FastSaying

There were very tough decisions, and it was heartbreaking at times. Sometimes a great organization would apply for something that wasn't eligible. Or an application would be so full of jargon, the committee couldn't understand what they were asking for.


Robb Hankins

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

If the regulations were to change at any given point...the regulations that were in effect on the da...
ERICA EICHERT They were looking for images that would last at least five years, and I chose material I knew could ...
MARK GRAY We knew it would be a tough one. Our series was tied up at one with us winning just a few days ago. ...
BRIAN HOLT If something were to happen, anything, whether it's something nefarious or a fire or power outage, w...
KRIS SIGFRIDSON Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and ...
EMMA TENNANT Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the b...
NICK LAMPSON Sure, there were times when I hated the man but like all great coaches he was a great teacher. He wo...
LARRY CONLEY It felt very good to work for an organization that sends a message that I believe in. And most impor...
BETTY GARDNER For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afrai...
HUBERT SELBY JR. Still i knew because of my own feelings there was something wrong with me and i knew it wasnt only m...
DONALD MILLER There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. ...
JAIRAM RAMESH I've never been an actor who goes and really gets off on being nuts and never gets out of it. There ...
SALLY FIELD He would take stands on very important issues ... that at times did not fully agree with the chairma...
BRIAN SACK In 'The Next Three Days,' even though it was a prison breakout movie, I was asking myself, &...
PAUL HAGGIS It was a tough day. Still, there were a lot of good times. The guys relay team was great.
BARBARA HOUCK Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning...
ALI SMITH As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. Bu...
CAROLE STRAYHORN As a mama and a grandma, I appreciate, understand and absolutely believe in the sanctity of life. Bu...
CAROLE KEETON STRAYHORN It was frustrating for me personally to get something done in two to three months through the organi...
DENNIS PARKER They were afraid if the children were not very obedient they would get in trouble with white people ...
ALVIN POUSSAINT They wanted to make it a renewal, but they knew with the outrageous bond they were asking for (in No...
FRED BIRCHARD We were in dire need of something like that, and it was an exciting thing for us. But as time went o...
HOMER THOMPSON I thought nobody would be there. But the place was full, and there were a lot of entertainers -- I t...
FREDDIE BELL There were no highlights for the fourth quarter. It was a very, very tough quarter.
FRITZ HENDERSON If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable...
EDWARD R. MURROW I’m very interested in the emotional honesty of things, which at times looks kind of ugly and at t...
BRIE LARSON I would say they were very heroic. I understand the staff was efficient and professional.
STEVE CARR It is imperative that they (students) read over and apply for every (scholarship) they are eligible ...
ALYSSA MCCLURE If the vote were held today [in the Finance Committee] it would fail. It is notable that there is bi...
ROBERT TORRICELLI People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Sadie was full of crap at the best of times, and in an institution where laxatives were traded like ...
JAMES DAWSON Somebody should have done their homework to determine whether the plant was eligible or not. If I wa...
JOHN TORY You might be surprised to find out you are eligible for something you didn't think you were eligible...
ERIN KORSVALL Well, the senators I've enjoyed working with the most would be Ted Kennedy and Kent Conrad, beca...
JUDD GREGG When you sign on here, you understand this organization. There is so much soul to it, ... It's just ...
ERNIE ACCORSI The Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, and Pistons are there today as sure as they were when what was good fo...
FRANK DEFORD It was disappointing. That would have been a wonderful organization and a wonderful thing. [Chiefs P...
AL SAUNDERS He was a show drummer. There were times that he would outshine Michael at their shows.
GORDON KEITH Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just...
CHOIRE SICHA The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learnin...
TOM HIDDLESTON There were the questions of what kind of First Lady I would be, what issues would I focus on. Those ...
MICHELLE OBAMA There were a lot of times where there was a great deal of fodder recorded and played, because there ...
WOODY HERMAN Our passing wasn't great at times tonight, but I chalk that up to not playing for a week. I thought ...
PAULA AUBUCHON Sisterhood was about shared experiences, trust, knowing you had people who would be there for you an...
MICHELLE MADOW I’ve always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified bene...
ANDREW M. RYAN I think my style is kind of a cross between a skater hippie and an R&B star. If there were somet...
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE This year, we identified 66 ports that we view as the greatest risk, and only those were eligible to...
MARC SHORT It was Elvis, and they were going to have a party or something... So he came over to the house and.....
CONNIE STEVENS There were some weekends when you had the big new film of the weekend, when you thought you were goi...
JEFF BLAKE What if there were no punch lines? What if there were no indicators? What if I created tension and n...
STEVE MARTIN If there were something that I was going to endorse, it would probably be something like sneakers.
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE If somebody says: 'Can I borrow your phone for half an hour and put an application on it?' you'd be ...
DAVID WOOD We thought Towson was in a good spot coming into this game. They were coming off a loss, so we knew ...
DAVE COTTLE I'm making films for an audience out there and a very tiny fraction of them are would-be filmmakers....
WERNER HERZOG He was about 10 to 12 weeks old and his left eye was swollen three times its normal size. It was so ...
CONNIE MAUTE Low-income families, especially those on a fixed income, should know there is assistance available t...
EILEEN LEAHEY Because we were terminated, we weren't eligible for any of those things, so if my children wanted to...
GREG SARRIS Sometimes the doctors that we were hoping to profile, or a hospital that understood our goal, would ...
DARRYL FRANK If I were American I would never have voted for Reagan, but as a Pole, I liked the tough position of...
ADAM MICHNIK It would be nice if we had something here in the North Country where there were enough good jobs, go...
JAMES DAWSON We started this program when our kids were going to school there (AHS). With all the budget cuts, it...
LINDA HERRON Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the d...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There were a lot of things going on, ... I wasnt too happy. I wasnt going to play.
JASON CAMPBELL If there was a great business hotel right off the freeway in Chippewa Falls I think it would be very...
JOHN BERNHARDT There was an assumption at the beginning of June that second-quarter sales of desktops and servers w...
CODY ACREE They were there not because of a comedy show or concert. They came because of politics, and that is ...
CAMERON FRENCH When you adjust it for inflation, a year ago we were looking at gasoline prices that were cheaper th...
DANIEL YERGIN At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggre...
YANDEL He loved language and found a medium to have to express himself with. That was one of best things. W...
ELLIOT JACOBOWITZ Because of our injury at 215, we knew it would be tough with three weights to go. There were lots of...
LARRY GOODNATURE If an effect were to occur in 30 years, for many adults, that might not be that important. But a chi...
GINA SOLOMON We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want th...
HANYA YANAGIHARA They were ripping the baseball, no doubt about it. It was a very tough inning for us.
BILL SIKES It was a perfect day for golf. The kids were just about at where I thought they would be score-wise.
TOMMY THOMPSON Rumor control was a beast for us. People would hear something on the radio and come and say that peo...
ED BUSH What mattered was stil there. That was what they all felt, and what surprised them all. What mattere...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist...
ORSON SCOTT CARD If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wi...
SøREN KIERKEGAARD There is a reason for both sides to compromise here for something that would be short of full repeal...
JON KYL Guys get frustrated like Frankie did, and I understand that, ... If it had taken place out of sight,...
ADRIAN BELTRE There were just wonderful people who were just waiting for something to do. I can't tell you how man...
JALENE HITZEMAN Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical...
MAURY YESTON People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what ...
GEORGE MILLER I tried out various experiments described in treatises on physics and chemistry, and the results wer...
MARIE CURIE It was hard for people to step out and say "I am homosexual" in those times, which is what they woul...
JOSEPH HANSEN It would be tough if you were behind a bad guy. Sometimes you get a guy that has a lot of ego, but a...
JUSTIN FORSETT When you look at the stronger (applications), they are very, very descriptive in what they're doing....
MICHAEL DIXON At the SEC, the search for fraud was left largely to others -- private auditors and boards of direct...
JOSEPH LIEBERMAN It was not child pornography. From what I understand it was a site where teen girls would post pictu...
DIANA PARISI He knew how to do some of the moves, but he would call it something different. It was more me strugg...
JAKE SHULAW For 'The Terminator,' I was asked to drop a bit of weight to get less physically imposing be...
JAI COURTNEY When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simulta...
PAOLO BACIGALUPI We saw Pang's application and it seemed she would be a very good fit for this family.
BRENDA AGNELLO I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or someth...
SHIRLEY MACLAINE Well, Mark, I led the charge for five or six years to get reforms for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. I ...
J. C. WATTS If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was born illegitimately and almost immediately, as I understand it, placed in an orphanage. So my ...
BRYCE COURTENAY I was so busy during those seven months that sometimes I didn't have that much time to watch what ot...
CAROLINE DHAVERNAS

More Robb Hankins

It's going to be a great atmosphere. Petal always has a good crowd, and I hope we can get a lot of o...
BRAD HANKINS We've got a couple of seniors who are three-year starters who are giving us leadership, but we're st...
BRAD HANKINS We got to see the Braves play the (St. Louis) Cardinals the Sunday we got down there. That was a rea...
BRAD HANKINS We felt like it would be a good opportunity for the kids, not so much as a reward, but just for a ch...
BRAD HANKINS There are a lot of them in every county. They are such an important part of the past and the present...
CANETA HANKINS This is a concern. Over the years as the area has been growing, we have had a lot of people call us ...
CANETA HANKINS There have been a lot of them destroyed before anybody knew about it. It was easier just to cover th...
CANETA HANKINS It was simpler and easier. I think perhaps in many ways it was also a comfort to families to have th...
CANETA HANKINS You can either agree with me or be wrong!
DON HANKINS The pitcher threw it home and (the runner) plowed the catcher too.
DEREK HANKINS You've got to give him credit. He hit a mistake.
DEREK HANKINS I'm not a guy who's going to burn you with a lot of strikeouts. I'm more of a finesse guy, so I'm lo...
DEREK HANKINS The guy was in his way, so it's not like (Morgan) was trying to hit him. You definitely like playing...
DEREK HANKINS The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but the path to misery is cobbled with trying to ...
LATOYA HANKINS Bite me." -Lieutenant Eve Dallas, from any of the In Death books.
J.D. ROBB Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in...
J.D. ROBB There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because w...
J.D. ROBB Prom was awesome. I had such a great time at prom.
ANNASOPHIA ROBB You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls."
"It's not a fashio...
J.D. ROBB When you're a kid, you have these big ideas and these big dreams to make a change, or maybe you ...
ANNASOPHIA ROBB I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.
ROBB WALSH It's kind of cool working together for the benefit of Weld County tennis. The tennis was good, and i...
ROBB AUDETTE Matt, being the older of the two, has found himself in a leadership position on our team and he's ta...
ROBB AUDETTE We knew that he'd have some tough competition last week. But the tennis he played was beneficial. He...
ROBB AUDETTE He has come a long way. For him to skip No. 1 doubles and win this tournament the way he came back t...
ROBB AUDETTE They played at No. 4 doubles last year and played well together. The good thing is we'll get them bo...
ROBB AUDETTE Kyle challenged for No. 3 singles, but when he didn't get it we talked about how well he and Matt pl...
ROBB AUDETTE He has played a lot of tennis and seen a lot of different styles in his life. What's nice is he is a...
ROBB AUDETTE He's been our leader all year. He was voted player of the year in our division by the other coaches ...
ROBB AUDETTE She was a giving kind of person. You can't say enough about her. She cared about everybody.
ROBB AKEY We are as excited as we can be for Adam. To be the first player selected is an outstanding achieveme...
ROBB AKEY He has done that his whole career. That has been his M.O. I thought we had a couple of opportunities...
ROBB AKEY In some areas I think that has helped us. (But) if you're going to steal from one part to help anoth...
ROBB AKEY The majority of (the time), things are pretty right. And then there's a play made. It's polishing, m...
ROBB AKEY Drop the fucking weapon, you fucking motherfucker or I'll fucking scramble your fucking brains. Hand...
J.D. ROBB ... If you tried to touch my woman she'd break your dick off like a twig then stick it up your arse.
J.D. ROBB Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eyes. In every gesture, dignity and love.
J.D. ROBB I am clearly vulnerable on the question of socializing under circumstances not appropriate for a mar...
CHUCK ROBB Roarke: You'd enjoy flying more if you'd learn the controls.

Eve: I'd rather pretend I'm ...
J.D. ROBB She, as no other ever could, reached every corner of his heart. His joy, and his salvation.
J.D. ROBB Roarke: The bodies of the three men were found floating in the Chattahoochee River.

Eve: ...
J.D. ROBB Eve: What is it about asking you Catholic questions that gets you all jumpy?

Roarke: You'...
J.D. ROBB Listen carefully. I'd crush you like a bug for causing my wife one single moment of pain. Believe it...
J.D. ROBB No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid,...
J.D. ROBB When she lay curled against him, her skin dewed from passion, there was still that small, cold place...
J.D. ROBB You look like a really well-dressed pirate carting around an ugly treasure chest.
J.D. ROBB Climb up on some hill at sunrise. Everybody needs perspective once in a while, and you'll find it th...
ROBB SAGENDORPH Within an hour, he got my wife's consent to amputate both of my feet.
ROBB KIMBROUGH I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�...
J.D. ROBB Roarke: "I'll drop you."

Eve: "No, better I catch a cab or take the underground. This guy...
J.D. ROBB It's still cool at night. There might be a cluster of activity when the conditions are just right.
BILL ROBB Folks, I hope you understand how dangerous an (alligator) like this is when he is out of his element...
BILL ROBB As for her cat, Galahad made an appearance, regally ignored everyone under four feet until he clued ...
J.D. ROBB We're standing here, beat to shit, walking away from a crime scene where either or both of us could ...
J.D. ROBB At one point, they told my wife and daughters to come in and say goodbye to me because I wasn't goin...
ROBB KIMBROUGH Every minute with you, Darling Eve, is a minute to treasure."

She slid a glance toward hi...
J.D. ROBB It's always a pleasure watching you wake up," he commented. "But sometimes I wonder if you want me o...
J.D. ROBB Roarke, one thing." She walked to him, well aware he was all but snarling with temper. "I haven't ki...
J.D. ROBB She didn't want the medi-techs. She wanted a fucking a candy bar.
J.D. ROBB By five A.M., her eyes were gritty and her head ached. The single hour’s sleep she had managed to ...
J.D. ROBB Business crises energize me. Personal crises devastate me. The doctors call it an avoidance tendency...
J.D. ROBB In their eyes, Eve saw the wolf gleam. The story was the prey, ratings the trophy.
J.D. ROBB For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and...
J.D. ROBB Water lapped as she sat forward. “Don’t play games with me, Roarke.”

“Eve, it’...
J.D. ROBB He came back, sat on the ledge again, and handed her a glass. “You haven’t slept; you haven’t ...
J.D. ROBB Eve woke, violently aroused. It was Roarke’s hands on her. She knew their texture, their rhythm. H...
J.D. ROBB As always, just the sight of him gave her a quick inner jolt. His face was like a painting, a depict...
J.D. ROBB Was it ever . . .” She winced, wished she could muffle the need to ask. “Before, with anyone els...
J.D. ROBB So he found her. Most people would have said she was relaxed. But then, Roarke thought, most people ...
J.D. ROBB He sipped again, more deeply. “Is this an interrogation, Lieutenant?” It was the smile in his vo...
J.D. ROBB Roarke, I'm working on it."
"On what?"
"On accepting what you seem to feel for me."
H...
J.D. ROBB I'm not trying to box you in. I'm just trying to live with you.
J.D. ROBB No, it had never been like this for him before, with anyone. Of all the women he’d known, she was ...
J.D. ROBB She started to pull at the chain, but he closed his hands over hers. “It doesn’t go with my suit...
J.D. ROBB At least this time, with this murder, she knew he had an alibi. At the time Cicely Towers was having...
J.D. ROBB Tell him I took the cat
J.D. ROBB My late unlamented father taught me one valuable lesson. 'Boy', he would say to me in the thick brog...
J.D. ROBB She drew in a shuddering breath. “I love you.” And let it out. “God.” The emotion that swept...
J.D. ROBB You need a medic, Lieutenant.”
“In a minute. Let me ask you something.”
“Ask away....
J.D. ROBB She chuckled, leaned on him as they headed out of the park. “All in all, it was a hell of a party....
J.D. ROBB I’m not going anywhere.” Gently, he stroked her back, cradled her head. Was there anything more ...
J.D. ROBB Now he felt temper snapping at the nerves. “If you can’t be comfortable in the house while I’m...
J.D. ROBB Why?” He tilted his head. “That’s a tricky one. Could it be your serenity, your quiet manner, ...
J.D. ROBB I love you, Eve.” She looked away from the sun, the ocean, and into his eyes. And it was wonderful...
J.D. ROBB Fuck him."

Feeney made a sound like a man who'd been pinched. "Christ Jesus, Dallas, you'...
J.D. ROBB Didn't people consider what could happen if armies of farm animals united in revolt?
J.D. ROBB I always feel like with every CD we put out, we have to start back at square one. We feel like we al...
DOUG ROBB That song went in as a standard rock song, and it turned into a song that sounds like it's something...
DOUG ROBB Writing this one was a whole process for me. On The Reason I wanted to have everything perfectly lai...
DOUG ROBB You have to trust or you're only living half a life.
J.D. ROBB [And the company is not done growing.] We are relatively adolescent, ... We have a lot of growth ahe...
WALTER ROBB Today," she told it, "death comes to all your circuits. Will it be slow and systematic or fast and b...
J.D. ROBB When I'm at home or at school, I'm casual and comfortable. I tend to wear work out clothes a...
ANNASOPHIA ROBB You’re Eve Dallas. You’re the love of my life. My heart and soul. You’re a cop, mind and bone....
J.D. ROBB Summerset, don't you ever sleep?"

"It's Lieutenant Dallas. She's--"

Roarke dro...
J.D. ROBB I feel so used. I find I like it.
J.D. ROBB We just play it by ear by each situation.
GARY ROBB Our clients believe justice was served. They hope now to move on with their lives.
GARY ROBB People still need to use good judgement. The river is still pretty treacherous out there.
GARY ROBB Basically, the high water has been just a nuisance. We pretty much dodged a bullet.
GARY ROBB We're supposed to get some pretty heavy rain and that could cause a considerable flood situation for...
GARY ROBB Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice."...
J.D. ROBB Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No ma...
J.D. ROBB Not fair! Okay, what's the record? How many times?
If you can count them, he didn't drop you ou...
J.D. ROBB When you find nothing, Morris said, it means you're eliminating what surrounds the something.
I...
J.D. ROBB Life is full of circles
J.D. ROBB Even a small shortfall in the export market can become a price-driving factor.
JAMES ROBB We've built up cold storage in the dark meat, simultaneously we've got increased broiler production.
JAMES ROBB We have quite a bit more dark meat inventory in cold storage than a year ago.
JAMES ROBB Do you remember the first time we made love?" He touched his lips to hers as he said it. "We rode up...
J.D. ROBB I got you a present."

"Did you?"

"It's a book of poetry--romancy stuff. I thou...
J.D. ROBB Goddamn Summerset. I've told him to leave my car when I park it."

"I think he did." Peabo...
J.D. ROBB The man loves you with everything he has, everything he is. Eve, that means you can hurt him.
J.D. ROBB You’re all right, Blue Eyes.” She lifted her head to look into them. “You’re all right, down...
J.D. ROBB Did she know, could she know what it meant to him when she turned to him, when she opened herself to...
J.D. ROBB Would you be shedding tears for McNab’s dead body if he’d been screwing around on you?”
<...
J.D. ROBB Love meant different things to different people.
J.D. ROBB He stepped to her again, laid his lips on her brow. "But I want children with you, my lovely Eve. On...
J.D. ROBB Business has just been wonderful. We did a soft opening, but people were watching and knew when we o...
LANA ROBB People just took to us in Bellevue.
LANA ROBB It's just looking at demographics. It's definitely a place to be. There are so many businesses there...
LANA ROBB It wasn't making any money. It was a great place to cater out of. Our customers were absolutely wond...
LANA ROBB Please, Eve, these public displays of affection must stop. I have a reputation.”

“Kee...
J.D. ROBB You’re arrogant, domineering, egotistical, and disdainful of the law.”

He lifted one ...
J.D. ROBB The security officer smiled and said, ‘Good afternoon, ma’am,’ to me before I
gave him ID...
J.D. ROBB I was hurt, but that doesn't account for the first part of the season when I wasn't playing that goo...
ROBB QUINLAN Kent was the leader of the team. But Boz really stepped up this year. He's definitely become the lea...
ROBB FRANCIS It's like a traveling circus. We load up the trucks and move them all over town.
ROBB CULLEN The world is going mad at an accelerating rate and television is the Typhoid Mary of this madness.
EDWARD ROBB ELLIS