Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salih Mutlaq

We have no court in Iraq to trust.

Jim Gorman

We want fans to see them off the court as well as on it.

LeBron James

We've spoken all year. We all just talk about just trying to lead our team. We're not saying all the way to the finals, but when I say lead our team, that's just going out and doing the right thing, on the court and off the court.

Mark Bennett

The court will draw, by lot, 15 of its judges and then the court will decide whether it will hear oral arguments, whether to take new briefs and on what schedule they'll decide the case.

Thomas Howell

The court was satisfied that the issues had been treated responsibly by the Fourth Circuit,

Fernando Gonzalez

The court was OK, I guess. There were a lot of people. Everywhere I play I find some fans and it is a big help.

Mike Daniels

The court was a big factor, because we've been playing on the AVP court for the past two years. It felt like we were serving into the ocean. You couldn't miss.

Sharon Taylor

the fact a court suppressed a statement does not necessarily mean our detectives did anything wrong.

Julian Sensley

We usually don't let teams run up and down the court like that.

William Shakespeare

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there.

Kenneth Blackwell

They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.

Ken Starr

Lying under oath, and encouraging lies under oath, does go to the very heart and soul of what courts do. If we say we don't care, let's forget about courts, and we'll just have other ways of figuring out how to handle disputes.

Stephen J. Field

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed.

Jim McIngvale

We're going to get the French guys back over here, give them some wine and get these courts back in the shape they're supposed to be in.

Tom Donohue

Missouri is a great example of a state that has taken substantive steps to fix its legal system. In the last year, Missouri has passed one of the most comprehensive legal reform packages in the country, including legislation that keeps people from shopping around the state for the friendliest courts in which to sue.

Jim Daugherty

Last year we had a recruit in here, and all we had to show them was the blueprints. Now the courts have made us feel like we have had a home from Day 1.

Joel Salatin

Unfortunately in the U.S., the courts have pretty much sided with the GMO lobby and suggesting that a farmer has no rights to be protected from GMO contamination.

Bill Threlkeld

We feel the courts in the end will see it our way, but we have to let that process go through.

Stephen Flynn

We have no idea who's in the ports. And many of the folks who come in to service the ports, that drive the trucks back and forth, are people who don't have very distinguished backgrounds. May have criminal backgrounds.

Terry Ebbert

We have no criminal justice system functioning today.

Ralph Brown

We have some criminals out there. That's why we have lights and security people at Wal-Mart.

Craig Montgomery

We want Occidental Park to be a place where more people of all incomes gather, and where criminal behaviors are displaced by positive behaviors.

Scott Shane

Few dramas in American political history remain more riveting than that of Nixon's exit and Mr. Ford's reaction, at first halting and then decisive, to the looming possibility of a former president on criminal trial for months on end.

David Shuster

Many conspiracies are not criminal, even conspiracies that involve slamming somebody.

Aburizal Bakrie

This will not stop the ongoing criminal case.

Bruce Springsteen

The criminal ineptitude makes you furious.

Kerry Greenwood

I was determined to become a criminal lawyer and help look after the poor.

Ahmad Chalabi

We have no evidence they have been killed in that attack. We know at least that Qusay, his son, has survived and he is occupying some houses in the Diyala area,

Neil Johnson

We have no evidence that he is deceased right now. We are hoping for a rescue.

Robert Francis

We have no evidence at this point that this was not an accident,

Richard Butler

What there is now is evidence that Saddam has reinvigorated his nuclear weapons program.

Mike Rasnak

We have provided excellent photographic evidence to the police from our surveillance equipment.

Berhane Asfaw

We have proved that one (species) is transforming into the other, so this evidence is important to show that there is human evolution... that human evolution is a fact and not a hypothesis.

John Roberts

We have had a bearish week in U.S. markets and people who had thought the range in rates would hold are now re-evaluating that view as the evidence points to a stronger U.S. economy.

Robert Hill

There is considerable evidence that the weapons of mass destruction program (in Iraq) ... is progressing,

Gitte Lindgaard

We know from the judgment and decision-making literature that once we have formed an opinion, that opinion is likely to stick and we're going to look selectively for evidence supporting our hypothesis.

John Wycliffe

Belief fails when it works not well indeed but is idle as a sleeping man... Each virtuous deed is strong when it is grounded upon the solidity of belief.

Dawn Kelsch

If all else fails we will still have the lakes, the land, the horses and the fish, and there are a lot of fish.

Diana Nyad

I don't want to be the crazy woman who does it for years and years and years, and tries and fails and tries and fails and tries and fails, but I can swim from Cuba to Florida, and I will swim from Cuba to Florida.

A.J. Chilson

When a number fails to identify a football player try the name on the back of his uniform.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.

David Antin

There is probably no oral society that fails to mark the spatial distinction of left and right, peculiar as this distinction may be.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.

Matt Lundy

We take it very seriously when someone fails validation and then responds by identifying where they received counterfeit or infringing products.

Bible Bible

For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it.

John Hahn

She holds us together. She shoots some big threes and she's my first 1,000-point scorer in the six years since I've been here.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Phil Johnson

Phoenix has been very effective. But we'll see how it holds out over the long haul.

Mark Fox

Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

Todd Hunter

We're trying to reach them, but bureaucracy holds things up. While things go through channels, people are suffering.

Ginny Moe

The quilting, or stitching, is what holds the three layers of the quilt sandwich together.

D. James

We won. That's all that matters to me.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Gilbert Arenas

I'm an All-Star in my mind, and I'm an All-Star to this city, my peers and this organization. So that's all that matters to me.

Alonzo Jackson

I don't even think like that, ... Why wouldn't you want me? I went out there and did what I had to do today. That's all that really matters to me right now.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Emmanuel Petit

Women are ultimately all that matters in life. Everything that we do is for them.

Franco Nero

It doesn't matter. What matters is that you're about to die.

Sir Trotman

We are doing well in all three directions; let us recommit ourselves, in 2006 as we did in 2004, to those same three matters . . . .

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Bill Johnson

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Michael Sheen

You know, we're each the hero of our own story and we perceive what's going on around us, and especially in a relationship, from the kind of viewpoint of, 'Well, this is my story, and I'm the hero of that, and I justify what I do around it.'

Michael Vick

Whatever they want to say, whatever they want to perceive me as ? just a running quarterback or a runner ? it does not matter. I'm a winner.

Scott McCallum

I will say we now, in the polling in Wisconsin, much different than many other races, the public didn't perceive that we were getting a fair shake from the media.

Carol P. Christ

Subversive language, however, must be constantly reinvented, because it is continually being co-opted by the powerful.

Carlos Castaneda

For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.

Carlos Castaneda

The path to knowledge is a forced one. In order to learn, we must be pushed. On the path of knowledge we are always fighting something, avoiding something, preparing for something; and that something is always inexplicable, greater and more powerful than us.

Carl Bernstein

The reality is that the media are probably the most powerful of all our institutions today and they, or rather we, too often are squandering our power and ignoring our obligations. The consequence of our abdication of responsibility is the ugly spectacle of idiot culture!

C. S. Lewis

A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined.

Pat Gelsinger

We have new platforms, new process technology and new products. It's a very powerful one-two-three.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.

Alan Turing

No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain...

Alan Kay

Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple his world.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Brandi Carlile

Privilege and complacency paralyze me with fear sometimes.

Antisthenes

It is a royal privilege to do good and be ill spoken of.

Barbara Hambly

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

Catherynne M. Valente

I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Bill Hybels

Savor every day you have the privilege to lead.

Bob Ainsworth

I never expected to be Defence Secretary. It's a great privilege.

Ed Pastor

Make health care a right, not a privilege.

Bart Gordon

A free public broadcast license is a privilege.

Billy Bragg

Freedom is merely privilege extended, unless enjoyed by one and all.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

John Milton

With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Daniel Pearl

now rule out the possibility that he has been killed by the kidnappers.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Ellen Wilkinson

But my eyes were riveted on a small slim woman her hair simply coiled into her neck, Katherine Glasier.

Slade Gorton

She will come after us with $10 million. She simply writes another check,

Ian Botham

There are times when you feel you simply can't go on.

Rhys Ifans

Acting is not an intellectual process for me. It comes from my heart. It's this strange netherworld of osmosis where I simply become.

Jim Wilkinson

I can tell you that simply did not happen.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Ella Henderson

I never thought I'd go on a show like 'The X Factor,' simply because I didn't have enough confidence to do something like standing on a stage to have opinions thrown at me.

Steve Ross

We think there are simply too many many instances of 'borrowing' for this to have been unintentional.

Barry Ritholtz

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Eckhart Tolle

Presence is a state of inner spaciousness

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Toby Dawson

We are here representing the United States. The whole world is watching us.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.