Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Sagan

All colours are arbitrary.

Dorothy Fisher

Like other potentates with a long habit of arbitrary authority, she covered her perplexity with a smart show of decision.

Kenneth Burke

It is deplorable, but not tragic, simply to be a victim of circumstance. Sheer victimization is not an assertion - and it naturally makes not for vision but for frustration. The victimizing circumstances, or accidents, seem arbitrary and exorbitant, even silly.

Kerry Scott

I believe that what has happened in West Tisbury is going to have echoes for years to come around the ways we raise property taxes in Massachusetts. I think Bill Graham has shown us that there are huge flaws - frightening flaws - in the way towns conduct this type of business. There can be nothing arbitrary - and there should be nothing subjective - about the process of taxation. That's been a cornerstone of our government and our society.

Anthony Lewis

Freedom under law is hard work. If rulers cannot be trusted with arbitrary power, it is up to citizens to raise their voices at injustice.

Steve McDermott

It is somewhat arbitrary because it's a moving average. How do you determine what you would have earned on that particular date?

Steve Adams

Hard data is behind boundary changes. It is not an arbitrary decision at all.

Tony Blair

I don't think we should have some arbitrary timetable ... You give it as long as it takes to come to a conclusive and final judgment they're not cooperating. And at the present they're not.

Christopher Shays

I would be inclined to support gas tax relief on the House floor, but I would prefer the reinstatement of the gas tax be based on price, not an arbitrary time frame,

Shaun Pollock

If they (the umpires) can't be 100 percent conclusive on what they've seen, I don't see why they can't judge it with the third umpire.

Louis Graham

My issue with the fiber evidence is that it is not conclusive -- never has been, never will be,

Tom Jackson

Looks like he may have been down just before fumbling the football. However, it was not conclusive enough to overturn the call.

Richard Kite

We're not 100 percent conclusive on that. They're still looking into that. . . . I don't want to get into it yet, into how they actually entered.

Ivan Pavlov

Only by observing this condition would the results of our work be regarded as fully conclusive and as having elucidated the normal course of the phenomena.

Adam Ereli

We do not have enough to make a conclusive judgment, I think, one way or the other.

Charlie Pile

The investigation did not find any conclusive evidence of wrongdoing by the athlete. We acknowledged the elevated levels of testosterone, but there was also enough evidence to suggest that natural physiological reasons may have been responsible for the fluctuation.

Michelle Gagnon

I used to be a freelance journalist, so I had to write fast, but I always found writing nonfiction constraining. I like the freedom of fiction, where I get to invent everything, and tidy, conclusive endings are within my control.

Elaine Chao

These are strong numbers, but they are not conclusive numbers,

Saeb Erekat

Refugees, Jerusalem, borders, Jewish settlements and water are issues reserved to the final-status talks between the two sides and nothing should pre-empt or pre-judge the outcome of the final status talks before they begin.

Daymond Langkow

Recently in the last month or so, offensively we've seemed to find a groove and we've been better. We've finally got something going and we just want to keep it going and contribute.

D. James

Our record is totally misleading. We're a final four team. There is talent in this program. The one thing I told the players is that I don't want to see nothing short of a state championship right now.

Saurav Ganguly

Our record in finals is an issue we're trying to forget about and tomorrow is a new start,

Lee Hamilton

Our recommendations are good, and they're urgent, ... they are not intended to be a final solution and they need to be deliberated.

Mike Woodson

Our locker room is very excited. I think any time you play this team (Boston), they're well-coached. They've got a lot of offensive weapons. For us to come in and play a solid game, and finally finish a game, (is satisfying) because we've been playing pretty well as of late.

Tom Buffenbarger

Our negotiators worked aggressively for more than two years, ... Now the most important people involved in these negotiations, our members, will have the final say.

Darcie Breidel

People have big smiles on their faces, and we're glad winter is finally back.

Clair Costello

Sure, we're disappointed to lose. But (making) the final 16 isn't so bad.

Beck

If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

Joanna Lumley

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Charles Schumer

I think my constituents' view is very simple -- no rush to judgment, don't be hasty, don't do anything too quick.

Greg Mitchell

I have learned how people think about themselves and others. Law and rules prevent proper judgment!

Tom Wright

He was put into positions that tested very quickly his style and his judgment,

Lawrence Eagleburger

Milosevic, who in my judgment is a liar and a thief and a scoundrel,

Michael Chertoff

My judgment was that we had a battlefield commander, ... To go down there, I would have been doing Mike Brown's job.

Bible Bible

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

Barbara Sher

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

John Burton

I was actually present when she was examined. She wasn't pregnant. I know she wasn't pregnant.

Ryan Evanochko

That was just the shot that presented itself. I tried to take my time and find an opening.

Carlos Delgado

That's the way it should be. It's not just the present. It's the present and the future.

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

Michael Watkins

I think the superintendent makes the recommendation, presents it and we vote on it.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Sheridan Samuels

I am here to work. I will have to work with the present administration because they are in charge.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

David Baker

I will do what it takes to get through this year,

James Johnson

I think they've done as much as they've been able to do. It takes a break, some remark.

Mike Parker

That's the sixth-best in the United States. She's getting to be where she wants to be. Forty-seven takes her to her new goals.

P. Herbert

It drains you; it takes a toll on you.

Ben Crenshaw

I don't know where this week is going to lead, but I've had so much fun. I'm just going to kind of see where it takes me.

Reggie Williams

I feel free. It just takes time sometimes.

Patrick Foley

It can get complicated. It takes time, and there are a lot of legal-document translations.

Jenny Lewis

I think it's always an adjustment for me, but I do feel like, ultimately, I can kind of write anywhere. It just takes a second to get back in to the groove.

David Burroughs

If it takes one day, three days, 365 days, that it will have to be.

Sherrod Brown

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Ashton Eaton

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

Rosa DeLauro

What we should be is on the people's timetable and not on a congressional timetable.

Andrew Friedman

With hamstrings, it's tough. We don't want to put a timetable on it.

Bob Gainey

It'll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.

Tom Wright

There really is no timetable for us to do that.