Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Brittan

We remain ready to cooperate with the U.S. (officials) in accelerating a (WTO) panel provided that they make clear that they are abandoning the unilateral route and respect the rules and procedures of the WTO,

Mary Harron

When we couldn't find the right person, we decided to abandon preconceptions and look at people we hadn't thought of. She came in and her very first audition was so wonderful, so magical. She had this sweetness and innocence, but also something sexy and a little dark.

Loretta Young

When we came to do the take, I did it my way. I played it with all the emotional abandon I possessed and loved every second of my performance.

Mitchell Reiss

What Libya did was make a strategic determination that it would have a better future-a more secure, a more prosperous future-if it abandoned its weapons of mass destruction.

Kenneth Billingsley

With the loss of the company's A- rating imminent, we believe shareholders and customers alike will abandon the company, regardless of what steps management takes the preserve shareholder value.

Jonathan Faull

We reiterate the Commission's support for the European candidate for this post. There is no suggestion that the Commission or anybody else is abandoning its support, in fact... there is unanimous support for the European candidate.

China Mieville

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Granth Sahib

The One, who holds all creatures in His Hands, is never separated from them; He is with them all. Abandon your clever devices, and grasp hold of His Support. In an instant, you shall be saved.

Colin Powell

We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,

Paul Stamm

We've approached the other trusts and have gotten a verbal commitment, but they would like to be able to be the monies that put us over the top in the project. This has a great chance of being a reality and we really need $10 and $25 donations from people in the community.

Jerry Colangelo

When it came time to make the decision of who would be sitting right next to me, it was obvious, ... This is going to be a three-year commitment and I will talk one-on-one with every player before any invitations are extended.

Steve Grossman

Tom Reillys case to the people of Massachusetts does not rest on where he stands on one particular issue or another. It rests on his integrity, honesty, and a hundred-percent commitment to giving the people of Massachusetts a full days work for a full days pay.... He is as honest as the sun, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him.

David Flanery

We're making progress. We're learning. We are having the expected occasional setbacks along the way, but our commitment to international (growth) is solid.

Kay Robertson

You have to fight for your marriage, do whatever it takes. The commitment has to be there. And if you don't have a sense of humor, I don't know how anybody makes it.

Paul Wolfowitz

What we're looking for and what I think to some extent we're getting is both much stronger commitments from the G-8 countries as to how they will implement their obligations ... and then to make sure that they are not the only contributors here,

Mike Cassidy

When we came to work here we came with a mission. We wanted to shine light in dark corners and make the world a better place. We wanted to expose corruption. We wanted to provoke thought, debate and, yes, laughter. ...I don't believe that a newspaper is nothing more than a money machine. If you do, dear reader, then we have failed miserably in our commitment to you.

Jim Williams

What also brought us together was Jim's dedication to junior golf. Having a world famous teacher as part of the Legends team will strengthen our reputation and commitment to junior golf and its promotion in this province.

Avi Pazner

What has happened along the border is a very early stage amid general excitement. We can't judge Egypt's performance in such unusual conditions. We trust they will live up to their commitments.

Jeff Brown

We've asked Yahoo to use their filtering to prevent piracy, not for profit. We tried to discuss it with Yahoo.

Nitin Nohria

We've always treated the historical context of a particular time as a kind of sidebar to any discussion about business leadership. But we've found that context is far more salient than we ever imagined.

Jochen Zeitz

When it came to the discussion about would Harley do an electric bike, I said, 'Absolutely - this is a no-brainer.' Let's define the sound of the future.

Dick Hamm

We're meeting and discussing and we really have a lot of things on our plate. We're trying to come to a conclusion.

Hamish Brewer

We remain confident in the prospects for earnings expansion in 2006 and will discuss this in more detail during our normally scheduled earnings call on Jan. 23.

James Wolfensohn

We respect the demonstrators' right to protest, but who wins by shutting down discussion of some of the world's most pressing problems?

Mike Combs

We're going to get back together next week and discuss a strategy for next year.

Alan Bersin

What this budget does is express (Schwarzenegger's) best judgment of how all the competing needs of California can be met and in this case provide a very large increase in education funding. What he also understands is that his process requires a long and detail discussion with the Legislature, which he is eager to engage.

Don Phillips

Whenever one or two people think they want a study group or discussion - boom - you've got a class. And that's what makes SAGE so great. They're drawing on personal experiences. Been there, done that.

Dave Paul

We're going to reach out to the existing civic associations and to the areas that don't have one now. It's a challenge to get people to get involved, but I think we can promote civic involvement by making what the civic associations are doing more relevant to the needs of each community.

Bob Djurdjevic

What he is saying is we expect to meet the expectations thanks to this additional source of revenue, not from our existing ongoing operations,

David Bondy

We found perhaps many of our existing policyholders would shift their work focus away from what they had been doing to trades and operations that were more in demand.

Don Dion

What's significant in these figures is the stock holdings have increased substantially and the bond position is down. We continue to see evidence that Bob Stansky is reshaping his portfolio by purchasing blue chip companies with outstanding growth characteristics. He is using existing cash reserves, proceeds from bond sales and revitalized inflows.

Nigel Harris

Universities by their very nature encourage debate, question and challenge of conventional wisdom and existing theories. We are places where knowledge is discovered. We advance existing precepts and understandings by which society currently runs. And in that context, academic staff will time to time have views that are different from the government's.

Ed Colligan

U.S. sales are strong but there are more challenges in Europe, ... There are a number of existing brands there that are very strong. Our products have not taken off at the level we'd like them to so far.

Larry Medina

Work with your business process and legal advisers to develop a records management policy, and from that, develop procedures and a retention schedule (after performing an inventory of existing records) and assessing who creates, receives and manages what information for your organization.

Brad Garlinghouse

Working with Siemens will greatly increase the potential for new and existing users to take advantage of our rich communications suite. Today's announcement is a first step in a relationship that will expand and continue to benefit both Yahoo! and Siemens customers for a long time to come.

Jim Leonard

We're hoping this will clear up most of the problems. The distance to the existing tower is too far. We've got a lot of radio dead spots that this should fix.

Kendall Ponder

We've avoided the issue as much as we can. It's a big game for us because we are facing Hickman, not coach Riley.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka

When I was a kid... if I couldn't get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of 'Batman' and 'Spider-Man' and 'X-Men.' I could not choose one over the other.

Tom Daschle

When I was accused of being an obstructionist, there was a corresponding, a very significant increase in the number of issues that my family and I had to deal with. And I worry about that,

Steve Grossman

Tom Reillys case to the people of Massachusetts does not rest on where he stands on one particular issue or another. It rests on his integrity, honesty, and a hundred-percent commitment to giving the people of Massachusetts a full days work for a full days pay.... He is as honest as the sun, regardless of whether you agree or disagree with him.

Ray Rivas

We're more concerned about the safety issue than losing money.

Malvinder Singh

We remain undeterred in our resolve on this issue and we will press our case in the US court of appeals for the federal circuit.

Doug Steenland

We remain open to exploring various options to attain the needed labor costs savings but we need to resolve the issue quickly.

Dan Glickman

We're spending today, depending upon which agency of government, significantly more money on fire preparedness and treatment than we were spending in 1993, ... I think the real issue is that we have a situation that has been unparalleled in the last 50 years right now, and that has to do with what I call 'the perfect storm' phenomenon of weather and fuel loads.

Romeo Serra

We respect the position of the CBCP in regard to the mining issue although we believe that the revitalization of the mining industry presents as a major viable alternative in the effective abatement of poverty in Mindanao.

Bill Richardson

We're going to focus on two important areas: one is verification, the second is what steps are the North Koreans taking to dismantle their nuclear weapons ? concrete steps,

Vincent Chase

We found that of 65 locations with nuclear power plants only a third have gone through the exercise to determine if they are meeting security standards.

Flynt Leverett

We can define a target set that we want to take out in the name of delaying Iran's nuclear development, and we're perfectly capable of taking out that target set.

Adam Ereli

We briefed him on our policy and our dealings and the state of play with North Korea, ... As a result of our discussions with Governor Richardson, I think we both share an interest in seeing North Korea make the right decision with regard to ending its nuclear program and choosing a path of reintegration with the international community.

Rodong Sinmun

Unless the U.S. gives up its double-dealing attitude toward the six-party talks and hostile policy toward the DPRK, the resumption of the talks and the settlement of the nuclear issue cannot be expected.

Brahma Chellaney

Unless the United States rolls back its demands, it is almost certain that no formal nuclear agreement will be ready for signature when President George W Bush arrives in New Delhi on March 1.

Joseph Rotblat

Unless there is a change in the basic philosophy, we will not see a reduction of nuclear arsenals to zero for a very long time, if ever.

Barton Gellman

U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

C. Robert Kehler

U.S. nuclear weapons that are available for presidential use are targeted against broad ocean areas.

Jamie Dixon

We've always played three guards in certain instances over the years. A number of programs do that. Oftentimes, your smaller players are your better players. Last year, our bigger guys were our better players.

Jeff Hathaway

We've always done what was best for our basketball programs and all of our programs. You have to decide what it is you need, where you're going to put it. These are projects that take some time.

Carol Anderson

We're making the best use of the space we have. We're able to adjust the programs and activities to meet needs.

Phil Forest

We're spending more time on our computers. Even though television viewing is up, there is still a percentage that they're losing. If they put programs on the Internet, they can capture more of the audience. That's one of the key factors driving the networks.

Scott Sanderson

We respect (Belmont). They try to do it the right way like we do. Both programs are on the rise and getting to play each other will be an absolute classic.

Kevin Blanshan

What we're looking at is about a 30 percent reduction in both programs per year. There isn't a lot of new money there to consider new projects, unless some of the other ones drop out.

Alex Anderson

What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.

Joseph Cirincione

We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed.

Saul Berman

We believe your grandchildren won't know what a TV is. Programs will become unrestricted by becoming more mobile, but programming will be freed as well from constraints.

Richard Holbrooke

If we don't have full and verifiable compliance, the United States will take a very strong position in favor of resuming the air strikes.

Jane Smith

If it was verifiable in acceptable medical literature from multiple sources, that was kind of a litmus test.

Rod Nielsen

So far the literature has focused on verifiable external stressors with less emphasis on how they are experienced by the individual, ... The same external stressor may result in different levels of stress in different people. A measure of self-reported stress therefore provides a better measure of the actual level of stress experienced by the individual.

Gerald Edelman

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.

Nobutaka Machimura

Only after the DPRK implements its commitment to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs in a verifiable manner, may we discuss the issue of a light-water reactor,

Joe Biden

A diplomatic solution that puts significant and verifiable constraints on Iran's nuclear program represents the best and most sustainable chance to ensure that America, Israel, the entire Middle East will never be menaced by a nuclear-armed Iran.

Josh Fox

As a journalist, you have to have multiple sources and verifiable science, and when you've done that and satisfied the most skeptical voice in your head, you have an obligation to ride through the streets - let people know what's going on.

Feroze Mohamed

We have detected areas of the brain activated by deception and truth telling by using a method that is verifiable against the current gold standard method of lie detection -- the conventional polygraph.

Thaksin Shinawatra

We are committed to the maintenance of peace and stability on the peninsula and support continuation of the six-party talks and look forward to concrete and verifiable progress toward a complete and permanent nuclear weapons-free Korean peninsula.

Bill Richardson

We're going to focus on two important areas: one is verification, the second is what steps are the North Koreans taking to dismantle their nuclear weapons ? concrete steps,

Corey Caldwell

When weapons are allowed back on board an aircraft, the pilots will be able to land the plane safely but the aisles will be running with blood.

Joseph Cirincione

We found nothing. There are no large stockpiles of weapons. There hasn't actually been a find of a single weapon, a single weapons agent, nothing like the programs that the administration believe existed.

Jeff Guenther

We felt like if we could keep it close, we had a chance. And early, we did. But they've got so many weapons and just hit big shot after big shot.

Mitchell Reiss

What Libya did was make a strategic determination that it would have a better future-a more secure, a more prosperous future-if it abandoned its weapons of mass destruction.

Ghazi Hamad

We reject the use of force or weapons against citizens or on the street.

Shaun O'Hara

We're four physical teams, we're four great defenses and we have a lot of weapons on offense. It's a tough division.

Akio Morita

I knew we needed a weapon to break through to the US market, and it had to be something different, something that nobody else was making.

Chogyam Trungpa

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.