Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bertie Ahern

President Bush is very much aware of the abhorrence that the people of Ireland and of Europe felt at the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by coalition forces,

Raheem Askia

Swagger is not something you can buy, nor is it something that you can try, and if you don't have it at all, there is no point in trying to lie; everyone can tell. Swag is something that only a Swag Sensei can sell; now most of us hand it out for free, but we just cant hand it out to everyone, because some people don't know how to use it, and will abuse it, and still end up losing it.

Flora Jackson

Our goal is to stop abuse before it starts and break the cycle of abuse. We want to assist new parents so they don't become part of the system.

Robert Hartwig

Rising medical costs are the principle driver behind higher auto insurance prices in the U.S. and a significant share of that pressure is due to abuse and in some cases outright fraud.

Ned Yost

Pitch counts have gotten into everybody's brain. Guys make so much money now. You want to protect your investment. You don't want to abuse your pitchers.

Kathy Grimes

Pima Town Council identified substance abuse as a problem in its community and declared a war on drugs. We held meet-your-neighbor nights, educational nights, and we got the community informed and communicating about the issue.

C. S. Lewis

We can conceive of a world in which God corrected the results of abuse of free will by His creatures: so that a wooden beam became soft as grass when used as a weapon... But such a world would be one in which wrong actions were impossible, and therefore, freedom of the will would be void.

Gore Vidal

It is a paradox of the acquisitive society in which we now live that although private morals are regulated by law, the entrepreneur is allowed considerable freedom to use - and abuse - the public in order to make money.

Bill Rogers

The abuse of executive sessions is the biggest problem we have with the law.

Janet Reno

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Donald Walker

(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when we're running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.

Wayne Richardson

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

Sean Miller

Recently against us, if you're that guy that can't make a 3, you usually knock a few down. It was good to see that percentage come our way.

Lawrence Eagles

Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.

Jamie Dixon

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePaul.

John Shoffner

Records and style of play go out the window. I think we match up well against them.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Recent rises in yields of Japanese government bonds, combined with this emerging uncertainty over prospects for US interest rates, are expected to weigh on the US currency against the yen in the near term.

Martin Laurendeau

Recently, we have played very well against Mexico. We will work hard over the next two months to prepare for this contest and give ourselves the best chance to win.

John Fitzpatrick

Really what they're doing is declaring that their view of the video is that it is not definitive. And that's almost by definition true. If there are a few people who say, 'I don't know if I can tell what that is,' then it's not definitive.

Sung Sohn

Our research shows the jobless rate is the best indicator of monetary policy, ... They have almost perfect correlation.

David Reilly

Our population base that's over 65 is almost double the state average. Obviously, we are particularly vulnerable to reimbursement cuts to Medicare.

Gary Pinkel

Our recruiting was almost over by the time we played our bowl game. Everything's so much faster now and it's amazing how quick things go.

James Grady

Patrice and I have taken in almost the same amount. We're almost neck and neck.

Katrina Otto

Patients have assessment and contact with a medical professional almost immediately when they walk in.

Michael Greco

Our laws and attitudes on immigration have been almost schizophrenic. At times we have thrown open our nation's doors virtually without limit; at other times we have tried vainly to build walls - legal and physical. Today our laws reflect that confusion.

Jerry Siegel

Our nation has paused to reflect on their special brand of courage in the face of almost unimaginable hardship and abuse,

Ed Farmer

People need to be a little more lenient with him. There is a lot being thrown at him. There's no fear, which is good, and he's doing a nice job with the analysis. We're trying to work in the play-by-play, and people might think it's easy, but it's not. It's not molecular science, either, but it's not easy. And he's getting the pacing. It's almost a poetic measure of speech. You get the rhythm, and people get into the rhythm with you. I'll be very surprised if he isn't doing two innings of play-by-play by the end of the season.

Dave Eggers

Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

Jim Williams

Our perspective on that is if you are involved in criminal activity, and you are apprehended, it wasn't because of profiling. If you drive through a radar zone operated by one of my officers going 45 in a 25, you weren't stopped because of profiling.

Michael Edmondson

It is a resolution that is standard for first-time offenders with no other criminal history or arrests and individuals with a history of drug addiction.

Nik Nanos

The announcement of the criminal investigation . . . made what was a relatively comfortable (Liberal) lead into a neck and neck race.

Gloria Feldt

The Ashcroft Department of Justice can no longer threaten Planned Parenthood doctors with the daunting specter of criminal prosecution for putting their patients first.

Hugh Keefe

That was our theme from the get-go. There was no criminal intent to defraud.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.

Margie Long

I think sometimes juveniles tend to think by shooting windows with BB guns it's fun for them maybe they're bored; but it's a criminal offense.

Eric Holder

I think one of the things that I don't think people focus on is that there are some red states that have done some really innovative things when it comes to criminal justice reform, including on rehabilitation, reentry efforts. I think one of the things that we have seen in that regard is that you save money.

Alvin Sykes

Our whole objective was to have the FBI come in and lead an investigation. We will know the truth.

Vincent Schiraldi

The American public is not going to want the FBI profiling their kids.

Slade Gorton

I don't know where those 70 field investigations were. The FBI didn't put them anywhere. Nobody in Washington knew about them.

Ronald Kessler

One of my books, called 'Moscow Station,' revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI. And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him. But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.

Emily Lyons

We are thankful that he has been caught, thankful to the police and the FBI and the ATF and the media that has kept his picture and his name out there,

Ronald Kessler

When 'The Washington Post' ran the first national story about FBI profiling in 1984, no one outside of law enforcement recognized the term.

Rebecca MacKinnon

The Patriot Act, passed overwhelmingly but hastily after 9/11, allows the FBI to obtain telecommunication, financial, and credit records without a court order.

Jim Kleissler

I thought we had a great rally and a peaceful march. We really just wanted to come out and say peace is something that's part of America, and we're not going to let the FBI intimidate us.

Colin Mochrie

What kind of FBI agent are you?

Lindsay Davenport

I want to win this title again. I think that you are really, at the end of the day, judged on how many Grand Slam titles you have, and probably how many titles you have.

Buck Showalter

I was happy with the outing, as I was with his last one. We had opportunities to make the grand slam not matter.

Ernie Els

I'd like to win the Masters and the PGA and complete the career Grand Slam.

Goran Ivanisevic

He is strong in the head. You can't win a junior Grand Slam and knock out the world's No. 25 player in your first senior tournament if you're not strong in the head.

John Whitehead

We are going to open up Monday at 7 a.m. and we are going to stay open until 12 p.m. Tuesday. After that, we are going to reopen Wednesday at 7 a.m. and have our grand opening just as we had planned and stay open for 24 hours.

Elena Dementieva

I feel much stronger now and I know what it takes to reach a grand slam final. I just feel I need to take one more step and I think I can do that this year.

Thierry Fremaux

If 2005 was the year of the return of the grand authors, 2006 will be all the opposite.

Graham Cluley

Globally, we have a grand total of zero reports of damage.

John Cornyn

I wouldn't want to speculate as to what's happened or not going to happen with regard to the grand jury, ... I simply don't know. In fact, I would suggest that none of us know, since it's supposed to be a confidential proceeding, by law.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

Ike Turner

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

David Norman

Just about anything that could be wrong with the instrument is probably wrong.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

John Clarke

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns

Jerry Hunt

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Jason Falkner

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

Paul Rosenthal

I thought, 'A serious instrument has to be made of wood, varnished, treated.'

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Phil Klay

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Leo Tolstoy

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Repetition does not transform a lie into the truth.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

Marcus Williams

Playing a No. 16 seed, sometimes you think they are going to lie down and give us the win. We need to go out and take the first hit.

Jimmy Carter

I will not lie to the American people.

William Williams

It is not what you say that matters but the manner in which you say it; there lies the secret of the ages.

Rob Kardashian

I think I lie way too much to even know what I've lied about.

Makosi Musambasi

I didn't lie about it. I was very drunk.

Roger Morris

I would have to say that Richard Nixon is probably the most gifted and skilled political practitioner, in his pre-presidential years, of all of the American presidents in the 20th century.

Philip Zimbardo

Most of the evil of the world comes about not out of evil motives, but somebody saying 'get with the program, be a team player;' this is what we saw at Enron, this is what we saw in the Nixon administration with their scandal.

Bob Crowder

When Nixon visited China, I thought there is an opportunity there.

Roger Morris

Nixon officials foreshadowed both the historic distinction and seamy underside of the presidency.

Andrew McPherson

I said, 'Oh great, this is the Nixon tapes'.

Edward Brooke

President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people.

Louie Gohmert

We've got the NSA getting logs of every call you make. The IRS is weaponized like Richard Nixon could only have dreamed of.

Fred Gray

If there had been no E.D. Nixon to get into the ruts and gullies and try to do something when it was very unpopular, things would not have been accomplished.

Brian Wice

I've never seen the transformation of a witness from grandfather to Richard Nixon in a day.

Bob Hadfield

Our policy is to provide water for the orderly development of Carson Valley.

Elliot Krieger

Our relationship with the union, once the order was put in place, has been pretty good,

M. C. Escher

Order is repetition of units.Chaos is multiplicity without rythm.

Shaukat Aziz

Step by step, we are getting there. It has to be done in an orderly way,

Gary Thayer

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

Barry Lopez

To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge....It is to permit yourself an extraordinary, freedom: someone else does not have to be wrong in order that you might be right...This tolerance for mystery invigorates the imagination; and it is the imagination that gives shape to the universe.

B. F. Skinner

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless.

Bill Crawford

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

Big Pun

I'm as wicked as Hitler's first born, cause of me, lot of old ladies purses gone.

Alan Miller

Our reporter on the scene talked personally to the governor, who told her the 12 were alive.

Claudia Vercellotti

Participating in the legislative process has been personally devastating and a rude awakening. We never stood a chance.

Paul Meyer

Success is the progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined, personal goals.

David Beamer

Our personal reaction was one of relief, because they got it right.

Barry Mann

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Berkeley Breathed

I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.

Bill Budge

A quiet personality sure isn't what you need to attract attention.

Lee H. Hamilton

I was personally kind of discouraged with that statement. This is not a new problem.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Gloria Allred

Well, let me just say - I mean, I'm not a person who's going to vote for any of the potential Republican nominees for the presidency of the United States.

Stephen Hess

The president was still Ike, and the presidency went on.

Paul Ashley

Three years ago, the presidency was his to lose.

Ricardo Lagos

Turning the presidency over to a woman of Michelle's stature will be a privilege.

Bill Bradley

If you're timid in your candidacy, you're going to be timid in your presidency and that's not why I want to be president.

Orrin Hatch

then I have to tell you I think that this presidency will be over.

Jan Balkenende

Now it's up to the presidency to work on its proposals.

David Gergen

Think of that, the split-screen sense. That's the problem this presidency has ... it's being split down the middle.

Lisa Brown

She does that regularly ---- she's just a solid player. She is just great. She is just all over, a well-rounded leader.

Vladimir Putin

The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

Marcia Gay Harden

With any tween, you have issues, from what they are going to wear to school, to how do you get them to speak politely, to how regularly they lose their contact lenses.

Gordon Davidson

We've been talking pretty regularly through all this.

Andrew Grossman

Target and Wal-Mart simply aren't on the same scale. Wal-Mart regularly seeks to be treated differently.

C. S. Lewis

All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary

Dan Wheldon

I think Jenson somewhat screwed me up there,

Cameron Diaz

You screw me, I screw you back. I'm a lady like that.

C. S. Lewis

A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all—and more amusing.

C. S. Lewis

Suspicion often creates what it suspects.

C. S. Lewis

When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.

Kevin Towers

No, I'm just superstitious. Very superstitious, ... The way I look at it, he's been successful. We've been successful. I've been successful. So why screw with it?

Brandon Thomas

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

Tyra Banks

Screw being a singer! I wanna be the voice of my generation with my talk show.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Allison Tolman

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

James Rayner

We're still using Windows 98 here. We just need some equipment.