Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes, HR departments have had trouble with employees abusing sabbaticals or asking to cash out of the benefit and just keep working.

Sometimes people who don't know you, strangers, will find out what you're doing and start asking all kinds of crazy questions.

San Diego State was very, very good that night. And they just seemed to have more energy than us. We never could close the gap. We're not asking for everyone to be patient. We want to win now. But if winning is No. 1 (in the priorities), then continuing to develop the expectations for this program, and the level of effort that is demanded every day, is 1A.

Rhett Miller

says he was infatuated with the Beatles from his toddler years, asking his mother if Daddy was the ''Nowhere Man.

Public companies are asking the same questions of suppliers that their auditors ask of them.

Marianne Williamson

Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.

At this point, we are asking those who have not yet sent in their donation to please do so. There are real people behind all the numbers that need your help.

At the moment we have not thought of asking for any reinforcement.

Paul Jewell

At the moment we are asking people to play in strange positions, but the players deserve great credit for coping with that.

At this moment we are asking the international community to come to Pakistan's help in the wake of the earthquake and this blast will send a wrong signal outside,

Communities that insist on clinging to traditional, extraction-based economies are asking for stagnation,

Do something really bad the first time, and no one will ever think of asking you again.

Dory: What is it with men and asking for directions?

Michael Copps

Don't shy away from asking the tough questions. Go wherever the facts lead. If you ruffle feathers, so be it.

Customers now are asking for that same capability in their virtualized open systems.

Richard Whitehead

Customers have been asking for a comprehensive security and compliance solution.

Customers and carriers have been asking for this.

John Hartson

Craig is a natural goalscorer and very rarely misses in and around the box. He is entitled to be knocking on the manager's door and asking to play. I was the same when I first came here and came off the bench to score a few times. It didn't matter to me that Henrik Larsson and Chris Sutton were the strikers, I was banging on Martin O'Neill's door and telling him I wanted to play.

Crushes, like going out with someone that you never talk to, and your friends doing the asking out and breaking up, I went through that,

Tom Daschle

And yet he is now asking for health care for the Iraqi people. He's asking for education for the Iraqi children. He's asking for money for an Iraqi highway bill -- highway construction.

Anna: "I'm a just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her

The units we've tested are getting pretty good at making it simple, ... They're asking users only two questions: Is this the primary PC, and what do you want to call it?

Harry Sinden

This didn't have a purpose to it. It was becoming a rather awkward situation with the general manager of the team and myself and ownership. We were contemplating making this move just recently. We knew we were probably going to make it and asking somebody to continue on is just not the right thing to do.

Robert Clarke

This decision was totally up to me and not the board asking me to step down.

Mark Goddard

They sent me the script, asking me to play the part of a general. I have never played the part of an authority figure. I've never thought of myself that way. I was uncomfortable with it, but I worked at it and knew I had a guttural voice for a general.

They sent a questionnaire asking us to describe our situation and the impact of the crime on us.

They were looking for images that would last at least five years, and I chose material I knew could exceed what they were asking for.

They were horrified. They were asking what it was, and we were saying, 'Sadly it's probably ill,' and you're trying to make it as light as you can.

This is a national disgrace. We have got a mayor who has been pushing and asking but we're not getting supplies.

This is a cut of unprecedented size. We'll try to work with the governor and Legislature, asking them to consider higher education as an investment.

This investigation is in its preliminary stages and journalists and others who want information should really be asking the CIA, and should be asking civilian flight authorities what they know.

This guy, every day, deals with some of the most important issues facing the American people. You're asking him to recollect conversations, some fairly short, and he's giving his best recollections. Maybe he didn't remember correctly, but he didn't have the intent to deceive the special prosecutor or grand jury.

Mack Brown

They're treated like celebrities. It's a smaller town than L.A., and they're treated like NFL players there. They're very recognized. People are always asking for their autographs when they're out, so they're really appreciated.