Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 Robinson

Record-breaking sales of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince drove significantly higher results in children's book publishing and distribution and for the company overall,

Robert Molleda

Relative to most of the country, it's still rather mild, but when people book Florida vacations, they're not expecting temperatures in the 40s.

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Or have We given them a book before it so that they hold fast to it? / Nay! they say: We found our fathers on a course, and surely we are guided by their footsteps.

Wayne Dellinger

Part of the reason I wrote the book was that so many people were leaving their jobs (to invest in foreclosed homes), and they had no idea of what they are doing.

Oprah Winfrey

passports to new and exciting worlds... and I know that I would not be the person I am today had it not been for my love of reading.

Malorie Blackman

Part of my job as Children's Laureate is to visit schools and talk about my love of books and stories and encourage them all to do it as well - to read, to write, to never be afraid of their own voice. Because we all have something to say.

Gunter Thielen

Our major acquisitions and joint ventures ... will be shown on the books for the second half of the year,

Martin Luther

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Andreas Scheuerle

Order books are full and people are operating closer to capacity, so that companies are building up employment again.

Sam Tilley

Referring the issue to the UN Security Council moves Iran a step closer to possible sanctions, which despite Iran's claims otherwise could lead to Iran halting its oil exports.

Jim Brady

Passport Health has been a competitor for many years and we are honored that they selected us as the claims management partner for their customers. We are excited about having the opportunity to serve the Passport Health customer base, and look forward to meeting their claims management needs with our comprehensive solution.

Adam Ereli

Such violence is inconsistent with LTTE claims to be committed to the peace process.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

Loren Smith

Statistically, it's hard to judge on numbers as low as 100 from year to year. A better yardstick is the overall number of claims that were investigated.

Tom Gallagher

Our priority now is to get any outstanding hurricane claims paid as quickly as possible.

Geoff Mulgan

Over 5,000 years, states have made surprisingly consistent claims about their duties. They have promised to protect people from threats; promote their welfare; deliver justice and also, perhaps less obviously, uphold truth - originally truths about the cosmos, and more recently truths drawn from reason and knowledge.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary claim requires extraordinary proof.

Lara Rhame

It is a modest dollar negative; the trade data combined with the claims data, but the focus this morning is very much on digesting the BOJ and on payrolls tomorrow.

William Shakespeare

Our wills and fates do so contrary runThat our devices still are overthrown;Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

Leonardo da Vinci

Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Jacques Chirac

(It) is contrary to the wishes of the (U.N.) Security Council and the international community,

Matt Blunt

I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court's decision. The decision is highly offensive to traditional Missouri values and is contrary to state law, which prohibits taxpayer dollars from being spent to facilitate abortions,

John Stuart Mill

If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

Leo Nikolaevich

There are people who when they meet a rival, no matter in what, at once shut their eyes to everything good in him and see only the bad. There are others who on the contrary try to discern in a lucky rival the qualities that have enabled him to succe

P. J. O'Rourke

Libertarianism is a way of measuring how the government and other kinds of systems respect the individual. At the core of libertarianism is the idea that the individual is sacrosanct and that anything that's done contrary to the well-being of the individual needs some pretty serious justification.

Ha-Joon Chang

Contrary to what professional economists will typically tell you, economics is not a science. All economic theories have underlying political and ethical assumptions, which make it impossible to prove them right or wrong in the way we can with theories in physics or chemistry.

Ellen G. White

God gave our first parents the food He designed that the race should eat. It was contrary to His plan to have the life of any creature taken. There was to be no death in Eden. The fruit of the trees in the garden was the food man's wants required.

Mark Twain

Get the facts first. You can distort them later.

Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Anthony Chan

I think it's fair to say it'll be the least important or most distorted jobs report in memory. Maybe both.

David Blunkett

History teaches us that, whatever we say, racists will always distort the words of mainstream politicians to make themselves sound more respectable.

Elliott Walden

He's by Distorted Humor, and we always want to support our own stallions.

Geddy Lee

Music turned to digital, and suddenly you had the possibility to make things louder than loudest, which boggles the mind but it's true, and what you have are all kinds of different ways of distorting your music.

Neal Asher

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Leon Jouhaux

Furthermore, it is not distorting history to say that it was largely through the efforts and propaganda of our International Federation that the government of the U.S.S.R. was recognized by the majority of the great powers.

Nicola Sturgeon

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

James Lee

Our legal staff and election staff will review the letter.

Laisenia Qarase

Our latest estimate and time frames for new elections is three years,

Barney Frank

People have been scared straight, and between now and Election Day will be one of the purest periods in American life.

Al Gore

We now need to resolve this election in a way that is fair and forthright.

Charley Pride

I think they do that not just with the election, but in general.

Yulia Tymoshenko

I think these two teams will go their own way. ... Viktor Yushchenko and I will go to the elections on parallel paths,

Robin Marshall

I think there will be a relief rally when the election situation finally sorts itself out.

Rick Davis

I think straw polls would be left for the year of the election and for people who need to emerge. John McCain emerged a long time ago.

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.

Patrick Surtain

I was just thinking about it yesterday, wondering if I'm going to get fooled or not, ... It's going to help me somewhat because I know what those guys can do and I know some of their releases, but they're in a totally different offense. In one respect, it will (help me), but in another, they run totally different routes now.

Stan Gundy

I was writing the league. I wish they'd get tougher on it. From what they're saying, they're working on not getting fooled on the flop.

Tarnya Cooper

It fooled scholars for quite a long time.

Frank Askin

It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled?

Ben Wilcox

If it's being done just to hide their real vote, I don't think that's the way to go. I find it kind of hard to imagine that there would be that many people that would be fooled by it.

Mattias Ohlund

I think we got fooled the first three games by the results and we really didn't play as well as we should have.

Charlene Johnson

I'm ready for some warm weather. Spring has fooled us.

Gregory Campbell

I don't know if it was a good shot or just a quick shot but I might have fooled him.

Alex Glass

This is a 'fool me once' kind of situation. We're not going to be fooled again.

Christopher White

Our first priority is to prevent these breaches from occurring at all.

John McLaren

I was just trying to prevent someone else from getting thrown out. It turns out I got thrown out.

Marco Rubio

The primary goal of the War on Terror is to prevent an attack from happening.

Gore Vidal

To prevent the theft of 'Ben-Hur's sets, guards were prowling the back lot long after production had been shut down.

Ellen Key

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

A. Hodge

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

Ada Yonath

My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.

Marianne Williamson

It's a fraction of the cost to prevent a war than prosecute a war.

Shoichi Nakagawa

We have to start over from zero regarding preventive measures.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

bell hooks

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.

Brian Billick

The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound.

Donald Rumsfeld

The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

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.

C. S. Lewis

The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge.

Richard Garnett

He was a follower. He got tricked easily.

Cassie Desmone

He managed his way through a lot of tricky holes.

Gavin Hood

Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

Tracy McMillan

You can't trick The Universe - it's like Santa Claus that way.

James Rota

There are no tricks with us. What you see is what you get.

Phoebe Philo

It's been a bit tricky trying to establish a 'designer' profile and not a designer-cum-girl-around-town.

Douglas MacArthur

Expect only 5% of an intelligence report to be accurate.The trick of a good commander is to isolate the 5%.

Dorothy Richardson

If there was a trick, there must be a trickster.

e. e. cummings

(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)