Famous Quotes & Sayings

I think we've allowed ourselves in this society to become a little bit arrogant. People have all sorts of reasons that they live in poverty, and pulling yourself up by your bootstraps isn't always an option. It's too often that we sweep something away when we come upon something better. We need to remember that the person struggling to get by has value too.

I think we started a little scared. We allowed too many guys to get on base and it caught us. Austin Peay is always ready to play.

Billy Duffy

I think what was great with the Cult was that we were allowed to evolve. We made different types of records, which was interesting. You play 'Love' and 'Electric' back to back, and they're really not that similar.

Graeme Smith

I think what I feel and what I'm allowed to say are two different things, so I think I'm just going to sit on the fence.

Brent Spiner

I think as time has gone on, they've been pleased to find it not at all limiting role and probably the most wide open role in terms of what I am allowed to do.

Bret McKenzie

One of the mistakes I made was thinking chickens and penguins could sing, just like all the other animals in the 'Muppets.' But it turns out those animals are not allowed to sing words.

Wolfgang Ketterle

Explorations into chemistry were done in our basement, sometimes with friends, and my parents must have had quite a bit of confidence in my abilities when they allowed me to experiment with explosive mixtures.

Alex Gibney

I am furious at the way that we have allowed money to subvert our democracy. I am appalled at the way that the U.S., a very wealthy nation, permits and even encourages a level of poverty that other wealthy nations would not even consider.

Andrew Nikiforuk

Oil has allowed us to think about economics as though energy doesn't matter.

We're not done yet. We want this to be the premier park in the league if not the state (outside of Milwaukee and Appleton). The fans and sponsors have allowed us to do that.

The only reason that second load was allowed to come here was because the other plant they were delivering to shut down, saying they had enough crab. I had to get permission from the National Marine Fisheries Service (to take the delivery).

We sent Ahmed to Australia for tests in October and a letter from bowling expert Daryl Foster, which we have received on Thursday, showed not all of his deliveries were beyond the allowed limits.

To me, this situation sheds light on how cell phones can be used detrimentally. The state statute says they are allowed to have cell phones on campus. I think it would be better if they did not bring cell phones to school.

Yeah, but I don't think it was because of us. There was a lot of cocaine on the console-and it wasn't necessarily the band's. That was a problem. And we weren't allowed any input on the mix.

We recognize users should have a place to ride but we're not under the illusion that will take away the problem. There are two types of users, and for some, riding where they aren't allowed is part of the mystique and thrill.

We used an e-sourcing model for the bid. This allowed us to present one company to the carrier base as opposed to a fragmented approach.

We shouldn't fall off like that and we did a little bit. Maybe we weren't prepared. We have to work with those guys a little bit more on our part. The effort was there, they played hard, we just lined up wrong a couple of times and allowed them to have a few big plays late in the game.

Gary Numan

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

Bonnie Bassler

I realized that lab research was the perfect path for me. It allowed me to spend every day figuring out mysteries/puzzles that have to do with what make us alive. What could be a bigger mystery or puzzle?

Andrew Motion

When you're being looked at very hard, it's very hard to look back. And that made me stop paying attention to the world in a way that allowed me then to write about it.

I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause.

Stephen Furst

One of the key things I did to stay on my diet is I never allowed myself to get hungry. As soon as I got hungry, I'd eat healthy foods.

Henry B. Eyring

Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.

Heidi Klum

For me, my No. 1 priority in life was to always have a family. If I had not been able to work anymore, then that would have been it. I would definitely choose family over career. It's really great that my field has allowed me to work and let me do things that a woman does naturally.

Geoff Smith

We were taken by complete surprise by their remarks last weekend. We felt like we wanted to make it an intellectual issue if we were allowed to.

David Bowens

We've got to find a way to win. We gave up too many points, too many costly penalties. We allowed too much in the run game. That's all on us. The guys are busting to play hard and win. But we've got to play smarter, smarter than that.

Bobby Petrino

We've got to do a better job of playing the ball when we're downfield. And then we did have some communication mistakes defensively that allowed them to get some big plays.

Bobby Petrino

We've got to do a better job of playing the ball when we're downfield, ... And then we did have some communication mistakes defensively that allowed them to get some big plays.

Al Groh

The only statistic we look at on defense is points allowed, and on defense we allowed 12 points. That's a pretty darn good night.

Dasha Zhukova

Most museums in Moscow, like Tretyakov, were established by philanthropists, whose passion for art allowed the development of culture on many levels.

Davey Havok

It's a wonderful side effect of what we're doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

Bob Edwards

With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, ... I always thought that the strength of radio was its diversity. It has always had so many voices. When I was a kid, the maximum amount of radio stations that you were allowed to have in your ownership group was five. Now you have one company that owns 1,250 stations. That's just wrong.

Jeff Gordon

While it's still early to tell, 2005 could very well be the vintage of the decade for Washington state. Mother Nature was definitely on our side this year, delivering one of the warmest summers we've had in recent years, cool and constant fall weather and a frost-free harvest. This allowed the fruit to hang on the vine longer and enhance flavor development.