Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shashi Tharoor

The U.N. guards the vital principles entrenched in its charter, notably the sovereign equality of states and the inadmissibility of interference in their internal affairs. It is precisely because the U.N. is the chief guardian of both these sacrosanct principles that it alone is allowed to approve derogations from them.

The unemployment rate stood at 6.1 per cent in November - the lowest rate since mid-2001. The return to higher growth in 2006 should allow the annual unemployment rate to decline slightly in that year.

The tribe also asked the judge to allow credit for the mall property they bought for a bingo hall. The judge denied that request.

The truth is, the second goal was not a good goal. You should never allow a goal two feet from the net with a 5-on-3.

These are ideas that have been designed to fail; they will fail so the industry can say there's no demand for family programming. If you're going to have family tiers, families ought to be allowed to decide those tiers, not the cable industry.

These are decent people. We're in a situation with Cedric that's tough because of a lot of factors. I think the expectation was that this one would go smoother than the facts have allowed it to go. But we've maintained a professional approach and respect, and that's been important.

These kids were on a mission tonight. We came out strong, but had a couple periods where we let up just a little, allowing Cameron back in the game.

These kids are just getting in trouble because the whole community has allowed them to do that.

Bill Richardson

These incentives, combined with the beauty of our state and the talent of our work force, allow New Mexico to compete internationally for major film projects. We're winning movies that would have gone to Europe or Canada.

These important deals will allow us to bring concerts that would otherwise be very difficult -- or impossible -- to find on broadcast television to a wide audience.

These hooligans who were inside the police cordon are obviously allowed in by the authorities.

Ed Rendell

These funds will allow firefighters to concentrate more on public safety and training rather than having to concern themselves with constant fundraising to keep their local stations open,

It's been tough, because my body hasn't really allowed me to do the extra stuff to get me to where I want to be, conditioning-wise, ... because you spend more of the regular season just trying to recover for the next week, rather than trying to press forward to get where you need to be.

Mark Billingham

It never ceases to amaze me that readers who are willing to suspend their disbelief when it comes to the motivation of a vicious serial killer get high and mighty because I have put a coffee shop where there isn't one. Er... it's a novel. I made one up. I'm allowed to make stuff up. I'd go as far as to suggest that I make stuff up for a living.

It now goes beyond just being a tool for a system manager and will allow a business-line manager to remotely monitor Web storefront traffic, look at real-time sales database information and so on.

It is the president's prerogative whether or not to allow senior government officials to appear before any Senate or House panels.

It's a multi-year deal, ... and it's an opportunity for both Monta and Golden State to grow together. I think Golden State was amenable to doing something that was fair and generous and allowing for flexibility on both sides .... As far as the guarantees are concerned, the only thing I will say is that I'm satisfied and pleased with Golden State's attentiveness to the deal.

It's America; he's allowed to be or express his opinion anyway he wants to. You don't deserve respect, you have to go out and earn it. And until we do something to earn it then so be it.

Jay Haas

It looked like one of those guys would go crazy and run away with it. When they didn't, that allowed quite a few of us in. I was just the one that made the birdies at the end.

It looked like a problem with our shape. We were out of position and allowed two guys to be in front of our net unmarked.

Landon Donovan

It's difficult mentally, physically to always be at 100%. There are times in the year when you have injuries that may barely allow you to play, ... There may be things at home. When I have one thing to focus on, I feel like I play my best.

It seemed like, after we got the lead there, we allowed the game to speed up instead of trying to slow things down. All it takes is one mistake.

This is the first time in more than 20 years I've known a chairman not to allow a committee member to speak on a bill in committee.

This is the first step to allow Iraq to have a unity government, but it's only a first step. The question is, will the new prime minister be capable of leading the country?

This isn't a power grab. Tough decisions need tough legislation to allow us to be able to do it.

Pavel Nedved

This isn't an easy game. We can't leave anything for granted and we can't allow periods of craziness like what happened two weeks ago.

Shai Agassi

This isn't about assembling Lego blocks but rather about building a backbone that can scale and that can allow others to build on top of it.

This is not only a death, with all the sadness that brings, this is a killing. For that, we not only grieve that Terri has passed, but we grieve that our nation has allowed such an atrocity as this, and we pray that it will never happen again.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

This is really not about counting votes. It's about allowing the rule of law, checks and balances.

O. Henry

This is probably the greatest amount of change since I've been in the organization. Not allowing a school to play up without a vote by the principals has caused a lot of this change. It's funny; at one time schools would fight to change districts.

Michael Vaughan

This is probably the first time the knee has felt like a concern. I'm very optimistic and enthusiastic about the game of cricket, so I'm certainly not going to say it's the end of my career and I won't allow it to be. There's been older and better players than me that have spent years out of cricket with injury and come back pretty well, so, hopefully, I'll be the same.

Mark Zandi

This issue is a global fault line that will get exposed if all the Asian nations don't allow their currencies to appreciate vis-a-vis the dollar.

This is something that has never been tested before. Will the FTC allow BP to be the dominant producer on the (Alaskan) North Slope?