Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence M. Krauss

One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.

Drummond Money-Coutts

I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.

The readers of these books spent a lot of time with books, they know them inside and out, ... They have very strong opinions how they should look on the screen. If you don't execute a movie they approve of, they can turn on you very quickly.

Jack Campbell

There are benefits to having people living downtown, ... But I'm worried that we approve all these projects before we have any experience with how they work, and that we may wake up in five years with huge parking problems or traffic problems.

Walter Forbes's decision and the corporate governance changes approved today end any uncertainty about the future direction and leadership of Cendant. That uncertainty was a serious impediment to conducting our business and the process of restoring trust in our company.

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

To have a censor board to read scripts and approve productions that would not only be damaging to us, it would be damaging to the state of Utah.

Jesse Ventura

We don't have to approve of (China's) human rights record to help improve them,

Ben Wallace

We're not sure we'll begin on the approved site.

We are saying if federalism is going to be approved now, it will mean the destruction of Iraq .

We are pleased that so many New Yorkers continue to strongly approve of the job Senator Clinton is doing for New York.

Alexa Von Tobel

There is no denying that auto-bill pay is easier and more convenient than keeping track of and remembering to pay all of your bills each month, so it makes sense to use it for fixed expenses that you have approved and that you're 100% comfortable with.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm married to an Italian woman, and I used to love cooking Italian at home, because it's one-pot cooking. But my wife does not approve of my Italian cooking.

Jade Jagger

We have lots of fruit trees and vegetables - we live endlessly on courgettes. I certainly wouldn't approve of a diet of McDonald's for my children.

People working together to implement new marina waste ordinances that were approved in Graham and Swain counties made this program successful.

Personally, I think everyone on the Lakeshore Committee breathed a sigh of relief once this project was completed. Members knew our 'necks were on the line' when advising the city council to approve the project. And it barely passed the city council by one vote.

I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give them a first. I had made my mind up and it had already been approved so we were going to go with that regardless.

Netscape won't do some things that Internet Explorer will do, ... But then, IE 7 is sort of a step back, so you just really need to view a page on more than one browser before you approve it.

Boris Yeltsin

I am satisfied, ... We have dragged our feet a bit. But the main thing is we have decided to approve the budget in its first reading.

Kofi Annan

I am telling the world leaders not only to come here and approve of a plan of action, but I expect them to go back home and do something about it,

E. O. Wilson

But they couldn't, because the addresses associated with their credit cards were Quackistan or something; they were in such a high-risk country that the credit card companies wouldn't approve the purchase.

Jalal Talabani

but everybody had reservations. This is part of democracy. If the people do not approve it, we will draft another constitution.

Asa Hutchinson

No one thought that the Senate would ever approve witnesses in this case. It goes to show that there's a lot of ebb and flow, a lot of shifts in momentum as people look at the evidence and weigh it and make decisions, and so I think today's vote shows the strength of the managers' case.

Now there's another layer of management that has to approve things. We'll just have to hope Home Depot will be the good corporate citizen that Hughes has been.

John Lawson

New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.

Janet Reno

Obviously, if I had thought that the chances were great for mass suicide, I never would have approved the plan,

Getting these systems approved is our top priority, and we are laser-focused on it. But Secretary McPherson can't force vendors to come forward with qualified systems.

Frankly we just thought we could not approve the project in good faith,

From what we can see, no current employee approved the trading arrangements, and that gives us a measure of comfort.

Larry King

If a state were voting on gay marriage, you would suggest to that state not to approve it?

If approved by the legislature, this budget will set in stone Governor Bush's environmental legacy.

James T. Walsh

If an adjuster looks at your house after the storm passes and sees that you made a good effort to mitigate further damage, he or she is more likely to approve the claims you make.

If Americans were to make the effort to manage their weight using a variety of options, including better nutrition, more exercise, approved medications or even surgical approaches, we would be rewarded with significantly better health,