Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kenneth Langone

When then-New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sued me in 2003 over my stewardship as a director of the New York Stock Exchange, the NYSE's legal expenses were more than $100 million, which made it perhaps the priciest litigation in the state's history.

Daniel Inouye

Mr. Gonzales' failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.

Ronnie Musgrove

Important state legislative races and statewide elections for offices like Lt. Governor and Attorneys General are often overshadowed by gubernatorial and federal elections.

Arlen Specter

Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason.

Leonard Peltier

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

Eric Schneiderman

Ninety-five percent of the work in the attorney general's office is civil litigation and regulatory work, and I think I certainly have a lot more experience in that than most of the folks who have served in the office.

Louise Slaughter

Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may not have given a reporter Plame's name, he clearly identified her by telling the reporter that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA agent.

Laura Wasser

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people to come to grips with the very idea of divorce - or to reconsider the idea. Like a number of my colleagues - not all - I offer that preliminary consultation for free.

John Gleason

The extent of that obligation is something that all attorneys are very nervous about. It makes us have to make the call of whether or not there was a violation, and in certain cases that's difficult.

Mike Scioscia

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

Frank Maloney

Wayne McCullough and Michael Brodie stood toe-to-toe with him and that brought out the best in Scott.

Pat Onstad

We always have a good group, both on and off the field. It was that way with Frank (Yallop) and it continues with Dom. It's not about having the best players, but having the best group of players. We just always seem to gel.

Larry Kupczyk

We always get great crowds here. We played some of our best hockey that weekend.

Ron Allen

We always enjoy the games between us. We always have great contests. Larry and I have been best friends for 20 seasons out here.

Marcel Proust

We always end up doing the thing we are second best at.

Lord Melbourne

Wealth is so much the greatest good that Fortune has to bestow that in the Latin and English languages it has usurped her name.

Denis Waitley

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

Denis Waitley

Give your best effort, because you are worth your best effort.

Robert Gottlieb

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

Kent Haruf

We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.

Hitopadesa Hitopadesa

When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.

Rohit Shetty

I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema; I make a different kind. But when we meet, we are friendly.

Tom Slater

Luke is capable of striking guys out and getting ground balls, and that's what he did for us.

Ann Curtis

Let's just be one of the top four and see how we match up at sectionals. But we are capable of making it to state.

Troy Williamson

Losing Randy Moss, even with all his spectacular catches, probably improves their offense because it will make them a more cohesive unit. All that distraction will be gone. And (Daunte) Culpepper is capable of lighting it up.

King Fahd

Look what God wills, the king really has some stamina, ... God give him health. I don't know how he can greet so many people. It really shows he's strong and capable of leading the country.

Thomas Campbell

Last year's loss in the semifinals was definitely a heartbreaker. We know what we are capable of. We need to come out and work hard.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

Unfortunately because of the variety of outlets for people to speak their minds on the Internet and that kind of thing, it's made the media in general more opinionated and there's more of a 'gotcha mentality' than real reporting.

Rich Lowry

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Isabella Rossellini

Every time you work, it's a new film, and generally when you work with auteurs, people that write and direct their films, there's always an originality.

Isabella Rossellini

It's nice to go and be a guest on a television sitcom. It pays well; it's easy because generally it's a supporting role, so you go, you do two or three things, you're in touch with people there. They're widely popular, so they're seen by many people.

Robert Toombs

The instant the Government was organized, at the very first Congress, the Northern States evinced a general desire and purpose to use it for their own benefit, and to pervert its powers for sectional advantage, and they have steadily pursued that policy to this day.

Mallory Ortberg

After I do my first writing of the day, I will generally look at Twitter and Google News - and that's my big media secret. I look at Twitter and I look at Google because they pull all the headlines from other websites.

David Cole

Low risk is something we generally recommend that users can ignore. Medium risk is something we quarantine, and high risk is something we automatically remove.

Lord Byron

Lovers may be -- and indeed generally are -- enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

David Hume

What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

George Bernard Shaw

When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

Douglas Fairbanks

The man that's out to do something has to keep in high gear all the time.

Thomas Couture

There is only one absinthe drinker, and that's the man who painted this idiotic picture.

Uday Kotak

As we were all growing up, there used to be a very big mantra in India which was called 'export or perish.' There was a long period when we used to focus on import substitution.

Lee Majors

The Six Million Dollar Man was one thing, but I wanted to keep my own parts.

Kevin McCloud

My father, an engineer, was the gentlest man I knew.

Ronnie Milsap

I'm a Christian man that lives it every day, believing somebody will look and live by example.

August Bebel

If your opponent praises you: beware! But if he gets stuck into you, you are usually on the right way.

Carl von Clausewitz

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

Sam Davis

Obviously, you'd rather play a team that doesn't get after it quite that well on defense. They put a lot of pressure on the perimeter and get a lot of steals from opponents with their half-court pressure.

Bear Bryant

You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

Anthony Trollope

The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.

Tony Skinn

If that will make our opponent not take our abilities seriously, then let us be the Cinderella.

Bobby Fischer

Computers are our only opponents that don't always have no excuse when losing against me.

Justin Trudeau

When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.

Ann Coulter

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Keith Warren

We are primarily here to present an alternative message. We support the troops and the mission.

Jane Jacobs

The best part of a Reg Hartt presentation is what he has to say.

Sheridan Samuels

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

Joe Sims

If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't, well see them in court.

Chief Bender

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

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Ron Reagan

Now, ignorance is one thing, ignorance can be cured. But many of the Republican leaders opposing this research know better.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Adam Carolla

I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

Ann Coulter

There are a lot of bad republicans; there are no good democrats.

Andy Borowitz

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic, the Republicans have nominated Mitt Romney.