Famous Quotes & Sayings

There's a fine line employers must walk between asking for enough information to verify the documents of a newly hired worker and asking for too much.

There's a discussion of an exchange of gifts (between Clinton and Lewinsky). It's a bit vague. (Lewinsky) makes reference to a dress that the president may have given her. There's also talk about photographs. They sound like official White House photographs but there's at least one where there is a personal inscription that Monica Lewinsky thinks if others see, it will be incriminating, so she's talking about calling the president's personal secretary, Betty Curry, and asking for a clean copy of that photo so she can comply with the subpoena.

Simon McBurney

There's something hopeful about 'Endgame.' Beckett strips everything away and asks what remains. There's this surgical dissection of the soul, but at the bottom, you find shafts of light.

There's some apprehension about the report. If we don't see an increase in distillate inventories, traders are going to ask when we will before winter.

There's some apprehension about the report, ... If we don't see an increase in distillate inventories, traders are going to ask when we will before winter.

There's going to be a very large number of people in Bundaberg who are going to be terribly upset tonight, ... They're asking for justice to be done through the recommendations of the commission. They were pinning their hopes on the commission.

There's no question the recovery is taking longer than people thought. People thought the economy would pick up very quickly and that we would have a typical garden variety economic recovery. That's not the case, but the good news is it is a recovery. You can't ask for more than that.

Liam Fox

There's no point in asking focus groups. I go down the pub and hear about it there.

There's no sense competing for existing union members - we have to ask the question, why has union membership dropped to seven million from 11 million in this country.

Glenn Turner

There's no place for vigilante-ism or anything like that. If they saw something and wanted to write it down and they weren't going to confront it, we'd be happy to partner with them. But if they're going to confront and try to become the sheriff of their block, they're just asking to get themselves in trouble.

Larry Scott

There's no limit to how many times a player can ask a chair umpire to check out a mark but it doesn't mean the chair umpire is obliged to get out of the chair.

There's much more awareness about the problem of suicides in jails. Twenty years ago if you asked a sheriff, he wouldn't have any information on it or any sensitivity to it. It wouldn't be on his radar screen.

There's just a bunch of well-off people who have been very imprudent, even stupid, and they've built their buildings right next to a beach, ... They're asking us to pay for restoring the beach when all we have to do is tell them to move their buildings and the beach will be restored.

Mark Twain

There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he is crooked.

There's one more member on the board who's going to be asking questions and looking for creative solutions as opposed to (saying) we can't do anything.

There's one fellow who had never shared his faith because he didn't know he could. In one day he had been able to lead six people to the Lord just by people asking him questions on the job site. People are excited about how God is using them.

Jules Verne

The resolutions passed at the last meeting produced a great effect out of doors. Timid people took fright at the idea of a shot weighing 20,000 pounds being launched into space; they asked what cannon could ever transmit a sufficient velocity to such a mighty mass.

Frank Robinson

There's no way you could've asked more of him,

Patrick Leahy

There's no way we can ask for a treaty that has one standard for the United States and another for the rest of the world.

Tanner Hall

There's not too many people who could go up to their sponsors and ask them if they can take a year off of competing and just go for a good (film) segment. Thank God that I've got good relationships and I've kind of proved that I should be able to do what I want to do. They think whatever I'm going to be doing, it's going to be progressing the sport, and that's all I'm out there to do.

There's nothing we can do about it. But if you asked me why we lost, I'd say we have to do a better job on our power play.

Jim Martin

There's nothing budgeted for a fire class and there's no plans of having a fire class. You're asking me whether I know what the city is thinking or not. I'm going to have to say if they're not planning on putting a class on, there's a lack of foresight, a lack of planning on their part.

Sidney Crosby

There's not going to be a lot of surprises for me if I can ask him beforehand and see how things work. That's the main thing, just being around him and seeing how he goes about things every day.

There's not enough time to fulfill the NBA requirement, ... And I wouldn't ask them (the sports books) to, either.

The track was real good. You could run the top and the bottom and then you got in the middle. I mean, that's all you can ask for, a good race track.

The town is favorable to doing what it can to make this transition happen. The town is just asking the county to take over service of the fire department.

The top of the order is doing exactly what we are asking them to do.

Arnold Bennett

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

Louis Leterrier

'The Transporter' 1 and 2 are the movies I do for Luc they're not the kind I would go see or make naturally, ... You ask Luc, 'How do you want me to do it?'

Ed Olczyk

The transition for any young player into this league is something that takes time. He asks a lot of good questions and we watch his shifts together afterward (on video). Then the next time, it just becomes second nature.

Michael Wolff

The traditional media are asking themselves with some degree of desperation how they can make money out of this.

The tobacco industry itself has said this is a fair tax, ... The ones who have been giving us a run are the mini-marts and the big retailers like JR's. We're glad the tobacco industry saw it was fair, but it makes us think we could have asked for even a little more.

The timing ... makes me ask if (Grant) proactively went and solicited these inmates to file the lawsuit.