Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Walpole

Admitting, however, for the sake of argument, that I am prime and sole minister in this country, am I, therefore, prime and sole minister of all Europe? Am I answerable for the conduct of other countries as well as for that of my own?

David Blunkett

We obviously have the right to go back to Parliament and to say 'We, the sovereign body who are elected, are the only ones in the end who are answerable for the protection of security and stability in our country,'

Preston Brooks

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here.

Vladimir Litvin

Those are waging the struggle at present who want to remain uncontrollable and, shielding themselves with the head of state, to have a possibility to govern the country in the worst traditions not to be answerable for anything, but speak on behalf of the president.

Henry Laurens

I shall hold myself particularly answerable to my constituents for my present conduct, and in general to all my fellow Citizens throughout these States, when properly questioned.

Alexei Mordashov

Regarding our links with the Russian government, Severstal is a private company with no government participation. We are answerable to our shareholders.

Simon Hoggart

A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children.

Paul Wojda

Our faculty in some ways is answerable to students. The problem, of course, is where do you draw the line. It's a fuzzy line, but there is a line.

Shahid Kapoor

When I don't have a girlfriend, who I am answerable to, I can go out and hang with people. But whether you go for a movie with someone or a meal or a drive, it is assumed that you are dating that person.

Tim Salmon

We were totally in Chicago's position. We led the whole way, and for a long time, it was just assumed that we were going to play in the postseason.

David Brown

What we assumed was it broke up because it sank. Now we know it sank because it broke up.

Kim Cattrall

I always assumed that, like my mother before me, one day I would have children. When I was 5, my fantasy was to have a hundred dogs and a hundred kids.

Kathryn Prescott

I was at college studying psychology, philosophy, textiles and drama. But because I wasn't one of those all-singing, all-dancing stage-school kids, I just assumed I'd never become an actor.

Kourtney Kardashian

I called a bunch of the restaurants in my neighborhood that I had assumed served all-organic food, and so many didn't!

Gwen Stefani

The people who worked at the clubs just assumed I was a tagalong girlfriend or groupie. I'd get up on stage and the audience was just like, 'Show me your tits!' I had nothing to show anyway.

Guido Mantega

We have a robust trade surplus and, thus, low vulnerability; the country risk premium is declining, despite the fact that a new minister of Finance has just assumed command; and long-term interest rates, which might indicate some change in the international market, continue to fall.

Kevin Henkes

When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.

Bryan Crough

When the letter was withdrawn, I assumed that they did not want to pursue it further.

Matt Prokop

When you're young and dating someone, just play it safe and don't try so hard.

Lauren London

I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing.

Britney Spears

I don't understand the whole dating thing. I know right off the bat if I'm interested in someone, and I don't want them to waste their money on me and take me out to eat if I know I'm not interested in that person.

Ashton Irwin

I'm not dating anyone. I don't even know where I am half of the time.

Ashley Greene

As a Mark brand ambassador, I became extremely cognizant of the devastating statistics about dating abuse and partner violence via the mPowerment campaign and knew I wanted to help change those statistics. mPowerment by Mark and the Avon Foundation for Women funded the No More study, which explored dating abuse, partner violence, and sexual assault. I was honored to be part of it and report the results of the survey in a Capitol Hill briefing.

Kiesza

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.

Nicholas Haslam

It's the fashion, I tell you: big, tall women going out with tiny, tiny men.

Bill Coleman

When we were dating it was in a Model A. And we've owned one ever since.

Chelsea Handler

When I don't know what to do, I just open my mouth. Why won't anyone date me?

Don Showalter

We set the pace by our shooting in the first half. With a team like West Liberty, who wants a win, you can't let them hang around.

Eddie Campbell

We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.

Eric Bristow

I knew I didn't want to be stuck in Stoke Newington for the rest of my life, hanging about with idiots. That wasn't for me. I wanted to go out and have a look around.

Charles Baudelaire

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Mark Sanders

We started this for the kids. We wanted to try to get it going, give the kids something to do. Even the high school kids hang out here on the weekend now.

Yao Ming

We still need to look forward. The way Miami will miss Shaq (O'Neal), they'll still need to play. Well, the league is not waiting for us or for Tracy to come back. We've got to hang in there. We can do better than that.

Reggie Bush

We're in state of shock. It's tough, but at the same time we have nothing to hang our heads about.

E. O. Wilson

We're in a small market and we have worked really hard to keep this thing going. All I want is enough so I can hang onto the canoe.

Brian Molko

When every day became a hangover and when you look at yourself in the mirror and go 'I don't like how you're coming across to people.' and when every day just started to feel the same. After the 50th shag, it doesn't mean so much anymore.

Sharon Stone

There's a value to getting the meal on the table every night, and there's a value to being an old-school kind of parent.

Al Pacino

We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.

Paul O'Grady

The person I always enjoy having a meal with is Cilla Black. I might not see her for months, but then I'll pick her up at her flat, and we'll go to a restaurant, and it's like I've seen her that morning.

Anthony Trollope

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.

Daniel Handler

There is nothing particularly wrong with salmon, of course, but like caramel candy, strawberry yogurt, or liquid carpet cleaner, if you eat too much of it you are not going to enjoy your meal.

Nell Newman

To grow a tomato or a pepper and prepare a meal from your labor and care is primordially satisfying.

Brother Lawrence

Lord of all pots and pans and things make me a saint by getting meals and washing up the plates!

Denis Leary

Marriage is like a dull meal with the dessert at the beginning.

Carey Mulligan

I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Kate Bush

There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.

Gene Simmons

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.