Fairness Quotes (1697 Quotes)

Pernicious weed whose scent the fair annoys, Unfriendly to society's chief joys Thy worst effect is banishing for hours The sex whose presence civilizes ours.

Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.

Advance our standards, set upon our foes;
Our ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,
Inspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!

creates a process grounded in the Constitution that is focused, fair, expeditious and deliberate.

Love, thou art too fair, I ween!

No, it wasn't too frustrating. You want the competition to be safe and fair, and there isn't much we can do about this.

It's not fair, he's soiling the party and soiling the reputation of people just to save his own neck. He's not just soiling the party, he's hurting the country also.

We believe this is a fair price for Sears Canada. Sears Canada faces tough competition from a slew of retailers, not only in Canada but also those from the U.S. who are making inroads into Canada. And we believe Sears Canada will have a greater opportunity to succeed with the cost savings and the management direction that Sears Holdings would bring with full ownership.

We are not against unionization. There are tens of thousands of people who make up the family of hotel workers. Some are union members and some are not, and that's fine with us. But the decision whether or not to join a union is an important one. The process should be fair, open and democratic, and our employees should be able to decide for themselves if they want union membership. It is their job. It is their life. It should be their choice.

None but the brave deserves the fair.

Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.

There's a fair bit of momentum for high yield. That's going to be where the action is for the next few weeks.

There is not a person who feels secure. It's impossible to hold a fair trial in such a climate ... A trial is supposed to be a rational process. Fear is the ultimate irrationality. How do you function in fear

A lot of these companies look at AOL as an entity that has huge traffic, a substantial number of users, a fair amount of subscribers and access to unique and differentiated content and services, ... Right now, it is very prized real estate when it comes to the Internet, particularly because its valuation may be depressed since it is in the midst of an ongoing turnaround, and part of a large conglomerate.

The newspaper coverage is so extensive I think it would be virtually impossible for 12 people to set aside the barrage of publicity and make a fair determination. Taxpayers in San Diego may just want to lash out without really thinking too much about it. It's like a protest vote I can't blame anybody else so let me blame these people.

There may have been a lot more people downtown. All the vendors in the art fair were extremely pleased.

It was shock. You almost feel like you have three, four more innings to play and the game is over. They made a 6-4-3 double play and it's time to go back home. It doesn't seem fair, but they beat us plain and simple in the field.

With all 30 NHL teams developing their prospects in our league, the AHL provides an ideal opportunity to evaluate these potential changes, ... We remain committed to assisting the NHL with the growth and development of our sport, and we are confident that this test schedule will allow for a fair assessment of the proposal without compromising the competitive balance of the AHL.

Connecticut consumers need an adequate power supply at a fair rate, and frankly, the ISO plan just doesn't cut it, ... The FERC commissioners need to reject this proposal and go back to the drawing board. If not, the Connecticut delegation stands ready, willing, and able to propose legislation to fix this problem.

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

Both Roddick and Rochus sweated and strained throughout match but in the end, but it was the American's year-long commitment to conditioning and a fair amount of patience on the day that brought him through. I was not feeling too bad. Andy was in worse shape than me in the fifth, ... I think I was really unlucky not to break him. His serve all the time was still there.

I don't want any injuries. But if we want to give the players a fair chance to feel South American football we should meet these teams and not go into the World Cup playing only European teams.

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

violated elementary rules of fairness and decency.

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed.

I think a lot of people thought that was it. We've done everything we could do, and I think that would be a fair assessment. I saw more than I thought we had. It was nice to see it.

I had fiddled all day at the county fair.

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

You can't tell people to go pour their money and energy and emotion into rebuilding under the threat that their homes could be bulldozed in a year from now. That's not a fair position to put people in.

The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance, ... Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth.

We are pleased that Florida has acted in favor of its citizens by allowing them to access the wines of their choosing. This is a victory for consumer choice, fair trade and U.S. wineries.

Most small business owners don't think they're getting a fair shake,

Alan is a proven winner in every business he's been involved in. He's turned around Sears credit, he's taken charge of their Internet business and given it life, and he's been able to reorganize their home-services business. Probably the best part about him is he's coming into his position as CEO and he understands how CEOs work, but he doesn't have the emotional bias. He can make a kind of fair assessment about what the customer likes and what he doesn't.

There is actually a fair amount of money being put behind science today.

If you open the door between floors, there can be a fair gap between the shaft of the elevator and the frame of the elevator car,

I did this because I thought it was imperative to the public and to Mr. Fuhrman that not only there actually be fairness in this process but there be a total appearance of fairness,

She fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods!

They've been turning off dams, tearing them out, shutting down nuclear reactors, preventing new utilities from being sited, ... We as their neighbors should not have to pick up their tab. It's just really a question of fairness.

While I believe in the media industry's right to use copy protection mechanisms to prevent illegal copying, I don't think that we've found the right balance of fair use and copy protection yet. This is a clear case of Sony taking digital rights management too far.

Roberts has attracted broad, bipartisan support for his fairness, keen intellect, open-mindedness, and judicious practice of the law, ... He is highly regarded and well respected by the legal and business communities.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'

We have an enormous amount of room to get better. Are we the 75th-ranked team in the country Are we the second-ranked team in the country You know what, we're probably somewhere in the middle. Wherever that may be, it's probably fair.

Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Life is not fair. And to approach it as fair, I don't think probably is educationally sound. We talk about controlling what we can control.

The vote was a vote for common sense and basic fairness. It is a victory for Florida taxpayers, working families and businesses who can all breathe a little bit easier knowing that once this legislation is signed they'll be less likely to be targeted for a lawsuit simply because they have the ability to pay.

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

The plain truth is that I am not a fair man, and don't want to hear both sides

Today's proposal signals the Administration's commitment to reforming trade distorting subsidies. The ball is squarely in Congress' court to deliver a fair and sustainable farm program, not just for the U.S. but for the world.

Commenting on the decisions of the Bowl Alliance regarding WAC teams It's a step, no question. Obviously, it's not what any of us wanted, but it's at least a step. We can now say we're part of the Alliance. However, I hope it's not perceived that they bought us off and we're going to go away. It's not fair. It's not right we still need to fight. We can't let them go away and hide. Other schools are taking a major share of the pot, and that's still a major sore point as far as I'm concerned. But at least this is a step, and better than what we had in the past.