Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Rita

The overall level of Afghan and coalition security forces in the country is growing.

Joseph Biden

We discussed...in broad strokes, the aid that's already going to help the Afghan people, ... the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong support of follow-on after this undertaking to take out Mr. bin Laden and his associates happens.

Bob Ainsworth

The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.

Tasnim Aslam

Today we called the Afghan ambassador and lodged a strong protest.

Tina Brown

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.

Zahir Azimi

We don't know exactly the scale of the damage. Afghan National Army troops are on the ground helping villagers,

Hamid Karzai

We are making history. It's the day of self-determination for the Afghan people. After 30 years of wars, interventions, occupations and misery, today Afghanistan is moving forward, making an economy, making political institutions.

Richard Engel

The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're working to make clear to the Afghan people that we support them, and we're working to free them from the Taliban and their foreign terrorist allies,

Elaine Elliott

What you sort of see in a friend is somebody that you can trust. Neither one of them is egotistical. Neither one of them is about themselves. They're easy to be around and it was easy for them, as I see it, to become friends. They're very much alike in just their personal characteristics . . . It's easy to see why they're friends.

Joe Wilcox

So, to get to the benefits that come with this, they have to get past whatever retraining will be needed around the new user interface.

Rick Fraser

This is a way for us to get them the tax benefits that they are entitled to.

Ryan Bedford

This raises an interesting question: Who really benefits from union representation?

Mitchell Reiss

What we can do is to explain as clearly as possible what the benefits would be of him going down one path, and what the potential consequences would be if he chooses another path.

Harley Shaiken

Health benefits have been at the top of the list for what unions have sought to hang on to. This reflects how serious union leaders feel this is.

Muhammad Abdullah

It benefits me more because I'm more in the box. It puts me in the position where I can make more plays and bigger plays for the team.

Mike Kraus

I think we have new life now. The kids are really excited. We get to play on a college court in a state tournament, and when you're 10-13 that's a big deal. But forget about the records. These kids have worked hard all year long and now they're reaping some of the benefits from it.

Clayton Christensen

If you make that decision, that you'll always follow that rule, then your commitment to do it sinks into your heart, and when you realize the benefits of having integrity time after time, it really changes your heart, not just your head.

National Press

The forces of change are unstoppable and while they do challenge some business models, they actually present real opportunities to embrace new ways of doing business and to provide significant benefits to consumers,

Jeremy Cox

That was a concern of mine (playing zone) because I thought they were great shooters as well. They shot less than 25 percent (from 3-point range), so it worked for us.

Maureen Dunn

Our concern is primarily that it's a safe environment.

Kurt Faust

Our concern is making ourselves a better team. We've had some cracks in the wall, and we want to eliminate those cracks.

Stephanie Green

Our concern is it's already a flood zone, so why would FEMA want to pay the owner of the trailer park so much money a month to house people in a zone that could be flooded again?

Ron Gardenhire

Our concern is, how many guys are we going to have to throw our games? We've got two split-squad games early, and now we're losing another pitcher.

Wendy Gibson

Our concern is for the safety of boaters in New York.

John Hughs

So you have quality assets, you have an operating concern that is looked on as the jewel in the crown of the North American producer group.

Gideon Lo

One concern is that its production cost is rising, but as long as the oil price is high, that's acceptable.

Terri Steinberg

One concern I have for these kids that have tried to protect themselves through not telling the truth or making deals, is that they will have to live with the decisions they've made.

Debby Padgett

Our efforts are coordinated, and we are working toward a fabulous event in 2007. Not only for 2007, but beyond.

Stephen Vizinczey

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

Robert Milton

The year kicks off with the efforts on Jazz.

Kirk Hinrich

Something went off in our heads -- maybe we were playing not to get embarrassed. If we started the game the way we played the second half, we're going to be tough to beat. We have to come out with more energy and focus.

James Jones

Ross has been really steady for us. He gave us a lot of energy off the bench.

John Ryding

Energy prices do matter, especially to the public's perception of inflation.

Peter Beutel

Every time energy prices triple we have a major recession in 1½ to 2 years.

Tony Fadell

You have to look at why people come and work at Nest. Part of it is that a lot of people here already know each other, but we're also on a mission with a purpose. People are personally motivated by energy or safety.

Greg Brunner

The place was crazy, and we just fed off that. The fans gave us the energy that we needed.

Niels Bohr

Must have something to do with the zero-point energy.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Nuclear energy is our right, and we will resist until this right is fully realized.

Ozren Mueller

She's in a good mood, but she has no energy. She had the flu and then a stomach ache. It took a lot of energy away from her.

Li Keqiang

We must keep prices under control to ensure that price increases do not exert a major negative impact on people's lives.

Adam Ereli

The needs are great, and there are ways to do this, to ensure that those needs are met.

Gary Powers

We have two factions on our team right now. We have guys who are trying to do too much because other guys aren't stepping up. And then we have another group of guys who are just out in left field somewhere and don't seem to get it.

Nancy Greene

After all those years of not wanting to be a farmer, I'm doing it full time. But I wouldn't be any other place than here.

Mark Murray

Technically, this is simply what's called the 'answer' to the complaint. So it is not Microsoft's full response and all the company's legal arguments.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Carl Cornwell

We're guilty judge, and we take full responsibility for these (four) offenses.

Candace Cameron Bure

I did a lot of my school on set. Some years I went to a private school for a couple of hours, and then I'd always finish up with a tutor. I couldn't do full days, but I tried to maintain my friendships and some normalcy while doing a show.

Irish Proverb

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,

Don Stewart

We should have the hearings wrapped up in time to get a vote out of the full Senate in time for the (court's) October term.

Jim Corridore

We think that a full and rising backlog and margin improvement should help Boeing do better than its forecast.

Brad Thomas

We full staff up, get ready to go, make a lot of money.

Alfredo Alonso

When the population is over 40 million, people take notice, including advertisers and broadcasters.

Dan Shechtman

Select a subject that interests you and make an effort to become an expert in that field. I promise you, if you make the effort, and you become an expert, you will have a wonderful career.

Jamie Bell

I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings.

Elijah Wood

Geeks are generally the most interesting people.

John Ernst

We want to find places that are interested in music.

Louis Navellier

We test everything on a one- and a three-year cycle. And you want to stress-test a model, and the three-year test usually does that because you have a growth and value bias. You have different interest rate environments.

Donald Trump

The only thing that looks good is the stock market, but if you raise interest rates even a little bit, that's going to come crashing down.

Giacinto Facchetti

We are interested in his signature, yet we will only talk about it next June,

Shane Carruth

It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

William Shakespeare

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Christine Pelosi

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Dorothy Day

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Don Henley

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

John Anderson

The FAA has not conducted this process in a very transparent manner. What little we know we've had to get off the grapevine.

Bob Poser

You can tell that he's processing everything when you're talking. You can see that his wheels are churning.

Carl Rogers

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Steve Siegel

We're in the process of returning it to its rightful owner.

Lev Grossman

The process of learning is a nonstop orgy of wonderment.

Ann Voskamp

Manna today or I starve.

Richard Branson

To stand still today is to go backwards...and quickly...!

Bob Gilder

I think I made more putts today than I've made all year,

George H. W. Bush

The longer our graduation lines are today, the shorter our unemployment lines will be tomorrow.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Neale Donald Walsch

Drop the thought that you cannot affect the future. Tell yourself that the future is not coming TO you, it is coming THROUGH you. The change that is coming to you is that change that you place in your future with the thoughts, words, and actions of today

Mahatma Gandhi

Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today.

Liberace

Anyone that dares begrudge what I have today, just better get off their duff and do something about it.

Lester B. Pearson

Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.

Jane Wagner

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Bella Abzug

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The weakness of their reasoning faculty also explains why women show more sympathy for the unfortunate than men;... and why, on the contrary, they are inferior to men as regards justice, and less honourable and conscientious.

Doris Lessing

There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

Ani Difranco

i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right

Alison Lurie

We can lie in the language of dress or try ot tell the truth; but unless we are naked and bald, it is impossible to be silent.

D. H. Lawrence

If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule.

Sonia Sotomayor

Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.

Victoria Woodhull

Women have every right; they just have to excercise them.