Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a groundbreaking opportunity. Not just for the Housing Authority, but for the city in its entirety. It's an opportunity to create a model and do something that so many others speak of, but so little have done. We can be a pioneer.

Alcee Hastings

It pains me to note that there were a number of significant deficiencies in the vote count by the authorities,

It's truly unpleasant to see a synagogue burned down, but this destruction was foretold. None of the Cabinet ministers had the illusion that the Palestinian Authority would want, and especially would be able, to save the synagogues from the mob.

It's very controversial, but the authorities eventually ruled that they are not Cuauhtemoc's remains,

For many people they don't have a choice. They take the 4 and the 5 and they have to go through Midtown. If you can take the local, the No. 6, that's a good idea and you definitely have to give yourself extra time. The Transit Authority says there'll be delays of 10 minutes, which always means to me that it will be a lot longer than that.

Force protection is the job of unit commanders in Bosnia and elsewhere, and they have the authority to take steps that they think are appropriate to match the threat they face.

This oversight board is not just a board made up of people who will rubber-stamp the decisions of the Transportation Trust Fund Authority. This oversight board will have the statutory authority to not only oversee the TTFA finances but to make sure our debt ceiling and our capital program are in line with what we said it would be.

There was never any question of our authority. BP was cooperative throughout the process. If in the future a company is not as cooperative, this rule would provide the board with an important tool.

John Ensign

There were many proposals that violated environmental laws. Things the president was trying to do to speed up the process. Yucca Mountain is in trouble by itself. The good thing about this legislation is that they don't have any fast track authority to move it through the congress.

There's a lot of great authors out there, and we're highlighting them at this festival. There may be a difference of opinion on some of the president's policies, and that's their right to express those opinions.

There's a level of authority that's already available in the case of a public health emergency, but this would expand (the state's) authority.

There may be 11, but I don't know. Whatever number (there is) has been shared with the Mundelein authorities.

Zoning is another big one. They have authority to implement land use regulations if they felt it was necessary.

You sweep your finger over the sensor. ... A flood of images goes from the fingerprint sensor into our chip. A fingerprint sensor in one of our tiny image processor chips is built into the handle of a gun. ... You grab the gun, you sweep the finger over the sensor and, in less than a heartbeat, if you are authorized to fire the gun, you can. Otherwise you can't.

This is a tough response, when you tell a contractor they no longer have the authority to submit work they are contractually required to submit because they are not following procedure.

This is a terrific acquisition for Penguin. The two businesses complement each other extremely well in terms of both authors and people, and will create great opportunities for the future. It is a marvelous way to start at Penguin.

Phil Angelides

This is the foot in the door, ... I can see the authority is getting a whole new wave of dairy applications.

This is the first full tour of the play (which premiered in 2004), and that it starts here is significant. Gardner was born in Jackson, and the author worked with some of his family to put the show together.

This is not an example of a president repealing a provision of a law that Congress has enacted ... but exercising a discretionary authority that Congress has given him,

Peter Kropotkin

Where there is authority, there is no freedom.

Randall Munroe

The scholarly authorities on freezing to death seem to be, unsurprisingly, Canadians.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Robert A. Heinlein

To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.

Tom Morello

Always question the authority.

Rupert Everett

I've never been any good with authority.

Sigmund Freud

I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day--until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.

EPA does not have authority to pay MRC for money owed by Asarco.

Environmental groups today are accusing the Bush administration of massively abusing its executive authority by working with its energy supporters in order to subvert and undermine our major environmental laws.

Nick Hornby

English authors are very content to write for a very small audience, and I think that shows.

Matt Blunt

Federal authorities that have seen this site have said this is a model. This should be a national model.

Every festival is new, and everyone has gotten better. We've been able to do a better job of connecting students with wonderful authors from all over.

Mark Twain

Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority

Arlen Specter

Contrary to press accounts, I did not warn the president about anything and was very respectful of his Constitutional authority on the appointment of federal judges,