Famous Quotes & Sayings

Janet Reno

Larry Mackey is an experienced trial lawyer and an accomplished leader whose skills were instrumental to preparing and arguing the government's case in the first Oklahoma City bombing trial, ... The trial team is in very good hands.

I think he did it because he was very mad, very mad, ... Even the voices in his head said, 'Do it, don't do it, do it, don't do it,' and he stood with a loaded gun arguing with himself.

I'm shocked that we are arguing about a poison and how much of a poison we are supposed to take in.

Katsuya Okada

I did what I had to do, but it was frustrating that we were never really arguing on the same plane. I wanted to debate policy.

He didn't do much arguing of the case, but probably did a lot of the research. And then, for the Supreme Court, he even had his train ticket, but was told not to go. It must have been crushing.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

I was the first businessman to say, 'You should give tax benefit to only small companies. You should say your profits are exempt to a limit of Rs. 50 crore or so, but beyond that, you should pay taxes.' I have been arguing with successive finance ministers on this.

From what I've seen all year, that hasn't been called. It's a two-minute at best. That's the consistency factor. It's a two-minute call in every other game. Then Shawn Williams gets a two and a 10 for arguing and that hasn't been called all year.

It could be midnight and we're still arguing about a fifth-rounder. It's a labor of love. We all have passion for it and wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

John Humphrys

It contributes to it. What do you think politics is, if not arguing about principles?

He's arguing that the limit may be starting to be reached as foreign investors avoid an over concentration of their portfolios' in dollars, but that the impact would likely not be traumatic.

I don't think people are arguing about security.

Eugenie Scott

When they say 'teach the controversy' their ringing phrase they want us to pretend to students that scientists are arguing whether evolution took place. This argument is not taking place.

Peter Jackson

I have greatly enjoyed my collaborations with Howard Shore, whose musical themes made immeasurable contributions to 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, ... During the last few weeks, Howard and I came to realize that we had differing creative aspirations for the score of 'King Kong.' Rather than waste time arguing with a friend and trying to unify our points of view, we decided amicably to let another composer score the film. I'm looking forward to working with James Newton Howard, a composer whose work I've long admired, and I thank Howard Shore, whose talent is surpassed only by his graciousness.

Oliver Goldsmith

There is no arguing with Johnson; for when his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it

Robert Frost

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

There is no group arguing that the Fed has gone too far. There is a broad consensus that if the data shows rising operating rates, further moves will be needed.

Benito Mussolini

We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.

C. S. Lewis

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

James Blake

Maybe we'll be humbled a little bit. I think a lot of us need that, so maybe we'll stop arguing with the umpires.

One of the things we are arguing is that this law in unconstitutionally vague. It bans burning any combustible substance which could be candles or incense. It's not restricted at all to tobacco.

Sathya Baba

No one can understand my Mystery. The best you can do is to get immersed in it. It is no use your arguing about pros and cons; dive and know the depth; eat and know the taste.

Now people are arguing with him about who he is and what he represents,

Sam Mendes

Obviously, there's a good bit of irony to that scene, ... A lot of what began in that first war (in 1991) can be extrapolated to what we're seeing today. I think those remain issues we should be talking about, even arguing about.

Jason James

There are people out there arguing that Vodafone shares are worth 70p but that's certainly not our view,

Brian Ferneyhough

Composers dialogue - and obsessively, bitterly argue - with other composers, often over the span of several centuries.

This radical proposal is a 180-degree flip-flop from what the administration has been arguing in court. Instead of protecting public health, now EPA wants to protect the polluters. The proposal would completely sabotage clean-air law enforcement, and it would be open season for power plants to pollute even more than they do now.

Several people who were there heard Dexter Bingham arguing with several men. They heard a shot, and Dexter died at the scene.

Let's stop arguing about it, let's pass the president's plan ... more prosecutors, more after-school programs. We can't sit by and watch these trends continue.

when arguing with a chicken a grain of corn is always wrong

Jason Katims

You're breaking up, you're getting together, you're changing your life, you're arguing with your parents, you're making terrible mistakes, you're having great triumphs. It's what happens to teenagers.

Albert Einstein

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

Brad Feld

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning.

Jamais Cascio

The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.