Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brett Wallace

They are private companies in the business of making money by moving freight. So what it will come down to, as a freight rail operator, they have to be convinced that allowing passenger rail is a good business decision.

You can't help but sympathize with an employer who's trying to improve the bottom line, but allowing employers to take over everyone's private life to improve the bottom line is just not legitimate.

There were a lot of elements involved in the game. The players, the coaches, the fans particularly, allowing them to come to the game without the pressure of a storm coming down on us.

Frank Miller

There's a lot of controversy about whether we should put so much emphasis on a single set of tests. Are we allowing teachers to practice the art of education or are we teaching to the test?

David Brooks

There's a little bit more sign of government's standing back and allowing cross-border deals to happen, more tolerance on pan-European deals.

You realize that you can't win 'em all. You try to win 'em all; you get frustrated, but you gotta have a short fuse either way. Success in the NFL is just as deadly as allowing yourself to kinda wallow in sorrow. It works both ways.

This is another attempt by Bob Beers to get under Jim Gibbons' skin. If he has taken Beers' bait, that's good for Beers. It's allowing Beers to effectively control the agenda.

Jimmy Rollins

He put a couple of things into perspective, allowing me to free my swing up a little more, ... I think it's always good to hear from the opposite end of the spectrum.

Governor Schwarzenegger deserves our praise for keeping his promise to let the people of California and the judiciary decide on this issue. We believe that the judiciary will or should defer to California citizens. We commend Governor Schwarzenegger for his veto of this outrageous bill allowing homosexual 'marriages' in California.

Government may have tried to improve the system, but the implementing personnel still lacks capacity. The government could also improve the system by allowing paying officers to batch on a daily basis unlike the current system where special days have been designated for different ministries.

For the last few years, buyers often outnumbered the supply of homes for sale, allowing prices to escalate rapidly, but that's no longer the case.

I came here to show resentment to ... lesbians and homosexuals coming to our shores. I saw with my own eyes two people kissing. I'm upset with the government for allowing them to come here.

I can talk and talk about Hundley. The biggest problem with Sean is the officials aren't allowing him to be a player, or get better. They're not allowing him to finish a game. Referees are burning him. He's spending an average of eight minutes in the (penalty box). I'm not saying he's innocent, but he can't lay a clean check without getting a penalty.

Noam Chomsky

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

Vinny Testaverde

I appreciate the Jets allowing me to move on with my career. I want to thank the organization for giving me the chance to play in my hometown. It's been a great experience. We had some exciting moments on the field and memories I can take with me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Serj Tankian

By allowing this vote, and allowing the will of Congress to be freely expressed, you will be doing the right thing morally and, at the same time, encouraging Turkey to deal honestly with its past and more openly with its future,

Ryan Holmes

By allowing multiple partners to contribute, an open platform can nurture an entire ecosystem of developers and apps. Good products integrate and become great products. Users get a one-stop solution for social needs.

By allowing kids the opportunity to encounter situations common to everyday living, such as personal banking or going to the store, JA Enterprise Village brings what they learn in the classroom to life. Students will learn what it takes to run a business and the relationship between business and consumer, valuable experiences that they will use in the real world.

By allowing a camera on their journey, this family is letting the world bear witness to something very personal and we are pleased to be able to give our viewers such a distinct perspective of the Hajj.

Debbie Ford

By acknowledging, accepting, and embracing our dark side, we create natural steam vents within ourselves. By providing an opening, we eliminate the worry about an explosion because we are allowing the pressure to be released in a safe and appropriate way.

Vint Cerf

The Internet's open, neutral architecture has proven to be an enormous engine for market innovation, economic growth, social discourse, and the free flow of ideas. Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success.

The idea of allowing youngsters to stay in a school that is just withering on the vine is just terrible.

The EU should not be allowing consolidation in markets like energy where we haven't even established competition yet.

Annette Lu

The empty space must have been tightly sealed and become anoxic, allowing excellent preservation of the noodles for 4,000 years,

The guys did a really good job in front of me in not allowing a lot of prime scoring chances. We knew we wanted to rebound from our outing on Friday, and it's nice to play well like we all did.

Steven Biko

The first step therefore is to make the black man come to himself; to pump back life into his empty shell; to infuse him with pride and dignity, to remind him of his complicity in the crime of allowing himself to be misused and therefore letting evil reign supreme in the country of his birth.

The city (Fenton) is helping us by letting us move the substation onto township property, ... I appreciate the city for allowing us to do this for the sake of our residents.

Roger Enrico

The changes we made last year, especially our restaurant spin-off, are allowing us to post good earnings per share growth at the same time as we invest aggressively to build our businesses for the future,

The collapse in languages is a catastrophe. The Government is going to have to reverse its policy of allowing students to opt out at 14.