Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Palfrey

You need to avoid any one entity having too much control over the ecosystem.

You of course want to be very sensitive to the children. So to the extent that we can avoid calling them, we will. But if it?s necessary in order to give them a just result, and give them back what?s left of their family, we?re going to do it.

You never want to go to that hearing if you don't have to. It's a lot easier to go into spring training when you can avoid that confrontation. That's an ugly part about baseball.

You probably want to avoid the water. When you've got those types of winds and tides and swells, I'd give caution a lot of thought.

This is a sad and tragic situation for this child and his family and I offer sympathy to them. This unfortunate situation could have been avoided with proper crime prevention measures in the proper storage of the firearm.

This is expected to be one of the worse hurricane seasons, and so far they're right and we're only halfway through it. All you have to do is pose the question: What if you had another monster storm in another few weeks, just as things are starting to come back on line? I don't know how you would avoid recession in that environment.

This is a tough one for us. It's the last home game for the seniors, a chance to end the losing streak to Indiana, and we had a chance to be the five seed (and avoid a Thursday game in the Big Ten Tournament). Now we just have to focus on playing good basketball in the Big Ten Tournament.

This is a time to be very diversified and avoid taking chances. Sometimes being a spectator is not a bad idea.

Matt Damon

They had to do it quickly and quietly to avoid all the media nonsense. It really is a shame that it's come to the point where celebrities have to sneak around to get married.

They don't want a huge spike in December and then a slump in January and February, ... They're trying to avoid that.

They don't trade in any sovereign currency, so they avoid the scrutiny of the Secret Service.

There will be casualties, ... but we will avoid any harm that may befall the hostages.

There will always be those who will avoid paying and then we have to go back to the courts.

Bob Berg

There were clearly more people and more activity. Some regulars came in Wednesday and said we'll see you Monday. They wanted to avoid the crowds.

There is no way to avoid the birds in the air, but the pilots can avoid being where the birds are.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

Marat Safin

It's kind of difficult. It (the knee injury) is still in my head. When you feel some pain in some movements, you try to avoid those. After the first couple of games, I tried to forget about it and focus on the game.

Rick Riordan

It seems like just yesterday my son was hiding under the table to avoid reading. Now, he's writing books longer than mine!

It seems like it's the classic of classics. I think we had been avoiding it for a little while.

Mal Peet

It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.

Senator Kerry

It's a summary of all that this administration is not in touch with and has faked and ducked and bobbed over the past four years. What you see here is a harvest of four years of complete avoidance of real problem solving and real governance in favor of spin and ideology.

It's a short meet, so anything can happen. Garcia is getting on some live horses for some top barns, so he might have a good shot to pull off an upset if he avoids suspensions and injuries.

It's a tough area. South of the school, there are high- and upper-middle-class citizens - lots of doctors, lawyers, teachers and principals. North of the school, where Jerome lived, you have the inner city. It's a pretty tough area. Jerome and his parents did a great job avoiding the pitfalls of that.

It was bang-bang on both of them. (On the first one) we brought Jason from first, that's a long trot but we were confident he would get there. He made the slide and avoided the tag. That's the kind of game this was, on both sides.

It was designed to avoid any funding controversy.

It was already fourth-and-long when Mr. Grinstein took over. The three reasons he wasn't able to avoid bankruptcy are fuel, fuel and fuel.

He stuck his head in the sand and deliberately avoided knowing what would have been obvious. We don't need to prove why.

He struggled a little with his control also, but managed to avoid getting hurt by the walks. It is still early in the season and our pitchers are a little inexperienced. In time, they are going to get better and be around the plate more.

Roy Barnes

Georgia was blessed with strong leaders who avoided the kind of divisive distractions that held back most other cities and states in the South.

Good people avoid the company of bad people.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Everything that needs to be done must be done to avoid a civil war, and I think they are keenly aware of the danger.

Even though the helmets are really effective, we want that to be the last line of defense. If you can avoid the crash to begin with, we prefer that.

Even the learned ones avoid people who are lazy because they know their efforts will go futile.