Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lisa Graves

It gives a nod toward checks and balances without fixing the most fundamental flaws in the Patriot Act.

Ken Auletta

Journalists would build in more checks and balances and welcome more independent ombudsmen,

John Donahue

It balances the overall impact, ... Quite frankly, you've got to satisfy the people who are paying the bill.

Carl Cotman

Basically, it's a huge message to send out to women who are worried about hormone balances to make sure they stay fit. It's going to give women pause to reflect.

Robert Krueger

I have a feeling that any catastrophic increases are being blended in throughout the country. There are all kinds of risks everywhere -- hurricanes here, earthquakes in California, and some places where nothing happens. It eventually all balances out.

Alan Woods

I think that he did a very professional job in a very, very precarious time. I don't know if we have another board member that can rise to the occasion. It takes a little bit of skill to do that job. But we all have to work together and hopefully we'll have more checks and balances than we did before.

Jonathan Levine

For whatever reason, the films I gravitate towards do have these strange sort of tonal balances to them... I kind of realized on '50/ 50' why I liked these blending of tones, because I think it's kind of what life is like: funny one minute, sad the next, scary the next.

Jimmy Bennett

I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.

Dave Oberle

We've been up and down like a yo-yo. We're in the same boat we were last year. We let some games get away that we felt we could have won. Maybe we got some that could have been given away, too. It balances out. We've struggled here of late.

Samuel Wilson

Our continuous checks with (chief information officers) indicate they are now very worried about economic recession and are reassessing near-term IT spending plans and priorities.

Danny Ferry

Just as a precaution, we wanted to have tests to make sure he checks out well. All the test results we have back so far have been good and there is nothing to be concerned about. Every indication is that it is a muscle injury.

Mike Bouchard

Just because you have checks in the checkbook doesn't mean that you have money in the bank, and Washington has failed to understand that.

Gil Gutknecht

It is not my definition of compassion to simply write checks from the federal government and expect our children and grandchildren

Alan Davis

I have a real problem making checks on a place not legally licensed. I recommend it be shut down immediately.

Jarome Iginla

He's a big key to their club and he represents a lot of their speed. We try to make sure we all finish our checks on him . . . even the smaller hits, hopefully we wear him down a little. The more hits we can get on him the better.

Randy Green

If 96 percent of the checks I get (to fill a prescription) goes to the drug companies, that tells you something is wrong.

Don Oberhelman

I'd venture to say there aren't too many other programs in the country where the head coach of a Division I football program checks class. And it's an eye-opener for those student-athletes, I guarantee you, when they're five minutes late for class and there's the head football coach standing at the door tapping his foot looking highly displeased.

Matthew Sweet

I got better money playing live and some publishing money - I still get checks from publishing. But the label was always recouping advances.

Kenneth Dalto

Staying is not going to work. This is not just like fixing one store. This will take a lot of money and time to fix.

Kerry Bentivolio

Whether stuck in traffic because of construction or fixing a flat tire after hitting a pothole, Michiganders feel frustrated with the quality of our roads.

Robert Hall

In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits.

Steve Daignault

We're not fixing everybody's problem, it's true, ... but we have to start somewhere. We've got to have a start or we'll never get to a finish.

Marc Ganis

Winning is the great deodorant. Even if this is a marketing mistake, and I'm not saying it is, winning goes a long way to fixing it.

Cindy Heuer

We had irons and lamps that were 20 years old. He insisted on fixing everything.

Rory Stewart

I did stuff for three years in Kabul that I found exciting, and a lot of that was fixing roofs, talking about sewage installation.

Ann Voskamp

When we fixate on the worst in something, we render ourselves incapable of fixing anything... But attend to the good in something - and we act towards the best in everything.

Alison Krauss

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Tyra Banks

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don't realize all of the flaws that I have.

Earl Johnson

She could see the good in all people. See seemed to ignore the flaws and frailties.

Adriano Giannini

I grew up a very open and free mind, but also with the flaws of a look on life with too much liberty than people normally have.

Dave Glasgow

We learned we're not untouchable. But there are flaws on this team.

Michael Redd

We knew that we had to get out and run tonight. But I don't know of any flaws that we had in our offensive game. Everyone got hot tonight.

Dan Quisenberry

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Drew Barrymore

Don't show your flaws.

Debbi Fields

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

Christopher Paolini

Love can be a terrible curse, Eragon. It can make you overlook even the largest flaws in a person's behavior.

John McNeley

Reed has solidified things. He handles the ball. He gives us some strength and some athleticism.

Pita Sharples

Our options are to support whoever gives Maori a good deal, or otherwise we sit alone.

Carolina Herrera

Some of them are matte jersey, some of them are chiffon mixed with lace that gives the impression that they are very, very transparent but very, very light.

Roger Gerlach

Playing them at Carbondale, whether we won or lost, gives us a sense of the unknown, and likewise for them. It takes the mystery out of it.

Eric Maiwald

Management and security vendors were doing the same thing and suddenly all noticed it. Good management or good systems management gives you security benefits.

Paul Reddick

It is a proprietary system, and that gives us pause.

Carolyn Brown

It is a project that gives all of us hope. Our kids that come from all walks of life. When they come to us we have to take them where they need to go.

Bill Cowher

Jerome Bettis, he gives you something. He's a very special back. ... You see him running and jumping and jump-cutting, doing the things that he does.

Bill Cowher

Jerome Bettis, he gives you something. He's a very special back.

Scott Henson

I would give them the nod right now.

Ricky Hatton

I'd shout 'Hey Dan! Can I have your sausage?' and he'd nod yes. Then: 'Hey Dan, how about the bacon?' - and then the eggs, and then the toast - and he'd say 'yes, yes yes'.

John Milton

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

Tom Stoppard

How the hell do I know what I find incredible? Credibility is an expanding field... Sheer disbelief hardly registers on the face before the head is nodding with all the wisdom of instant hindsight.

Surya Thapa

I am a patriot and I have a responsibility to fulfil.

Chris McNaughton

For the students, it was not a question that we would win the Patriot League. For us, as players, we were like, ?Hold on!

Steve Graham

He was one of the most patriotic people I've ever met.

Kevin Brownlow

Somebody said that part of my reaction to British cinema is actually, paradoxically, a patriotic one. I'm so disappointed that we're not better.

Calvin Coolidge

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Calvin Coolidge

To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.

Calvin Coolidge

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Calvin Coolidge

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

Calvin Coolidge

We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.