Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chip Haass

We set the policy and you can't bend the rules every time. Every time we review this there has been some excuse why they can't meet the requirements. It amazes me that staff, who is here and has institutional memory, can't speak the truth about it.

Aaron Rich

My dad created this out of thin air. It amazes me every day, every meet I go to, people mention my dad by name.

Josh Meeker

She always amazes me. At the beginning of the game, I really thought she was struggling. I think she wanted to come out and do something. The fourth quarter was good for her.

Leonard Hamilton

Obviously he's a load. There's no question about that. He's way beyond his years in maturity. You watch him and you watch his body language and his facial expressions and you can tell the confidence that he plays with. But the thing that amazes me is his team has so much confidence in him.

Josh Taylor

People who are right out of high school, in their early 20s it amazes me what they eat.

Nancy Taylor

One thing Scooter loves to do is work with children. He wants to have a place where he can teach children and help them find their potential through art. He's amazing with his art. He amazes all of us.

Chris Collins

I am extremely proud of these kids for all of their hard work, enthusiasm and achievements. Every year it amazes me how much money Oak Hill contributes to the American Heart Association, all while having a blast and getting a great work out at the same time.

Chip Howard

I grew up with athletics. They were always important to me. I grew up two doors down from my high school football coach, Dick Walsh. The fact that I'm still in athletics amazes me. I'm proud of it.

Mike Smith

For whatever reason, they're too lazy to take it there. It amazes me that they dump it in their backyard.

Art Pulaski

Wealthy companies set new records in political contributions to buy this veto. Schwarzenegger bends whichever the way the corporate winds blow. Just a few weeks ago, the Restaurant Association, a major opponent of the bill, hosted a fund-raiser for Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Tammy Bruce

Manipulating pop culture is the Left Elite's sure-fire way of forcing society to bend to their depraved view of themselves and this country.

Brady Quinn

Like he?s been saying all week, we?re here for a business trip. We want to win this game, so the biggest thing is we need to put emphasis on the fact that we?re prepared and rested and taking on things the way we would be if we were playing in South Bend right now.

National Institute

Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

Lin Stadler

We did exactly what we wanted to do defensively bend but don't break.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.

William Congreve

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe the savage beast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

So I urge the U.N. not to bend to U.S. pressure,

Jason Ritter

I do exercises on my Wii. It's nice to have games that keep you active. It's an excuse to play video games.

Jalen Rose

When you're 0-4, things just aren't going your way. We're just not getting it done, our record indicates that, and I'm not going to make any excuses for it.

J. M. Roberts

Magazines tell you you should be a size zero. Excuse me I don't want to be a zero about anything.

Jim Provuncher

We did have mental breakdowns. There are no excuses for that.

Alan Nevin

The reality is that there should not be an impact. However, many of the material suppliers and subcontractors are using that as an excuse for raising prices.

Larry Pellegrini

My guess is the lateness of the session will be used as an excuse to just not stand up for it.

Kelly Moore

She keeps the office lively all the time. So this is just an excuse for her to be more boisterous.

Dennis Alejo

Most people like"If the people wants there's a lot of ways but if the people has no interest there's a lot of reason & excuses

Ned Collins

Maybe we were a little overbought after yesterday. That scared some people and they started taking profits ...With stocks trading at this level, people are looking for any excuse to worry.

Phil Esposito

When you're an athlete, you meet a lot of people.

Evan Bayh

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

E. L. Konigsburg

Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

Mia Masten

We did look at the site. It doesn't meet our criteria.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Ridley Scott

When I meet an actor that I think is going to be possible is from the second he walks through the door, because it's a visual medium.

Paul Hewitt

The product and service we require meets with our customers' and our expectations.

Chris Smith

We have a safety meeting before any event. There's also people watching at all times.

Jack Straw

We have just made history, ... We've had the first ministerial meeting on the opening of accession negotiations.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Nigel S. Wright

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Donald Trump

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

Donald Trump

The media needs to begin demanding to hear Hillary Clinton's answer on how her policies will affect Americans and their security.

Donald Rumsfeld

Sausage making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up.

Donald Rumsfeld

From where you sit, the White House may look as untidy as the inside of a stomach. As is said of the legislative process, sausage-making and policy-making shouldn't be seen close-up. Don't let that panic you. Things may be going better than they look from the inside.

Gordon England

We had a very comprehensive and in-depth review of this transaction.

Naomi Compton

Mt. Carmel will do an architectural review to select one of these buildings.

Dr. Wyman

Somebody has to review everything to make sure it was done right.

Madeline Albright

We were always willing, if they cooperated, to go to a comprehensive review

Anish Kapoor

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

Pat Davis

We are going to review the report, and we are going to take into consideration this analysis.

Stephane Dujarric

Her status may be reviewed after her rebuttal is received.

David Murray

I said we would review the situation in December,

Michael Kirby

that are continually being developed, reviewed and prioritized.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Grant Teaff

What will come out of this is there will be uniform rules set.

Ron Krumer

There are no rules to how long it could take to go away. It could take one day, it could take two days, it could take two weeks.

Mayor Baker

My rules are simple. Treat everyone fairly. Treat everyone with respect.

Alan Dooley

We need to put the rules together very, very soon.

Doug McBride

We have to have rules in place before we can do it.

Bear Grylls

How you speak about others speaks loudest about yourself.

August Strindberg

When people refuse to speak out for too long, it's like water that's stagnant and starts to rot!

Dennis Kucinich

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.

Alain Badiou

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of 'there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties'), thereof one must be silent. It must on the contrary be named.

Charles Churchill

Who, with tame cowardice familiar grown, would hear my thoughts, but fear to speak their own.

Blaise Pascal

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

William Shakespeare

Let me be cruel, not unnatural;I will speak daggers to her, but use none.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

David Viscott

Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

David House

People overestimate what they can accomplish in the near term and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long term.

David Hilbert

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.

David Hume

Time is a perishable commodity.

David Brainerd

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

David Brainerd

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Beatrice Wood

The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.

Arthur Rimbaud

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

David Hume

To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis with a variety of this kind, are certain proofs that none of these principles is the just one, and that we only desire, by a number of falsehoods, to cover our ignorance of the truth.

David Hume

Reason, in a strict sense, as meaning the judgment of truth and falsehood, can never, of itself, be any motive to the will, and can have no influence but so far as it touches some passion or affection. Abstract relations of ideas are the object of curiosity, not of volition. And matters of fact, where they are neither good nor evil, where they neither excite desire nor aversion, are totally indifferent, and whether known or unknown, whether mistaken or rightly apprehended, cannot be regarded as any motive to action.

David Hume

Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude.

David Duchovny

I'm not going to give up. I can't give up. Not as long as the truth is out there.

Audre Lorde

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Antonin Artaud

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Denise Levertov

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder....

Denis Waitley

The truth is, you don't break a bad habit; you replace it with a good one.

Al Gore

In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.