Fairness Quotes (1697 Quotes)

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

Hiring a university president is a very competitive business. That's a fair salary, relative to where the system is.

It'd be easier for me if the board voted tonight, ... since I wouldn't have to vote. But I think it's important to be fair. We've talked about this issue for a long time. I think I know which way I'm going to go on this and that way I can be responsible (for the decision).

Insisting that I'm not questioning motives ... We do not believe that a manual recount that has no uniform standards can result in a fair and accurate count of votes.

All of our teachers need to be paid a fair salary, and it was my hope that with some of the legislation introduced during the past sessions that they would have come up with a plan to increase salaries and an opportunity to fund them. This new minimum sal

Playing a game with the NCAA is a rigged game. It's not fair, unrestrained competition.

We do deserve a fair contract, one that acknowledges the strenuous and demanding working conditions which are ever present in our jobs. Our members deserve to be treated with the same respect other employee groups receive.

We decided to offer odds again this year because that's what the majority of our customers wanted . . . but in the spirit of fairness, we could no longer accept any wagers on this particular show.

I depict the Unionist community in a fair light. I depict them the way I see them. Maybe they want it more romantic. I don't find anything heroic in attacking 17-year-olds and pensioners.

This is no my ain lassie,
Fair tho, the lassie be;
Weel ken I my ain lassie,
Kind love is in her e're.

But the man he said, 'You boast that all the English laws are fair. Long have I heard such tales, they seem like dust upon the air, for the English sent my father here for the shooting of a hare'.

I found, one day in school, a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babiesthat's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race.

You spoke with passion for the civil rights of all Americans regardless of if theyre gay or straight. Thank you. Fairness is something that we should all agree on so in many ways this was no surprise. One day, I hope youll even join me on a trip to Capitol Hill to argue for this basic right,

It's important not only for the good of my client, but for the good of the public as well, that there is a fair trial and everyone complies with what they're supposed to do.

So I think we've learned our lesson. Unfortunately, here at San Diego State, it took us longer than that because we overscheduled, and we've locked into these games years in advance where we couldn't get out of them. That's what I realized when I came here, is that we couldn't get out of them. And now we've got to live with the results. And it hasn't been fair.

I thought he was brilliant against us to be fair.

I think the world of him and I think he is a really good football player. I set the bar very high for him. Anytime he falls short of that, fair or not fair, I will talk to him about it. He is a wonderful guy ... and he wants to do well. To go with his physical ability, all the things you have to do to be a great player, it should happen for him.

This is not about who's telling the truth and whether he's guilty or not, it's about whether he had a fair legal process.

A comparison between the triplets tentatively deduced by these methods with the changes in amino acid sequence produced by mutation shows a fair measure of agreement.

The court must ensure a fair and open process, and authorities need to substantiate their case. So far, the handling of this case has been alarming. It's unacceptable that Hussein was held without charge or due process for so long.

The consequences of inadvertent disclosure in this case are real and grave not only in terms of potential to impact on the fairness of the future trial but potentially national security,

I'm disappointed in myself. We had a chance to win the game, but the simple fact that I didn't come to play and the rest of the team had to carry the load, it just wasn't fair.

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

There are a fair number without status and a fair number on student visas.

His face is all over the place. It's going to be difficult for him to get a fair trial in the state, never mind the city.

that Ireland is an open, generous people who are prepared to give a fair break to applicant countries.

Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.

Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms
Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
With envy of each other's happiness,
May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance
His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.

If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my career. I haven't tried to do things in an underhanded way.

Although the Fair Housing Act of 1968 made it illegal to discriminate in selling, renting or financing housing in America, recent studies we have conducted show housing discrimination is alive and well in the U.S., ... Under the leadership of President Bush, our national commitment to creating equal housing opportunities for all Americans is as strong today as it was under President Johnson in 1968 when this law was passed.

The approach, in fairness, should be to re-negotiate the contract, so that we don't end up with raw sewage from Sumas in the Sumas River again,

We must have a fair tax in the United States. We have to re-adjust it, we must be fiscally responsible.

Death to a godly man is like a fair gale of wind to convey him to the heavenly country but to a wicked man it is an east wind, a storm, a tempest, that hurries him away in confusion and amazement, to destruction.

I would never commit ahead of time that he wasn't going to play. I would hate to tell somebody they're not going to play or their minutes would be limited, then all of a sudden 6 minutes into the game put him out there. That wouldn't be fair. I think it's better that he stayed ready, but unfortunately he didn't get in.

I'm confident that Dr. Clough and the committee will give everybody a fair chance and make the right decision, and I really believe that.

Out of respect for the memory of Chief Justice Rehnquist and in fairness to those whose lives continue to be devastated by Katrina, the Senate should not commence a Supreme Court confirmation hearing this Tuesday. A brief postponement will not disadvantage anyone,

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

There's no civil rights violation, ... It was a fair trial.

To be fair, they're not quite at their sharpest, but they're getting there. If they're performing the way they are now at not 100 percent, then they're really going to be turning some heads when they get there, no doubt.

Ray criticized some things I did on the track. Fair enough, he wasn't mean about it but I'd rather have someone speak the truth to me any day than tell me different.

Whether that's fair, that's how it is. Today, these quarterbacks are on top of the world. Next week, it'll be different.

We're encouraged by the progress in preparing for democratic elections, ... The United States does not support any particular candidate, but we do support a process that is free and open and fair.

The decision of the secretary-general lacks legitimacy. ... It also lacks fairness,

And then I think of one who in her youthful beauty died, The fair meek blossom that grew up and faded by my side. . . .

The fair organizers thought it would be a perfect fit with the fair.

This years audit findings show there is still significant work to be done to ensure that the process of appointment is widely seen as open, fair and free from interference.

For we have just have begun to fight, and I can't wait for the next round. I'm going to fight with every ounce of strength I have but I'm going to keep fighting clean and keep fighting fair.

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?