Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

John Hamre

Recent events where criminals were able to become customers have led us to take this strong action in order to regain the trust of consumers that their information is being used only for their benefit, or the benefit of society at large.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

LeBron James

Record-wise and going into the playoffs, we can't improve. I'm trying to get as much rest as I can. I don't want to try to force the action by playing on an ankle that's not 100 percent.

Adrian Foster

Recent price action suggests the dollar-yuan is more loosely following the dollar.

Gary Chase

Recent price action in airline shares has created some price disparities that we believe investors should exploit.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Angela Allen

Regardless of how this 'report' ranks New York, our city is the most generous jurisdiction in the country when it comes to addressing the needs of at-risk and homeless citizens.

Bob Davidson

Receiving the Excellence in Claims/Loss Prevention Award three times in the past five years demonstrates ABF's commitment to proper cargo handling. We recognize that each pallet, carton or box is a critical part of our customers' business and that loss, damage or delay harms that business, ... The low turnover among our conscientious, experienced employees, coupled with management emphasis and training, results in the best claims experience in our industry. When specific problem areas are uncovered, we use focus groups and the ABF Quality Process to address the root causes; we typically involve our customers and dock employees in this effective problem resolution process. This approach has positioned ABF as the premiere LTL carrier when it comes to delivering shipments on time, intact, and damage free.

David Cole

Recognizing that the No-Build alternative fails to address the long-term congestion problem, we believe that only the N8c and N2 alternatives are realistic prospects for a solution,

Katrina Bee

Recognize the rough spot. Once we try to ignore it, it keeps coming back. Address it and say 'OK, so how would I feel if I pressed through and did this?' Don't say 'I'm going to make myself do this' - then it just becomes like torture. Have a mind, body, soul conversation at the plateau to check in with yourself and see how you're feeling. Then you'll generally be ready to move forward.

John Whiting

Our position is very clear that the Ulster freedom fighters will not address the issue of decommissioning till such times as the IRA make their moves first,

Jim Cullinan

Our position is that we will address the violations that the court found, that's what we'll do tomorrow. There's several things that are being filed tomorrow, not just a proposed remedy. This isn't just about the proposed remedy, it's about the process of moving ahead, it's about our objections to the government's proposal.

Sarath Amunugama

Our own interaction with the public and different organizations have reflected similar concerns, ... My task is to address all these concerns in a viable economic and financial framework as well as within our overall pro-poor policy framework that our government announced last year.

Song Min

Participants will have to tackle a number of issues, such as the dismantling of North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)'s nuclear weapons program, economic aid and normalization of diplomatic relations, before addressing the construction of new light-water reactors in North Korea,

Graham Henderson

Parliamentarians need to speak out on these issues to address the changing world that we live in, and pass progressive legislation.

Adam Timmerman

Reggie was a great guy to have in the locker room and really meant a lot to us as a team, both on and off the field. He helped me, personally, with my faith, and I looked up to him the whole time. He was too young a man to have this happen to him. I think that anyone who knew Reggie knows that he is in a better place.

Jeremy Hermida

Reggie has probably the most raw tools of anyone I've played with.

Christopher Dunn

Our position is that the police should aggressively investigate anyone whom they suspect of bringing explosives into the system, ... But police searches of subway riders without any suspicions are presumptively unconstitutional.

Wayne Blanton

Our position is that statewide, the school board has a budget and allocates money to all schools in their district. We don't want legislation, the courts or anyone else telling us where to spend portions of (the districts') budgets.

Leonard Downie

Our policy is to immediately notify the authorities if we come into contact with anyone we know has committed a serious crime or threatens to harm anyone, including themselves. Until this young man was arrested and identified, we did not know who he really was or whether he had committed any crime.

Beth Kseniak

Our red carpet is probably bigger than the Oscars red carpet because the photographers know that everyone will come to the party, and everyone who's anyone does come.

S. Hughes

Part of this day really is a celebration of all of the work the motorcyclists have done. They've worked all year long - they don't let anyone off the hook.

Charles Schumer

Part of the president's job is to make sure his staff obeys the laws and he should make sure that anyone indicted in this dastardly outing of a covert operative is immediately dismissed from the White House,

Gary Galloway

Our main objective was not to get anyone killed while trying to save somebody.

Chris Winans

Our own court filings on this matter speak for themselves.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here. After three years of working in the Russian court system our expectations were not particularly high.

Steven Cron

Paula is eager to have her day in court and we are ready to get started.

O. Henry

Our motto is keep kids on the court and out of court.

Sean Williamson

Springdale is just so big and strong that there's no way that we could win a half court game with them. It had to be full court, and we were able to dictate the tempo with some full-court pressure.

David Vitter

Our goal is to have a full and fair debate vote in September, ... If Judge Roberts is to be confirmed, we'd like to have him on the court by the time it goes back into session Oct. 3.

Taurean Green

Our front court guys have been playing great as of late, but teams are going to start to key on them. When they get doubled, the guards are going to have to knock down some shots.

Dmitry Rogozin

Our victory was stolen from us. After a court decision, we found ourselves in a difficult situation, and it is important for us at present to strengthen our organization, rather than dwell on things past.

Stan Carpenter

Our ultimate goal, like most teams, is to make it to the state championship. We think we have a shot. We also have a lot to work on, too. We can't just walk out on the court and expect to win.

Keith Ernst

Our research shows substantial evidence that regulation led to lower interest rates.

David Kass

Our latest research provides firm evidence this drug does indeed have an important impact on the heart

Douglas Green

Our scenario consolidates a lot of evidence from our group and other researchers to explain how p53, Bcl-xL, and PUMA work together to trigger apoptosis.

Dore Gold

Right now the evidence is not very promising.

Hans Blix

I think the more evidence that is placed on the table, if there is some, the better,

Richard Dicker

I think there have been real difficulties and problems in the Milosevic trial. What will be important is the evidence that was presented to indicate the motivation and intent of Milosevic.

Carol Miller

I think there's so much evidence that it won't really make a difference.

David Beito

I think there's some good evidence that more than two people were involved,

Brian Cleary

Last weekend I didn't see any evidence of us being able to stand in and compete. But this weekend I feel that we've been playing hard, which is what we've been harping the team about.

Jacques Rogge

If any sport wants to come in, one will have to go. But no sport will be excluded before 2012.

David Chapman

Mr. Matthew thankfully has been excluded as a suspect, ... He has been conclusively shown not to have any involvement whatsoever in the sexual assault.

Tucker Max

I'm a decent-looking guy, but I've never walked into a room and got a girl because of how I looked. Look, I'm never excluded because of my looks. I just don't stand out.

Auguste Comte

The word 'right' should be excluded from political language, as the word 'cause' from the language of philosophy.

Franz Beckenbauer

Back then, a half-a-century ago, the situation was totally different. Economically, we were practically on our knees, and politically, we were still excluded from the community of nations. Today, in this respect, we have a totally different and much more stable basis.

Neal McLaughlin

When you're traveling around, it's very confusing, especially if you're pointing to one race and something happens and you switch up to go to another race. Maybe the medication was fine for the first race, but now you're excluded from the next race.

John Halpern

Indians who are exclusively honest are excluded because of their honesty, so this may have important bearings even outside of the nuclear issue for those Native Americans who are serving, ... Native Americans serve in the military more than any other race percentage-wise.

Hugo Young

But I also think what you see is a larger segment of society excluded from the mainstream, in effect, an underclass.

Kim Gandy

There is no job that women should be excluded from because of their gender. If you can do the job, you should have an opportunity to get the job. If you can't, you shouldn't be there, male or female.

Ghazi Hamad

Rockets are one of the resistance tools. Our people have the right to resist the occupation. The occupation is the problem and as long as the problem exists our people have the right to resist.

Pete Domenici

that will include the taxes for the president's marginal tax reductions ... and a rebate of the surplus, giving back to the people some of the surplus that exists this year.

Robert Menard

Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.

Stephen Evans

Freedom exists in the experience of the perceiver; it is undeniably unique and scuttled by need for confirmation from others.

Harry Browne

Job was tested, and he proved himself. Because of that he was rewarded greatly, and I think the same opportunity exists for those people suffering so sorely now.

Werner Herzog

Only 30 minutes from where I live, there is a completely hidden and forgotten archive. Nobody even knows that this exists here.

Charles Nelson

Shamrock only exists on St. Patrick's Day. Every other day of the year, it's just young clover.

Billy Gardell

'Mike & Molly' exists in a world where we don't just say a snarky line, make a crazy face, and walk out of the room. There's actually some tender moments here, too.

William Arbaugh

This problem exists whether you use WEP or not, but it is trivial to exploit if not using WEP,

Judy Kirkpatrick

He is irrelevant to the discussion. He needs to stay out. He needs to stay in California.

Claire Danes

Money is only irrelevant if you have it,

Lee Kuan Yew

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

Kevan Barlow

I know he's going to want to probably show us up. He's going to try to, but we're going to prepare for him just like we prepare for (the Rams') Torry Holt and Isaac Bruce. ... I'm sure he was upset, (and) he had some things to say when he left, but that's irrelevant to us in this locker room.

Charles Lamb

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.

John Charles Polanyi

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Leonid Kuchma

Such talks are accompanied by unacceptable preconditions and have no positive issue for discussion,

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Sean McCormack

Our views on that issue are well-known," ()

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Michael Schirp

Our lawyers are looking at it. We'll see if anything can be done.

Milton Smith

Some may have ties to Lawrence County, but most have not.

Rudy Rucker

Physical laws provide, at best, a recipe for how the world might be computed in parallel particle by particle and region by region.

B. R. Ambedkar

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

Bill Shankly

Denis Law could dance on eggshells.

Bill Cosby

The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.

Big Pun

Live like the Kennedy's, above the law.

Big Sean

Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit

Big Sean

Bout to inhale like I'm finnin to see Satan. We're Satanic. It's the law.

Bob Holt

Part of the state-wide scheduling meeting was, some of these schools around the state have had trouble getting games, but if we all do our share ...

Mark Routt

Supply is meeting demand. The real question is at what price.

Sabrina Davis

Some of the meetings are just a big mess. I'm sure if they reduced, they'd run much better.

Kevin Quinn

Our staff has been meeting today with advocates and also with members of the Legislature

Hosni Mubarak

We need another meeting and we need more deliberation,

Vernon Davis

Just from being around them and meeting with them, it seems as if they would take me.

Terry Fleck

That was the first place we said there should be a meeting ­ in Minot.

Robert Mueller

I was in my office when - on 9/11. I think I had a number of meetings scheduled. I was just getting to know the bureau. And somebody walked in and said the first plane had - or a plane had struck the World Trade Center, one of the towers.

Javier Solana

It does not make much sense to have another meeting if there is nothing new to put on the table.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

John Burton

I was actually present when she was examined. She wasn't pregnant. I know she wasn't pregnant.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Carlos Delgado

That's the way it should be. It's not just the present. It's the present and the future.

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Sheridan Samuels

I am here to work. I will have to work with the present administration because they are in charge.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I'll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Others send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music.

Jennifer Gordon

If we can just keep the sunshine going for a week or so, we'll be well on our way to recovery.

David Bowie

I'm really quite bipolar, and the depressed times, when everything felt like night, sometimes you get to such a low point that you physically beat at it until it bleeds - as you would say - bleeds till sunshine.

Abdu'l Baha

When a man turns his face to God he finds sunshine everywhere.

Denis Hayes

The sunshine that strikes American roads each year contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used by the entire world.

Edgar Allan Poe

Read this and thought of you: Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote it is unnecessary to say. ~ Edgar Allen Poe

Alex Garland

When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

Ram Dass

We're sitting under the tree of our thinking minds, wondering why we're not getting any sunshine!

Daphne du Maurier

We are all ghosts of yesterday, and the phantom of tomorrow awaits us alike in sunshine or in shadow, dimly perceived at times, never entirely lost.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.

Jose Pertierra

If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Hillary Clinton

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.