If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
T.s. Eliot
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Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.
Alexander Hamilton
I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.
Blaise Pascal
Has sent us a letter with numerous inaccurate and unfounded allegations that we intend to address with him directly.
John Wooden
By its very nature, this case entails a conflict between the spirit and the letter of the law. We lost on the letter of the law. We won on the spirit. And to that extent we are vindicated.
Richard Leigh
The first letter is basically her writing home saying 'I just got to San Francisco,'.
Morgan Hallett
The letter was drafted by Bush-Cheney '04 and all of us are signatories... All veterans have a right to speak.
Jerry Patterson
This campaign has always raised funds appropriately, done everything by the book and followed the letter of the law.
Doug Scofield
Please give me some good advice in your next letter. I promise not to follow it.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
This letter was designed to take money from vulnerable consumers by distressing, frightening and misleading them.
John Fingleton
It's not a case of asking permission. We have to inform them (the IRB) and I've done that verbally and I've also sent a letter.
Johan Prinsloo
Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.
Dorothy Parker
[Letter writing] helps you develop a way to think, ... It builds your intelligence, helps your ability to respond to something better.
Will Anderson
A letter from the organ center and they said that the family wanted to meet.
Larry Latham
This letter should be judged for what it is ? a statement made at a moment of understandable frustration which, in the end, has never been and will never be acted upon.
William Kaufman
I can tell you the letter was not received.
Sam Thompson
All that stuff about what had been agreed on and a letter of intent -- none of that is true. What is accurate is Kevin's quote that there is no deal.
Fred Nation
Every time I get a letter, I know what it is. Everyone is almost gone.
Joseph Gaj
You can't even be in the game until you have a pre-approval letter.
Bill Mcfadden
We did issue this approvable letter, but we can't discuss what's in the letter. Only the company can do that.
Julie Zawisza
Where are the drafts of that letter?
Rusty Hardin
I like to say it's a love letter to independent film in the form of a fart joke.
Chris Gore
I believe in being transpar-ent. Jim was writing [the letter] as chairman of the Board of Finance.
Michael Hoffman
We believe the letter was sent by someone who knows where the painting is, if the letter writer didn't have it him or herself.
Jim Margolin
The letter said everything was OK.
Robert Harris
We have a good group of returning letter winners. We have good leadership.
Carl Rittenour
I thought that was a real nice gesture. I'm going to write him a nice letter.
Vern Nelson
Abbas expressed his sorrow that the cabinet ignored the principles Abbas stressed in his letter of commission.
Tayeb Abdel Rahim
They sent me a letter. I wish I would have kept it. It said we'll let you try out if you get accepted to school. I didn't get accepted to school.
Jimmy Conrad
That letter was not responded to, ... We are hopeful for an answer.
Kweisi Mfume
We had no findings, no management letter and no exit items.
Sue Curtis
I guess you could say they consulted with us, but it wasn't like a friendly exchange. We got a cease-and-desist letter from them.
David Lowery
I have still not received that letter.
Alderman Joe Charles
I can confirm that His Excellency the President has accepted my letter.
David Mwiraria
My inclination is to support this letter, and support it now.
Dennis Whitling
The spirit and letter of the law should be equal, and this is not even close. Sixty-seven thousand does not equal 2,000. I am an American; I deserve free and fair elections.
Thomas Martin
What strikes me about that letter is that it was written by a 20-year-old kid, 27. I'm 60 and I couldn't write that.
Paul Dooley
The exemplary issue should not be based on letter grades. Letter grades are very misleading.
Debra Robinson
They sent us a letter, and we felt the letter skirted some of the issues we requested.
Jerry Hughes
We are not aware of any incident like the one described in the letter. It's an urban legend, as far as we can tell.
Martin Gleeson
The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.
Phil Berger
We approved the letter (and) went down to the dock and talked to everyone.
David Forney
John Roberts and I worked on a response to that letter.
Jesse Helms
Any time you get an FDA warning letter it is negative.
Steve Roukis
If I saw someone as sick as the person in the letter, I would be concerned for that person. It is better for her to go home.
Peter Handal
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler
Just retract your letter, and then we'll talk.
Dave Schroeder
A lot of the issues in the letter have already been addressed or are being addressed. Nobody wants a better shopping experience for our customers than we do.
Anne Hendricks
They were so anal and uptight about following everything to the letter before the IPO, but here was the CEO who was running a shell game with half a billion dollars.
Daniel Yovich
I haven't seen the letter and I think it would be terrible if it was done that way.
Dr. John Prescott
My hope is the letter will get people talking.
Jeff Matteson
In your letter, you requested that I take 'appropriate action' concerning your suggestions. Please consider this letter my action.
Kevin Nelson
We will not let this be a negative thing for us, ... I figure Coach [Bowers] had to do what he had to do. Since I may not see him, I plan on sending him a letter to make sure everything is OK.
Clare Phillips
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now use only four-letter words Writing prose - Anything goes.
Cole Porter
If you will give me a copy of the letter, I will have the foreign minister prepare a reply.
Atsuko Abe
I knew this was the red-letter event because it was homecoming. I am just really happy for our seniors. They made it a goal to win homecoming and we turned that around into winning every home game.
Todd Casebier
We decided to put it in the letter and let the commission do what it wishes. There were people who said it doesn't cost anything to ask.
Gus Cooper
I had nothing to do with generating this letter, and I was pleasantly surprised.
Geraldo Rivera
Solid waste ordinances say put bulky items in the alley and we'll come pick it up. We say if you put bulky items in the alley, you'll get a letter and a citation.
Lesli Andrews
Nothing would have happened unless the U.S. government sent that letter.
Milton Mueller
Our job's done, ... but he's gotta live with that scarlet letter for the rest of his life.
David Bauer
The request included the Mitchell Wade letter. This was an addendum.
Kara Borie
As the chairman knows full well, we will be providing our response by Friday, so I'm not sure what the point of his letter is.
James Kennedy
We knew nothing about this until we received this letter in January.
Larry Mason
I got the registered letter the day after this happened. You know, they should have hand-delivered the letter beforehand. We didn't have an opportunity to sit down with the company to find out what happened.
Larry Watruba
A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.
Jane Austen
I've been a little stressed lately, but I finally signed my letter of intent so I have no stress now. I can go out and play my game without having to impress anyone.
Ruth Anderson
You can write your spouse a letter saying those things.
Kathleen Murray
A letter of this type goes out annually.
Lindsey Williams
We fine broadcasters for using four-letter words, we say that's offensive. So is it offensive to call for the assassination of a world leader?
Matt Lauer
My client . . . is extremely upset and offended at the personal affronts contained in the letter directed not only at him but also at his players.
Richard Katz
They signed a letter on Friday. There is gentleman's agreement between all the teams.
Luca Colajanni
The very next day we withdrew the letter.
Gerald Snowden
I guess the letter wasn't true.
Archie Seale
You sit down and work out a budget -- and it's not a four-letter word despite what people think.
Laurie Campbell
There are two things you don't want to get -- a letter from the IRS and a letter from the draft board. They're not calling up to say hello.
Laurence Foster
We'll assume for the first time that you didn't know, and we'll send you that letter. And if you change and do things legally, you're off the hook, even though we could sue you.
Mary Jo Schrade
Royal Mail will fight hard for every single letter.
David Simpson
We even sent them a certified letter but they won't pick it up.
Julian Kurtz
We got donations from citizens all over who would send a letter expressing their desire to help and a check or a couple dollars in an envelope.
Donna Bigler
I can assure you the letter was not related to the contributions he had accepted previously or following that letter. He does not do quid pro quo business.
Larry Vanhoose
I never really anticipated this kind of impact when I wrote this letter to Director Mueller two weeks ago.
Coleen Rowley
She gave me her letter of resignation in January.
Corinne Kowpak
The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book. We didn't even get through the first letter of the alphabet.
Channing Crowder
While the government can tell you that I am an innocent man, the government's letter cannot give me back my good name or my reputation.
Richard Jewell
If he tries to use my letter to create the impression that Mr. Cruise did have a gay affair, we will certainly sue. The story is false. Mr. Cruise is not gay.
Bert Fields
If the writer is ashamed to put his name on the letter, I'm ashamed to read it.
Coy Privette
If there's a bubble, it's in this four-letter word: Debt. The U.S. economy is just awash in it.
Dave Rosenberg
She lettered as a freshman, and not that many freshman letter for me.
Mark Laturner
I got this letter of the blue one day, ... It said, 'We like your album. We've used this track. Hope you don't mind, and hope you like it.'
Andrew Didonato
Two Five Letter Words: Lenny Bruce.
Arthur Godfrey
I got a call from my grandmother yesterday that we got a letter in mail.
Sean Riley
[He told the conference:] This is about the right of conference to see the alternatives. ... This would be the Railtrack of the letter boxes.
Royal Mail
I'm confident he had nothing to do with any such letter, and he would not condone it.
Howard Hertz
It seems a bit timely now but I handed in my resignation letter in January. I've been doing this for a long time and it's time for me to get out and get someone else in there.
Roger Hatch
I have the letter laminated and sitting on my desk at home.
Greg Mcelroy
We have signed a letter of intent (to study a sale).
David Harpole
Everyone in America hates getting that first AARP letter. But the boomers especially hate it.
Steve Slon
He had flat feet. He needed a letter from me saying that flat feet hadn't kept him from playing football and baseball. He was excited.
Frank Vavala
The IRS will send a letter if they disagree or question anything.
Jean Maples
It had more to do with the letter of the law than anything else. It's really difficult to say much more about it. It was what we felt was a minor infraction - certainly not something that merited termination.
Tim Marchant
I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.
Mark Twain
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
Mark Twain
You write a letter of dispute to the credit reporting agency, they have 30 days to investigate the dispute and get back to you. If they cannot prove it's your debt, they have to take it off.
Joyce Gibson
They gave us the letter, they gave us the go-ahead. And now this … It's a slap in the face.
Suzanne White
I found out I was being annexed by a neighbor who got a letter about it.
Jeffrey Clark
I was very insulted by the letter. Apparently, they don't want any Democrats in the township.
Tom Burgess
An envelope is not just an envelope, it's a letter. We still will go to the mailbox … hoping today it won't be just junk mail.
Daniel Stein
There's nothing unusual or deprecatory in the letter (of settlement).
Dale Edwards
Previously, I wouldn't have given us a good grade at all. But since we have (business manager Renee Hinton) in place, we're doing a much better job. I don't know if I'd give us a letter grade.
Richard Hartley
That kind of letter makes it sound like she's getting out.
Geoffrey Becker
Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
Dick Cavett
When I was in primary school I was asked to create an alphabet board with an artistic expression for each letter. Charles was a good challenge for me because I pushed myself even harder because of the competition I got from him.
Anthony Dames
There is nothing in this letter that gives Senator Boxer any comfort that a catastrophic earthquake in California would be handled any better than Katrina. We just hope and pray that the earthquakes will wait until DHS finishes all their bureaucracy.
Natalie Ravitz
Drawings have always been the P.S. part of van Gogh's work, ... Yet he was a letter writer, a guy with a pen in his hand.
Colta Ives
Potential employees can go in, get hired, and come out with an offer letter.
Piyush Mehta
This is the way the government apologizes. I view this letter as the government's apology to Richard Jewell.
Colin Wood
We could go out and knock on doors and ask, 'Did you get our letter,' but we don't have enough staff for that.
Daryl Walk
Each Cub also will be including a letter in the package, ... Hopefully, (the Marines) will write back.
Cindy Morris
We got this letter on behalf of the Alabama Organ Center that said that josh was a multiple organ donor.
Karen Braswell
Even the Vajpayee government had written to the CBI after I had written a letter to the former PM questioning the CBI's role in the entire case.
Priyaranjan Dasmunshi
We've been waiting for a letter from the state for two years telling us that it's clean.
Lizz Gagnon
The minister has sent his letter of resignation to the head of government. He gave as the motive for his decision the creation of the new coalition.
Pawel Dobrowolski
I think the letter speaks for itself.
Mark Nelson
Sending a letter home to all the parents in the district that will also include some handouts with some helpful hints on how to sit down with your children and talk about safety.
Jim Anderson
We have to go through the city manager, so we will send him a letter (today) asking for a meeting.
Jimmy Neal
We sent Apple a letter asking that they acknowledge and remedy the problem. They chose to not even respond and left us no choice but to bring this case.
Bruce Simon
They signed a letter. They didn't vote.
Steve Sigmund
Now that this letter has been sent to us, we will investigate (the allegations). Our legal department will get involved and investigate it.
Marc Lumpkin
We felt we were very close to an agreement. We were surprised to receive the termination letter.
Glenn Christenson
They will get a letter that goes today or tomorrow.
Patrick Keane
He said he would get a letter out to students seven weeks ago and we have not received it yet.
Carrie Cunningham
It was not her choice that her letter became public. It was someone else. And we will find out who that someone else is.
Fred O'neal
I don't know why anybody would look into an anonymous letter.
Joseph Dinatale
ENVELOPE, n. The coffin of a document; the scabbard of a bill; the husk of a remittance; the bed-gown of a love-letter.
Ambrose Bierce
When I got the letter, I was ecstatic.
Michael Wood
I would support a letter.
Assemblywoman Sheila Leslie
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.
Frank Bruno
I have not got one call from a subscriber or a reader who complained about that ad. Not one letter or e-mail.
Catherine Kelly
I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one.
Goodman Ace
We can make an ordinary letter or package extraordinary.
Diane Rullan
If millions of adults shifted their company loyalty after a disclosure letter, that's an eye opener.
Rob Douglas
Easy to say, not easy to achieve, ... But together we have achieved great things, and this is a red-letter day. All of us here today will never forget it.
David Andrews
At the time we wrote the letter.
Tom Buchanan
You followed the letter of the law and you should not be penalized for that.
Dave Gilmour
If there is a disclosure requirement, an official should adhere not to just the letter of the law, but the spirit of it . . . If there's doubt, that's what an ethics board is for.
Blair Horner
It is a letter that would have drawn my attention immediately. Every effort we were doing would have tied directly into that.
Mark Wallace
It was a part of a letter. It wasn't an original copy. It was a challenge to establish who wrote it, who wrote it to whom and why, that type of thing.
John Dipko
What has been returned has been recorded. If they turned it in, they can disregard the letter.
Cynthia Phipps
I'll send my letter separate.
Gary Fuller
If you didn't get the letter or you're not sure . . . call the benefits manager for the former employer or union.
Judy Clark
A letter has been sent to the football league and football federation asking that they look into the nationalisation of Messi.
Rafael Marquez
They should have a laptop computer with a white sticker with the U.S. Census Bureau sticker on it, an identification badge, that is usually on a chain and a letter from the bureau.
Magdalis Lopez
For those who attempt to cast doubt or aspersions, the New York City host committee is within the spirit and the letter of the law as it relates to contributors and their contributions.
Paul Elliott
We support every rule being followed to the letter, and hope this won't affect the rest of the industry when it shouldn't.
Gary Weber
She brought out every single letter I'd ever written to her, she's kept them all.
Yosef Haimanot
I never pictured it when I signed my letter of intent. But I faced adversity and things happened. I just had to get over it and do what I had to do.
Byron Tinker
We received a letter from a lady who was incensed about my moral depravity, as though I was destroying the underpinnings of society.
Graham Chapman
We'll check it out and answer their letter. If there's some misunderstanding, we'll change what we're doing.
Don Hambidge
What the NOAA letter does is confirm that the Navy analysis is fundamentally flawed.
Michael Jasny
Now that the government has decided to erase graffiti, things are clear. The decision will be implemented in letter and spirit and with immediate effect. The decision has been conveyed to the commission.
Debasish Sen
We're not immune here. Scottsdale had a letter bomb, and we previously had an internal disaster at the Osborn hospital where a generator blew.
Thomas Wachtel
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Fanny Brice
This was not an unexpected situation. We don't know if there's another (anthrax-tainted) letter.
Dan Nichols
The first letter I received was that they froze my bank account, my checking account.
Robert Levine
The way I understood it, a little edge of this card was peeking through a letter case.
Mike Cannone
They won't talk to you. After I sent them a letter, they wouldn't even take a phone call.
Richard Higgins
To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.
Phyllis Theroux
The letter was very simple and delicate, not triumphal.
Monsignor Slawomir Oder
We sent a letter and she said that she was flattered but her schedule didn't allow.
Janine Digioacchino
Today will go down in history as a red-letter day for NIC.
Michael Burke
They are the ones who handle the files and are responsible for sending out the notices. The letter was a reflection of the great job they do.
Jay Cairns
He followed all the relevant immigration laws to the letter.
Nelson Chamisa
With this letter, the government has bowed to the people's demand for holding fair elections.
Abdul Jalil
This was an inappropriate use of per session funds and a letter will be put in the principal's file.
Margie Feinberg
I received no acknowledgement of my letter from any of them, either by return letter or by telephone.
Anthony Blumberg
We (SWWTU) wrote the Minister in a letter dated February 15, 2006 for a meeting with him at his earliest accommodation.
Michael Annisette
Bing Dian has been in the Chinese Communist Party's sights ever since the publication of that open letter.
Liu Xiaobo
Is there any reason why Mr Burrell should have possession of this letter?
William Boyce
We got the letter last Friday, so everybody's been helping.
Kate Murray
This is not a letter but my arms around you for a brief moment.
Katherine Mansfield
When the letter was withdrawn, I assumed that they did not want to pursue it further.
Bryan Crough
They didn't do anything (wrong). Everyone was just waiting for the letter with the engineer's specifications.
Bruce Frank
We will look at the letter, review it and make a determination within the 60-day period.
Alexis Truchan
It would be ill of me to comment on a letter that I haven't seen.
Tony Sanchez
If you depart from those expectations -- that is, if you break the rules, if you ignore the spirit of the law even while meeting the letter -- woe be unto you. There will be consequences, and they will be grave.
William McDonough
It only had letter identification for plants. The key was lost.
Susan Mays
We will draft a letter to the D-O-T stating that we've agreed to it. They will make the necessary cost adjustments.
Jim Griffith
The Prime Minister has got the Chief Minister's letter by now. We expect a response from him.
Prakash Karat
[Not even close.] The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book, ... We didn't even get through the first letter of the alphabet.
Channing Crowder
With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.
Paul Burrell
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