Famous Quotes & Sayings

Raymond Kelly

For some, the very act of intelligence gathering seems illegitimate when applied to the crime of terrorism.

Typically, when new standards are established, they're applied for future buildings.

Tremendous pressure was applied on both the Agriculture Department and the USDA to go to a Plan B.

We've been getting sick for 25 years around here. But to see him and how much he loves the team and wants to win for this club, that was one of the biggest things he had going for him when he applied for the job.

When Target applied to open its industrial bank in 2004, we didn't get a single comment from the public. We've gotten 4, 000 letters and witnesses for the Wal-Mart application. The majority are negative. But popularity is not a criteria for an industrial bank.

We investigated this report. He was able to exploit a known security flaw that we were able to patch. The patch had not yet applied to the server.

We received information from Bristol police that an incident may have occurred here. We applied for a warrant for his arrest. He was brought from incarceration to court to be served the warrant.

You always learn something that can be applied to the next event or following year. No event ever goes off without a hitch, but we were able to keep it internal and the spectators or participants didn't notice.

Hannah Kent

I applied for funding to embark on an overseas field trip in Iceland, and spent six weeks there happily holed up in the national archives, museums and libraries, sifting through ministerial and parish records, censuses, maps, microfilm, logs, and local histories.

The precautions we take with dangerous chemicals should also be applied to seemingly innocuous items, such as Tylenol, cold remedies and even vitamins. Pill vials should be securely closed, hidden away and stored at a height young children can't reach.

Donald Rumsfeld

The pressure applied on terrorists and insurgents is having an effect,

Steve Bruce

The problem we have is that we are too honest in the Premiership. The rules are applied to the extreme. We all know the referee was right under the laws to show the red card, but I'm convinced he would rather have shown just yellow. It killed the game as a spectacle because in the first half hour I thought we were fractionally the better side.

Nobody else has applied for it. There isn't any reason we shouldn't get it.

Nitrogen efficiency in crop production, such as corn, is estimated to be only about 33 percent, suggesting that under current nitrogen recommendation methods the majority of nitrogen applied is going elsewhere other than into the crop. On top of that, it's becoming more of an economic penalty to over-apply nitrogen.

Mike Lowry

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

We have tracked those who have stayed and have applied for benefits, but I don't think there were that many of them. There just weren't that many who have stayed.

Unfortunately, this is not that uncommon. So I kind of applied my creative thinking skills and my engineering skills to the problem.

Donald Trump

Thousands and thousands of guys applied to be on the show, ... Some of them were crazy. Some of them were so much into themselves.

I went to Harvard College and determined right away when I was a junior that I was unemployable, since I think I applied to 300 jobs and didn't get any of them, so I decided that I would stay in school and go to Harvard Business school, and that's my background.

Antonin Scalia

I saw nothing amiss in that friendly letter and invitation, ... I surely would have thought otherwise if I had applied the standards urged in the present motion.

I rushed to him and applied the Heimlich maneuver. After he recovered, he thanked me and introduced himself as Robert Chu.

Over the last 20 minutes they really applied the pressure. The game ended with them in our goal area.

That doesn't happen in 99 percent of the companies in this country. Even companies who applied to our top 50, if you look at the bottom of the list, very few African-Americans, Latinos or women stand an equal chance of being promoted.

My wife and I came to Canada for the 1994 Commonwealth Games and we really liked the B.C. lifestyle and environment. The following year we applied to become permanent residents. We moved here in 1996 after the Atlanta Olympics.

John Roberts

Well, beyond that, it's settled as a precedent of the court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis. And those principles, applied in the Casey case, explain when cases should be revisited and when they should not. And it is settled as a precedent of the court, yes.

We can see a route whereby our existing capability is applied to others' customers and back-office costs and operating synergies can be achieved,

Celso Amorim

What you have in our proposal is real cuts in applied levels,

Lev Vygotsky

Somehow our society has formed a one-sided view of the human personality, and for some reason everyone understood giftedness and talent only as it applied to the intellect. But it is possible not only to be talented in one's thoughts but also to be talented in one's feelings as well.

Karen Finerman

I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.

We didn't want the RICD to be the reason we created the water park. We wanted the water park to be the reason we applied for the RICD.

The real challenge is to make sure that these provisions will be applied and enforced worldwide, just like the international provisions designed to secure safety at sea.

Elizabeth Kenny

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

Tim O'Reilly

We want to show how technology can be applied to fix our problems. We need to celebrate not just success but to celebrate people who make a difference. It starts with people who do things for love, with no expectation of return. Some of that turns into enormous financial success, and then some of it goes back into doing it for love.