Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jenny Shipley

I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.

I believe it would be well worth the $200 to allow each person to have a chance to vote, because this is such a crucial topic of our times.

Henry Hyde

If citizens are allowed to lie with impunity, or encourage others to tell false stories or hide evidence, judges and juries cannot reach just results. At that point the courtroom becomes an arena for artful liars, and the jury a mere focus group choosing between alternative fictions,

I feel college will help in the future by allowing me to get the first-line knowledge. Everyone should take some college courses. It can help you out in learning more about your job in the Navy and can help you with your future plans if you happen to leave the military.

Bob Kennedy

I feel healthy for a change now, ... I would have made this transition before, had my body allowed it. Now I want to see how far I can take it.

I don't think they were going to allow their team lose. We told our kids they were going to come after you.

Ben Wallace

I don't think we did a good job executing. I think we stayed on the strong side a little too much and allowed them to focus in on what we were doing.

He's not going to do anything flashy. He's not going to skate the puck end to end. He's not going to have 15 hits a game, because his body just won't allow him to do that. But he knows how to play within his means.

He's now been passed fit to play. We wanted to give him a little run out yesterday, but circumstances did not really allow it.

Henry Waxman

However, I'm disappointed that he isn't trying to find out how this scandal was allowed to happen, ... I think we need a thorough, broad and independent investigation so that we can restore baseball's credibility.

However, trawling, which would damage the seabed and its fauna, will not be allowed in the reserve,

However, there are also huge segments of the population where technology isn't so relevant to their lives, so we want to take technology out to their world. Partners like Burton allow us to take Bluetooth to entirely new spaces.

Newt Gingrich

I could hardly stand by and allow the party to cannibalize itself in that situation, and I felt it (the decision to step down) was best for all of us.

I could never in good conscience vote to allow something like this.

I chose bars because I knew that was our weak point. We followed with the beam, which is our second-weakest event. I thought if we could start on bars and get something rolling there that we'd be in good shape. It worked out perfectly. We didn't have any problems on bars. Nicole got a 7.8 without a dismount. If her foot would've allowed her to dismount, she would've gotten an 8.8.

Carl Edwards

I can't believe it, ... I wasn't allowing myself to even think of this, really. So, it's pretty cool. When I go home tomorrow it is going to be pretty neat.

I called up to the press box, because for a while I didn't see anybody there. I thought somebody was having a cookout, but we don't allow that, do we?

I don't like to lose. I like to be the best at everything I do. And I come from a family who doesn't allow me to quit.

Matt Salmon

I do not favor or support, nor will I vote for, a pathway to citizenship for people that are here who've broken the law. I would support - after we have developed a secure border - a mechanism for allowing those folks to work here in America... Everything that we should do should be based on good, sound policy and what's right for America.

Abraham Lincoln

I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and ha

Greg Brown

Collins recovered a fumble on Elk Grove's final drive to give us the ball for the last time and Cameron Ryan made a key run for a first down to seal the victory and allow us to run out the clock.

Denise Mina

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

Ursula LeGuin

comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy.

Cars are mobile. It's a relatively ridiculous system to allow partial recalls. It's a financial issue. Recalls are expensive, and automakers don't want to do them.

John Shelby Spong

I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.

Michael Morpurgo

I become my characters, and then try to allow events in the story to take their own course. I try not to play God, but to let them work out their own destiny.

Before, ranchers were taking more of their heifers to be slaughtered than they were keeping because the prices were so high that it was more beneficial to sell the animal. But, with the Japanese demand dropping off, ranchers have been able to keep those heifers for breeding, thus allowing them to rebuild their herds.

Serinda Swan

Because I did gymnastics for such a long time, it's allowed me to stay really physical, and with the krav maga and all that, I can actually do a lot of my own stunts.

Jim Calhoun

Because of all their traps and because they were allowed to be aggressive, they kept us on the outside with a lot of double-teams, stripping the ball. The way this game was called and played, they kept the ball from getting into the paint.

Charlotte is a good three-point shooting team but today we didn't do a good job of guarding them and they knocked a bunch early. We allowed them to get into a free-wheeling game and just didn't play smart.

Chandler ran the ball very well for us tonight. We changed some things at half time that allowed him and Edwards to take over on the ground.

Jerry Yang

Certainly Yahoo! wouldn't exist without the sort of environment that Stanford gave us to allow us to create it.

Certainly we've had some stints where we averaged over 25 knots for an hour, and then you're up to the 600-mile day scenario. A lot of the guys here were the first to do 500 miles, and it would be nice to get the 600 but as always we're here to win points. We keep reminding ourselves that we don't need to win this leg where perhaps other boats do, and so we mustn't allow ourselves to be pressured into pushing the boat too hard.