Famous Quotes & Sayings

George W. Bush

You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone.

Cassandra Clare

Fine,” Kyle said. “I’m a werewolf. I’m not part of a pack, but I do have an alliance. Have you heard of the Praetor Lupus?” “I’ve heard of lupus,” said Simon. “Isn’t it a kind of disease?

Ogden Nash

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

Mikhail Kamynin

We hope that the alliance will observe its political and legal commitments in terms of military restraint when deciding on the deployment of the bases, and in particular the commitment not to deploy considerable combat forces in new member states.

John Hewson

I don't think the U.S. alliance is worth this. Being a lap-dog to the United States is an outrageous concept, but that's where we are, unfortunately.

Mahmoud Othman

If the position of the Shiite alliance is final, then things will be more complicated and the formation of the government might face delays.

Simon Phipps

If the ODF Alliance had existed a few month's ago it would have been a lot easier for Massachusetts to focus on the technology issues rather than the personalities involved.

Angela Merkel

The campaign is over and now the point is to form a stable government. We, the Christian Democratic alliance (CDU/CSU), have been given the mandate as strongest parties,

Sergio Marchionne

the industrial alliance will not be with an Asian company.

Bob Harms

The cranes are easily disrupted. What we're trying to do is prevent the kind of activities, such as commercial and industrial activities, that could interfere with the cranes.

John Burnside

We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.

Luis Figo

Everything started to go wrong at Real after those first three years when commercial decisions took precedence over sporting ones. They started signing players for the sake of signing them. When things are like that sooner or later you pay for it.

Carlos Ghosn

At the moment it is an investment because it is getting good results. The important thing is to see how we make the most of those results and transform it into commercial success. At the moment Formula One is an investment that is paying off for Renault. What we can say is that for the next few years it is an investment.

John Loos

Commercial property, on the other hand, has the more positive outlook.

Geoff Dixon

We are waiting to see what the government really intends to do with MAS ... We do intend to talk further with them. We also talked to them about a possible commercial cooperation and we just have to see how it goes from there.

Terry Gross

We don't want commercial relations. We don't need that clientele.

Jon Favreau

I don't want to be an art-house movie guy, where people who go to film school can discuss your work, but people who haven't studied cinema can't appreciate it. By the same token, I don't want to be the guy who's making this commercial pap that people lap up but that disappears the minute you leave the theater.

Michael Stewart

For those people who thought this was something for the next generation... commercial spaceflight really is right on the horizon.

Glenn Greenwald

'Terrorism' itself is not an objective term or legitimate object of study, but was conceived of as a highly politicized instrument and has been used that way ever since.

Virgil Thomson

Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed crooked folklore and halfway opera.

Georg Simmel

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Mandy Moore

I had just laid down to go to sleep and got up to use the restroom and I thought it was just like a dispute or something.

John Jansen

It?s a dispute between land owners, and we vote only on land use decisions,

Tim Thornton

The railroad does not dispute that that night was a horrific night. It should not be a lottery ticket.

Chris Mennis

The most temperature-sensitive products are the gas and the heating oil and that's what's moving the market.

Debra Moore

The way gas is today, wooh! ... Maybe you should ride the bus.

Ethan Harris

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy, ... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.)

David Carter

The price of gas was still around $2.75 in Murphysboro, and in Carbondale it was $2.99, ... In Carterville it was $3.59, and with my Sam's discount, I'm paying $2.96 before it goes up.

Michael Rose

There's still a lot of gas in storage.

Irv DeGraw

What's going on is the market running out of gas at the end of the week.

Robert A. Heinlein

ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite.

Vladimir Ivanov

Gas deliveries started shortly after 10:00 am (0700 GMT).

River Phoenix

I remember we'd roll into gas stations in our beat-up van and I'd tell the attendant, 'I'm going to be an actor!

David Keene

We don't just look at a small piece of the SOA stack. We've integrated all these technologies to work together as part of a platform.

Ayn Rand

The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

Daniel Ellsberg

It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Edward Snowden

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

Angus King

What do we do if we pass a law that says this has to be done, and then China says, oh, well, OK, we're going to pass that law too and we want access to every iPhone in China? Iran says the same thing, Russia says the same thing - you know, the bad guys go underground. They'll shift to some other encrypted platform.

Aleksander Kwasniewski

Well, we are very glad that Russia is so close with NATO.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If we look far into the future, one can see a time in the 21st century when both Europe and the USA will be in dire need of Russia as an ally.

Andrew Weil

In Europe, when tobacco was first introduced, it was immediately banned. In Turkey, if you got caught with tobacco, you had your nose slit. China and Russia imposed the death penalty for possession of tobacco.

Angela Merkel

Today's Russia is not to be compared with the Soviet Union of back then.