Procedure Quotes

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(on the adoption of her son, David) My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand out family. Nevertheless, we have gone about the adoption procedure according to the law like anyone else who adopts a child. Reports to the contrary are totally inaccurate. The procedure includes an l8-month evaluation period after which time we hope to make this adoption permanent. This was not a decision or commitment that my family or I take lightly. I am overwhelmed and inspired by my trip to Malawi and hope that it helps bring attention to how much more the world needs to do to help the children of Africa. My heartfelt thanks for all the good wishes I have received and I hope the press will allow my family some room for us to experience the joy we feel to have David home.

- Madonna

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It`s all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

- Aaron Eckhart

It was during a cosmetic procedure that I first had painkillers.

- Jamie Lee Curtis

On the adoption of her son, David: "My husband and I began the adoption process many months prior to our trip to Malawi. I did not wish to disclose my intentions to the world prior to the adoption happening as this is a private family matter. After learning that there were over one million orphans in Malawi, it was my wish to open up our home and help one child escape an extreme life of hardship, poverty and in many cases death, as well as expand out family. Nevertheless, we have gone about the adoption procedure according to the law like anyone else who adopts a child. Reports to the contrary are totally inaccurate. The procedure includes an l8 month evaluation period after which time we hope to make this adoption permanent. This was not a decision or commitment that my family or I take lightly. I am overwhelmed and inspired by my trip to Malawi and hope that it helps bring attention to how much more the world needs to do to help the children of Africa. My heartfelt thanks for all the good wishes I have received and I hope the press will allow my family some room for us to experience the joy we feel to have David home." (October 17,2006)

- Madonna

In the lap-band procedure, we put an elastic band around the neck of the stomach, just below the end of the esophagus. Solid food has to cross the band to get to the lower part of the stomach, so you don`t need to eat as much to feel full.

- Robert Ri'chard

If there`s a problem, you can easily reverse (lap-band) by removing the band. It`s the safest weight-loss procedure available, with a (national) mortality rate of 1 in 2,000, compared to 1 in 200 for gastric bypass.

- Robert Ri'chard

To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.

- David Brooks

The most interesting aspect for me, composing exclusively with patterns, is that there is not one organizational procedure more advantageous than another, perhaps because no one pattern ever takes precedence over the others.

- Morton Feldman

The jacking procedure is anticipated to begin this weekend, possibly as early as Saturday morning,

- Peter Graves

We didn`t know what to do, ... I mean we had never been to victory circle and we didn`t know the procedure. Looking back, that was pretty funny.

- Robert Clarke

This procedure has the potential of increasing the number of living donor transplant operations by one third to one half.

- Robert Montgomery

I really didn`t have a decision. This is my only choice right now, to get the procedure done.

- Scott Rolen

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It`s about space and form and it`s something you can share with other people.

- Donna Karan

You have to be really careful with this type of surgery. You really have to give the procedure a chance to work and for the knee to heal. If you don`t, you`re asking for trouble.

- Penny Hardaway

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

- Damon Hill

There aren`t any other countries in the world where they kill abortionists and bomb clinics. To be an abortionist in the United States is like to be a fireman or a policeman, to take on a heroic profession, but of course, it puts your life on the line. Regardless of one`s political convictions, you have to respect the integrity of someone who is willing to risk his life to perform this kind of procedure. You can make a good living doing other sorts of procedures.

- Todd Solondz

I think the momentum of the game definitely swung on that procedure penalty on our kickoff. Indiana went on to score 14 straight points. I`ve never experienced that in 22 years. It was the key play of the game.

- Brian Kelly

I was a "bookie" kid. I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you`re actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn`t find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.

- Neil Gaiman

I hope this is a new and unique way of doing the public`s business and not a standard operating procedure that we`re just finding out about. It is regrettable that the public won`t have an opportunity to comment on this.

- Peter Fox

The leaks, apparently from the IPCC report, demonstrate that there are problems with the procedure. I therefore think it`s time now to come clean and actually let us all know exactly what`s been going on.

- Jenny Jones

The leaks, apparently from the IPCC report, demonstrate that there are problems with the procedure. I therefore think it`s time now to come clean and actually let us all know exactly what`s been going on,

- Jenny Jones

This is a violation of the sanctions regime, something that we deeply regret and are quite disappointed in, both in terms of the substance and the procedure that was followed by France.

- James Cunningham

She was tough with a cigarette in her hand, ready to do anything a guy could do. There`s stories of her getting into fights with guys and coming out on top, ... She brought a feminine touch of professionalism and understanding in the homicide division. The mark she left was in a far more sensitive procedure, helping victims of homicide-oriented crimes, especially rape.

- Tom Kennedy

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibustered and requires only a simple majority in the Senate to be passed. It is primarily intended for deficit and mandatory spending reduction.

- Jeff Miller

The players` association strongly believed that this dispute belonged in the grievance procedure.

- Michael Weiner

I think it`s just something we heard clearly from our fans, that we were very respectful of the Ute tribe and we decided to appeal. The university has always been close to the Ute tribe. I think it`s standard operating procedure to be in touch with the Ute tribe to do the right thing.

- Chris Hill

It is a very real concern and my view is that everything changed on September 11th and the procedure, the policies that were in place prior to September 11th no longer should apply.

- George Pataki

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal. It does not follow that every item which we confidently accept as physical knowledge has actually been certified by the Court; our confidence is that it would be certified by the Court if it were submitted. But it does follow that every item of physical knowledge is of a form which might be submitted to the Court. It must be such that we can specify (although it may be impracticable to carry out) an observational procedure which would decide whether it is true or not. Clearly a statement cannot be tested by observation unless it is an assertion about the results of observation. Every item of physical knowledge must therefore be an assertion of what has been or would be the result of carrying out a specified observational procedure.

- Adrian Kurre

Only by careful study of the Negro himself and the life which he is forced to lead can we arrive at the proper procedure in this crisis.

- Alan Christensen

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy.

- Alan Feduccia

I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

- Alana Beard

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

- Alberto Madrigal

I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

- Allan Brophy

Let there be no reservation or doubt that I believe the Senate should vote on each and every judicial appointment made by the President of the United States and that no rule or procedure should ever stop the Senate from exercising its constitutional responsibility.

- Allan Lichtman

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

- Amy Larson

Because forgiveness is attached to a procedure of policy. The world countries decided to forgive very low-income countries of the debt.

- Andre Cook

People tend to think of breakthroughs in medicine as a new drug, a laser, or a high-tech surgical procedure. They often have a hard time believing that the simple choices that we make in our lifestyle?what we eat, how we respond to stress, whether or not we smoke cigarettes, how much exercise we get, and the quality of our relationships and support?can be as powerful as drugs and surgery. But they often are.

- Angela Lenhart

We fear this `obstruction of justice` procedure is a judicial device for the government to yet again settle some scores with the privately-owned media and at the same time subject them to state censorship.

- Ann Darrin

The bill is an attempt to make sure that women are given helpful information on the alternatives to abortion before choosing to undergo this potentially life-changing procedure, ... pro-life.

- Anne Mills

travesty of a procedure.

- Arnold Friberg

When I was there, he was a great administrator and great boss. He did a whole lot for this community and for indigent clients. I think the good outweighed the bad. Plus, he helped springboard me to where I am now. He taught me a lot about criminal law and procedure. I`m indebted to him.

- Art Morgan

I believe this is basically an intrusion on the creative process and an ill-thought revenue-gaining procedure.

- Arthur Alvarez

A partial-birth abortion is a surgical procedure during which the unborn fetus is partially delivered, an intrauterine cranial decompression is performed ... and then the dead fetus is delivered.

- Audrey Rosenstein

At a minimum, this procedure constitutes an extraordinary violation of fundamental taxpayer rights and fairness. In our view, it may also constitute a violation of due process of law.

- Augusta Stowe-Gullen

This was a rather standard procedure for the defendant to buy gifts and to do things for the mothers in those cases to keep them preoccupied so the defendant would have free rein with the child involved,

- Barber B. Conable, Jr.

The Court did not rule on the merits of Mr. Roger`s dismissal. Rather, it concluded that a different procedure should have been used,

- Barry Burns

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.

- Amelia Earhart

You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.

- Thomas Sowell

Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.

- Potter Stewart