Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Kennedy

If port security is not a top priority for our own government, how can we expect it to be a priority for a foreign government? We cannot risk contracting out our national security.

I love my work and enjoy making children laugh. Laughter cannot be imitated. It comes from the heart.

Ian Poulter

I'll say one word - pathetic. That cannot be. Sixteen golfers. Are you kidding me? And that is a huge prize fund.

James Smith

I know of no better place to live in, and till the millennium comes, Stamford cannot be made a better place to live.

I have three adult children, and I have four grandchildren. I want to stop the deficits. I want to make sure that we're not passing on to my children and my grandchildren deficits and that we cannot repay and that they will have to repay and maybe they won't be able to repay them.

In this market, the truth is you cannot sell anything from the mid-market upwards without incentives.

Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

Adrian Beltre

I have to get better, but I cannot change the way I play. I'm not a rookie anymore. No more excuses about being young. If I don't do it, I will take all the blame.

Richard Steele

I have often lamented that we cannot close our ears with as much ease as we can our eyes

Michael Sata

I have to try and uplift the standard of living for the people in Zambia. If I cannot do that, I will have failed.

Michael Campbell

He's the yardstick of how good we can get. He does things with his golf stick that we cannot do,

How can we overrule the decision of a court and that is why we cannot grant him permission to resume cricket activities.

He's one of those players you cannot match up well with.

It was really tough. When we teed off it was freezing. Par today was probably 2 or 3 over. Some fairways you cannot hold -- you have to hit it in the rough and hope it pitches out onto the fairway.

It will be a relatively orderly soft landing. At some point, trees cannot grow to the sky and neither can home sales.

It will be a major reduction. I cannot tell you the number. It will be in the thousands.

It's a very unfortunate misuse of taxpayer money and taxpayer investment in the system. We cannot teach kids unless they're in class, learning from our teachers and being there. So, it's of concern to us.

It's about sending a message to illegal operators that they cannot get away with taking other people's work.

Joss Whedon

It's about how much freedom you can take away from somebody before they either fold or fight, ... It's about the right to be wrong and the nature of human beings, that they need the freedom to be wrong. That they cannot be made to be better or perfect.

It is so simple. It is important that we teach our children the importance of having respect for themselves and other people. If they are not being respectful or if someone is being disrespectful to them, real learning cannot take place.

It is such a horrendous situation that one cannot imagine, ... Casualties are increasing by the hour.

Vaclav Klaus

it is such a delicate part of Czech history that it cannot be done without consensus on it in the Czech Republic.

Tom Daschle

It is our strong desire to continue a presence here, to recognize that we cannot leave with the job half-done. But we'll determine the role and the degree of presence in the coming weeks and months,

It is our position that the six-way talks cannot be resumed amid challenging U.S. sanctions.

Kit Bond

It is U.S. workers who lose out when employers cannot get the high-tech graduates they need to compete with foreign companies in the 21st century economy.

Lyndon Johnson

It is the common failing of totalitarian regimes that they cannot really understand the nature of our democracy. They mistake dissent for disloyalty. They mistake restlessness for a rejection of policy. They mistake a few committees for a country. They misjudge individual speeches for public policy.

It's a difference in how unions do their business. Each union, in its own fashion, dictates what we must do. I cannot deny mediation.

It means whatever was seized cannot be used.

Carlos Rivera

It's an international waterway. We cannot stop it. We cannot control it. It's either a federal government issue or Mexico issue.

It's very important. It means you cannot dig where those red marks are. The red marks indicate there's energized power lines underground and it's very dangerous if you dig in that area.

It took time for me to search my heart for it. Cannot just write a song over-night, you got to feel 'em. Takes a few days, a few months, sometimes even years. More hurt than anger.

It tells credit bureaus that they cannot sell your data without first getting permission. We're not saying that consumers should own this data or that they should be able to put credit bureaus out of business, but bureaus should not sell data until you've given permission.

Thomas Jefferson

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded, are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.