Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Young

We accept their assurances they are concerned about what happened and also their assurances they will abide by the media accreditation rules.

Erin Healy

Like all federal employees, we would expect he would abide by the rules and regulations.

William Mitchell

Of course, I am disappointed with the court's decision, but I respect the court and the judicial system and the district will of course abide by the ruling.

Michael Barrett

One would think they would abide by their own policy.

Jonathan Shapiro

She is a no-nonsense judge, and she doesn't abide by nonsense from the defense or the prosecutor. Being a former assistant U.S. attorney, she holds the government attorneys to a very high standard, which is as it should be. She is evidently very disturbed by the developments in this case, which is as it should be as well.

William Baldwin

My Love in me and I in him, Conjoined by love, will till abide Among the faithful lilies Till day do break, and truth do dim All shadows dark and cause them slide, According as his will is.

Stephen Harper

Should the government refuse to debate this motion or refuse to abide by the motion ... I will move a motion of non-confidence in the government the following week.

Don Hamilton

We know we have to abide by the law, but this is still a tough thing to do. I know it's progress, but it's hard for a small community like ours.

Jamie Kennedy

There are certain rules one must abide by in order to succesfully survive a horror movie.

Leslie Alexander

When you're a GM ? or a personnel manager or assistant GM ? you're already in the basketball world. Which isn't the world of dealing, of business, of thinking how this fits with that. I wanted knowledge that went to another level. I wanted a statistical side other people don't have.

Paul Turner

When I was assistant coach of Harlequins, I came to Castres and got walloped, so I've seen what they are capable of,

Jean Martin

When the mayor was elected, the administrative assistant was a position he requested be added. Because he was the first black mayor in Selma - something that got attention worldwide - he felt he needed someone skilled in administrative work. If you go into his office, he's rarely ever sitting there by himself. Calls came in all the time requesting him to speak and still do.

Lori Montag

Like I said for the past 17 years there has always been an assistant to the clerks office.

Jim Boeheim

Let the assistant coach come up to me and say, 'Gerry McNamara is overrated.' I'd like to see one of those guys come up to me and say that. He's been double-teamed all year, and the coaches voted him first team all-conference. The head coaches, they don't know (expletive), I guess.

Mike Browning

Lou is a great, multi-talented (guy). He does great work (in sculpture). He brought his expertise from Don Haskins, used his big-man coaching. He played quite a bit with the kids. That was my first two years at the Academy; I was his assistant coach, his JV coach. When he was at the Academy, I was at Holy Ghost.

Matt Savoie

Lori Parker, one of our assistant team leaders here in Calgary has a daughter attending Kansas, who Bradley already beat this tournament so I had fun teasing her about that.

Frank Haith

Last year was our first year in the league and my first year in the league as a head coach. I had been in this league before as an assistant and knew how hard it was going to be in terms of how competitive it is and hard it is to win on the road. I think our kids are better at it after going through it one time. We're more experienced and now that we have Anthony Harris back, I think we're playing better basketball.

Thomas Schlamme

I worked as a production assistant on a couple of films, and finally, I got a job at an animation studio as an editor. After that, work begat work. I got into directing music videos and commercials.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Ferguson

Six times more attorneys than you would normally see.

Brian Chase

Many attorneys didn't want overseas assignments because they were negatively impacting their chances for becoming partner back home.

Robert Russell

Some attorneys have said they won't practice anymore. There's a lot of concern out there.

Carter Phillips

We are pleased to welcome these two accomplished attorneys to the firm. Bill and Jim both have impressive track records handling the increasingly complex regulatory and litigation issues that are critical to our client base. I look forward to their contributions to the continued growth and success of our energy practice.

Al Davis

They said you had to take what the defense gave you. No, we are going to take what we want.

Charles Bass

The Intelligence Committee will also examine present counterintelligence programs for the Department of Energy, the National Laboratories, and the Department of Defense.

Jody Allen

Whenever you play good defense and get good pitching, you don't need to score a lot. If we keep playing like this, we're going to be tough to beat.

Richard Jefferson

When your defense falls, sometimes your offense can be part of the problem. We were taking some questionable shots that were leading to easy transition baskets on their end.

Matt Diaz

When I let it go I had a good feeling. Seven total hits. Defense is going to win that game.

Charles Davidson

When I come in I want to spark it up. Get some steals and get the tempo up. We were scoring easy baskets when we got our defense going.

Wink Adams

We're going in thinking defense first. We're going to try to shut them down and get some offense off of our defense.

Tony Banks

We're glad to get this win over a good team that played great defense all game. This is our seventh straight trip to Troy, and we feel fortunate to be able to go after fighting for this win tonight.

Eric Flato

We're just going to have to make sure that our defense and intensity are there. We have to understand what we need to do defensively and help each other out, and hopefully we'll be able to stop them.

Elliot Mintz

The producers of the film will be granting an assassin's dream. It will also send out a message to other disturbed people that there is a fast track to international fame.

Epictetus

Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

Epictetus

Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them

Catherine Rossi

We're saying that we're disturbed by the numbers we are seeing.

Orin Kramer

When the party with no power can raise more money than the party with all the power, it means people are pretty disturbed about the country's condition.

Cui Zhikun

The rampant illegal employment and habitation of foreigners in some places have disturbed the normal order of public security.

Dave Johnston

It disturbed the water and made it muddy. But it has less turbidity than what a typical rainstorm would cause.

Dave Johnston

It disturbed the water and made it muddy, ... But it has less turbidity than what a typical rainstorm would cause.

Jan Brewer

We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Greg Allen

Since I got here, one of our goals has been to reach out to our former players. Having them come back and support our team means a lot to me and our program.

Brad McClellan

She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Jose Rizal

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen.

Katie Couric

But first this is the President's seventh, seventh trip to the hurricane zone and the former oilman is getting a real firsthand look at the devastation that's there.

David Walker

It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.

David Hume

An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity.

David Brinkley

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

David Brooks

The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I have rarely seen the government do anything that was effective.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I ask citizens and governments everywhere to do their part by conserving energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels for the good of the world community. This is our duty to those who share this world with us and to those who follow us: Wherever we see a threat to our environment we must take action

Beatrice Webb

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

Alain de Botton

Cynics are - beneath it all - only idealists with awkwardly high standards.

Aimee Mullins

It's hard enough for women to walk on high heels. And I'm on stilts!

Tom Wolfe

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves and they worry about their reputations. I think there's some truth to that.

Todd Rundgren

People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my intention. It never was. My original intention was to be a kind of behind-the-scenes participant in music, to just be a record producer and engineer. And I made a record for myself just so I could have an outlet for my musical ideas.

Robert Hess

We're seeing very high levels relative to historical levels. Our shelters are over capacity.

Dave Lawrence

We're looking at a quick warm-up. It's a quick-hitting, high pressure system.

S. Jay Olshansky

In centenarians and supercentenarians - people over 110 - you see a higher level of fecundity much later in life.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Taylor Twellman

Obviously, we've missed Pat tremendously his play, the way he holds the play up. It's a pleasure playing with him, and hopefully we can do well together in the playoffs.

John Hahn

She holds us together. She shoots some big threes and she's my first 1,000-point scorer in the six years since I've been here.

Ming-Na Wen

'Mulan' holds a very special place in my heart. It's been 16 years since the film, but hordes of fans still come up and tell me how much she means to them.

Angus MacKenzie

MOTOR TREND holds a distinctive place in the landscape of automotive journalism. It is a strong and influential publication that is poised for tremendous growth. It is the right time for Ira to take MOTOR TREND to the next level.

Jeff Reed

Second, I passed one of the numerous records he holds in the NFL. Gary's the most-respected kicker who's been through this league. It means a lot.

Phil Johnson

Phoenix has been very effective. But we'll see how it holds out over the long haul.

John Gibbons

If the Yanks don't win the division, they'll win the wild card. New York knows how to win when it has to, plus Joe Torre holds things together.

Mark Fox

Idaho has been playing better. San Jose State holds the lead at Utah State with a minute to go last Saturday.

Betsy Ross

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.

Burt Rutan

Confidence in nonsense is required.

Kurt Vonnegut

in nonsense is strength

C. S. Lewis

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Everything in life in nonsense. it's just a question of persepctive

Benjamin Franklin

As charms are nonsense, nonsense is a charm.

Albert Einstein

Nonsense, seems to sum up everything.

Orson Scott Card

Nonsense," said Graff. "Ender always has plans within plans.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PROOF-READER, n. A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.