Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Durbin

We need to be sure this institution is in the mainstream of American thinking. What we need to do is ask the obvious questions.

Abraham Lincoln

We must ask where we are and whither we are attending

Francois Hollande

We must ask for explanations about all stages of their detention,

Charlie Melancon

We must also be about the job of asking tough questions, my fellow Americans ? questions about the health of our infrastructure and emergency response capabilities,

Jacques Chirac

When you are in the family... you have more rights than when you are asking to join and knocking on the door.

When the government was asked to justify their demand they conceded that they needed much less.

Danny Meyer

When the economy goes sour, there are three different kinds of restaurants that do well: the smaller-scale neighborhood restaurants that don't ask much of you; those that have banked enormous goodwill by offering great value during the boom; and those with proven records of excellence, a sure thing.

Oliver Sacks

When the documentary of 'Awakenings' was made in '73, the first thing the film director asked was, 'Could we meet the music therapist? She seems to be the most important person around here,'

Tom Wilson

When we play at home or whenever our bench is on the right, I put all the right side of my equipment on first. The other night I played at Florida for the first time and I asked somebody which side our bench was on.

Rob Enderle

When we made the move from 16 to 32 bits, we were asking why we needed to make the move, ... But by mid-decade no one doubted it. We always go through this cycle.

When we looked at the other (free-agent) point guards who were available, we determined a lot of them weren't worth the money. And of the ones we were interested in, we had to ask ourselves, do we have enough money left to make a serious bid? So at that point we said, okay, let's sign Matt, who we wanted to keep anyway, and we likely will go with a minimum-salary guy to fill that spot as our third point guard.

When we looked at the harvest data from the check stations, after the first year we did not see a significant increase in the harvest. If we suddenly saw a spike in the harvest we would ask are we having an impact.

Allan Ray

When we jumped out on them early, we were all saying in our heads, 'We've got them exactly where we wanted them to be.' ... That was the best position you could have the No. 1 team in the country: 21-9 in the first half. We couldn't ask for anything more.

Henri Nouwen

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advise, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender han

When we hire new coaches we have to ask what ideas they have for raising funds to support the program,

We will make our decision as we get closer to trial, ... We will ask the jury award a verdict of a size that clearly says to the gun industry that the public will not tolerate the kind of shoddy practice that was involved in this case.

We will certainly be asking to join that petition. We will be asking for a stay.

When I went out to skate, I didn't have any doubts. The legs are always a bit shaky when you get out there but, the second the music starts, you don't ask yourself any questions and you just go for it.

We believe that what they are asking for is way too much and unfair.

We called to see how the deliveries were going, to ask if they had questions or if they wanted to change their beverage order, Think before you drink.

We called timeout and asked the kids to try not to foul. But (the Blazers) are very quick and continued to attack the rim and we continued to foul. Tonight someone was looking over us in the sense that they didn't make their free throws.

We called it the 'prouds' and 'sorrys'. The meetings were held to get the public's thoughts about township development. We asked them what they thought about the present development and what they would want in future development.

We only think about (losing to Stanford last year) when (reporters) ask us about it. I think everybody is totally different from last year, and right now we?re just thinking about what we need to do to get the win this year.

We only asked the jury for $339,000 in our closing argument; they gave us three times more.

We officially terminated this person because we asked him to come in last week and talk about it and he wouldn't. He wouldn't tell his side of the story. He wouldn't defend himself.

We offered him everything he asked for. He gave us nothing. Zero, zip, zilch.

We offered a range of services. Some people needed food, and many disabled residents and seniors were asking for assistance. We set up telephones for public use, set up computers so residents could send e-mails, provided information on available housing, and helped file applications to FEMA for assistance.

Kenneth Langone

We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

Deval Patrick

We ought to ask ourselves, if it's good for a kid, then why is it only available to kids whose families have money?

When Justin died and we got the call offering the carriage, I immediately asked for Mike.

Jill Sobule

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

John Densmore

When Ray calls, I always ask him, 'What is it you want to buy?'

When President Obama asked Congress to raise the debt ceiling $2 trillion and offered sequestration as an offset, I opposed it. I did not believe we should put the country $2 trillion deeper in debt and impose irresponsible massive cuts to our national security.