Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

Liberty Bailey

I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.

Elizabeth Whitt

I like having some role and responsibility to preparing the next generation of student affairs administrators. I like what I do, I like the students I work with and I like my colleagues. I like working with new students every year and I still find the work that I do interesting and challenging.

King Hussein

I intervened from my sickbed to prevent interference in the affairs of the army in a change that appeared aimed at settling scores and retiring loyal and qualified people.

John McDonough

The first priority in organizing personal affairs is a will that reflects your current family and personal circumstances.

Kathleen Blanco

The financial affairs of Louisiana will be transparent and wide open as it pertains to this period of recovery, more so than it ever has been before, ... We will stand well to the expected scrutiny by the public, the Congress and the media.

Ellen Johnson

The election of Africa's first democratically elected female president is historic... I promise that I will conduct myself and the affairs of the country in a manner that brings pride to the women of Liberia, Africa and even the world,

Kofi Annan

The essential part of the discussion, ... try and establish an Iraqi administration that would be responsible for running its own affairs -- and not so much for the U.N. to take over the management of Iraq.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value.

Hilary Rosen

I think it's a great thing when companies experiment with different models.

Charles Gallagher

What we wanted to do was make succession-planning a process for these companies rather than an event they have to deal with.

Eric Shepcaro

What we find in these statistics is somewhat alarming, that four years after 9-11, a third of companies surveyed still lack these plans. We find that (many) companies that have these plans don't practice them.

Salar Kamangar

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

Bill Xia

I think the government is getting increasingly desperate. They're pushing the domestic media and outside companies to openly collaborate with them. They're summoning all their potential partners.

David Sze

I think that the most important thing we look for in partners is that they can help build companies and, you know, we have the - we have the opportunity to do that at different stages.

Chuck D.

There is a distinct possibility you will see more very large tech companies paying a dividend. It's a reflection of the continued maturation of these companies,

David Lowe

There is no difficulty with that concept, but not all companies have received the same level of profit.

Rebecca MacKinnon

There is no country on Earth where Internet and telecommunications companies do not face at least some pressure from governments to do things that would potentially infringe on users' rights to free expression and privacy.

Gretchen Dykstra

There is no confusion about walking into something where people are going to be fighting forever.

Fiorenzo Facchini

It is not correct... to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science. It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.

James Fitzgerald

It is not good enough that a measure of this magnitude is signed into law while the government department responsible adopts a policy of silence and allows panic and confusion to run rampant.

Rebecca West

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

William S. Burroughs

Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.

William J. Clinton

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

Vivienne Westwood

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Wallace Stevens

You know that the nucleus of a time is not The poet but the poem, the growth of the mind Of the world, the heroic effort to live expressed As victory. The poet does not speak in ruins Nor stand there making orotund consolations. He shares the confusions of intelligence.

W. H. Auden

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Jonathan Moreno

If the president wants a council that serves as a public seminar in moral philosophy, indeed, that is what he got.

Ulysses Grant

I never held a council of war in my life. I heard what men had to say - the stream of talk at headquarters - but I made up my own mind, and from my written orders my staff got their first knowledge of what was to be done. No living man knew of plans

Barbara Wilson

I know what they are talking about. When I went to work I was told that I couldn't go to council meetings and that if I did it could mean my job.

Desra Percaya

The new Human Rights Council will have 47 member countries, not individuals, and the election will be held in May 9, 2006.

Richard Boucher

Syria maintains a sizable presence of military and intelligence officials in Lebanon in contravention of the U.N. Security Council Resolution 1559,

Vince Morris

So far as we can tell, the late night revisions made by the Council do not jeopardize the deal and mostly reaffirm our existing plans.

Scott Sanders

That's another reason the mayor thought it was attractive. It keeps the money here in Council Bluffs.

Larry Davis

The mayor assists the Council in making decisions.

Jack Straw

The mere fact of having a Security Council meeting at ministerial level will send out a very sharp message indeed to the Syrians.

John Ortberg

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

Jennifer Scott

People come here with a lot of tricks up their sleeves, and they wonder why those tricks are ineffective. They're assigning power to external things: the audience, their appearance. But true power comes from within. You need to live up to your potential instead of imitating someone else's.

John Savage

You need to make the distinction between external motivation and internal motivation. While the former has short-term effects, the latter is far more important.

Alan Williamson

Geopolitical tensions have helped to support the price, but otherwise the market is lacking any external impetus.

Diogenes

One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

Javier Solana

Most forms of external support require interaction with the Palestinian administration.

Richard Axel

There are many ways for organisms to probe the external world. Some smell it, others listen to it, many see it. Each species, therefore, lives in its own unique sensory world of which other species may be partially or totally unaware.

Jeffrey Benjamin

External superiority is the result of internal inferiority.

Hermann von Helmholtz

Now, the external work of man is of the most varied kind as regards the force or ease, the form and rapidity, of the motions used on it, and the kind of work produced.

Jonathan Spira

Knowledge sharing and collaboration are a key foundation of research and development.

Sakie Yokota

I survived this hardship for 20 years until I found out she had been abducted by North Korea.

Al Borges

He did a wonderful job considering he found out less than an hour before the game. We tried to keep it as low maintenance as we could.

Aaron Boone

He's a good dude. I found that out right away. Obviously, he's going to be a good player, and he knows how to act, too. I want to be there to help him out. But I don't want to overkill him with Johnny Veteran stuff. We're all men here and we're all teammates here. Plus, I like him.

Peter D. Mitchell

He said, 'I can send you to jail. I know where your mother lives and your brother. How would you like there to be drugs found in your mother's house?'

Emanuel Brown

He's a senior and he wanted to finish, but unfortunately the trainers didn't want him to get up until they found out if it was muscle or bone.

Justin Scott

He's a very good player, a very good player. I found out he couldn't go right, so toward the end of the game I tried to make him go right. We tried to go around screens and help a lot.

Kyle Lowry

He shot horrible -- not horrible, but not as well -- last night, and we still found a way to win. This is what this team is made of. If everything is not going our way, we still are going to find a way to get the win.

Susan Gray

History is all around us. It's still being found today.

Jim Calhoun

Kentucky gave us a great shot, but we're going to D.C..

Joyce Majewski

Just look at this watch someone gave to me.

Jason Calabrese

Joel gave another strong performance, of which there were many in the two seasons he played for me.

Joe DeSantis

John is the kind of player who can give us something positive or something negative. Tonight he gave something very positive.

Ken Lucas

I think in the long run it will prove to be a good thing for the team and myself that we gave it a week off and let it heal. I hate to miss any game, but I think it was the right thing to do.

Gary Defina

He usually swallows his rebounds or hands it off to the defense. The other night (against Rampart) he gave up a goal with 50 seconds left in the game, and it went into overtime. In the first shift of overtime, he made a great save, and we went back down and scored.

Ned Colletti

He didn't have a lot to say. I just gave him the information, and wished him well. That was it.

Alan Magnani

He'd been struggling and I'm so happy for the lift he gave this team as a senior in a championship game. You couldn't script it better than that. I'm so proud of the way he stepped up in this game.

A. Johnson

(Greenspan) gave those words of reassurance. Today will set the tone, and, on balance, tomorrow should be positive.

Franz Beckenbauer

After the 4-1 in Italy it was necessary for him to be here to pick up the pieces. If he sees it differently then he must live with the criticism.

Chris Patten

I sometimes think that perhaps we should offer Mexico membership of the United States

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

Todd Borrison

I thought we got a lot of second and third shots and every time you do that, you put yourself in position to be successful.

Carl Banks

He was the standard for that position in that era.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Barbara Bush

in a position to make good, crisp decisions.

Mark Whitaker

in a position to know the things he was telling us.

Joe Lockhart

I'm not in a position to predict the two sides will reach an agreement.

Roderick Scott

Their position is not a Wal-Mart when, it's a Wal-Mart never. We're trying to be responsive to their issues, but they will always have a problem with the location.

Tim King

The city's position is that we've come to a stalemate and that we should go to mediation,

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Nancy Frazier

I want to make a statement to other businesses,

Niklaus Wirth

Go To statement considered harmful.

Mary Parsons

There are a lot of conflicting statements from the proponent.

Micah Rasmussen

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

John Esposito

Frankly, I find (such accusations) humorous. A lot of these statements are ideologically or politically motivated.

Erick Jensen

If they wrestle like they did this weekend, we could make a statement at states.

Elaine Chao

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

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Bryan Ball

I was just battling. Trying to give us a chance.

Kevin Madden

It can be done without trying to browbeat people.

Drew Brees

We're trying to be that franchise that year-in and year-out is competing for a championship.

Greg Bowers

We've been trying to play at Brooke's level, and we've been disappointed in past, but this is an accomplishment.

Andre Iguodala

I was just trying to put on a show.

Robert Fick

I don't give a ----. I was trying to make a play.

Reginald Delk

I don't know. We're soul-searching right now, just trying to get a win.

Shay Espinoza

I don't know why, but that's what they were trying to do: take my baby.

Russ Ortiz

I could see that they were serious, ... Winning's important. I wanted to be a part of what they're trying to accomplish.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

John McCain

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.