Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Mikulski

Regardless of how you feel about whether Plan B should be available in the community, the fact is the FDA decision should be based on science, not cultural controversy,

Janet Napolitano

Reduction of Highway Patrol presence should always be a last resort, and should not be undertaken without an exhaustive review, in consultation with the Governor's Office, of all available alternatives,

Charles Bakaly

Our position has always been to use all available legal means to gather full and truthful testimony for the grand jury as expeditiously as possible.

Steve Santarsiero

Part of their charge will be to ultimately find alternative revenue streams, and there are some out there. For example, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission this past year floated a (multi-million-dollar) bond that was available to communities up and down the Delaware River for various road improvements.

Robert Meyer

Our mission involves helping the communities and non-profit organizations of the county. We want to partner with communities and non-profit organizations to help them with programs and projects that might otherwise not be available to the individuals, families and visitors to our county.

John Frederiksen

Our message is that Windows Me is a timely upgrade. Our focus between now and the end of year is really about communicating the great products that are available today.

Bryan Wiedmeier

People have been to the modern facilities. The expectation set is higher. And new technologies exist that weren't available when we built our facility.

George Fox

People have no clue there are 100-percent or 97-percent down mortgages they can qualify for. What the buying public needs to do is sit down, put a financial plan together and see what products are available out there.

Rafael Benitez

Suspending the players for two games and leaving them available for the final would be enough because it was not a serious incident.

Mark Zandi

Reintroducing a little uncertainty in the bond market would be desirable. Long-term rates are too low,

Jameer Nelson

Our record doesn't reflect the kind of team that we have right now. We're playing really well, we're bonding and we're sharing the ball.

John Roberts

Part of the reason we're holding on is that so many guys are overexposed to the corporate bond market, any cash they have they're putting to work in governments.

Mike Scioscia

Paul stayed in Chicago for very important reasons, and I respect that. He felt a huge connection with that organization. He blossomed into a star there, and his bond with the city and fans was very strong. He would have been an incredible fit for us, but I respect the reasons he stayed in Chicago.

Steven Wright

Our modelling suggest bond yields should rise in line with the US by at least 1 per cent. The X factor remains any flow-on effect from petrol prices.

Don Long

People haven't heard that (reassessment) mentioned as a consideration in this bond referendum.

Doug Flynn

Stay away from short-term or long-term bond funds. These will do poorly in a rising interest-rate environment.

Peggy Furusaka

Spreads on Sanyo's bonds will probably stay high. Our uncertainty has heightened substantially towards Sanyo's management, corporate governance, financial accountability and the possibility of another major downward revision.

Yasunari Ueno

Some investors bought back Japanese government bonds in a knee-jerk reaction to the comments from Fukui.

Jeffrey Benjamin

Past successes are bridges that lead us to our next victory.

Chris Norman

Our offensive line did a good job and we had Mitch Bridges back this week. I also thought our defensive front seven did the job. Our linebackers played a lot better this week than they did in the second half and were able to hold a good running back like (Darryl) Vereen down (to 49 yards).

Allison Hine

Our youth group at the high school level (Pilgrim Fellowship) went over (to Israel and Palestine). With Bridges of Hope, we bring kids from Palestine over here.

Theo Staub

Other students studied piano or violin, but I switched from flutes to drums. Music is a bridge between cultures.

Dan Johnson

Right now the bridge catches debris even in low flow situations.

Chris Sanders

Right up here at the top of this bridge is where the guy flagged me down.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Anthony Storr

Some split between the inner world and outer world is common to all behaviour, and the need to bridge the gap is the source of creative behaviour.

Patrick McMahon

large highway bridges completely snapped off and pushed to the side as if they simply got in the way of Katrina.

Richard Boucher

Reconstruction work is not possible while the fighting is going on or while the insurgents have been in charge of the town. But once it's back in government hands, we'll be able to get on with these projects very quickly.

Denise Bottcher

Reinforces the notion that she's not in charge and LA (Louisiana) needs to be federalized.

Joseph Annotti

Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.

David House

Our partnership with Costco is a giant step forward in our strategy to increase retail coverage and charge volume and to expand the number of customers we serve.

Bonnie Musfelt

People just don't realize, yeah, we get charged for this stuff.

Karl Rove

People have raised an issue about security. That is entirely appropriate. But upon examination, it's not the company that's in charge of security, it's the United States' government that's in charge of security.

Owen Davis

Staples no longer charges these shipping damage fees and hasn't done so since May 2002. The issue is solely about whether Staples must be registered to sell the shipping damage coverage as regulated by the state insurance code.

Avery Johnson

Some of our players have made fun of our charge drill. But when you see them taking more charges in the game, it doesn't seem so silly.

R. Robinson

Robinson later retracted his insane cannibalism charge ? but said that he stands ''behind everything else I wrote without reservation.

John Mack

Regarding use of force, firing of the weapon, the police commission found that the use of force was out of policy.

Sergei Mironov

Our parliamentary commission will meet in an open session Wednesday to summarize the work of the past 16 months.

Jim Ramstad

Our nation owes a debt of gratitude to the 9/11 Commission members for their valuable service and important recommendations to improve homeland security.

Jim Stone

People have to be paid and they're either paid by commission or other investment management fee,

Siim Kallas

Some of the NGOs receiving funds from the commission describe on their Web site one of their main tasks as 'lobbying the commission.

Bill Summers

That commission has done some damn dirty things. I wouldn't put it past them. I know I'm going to be there.

Brad Smith

Our understanding is that we are not likely to get any formal decision from the Commission until after we file our response in this proceeding, and that is due on the 15th of February.

Festus Mogae

On the situation in Angola, the commission had expressed hope that the general elections scheduled for 2006 would entrench that country's democracy.

Harvey Pitt

Our commission has been subject to extremely high attrition, ... with the principle reason being the fact that our employees earn substantially less than their counterparts in the other financial service regulatory agencies.

Anthony Coley

New Jersey is no dumping ground. The Delaware River is to be treasured and protected, not mistreated and ignored.

Don Parsley

We do some good work in Delaware and we have some great wrestlers. We'll able to showcase our kids to a quality audience.

Kim Brechtel

We were in Delaware for Thanksgiving weekend and needed to find a place to watch the game. You should have seen the looks on people faces when I walked into the Hooters there.

Nell Minow

In the post-Enron era, we have seen reforms from just about everybody -- from the Congress, from the (Securities and Exchange Commission) and from the stock exchanges, ... Everybody has stepped up to the plate except for the Delaware courts.

Andrew Miller

I'm very upset to see it go, but I want to do this event in Delaware and specifically Wilmington. It's where I grew up, and I think it was filling a void.

Pat Kennedy

We knew Delaware would be desperate. They were struggling, and when you're struggling, teams are scary like that.

Robert Cohen

It's surprising to me that Delaware just lets the vendor do it by themselves,

Vince Trombetti

Delaware is young like us. It's pretty evenly matched, and I think the team that wants it more is the team that is going to come out on top.

Pat Clatchey

Delaware is getting a heck of a point guard and a quality young man.

Richard Stein

Reference USA, for example, is a terrific site that can go from very general to highly specific and powerful information in minutes,

Welsh Proverb

Reason is the wise man's guide, example the fool's

Joe Balestracci

Pat is a fine example of the kind of young man that every team needs as a leader, in order to reach its full potential.

Larry Bird

Some guys can lead and some guys can't. I have a lot of trust in Jermaine and I know he wants to be a good leader. But to just throw him in there and say, 'OK, you're our leader,' that's tough, especially when you're injured a lot. You lead by example and not with words, and when you're not out there every day in practice and games, it's hard to lead.

Maxine Clark

We've talked to other zoos. This will be a great example.

Perry Pooley

We need our leaders to step up big and set the example for the rest of the team in this tournament.

Keith Tkachuk

I think the young guys expect us to go out and lead by example. I think tonight was a great example of that.

I think there should be something in science called the "reindeer effect." I don't know what it would be, but I think it'd be good to hear someone say, "Gentlemen, what we have here is a terrifying example of the reindeer effect.

Karen Johns

Jessica is the true example of a Virginia student-athlete. Her passion and love for the University of Virginia and the softball program is unmatched. Her leadership will be greatly missed when she leaves.

Jamie Rodriguez

I feel good. It was a joint effort.

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Igor Luksic

Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.

Alexander Lebed

The peace process is in motion. The joint patrols are working; local commanders have started to withdraw troops.

Aquilino Pimentel

There are at least two more witnesses ready to testify before the joint committees,

Darren Hayes

I used to wash up the dishes as C3PO. And it's very hard to put cups away when this joint doesn't bend! Mum was very tolerant...

Cilla Black

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

Elizabeth Janeway

Mistrust must be acted on, and effective action by the ruled is not solitary and singular, but joint and repeated.

Sharon Gillies

If you smoked a joint in the last six months, you're eligible.

Russell Baze

Past the quarter pole, he surged, got up in the lead,

Jan Egeland

Past agricultural policies have not been good. Governments understand they must be providing long-term solutions.

Jim Schoenfeld

Some of our youngsters have progressed past our expectations.

Carl Brown

Our traffic is up significantly in the past two weeks.

Mike Shanahan

Playing the way they have on the road the past three weeks is really an accomplishment. They play big on the road.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To grasp the meaning of the world of today we use a language created to express the world of yesterday. The life of the past seems to us nearer our true natures, but only for the reason that it is nearer our language.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Your past wouldn’t frighten me,” I said, buckling my seat belt across my lap. “I’m guessing I’d be more appalled than anything.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too." "I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus.

Phil Harrison

Our revenue streams are going to become more complex. We can also see a much more vital revenue stream from in-game advertising.

Gene Upshaw

I won't do it, though, without revenue sharing.

Robert Klein

I still think the Legislature has to do the right thing (about the disputed revenue sources).

Huey Long

Basically, all of our revenue sources are gone, ... I can't think of one that wasn't wiped out.

Martin Pyykkonen

It confirms what I've been thinking about revenue deceleration.

Vicki Taylor

If it's a revenue generator, we should look at it.

Lawrence Lessig

What you want to do is to get a kind of revenue that right now you don't get at all,

Dan Rooney

Revenue sharing is a tough thing but it's great.

Bill Spencer

There's just not enough of us. There's just not a whole lot of revenue to be made off of taxes, in my view.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.

Bertrand Russell

An individual human existence should be like a river

Susan Jackson

We're not worried about the Mississippi River levee. Is it a concern? Yes, it is a concern, but it is not a top concern.

Chris Farley

I live in a van, down by the river!

Chris Farley

First off I am 35 years old, I am divorced, and I live in a van down by the river.

David Olson

We won't be out of Valley River altogether.

Deepak Chopra

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Archibald MacLeish

They also live Who swerve and vanish in the river.

Ben Okri

In the beginning there was a river. The river became a road and the road branched out to the whole world. And because the road was once a river it was always hungry.

Jody Conradt

Our schedule is not going to get any easier. It's a tough road from here on out.

David Sanborn

I didn't go on the road until right after my second album.

John Miller

I find it really hard-pressed to support a road tax when right here there's nothing being done.

Dean Saito

Getting gross-polluting vehicles off the road is a cost-effective strategy.

Jim Bolla

Fresno is No. 1 in our conference. Let's go up there and see if we can play well and keep our road streak going.

Kirk Maltby

Just play a good, smart road game, and we've been doing that this season.

Irish Proverb

It is a long road that has no turning.

Greg Schulz

Here we go again. We've been down this road before, many times.

Bill Womack

Historically we haven't done well on that road trip. It will be a tough road trip for us and we just need to play our game.

Calamity Jane

It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

Thomas Streicher

These things take a tremendous toll on the officers,

Ivy Compton-Burnett

Civilized life exacts its toll.

Ernest Hemingway

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

Ernest Hemingway

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.

Christopher Hitchens

The death toll is not nearly high enough... too many [jihadists] have escaped.

Karisma Kapoor

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Michael Douglas

Chemotherapy takes its toll; the more you keep doing it, you lose your energy, and it gets more difficult to swallow.

Timothy McVeigh

But that's the nature of the beast. It's understood going in what the human toll will be.

Helen Thomas

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

Bhagat Singh

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Lloyd Cutler

And we made decisions on each of those matters which were ultimately upheld by the courts.

Nick Clooney

The kind of Iraq that emerges from all of this is ultimately out of our hands.

David Twohy

There's so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make.

Wendy Tellone

As superintendent, I am ultimately responsible. I feel responsible.

Lee Kreindler

It's a pretty big deal. How it will ultimately play out, I don't know.

Rob Lundgren

Some words ultimately will be bleeped. There aren't that many.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Keith McKeown

All the various discussions are going on with all the different parties.

Roger Williams

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

Ryan Hansen

Our nemesis all year has been our rebounding.

John Devine

Overall, 2002 will be a very challenging year for the industry,

Beck

I've been practicing for years, trying to figure out how to record an entire band live.

Beck

I'm always working on my own music, too. I've been working on a record for a few years.

Beck

I have for four years now been ringing the bell. Economic Holocaust is coming. Economic day of reckoning is coming.

Beck

I'm more critical of my songwriting than anybody, but I've worked really hard in the last five to 10 years to improve.

Barry Ritholtz

It is important for investors to understand what they do and don't know. Learn to recognize that you cannot possibly know what is going to happen in the future, and any investment plan that is dependent on accurately forecasting where markets will be next year is doomed to failure.

Barry Lopez

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget.

Babatunde Osotimehin

The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!