Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Henderson

Like people who have swerved over a cliff on a dangerous road, we feel obligated to petition for a hazard sign to protect others.

Peter MacKay

I would say they've got their foot on the gas and they are about to head off a cliff because they are not willing to talk, they are not willing to compromise.

Jan LaRue

Judge Roberts deserves overwhelming bi-partisan confirmation by the Senate. Only those willing to jump off a political cliff by joining hands with the die-hard abortion, gay rights and environmental groups can be expected to oppose this supremely qualified nominee.

Joe Falconer

Basically, we all love Colorado. It's all about camaraderie and telling a lie about how big a cliff you jumped off of.

Nell Minow

He runs off the cliff and then realizes there's nothing underneath him.

Robert Mullen

We may be going over the cliff if we don't do something.

Rob Schneider

I have been on the edge of a cliff for a while,

Stacey Widlitz

When the industry was falling off a cliff they made a huge acquisition which was a huge mistake. That's what's driving them into bankruptcy.

The Bride

LOOK You see, The Cliffs of Insanity, Hurry up move the thing, and, and that other thing, MOVE IT

Farrell Quinlan

Our position has been that employment of immigrants is a federal issue, and it deserves a federal response. But if the federal government doesn't act, you're going to see the states try to fill the void.

Steve Harmison

Paul Gascoigne is a North East legend who deserves everything he gets from a function like this.

Bus Cook

Steve deserves to be treated better after he's done so much for them.

Tom Duxbury

Stardust has performed flawlessly these last seven years ... and deserves a rest for a while.

Pat Summitt

I think this team deserves a No. 1. Now, whether we're going to get it or not, that's up to the committee.

Ezria Parsons

Jess is so smooth and quiet, I hardly know she's scoring that many points. We know she's going to go out and get hers, regardless. She deserves that because she works for it.

Nancy Keenan

The American public deserves answers. Her record is so thin we don't know anything about her.

Steve Downie

That was huge by Dawson. He stepped up for this team. He deserves it because he works so hard for us.

Publilius Syrus

It is not every question which deserves an answer.

B. F. Skinner

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

James Johnston

I think Landco will come up with something that's very palatable in an environmental sense, but to me any form of development is out of the question.

Jose Gasset

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Zac Goldsmith

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues.

Zhou Shengxian

If in the past, in terms of environmental protection, we were very passive ... now there has been a U-turn.

Gisele Bundchen

I feel privileged to be a U.N. ambassador. It gives me an opportunity to use my voice to help raise awareness about important social and environmental issues.

Michael Town

From an environmental perspective, we should be responsible for our own waste.

Gloria Bergquist

I think it's an overall trend that environmental standards and safety standards are getting tighter and tighter. When you have an event like this (Firestone recall), that raises sensitivity about getting the safest vehicle possible.

Woody Harrelson

Bur I think all the environmental groups have to focus on at least one main issue together. That's the move we need to do right now.

Rosevelt Colvin

Regardless of who's on the field, the guys are required to perform at a high level. So, regardless if it's Richard or if it's a rookie, you're expected to get the job done.

Marcelo Porto

Our market was out of the game for two days, while there were losses abroad. It has readjusted prices in a moderate way. I had expected a worse day.

Joe Eberhardt

Our model mix, which was rejuvenated in the past months, and expected higher unit sales in the future are set to increase profitability automatically.

Joel Greenlee

Overall it was a pretty good weekend for us but I really expected us to get the win over Virginia. There were about three more matches that we should have won but that's how it goes sometimes. You can't give up back points like we did late in those matches.

Jacques Rogge

Overall, it's been what we expected ? not really what we had wished.

David Law

Overall, I'm happy with the job they did. I told them from day one I expected them to be in the championship game.

Jim Silver

Over $500 million last year was spent on Harry Potter toys and this year is expected to be even bigger.

Bobby Bowden

Out of all of them, he would have been the least one we expected to do what he was doing. We didn't know how he could play like he's playing right now.

Elden Auker

Pitchers today are only expected to pitch into the sixth inning.

Chris Sullivan

Paul George (principal planner with the Jackson Planning Department) kept telling them the noise and the traffic (from the bar) would not be a problem. That is why I think it is a gay issue.

Matt Williams

People judge gays before they meet them. They're really good, as you can see.

B. D. Wong

I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.

Bill Condon

When it comes to two of the big social earthquakes in the last fifty years - which are the gay movement and the women's movement - I think there is a direct line from Kinsey to those.

Carrie Underwood

Above all, God wanted us to love others. We have to love each other and get on with each other, she added. It's not up to me to judge anybody.

Carrie Underwood

As a married person myself, I don't know what it's like to be told I can't marry somebody I love, and want to marry, I can't imagine how that must feel. I definitely think we should all have the right to love, and love publicly, the people that we want to love

Bette Davis

Gay Liberation? I ain't against it, it's just that there's nothing in it for me.

Bernadette Peters

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woman; and playing Chekhov. The scariest part was playing Chekhov!

Bernadette Peters

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

John Reid

Parties -- and the paramilitary groups -- have to play their part

Louis Navellier

Optimization tells us precisely how to diversify the portfolio, whether I should have 12% in semiconductors or 4% in biotech, etc., and it literally tells me how to diversify not only the industry groups but the stocks.

Ryan Julison

Some of these groups have legitimate concerns. Some just oppose development.

Jennifer Best

Some groups are worried that, if that happens, they won't have the volunteers they need.

Bob DuPuy

plans to talk to people involved with various groups he does not know. After that, we should be in a better position to make a recommendation.

Bill Dixon

Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.

Bill Peterson

I want you guys to pair up in groups of three and then line up in a circle.

Jeffrey Osborne

I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.

Richard Young

I think it's human nature that we all tend to do much better in groups than we do alone.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Sergio Ramos

Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.

Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Jonathan Bass

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

Sondhi Limthongkul

Our Monday protest will have more people joining from the provinces.

Graeme Smith

I think he will be joining the squad (this week). I don't know if he will be playing though.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joining a new church and starting a new life is never easy and often frightening.

Nick Logan

We did try. At this point, he will not be joining us.

Greg Steinhoff

We are joining with other Midwest states to get over the fly-over syndrome that we suffer from. We are making it known that there are tremendous biotech resources in the region.

Don Swarthout

We have seven new programmers joining us this month.

Audre Lorde

When we define ourselves, when I define myself, the place in which I am like you and the place in which I am not like you, I'm not excluding you from the joining - I'm broadening the joining.

Noel Redding

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

Justin Hartley

I'm so pumped about joining 'Y&R' - I watch it all the time and can't wait to get in there and get my hands dirty!

Doug Anderson

That could reduce the population by 200 inmates, ... The judges are supposed to come in soon.

Yemane Gebremeskel

Meles is not the judge in this case.

John Scott

It is better the law should be certain, than that every Judge should speculate upon improvements in it

Don Samuel

Just get rid of judges altogether. Just let the Legislature set the sentences.

Tony Dungy

I think that is probably how he'll be judged in the short run.

Sharon Osbourne

Last year I thought it was all about me actually. I thought it was all about the judges and that we could do what we wanted. But it's really not, in the big scheme of things.

L'Wren Scott

I was worried that in London I would be judged for who I know rather than what I do. In New York, I am known for fashion.

Stacey Koerner

I think Judge Judy is, like Oprah, sort of the star of her genre.

Kate Reed

I thought I pulled it together for the the last jump, it was the most pressure I've ever felt. Unfortunately the judges didn't see it that way.

Matt Osborne

Parks was open, just sitting there. It was just a scramble and then just a little jump shot.

Kenny Williams

That could be part of the explanation, ... That maybe we did jump out there and then lose that edge.

Persian Proverb

Risk - If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Persian Proverbs

Risk -- If one has to jump a stream and knows how wide it is, he will not jump. If he doesn't know how wide it is, he'll jump and six times out of ten he'll make it.

Stan Heath

We need a big jump there. Our team should be a plus-five rebounding team.

Rick Thomas

I was a little nervous, because it's a big jump from the JV up to the varsity.

Matt Harpring

I was just getting some open shots. I was just taking the jump shot when I had it.

Nelson Chamisa

It is an unfortunate and surprising incident. We were surprised to be told to go back when we had not violated any immigration laws. We did not jump the border.

Herb Stratford

I think there is so much going on in this building, it's so beautiful, people don't really find them. They don't jump out.

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste

I still take my own lunches to work. That way I can control what I'm eating, as opposed to another doughnut.

Michael Town

I think if enough people tell him they oppose it, he will listen.

Charles Moore

I don't go there. It's why they give and how they give that is important, as opposed to how much they give.

Liu Jianchao

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Black film,' that term allows studios to just marginalize a movie and say, 'We've made our black film. We've made our film with people of color in it,' as opposed to, 'I just feel like people of color should be in every genre.'

Brian Higgins

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

John Boyne

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

Thabo Mbeki

Our political relations can only go from strength to strength,

Ghazi Hamad

We need more talks to settle differences in the political agenda.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

Manouchehr Mottaki

It is a political declaration and it is unjust.

Chris Tarry

I think there is will, political and governmental, for a deal. And its about time.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Jack Warner

I still want to get (sophomore) Leah Kincaid regionally qualified in the long jump, and I would like to get the (400-meter relay) team regionally qualified.

Elizabeth Dole

go for the most qualified people, but there's not going to be a litmus test.

James Garner

What was I qualified to do to make a living? Nothing. You don't need qualifications as an actor or a politician. And I didn't want to be a politician.

Dr. Manniko

This year she has qualified for the Olympics.

E. O. Wilson

Marv is a very qualified individual, and I don't know whether that will take place or not.

Pat Buchanan

There's no way this woman is qualified for the United States Supreme Court,

Jack Ma

Don't hire the most qualified, hire the craziest

Michael Zolensky

By this week, more than 200 samples will be circulating. Everyone who wants one, and who is qualified to do the analysis, will have one.

Tom Johnson

They're very well qualified to talk about what they're going to talk about.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Katherine Harris

You know, I think it's so important that Roberts is confirmed. And so we've insisted, we've promoted, we've cajoled, advocated for his confirmation.

Brad Berenson

They're probably going to turn back to the Roberts model.

Michael Bennett

I probably would have voted against Justice Thomas, and, and, and I've been disappointed by what Justice Roberts has done.

Jennifer Tilly

If you have Julia Roberts in a movie you're never really afraid for her because you know she's not going to die.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Cornel West

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth