Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Wilkinson

Josh has served his country with honor and distinction in uniform, and he did a good job, a fantastic job, ... If Sept. 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we simply have to engage more with the Arab media. Josh clearly did a good job of engagement with their media.

Richard Engel

Hamas has long been Israel's enemy, but in the wake of the Arab Spring, the group is empowered like never before.

Queen Rania of Jordan

We need another revolution in the Arab world. We need an education revolution. If there's one thing we need to focus on, it's redesigning our educational systems.

Phil Reeker

We've been very satisfied and continue to be satisfied with our cooperation with Saudi Arabia with this matter.

Silvan Shalom

I think that this is the appropriate time for all the Muslim and Arab countries to reconsider their relations with Israel, ... I think that it will be a very positive signal to the Israeli public opinion and to the Palestinian public opinion that there are some fruits from this withdrawal from Gaza.

Robert Menard

It is modernity at stake now. We must explain the distinctions between church and state, and between the press and the state, to our colleagues in the Arab world.

Amy White

I am excited to share my experiences in Cairo. There has been steadily increasing contact with the Arab world by ordinary Americans who are trying to understand America's situation in the world context. I will be an intermediary between these Americans and the Arab world. I hope to ease confusion over what is presumed about Arab/Muslim culture and what is factual.

Deborah White

Other than the weather, and hurricanes, and refineries going down, and Saudi Arabia and Iran, and strong economic statistics, there really is no reason why crude oil prices should be so high. It must be speculation, don't you think?

Ahmed Tibi

In a civilized country the justice minister, attorney general and state prosecutor should have been immediately sent off. A week after they backed the decision, they are now trying to overrun the Arab public's will by using a dirty trick.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Richard Byyny

Knowing these individuals as I do, I believe them,

Chad Vollmecke

Knoxville brought a tough team to town last night and we wrestled the best we could under the circumstances. There were some very high points for us and we made some big strides in a few weight classes. A few of our boys still need to learn better position and mat sense, but that comes with time. Time is running short for this year, but I believe we are seeing things at this stage of the season that were not here last year.

Robert Browning

Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed It's petals up ...

Mike Jarvis

Kids believe practice makes perfect. It doesn't. It makes permanent.

Tom Shaheen

I wouldn't say it's scientifically an absolute, but I believe it personally from my experience in the lottery.

Gisele Bundchen

I wouldn't say I'm going to quit modeling and become an actress, especially because I can't do that because I have contracts, but I definitely enjoyed it. I wouldn't call myself an actress, but I at the same time, if there is an opportunity... I believe in taking chances and living your life.

John Higgins

It had nothing to do with Graeme. It was just the way I played, the way I approached the game and the state of mind I was in. I have never felt as down after that defeat as I did then.

William Moulton Marston

If there is any single factor that makes for success in living, it is the ability to draw dividends from defeat.

Tullian Tchividjian

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

Susan Grant

If somebody tricks you into providing that information, then, of course, it defeats the whole purpose.

Frederick the Great

It is pardonable to be defeated, but never to be surprised.

Norman Vincent Peale

The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.

Vince Gill

It's so hard to defeat perceptions. I feel like whenever you have the opportunity, you take it and show people what it is that you do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is defeat which educates us.

Shirley Chisholm

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Brent Sutter

I think what everyone underestimated about us was our skill level.

Roger Ascham

To be rash is to be bold without shame and without skill.

Sarah Wayne Callies

Learning to shoot firearms to me is a little like driving stick - it seems like a decent skill to have.

William Congreve

There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.

Robert McCracken

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at all costs but it has little skill in amusing itself. It pays some of its members to do what the majority can no longer do for themselves. It is this inner poverty that makes for the worst kind of boredom.

Henry Rollins

Most poets are elitist dregs more concerned with proving their skill with a dictionary than communicating ideas with impact.

Henry Rollins

I lack the skill to hold a story line for the length required for a novel or even a short story. I have never had an idea that could withstand a hundred thousand words, or even ten thousand words of rubber meeting the road.

Henry Rollins

I'm not a singer. If you've heard any of my records, that's not singing. I have no vocal qualities whatsoever. I've got a lot of enthusisam and I go to the cross, but there's no skill going on there. It's more just intuitiveness.

John C. Maxwell

Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.

Megan Fox

I think I could survive a week without eating.

Steve Fitzgerald

We're trying to work out how to survive the 26th.

Alexandra Adornetto

As young Australians, the value of teamwork has been instilled in us throughout our schooling.

Karen Minton

We'll see showers off and on throughout Saturday.

John Swanson

You need to have that. It spreads throughout the community.

Gabrielle Giffords

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Scott Skiles

We don't want to get into a fouling-type game, which has been our trend throughout the year.