Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Durbin

It's not a federal mandate, ... It's an opportunity for your community, on a grass roots basis, to come together and decide how you can tell the story of Lincoln.

Effective tidying involves only three essential actions. All you need to do is take the time to examine every item you own, decide whether or not you want to keep it, then choose where to put what you keep. Designate a place for each thing.

Charles Schumer

Everyone forgets there was a real view that downtown could just be hollowed out and nobody would want to be there ever again, ... And we decided that we had to move quickly...to give people hope so they don't get stuck in their head I got to go somewhere else.

The big story in this election is that Karl Rove has decided to strategically use gay and lesbian Americans in a number of swing states,

At training camp, we had to decide what kind of player he should be. Should he just shoot the puck, or should he be a steady defenseman who could do other things? He's got to do more than shoot the puck to play at this level. He had to learn that. He's still not nearly out of the woods, but he's made progress in the games he's played.

Jonathan Tropper

'Banshee' was kind of a lark. I was getting paid pretty well to write movies no one was making - and so I decided to try my hand at TV and get paid much less to actually get something produced.

Back then very few people knew anything about AA, ... But as this woman spoke and told me about the meetings, I realised that something was happening at these meetings that had nothing to do with the medical profession or medical science. I decided to attend.

Derek Jeter

As of now, as a team and as an organization, we can't think about Rocket. He hasn't made up his mind. Let him decide first. We need to focus on the guys that we have now. We have a great pitching staff.

That's when I decided to stop dillydallying. It just sounds like it's going to be much more difficult and expensive later.

That's when I decided to stop dillydallying, ... It just sounds like it's going to be much more difficult and expensive later.

That's why they have elections, and if she decides to file (paperwork to run), so be it.

Roy Moore

That's why I decided to draft this book. So you can understand.

Condoleezza Rice

that the idea that, within weeks, we're going to decide one way or another, is forward-leaning.

That's not all that unusual. We see potential in Luke and he got after it last weekend. We knew it was there in him. You see kids pick it up at the end of the year. He's decided his season isn't over yet.

That's just something I decided to do. We've done it for awhile. Something different.

That's kind of our goal. Make the finals and let the kids decide what they're going to do from there.

Mitt Romney

All along, I have said an issue as fundamental to society as the definition of marriage should be decided by the people. Until then, I intend to follow the law and expect others to do the same.

A little pressure is good but we don't want it to be too much. Also, when swimmers always swim the same events, it gets a little stale after a while. We decided to mix things up.

Frank Luntz

You're watching a great show on TV, you now come to that middle break, you decide in a matter of three seconds whether or not you're going to... flip the channel; get up; or keep watching. It's not intellectual.

Even if they don't violate the letter of the law, if competitors think that it's doing something similar to what's been decided earlier, it could lead to another lawsuit.

Even though it is a state decision as to whom will receive a marriage license, the federal government decides who gets the tax benefits.

Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.

Bill Clinton

Because if that's your standard, then your success or failure totally depends upon what other people decide to do and how they read their own interests,

Everybody in the world wakes up naked and decides what to wear.

Everybody decided we were finally playing well. We were playing together, and we were playing Kentucky basketball. Finally.

Everybody decided to get it done now because it may flare up and be worse later on,

Every man, woman, family, parish and diocese will have to decide which way they will go.

Every day I reassessed my life. The job was hard. One day I dug an entire sewer main by hand in six-and-a-half hours. That's the day I decided I probably needed to get back in college.

Padma Lakshmi

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

Carlos Beltran

It's the same thing I felt in New York. I decided to tell Willie I wasn't going to be able to make it. It's tough. I felt good at the plate, but I want to be 100 percent.

Benjamin Netanyahu

It's time you stop running away from the voters. These are the voters who elected you, who sent you. Stand before them. Present your policies, defend your policies, like I have presented my policies here and let them decide and respect their decision.

Nick Saban

It's not the kind of football I like to see from our team. We'll work hard to try to get it fixed. There is no excuse for it. We dropped balls, we didn't execute, we didn't play with the kind of urgency and intensity that good teams play with. Everybody needs to decide what kind of team we're going to have.

Shani Davis

It started to become a soap opera in there, so I decided to leave.