Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Seymour

Recreational opportunities are our biggest draw. We have river activities and an aquatic park. The birding trails are in the same category, ... We need to use our natural resources. We need to play the cards we have.

Steve Thompson

Recreational fishing is a long-standing, valid activity in the park, and we recognize that. But the park has a dual mission, to protect resources and provide for their enjoyment. If you don't protect the resources, it'll prevent the enjoyment.

Caroline Fredrickson

Regardless of what happens with this agreement, Congress can, and must fix the Patriot Act to better protect the privacy and freedom of ordinary Americans. At the same time, until the Bush administration stops the illegal NSA program to spy on Americans and stops ignoring the rule of law, any reforms to the Patriot Act could be ignored under the extreme philosophy of power embraced by this president. No matter the result of the Patriot Act, we hope all senators involved in these negotiations will resist pressure from the administration. Congress must restore the rule of law and insist that innocent Americans' rights be protected against the overreaching of the White House. We can, and must, be both safe and free.

Steve Pearce

Regardless of the true source of these incursions, the Mexican government must not evade its responsibility to help us stop illegal activity on the border. I hope that this letter will lead to a more productive partnership toward that goal.

Jason Schenker

Regardless of how large the draws are expected to be, especially in gasoline, seeing the actual numbers will be a shock.

Wayne Harris

Regardless how little it grows, state government does act as a stabilizer. Tallahassee will be less affected than other markets.

Charles Scott Sherrington

Reflex inhibition acting against a reflex titanic contraction may diminish the contraction in one or other or all of several different ways.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

REFLECTION, n. An action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter.

Antoine Halff

Refinery activity has been very depressed because of damage caused by hurricanes last year and deferred maintenance. There was a huge surge in imports after last year's storms but that has ended. At the same time refinery activity has not recovered.

Richard Boucher

reestablish a certain sense of local authority and policing without involving the remnants of the regime or the torturers who once plagued the lives of ordinary Iraqis.

John Chiang

Past initiatives have made it difficult for California taxpayers to settle with the government when only one tax authority offers a settlement plan. This program provides an incentive for many taxpayers who were steered towards flaky shelters to come clean.

Gilles Duceppe

Paul Martin's government has lost the moral authority to govern.

Chuck Hall

Our local redevelopment authority is going to get together very shortly, and they're going to have to set some goals and objectives about what they want done.

A. N. Wilson

Someone at the federal level should have that authority.

Andrew Fulghum

Our authority to own and operate a container terminal has been confirmed and now it is time to build it.

Carl Rogers

Experience is the highest authority.

Carl Rogers

Experience is, for me, the highest authority.

Robert Barnett

I will do everything in my personal power to see this county does not lose funding, and that our housing authority becomes more stable. I expect to be clear about what we need to do to clean up the matter as far as what HUD wants to see.

Richard Josephson

Starr County has always been a difficult jurisdiction for corporate defendants. ... The people here are good people; they just tend to favor individuals in cases where there are corporate defendants involved. It's just a fact of life.

Charles Phillips

Some of the managers missed some of the initial run up in tech stocks, ... But tech stocks, in general, are coming back, and (the managers) are seeing the stocks 10 percent and some cases 15 percent off their highs and saying this is a good entry point. Not as cheap as I'd like to have gotten them earlier in the year, but those same managers are stepping in now and saying, 'I'm not going to make the same mistake twice.'

Elliot Cohen

Our preference is not to discuss these cases because they're ongoing and involve informants and information that we don't want to jeopardize.

John Locke

Our Savior's great rule, that we should love our neighbors as ourselves, is such a fundamental truth for the regulating of human society, that, by that alone, one might without difficulty determine all the cases and doubts in social morality.

Robert McCann

Our first option is not to ... go to court. That's never a first option. There are cases where, for whatever reason, the owners or operators don't want to take measures to comply with the environmental laws everyone else has to comply with.

James Krouse

Outsourcing has always generated significant political debate, which in some cases has stalled this sector's growth at the state and local level. As the economy continues a strong recovery, we expect outsourcing opportunities to increase on the state and local level.

F. Schumacher

Man, that was intense, ... I didn't expect that I would have to pedal it right there, but I didn't want to give up that $100,000 without fighting for it. I wish everyone could experience that rush because then they'd know why we do what we do. It's just great to win the Budweiser Shootout and get $100,000, 50 cases of beer, and a ride with the Clydesdales.

Anthony Ricco

Most of these cases become the battleground for fundamental issues that every defendant has in a criminal case.

Frank Jackson

We never like cases to take this long, but they happen. The court has heard that request (to continue the current trial date), but has so far denied it.

Carl Peterson

Patience is some times a good virtue, knowing what you want, and what you think is fair in terms of compensation,

Brett Hall

Our obligation is to the people of the commonwealth. Each application is being taken under advisement and given a fair review.

Carol Whiteside

Suddenly, this region is getting its fair share.

Wayne Clarkson

Surely we must all take our fair measure of responsibility.

Jack Billion

States with a life only policy do fairly well economically.

Gerald Massey

Some of those standards are fairly onerous even to sophisticated, highly litigious businesses.

Eugene Parker

Some interesting things have been going on. I think it's fair to say the Yankees have made a serious move on Deion and Deion is listening.

William Roderick

That day, I did what I had to do, ... It's good to get people prepared for the unknown 'n stuff. I'd say, yes, Pete Stark is fair in his manners. At least he shows a little interest and support. He's not like all the people who ostracize me.

James Peterson

Out of all those variables that people talk about, you can really narrow that down to a fairly small list.

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?

Edward Kennedy

I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution.

Patrick Perry

Life's been good, my wife's been wonderful, and 20 years I thought we ought to celebrate.

Ruth Rendell

It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance.

Richard Richards

I still think they ought to give it back,

Lady Bird Johnson

A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.

Wally Snyder

I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.

Christine Gregoire

I couldn't do that as attorney general. Why? Because they are my clients. You can't say they're not doing what they ought to be doing when you are the attorney general.

Val Guest

At those times I got into... I suppose you call it a rut. I used to do comedy, comedy, comedy and I suddenly thought I ought to break away from this somehow.

Evel Knievel

Women are the root of all evil. I ought to know. I'm Evel.

Scott Matthews

Our press wore them down in the third quarter.

Glen Flanagan

Our pressure got to them in the second quarter.

Steve Smithwick

Our press really put it on. Today was much better than the other night, when we got scared to death.

Jamey Gelhar

Our press really pumps us up, especially when we get some stops. I think it really set the tone for the rest of the game.

Lonnie Lucas

Our style's to press and we did it.

Dan Boyle

Ottawa. Wow. They've had our number. ... But there'll be pressure on them.

Jim Calhoun

We need someone to take the pressure off Marcus.

Bill Cowher

Pressure is something you put on yourself.

CC Sabathia

I don't feel any pressure. I'm not nervous about going out there and pitching.

Jack Wagner

If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvania taxpayers,

Nancy Vinson

Eighty-four were successful. Forty-eight violated the terms and returned to jail.

Al Gore

that they may be returned to us safely and soon.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Hank Aaron

I'm here to support the commissioner and tougher drug penalties.

Kim Coble

We need a much more supportive infrastructure for farming.

Carl Sagan

Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries.

Art Alexakis

Success to me is being able to do what I love, make a living at it and to support myself and the ones I love.

Homer Thompson

I was always in support of the coach.

Debbie Smith

I think the winds are changing. We're all tired of supporting the scandals.

Michael Campbell

I think it's the Polynesian connection. I have a lot of support here and it's wonderful.

Rafa Benitez

I was with our supporters at the end. I could see him but he didn't want to.

Jerry Sloan

I would think it would be something that would be worthwhile for him.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve.

E. F. Schumacher

Economic policies absorb almost the entire attention of government, and at the same time become ever more impotent. The simplest things, which only fifty years ago one could do without difficulty, cannot get done any more. The richer a society, the more impossible it become to do worthwhile things without immediate payoff.

E. F. Schumacher

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

Chuck Jones

All worthwhile endeavors are 90% work and 10% love, and only the love should show.

Rick Page

It's been a long project, but it's been a worthwhile project.

Ned Yost

It's not going to be easy. And nothing worthwhile is easy.

Mike Berry

The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile.

Oprah Winfrey

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself