Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Perry

If you ask what the true cost is for our status quo, it's worth the price.

Donald Adams

If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.

P. J. O'Rourke

If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.

If you ask the average person on the street about U.S. energy and U.S. oil in particular, our situation, most Americans would say, 'Oh, we're energy poor; we don't have enough oil; we don't have enough natural gas.'

Dean Devlin

If you ask someone to name a real movie star, most of them would be old. We don't have enough real movie stars because there's been a devaluation of craft on all sides.

Geoffrey West

If you ask people why they move to the city, they always give the same reasons. They've come to get a job or follow their friends or to be at the center of a scene. That's why we pay the high rent. Cities are all about the people, not the infrastructure.

If you ask people what they want to have that money spent on, it's potholes, if they're confident that the money is actually going to be used for fixing potholes,

If you ask our customers, they prefer we take a couple of extra days before we post a patch rather than have the public know about the problem.

Tony McCoy

If you ask most trainers who have ridden which pressure is greater - watching your horse or riding it - they will tell you it is harder watching it because you have no control over what happens.

If you ask most Americans who represents the (Republican) Party, they're going to say George Bush, not any of the leaders of Congress. Nevertheless, the congressional Republicans are already looking at the day when President Bush leaves office and they're still around. So they're looking for their own distinctive identity.

If you ask me what's on my wish list for 2006, Caponi continued, the first thing would be recognition that healthcare is a right, not a privilege. People without insurance or with bad insurance don't get treatment or they delay treatment until they must seek emergency care. If nothing else, that's not cost-effective. Emergency room treatment is the most expensive form of healthcare that exists.

If you ask me to name one success, it's hard.

Donovan McNabb

If you ask me, there's no doubt about it, I'll be out there, ... Again, it's just being able to see how your body reacts to an up-tempo practice. It's a good thing now, but we'll see how it feels in the morning.

Neal McCoy

If you ask me something and you don't hear from me, I've dozed off, and I'm gone, so just say goodbye," ()

If you look at the 'Harry Potter' merchandise sales, they tended to go down as each sequel was released. Hasbro was somewhat non-committal when we asked them what they expected the trends this year to be with the Star Wars-related products.

If you knew him and knew what kind of guy he is and how he treats his players, you have to go to war for somebody like that. All he asks for is for you to give 110 percent on that field and for you to know what you're doing. If you can't do that, then we've got a problem.

Charles Krauthammer

If you parse her words very carefully, she always says she is not interested in running for office. She obviously doesn't want to 'run', but if she were asked for the good of the party, I think she would love to be president or vice-president.

Bill Clinton

If you live in a country where you're never required to take responsibility for yourself, where you never even have to ask whether there's something you should be doing to solve your own problems, then people are kept in a kind of a permanent state o

If you like the person you had the year before you can request that they come again. They can ask for us back too, or not.

If you look carefully at the way that they gathered data for that report, it was simply a matter of interviewing police officers and asking them if they profiled based on race. Not surprisingly, they said no.

If you look at why people are not buying PCs, most of the things I've seen say it's not price, it's the usability, ... Consumers are asking themselves, 'Why do I need to upgrade?' So by reducing prices, I don't know that there is this huge unmet demand that's going to bring in a lot of new purchasers.

Tom Williams

If you look at what percentage motivates changes in behavior, we hear it's 5 to 10 percent. If you ask doctors to change their practices, the reward has to be worth it.

Roma Downey

If you heard me sing, you wouldn't ask me if I would ever sing!

Louis Armstrong

If you have to ask, then you'll never know (when asked 'what is jazz?')

Mary Landrieu

If you have the votes to overturn (it) ... I would ask my colleagues to be brave enough to do it in public, ... in the middle of the night.

If you go in and ask for 10 more people, they'd rather just pay the overtime,

Charlie Trotter

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

Sendhil Mullainathan

If you go and stop people at a supermarket and ask them for their receipt and say, 'Hey how much did you just spend?' middle class shoppers have no idea. The poor know what they just spent.

Jeff Koons

If you've got the business community coming in and asking for a dramatic tax cut, one of the first things on the chopping block is going to be the development board, ... There's some tension there.

In the Thai case we have seen the prime minister ask one of the deputy prime ministers to head an inter-ministry group. The high level of political attention is key.

In the survey the School Board asks multiple questions, clumsily disguised as serious attempts to gain parents' views for future decisions. The survey contains nothing more than a threat of dire outcomes designed to scare and infuriate parents into supporting $45 million in wasteful spending.

Jeffrey Skilling

In the fall of the year 2000, there just happened to be a decision point when they asked me to become Chief Executive Officer of the company. It was a time when, as you remember, we were starting to have some real problems in the California energy markets.

Dick Gephardt

In the context of trying to ask for shared sacrifice and get the budget into balance, the Republicans are saying in the midst of making all these decisions let us give a rip-roaring tax cut to people at the very top, ... It takes your breath away.