Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Jan Egeland

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Janet Yellen

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.

Thomas Horn

We were bemused, I guess, when we got the call from Hollywood. We didn't know anything about the entertainment industry or even what a casting agency was. But I thought, 'What do I have to lose?' It's not every day a great opportunity presents itself.

Edward Snowden

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Glenn Hughes

Tony is totally up for doing it; (drummer) Kenny and I are totally up for doing it. Tony wants to go out with a proper production, and it entails money. I think the agency is looking into that, but right now, I'm moving forward.

Norman Cousins

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

Norm Dicks

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

John Sparkman

The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.

James Klein

There's going to be a lot of back and forth, charges and counter-charges. There's going to be a number of legal battles over the legitimacy of the elections. So there are just so many issues that have not been answered, it's very difficult to see what's going to happen in the future.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Battles are lost or won in 15 minites

John Dryden

Fought all his battles o'er again; / And thrice he routed all his foes; and thrice he slew the slain.

Janet Jackson

Some of my battles with weight have been very public. But most of them have been internal. Even at my thinnest, when my body was being praised, I wasn't happy with what I saw in the mirror or how I felt about myself.

Sean Kelly

I respected Greg a lot. We had some real ding-dong battles - especially in that 1983 Tour of Lombardy.... The finish was so close.

Max Evans

The Apache and others who fought the great cavalry battles took the cavalry's horses and methods and improved on them. These great horse warrior tribes are now cowboys and they naturally raise their young to be cowboy kids.

Kevin Fry

That was Taylor's biggest hit this season. I like how he battles and puts in the extra time to improve.

Stan Butler

He battles hard. Pound for pound he might be the toughest guy in the league.

Dan Watson

He battles and he does a lot of nice things. He's a joy to coach. I'm glad I have him for a couple of more years.

Bobby Cox

That's why he's classified as one of the big young hitters in the entire Minor League system. They tagged him right, that's for sure.

Bill Richardson

Confinement, shackles -- I wouldn't have done that. But there's no question that I think the deal is good, because it would enable us to get what happened with that very, very sensitive, classified information, ... Meet the Press.

Greg Fraser

The conundrum I'm trying to solve is whether paying $750 million to defend $170 million in classified revenue is actually a good deal or not.

Karen Ritchie

What we showed is that many of the people who are classified in this way have it due to the medication they are taking, and not because they have early Alzheimer's disease.

Jeremih

R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.

Stephanie Pell

We are dealing with classified material we are about to disclose. The government is just covering its tracks here.

Trent Duffy

We are opening an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of classified materials related to the NSA.

Annie Jacobsen

Everything that goes on at Area 51 is classified 'top secret' when it's going on.

Annie Jacobsen

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words 'Area 51' are conveniently blacked out. There's always a euphemism for it - like 'the test facility' or 'the base' - but never 'Area 51.'

Steve Douglas

The Rural Fire Department (east of Pueblo), Rye and Pueblo West fire departments all have permit systems within their districts.

Don Allison

The onus is on us to demonstrate (there is enough water) to the Department of Water Resources.

Terry J. Lundgren

I had 13 job offers out of college. I went to Bullock's department store and had a fantastic interview, but was skeptical. I knew retail didn't pay much.

John Piper

The training is more extensive, the training has been upgraded, the training is very successful, and the training is monitored by the police department of New York City,

Victor Penman

From a fire department standpoint our number 1 priority is life safety.

David Kessler

If it's good enough for McDonald's, it should be good enough for the Department of Agriculture.

George Herring

He was a small person and very soft spoken, but he was a huge presence in the department and the university. His reputation was national and went beyond.

Jim Bowden

I have never been a part of anything like this. It's been the most un-fun. To me it's been one nightmare after another. It's like I am working for the fire department and putting out fires every day.

Lynn Hightower

Horses are part of our Western heritage that we love to celebrate. From that point of view it really is kind of a sad day. But it's also a day where the department needs to be accountable to taxpayers.

Ann Williams

The water was waist deep, ... We grabbed all the kids and held them up because the water eventually got up to our necks.

James Thurber

This is an old story that keeps repeating: The people who are way out there and pushing the limits of power, they eventually are pushed out themselves. Jim Wright and Newt Gingrich did that, and they went. Now Tom DeLay. It was just a matter of time.

Philip Rivers

That's good. You have to play those (top) teams eventually anyway.

Chris Morris

You see young people, or kids, and they're fascinated by the way people talk. And that's great. But eventually you get to the point where you think, 'You know what? I don't care how you talk, I'm just listening to what you're saying.'

Mary Kuehn

We did fine over there (previous location), but eventually we got too much stuff. With everything more spread out, people will be able see what we've got.

Richard Neal

Eventually all of us will have to sacrifice a little to pull our Nation through this time; we've done it before and we'll have to do it again.

Abe Badmus

This year, everybody trusts me now. It's something you have to keep working at and eventually it will come to you.

Ryan Sims

We just stuck together and didn't turn on each other. We just kept working on things and knew eventually we would come around.

Holly Swoape

We just had a meeting about that and most of the people who come here know that we will eventually have a cost.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Eduardo Galeano

The purpose of torture is not getting information. It's spreading fear.

Clay Shirky

Knowledge, unlike information, is a human characteristic; there can be information no one knows, but there can't be knowledge no one knows.

Meg Wolitzer

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

So, the three qualities of a workplace that would develop people would be information sharing, investing in the training of the workforce, and giving employees the ability to use their training and information to make decisions.

Maryann Jakubczyk

We need $200,000 roughly in donations. We will soon be putting information on our Web site as to what we need.

Mel Netzhammer

I think information is good. Getting information to the students is important.

Hans Blix

It was to do with information management. The intention was to dramatise it.

James Gleick

Information is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom.

Ira Sorkin

Sometimes juries think the judge is part of the government.

Samuel Alito

A judge can't have any agenda. A judge can't have a preferred outcome in any particular case.

Edmund Spenser

Be judge ye heavens, that all things right esteeme, / How I him loved, and love with all my might, / So thought I eke of him, and thinke I thought aright.

Tim Fleming

As the judge pointed out, loathsome and inexplicable for various reasons.

David Bloom

You judge things by comparables. They are comparable.

Russian Proverbs

When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.

Daniel Moore

There's no reason that I can't. No judge has issued any kind of injunction that prevents me from doing that, and that's what this whole lawsuit is about.

Damien Hirst

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

Jan LaRue

The president got it right this time. We only wish he had done this on October 3rd. This judge has always been at the top of our list for the Supreme Court.

Mayer Morganroth

It would be a terrible miscarriage of justice if they're convicted.

Rocky Nichols

This is the first taste of justice that the victims have received.

Julian Mack

This is probably the worst miscarriage of justice I've seen in 34 years of practice.

Gary L. Francione

We are vegans not simply because being vegan will reduce suffering. We are vegan because every sentient being values her or his life even if no one else does. We are vegan because justice minimally requires that we not take life for trivial purposes.

bell hooks

The world would be a paradise of peace and justice if global citizens shared a common definition of love which would guide our thoughts and action.

Arundhati Roy

So here we have it. The equivocating distinction between civilisation and savagery, between the "massacre of innocent people" or, if you like, "a clash of civilisations" and "collateral damage". The sophistry and fastidious algebra of infinite justice.

Brad Thor

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

Blaise Pascal

We see neither justice nor injustice which does not change its nature with change in climate. Three degrees of latitude reverse all jurisprudence; a meridian decides the truth.

Denis Diderot

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

E. Helm

We're playing in a tournament where somebody's going to the national tournament. It's that simple. And we'll compete.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Martha Stewart

I haven't been to Tasmania. I haven't been to the South Pole, and I haven't been to the North Pole. I want to see the polar bear migration before there are no polar bears. I want to see Glacier National Park before the glacier melts.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Bill Richardson

is used for national supply emergencies for a really rainy day.

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Ashwin Sanghi

In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people.

Baruch Spinoza

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Auguste Comte

The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal.

Azar Nafisi

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Ayn Rand

He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again.

Juvenal

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

Burt Rutan

No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.

Al Gore

In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis.

Charles Colson

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Ryan Madson

After a while, it's too much to handle. You've got to release some stuff. Or you just take it. That's what makes you stronger. I'm just going to go out there and be myself and give everything I've got.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Anita Allen

I can't release that information. We can't give out anything about salaries or bonuses.

Colin Trevorrow

Marketing for a film is tricky because you release stuff without context.

Alberto Lopez

Whatever is in the release is what we're saying officially.

Zola Jesus

And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.

Odalis Perez

It's no good. I started throwing, and when I go down, when I release the ball, it pinches me.

Matt Groening

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

Simon Bolivar

It is harder to release a nation from servitude than to enslave a free nation.

Leslie Sloane

Yes, she has been released and she is doing better.

Alan Rusbridger

We're overjoyed that Rory has been released safe and sound.

Roger Boyd

They have not made that request ... if they do I am sure we would.

Amy Martin

The response has been overwhelming. I don't know any other word,

Greg Smith

The response has been overwhelming. And we can always use more.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

M. Wolfe

Are they going to have Victoria's Secret selling underwear?

Earl Watson

You play so many teams so many times, I don't think there are any secrets about what teams do.

Carson McCullers

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Anthony Trollope

The secrets of the world are very marvellous, but they are not themselves half so wonderful as the way in which they become known to the world.

Elie Wiesel

We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

Dustin Pedroia

I just try to see the ball and hit it. If I get a hit, I get a hit. If I get out, I get out. There's no secret about it.

Doug Liman

It's no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don't know what they're signing up for.

Anne Rice

Do we have to confess our loves to everyone?" asked Thorne softly. "Can we not keep some secrets?

David Foster Wallace

There are secrets within secrets, though--always.

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?

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Ken Stern

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

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

Rudolph Penner

I think they're going to squeeze out all sorts of other spending items.

Penn Badgley

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

John Challenger

Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically.

David Nicholls

…mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates…

Angela Kinsey

I keep my sisters on speed dial.

Daron Rahlves

I don't know where the speed was today.

Anthony Chan

I just see it as a speed bump.

Rajon Rondo

It was a completely different style of play. I had to speed up and be more vocal to keep up with the other players.

Jim Lanzone

It's like we have put everything we have on speed dial.

Steve Gregory

It's going really slow. I wish it'd just speed up so we could get out and play.

Malcolm Forbes

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

Jamie Luner

I love playing the vamp, and I get sent out for a lot of that stuff, maybe because I do it well.

Breaux Greer

I could always throw stuff, starting with tantrums.

Creed Bratton

Ш'm not cybernaut, this stuff's so foreign to me.

Adam Brody

I wish I came from a more pure place. I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different way.

Amy Poehler

I grew up watching skating all the time in the Olympic stuff.

Conor Oberst

I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.

Anthony Bourdain

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

Andy Warhol

I'd rather do new stuff. The old stuff is better to talk about than to see. It always sounds better than it really is.

Amanda Lear

I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer.

J. F. Powers

He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.

Kate Winslet

I don't know why I'm suddenly playing nasty people. It is very fun, though, and it isn't real, at the end of the day.

Feist

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.