Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wang Dawei

Liu's case could serve as a warning to those who attempt to breach athletes' rights by ambiguous means. His appeal could enhance the awareness of athletes' legal rights.

Greg Behrendt

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

James Bretzke

I think the instruction is Rome's answer to all the different pressures brought to bear on it, ... It's presented in a somewhat ambiguous fashion with in-house vocabulary that allows for a range of interpretation to be taken from it. A lot will depend on where the bishop falls on the issue beforehand.

Kelsey Chow

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.

Rob Henderson

Hence, low bond yields are ambiguous for policy. It's a classic on the one hand, on the other hand speech.

Christopher Hill

Nuclear weapons, nuclear programs are not something that one should leave in an ambiguous state.

Hugh Dancy

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

Friedrich St. Florian

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

Daniel H. Wilson

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

Alexei Mordashov

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

Robert Bianco

Refreshingly original, bracingly adult, and thoroughly delightful, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES is like the answer to a TV prayer you didn't know you'd made.

Edward Kennedy

President Bush should provide the information ... rather than hiding behind a privilege that doesn't exist and encouraging Roberts to not answer questions, ... The American people deserve to know who John Roberts is and where he stands on the vital issues before the country.

Howard Dean

President Bush faces a serious test of leadership. Will he keep his pledge to hold his administration to high ethical standards and give the American people what they deserve, and will he answer to the American people for these serious missteps?

Paula Jones

previous perjured answers he gave under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit.

John Chaney

Our players on the outside, when they make baskets, it answers a lot of questions for us. When we don't make baskets, we're not a good team at all.

Sam Smith

Our quickness came through for us in the end. We lost two seniors to foul trouble and our younger players really answered the call.

Gene Strusz

Part of it is just breaking the routine of life, getting away for 14 days. We're not worrying about paying bills or answering phone calls. Being in New Zealand is like living in the 1950s.

Tim Dougherty

Our offense responded at some key times in the game. Our offense answered three or four times at key times and I think that was a big difference.

Bill Wade

Regardless of what happens in redrafting, the Department of (the) Interior is going to do what it can to get (the Hoffman proposal) in there. It can only be public outcry and influence from Congress that can be brought to bear on this and make the effort to turn it back.

Alexander Medvedev

Preserving such a situation would mean encouraging theft on the path of our gas to Europe. Therefore, all our foreign partners are warned that, while we are doing everything possible to keep up our gas exports to Europe, Ukraine would bear all the responsibility for any possible disruption of exports.

Kathy Fletcher

Our population growth makes everything harder. We've gone down the dumb-growth path for many years. ... Maybe as we see all this bearing down on us, we'll take the smart-growth path.

Gary Galloway

Our main objective was to keep the folks in the county comfortable. We knew we couldn't make things perfect for them, but we wanted to make it more bearable for them.

Hugh Johnson

Ordinarily, we would have a technical bounce at this level. But then the question is, have you seen a bear market bottom? I don't know if we have at this point.

Stephanie Simek

People in bear country have to make sure to keep all sources of food cleaned up outside their homes. Bears home in on a free meal and they keep coming back.

Maureen Allyn

People may not be feeling all that good, but they are trying to cheer themselves up. They're not constrained yet, but I do think it is going to set in. The bear market has taken a big, big bite out of wealth, and history tells us when that happens people do sort of cut back.

John Betjeman

Spirits of well-shot woodcock, partridge, snipe / Flutter and bear him up the Norfolk sky.

Meir Soloveichik

Stanley Hauerwas is correct that Judaism insists on the bearing of children because it is essential to Jewish continuity. But to end the matter there is to miss an essential point: if we are to learn to love others, Judaism says, we must begin by loving those who are closest to us.

Tony Wood

I'm humbled, I'm excited about the opportunity to coach at a school with such a tradition as Bishop Feehan.

Frank Keating

I think there are a number of bishops -- and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category -- who listen too much to his lawyer and not enough to his heart.

Todd Dodge

I think Chase could be all-conference material in any conference he goes to. I think he's in the line of Michael Bishop from Kansas State, and I think he's in the line of Brad Smith. He's got those kind of abilities. He was one point away from taking his team to a state championship in his first year starting. That's what Missouri saw in him; that's why they wanted him.

Bible Bible

For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.

Michael McLachlan

I think it's a nice gesture on the part of Bishop Lori to recognize volunteers in the church. They've always had programs to recognize high profile people and this is a nice way to recognize the people in the trenches.

Sydney Smith

Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot

David Gibson

I don't think it necessarily calls for a technical fix, but it's important for what it says about the credibility of the bishops and the confidence Catholics have in their hierarchy.

Sandy Johnson

We mentioned it coming in here that we thought it might hurt Bishop Hill because of the prices.

Alberto Melloni

He has to decide whether to hold a synod different from the past, in which bishops have the possibility not only of being listened to but of making decisions.

Jeff Froelich

Reed-Custer left its nerves in the locker room, we brought ours with us. We did a good job sticking with it and kept gutting, gutting and gutting it out.

Ndamukong Suh

Really, you just play football; that's all I can do... I don't change. I'm going to always play tough, hard - that's the way I was brought up at Nebraska, where I really learned football from the Pelinis and that staff and continue to play hard, play blue-collar football.

Friso Abbing

Relations are really good right now. Maybe the bombings in Madrid and London have brought the two continents together.

Gene Upshaw

Paul brought up comments that John made after the game. I guarantee you, that's not helping my case.

Jeremy Lavoie

Patrick gave our team a big lift with the energy he brought to the court. He changed our flow in the second half.

Atharva Veda

Peace and tranquility have come; the Guru, the Lord of the Universe, has brought it. The burning sins have departed, O my Siblings of Destiny.

Shamil Basayev

Our losses were high because five days before the operation there was a serious leak of information and the infidels brought in an extra 1,000 special forces troops.

Stevie Schmidt

People have come up to us and said, 'We live in Grand Chute, we'd like the same thing, we love the situation in Appleton, we want to keep it, we wish we could vote,' and they could vote if it was brought to them in their areas.

Ben Wagner

People have brought trumpets on stage, we have had people use violins.

Mike McCurry

Our relations with the Russian Federation depend less on personality and more on policy." ()

Rick Hohenthaner

Our play will be depending on the focus we regain after a week and a half off. I expect the ladies will rise to the occasion versus Hudson.

Djibril Cisse

Our relationship is a professional one. We have no problems. If he works hard for the team he can play more games, but it depends also on his team mates.

Marek Belka

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.

Gordon Brown

Past economic transformations depended as much on brawn as well as on brains.

Robert Hall

Our long-term goal is to minimize dependence on fossil fuels, and we will get there by deploying a wide variety of new automotive technologies in our fleet.

Hugh Nall

Steven will get in after the first two series depending on how things are going.

Steve Hunter

Some fungicides don't hurt the bees. It just depends what kind the farmer uses.

Craig Obey

That could be potentially devastating to the parks, depending on how it turns out.

Frank Griswold

Such thinking -- in which the responsibility for repentance, restoration and healing falls exclusively on one side of a disagreement -- is not the way of reconciliation laid out for us by the Scripture.

Gerald Curtis

The answer, unless he falls flat on his face, is Abe. He's tall, he's nice-looking, he's young...He stands up for Japan and is tough on North Korea and China.

Lawrence Eagleburger

I think, unless Saddam Hussein falls in a hole one day or somebody shoots him in the head, I personally think he is prepared to go down with his ship.

Lee Fisher

Lately, we've been playing really well in the first half and it really lifts us. The kids know if they come out to a good start, everything falls into place.

Steve Porter

Little Falls was very well prepared tonight. They may only have one win but if they play like that they're going to win some games down the stretch.

Fred Thompson

I think, for most of the people in Taiwan, a pretty substantial margin falls somewhere in the middle, and it'll remain that way for some time.

Tony McCoy

A helmet is the most important part of any jockey's kit because of the number of falls you take, so I wouldn't want to be wearing anything on the track unless it had been thoroughly tested.

Oprah Winfrey

If Oprah falls into the hands of Scientology, who can tell what influence she might have on the population? The prospect is terrifying.

Aviv Kochavi

From now on, ... responsibility for what happens in Gaza falls on the Palestinian Authority.

Kaoru Yosano

Overall, (the recovery) is progressing forward in a well-balanced fashion.

Bill Burgess

Our ultimate goal is to have all landlords maintain their properties in a safe and sanitary fashion.

Beck

Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

Azzedine Alaia

Who can really say who invents something first in fashion?

Azzedine Alaia

Bill Cunningham he knows fashion better than anybody.

Azzedine Alaia

The present fashion system is too hard - there are too many collections. The designers have no time to think! Money is too important. Schedules are too crazy.

Azzedine Alaia

I make clothes, women make fashion.

Azzedine Alaia

Fashion will last forever. It will exist always. It will exist in its own way in each era. I live in the moment. It's interesting to know the old methods. But you have to live in the present moment.

Dr. Drazen

We need people to fill out all the fields in a meaningful fashion. Everyone ought to know what's going on.

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?

Ryan Evanochko

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

Chief Bender

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

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

O. Henry

The plaque we presented was to commemorate the installation of the floor.

Michael Levine

Women are presented with wedding gowns. That's all we can say right now.

Robert Webb

The strength of 'Peep Show' has always been that that it's quite traditional, but it's obviously presented in a very new way.

Bob White

That's our frustration - the way it's presented to the community.

Rob Lowe

I feel pressures to stay relevant. To stay interesting and interested. To stay at the top of my game and expand.

Darren Kimball

When I look at 2006, I see a lot of the same pressures I saw in 2005.

Alastair Campbell

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

Mark Zandi

My sense is, there will be more inflationary pressures going forward.

Lawrence Eagleburger

My point here is I think international pressures of our acting unilaterally again are going to be such that the administration will say, well, we just can't take this on now.

Warren Christopher

not succumb to suggestions or pressures that they leave.

Mark Whitaker

The bottom-line pressures at Time Inc. are no secret,

Scott Graham

Overall, I think the (Federal Reserve) is on the sidelines and we're probably back to a range trade.

Alan Hoffman

I think still we're in a trading range that we've been in since October,

Randy Woods

The range is 40 yards and in, preferably 30 yards and in. And every manufacturer will tell you the same thing.

Peter McTeague

We're pretty much spinning wheels in a pretty tight range from Friday.

Ayn Rand

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

Michael Pietsch

She has a remarkable range of capabilities, a seeming effortlessness. That's more astonishing than anything.

Ellen Borakove

Many are in the size range of 1 1/16th of an inch.

David Atkinson

I think we have a whole range of other strengths out there that we should be cultivating and celebrating.

Fletcher Smith

We still have a ways to go but I'm optimistic. We'll have to wait and see, but I think we all know where the range is.

Nick Saban

Right tackle has been somewhat of a problem,

Dave McCoy

We're pretty much just waiting. It's somewhat frustrating." ()

Jeff Evans

She's cooperating, she's upset. Somewhat relieved, she said.

Dudley North

Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.

Gary Goddard

I think we probably get somewhat better prices,

Charles Bona

The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable.

David Spade

Everyone is so weird in L.A. that if you're somewhat normal, it's exotic.

David Pittman

That's why I think this study is somewhat surprising.

Jack Kilby

It's also somewhat in the center of a number of things that will be useful to the company.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Big Pun

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

C. S. Lewis

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Beck

Eventually, if you're experimenting with a sound that's unfamiliar, it gets absorbed, and somebody comes and does it better, and it becomes part of a vocabulary.

Charles R. Swindoll

Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary.

Carl Sandburg

Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Edward Herrmann

Humor is not far from my vocabulary.

Edward Abbey

The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.

Adrian Belew

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.

Logan Pearsall Smith

The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

Alexander MacLaren

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.