Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Newman

Organizations that have been granted tax-exempt status ought not endorse specific candidates for public office. What we have in Odessa, what some people actually seem to be proud of, is an ongoing problem with separating the prerogatives of church and state.

Wayne Clough

Our search has been thorough and complete. Every name was put into a pot, and Dan was unanimously chosen. There was a strong pool of candidates for this position. We have left no stone unturned and have considered candidates from around the nation, from a range of institutions and from nontraditional sources.

Cyrus Mehri

Our focus for the future is OK; now we've improved the process -- minority candidates are in the room being interviewed. Our next question is, when the doors close, and the owner makes the decision, who's in that inner circle?

Craig McDonald

Overall, I think the voters spoke pretty loudly that they like the independence of their own hand-picked candidates over a billionaire from San Antonio.

Karen Roberts

Really, it's the foundation of democracy. Any citizen can go to the precinct convention, take an issue or a concern, and ultimately take it to the state party and in other years all the way to the national party and the presidential candidates themselves.

Piero Grasso

Making those under investigation candidates could send a message that the mafia appreciates, a message of impunity, a challenge to the justice system.

Rudi Giuliani

I think they want real candidates who really tell people what they think, and are actually willing to lose rather than distort their position,

Regina Lewis

It is a more personal medium than a lot of people give it credit for. Keep in mind, you are six inches from your computer. You are very focused. The candidates have one shot to make an impression.

Jack Siedlecki

I think there?s a lot of viable candidates and a lot of times they look at somebody that?s done more, shown more ... It?s a real commitment for a kid, in the short term, to come back for a fifth year. And I think that makes an impression on (the players).

Don Swarthout

Our message is about Revival in our Churches and the Restoration of Godly principles in our daily lives.

David Wallace

People have the misconception that churches have deep pockets. What they don't realize is that we are a nonprofit and we rely on the items to conduct our services. It's not just robbing an institution; it's robbing people.

Jeff Gray

Some have been put in contact with local church groups from contacts back home, some have family members in Arizona; it runs the gamut.

Gerry Cruz

Some GPSS employees were not clear on the policies regarding church and state issues so (the memo) was just a matter of guidance. This is the same policy that all state and federally funded school districts throughout the nation follow.

Robert Ingersoll

That church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves;

Peter Peterson

Our five churches have paired together to help support (Louisiana Memorial), sending money,

Dave Parker

Out of 500 deals I've done, this is how I've done all of them, ... Ours is a straight deal. I just finished a similar deal with a national church organization. I'm really surprised.

Lars Trier

Reproduction is a little stupid. You have to put a little something in. It's like in the church you pay a little money to the tithe.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECTOR, n. In the Church of England, the Third Person of the parochial Trinity, the Cruate and the Vicar being the other two.

Kevin McCarthy

Management did endorse year-year EPS growth in the fourth quarter, and further improvement in 2006 vs. 2005, which is saying something in today's environment,

Tim Dunn

We now need to work together to win this race and I fully endorse Larry and his campaign.

Dan Onorato

I think it's totally irresponsible for me, the mayor or the governor to endorse any of these plans.

David Farabee

I won't endorse the way the leadership has handled this,

Chris Wallace

It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.

Julia Butterfly Hill

I don't endorse products, only actions and beliefs.

David Coverdale

I can't endorse Napster because I'm a professional musician, but Napster did give me the idea that I can give something back to my supporters.

Michael Chertoff

From my own experience, I don't endorse those views,

Craig Kilborn

John Kerry was officially endorsed by Dick Gephardt, and Kerry said, 'What did I ever do to you?'

Source Unknown

Many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to live to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.

Vance Moss

Here, it's taken for granted ? antibiotics, drainage equipment. There, as a surgeon, we have to use the basics.

Elizabeth Thomas

Had we not participated in those meetings, DASA might not have granted certification.

Ann Sims

None of this has been granted for us yet to use.

Albert Schweitzer

It is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest.

Adam Rayner

If somebody knew every time they did something it was going to be a hit there would never be any failures. Sadly, that's not how it works. You take nothing for granted.

David Tennant

I was very small, about 3 or 4 I think, and just wanted to be the people on telly telling these wonderful stories. Obviously the idea grew and matured with me but I can't ever remember wanting to do anything else. I've just sort of taken it for granted all my life that that was what I would do.

Steve MacDonald

We can't take it for granted for sure.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

B. J. Novak

I do not have very much office experience.

Bill Cosby

This happened to the people. The Constitution says of the people, by the people, for the people... but the people who got the office, got into office and forgot about the people.

Carl Sagan

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Terry Shea

The assessor's office respectfully disagrees with some of the court's rulings.

Chan Gailey

I think I'm going to go back to the office and see the trainers,

Michael Procopio

He walked straight into the recruitment office and he said, 'You don't have to give me any of your speeches.' He told them he wanted to sign up, and he wanted to sign up for the infantry.

Dave Miller

He used my office to make phone calls,

Bill Vaughan

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

Stephen Urban

That work (surveying) is still ongoing and I'm awaiting the results, Urban said.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Patrick Perry

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Richard Richards

I still think they ought to give it back,

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Ryan MacDonald

Our problem (was that the DWI unit) was pulling over everyone, sober, un-sober,

Beck

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

B. F. Skinner

Problem-solving typically involves the construction of discriminative stimuli

Bill Burton

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems? And the truth is, Donald Trump is not showing strength in any of the big states that he would need in order to actually get to 270. And Hillary Clinton is showing herself to be remarkably stable in all the states that she needs.

Tom Smith

The anticipation would have been that problems would have been down.

Craig Conroy

That's been our problem -- we haven't been able to score goals.

Tom Collins

It isn't a problem unless you want it to be

William Pickens

It is not the ought-ness of this problem that we have to consider, but the is-ness!

Fran Dunphy

I wish that was the only problem we had.

Ryan Giggs

Records are not important to me at this stage and I don't consciously think about them, but they are something I will be able to look back on proudly when I have finished.

Julie Futch

Our school has never done anything like this. We've established something to be proud of at Auburn Riverside.

Bill Shankly

Although I'm a Scot, I'd be proud to be called a Scouser.

Big Sean

I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.

John Torchetti

I was just proud of our whole team. This is a team win if I have ever seen one. From the goalie out, we competed.

Sammy Day

That was a tough loss. But they battled back and I was proud of them.

Catherine Young

That streak is really important to us. We are proud of it and want to keep it going as long as we can.

Stacy Dent

That's awesome. I am so proud of all of you.

Ron Hassler

I was proud of how we competed, but they were able to take us out of some of the things we like to run.

Stephen Blythe

Releasing it to the public would not be the right thing to do.

Dean Laidley

It is not for public consumption, but we have a lot of work to do this week.

Pat Gillick

He's a blue-collar guy. And he's somebody that the public will like.

Charles Ray

Her public service announcement for us went out all over the nation,

Larry Nixon

He's always done things no one's surprised at, whether it's for publicity or by accident.

Tom Davies

He's going to have to give an explanation somewhere for how it got into his system, ... His public explanation is that he doesn't know how it happened.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Yvonne Johnson

I go for public safety ... for public health.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Anthony Goldbloom

Startup stories are always smoother in the telling than they are in reality. A startup is not one, but a series of 'Aha!' moments, and some which seem like 'Aha!' moments but turn out not to be.

Tim Martin

Really it does seem like it was just yesterday.

Cecelia Ahern

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Jim Boeheim

I think there should be an expansion. Whatever seems to fit.

Quinton Ross

That was incredible. It seemed like he made every shot tonight. Every time he got the ball, he made a shot.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

Fergal Murray

That?s the one everyone seems to go straight for.

Jim Colborn

I was very impressed. He seemed to get stronger as he went along. He stayed in his delivery.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Sebastian Stan

Embrace your differences and the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually, they're going to be the only things separating you from everyone else.

Norman Cook

On top of the horror of separating from your wife, you have to go through it in public.

Joe Humasti

If you look at the scores, there's only 24 strokes separating first and sixth place. That's not a lot of strokes.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

David Gilmour

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Walter Salles

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.

ASAP Ferg

I don't have a specific style. My style is unorthodox; that is my style. So you can't really place me here, place me there, because my style is just to be anywhere, you know what I'm saying?

Hilary Rhoda

I've never had a specific style philosophy. I wear what I know works on me and I'll play around with accessories or some other fun additions for the outfit.

Kent Kanoy

That's what he is, he's the status quo.

Jodi Whitaker

His status is as it was in (Wednesday's) briefing.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

The status quo is working.

Clark Kerr

The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.

Vladimir Yevseyev

In view of the time shortage, the status of the negotiations could also be raised.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well. ... They don't think there's any type of concussion or anything like that, but where his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure.

Billy Donovan

The surgery went well, but what his status is for Sunday, I'm not really sure right now.

Natalie Clifford Barney

In love there is no status quo.

Mary Browne

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.