Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. E. Lawrence

Rebellions can be made by 2 percent actively in the striking force and 98 percent passively sympathetic.

Tom Wilson

Our relationship with Sterling Bank & Trust has been active for many years. They have steadily increased their involvement with us and have shared in our successes. This naming rights agreement puts the Sterling name and brand identity on a club that will set the standard for luxurious, upscale hospitality in Detroit and, for that matter, all of professional sports. Sterling has made a substantial investment in our new addition and we are confident that they are going to receive a great return.

Michael Moskow

Participants in the markets are working actively to figure out alternative distribution routes and alternative transportation systems to move their products,

Mark Mershon

Park actively lobbied UN officials to establish the program, while extracting millions of dollars from profiteering Iraqi officials for his efforts.

John Berlin

(Paul) is a great person. She's a great athlete, a great competitor, a very good student. Everybody likes her. She is active in the school. She is just a great kid.

Al DiGuido

Our latest research confirms a major change in consumers? behavior as it relates to the way they choose to interact with the brands they love and trust. For retailers with a credit card offering, this represents an enormous opportunity to craft relevant, timely e-mail communications that not only save costs but generate incremental revenue opportunities and customer satisfaction. The retailers who fail to capitalize on this opportunity will soon find themselves losing market share to those who are more actively offering and promoting this service to their most loyal of customers.

S. Walker

Our last compensation discussion detailed a proposal that on average would have made Nate one of the five highest paid active NBA coaches,

Elizabeth Smith

Our mission and outreach group is very proactive. Rob Ingram was very active and very involved in the affairs of the children. He always wanted to do things for them.

Robin Pearson

Our message is that we not only want the community to be physically active the day of Step Up Florida, but to make physical activity a way of life. Remember 60-a day the Florida way.

Jaime Ortega

President Castro assured us the pope will be received by all the people and will have maximum freedom to express himself, to move and to do whatever he wants,

Mike Detillier

Patrick Willis, man, if he had come out, he would've been a pretty high pick. But he wasn't assured of being a first-round pick and he's coming off the injury. He did the smart thing and he'll be one of the top players, not only in the (Southeastern Conference), but in the country.

Gregory Nojeim

Passengers not legitimately under suspicion should not have to fear that their private effects and private lives will be held up to public scrutiny, ... Safety and privacy will not be assured if people are targeted for searches based on incorrect criteria instead of evidence.

Bill Thies

People have a sense that they can go in at 55 and be assured they're not going to get Alzheimer's.

Susan Wilson

People may think there are flooding issues. We want to make people aware of the work we are doing, why we are doing it and assure them there is nothing to worry about.

Derick Virgil

Someone on this campus is dealing with this issue. We can be assured of that.

Tom Maletis

Our goal is to keep it here for as long as we possibly can. Obviously we have concerns with infrastructure, but Lyle (Anderson) has assured us he is going to look at our needs and do everything he can to meet them and make this our home.

Mack Brown

Our friendship has come out of respect. Gary's honest, and his program goes by the rules. I know those kids are disciplined, and we've got a lot of people on my staff who have been around the Colorado program that assured me of those things early. I've been able to see those things first-hand by being around Gary more.

Mack Brown

Our friendship has come out of respect, ... Gary's honest, and his program goes by the rules. I know those kids are disciplined, and we've got a lot of people on my staff who have been around the Colorado program that assured me of those things early. I've been able to see those things first-hand by being around Gary more.

Bob Bennett

Our position is this is a baseless, frivolous case we have no intention of settling.

Jeff Kagan

Parents will love this feature. Kids will find it a mixed bag. They like the protection it provides just in case they get in trouble and need help, but some kids may not like their parents knowing where they are every minute.

Peter Misek

Patent law and case law do not intersect until the very end.

Paul Matthews

Part of this case rests on the tiny shoulders of that 5-year-old,

Joe Browne

Our main goal now is to get it cleaned up and that is our next project. I am going to meet with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Now that the criminal case is resolved, we are hoping we can get them to be a little more responsive to helping Grayson County get that cleaned up.

Rick Santorum

People know what I stand for and why I stand for it, ... I don't think that's the case with my opponent.

David Poile

Our defense was OK, but OK isn't good enough for the NHL, and OK doesn't get you to the playoffs. So it's probably a classic case of possibly taking a step back to take a couple of steps forward. I think if we can just get this younger group the chance to gain some experience, in time they could actually be better than the veteran crew that we had last year. It's a risk, it's definitely a gamble, but we've cleared the deck to get these younger guys a chance.

Hun Sen

Suspension is possible only if the case has not yet entered its investigation phase. So neither suspension nor withdrawal (of the cases) is possible.

Gabriel Claudio

Such is not the case in the Philippines where there is far greater optimism on the part of Filipinos than their counterparts in Thailand.

Neal Shapiro

Reflecting on all of this, I've concluded that it's time to move on to a new challenge,

Salah Abdessalam

Our talks today were concluded without reaching any deal.

Michael Seraphin

Results were mixed at best. The only thing they really concluded was that they could reduce the prevalence of the disease but not eradicate it.

Thomas Pickering

It is not hard to conclude that no military solution seems possible despite the fact that the war seesaws, and one side gains or loses, ... It does seem rational --and sometimes rationality doesn't inform all of these judgments -- that the two sides should negotiate together.

Patrick Craven

It is imperative that all parties to the dispute come to the table now and conclude this matter. They have no choice.

Bob Fulton

It is irresponsible to conclude that we don't have enough water. You can't just imagine you have a problem, you have to document it.

Fred Thompson

It is consistent to conclude this was a money-related event,

Tom Kloza

It is difficult to look forward to the first 100 or 200 days of 2006 and not conclude that the year will be reminiscent of 2005 with powerful and pronounced updrafts on prices.

Rush Limbaugh

From my point of view, the end result will be as if I had gone to court and won, but the matter is concluded much sooner. I have spent thousands of hours and millions of dollars with lawyers over the past 27 months fighting this at every stage.

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.

O. J. Simpson

People have questions. It's had a negative impact on the fishermen.

Javier Solana

Steps are urgently needed to improve the visibility, impact and effectiveness

Dr. Jain

Our findings show that the technology is unlikely to be used by the majority of Americans and should not have an impact on the natural sex ratio.

Jason Gibbs

Our view is that this is an isolated incident and the value of the registry to parents and communities outweighs the impact of one isolated incident.

Justin Gray

Man, they made some tough shots. The three-pointers can impact the game. Especially when you give them up in a row.

Barry Manilow

Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.

Bill Crawford

The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact on our lives.

Bethany Hamilton

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Tom Cech

It is a target that could impact a wide variety of cancers.

Steve Hartman

He understands that because he's a Muslim and this involves terrorism a lot people presume he's guilty.

William Empson

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Dennis C. Blair

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

Trip Adler

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Anthony Fauci

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

H. Hart

There is only one way to retaliate, and that involves shooting yourself in the foot.

Darrin Zeer

Travel involves a lot of waiting. I thought, 'Wow, what a perfect time to do a pose or take a breath. Yoga is so portable.

Tom Hodgkinson

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

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.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Liu Jianchao

it is appropriate now to refer this question to the U.N. Security Council.

Cliff May

I think there's no question that he has, I would say, support from the White House,

MaryEllen Elia

I think there's no question we have some things that we need to do.

Tracy Austin

I think there are more questions in the first week than we've seen in a long time.

Nicole Vaidisova

I think the question is, 'What was not the problem?

Jeff Tedford

That was a tough start for him, no question about it,

Brent Bracelin

That will happen. The question now is the magnitude.

Patrick Murphy

That wasn't the time to question our government,

Christine Pelosi

'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imperious imperatives.

Billy Graham

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

Mike Wallace

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Sue Allen

We have a lot of retired women. We all keep pretty busy.

Jim Pattison

What I like most about an aquarium is that all ages, from toddlers to pre-schoolers to retired grandparents, can really enjoy the wonders of the sea.

Jennifer Capriati

There's no timetable right now. I can't say one way or the other, but I'm not retired by all means.

Jeff Garlin

I don't think I'm ever going to retire from stand-up, but what I have retired from is working the road every week.

Shane Warne

I must have said it 14 000 times. I have retired and I have no aspirations to return.

Sacheen Littlefeather

I'm officially retired as the refuser of Academy Awards.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Robert Matthews

I had many, many wonderful conversations with her about everything under the sun. She was one tremendous person.

Russ Boyer

He's a tremendous defender. He does a lot for us back there.

Joel Quenneville

He's had a tremendous year, I'll tell you,

Lloyd Carr

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

Jane Gardam

Mum was a tremendous Anglo-Catholic. Very impressive, actually. She made me go to church for years - I still don't want to because of that.

Jim Gresh

She's just a tremendous athlete. She can do it all. She's very versatile, and she can really play any position.

Michael Foley

There is a tremendous untapped marketplace here in Mexico.

Chris Jordan

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.