Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Roberts

I will try to ensure, in the discharge of my responsibilities, that, with the help of my colleagues, I can pass on to my children's generation a charter of self-government as strong and as vibrant as the one that Chief Justice Rehnquist passed on to us.

Kevin Allen

I think I was told later that people mentioned that they were heroes for what was done. I might be mistaken, but I thought the charter mandated that we investigate possible misconduct.

Shawn Amos

I live in the social purgatory of the San Fernando Valley, while my eldest daughter is bused to a charter school in the fantasy land of Bel Air.

Bud Schmidt

I think the language to open it up to 'him' or 'her' language is important to do to keep the charter up to date.

Christopher Myers

If Toledo Public Schools want to increase student enrollment, they must first look at themselves. Themselves they can control. They can't control charter schools.

John Bolton

If the Security Council can't deal with something like the Iranian nuclear weapons program, then it's hard to imagine what circumstances the (UN) Charter contemplated the Council would be involved in.

Joseph Wu

If talks between the two sides can be completed within six months, charter flight services will be opened immediately.

Don Sherwood

On February 22, 1855, Pennsylvania Governor William Pollock signed the charter that created what is today The Pennsylvania State University.

Paul Allen

Neil is a proven, talented executive with the right combination of operational, marketing and customer service skills to lead Charter to the next level.

Petro Poroshenko

Preserving honor and dignity for me remains the chief value, more than any job.

Mary Murphy

Our mayor is a volunteer fireman, and our fire chief is a Lions member.

Victor Penman

Our fire department is better than it has ever been. It's as a result of his leadership without a doubt. The next fire chief to walk in . . . will have big shoes to fill.

Robert Rossiter

Our company is fortunate to have in place, one of the strongest financial teams in the industry, including Jim, who previously served as Lear's chief financial officer and has more than 30 years of industry experience.

Ernest Jones

Man's chief enemy is his own unruly nature and the dark forces pent up within him

John Collins

We need a Chief Counsel. I don't know that we have a Chief Counsel in the building. We have a couple junior lawyers, but we don't have a Chief Counsel. We may need that. And maybe that person should or shouldn't have player-negotiating experience.

Paul Allen

Jerry did an excellent job as Charter's chief executive officer, ... We are grateful for all that Jerry has done in contributing to Charter's success, and wish him well in whatever new endeavors he engages in.

Stacey Allaster

Larry has also promoted David Shoemaker, who was their chief legal officer, to chief operating officer. David is also a Canadian, and that means two of the top three people are Canadians. I think that says a lot about our reputation internationally.

Ian McGeechan

I was on the phone to chief executive David Davies all the time to get Raphael involved in the club. I am delighted to get someone of his experience in that front five.

Mayor Clark

I would not want the public to think that, because we talking about spending this kind of money, we are not meeting our discharge permit requirements. We are.

Don Abell

Much of what they do there is discharge planning, trying to get patients back out in the community. Patients do leave the facility and go out on discharge sorts of activities. That's when many of those have occurred.

Charles E. Merrill

Mr. Ware has no right to discharge any of his laborers on account of their political opinion.

Kathleen Taylor

Major Margaret Witt has been an exemplary member of the military with a distinguished record of service. To discharge her simply because of her sexual orientation is unfair and does not make our military stronger.

Robert Green Ingersoll

If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge of your obligations to your fellow men.

Jamshyd Godrej

Our CII building in Hyderabad has zero discharge of water. Every drop of water is treated and reused.

John Wagner

If (the water discharge applications are) legal and in good shape, we will process those applications normally.

Tony Oppegard

If you have a foreman who is not doing pre-shift examinations properly, you should discharge that person, because every miner working there is relying on that person.

Francois VI Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Roberto Suro

Regardless of what happens to immigration flows, there is a huge second generation of Latinos.

Jerry Mathers

Our generation is the first to have grown up with TV. I'm one of the first kids that they watched grow up on television.

Tom Fletcher

Playing My Generation and having Roger Daltrey singing with us was unbelievable.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

George Whitesides

We now have an opportunity for our generation to make our mark on human history. Our parents and grandparents took us to the Moon the first time. Now it's time for us to go back to the Moon to stay, and then head straight for Mars.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Bette Davis

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Slick Rick

I think the world has gotten nostalgic, ... Hip-hop is pushing 40, but the older generation is not being catered to at all. We're hoping that we can open up a market that can push for this older, mature hip-hop tip.

Scott Baker

Regardless of who I'm facing, if I'm going to be nervous it's not going to help the situation.

Herman Sanders

Reed just made the shot. We said in the huddle to make sure we knew where he was on the last play. We tried to help on Chad, but he kicked it out and we couldn't recover.

Pedro Marquez

Our relay team did well. We just need to work on passing the baton, but that's something that we can work on and improve on. Also, not looking back while we're running will help out.

King Abdullah

Our relations with India will help Indo-Pak relations.

Brian Rooney

Oregon has a lot of in-migration, which helps to keep the unemployment rate (higher).

Lee Janzen

Part of his learning process is helping other guys.

Rob Gorman

Part of what we're about now is trying to help people come up with their own recovery plans.

Nathan Thompson

Paul Wellstone was a person who really would have liked to see something like this happen. Projects that help people in need are what he wanted; it's really fitting.

Sam Loeffler

Our lyrics are about a lot of things. They are not very introspective. For example, the song 'Panic Prone' is about drugs, this idea about kids getting drugged up and medicating themselves and whether to help people or not help people at all.

Karl Swanson

Pictures didn't do it real justice. It was all gone. It wasn't just partially burnt, it was all gone.

Bruce Hahn

We've talked to Justice, and we think what they're doing is tremendous.

C. S. Lewis

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

Carrie Chapman Catt

Do not stand in the way of the next step in human progress. No one living who reads the signs of the times but realizes that woman suffrage must come. We are working for the ballot as a matter of justice and as a step for human betterment.

Benjamin Rush

Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families.

Antonia Fraser

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Antonia Fraser

I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.

Ron Myers

I think there's been a travesty of justice in my son's sentencing.

Antoine Fuqua

In movies you get to do that. Sometimes with the vigilante justice movie he has to also tangle with police, which are traditional or security people. Is there going to be any of that in this?

Tina Ruble

Our passing was much better than it has been in practice.

Jean Fontaine

Patience and the passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Jean Fontaine

Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury.

Bible Bible

Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

A. E. Housman

Pass me the can, lad; there's an end of May.

Virgil Virgil

Passion and shame torment him, and rage is mingled with his grief.

Keith Richard

Passing the vodka bottle. And playing the guitar.

Frank Uryasz

Passing a drug test is very easy. All you have to do is not use drugs or dietary supplements.

Fred Mitchell

Our role is to smooth the passage of Bahamians wherever they go in the world,

Jake Long

I was just tested. Someone was just testing me, and I think I passed all the tests.

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Savvas Halikas

I think he was, 'I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this' and he hyperventilated and passed out.

James Buchanan

Greencastle took us out of our game. We passed well vs. Fannett-Metal, but Greencastle played us physical and made their opportunities.

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Sen Brownlee

If it had one more vote it would have passed the Senate.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Since the dawn of time, women have been attracted to mates with strong survival skills—like intelligence and physical prowess— because men with these qualities are more likely to bring home dinner at the end of the day.” He stuck his thumbs in the air and grinned. “Dinner equals survival, team

Becca Fitzpatrick

Go ahead. You're not going to walk in on anyone. I'm home alone." "The whole night?" Immediately, I realized it might not have been the smartest thing to say. "Dorothea will be coming soon." That was a lie. Dorothea was long gone. It was close to midnight. "Dorothea?" "Our housekeeper. She's old- but strong. Very strong." I tried to squeeze past him. Unsuccessfully. "Sounds frightening," he said, retrieving the key from the lock. He held it out for me. "She can clean a toilet inside and out in under a minute. More like terrifying.

Barry Pepper

Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.

Barry Manilow

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

B. D. Wong

I'm a strong nonbeliever in the Christmas letter where you don't really read it because it's just full of kind of meaningless information. It doesn't really resonate to the person reading it, but it means so much to the person that wrote it.

B. H. Liddell Hart

It should be the aim of grand strategy to discover and pierce the Achilles' heel of the opposing government's power to make war. Strategy, in turn, should seek to penetrate a joint in the harness of the opposing forces. To apply one's strength where the opponent is strong weakens oneself disproportionately to the effect attained. To strike with strong effect, one must strike at weakness.

B. H. Liddell Hart

If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The most consistently successful commanders, when faced by an enemy in a position that was strong naturally or materially, have hardly ever tackled it in a direct way. And when, under pressure of circumstances, they have risked a direct attack, the result has commonly been to blot their record with a failure.

Eduardo Paes

Rio's a beautiful city, a vibrant place, special place.

Julie Kenner

My characters populate a big, vibrant world. Sometimes they rub shoulders. Sometimes they don't.