Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Blunkett

People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.

Harry Reid

On this Veterans Day, the president had the opportunity to honor our troops, both those who have served and those who are currently serving, by laying out a clear strategy for success in the war in Iraq. Instead, the president resorted to his old playbook of discredited rhetoric about the War on Terror and political attacks as his own political fortunes and credibility diminish,

Roger Ailes

During that time I wrote a personal note to a White House staff member as a concerned American expressing my outrage about the attacks on our country. I did not give up my American citizenship to take this job.

Leroy McKnight

I've been around GM for a long time, through the 1970s and 1982. They didn't make attacks on retirees then.

Bob Crow

After months of trying to stop these attacks it has become clear that the only path left open to us is to ballot our entire tube membership for industrial action, and we have given London Underground notice to that effect.

Dirk Ryneveld

The witnesses will tell you that the vast majority of refugees fled their homes because of the attacks by Serb forces and not because of NATO bombing.

Kent Jarrell

This is not a normal Vioxx case, which is about heart attacks and strokes being increased by the use of the drug, ... We plan on making it about the specifics of causation. ... This is a good case for us.

Ken Dunham

This is one of those big, under-the-radar threats that we've been concerned about. There has been a trend away from big-bang attacks to very targeted and sophisticated attacks that take place right under your nose. This is one of them.

Ken Dunham

This could serve as a springboard for more attacks on the Macintosh because it might spawn copycats.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Sharon Salzberg

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

Zhu Bangzao

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

Deb Baker

If they're defying authority in regards to this immigration protest, they're going to be suspended, regardless of their ethnic background.

Steve Lambert

Signs are a symbol of authority. They tell you when to go, what to do. No one really questions them. For an artist, it's totally interesting.

B. F. Skinner

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Webster Franklin

When you're creating a new taxing authority, it could possibly create instability, of which Tunica has been fortunate not to have over the last 14 years.

Peter Arnett

Our reports about civilian casualties here, about the resistance of the Iraqi forces, are going back to the United States. It helps those who oppose the war when you challenge the policy to develop their arguments.

Ferdinand Foch

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.

Evan Bayh

We have to learn from these mistakes so that we do better to minimize the number of casualties to win this thing, ... It's the lack of any introspection that I find to be very troubling.

Kevin Good

When the spread is wide, packers are forced into the market and producers have leverage. When the spread narrows, packers have the leverage.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Bernard Haykel

Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other &#8212 it's all a form of torture.

Don Davidson

We had some nice looks, but not a lot of them. We had trouble moving the ball, and we forced some shots also.

Bobby Knight

They impress me as much as any team I have seen in this league. We made a lot of mistakes, but most of them were forced as a result of the way they play.

Meat Loaf

It may have made me stronger because I was forced to be on my own when I was not very old-18,

Steve Hiltz

The last two weeks have been horrible for her as she has been terrified she would be forced to make prison visits.

John Galsworthy

A man of action, forced into a state of thought, is unhappy until he can get out of it

Chris Quinn

They got up in us, made us do things we didn't want to do. They forced us into some tough shots.

Elena Dementieva

I usually start to play well when I'm in trouble.

Carnell Williams

Sometimes you need this. It's tough, but now we can stop talking about 13-0 and start talking about being this 0-1 Tiger team and what we're going to do about it.

DeShawn Stevenson

Sometimes you've got to switch up the starting lineup to get a spark, just to get a win.

Nick Jones

Tech blitzes so much, the only way you can get them to back down is start to gash them,

Linda Bannister

Things look bleak. It's unclear when things are going to start to look better.

Jeff Kish

This is not how I wanted to start the New Year.

Edwidge Danticat

It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.

Dwight Howard

This team is trying to go in a dramatically different direction. We're starting over young.

Flip Saunders

We got pretty much what we wanted offensively. Defensively, we were like vultures to start games.

Bob Dylan

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

Bodhidharma

To have a body is to suffer. Does anyone with a body know peace? Those who understand this detach themselves from all that exists and stop imagining or seeking anything. The sutras say, "To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss." When you seek nothing, you're on the Path.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering....

Bobby Hull

Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done

Arthur Schopenhauer

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Edward Abbey

I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

Edward Abbey

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.

Aesop

We learn from the things we suffer.

Aldous Huxley

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.