Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Rumsfeld

the sooner it is done, the fewer Iraqis that will be killed, the fewer Americans or coalition forces that will be killed.

Dick Gephardt

We have a big job of reconciling the people in Iraq. We need to pull together that international coalition that we should have gotten together a long time ago,

Yulia Tymoshenko

Today, much more than yesterday, there is a threat of a coalition between Our Ukraine and the Regions Party.

Gernot Erler

We will not form any coalition with the Left Party, that's definite.

Muqtada Sadr

We have noticed that the coalition has pulled back,

Dan Danner

You do go back to a short list of the same people you know. You work with them for years, you know them, you like them, you trust them. That's what makes coalitions work.

Hossam Bahgat

Because of the wide coalition of forces supporting the judges, it will only become more difficult for the government to suppress their activism. But whether or not the government will compromise on a draft judiciary law will be seen in the next few days.

Eyal Arad

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

Robert McKillop

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

Michael Geeser

Every year, we see cycles where prices go up and down and up again. What we've seen in 2006 is that cycle of the ups and downs has happened much earlier than usual.

Ken Kam

Every year the market has cycles like this. Every year, the market has wild optimism and wild pessimism.

Alan Levenson

I don't think we're in danger of going back to the kind of cycles of the '70s or the late '80s. I think the economy is still quite flexible.

Mausumi Dikpati

It is the measure of this memory of past cycles that allows us to make a forecast.

Bob Beauprez

I can't help but recall my dad and mom. Depression era kids, 8th and 9th grade educations, clawed and scratched to make a living as dairy farmers their whole life. At least two drought cycles nearly took it all away. They just worked harder, longer... and they made it.

E. B. White

When we launched (Lean Cuisine), it was all about low calories, leg warmers and Jane Fonda. Then it was about low cholesterol and low fat - the cycles are happening faster and faster.

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Bob Dylan

For whose sake did you live, for whose sake did you die? Forgive me, baby, for what I didn't do.

Blaise Pascal

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

Blaise Pascal

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Blaise Pascal

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

Blaise Pascal

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Winston Churchill

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

Miles D. White

People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, 'It's so big, I can't make a difference.' I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

Julian Lee

The tendency (is) once prices start to rise, for everybody to open the tap a little bit.

Greg Spires

The most important thing is that we're playing together and everybody is gelling, everybody likes each other, ... Everybody wants to win, and when you're winning, everybody's happy.

Kevin Cox

Southwest has made it well known to everybody they're going to push this matter,

Warren Sapp

Once you've sat at the king's table, you know what it's like. That's a feast that everybody is going to be trying, ... It's a matter of us just repeating our success. It sounds crazy. But we do it one day at a time.

John Senden

You've got to think about winning, because everybody thinks about winning playing on this tour. If you're within two or three at the turn, maybe you have a chance.

Roy Young

You never plan that. You always plan everybody to come home at the same time. My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Jeremy was a good guy.

Jim McAlpin

We're looking forward to the next week or two. We'll get everybody healthy and move some people around. It should be a fun last two weeks of the season.

James Salter

There are writers for whom names mean nothing; everybody could be called John and Elizabeth, and the writing would be just as good. A name, of course, is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Christian Prudhomme

After seven years of implacable domination, there will be a different race which I hope will be open.

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Don Lynn

It's not a one-shot deal. It's an ongoing situation.

Doug Bachert

This has been an ongoing pattern with him for years, decades. This is not going to stop.

Scott Brooks

There's nothing that you can say in the paper that should affect you.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

Sarah Silverman

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

H. L. Mencken

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

David Davies

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

Werner Heisenberg

In my paper the fact the XY was not equal to YX was very disagreeable to me. I felt this was the only point of difficulty in the whole scheme...and I was not able to solve it.

Will Self

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.

Faythe Levine

If you've never been to the Paper Boat, we have over 100 artists' work on sale in the store.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Benigno Aquino III

I remove a lot of the pressure from myself by saying I'm not competing with my parents. They are the persons who taught me my ideology. They actively practiced what they preached. They're the exemplars and the role models. So how does one compete with a mentor?

Asa Butterfield

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't.

Ben Foster

The roles I'm interested in or have been interested in, you know, it's going to get down to conflict. Drama is conflict - conflict of interests.

Donna Mills

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have any [favourite role]. I'm just a working actor.

Andre Breton

It will in the end, be admitted that everything, in effect is an image and that the least object which has no symbolic role assigned to it is capable of standing for absolutely anything.

Renee Fleming

I learned so many roles so quickly as a young singer, I thought it was time to come back to them and make them better - deeper, more nuanced.

Robert Lanza

Until we recognize the essential role of biology, our attempts to truly unify the universe will remain a train to nowhere.

Tia Carrere

If there's a Disney animated feature based in Hawaii, I knew I had to be part of it. I'm very proud to be from Hawaii. There was no question the role was mine.

Paul Sadorf

We should do well in several of them.

Dan Smith

They're always tough. Several years ago everyone used us as a measuring stick. Now everyone uses them as the measuring stick.

Scott Kim

What I always want is to have several little 'aha' moments where your brain is very happy.

John Mushtare

As I understand it, we're going to need a lot of help. We need to win out and get some help.

Lori Chappell

You really have to see the grounds to understand how populated they are.

Brad Meltzer

there's nothing more intimate in life than simply being understood. And understanding someone else.

Charles Jencks

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Albert Einstein

Relations between pure and applied mathematicians are based on trust and understanding. Namely, pure mathematicians do not trust applied mathematicians, and applied mathematicians do not understand pure mathematicians.

Albert Einstein

The most difficult part about understanding something is that we understand it all.

Stephen Hawking

If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

Tony Robbins

It really is understanding how to use money, and not let money use you.

Robert Boyle

It is my intent to beget a good understanding between the chymists and the mechanical philosophers who have hitherto been too little acquainted with one another's learning.

Armand Assante

I don't go to work unless I feel I really have a story that would be interesting to tell.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Benito Mussolini

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Brian Jacques

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Brenda Strong

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.