Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Lawrence Rita

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

Stephen Kinzer

The Afghans are probably the world champions in resisting foreign domination and infiltration into their country.

Sam Zarifi

The Afghan people need a government that is functional and accountable. The warlords offer neither.

David Hernandez

The Afghan people in the city live in something like mud houses, ... If they live out in the country, they live in old-time tents with no electricity. In town, they sleep on top of their houses because it's so hot at night.

Hamid Karzai

The Afghan people have proven once again that they know their interests, that they can work for tomorrow, that they have a vision and they will vote for that vision,

Hamid Karzai

The Afghan people have done their job. Now the international community must come and provide alternative revenue to the Afghan people which they have not done so far,

Paul Greening

The Afghan constitution has declared that men and women are equal but in reality women are still second class citizens.

Geoffrey Hoon

the Afghan civilian population nor their homes or property have been targeted.

Ice Cube

It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

Virginia Postrel

By binding image and desire, glamour gives us pleasure, even as it heightens our yearning. It leads us to feel that the life we dream of exists, and to desire it even more.

Carl Sagan

Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no.

Bethenny Frankel

I didn't binge when I was pregnant.

Mikhail Sholokhov

Vast sections of the world's population are inspired by the same desires and live for common interests that bind them together far more than they separate them.

Peter L. Bergen

We climbed the stairs to the third floor, where Osama bin Laden died early in the morning of May 2, 2011.

James Comey

We in the FBI have created a malware repository and analysis tool known as the Binary Analysis Characterization and Storage System, or BACSS, which provides near real-time investigative information. BACSS helps us link malware in different jurisdictions and paint a picture of cyber threats worldwide.

John Lister

It didn't take 2,000 years to develop the process of making bread for us to bin it without consequences.

George H. W. Bush

I thought it was going to help. I thought it would help remind people that if bin Laden doesn't want Bush to be the President, something must be right with Bush.

Val Kilmer

Partly because the town is just finicky, there are strange Catch 22 clauses in the consciousness of this community and one of them was that you, I found out, you can't do a comedy unless you've just done a comedy.

Chuck Palahniuk

I never think I'm making fun of my culture. In fact I'm making fun of myself, because I catch myself doing some very stupid things.

Chuck Palahniuk

I live by fallacy. 'If I get enough nice Ikea furniture, I'll be a grown-up.' Then I catch myself. Or, 'If I get off by myself, away from the stress of modern life, I'll be OK.' Then I catch myself.

Mark Gaynor

The pins were a little harder today and I think the scores reflected that. Aiken had a pretty big lead and they were going to have to play poorly in order for us to catch up, and that's something they very rarely do.

Denis Napthine

There should be - we should have a society that, whether you're catching the train to anywhere, Frankston or Cranbourne or Craigieburn late at night, you should be able to do it with safety, and, increasingly, you are.

William Gibson

If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.

Dave Terre

The 60s are magic. That's when things start to happen. When the temperature gets into the upper 50s, the males start looking for spawning sites. Anglers who start catching the males know that's when the spawn is about to happen.

Gary Turcott

That would've given us a great opportunity. There's nothing you can do about it ... (the refs) can't catch everything.

Xavier Nady

That was tough. If I catch that, there are two outs and the pitcher is up. It's frustrating. In the past, I've been able to hang onto them.

Marcelo Porto

The political scene has improved in a big way.

Gerry Murphy

The academies have tremendously improved training for young players.

Karl Hobbs

That we had improved from last year. The program is improving every year, and that was an indication that we had improved it. This year, we improved our status.

Maurice Cheeks

We've got some young players that played well last year and I want to see if they've improved this year,

Dorothy Lakner

The quality of the merchandise has improved and...the service levels are very high.

Jim Oberdorf

I think she is great. She has improved a thousand percent.

Richard C. Armitage

I think my fighting skills have certainly been improved by working with Peter Jackson.

Sherri LeCompte

We can put them on conditioning and strengthening programs that are going to make them a better pitcher in conjunction with their improved techniques.

David Milne

We have substantially improved our position in Japan which now represents a major part of our business.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Raymond Kelly

You have multiple intelligence agencies. They all ultimately report to the director of national intelligence but, you know, it never comes in neat packages. So you have to make judgments on what you have, and it's not easy to do.

William Shakespeare

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence.

Nolberto Solano

We have to play with intelligence and try to stop them getting the ball,

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Charles Simmons

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table.

Kazi Shams

To be strong is to have passion, and to have passion is to believe.

Stephen Hadley

an issue of our intelligence, and obviously we need to do a better job of our intelligence.

Irene Peter

Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Jim DeRogatis

Some say that's a weakness. I say it's a strength, a sign of intelligence.

William Dembski

without speculating about the nature of the intelligence.

Scott Becker

It's a totally intellectual response to something so physical.

Bill Bryson

I don't want to go and start trying to make jokes in places like India, Tanzania or Iraq. Afghanistan is not a funny place.

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

Peter Schuyler

Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help.

Phil Klay

Certainly, when I'd left Iraq back in 2008, I'd been proud of my service, but whether we'd been successful or not was still an open question.

James Dobbins

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

Igor Ivanov

The problems of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq can be solved by political means,

John Reid

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq, ... until the job is done.

Donald Rumsfeld

We are in Iraq for as long as it takes to solve the problems in Iraq,

George Voinovich

We have to really level with the American people, ... This is not going to be over in two years ... we're not going to just be able to walk out of Iraq and this is going to be over.

Glenn Ford

He was very commanding, and you had to know what you were doing to work for Mr. Rogers. I learned how to ride very quickly with him as my riding teacher.

William Shatner

With three kids, it was always very, very tight, and it was always a scramble for what was my next job. So I learned never to go into debt because I don't want those monthly payments to preoccupy my thoughts.

Brad Grey

I learned no detail was too small. It was all about the details.

Denis Lavant

It's something that I learned even before I started acting: the movement, the dance of the body, is very important, and it comes before words.

Desiree Rogers

This ability to mix people together is something I learned early on.

Renny Harlin

What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.

Margaret Atwood

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Marco Rubio

As I've learned in my time in the state legislature, important legislation is always a work in progress.

Marilynne Robinson

I've learned a lot about writing from listening to my students talk.

Chris Willingham

We can all take lessons from our cats. ... They are very, very perceptual.

Alan Trammel

Those are lessons that we need to learn. I made my statement. I talked to him. It's over.

Toba Beta

Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.

Cael Sanderson

Unless you continually work, evolve, and innovate, you'll learn a quick and painful lesson from someone who has.

Al Jourgensen

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Chris Colfer

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

Charlie Munger

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Charlie Munger

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Eartha Kitt

I used to teach dance lessons.

Wole Soyinka

I'm not sure I'm trying to communicate a message. I'm just trying to be part of the movement away from the unacceptable present.

John Carey

That was a time when they weren't really sure if things were going to come together, ... And they sure did!

Starhawk Starhawk

That would be great, but I am not so sure it will be that easy.

Tom Jackson

We can surely try to be there for them.

Mark Zuckerberg

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That's the whole point.

John Runion

We have the talent; now we just have to make sure everyone's working in the same direction.

Steve Jobs

We're working on that too, but I'm not so sure it will be successful.

Scooter Smith

We just want to make sure we're all together and to have a little fun.

Todd Abernethy

Winning at the end would be big. I don't think it wipes everything out ... that's a lot of games. But it sure would help. It would give us a winning season, and that's better than I've ever done here.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Neil Tennant

We shouldn't feel restricted by our sexuality, and our sexuality doesn't have to be a cultural choice. That's an amazing variety of music within those five main performers.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.