Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

I worked for the troops my entire time in the United States Armed Forces because we know in the United States Armed Forces that it's not the generals and the colonels that win battles, it's the soldiers: it's the people at the front, the mechanics with their wrenches, the drivers moving the logistics back in the rear.

Wole Soyinka

I don't know any other way to live but to wake up every day armed with my convictions, not yielding them to the threat of danger and to the power and force of people who might despise me.

John Reid

The armed forces of both India and the UK pride themselves on excellence, and the increase in the number of joint exercises and training opportunities between the two countries will only serve to strengthen that relationship further,

Pranab Mukherjee

The armed forces are professional, apolitical, and secular and the most disciplined force the country has today... We would not like to include (the armed forces) in such a type of survey, (but) in the case of other departments and ministries such a study will continue.

Ollanta Humala

The armed forces aren't demanding a favor. They are demanding their rights.

Alejandro Toledo

The armed forces and the police should be subordinated to the authority elected by the popular sovereignty.

Sebastian Junger

The American military generally counts on a kill ratio of 10 to 1 when fighting lightly armed insurgents: for every dead American, there are probably 10 dead enemy.

Judy White

That would be a good time for people to make donations to the Red Cross or United Way in memory of those who have lost their lives due to Hurricane Katrina or in honor of our local people who help us every day like our volunteers, firefighters, members of the armed forces, or other disaster assistance groups.

Yevgeny Primakov

We have worked out a certain program which we believe could avoid an armed confrontation and eventually eliminate this crisis, ... This program is conditioned on the fact that Iraq comply with the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council.

Gloria Trevi

Nowadays, performers worry too much about how they look. They're not concerned about what they're really saying to their audience.

Gladys Knight

I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

William Kirby

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

William Henry Bragg

The chemist, whose science is immediately concerned with the combinations of atoms, has rarely found it necessary to discuss their shapes, and gives them no particular forms in his diagrams. That does not mean that the shapes are unimportant, but rather that the older methods could not define them.

Vikram Seth

The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

Billy Graham

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

Billy Graham

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Evel Knievel

I've always been concerned about kids - not just my own three, but all kids - what kind of an image I'm providing for them, what kind of inspiration. I don't know now. Maybe I'm leading them down the path to self-destruction.

David A. Bednar

We can begin to become more diligent and concerned at home by telling the people we love that we love them. Such expressions do not need to be flowery or lengthy. We simply should sincerely and frequently express love.

Tim Waters

We're unhappy about it. The contractor failed to meet his schedule.

Paul Tonko

Taxpayer dollars should not be used as a reward for contractor executives, especially when other segments of society are hurting.

Robert Wallace

I find it embarrassing to try and sell stuff, ... and I think I'm quite outgoing by contractor standards.

Robert Palmer

The contractor said that he had a small window in order to put it up, so we decided it was the right thing to do,

Marjorie Anders

The contractor is on schedule and the work is 80 percent complete.

Tim Geagley

I was married at the time, and my ex-wife's father was a contractor here in Sevier County. I went to work for him doing odd jobs and drew unemployment for as long as I could and went to class. As far as going without a paycheck, my wife worked and we had some income, but it was a hard time.

John Edward

When the only shot many people have is a good job rebuilding New Orleans, the president intervened to suspend prevailing wage laws so his contractor friends can cut wages for a hard day's work,

Edwin Eisendrath

Mr. Blagojevich has been campaigning at taxpayer expense for months. Now he will have to rely on the state contractor and lobbyist contributions to pay for his efforts.

Bruce Tulgan

The norm will be to work for several employers; on again, off again; as an employee one year, as an independent contractor the next year; 40 hours one week, 20 hours another; on-site this month, telecommuting the next; and so on,

Timothy Noah

The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude to the United States for setting them free.

Gilbert Hernandez

When you're young you don't know anything, but you have lot of energy to express yourself. So you make a lot of mistakes and you stumble, but you also get a lot of truth from within.

Abraham Lincoln

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

Chet Faker

Music to me is about being honest, and it's what I've always pictured music as. I don't see the point of expressing yourself if you are going to be cryptic about it.

Alex Pareene

The Pentagon budget, like all government spending, is an expression of priorities.

Nina Garcia

Fashion is an expression of a time, of a place, of history. It's putting things into context.

C. S. Lewis

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Cecil Beaton

A technical failure that shows some attempt at aesthetic expression is of infinitely more value than uninspired success.

Cecelia Ahern

She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging by the activity on her forehead...It was almost the conversations in her head were loud enough to fill her silence.

Elizabeth Warren

When people feel like, 'Lenders weren't fair with me; I don't have any responsibility to be fair with them.' If we go far enough down that line, much of the fabric of our economy starts to unravel.

Robert Burke

We haven't seen this many light fabrics on the runways for fall since I can remember.

Todd Oldham

We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur. We used silk and synthetic threads to imitate ermines and fluffy fabrics and then used silk chiffon and quilted it to look like sheared beaver.

Todd Oldham

We airbrushed satin to make it look like chinchilla fur, ... We used silk and synthetic threads to imitate ermines and fluffy fabrics and then used silk chiffon and quilted it to look like sheared beaver.

Arnault Cassanet

We are competitive in terms of lead times, because the fabric and the shirts can be in the store in one week.

Nancy McGee

It feels like a luxury fiber. Michael is a fabric snob.

Kelly Cutrone

If we get a girl who is bigger than a 4, she is not going to fit the clothes. Clothes look better on thin people. The fabric hangs better.

Alan Watts

Everyone is the fabric and structure of existence.

David Brin

Change is the very fabric of our time.

Gore Vidal

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.

Fareed Zakaria

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

Eddie Compass

We have thousands of people who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time, ... Once they are all out, then we'll concentrate our forces on mandatory evacuation.

Robert Tuttle

U.S. forces do not use napalm or white phosphorus as weapons.

Peter Pace

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past.

Bayan Jabr

You can be proud of our forces, ... Our forces ... respect human rights.

Ron Kaminski

It forces one to step back a bit.

Anthony Chan

With all that as a backdrop, there are some real positive forces to stimulate growth.

Bill Self

He's a good on-the-ball defender, loose-ball guy and forces help offensively. Now that he's not worried about making shots, he's shooting better. He's playing really well.

Aron Ralston

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

Jonathan Schwartz

I think Scott will go to his grave as a Sun employee.

A. Johnson

We record the reflections, and the reflections will tell us where the graves are.

Sir Blair

On Monday, if this (bill) is not passed, these men will be released. I think that would be a grave threat to national security.

Donald Davis

Today is like a reunion, ... I've met a lot of people at the grave itself through the years.

Jalal Talabani

He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq.

Dave Otto

He'd probably be laughing in his grave about what the kids are doing here.

Sarah Newton

If this hurricane had not happened we would not have had to spend money to do this work. But now, without their participation, we would be in grave danger.

William Shakespeare

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

Bill Vaughan

Letters should be easy and natural.

William Shakespeare

Were all the letters sun, I could not see one.

Philip Schultz

Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.

Tom Lee

I thought it was a little odd at the time, so I saved the letter. Then I see the letter on television and it really worried me.

Becca Fitzpatrick

And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what I want it to do.

Julian Kurtz

We even sent them a certified letter but they won't pick it up.

David Friedman

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

Arthur Caplan

Basically, you shouldn't be sending out anything until you have that letter in hand.

Marge Whaley

I don't think seven letters is a big concern.

Mark Klein

I wouldn't want to say how much production has been slowed, but it has been slowed. Definitely.

Ed Miller

We're getting production from different people. They're working well as a team.

Frank Robinson

We are not getting the production offensively for what we need to be successful.

Rick Perry

Hopefully, they'll be back in production very soon,

Dana Brunetti

The production value of YouTube videos is not there.

Grayson White

The production and recording is a big step up.

Rich Lechner

It's not only being used for development purposes, but also being used in production environments very heavily.

John le Carre

There was an ITV television production of the second novel I wrote, called 'Murder of Quality.' It was a little murder story set in a public school - I'd once taught at Eton, and I used that stuff.

Phil Martens

We must be able to ramp up production and migrate the technology to more models, but we can't do that if the know-how resides abroad.

Bel Powley

I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded character. And it's not a woman who's just there for the purpose of the man.

Bertrand Russell

Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes .

Mario Hernandez

It has served its purpose, and it's time to replace that.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Ben Lawson

The purpose is to get the idea of throwing boomerangs in the university sphere.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

Craig Harris

Most of the questions were about the stage of development we are in.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

We can't be talking about changes. There are questions to which I say 'next question' and this is one of them.

Mike McCurry

Those who are undecided are still seeking some of those fundamental questions answered. Who you are, what your values are, is something these voters really look to." ()

Colin Falls

I don't think it's mental, I just think that questions our toughness.

George Daley

I would say they also raise more questions than answers.

Sonny Jackson

He was in there long enough to raise questions.

Larry Sabato

He is very sharp. No one has any questions that he is well-qualified.

Marshawn Lynch

I ain't never seen no talking winning nothing. Been like that since I was little. I was raised like that.

Pamela Anderson

I look back on the last 10 years and I have to say I'm proud of what I have accomplished, because I've been able to raise two beautiful children.

George Montgomery

I think this type development raises the status of the county.

Jessica Stroup

I'm such a tomboy - I was raised in the South - and I also really wanted to work in New York, being so different from California, though it was a freezing-cold winter.

Grover Norquist

If you raise taxes, it won't reduce the deficit. The other team will simply spend the resources.

Ron Cole

We haven't raised our rates in 11 years.

David Gregory

I will yell. If you want to use that podium to try to take shots at me personally, which I don't appreciate, then I will raise my voice, because that's wrong.

Jim McFarland

I think if we raise (tuition) $2, we need to use it for specific reasons.

Mike Duke

We have to reflect on our shortcomings. We have to be self-critical and think about how do we raise the bar,

Dominic Cooper

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Wang Xuming

Regarding our textbooks, the (policy) has been consistent. There haven't been any changes.

Estee Lauder

I can understand the skepticism, particularly regarding Estee Lauder,

W. S. Gilbert

in any scenario regarding the one vote in question.

Evelyn Ashford

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

Douglas Brinkley

I witnessed him rescuing up to 40 people. He was up to his waist in toxic muck.

Jan Karon

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Chuck Palahniuk

I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a toxic waste byproduct of God's creation.

Rosemary Shahan

They can kill you with the bacteria, with the toxic mold.

Angela King

We want to get the things that are toxic or flammable out of the house.

Nicholas Sparks

You know how gossip is. It's the toxic waste of small town

Janet Evanovich

The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics." Connie Rosolli

Jimmy Carter

The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new program may prove to be as far-reaching and important as any accomplishment of my administration. The reduction of the threat to America's health and safety from thousands of toxic-waste sites will continue to be an urgent but bitterly fought issue-another example for the conflict between the public welfare and the profits of a few private despoilers of our nation's environment.

Phil Castellini

We're using every nook and cranny we've got.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'