Famous Quotes & Sayings

the deck of the ship which Grace captains, to the court of Queen Elizabeth I where the two remarkable women once met.

Viktor Yushchenko

The decision of the court will not disrupt the election. ... We respect the court and the decision must be fulfilled.

We presume if someone comes in with the winning ticket they've signed, we presumed they've won, and unless we get a court order to the contrary, we don't get involved.

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

People want Washington to be noted as a place of integrity and quality and that's what Tyrone brings. We've been in court too much and in the headlines for the wrong reasons.

Pedro Martinez

Please write that they were really, really nice - extremely nice - at Immigration. The court where they swore you in, the people were beautiful.

POSTERITY, n. An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

Charles Kennedy

Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.

My teammates did a great job of putting me in different spots on the court where they couldn't double-team me or know where I was going to be. We did a great job of moving on offense and moving all around the court.

Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.

One of the differences between this year?s team and last year?s team is our defense. We?re a lot better defensively and we can stop teams and that get into our half court set. We don?t have to run that much.

Mr. Crawford has had this hanging over his head for two and a half years, and we are glad to have the opportunity to go to court and defend him.

Me and Quincy go way back. We talk on the court all the time. I was trying to mess with him. I was telling him, 'Settle down. I know you're going to shoot.' He can really shoot the ball.

My main focus now is my grades. Lately, all my time is spent either on the court or sitting at home studying. If I'm not here on the court practicing, I'm at home doing homework.

John Adams

My fixed principle never to be the tool of any man, nor the partisan of any nation, would forever exclude me from the smiles and favors or courts

My game is more efficient now on the offensive end. I've got a different focus now . . . to play better every time I walk on the court and to play hard for 32 minutes.

Rick Carlisle

One of the things that's real positive with this group is that we can put five guys on the court and run something and be very comfortable with any of those guys taking the shot,

One issue the governor will have to look at is there is no minority member on the court anymore.

One may run away from the courts of other men, but where can one go to escape the Lord s Kingdom?

One by one they have slowly but surely been dismissed by the courts or withdrawn by the plaintiffs,

Jeffrey Toobin

One idea, move the New Orleans courts wholesale to another city, even another state.

Obviously, we never step on the court thinking we're going to lose. But if the game is going the other way we need to find ways to get better.

Obviously, we're watching that closely, ... But you have to remember, once the ticket is written, the motorist has to go to court or pay the fine right away, so it takes a little while to move through the system. We are very hopeful that the revenue will go up.

Kim Gandy

None of these are easy questions. But most courts say it's not about what he did or didn't do or what she did or didn't do. It's about the rights of the child.

No one should have to pay more than his or her portion of fault. Today's vote greatly helps small-business owners, who normally have had to settle out of court even when they have shared little or no blame.

No one has more fun on the court than we do. But doubles or singles, it doesn't matter. I just love to play. Especially when it's close. It's always me. Last on the court.

No one dares to unilaterally disarm. That's where the court comes in.

One view says that presidents want to shape the court, and stamp the court with their own ideology. Historically, they don't always do that.

Charles M. Schwab

Many men fail because they do not see the importance of being kind and courteous to the men under them. Kindness to everybody always pays for itself. And, besides, it is a pleasure to be kind.

We want to come at them with our speed so we're going with a smaller, quicker lineup. We want to use our full-court game and work it up the court quickly.

Jerry Yang

We did not know what they wanted information for, we are not told what they look for, if they give us the proper documentation in a court order we give them things that satisfy local laws,

What we really have to see is between now and the timetable given by the supreme court of Pakistan for the transfer of power to elected house which is October of next year,

Ruth Ginsburg

But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view.