Famous Quotes & Sayings

That said, if we allow ourselves to be intimidated and silenced by the liars, our democracy will not survive. We have to continue to confront them.

Carl Banks

That's a good thing. That's how you should look at football. If you don't have anything to compare, you start to cheer for watered-down things. If you don't have standard bearers then you're going to allow mediocrity to be looked at as great.

Brendan Morrison

That's a play we haven't been able to use much all year because the refs aren't allowing us to. They're always calling Todd for interference in front of the net during the battle. But this time he was wide open. He got great body position on their defender.

Brian Elliott

That's always a good sign when you're allowed out on the ice. I've just got to be careful to not hit any ruts (in the ice) and not do anything fancy. Just working that way, slowly, should get me back faster.

That's all it is, just rumors right now. But, we are going to take the necessary precautions at Fletcher High School. Neptune Beach is allowing two of their officers to come to assist us. We'll have our school resource officer there, who is assigned there and we'll have supervisor there.

Exiting those businesses has allowed us to continue to really invest substantially and to refine and develop our business banking strategy without any distractions.

Exiting the underperforming markets of Oregon and Washington will allow us to make investments that better serve our customers and Mervyns' future. We are confident that these decisions are right for Mervyns' future growth and success and are consistent with the strategy that we announced in September 2005.

Exactly. Crystal shoots the ball very well from the free-throw line, Pena has been at about 75 percent, and that pressure is something you really can't simulate in practice. Yes, we missed a couple, but for them to hit those, that gave us a bit of breathing room and allowed the kids to relax a little.

Ben Bernanke

Evolving technologies that allow economists to gather new types of data and to manipulate millions of data points are just one factor among several that are likely to transform the field in coming years.

Maurice Cheeks

Every time you're in an NBA game, a team is going to make a run and they're going to make some shots at some point. Early on they missed a lot of shots, which allowed us to get the lead that we had.

Armed conflicts often involve discrepancies of power between adversaries. Allowing those discrepancies to justify attacking civilians would create an immense loophole in the protections of international humanitarian law.

The kids really stepped up to the plate and played extremely well on both sides of the floor. We switched to a half-court defense, and that slowed down Johnston and allowed us to get some transition points.

The lack of information and liquidity in the shares today has allowed speculators to push the valuation to unreasonable levels.

The lack of emigration rules and regulations allowed Japan to argue for a temporary halt to emigration to Hawaii in its quest to prevent passage of a Japanese exclusion act.

The key to not allowing the rejection to sideline you is to understand that it is not personal. They are not rejecting Sabrina, the person. They are rejecting the blonde 6-foot-tall girl who isn't quite what they're looking for this day, at this casting, for this client, in this market.

The intended use of a free sample is to allow a patient to evaluate side effects and effectiveness for a couple of weeks before actually buying the drug,

The last three games, we haven't been firing on all cylinders. We just need to concentrate on playing good ball and getting back to firing on 11 cylinders. This week, we have a solid game plan, which should allow that to happen. My kids just have to be the best that they can be. I can't ask anything more of them than that.

The metro Phoenix housing market is returning to normal after an extraordinary year that allowed housing prices to rise much more rapidly than at any time in history.

The ministry will promote with its blessings the initiative that will allow the production of oil.

Jon Tester

The minimum wage initiative speaks to whether we value work. Raising Montana's minimum wage to $6.15 an hour will allow more workers to support their families, more families to make ends meet and more Montanans to go to work instead of going on welfare. That saves taxpayers money.

Their press really hurt us. We just made too many mistakes. We are getting close to where we want to be but give them credit they forced us to make mistakes and the turnovers allowed them to get into their offense.

Peter Ueberroth

The international landscape has changed and nothing less than a concerted, engaging effort worldwide will allow us to be successful.

The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

The international community shouldn't be allowing children to die when we have all the technology, all the resources to save children,

The international community is working with Libya to find an overall solution. As we have made clear before, we believe a way should be found to allow the medics to return to their homes. We'll continue to support these efforts.

The international community has been working with Libya to find an overall solution. As we have made clear before, we believe a way should be found to allow the medics to return to their home.

The interest will allow them to maintain their viewer base to the extent Lance participates in the channel. They can't be the Lance Armstrong Channel once he leaves competitive cycling.

The issues are now in the hands of the state, ... The state system must be allowed to work. But the county in a previous administration has taken care of its responsibilities.

Their defense never allowed us to get in a rhythm. We were playing a little fast, a little nervous.

The investment process is a creative process. The better investors are those people who allow themselves a degree of lateral thinking, thinking outside the box, thinking creatively.

Their inside game allowed them to get things done. We had too many scoring opportunities that we didn't respond well to.

Their whole offense didn't allow us to get into a rhythm. We didn't come out to play, we came out flat, we didn't catch back up. ... It isn't embarrassing as much as it is disappointing.

The Internet has allowed people to invade our own homes, to have conversations with our children in the privacy of our own homes without us ever knowing about it.