Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Stanton

Through the protracted and disgraceful assault on American womanhood the clergy baptized each new insult and act of injustice in the name of the Christian religion, and uniformly asked God's blessing on preceedings that would put to shame an assembly of Hottentots.

Michael Imperioli

Tony literally makes you an offer you can't refuse. He's always there for you, for everybody. So when he asks you to be there for sick children, you're there. Period.

We've been telling people in Washington for years we don't have time to wait; now they can see for themselves why time wasn't on our side. We're not asking for exemptions from NEPA (National Environmental Protection Act), regulations concerning environmental safeguards. We want all those in place. But we can't wait the average of 10 years it takes to get a single project online.

Sue Enquist

We've been so close all year. This team keeps fighting every inning. I couldn't ask for more.

We try really hard to communicate with parents. They should feel free if they have questions to ask questions.

We try not to focus on specific words, and we don't have a standing policy that says you have to use holiday or Christmas or one or the other. We just want our customers to feel comfortable whatever faith they may be and ask sales associates to be sensitive to that.

Jon Gruden

We tried to get him and Tim involved, because the bigger the game, the bigger he plays. He was excited and thrives in this atmosphere. He loves the big games. The more you ask of him, the more he relishes.

Casey Hampton

We just played a pretty good offensive line in Denver. Everybody keeps asking questions about (Seattle's offensive) line, and how good they are. They are a great offensive line. But I like our defensive line.

We just loved this place. People are so nice. If somebody stops the car, people come ask if you have any problems. It's not like that in New York City. Here, people have time.

Sylvia Hatchell

We just talked in the locker room that this is great. I congratulated them and asked if this is good enough. And they said, 'No.' They want to do bigger and better things. They're special kids, they have great chemistry and they have fun.

We just had to put it in the hands of the Lord. We knew Stan was doing what he wanted to do, so we just prayed a lot and asked the Lord to take care of him.

We just gave them a few basic instructions and they didn't really do what I asked them to do. I asked them at halftime, they play a very compact game and they like to start everything in the middle and work their way out, so I asked our guys at halftime to start playing the ball wider and over the top of their last offender and they just didn't do it as much as they should have.

We weren't sure if he'd be able to play today. We had so many kids banged up this week, we asked if our team bus could get a handicapped sticker.

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.