Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bud Brannon

President Bush had the highest approval ratings ever after Desert Storm. Then Clinton took a role leading the party and won the presidency.

Anthony Romero

President Bush and his surrogates can justify this program all they want, but they cannot change the underlying fact that it remains an illegal program. The continued approval for this unlawful program undermines the very freedoms and values that define America.

Ed Sarpolus

People in Michigan, by a 2-to-1 margin, blame President Bush rather than the governor for Michigan's economic problems. While her job approval ratings are up from being below 50 percent in August through October, they are not at the 60 percent level she once had.

Gary Forsee

Sprint Nextel shares with Nextel Partners a commitment of excellence to our customers, employees and shareholders. As we work through the regulatory approval processes, we intend to focus on plans for efficiently integrating Partners' business into our operations in a way that is seamless for customers and employees.

Mary Richardson

Our standards have been on the cutting edge of service for two decades. With the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval, our clients and employees are assured of our ongoing commitment to excellence.

Mary Richardson

Our standards have been on the cutting edge of service for two decades, ... With the JCAHO Gold Seal of Approval, our clients and employees are assured of our ongoing commitment to excellence.

Jim Grant

We need an approval soon. Every delay at the Planning Board level pushes the dates back.

Liza Maza

The approval of the resolution is urgent. In light of the US government's intransigence on the issue of custody, it's imperative that we take measures to assert our sovereignty and show our determination to expedite justice.

Anders Rasmussen

The approval of the Nice Treaty is essential if we are to proceed on schedule for enlargement.

Jaime Ortega

President Castro assured us the pope will be received by all the people and will have maximum freedom to express himself, to move and to do whatever he wants,

Mike Detillier

Patrick Willis, man, if he had come out, he would've been a pretty high pick. But he wasn't assured of being a first-round pick and he's coming off the injury. He did the smart thing and he'll be one of the top players, not only in the (Southeastern Conference), but in the country.

Gregory Nojeim

Passengers not legitimately under suspicion should not have to fear that their private effects and private lives will be held up to public scrutiny, ... Safety and privacy will not be assured if people are targeted for searches based on incorrect criteria instead of evidence.

Bill Thies

People have a sense that they can go in at 55 and be assured they're not going to get Alzheimer's.

Derick Virgil

Someone on this campus is dealing with this issue. We can be assured of that.

Tom Maletis

Our goal is to keep it here for as long as we possibly can. Obviously we have concerns with infrastructure, but Lyle (Anderson) has assured us he is going to look at our needs and do everything he can to meet them and make this our home.

Mack Brown

Our friendship has come out of respect. Gary's honest, and his program goes by the rules. I know those kids are disciplined, and we've got a lot of people on my staff who have been around the Colorado program that assured me of those things early. I've been able to see those things first-hand by being around Gary more.

Mack Brown

Our friendship has come out of respect, ... Gary's honest, and his program goes by the rules. I know those kids are disciplined, and we've got a lot of people on my staff who have been around the Colorado program that assured me of those things early. I've been able to see those things first-hand by being around Gary more.

Mohammed Nazzal

Our brothers the Kuwaiti officials assured us they will continue to support the Palestinian cause.

Thomas Stevens

Our members' experience and familiarity with the communities in which they work make them valuable resources. They understand what makes a good investment, whether their clients are buying, selling or remodeling.

Jeff Dousharm

People like us need clients who want nice things. Otherwise, we couldn't compete with places like Williams Lumber.

Mary Schiavo

Survivors are sometimes a little too brave. Many of my clients I've represented in the past have put on a stiff upper lip.

Mike Kidwell

Some of our clients just need somebody to talk to, they just need a support to know they're doing the right thing. You need to establish a game plan that puts you on the right path.

Brian Keane

Our Fourth Quarter results closed out the year on a positive note that sets the tone for the year ahead. 2005 was an important year for Keane as we put the plan and the people in place to drive our company-wide One Keane transformation initiative. The goal of the One Keane initiative is to enhance top- and bottom-line growth by creating an efficient global operating model. This will enable us to better serve our clients by accelerating the development of innovative solutions, fostering collaboration, and improving efficiencies.

Brian Sell

Our track record in providing IT support for other key clients in South Africa, while maintaining 97% on service level agreements, positions us as an ideal partner for FNB. This support is made possible through our extended footprint within southern Africa.

Sean Coffey

Our clients were quite impressed with the vision of Nortel's new management and the plans for the future.

David Cameron

Our clients want it. It will outweigh the negatives. A lot of clubs fail to market their club.

Kelly Smith

Our clients take our database and compress, compile and manipulate it to their specific requirements.

Kofi Annan

reflecting our mutual commitment to a stable, prosperous and equitable world.

Jason Brown

Organic to Go was founded on the principle of providing delicious, convenient breakfasts and lunches that happen to be organic and natural delivered to corporate America, Eating organic is not only good for you personally, but good for the environment. Receiving certification proves our commitment to both. We're here for the long term health of the consumer -- and the planet.

Chris Carney

States like New Jersey have already made a commitment to reduce mercury pollution by 90 percent. The technology is out there. We just need to move in that direction.

Ed Clair

Some of the Sago miners requested that the United Mine Workers be their representatives for the purposes of this investigation, and they have a right to be there. Together, the state and MSHA made a commitment to the families that we would conduct a fair, open investigation, and we decided we needed to take this extraordinary step to keep that commitment.

Scott Kriens

Our performance during the third quarter reflects the return on our commitment and focus on continued execution.

Sidney Taurel

Our strong bottom-line results in the first quarter reflect the execution on our commitment to grow sales at a faster rate than our expenses.

Wade Henderson

Our strength is the diversity of our membership and our unity of purpose, ... Unity of purpose doesn't mean we are in lock step on every issue. Janet Murguia is a strong leader who reflects deep commitment to our values.

Jude Walsh

Our commitment is to try to keep people's out-of-pocket costs no more than what it was under DEL.

Matt Silverman

Our commitment is to keep these players here for many years to come.

Bob Carnes

Paul Amos died years ago, but he took a liking to me back then and started cutting molds for me until we got one we liked.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When one is building a ship, one does not begin with gathering timber and cutting planks, but rather by arousing in people the yearning for the great wide sea.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?” I pressed the knife down through the tomato; it split in two, each half rocking gently on the cutting board. “You tell me. Am I ready for chemistry?” Patch made a deep sound I couldn’t decipher and grinned.

Bill Cosby

All around the United States of America - in the cities and the counties - our public education is suffering and has been suffering. Cuts, cuts, cuts.

C. S. Lewis

The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

C. S. Lewis

The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.

C. S. Lewis

One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity.

C. S. Lewis

And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another.

Carrie Vaughn

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

Gregg Laskoski

Refinery levels are not up to where they were before Katrina. We'll probably see prices edge higher in the next few weeks before they start going down.

Brian Brandtner

Our rebounding was a big edge in this game.

Harry Carson

Players don't need rest. If someone is injured and needs time to recuperate, that's one thing. But players need to go out and play. One of the things that can happen if you take a player off the field is that he loses his edge by standing on the sidelines.

David Champion

I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability. In the past we would put them maybe not quite as good as Toyota and Honda, but pretty close.

David Champion

I think they've lost their competitive edge in terms of reliability.

Jack Bauerle

I think the second day is the most important day of the meet. The edge goes off after the first day and this is where it's at.

Mike Mitchell

It is an edge when you train over the surface and don't have to ship over.

Reggie Watts

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

Lori Daniel

I think it was a relief that we went to the finals last year, didn't win, but did this year. We didn't have the mental edge going into that game (with Salem).

Chuck Hunter

Our members are the owners, but the employees are more important than the owners because we can't operate without them.

Ira Cohen

Some of them will be with Meow Mix employees and their friends and relatives. But we're also expecting a lot of regular New Yorkers to stop by.

Mike McCurdy

Our whole theme is to get it done and get our employees back as soon as possible." ()

Scott Sharp

Most senior management do not even know if their employees actually understand what they should be doing,

Martin Frost

It had nothing to do with voting, ... It had everything to do with the fact that they were appreciative of things I did over the years to help the employees and the company.

Scott Roberts

I was getting paid, several employees weren't, they were being paid in food.

Ed Dumas

It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public officials.

Curtis Gray

I didn't mind talking about it. It showed there needs to be better security at convenience stores, and to the employees working the third shift an idea that it might happen to them.

Stephen Jones

I don't know which employees he's been talking to - I suspect the senior managers on generous severance packages. This is the wrong plan for Telstra and the wrong plan for Australia.

Peter Jackson

We've thrown away a golden opportunity. It's bitterly disappointing. Now we have to hope others around us slip up. You can just imagine how the players are feeling. We played well in the first half but we didn't get that second goal.

Bill Cosby

I have to follow my thoughts and mine for the gold. I have to dig it out.

Big Sean

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Felix Gottwald

It is a special day for us with our first Olympic gold medal.

Mark Sutton

I think that is why the gold kiwi is very popular in the New Zealand market.

Thomas Fuller

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Bob Hayes

I won gold medals representing this country, but I've gotten more recognition around the world than I have in my own back yard.

Ellison Chu

I think gold will be trading around $548 to around $555. It's a short-term range.

Bill Vaughan

Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.

Stephen Urban

That work (surveying) is still ongoing and I'm awaiting the results, Urban said.

Saxby Chambliss

has been ongoing throughout most of the year.

Russell Ahr

There is an ongoing investigation. This isn't over.

Joschka Fischer

There is an ongoing debate about the reform of the U.N. system.

Efraim Levy

If they don't get their sales up, it's not going to be enough. There is going to be ongoing restructuring.

Jim Graham

Security is a cat-and-mouse game, it's an ongoing process.

Coleen Rowley

This was a lied-into war that is a quagmire now, ... It could be worse than Vietnam. The truth is we can't win, and there's still an ongoing deception.

Rick Fox

This will be an ongoing process and will take up to a year to close.

Ashton Kutcher

When I was on the '70s Show,' I had that and I had 'Punk'd' and I had my own production company. That pretty much sealed up all my time.

Hines Ward

It was a big touchdown for us. It really sealed the thing for us.

Bible Bible

Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.

Andy Palmer

Someone's going to have to take that big fullback and someone is going to have to seal off the perimeter for us to be successful.

Brian Griffin

Now everything has got a seal on it.

Steven Morrissey

I don't perform. Seals perform.

Alan Davidson

Some of the most valuable new services won't be competitive.

Robert F. Kennedy

It is more important to be of service than successful.

Sebastian Thrun

I feel every technology can be abused, but fundamentally we put new technologies into the service of humanity.

Gerry Waldron

I did keep a local-only service for just that reason.

Jerry Yang

China's Web has grown away from just duplicating services from the U.S.

Rocky Smith

If they put together some type of a waiting list, my service would not be needed.

David Turangal

We've survived 50 years because of our service.

Dick Miller

We want to make sure they understand it's not just a social thing but a service organization.

TR Harlan

She can do everything. Her service killed us. The way she started the match, that put us back on our heels.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Aimee Mann

If your standards are low, you're going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Eliot Spitzer

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Amber Heard

I have always been very rebellious and gone against the grain. I've always challenged the standards set before me.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heel, head and standards high.

Coco Chanel

Keep your heels, head & standards high!

Jeff Olson

The expectations are very high. The standards were set long before I was born.

Alan Paton

Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right.

Alan Bennett

Of course my standards are out of date! That's why they're called standards.