Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hanan Ashrawi

We accepted the (U.S.) initiative, trying to be helpful in getting the peace process back on track. We are not willing in any way to renegotiate the initiative ... I think the clock is ticking very fast.

Lewis Platt

We accepted his decision with sadness, but also with the knowledge that changes needed to be made. The board is confident that the new leadership will bring a renewed focus on execution and performance.

Mary Coleman

We accepted full responsibility for the wrongdoing that occurred, and we felt that the loss of scholarships, extended probation, and other penalties imposed by the NCAA were an appropriately severe response to the violations. Our appeal was focused on the additional postseason ban, because we believed it fell disproportionately on the current, innocent players and coaches.

Megan Vrabel

We accepted coach Dixon so quickly. The team is so close. We've trusted coach Dixon.

Ehud Barak

We accepted American ideas that each side will examine its own activities, ... that our security teams will sit together to clarify what happened, and then we'll sit with the American partners to see what happened and to try and make sure that better coordination will be in the future and that such events could not be repeated in the future.

Jack O'Connell

We accepted a higher proportion of English-learner students than any other state in the country, ... Our exclusion rate of English learners was 12%, while Texas' exclusion rate was 37.5% and New York's was 29%.

Greg Genske

Wayne reached out as soon as he accepted the job to become general manager. We realized we had a lot of work to do in a short period of time if we were going to reach an agreement and avoid the arbitration hearing, which always is the goal.

Jennifer Warnes

I've always wanted to be accepted by country music fans - without lying.

Timothy Noah

In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.

Kevin Rose

Twitter became a major place to find out what was breaking on the Internet. Facebook became a place to share links. Social media really grew up.

Kay Bailey Hutchison

When I became the first woman to represent the state of Texas in the United State Senate, it was with the help of a lot of women - and a large number of men, too.

Kathryn Lasky

Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.

John Henrik Clarke

I caddied for Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley long before they became generals or president, for that matter. Just between you and me, Bradley tipped better than Eisenhower did.

Jason Mraz

In my relationship, I was giving myself away to make the relationship better, but in actuality, wasn't doing better by doing that. I became less of a man.

Bill Whalen

when he joined the campaign two years ago to oust and succeed Governor Gray Davis. ''He used to be a celebrity, then he became celebrity/politician Schwarzenegger. And now, he's more politician.

Ruth Reichl

When you're a restaurant critic, you're not home at night, so breakfast became really important for us.

Bill Forsyth

When I was a very small boy, my father was a plumber in a shipping yard, but then it transpired that he became a grocer.

Edmund Phelps

When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.

Tom Wolfe

That's mostly what the Internet is, just passing the time. But unfortunately you are dealing with words that can have meaning.

John Friend

Leroy's also a special human being. I've told parents how fortunate they are to have this guy heading up the program and dealing with their kids.

Ellen McLaughlin

I go to the theater because I need help dealing with my life; I want to see the greatest questions addressed. I need to see actors grappling with things that matter.

Tom Fontana

We did not go in and pitch a show about accounting. And so the nature of the show is, we're dealing with sexuality.

Mary Meeker

The reality here is we're dealing with a market environment that was overheated.

Susanna Kearsley

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

Theodore Schultz

Farmers the world over, in dealing with costs, returns and risks, are calculating economic agents. Within their small, individual, allocative domain, they are fine-tuning entrepreneurs, tuning so subtly that many experts fail to recognize how efficient they are.

Carol Johnson

We're having some difficulties dealing with it, ... It's just a lot of uncertainty about the future.

David Reddy

One of the very important things to point out here is that we are not dealing with a human pandemic strain yet, thank goodness.

Lydia Lunch

If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

Tom Holland

On stage you need to emphasize every emotion. But on screen you need to tone everything down and make it believable.

Wendell Jeffries

One of the things we emphasized tonight was the third quarter. Usually we have a slow third quarter with or without the lead and we outscored them by nine and that was something we were looking for.

Eddie Jordan

One thing the Warriors can do is score. We knew that. And as much as we wanted to emphasize defense, we knew we had to keep the pace offensively. With that being said, I thought we ran our offense.

John Otto

We knew we wanted to take the strong points of our groove and emphasize them as well, and we knew we wanted to just totally experiment.

Shane Voss

We want our players to be scholar-athletes. We emphasize that all year.

Bill Fennelly

Right now, it's the old shoot-not-to-miss syndrome and passing up shots. We've emphasized that you don't pass up shots; if you miss, you miss. We've had a hard time scoring, but it's never been because of our inability to make a shot.

Jane Albright

Nichole has one goal in life, as far as basketball, and that is to help her team win. She has no selfishness about her. Really whatever we emphasize in a game, she really tries to do.

Jeb Bush

I can't emphasize enough to the people in the Keys that a hurricane is coming,

Kay Bailey Hutchison

There are elections in which everyone knows that 'the people have spoken' but they don't always know exactly what the people have said. This November's election was different. Not only did the people speak, they spoke clearly.

Ron Gardenhire

We needed a win, desperately. We needed to get back and have a better feeling around here, and that's exactly what happened tonight.

Brad Johnson

We're getting warmer at exactly the time of year that snow needs to store water. It's a real threat to our water supply that we should take seriously and address.

Ed DeChellis

Last year, they knew exactly what they were doing. This year, this guy's starting, that guy's starting, probably because that's just the way it is. They're trying to find the right mixture.

George Soros

I see tremendous imbalance in the world. A very uneven playing field, which has gotten tilted very badly. I consider it unstable. At the same time, I don't exactly see what is going to reverse it.

Emraan Hashmi

Somehow, I always knew I would get married by the time I was 27. Even in college, I had this weird thing in my head that I would get married when I was 27, and hopefully my career would be stable, and I'll have kids by 30. And that's exactly what has happened.

Erica Jong

I don't think there's just one person for everyone. It would be very hard for me to be with a guy who was not bright or funny. And he'd have to see the absurdities of the world, not exactly as I see them necessarily.

Lorrie Moore

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

Kapil Sharma

People tell me that my appearance in real life is better than on-screen. Perhaps people think I am exactly like the characters I play on TV.

Carol Sanders

Whenever you're looking at something like this, it's important to get as many experts in the field to help you.

Mary Roach

When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag all of my stupid mistakes.

Bob Farrell

When all the experts and forecasts agree, something else is going to happen

Edward Norton

I don't flatter myself - I'm not a scientist, I'm not a conservation expert.

Ben Nicholson

I'm not an expert, but I want to be.

Patricia Sullivan

She never has a hidden agenda, ... She'll be an expert on lotteries before this thing is over.

Robert Ballard

So, I'm able to network experts on demand, when I need them.

Ben Stein

I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.

Laurie Colwin

Cooking is like anything else: some people have an inborn talent for it. Some become expert by practicing, and some learn from books.

Al Gore

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Rob Varley

We're going after the incentives market, and we're going to be going after the smaller, upscale groups business.

Rory Bremner

So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.

Alexandra Robbins

Random, meaningless groups can adopt an us-versus-them mentality.

Janette Turner Hospital

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Benito Mussolini

Fascism conceives of the State as an absolute, in comparison with which all individuals or groups are relative, only to be conceived in their relation to the State.

John Fernandez

We have so many (hate) groups throughout the country, ... One only needs to surf the Internet to learn about most of them.

Bulat Abilov

We have information that groups of people were bussed from one polling station to another.

Brian May

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

David Remnick

I'm not the slowest writer that you know.

David Icke

How much did Jim Morrison know?

David Hockney

I'm a bit claustrophobic, I know that now.

August Strindberg

Necessity knows no rules.

Alan Dershowitz

I know Obama, I like Obama, I voted for Obama.

Billy Bob Thornton

If you love somebody let them know every day.

Pete Murray

We had been playing solidly for 18 months, everyone knows how to play together,

Andy Xie

We're going down to the bottom. No one knows where that is.

Spanish Proverb

Like a parakeet, that says what he knows but doesn't know what he says

Arthur Rock

You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.

Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.

Denise Levertov

Don't eat those nice green dollars your wife gives you for breakfast.

Denis Waitley

Don't ever let economic alone determine your career or how you spend the majority of your time.

Dennis Miller

I like money. It's fun to fold and stack and smell and look at. It's just plain fun to count money, and I often do it in a loud falsetto while wearing nothing but a captain's hat and a coin changer.

Al Bernstein

A fool and his money get a lot of publicity.

Al Franken

The biases the media has are much bigger than conservative or liberal. They're about getting ratings, about making money, about doing stories that are easy to cover.

Billie Jean King

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Tiger Woods

When I had the record and the money title, it's very misleading,

Jamie Wyeth

Everything I paint is a portrait, whatever the subject.

Jamie Wyeth

I'm an odd portrait painter in that I'm not just interested in human faces. I consider almost all of my paintings to be portraits.

Jamie Wyeth

The danger, I find, is that you can become too formulaic, like some commissioned portrait painters who develop a methodology.

Robert Brady

More than 54,000 jobs in the region are dependent upon the Port of Philadelphia alone.

Julie Daum

Most people, if they can put together a portfolio of activities, find it's very interesting rather than going back to a full-time job.

Doug Johnson

The region as a whole has significant portfolio risks. However, that being said, in any region the size of Asia, there will always be opportunities.

Charlie Munger

Beta and modern portfolio theory and the like - none of it makes any sense to me.

Jamaal Magloire

Portland has a lot of talent on their team. Their talent speaks more than their record.

Elizabeth Banks

Portion control is a real problem. My husband and I always split one appetizer and one entree. I'm sure waiters hate us.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

David Hyde Pierce

I don't have the time to tell you all the things I've learned from this cast. It's an extraordinary ensemble because we all support each other so well.

Dennis Kucinich

We show our support and love the troops, whatever our opinion.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Kathleen Blanco

Let's just support the Saints. That's what I say.

Vandana Shiva

My travels through physics really are the same urges that make me travel through ecology. They are not really different, except that there is an added dimension of seeing ecological destruction and seeing the very life-support system that makes us survive on this planet being destroyed. That makes me do more than just inquire; it compels me to act and to intervene.

Thomas Collins

We are here to support ECOMIL and we want them to succeed.

Jason Chaffetz

A premium support program is different than a voucher program. They're just fundamentally different.

Janez Drnovsek

It is possible there will be much less support for NATO because there is a lot of identification of the United States with NATO.

Ayn Rand

The political function of 'the right of free speech' is to protect dissenters and unpopular minorities from forcible suppression - not to guarantee them the support, advantages, and rewards of a popularity they have not gained.

Boy George

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.