Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claes Thorson

Our last request was suspended by the State Department until further notice.

Tasia Scolinos

O.P.R. routinely looks into issues of this kind. They will not be making a determination on the lawfulness of the N.S.A. program, but rather will determine whether the department lawyers complied with their professional obligations.

Andy Agle

People now realize there are opportunities to move up in the department as a whole.

Mark Rubin

Susan Robinson was the first of the co-defendants to provide a truthful statement that helped the Duluth Police Department solve the case,

Ken Goldstein

Some of the department store sales don't make sense to me,

Jerry Woods

Really just taking a look at each department individually and making sure it is up to the standards that we expect out of any one of our homes.

Edward Rhine

We've tried hard to communicate, to keep the number of rumors down. We've sent home a letter from the department of health. We just hope we've done a good enough job.

Dave Marmon

I was just trying to take your mind off things. A guy with the Missoula rural fire department was working with your husband, and you heard him say 'critical' on the radio, and I was trying to take your mind off that.

Cecilia Zalkind

I think there was a sense that children's services needed to be a greater priority and that organizing under one department might ensure that that happens.

Ellen Wheeler

Our staged emergency turned into a real life emergency.

Anthony Williams

Our first priority is to be able to respond effectively to the emergency situations as they arise,

Daryl Miller

Rescue here is not guaranteed. Our motto has been: your emergency may not be our emergency.

David Paulison

Please, please don't go back until the local emergency managers tell you it's safe to go back.

Dave Liniger

We'll actually wear the suits on the way up. Well make sure we're stabilized and the temperature of the capsule is OK. Then we'll take them off and save them for an emergency -- some sort of pressure leak -- and then we'll be wearing them on the way down.

Martha Chavez

I think they should have let the parents know right away and sent an emergency memo right away.

David Ramsay

It is a medical emergency so these people really need to be removed.

Martin Schulz

Japan is out of the emergency room and normal monetary policy has returned. Japan will try to keep interest rates as low as possible.

Mark Hammond

The Achilles' heel of emergency management is lack of interoperability.

Skip Bertman

Stacy looked exhausted. It ended fast. I've seen worse fights in baseball.

George Cole

Some of the workers that ended up working there were graduates of those programs.

Eric Rinard

Our girls were excited to play (Shadyside) again. This year we were able to finish the game and they remembered last year and how it ended and wanted to come out and play hard.

Matt Bomer

Playing athletics, playing a lot of different sports, going to drama school... I was one of those kids who wanted to do everything, so I ended up being pretty average at everything.

Keith Adams

I'm happy because we wrestled well and ended the season on a positive note heading into the league tournament. Now we have a week off to get back in the practice room and get focused.

Shawn Roberts

I was 12 years old, so auditioning for a TV show was something I didn't even think really happened. The next thing you know, I ended up booking the gig and I did four seasons on 'Emily of New Moon.' I got to learn on the job and kept going from there.

Brian Campbell

I was just trying to step up and make a play and it ended up being a pretty good hit.

Harry Redknapp

Jamie has been forced to stop playing, otherwise he could have ended up a cripple,

Boo Rigsbee

That was awesome. It just shows that even when we did have errors, we persevered. We ended up making the plays that won us the game.

Darin Erstad

People love throwing that out there: 'Is it going to wear on you more, wear on you less?' I don't know. Just play and whatever happens, happens, ... You know, you can't worry about that stuff. You do all your exercises and hope it holds up. I can't do any more work to make it stay healthy. If it goes, it goes.

Pranab Mukherjee

Redeployment is a regular exercise undertaken after a review of the situation in the state. Last year we reduced troops voluntarily.

Mike Williams

I might go down. But I am still on my high fat, low exercise diet.

Beilby Porteus

The joy resulting from the diffusion of blessings to all around us is the purest and sublimest that can ever enter the human mind, and can be conceived only by those who have experienced it. Next to the consolations of divine grace, it is the most sovereign balm to the miseries of life, both in him who is the object of it, and in him who exercises it.

Bill Cosby

I did not want to turn to playing golf because golf is about as much exercise as shuffling cards.

Bill Cosby

I use the exercise room early, because I don't want to get on the treadmill and everyone's going 'Oh, Bill Cosby,' and then they come around to see how fast I'm walking, and it becomes very competitive.

C. S. Lewis

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

C. S. Lewis

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.

Carrie Brownstein

After Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006 I had very little desire to play music. It took well over three years before picking up a guitar meant anything to me other than an exercise.

Robert Sinclair

Our members are screaming. People are wondering where it's going to go and, of course, we can't tell them.

Dan Scott

Our members are hopped up and very angry.

Roger Toussaint

Our members will stand together and stand firm, and make sure the organization is not broken.

Steve MacFarlane

Our members know that working for Northwest Airlines, they have to have a strike fund.

Travis Barker

Right now, one of our members needs time off, so we're granting him that,

John Thain

pleased with the resolution of this litigation, which allows our members to vote as planned on the proposed merger on Dec. 6.

Bertrand Russell

Is the set of all sets which are not members of themselves a member of itself?

John Bercow

I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.

Niranjan Shah

It is nothing. If some members (of the board) want to speak to the press about it, we can't do anything.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Gerald Smith

The association had directors, officers and, by 1870, had been opened to stockholders.

Jay Wright

Getting on the bus, police officers know everybody. People walking down the street know all the players' names. It is fun, but it is a challenge.

Robert Patton

I wouldn't use the word embarrassed. The officers performed admirably, so I'm proud of them.

Bill Dunn

She was D.O.A. when officers got to the scene.

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Joe Rios

While investigating, working this case, a rider started making threats to the police officers and their lives.

John Wilson

Too many security officers live day to day. They just want to be treated with dignity.

James McGreevey

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year,

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Sara Brown

For those of us who support the Kittery Police, an investigation is even more important,

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Nicolas Sarkozy

If someone shoots at the police, he is not a 'youth,' he is a thug,

Wallace Anderson

When I left, policemen were in uniform. Policemen were patrolling the streets.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

C. S. Lewis

It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.

Bernard Barton

Obstinacy and vehemency in opinion are the surest proofs of stupidity.

Anton LaVey

It's a shame stupidity isn't painful.

Anton LaVey

Stupidity-The top of the list for Satanic Sins.

Al Gore

A leapord never changes his stripes.

Charles Kettering

Action without intelligence is a form of insanity, but intelligence without action is the greatest form of stupidity in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

Too many piglets not enough tits.

Jean De La BruyFre

There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others.

Bruce Catton

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

B. F. Skinner

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

B. F. Skinner

The simulated approval and affection with which parents and teachers are often urged to solve behavior problems are counterfeit. So are flattery, backslap-ping, and many other ways of "winning friends.

B. F. Skinner

Many instructional arrangements seem "contrived," but there is nothing wrong with that. It is the teacher's function to contrive conditions under which students learn. It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

B. F. Skinner

Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.

Billy Corgan

Stay in school. Lie to your teachers, but stay in school.

Bill Shorten

What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.

Bill Crawford

To spank or not to spank isn't the question the question is whether whether we are teaching a quality we want our kids to have as adults?

Bill Engvall

I've come up with the three things you never want to hear at your kid's parent/teacher conference. Number one: 'You're only responsible for the first $10,000 worth of damage.' Number two: 'We have medication for this.' And number three: 'It was more than an ounce and he was less than a hundred yards from the school.'

Bill Cosby

When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade boys because I felt that was an important time for them. I had gone astray at that point in my life and really wanted to help keep them from making the same mistake I had made.

Spencer Boldman

I was trained as a dramatic actor. I'm really excited to do some more dramatic stuff.

Theresa Breslin

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

Twyla Tharp

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Jeff Mullins

She actually trained like an old mare; she never did train like a 2-year-old, ... She's always done what we wanted her to.

Liang Chow

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Greg Wise

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Steve Chizmar

Unless you are trained to use this data, it is really meaningless.

Atticus Ross

My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.

Tiffany Thornton

I trained in Texas at Nikki Pederson Talent Academy.

John Hull

Our starting point then was trying to find a way to incorporate mean reversion into the HoLee model.

Wilson Alvarez

I'm here trying to do it one more time. I'm doing it for my kids. I'm doing it for my wife. I'm doing it for my teammates. So they can all say you've still got it.

Bebe Neuwirth

Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

Beck

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

Beck

I would love to do an electronic record. There's just so much to see and do and try. And life goes by.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.

B. B. King

I don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.

Billy Corgan

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Billy Corgan

I'd reached a point where there was a direct conflict between what I was trying to be and who I really was.

Roxanne Dey

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

David Cox

She exited the vehicle and was very frantic.

Chris Squire

We started Yes as a vehicle to develop everyone's individual styles.

Barry Eisler

Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.

Sgt. Frevola

We were having so many headlight thieves, on high-end vehicles with halogen lights.

Aaliyah

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.

Ian Baxendell

An MFO vehicle was damaged. The two occupants of the vehicle are unharmed and uninjured.

James Mercer

I've always sort of felt like what the Shins is, I guess, is a vehicle for my writing.

Tom Stephens

I'm going after the highest-consuming vehicles first, because that's where the big payback is.