cannot allow those long runs on defense. We've got to finish those tackles. We did so many things well that we thought we had to do to take away a very good running game. Those plays are going to be hard to stomach.

In this case, exercising the discretion that Congress is now encouraging us to exercise, the FBI has determined that allowing the recipient to disclose its identity, and only its identity, will not harm the national security or interfere with an ongoing investigation.

Andy Hertzfeld

In those days I was a grad student in computer science and I liked to get to the bottom of all the systems I worked on, but you weren't allowed to.

Jo Ann Emerson

In the U.S., we cannot allow our competitiveness to suffer, and neither must we forget about the resources and the resourcefulness of rural America.

In the U.S., Americans are terrified of Big Brother. Yet we have no problem allowing lots of Little Brothers, such as the credit card companies, to have our information indefinitely. So now we have thousands of Little Brothers and the Internet giving us hundreds of new ways to track people.

In the upcoming season, England will be the only national association ever, and for the last time, that will be allowed to have five clubs.

In the theater business, we're risking so much all the time we felt if we could bring somebody in who had a regional following and eliminate some of the risk, it would be the perfect fit to allow us to do other things.

In the first half, we looked like a team that hadn't played much all summer, ... John Glenn outworked us in the first half and we played horribly. At halftime, I told them they needed to step up, especially on defense. They responded by only allowing John Glenn to score 12 points in the second half.

Alana Beard

In the first half, we allowed them to do whatever they wanted,

In the last three games the conditions were very wet and this has not allowed us to play our backline ploys that we have put in place so we are hoping for dry weather and a chance for our backs to prove their worth.

In the film, the crew actually followed them on the run, which allowed us to fill in Rick's thoughts while his father runs.

In the future, we will allow market forces to play a bigger role in setting the exchange rate, but we can never rule out market interventions.

In the future, small businesses will get automatic integration with our E-Business Suite for large companies, allowing them to do business much more cost-efficiently and effectively.

In the course of the interview, these officers felt like this individual may be operating the vehicle under the influence. They felt it best at that time to conduct a series of tests that would allow the officers to determine whether or not she was driving under the influence.

In the course of 14 years, I've run legislation for a half-dozen public-owned, privately operated facilities to allow them to serve alcohol, ... It's not unusual.

In the end, being the writer on set is a bit like having organised a big party, but you're not allowed to eat or drink anything. You just have to stand in the corner.

Syed Noor

In the large ancestral home, he lived in one room and the body was kept in another one. He had made it clear to us that the body should be buried only after his death. He was so eccentric that he would not allow anybody to even look at the glass casket in which the body was kept.