Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.

Flip Saunders

We lost focus. When you have two starters thrown out in a three-minute span, I wouldn't say you're playing calm at that time.

Stephen Stills

We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.

We will use the money raised to purchase phone cards so these injured soldiers who are stranded in hospital can call home.

Dick Cheney

What's happening in California today is they've taken the route of saying all we have to do is conserve, ... And today they've got rolling blackouts because they don't have enough electricity.

We will win because you have stuffed more envelopes, and you have licked more stamps, and you have knocked on more doors and made more telephone calls than you have made for any candidate before. Let's turn out like we've never done before on November 7, and you will have made the sweetest history.

Walter Lippmann

The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . .

We try to create and manufacture ways to play with teams the caliber of LSU. I thought we battled them about as well as we could have.

We understand that hearing us say this is important to you. However, we want you to know how difficult it has been to understand what you want because you have chosen to use only notes, indirect messages, and calls to other jurisdictions,

David Green

When I take a risk, I like it to be a calculated risk, meaning I make it as small as possible.

With limits on the rights of victims of medical negligence, insurance companies spend less money on patients and more money on insurance company lawyers, but insurers do not lower rates for doctors. Lawmakers looking to California as a model for malpractice insurance reform must understand that regulation worked and liability caps did not.

We are calling this an epidemic, not just an outbreak.

Montel Williams

We are calling on all Americans to help us spread the word. All of us know someone who needs assistance. Help could be as close as a single phone call to our toll free number.

We are calling a strike on Tuesday. The Delhi government is responsible for it. The people who are demolishing are the ones who gave rise to the illegal constructions in the first place.

Michel Therrien

We figured it should have been a five-minute major. But the referee didn't call it. Turned out to be down the road the difference in the game, but there's nothing we can do about it.

We got the call about 10:18, and by 10:20 he was in there,

We got some pushback from customers and increased call volumes to many of our call centers. There was lots of confusion, so we decided to take a simplified approach.

We hired an interior designer who had lots of mad ideas - Caroline managed to calm him down a bit.

We hesitate to call liars out in professional environments because we feel guilty for being suspicious. Calling someone a liar for no good reason is a frightening proposition for most.

We expect sluggish sales in the first half of 2006 due to a continuation of calendar 2005 themes.

Raghuram Rajan

We expect India to grow at around 7 to 7.5 % in calendar year 2006.

Ted Walsh

We certainly wouldn't want to call the police on our customers and send them to other stores.

We are very comfortable calling at DP World's Dubai ports. We have not experienced a single security issue in these ports.

We are very close to yet another sellout this year, and the tickets are going fast. Yet, there is still a chance that they will be able to purchase tickets if they call right away.

We are urging our citizens to limit calls to just those that involve law enforcement response,

We are trying to manage the picture here today, but we've come to the end of the road here as far as supply within California and out-of-state resources go.

We think it's premature to call the turn.

We think it's important to make our votes and people can see who we want to be contenders. I won't call it chicanery on his part, but it was shrewd.

Nick Mangold

We're going to be calling them shortly making sure they have the volleyball net set up so we can have our pool volleyball games again. I'll be the first one in the pool.

We're going through a very news intensive period this week and the focus of all of that is slowdown of revenue growth going forward, but we're probably overreacting, ... We get great numbers, but looking forward we don't have the robust growth -- so people are calling into question valuations.

We're very hopeful that something will be worked out before the end of the calendar year.

We're very excited to have a facility of that caliber to be Sam Houston State University's golf course. We look forward to running this course and making it successful.

We're very early on in whatever you want to call this, the evolution or grand experiment. In some sense they (companies) justify it by looking at their current cost trends and getting sold on the idea that this is going to save them money.