Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Scharf

He needs to cite the precedents of the Yugoslavia tribunal, the Rwanda tribunal, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and domestic courts, which indicate that his response to the situation is perfectly consistent with international due process and fair trial standards.

John Bridgeland

In fact, these kids cite too much freedom, which surprised us. They get to high school and all of a sudden under state law they're permitted to drop out, many of the kids know that. They want more order and rules and expectations.

Russ Salsman

If somebody is cited and they want to resolve that ticket, it's here instantaneously.

Thomas Sowell

All too often when liberals cite statistics, they forget the statisticians' warning that correlation is not causation.

Dan Vaught

The gold strength, as much as anything else, is technical in nature. The downward slide in the dollar from the early highs Friday morning, and the upward push in crude oil, can probably be cited for some of the strength in here.

Scott Jensen

Its really the only industry in Wisconsin where the government prevents price competition, ... The industry argues thats good for the consumer. Yet everything else sold in that (gas station) is outside the minimum mark up law, which is a 9 percent minimum mark up. Each side can cite all sorts of studies, but prices will be lower.

Alexander Yakovenko

It's hardly surprising that Russian foreign policy is misinterpreted abroad. This happens because the Russian and Western media cite the opinions of NGOs that are heavily bankrolled with foreign capital.

Bob Keller

It takes the first hard freeze before West Nile season is over, so we're still a few weeks away. The precautions we cite are still very relevant. We're not out of the woods yet.

Jim Leonard

There were a couple of interviews done with companies that left, and they cited New Jersey's bureaucracy and, on the flip side, the hospitality shown to them by the state they moved into as one of the main reasons they left.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Charles Giancarlo

Cisco has never and will never work with a foreign government of any type for the purpose of restricting political speech.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Sun Heping

If the proposal comes to the embassy, it can be negotiated with the Foreign Ministry of Nepal.

Ted Cruz

In the Senate, there is a wide spectrum of views on foreign policy.

Katinka Barysch

I presume it will be someone of a lesser standing (than Schroeder), so the SPD mark on German foreign policy will be weaker.

Barbra Streisand

I'm very grateful to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who have been so supportive of me throughout my career.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Maria Shriver

I thought a lot about what I could say here today. I also thought a lot about what I couldn't or shouldn't say for one reason or the other, ... We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off they get sent to first ladies' dungeon, and you wouldn't want that to happen to me.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

David Wyss

We've got to see what happens in October. There was an initial shock after the attack. Nobody was doing anything.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think what happens is a sense of panic sets in. It's a natural reaction.

Felipe Alou

It happens -- but it's a rare occasion for a pitcher of that stature.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

David Beckham

I think it is better for the team to have a regular penalty-taker rather than me who hardly ever takes them for Real,

Tom Rowe

I think it's too much of a major league market. Nobody thinks minor league sports. They're hardly on the radar.

Stephen Hawking

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was able to reason

David Cox

I pulled him from the car, ... There was some slight resistance. He didn't have hardly anything to say.

Rachel Lambert Mellon

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Bible Bible

And, lo, a spirit taketh him, and he suddenly crieth out; and it teareth him that he foameth again, and bruising him hardly departeth from him.

John Newland

All we want is information. We're not hardly getting any information, and that's all we want.

Felix Magath

Everyone knows recent results have dented our confidence, so it was no surprise we were nervous at the start and hardly put together a move. We slowly got into the match before half-time. Taking the lead released a lot of the pressure, and after that we played like the league leaders.

Cody Daigle

This is it. The moment we've been working for. I can hardly wait.

Alex Jones

And the Arabs are the biggest owners now of media in the United States, okay, and over stock exchanges. And in many major U.S. cities they’re the majority owners.

Chris Chambers

He's being a mediator on the sideline. That's more of what he is. That's what we needed down there. But he could probably go back upstairs now and everything would be the same.

Douglas Green

I already know that. I'll be talking to the police about that, not to the media.

William Safire

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.

William J. Brennan

You in the media ought to be ashamed of yourselves to call the provisions and the guarantees of the Bill of Rights 'Technicalities'. They're not. We are what we are because of those guarantees.

William Gibson

There is always a point at which the terrorist ceases to manipulate the media gestalt. A point at which the violence may well escalate, but beyond which the terrorist has become symptomatic of the media gestalt itself. Terrorism as we ordinarily understand it is innately media-related.

William Gibson

I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

Westbrook Pegler

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)

Sarah Palin

Well, I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment, and I've learned quickly these last few days that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.

Pete Carroll

I'm not worried about it. People have opinions and can think anything they want,

Stephen Colbert

The show is about me in that when you give opinions, you're saying something about yourself,

Tao Lin

I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.

Ralph Bellamy

Solemnity in politicians is not only tiresome but may even mask those twin sins - self-righteousness and intolerance - for the opinions of others. If I couldn't laugh, I couldn't live, especially in politics.

John Roberts

I don't think you can read those opinions and say that these are the opinions of an ideologue,

Clint Hurdle

My opinions, I'll keep to myself. The replay speaks for itself. We'll see how it unfolds.

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Anita Borg

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team.

Maj. Pettai

We have very positive opinions from the Iraqis.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Rick Warren

You can like somebody without agreeing with all of their policies.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

Susan Smith

It's probably time to do the whole policy over.

Dan Smith

It's worth considering the value of these trees when making policy decisions.

Karen Davis

It's a pretty minor, very targeted set of policy prescriptions that don't go to the root of our fundamental problems in the health-care system.

Noam Chomsky

Silicon Valley benefits, as all of industry, from highly protectionist policy - patent policies and things like that - which come out of the government.

Nicholas Stern

Science and policy-making thrive on challenge and questioning; they are vital to the health of inquiry and democracy.

Mikhail Bakunin

The passion for destruction is also a creative passion.

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

PJ Crowley

It's NATO's view that Russian troops should not deploy until all the arrangements have been completed.

Lee Harvey Oswald

As my Russian improves, I become increasingly conscious of just what sort of a society I live in.

Lucas Till

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

Natan Sharansky

There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.

Modest Mussorgsky

Thanks to nanny, I've got a deep understanding of Russian tales.

Paul Watson

Russian subs are a bargain at $60,000. Unfortunately, none of the dials or instructions are in English.

Dan Glickman

Russian films, together with American films, incur losses.

Astro Teller

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

Richard Sharp

It will be surprising if they do not salvage it -- 350ft of water is not that deep.

Lynn Fegley

It's not surprising in years when you have a warm burst.

Robert Heaney

It's not surprising there was a blunted response.

Michael Darda

There was nothing too surprising in what he said.

Dmitri Alperovitch

This is a very surprising turn of events.

Susan Mann

It wasn't surprising because we've been way at the top for a while now.

Arul Chinnaiyan

It was a serendipitous discovery, something very surprising to us.

Mark Anderson

It would be surprising if they weren't into this.

Octavio Paz

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Polls show that Arabs admire a lot of the Western values, cultural aspects in the West. It is more about policies than about way of life.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Frank Mauro

Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.

Clint Eastwood

I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

Clint Eastwood

Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.

Rick Perry

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.