Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wilson Mizner

God sends our relatives, but we can choose our friends.

It is a disgrace that the Government should choose the day on which the Work and Pensions Secretary has resigned to conceal these findings.

I think the faculty will discuss it in their classes. It's a teaching moment, a learning moment. People will refer to this for a period of years, but time always makes things fade after it goes out of context, I think people will choose something else.

Whatever gods you worship, you realize that they are your gods, the product of your own mind, terrible or amiable, as you may choose to depict them.

David Boies

What Microsoft set out to do through these contracts, and largely succeeded for the time they were in effect, was to deprive consumers of the right to choose between Microsoft and Navigator.

The people in New Hope have been very supportive and have been overwhelmingly helpful in helping us to choose the right people to interview and to come up with a good story and really cooperating better than we could have ever imagined.

We've got to look at what Georgia did and what led to a successful decision there. The one thing about our leadership in Texas Gov. Perry and some others they don't necessarily put the most money on the table, because we pride ourselves here in this state on having other competitive factors that make a company choose Texas.

William Temple

Holland is a country, where the earth is better than the air, and profit more in request than honor; where there is more sense than wit; more good nature than good humor; and more wealth than pleasure; where a man would choose rather to travel than t

He's going to get killed. You can only do that for so long. As a quarterback, you need to pick and choose when you can do that. He'll learn.

He's getting a sense of the landscape now. There is no one out there who could defeat him for minority leader. The question is what he will choose to do.

There are no restrictions on this money. We're giving people the right to choose what they spend their money on as we respect them enough to make their own decisions and priorities.

The rain forest has spent a lot of money and done extensive research on Johnson County and the Corridor. If you were not going to upset the whole flow of your deal, you choose somewhere nearby.

We make it clear that if we are kidnapped, we do not want there to be force or any form of violence used to release us. If the government or military commanders choose to do that, that is their responsibility.

Robert Winston

I actually don't mind whether people can choose the sex of the baby - in fact humans have been trying to do it for 3,000 years. But there is a real issue about the safety of the technique.

Christa Campbell

I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.

It gives you a comfort level that the other guys can make plays just like Preston. It makes it hard for teams if they choose to double him.

Amber Riley

I always say as a celebrity you have two choices - you can be a celebrity, or you can be a role model. You can choose to just go to parties and do the red carpets and all that, or you can choose to be an example to these people.

Jimmy Carter

He had to do the same thing I did when I went to Washington, and that is to choose people who were very experienced in previous administrations, ... And I also chose a very experienced vice president, (Walter) Fritz Mondale, who kind of tided me over into my learning process when I got to Washington.

He hadn't thrown all year. He did a good enough job but Pope John Paul is good. We just don't have a lot to choose from.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Fortunately in my work there's always a choice: I can choose to do it willingly or unwillingly

Arlen Specter

Given the option in this trial, I suspect many senators would choose 'not proved' instead of 'not guilty,'

God is not a specific religion. God is God. We choose different ways to meet together, worship him, follow him.

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends

If it's voluntary, there are no teeth, no limits. If someone wants to protect habitat, we're all for that. But why choose one or the other?

Scott Ellis

I get to choose the people I work with.

If the Fed chooses to do something less than that (half-percentage point), then you're going to have this major disappointment in the financial markets.

Steve Johnson

If the individual chooses not to report on the return the government doesn't often find out about it,

Clive Sinclair

If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.

I would be very, very surprised if there wasn't a long waiting list, or at least a long list they had to choose from, to pick those staff officers and (non-commissioned officers) going over there.

Nick Saban

If we're going to do that, we should have had a press conference for the other three guys we signed, too. So how do we choose who has a press conference and who doesn't?

Hugo Chavez

If we have to choose between environment and mining, we will leave the gold and we will keep the water and the air.

Brian Nelson

If these kids had to choose between playing offense or defense, I think most of them would choose defense. It's always been that way, even when I played here (Nelson is a 1983 Fertile-Beltrami graduate). It's just the mentality we've always had - getting after things, swarming to the ball, laying in the hits.

Mo Mowlam

If these arrangements are going to work, then everyone involved will have to give up violence for good, and decommissioning is an essential part of the package. People can't pick and choose which parts they like or dislike.