Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Blix

Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world.

Carlos Haddad

The program has a duration of 52 minutes. It is too short a time to say everything I would like to say about the Arab countries. I like talking about the Arab people, and of their importance to the country.

Basmah bint Saud

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

Marilyn Monroe

What I really want to say is that what the world needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, blacks, Jews, Arabs - we're all brothers!

Hannah Simone

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

Christopher Bellew

It will take a lot of time for this extra oil to be delivered by OPEC, ... The fears people had about supply interruptions still remain because of the instability in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Shel Silverstein

This bridge will only take you halfway there, to those mysterious lands you long to see. Through gypsy camps and swirling Arab fair, and moonlit woods where unicorns run free. So come and walk awhile with me and share the twisting trails and wonderous worlds Ive known. But this bridge will only take you halfway there. The last few steps you have to take alone.

Abdulkhaleq Abdulla

This is an Arab city living in a unique moment in history.

Walid Phares

There's an international audience for (the trial), but also a domestic one and an audience within the greater Arab world. (If) the Arab world sees Iraqi trying Iraqi, in an Iraqi courtroom under Iraqi law, it sends a message more powerful than any international court (could send) that a new day truly is here.

Tom Burke

I think it's the code of the streets. The district attorney may want to imply it's our clients (intimidating people). ... Clearly, intimidation goes around because the two people we put on today also went south.

Richard Grasso

informed of the comments and the intentions of the New York State attorney general concerning his nomination.

Tasia Scolinos

The attorney general's comments today should not be interpreted to suggest the existence or nonexistence of a domestic program or whether any such program would be lawful under the existing legal analysis.

Haley Barbour

That's the attorney general's job, and I try to do my job.

Gary Shaw

That is an outright lie. I will be more than happy to send you the contract to prove what he said is a lie. Frank Warren is an outright liar to say the contact was signed and there was a February date set. I can show you e-mails from my attorney and Frank Warren's attorney that said the contract would not be completed until this week,

Julie Martineau

That kind of thing needs to be reported to the Attorney General ... it isn't allowed.

Danny Chun

It's so flawed that we think the attorney general should just withdraw it. You cannot fix it by tinkering with it.

Dave Nelson

It's been turned over to the U.S. attorney and the military.

Ron Kuby

I told Curtis earlier that he would have to eat all his lies, but the attorney has made this a very long meal,

Terry Goodson

We did a good job on the big guy and kept him out of the game. We fronted and backed him and hoped they didn't hit the threes. If they hit the threes, we would have had to change the strategy.

Ernie Els

I think he's a legend in the making. You (media) guys have helped, but he's backed it up with his golf game. He's 24. He's probably going to be bigger than Elvis when he gets into his 40s.

Jaromir Jagr

He backed up his words. I respect that.

Roy Moore

I don't think he's backed off the differential salaries, because he is allotting an extra catch-up, delaying the catch-up until January. There is a reduction in the delayed pool for faculty catch-up, but it'll still be a substantial increase.

Edwin Jackson

I could have pitched better, but the team backed me up and we got the win.

Marcus Dudley

The driver of the van then backed up and ran over the victim before leaving the area.

Eric Dahl

They basically backed the truck right out of the building.

Narendra Modi

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

Arianna Huffington

A lot of them are determined not to be in the same position they were in 2004, when they backed a candidate that equivocated on so many issues and no clear vision was ever articulated. And there's one issue driving that, and that's the war.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Barbara Mandrell

I believe if you ask any singer who was the greatest country music singer of all time, they would say 'George Jones'. He was without question and by far the BEST! I first met and worked with him when I was 13 years old; I am so very grateful that he was my friend.

Baha'u'llah

Let not a man glory in this, that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves his kind.

Burt Rutan

In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries

Carson McCullers

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Jane Birkin

If you fall in love with a country and its people, that makes any country warm to you.

Jason Aldean

I'm a country boy. I'm from Georgia.

Jason Aldean

I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.

Jared Diamond

Starbucks goes to a great effort, and pays twice as much for its coffee as its competitors do, and is very careful to help coffee producers in developing countries grow coffee without pesticides and in ways that preserve forest structure.

As a young boy, when you get splashed by a mud puddle on the way to school, you wonder if you should go home and change, but be late for school, or go to school the way you are; dirty and soaking wet. Well, while he tried to decide, I drove by and splashed him again.

Mike Morgan

Arson investigation is very slow, tedious, dirty work,

Jules Carlysle

A dirty mind is a terrible thing to waste.

Irish Sayings

Even a tin knocker will shine on a dirty door

Donald Trump

I don't want to jump the gun. I don't want to talk about that. There's a lot of dirty pool played at the election, meaning the election is rigged.

Stephen Fry

I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

Miranda Richardson

Feminism was a dirty word for a while.

Neal Boortz

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

Milan Kundera

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Pete Smith

It's obvious the House recognizes the serious difficulties with this whole approach. It would have shortchanged the municipalities, and it would have shortchanged the state's general fund, which are recipes for tax increases.

Scott Aaronson

There will be parking for the general public, but I'm not sure if there will be a parking fee.

Brad Thor

There is no justice in social justice, and there is no equality in social equality.

Samuel Alito

If you want know what sort of a justice I would make, then look at what sort of a judge I have been.

Tony Blair

Understand the causes of terror? Yes, we should try, but let there be no moral ambiguity about this: nothing could ever justify the events of September 11 and it is to turn justice on its head to pretend it could

Simone de Beauvoir

Justice can never be done in the midst of injustice.

Thucydides

When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.

Robert A. Heinlein

The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.

N. T. Wright

Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance.

N. T. Wright

The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

Mark Levin

The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Steve Mottinger

These are things the state wants you to forget.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Micah Rasmussen

We're just going to let the governor's statement stand.

Mike Huckabee

If the state surplus is used in part or in whole for this, it will have been used for as valid a need as we've ever had,

Gary Fischer

If they make the state meet, it could be fun.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Elaine Chao

it is a wonderful statement about who we are as Americans.

Brad Feld

While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do.

Janet Jackson

I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself.

Miley Cyrus

I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can.

Miley Cyrus

Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.

Colin Mochrie

As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living.

Jayne Anne Phillips

Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write.

Maria Mitchell

I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal.

Matthew Weiner

This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.

Jano Cabrera

We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace.

John Green

I do my precalc homework, and then when I'm done I actually sit with the textbook for like three hours and try to understand what I just did. That's the kind of weekend it is--the kind where you have so much time you go past the answers and start looking into the ideas.

Nick Hornby

…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

John Mulaney

It was funny to be an emcee, because you're so at the mercy of the club. You can show up for the weekend hoping to get the $400 - and get fired. I had to prank whoever they told me to prank.

Denise Van Outen

At weekends, I've been going on long but steady-paced four-and-a-half-hour bike rides.