Famous Quotes & Sayings

There was a contagion of ordinances. Many small towns expelled the black population or decreed a policy of not allowing any blacks.

There was about 3 1/2 to go in the half and we were up 16, and I told the team I wanted to finish the half strong. And the reverse happened. We allowed No. 21 (Utah's Shaun Green) to break loose. He was 1-for-1. We had a little discussion about that at the half. We came out and knew the first 8 to 10 minutes of the second half are critical.

Some times lack of success is just lack of experience. So what we have to figure out with the young guys is what was missing. Was it a command issue? Was it related to emotional distress? Or were there some things physically that they weren't doing that didn't allow them to be successful.

Sometimes (money) doesn't allow you to look at what's most important to you.

Jamie Cullum

See, in the rock bands and stuff I was in, I'd always been a fairly animated performer, but when I played jazz, I wasn't sure whether I was allowed to do that, you know?

Seeing some of the guys run around out there not getting touched made it hard to stand out there and watch. I want to help the team and go out and have fun, but I'm not allowed to do that yet.

Russia would prefer to rebuild trust rather than allow it to further corrode. That's why, in July 2007, President Putin, in the spirit of strategic openness, proposed a truly collective effort at missile defense for Europe.

Saddam Hussein should change his mind and allow the U.N. to do its job.

Saddam Hussein is a congenital liar, and he cheats and he steals and he cannot be allowed to defy the international community,

Ryan's a young, refreshing guy with a great sense of comic timing and freeness. He's able to express himself and be creative about allowing himself to find something new to perform every night.

Root pruning. This is a lot quicker than digging a trench around each tree and just as effective in producing a root ball full of roots. We will leave these trees in their holes for another year to allow the roots to grow, then harvest them for sale.

Ron Carey did not put hundreds of thousands of dollars of his own money back in the Teamsters' treasury to allow a couple of schemers to steal that money.

Mary McDonnell

Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

Sadly, today our borders are a sieve, allowing illegal immigrants to pour into the country,

Scott Turow

'Reversible Errors' is about the limits of the law to define who committed ultimate evil, to define what ultimate evil is, to allow the million arbitrary factors to make this a meaningful punishment, and finally to say, 'Are we really accomplishing what we wanted to accomplish? Are those anxieties relieved?' I don't think so.

Peter King

Right now we should all put our guns away and allow Newt and the leadership to negotiate with the president.

Right now they're stigmatized as undesirables and told they're not wanted in Cuba. They're very much wanted here, and we hope they'll be allowed to return and are counting on the U.S to use its best efforts to help them get back where they belong.

Jim Talent

Predators routinely represent themselves as someone else on the Internet to entice kids and our law enforcement should be allowed to represent themselves as someone else to protect kids, ... If a predator thinks he's meeting a minor and a law enforcement official shows up instead, federal law should allow for a conviction. Our legislation makes clear that law enforcement can patrol the Internet to help make it safer for our kids.

P.P.COM should have protected every pre-paid or fixed-price customer with a firm contract from a supplier. No one in the industry should be allowed to put its customers' welfare at risk by speculating on oil prices.

Presidents of the United States don't allow themselves to be pushed around.

Sales move too fast for us to allow that.

Scholarships are important to students for two reasons: They help defray the costs of tuition and they allow students a reward for their hard work and dedication to education." ()

Joe Biden

Saudi Arabia has allowed training on its soil of American forces.

Mariella Frostrup

Saturday and Sunday mornings are the only time the children are allowed to turn on the television.

Scandal is merely the compassionate allowance which the gay make to the humdrum. Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

Proposition 76 would override the voter protection on local government funding, ... Nothing else would allow anyone to dip into those funds.

Scott Bakula

'Quantum Leap' gave me a huge opportunity as an actor. The nature of the role and it's demands allowed people to perceive me as a versatile actor, and the wide success of the show around the planet gave me a certain notoriety that helped me get other work.

Q4 of 2005 was a great close to an exceptional year. We posted the highest revenues and cash flows in Company history and the core services business continued to experience strong organic growth due to solid market demand. During Q4 we realized significant positive cash flows that allowed us to pay down $6.3 million of our bank debt. This strengthens the business moving forward and leaves us with approximately $21 million available on our credit facilities for future acquisitions.

Q4bis is extremely pleased to have attained Gold Certified Partner status. Being a Gold Certified Partner in the Microsoft Partner Program allows us to clearly promote ourselves to customers as having proven expertise in providing high-quality data warehousing solutions. The incremental benefits provided through our Gold Certified Partner status will allow us to continue to enhance offerings that we provide for customers.

Earl Blumenauer

put the investment into transit and bike paths, into walking and buses, and allowing people to live downtown as well as just work and shop there.

Pulse lasers allow the sending of very bright light very far, very quickly.

David Schneider

Prudently underwritten alternative mortgage products have also allowed some borrowers who might otherwise have been precluded from participating in the housing market to purchase homes.

Providence has been so indulgent to us as to allow of but one venomous reptile of the serpent kind in these kingdoms, and that is the viper.