Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:""No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!""So the lawyers applied For injunction. ""Denied,"" Said the Judge: ""the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction."" --Arpad Singiny

John Koech

Once we have ministers fully in charge of the affairs of the community in all the three countries, they would be in a better position to lobby for more funding.

Rose Mashigo

Deal with your current affairs now, have their facts in order, because they have a tendency of resurfacing as ghosts of the past; as background check or as some research in history and whether you like it or not, that is your life - so handle it with love and care while you still have the opportunity.

Adam Ereli

And the next day, an official from the ministry of foreign affairs also contacted Ambassador Dell and conveyed a similar apology. So for our purposes, this incident is closed.

Thomas Tusser

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end.

Ghalib Ghalib

Sometimes I take it paradoxically--to the extent that it is unthinkable, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was kind enough to recognize my hotel suite as my office for four months,

Liam Fox

It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.

Chuck D.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

Lisa Graves

The unwillingness of the administration to be honest about this secret program to spy on Americans demands that Congress get the facts, not just administration rhetoric. The truth can be determined without compromising national security. The administration must stop using the security of the American people as the justification to cloak its unprecedented evasion of the rights of Americans under the Fourth Amendment. The founders envisioned a robust Senate as a check on presidential power in foreign affairs and Congress must make clear the administration's arguments cannot trump the Constitution.

Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.

Aaron McLear

We had such a successful convention in 2000, we knew Philadelphia could handle it.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Michael Long

If our party's convention was held next week, I think Spencer would be the choice.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

George Takei

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Hu Jintao

I hope my visit will strengthen dialogue, deepen cooperation.

Jim Dyke

The law says in order to be an independent expenditure, it can not be made in cooperation, consultation or coordination at the request or even at the suggestion of the candidate. Is someone suggesting she has no knowledge of her husband's campaign?

James Sung

And he can help communicate with these institutions for cooperation in relation to financial matters.

Dean Acheson

We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.

Strobe Talbott

would be an obstacle to cooperation on other issues.

Steve Buscemi

With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system.

Jim Olson

Once we developed their confidence, their trust (and) their respect, they were more willing to talk to us.

Dan Witter

Brent developed into that role as the season progressed. He did a super job finding the open man out there. Overall I thought we progressed as a team and played to our strengths and that's probably why we finished third in the conference.

Andrew Adamson

We started with a treatment that we worked up and developed a story that we liked.

Eric Haxthausen

The fact that fuel prices have increased and more importantly, fuel price forecasts have increased since the proposal was developed suggests a stronger standard is warranted.

Mark Knox

Many of the facilities, tools and systems developed over the past 10 years can still be used for HD DVD. That translates to a much more rapid time to market, and a smoother and more economical transition.

Edmund Phelps

The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.

Jeff Ross

I was the kid who always hung back and then dropped the jokes when you least expected it. Timing was everything. My mouth sort of developed over time.

Marc Bulger

It did surprise me to hear that, ... I really thought and still think he could be developed into a very good quarterback. When I went to see Nick at the end of the year, I told him the same thing.

Tom Allen

We feel he really developed in the offseason. He worked very, very hard.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Wang Ziqiang

This is not because of foreign pressure. This is about the country's economic development.

Harvey Pitt

This is not an economic problem, it's a physical catastrophe,

Mir Nasir

The miserable power situation must improve to help sustain our economic growth.

Thein Sein

To have internal peace and stability and economic development, it is important to have good relations with the political parties that we have in our country. That is why we have had engagement with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

James Gaston

You can't do right by the students in an economic vacuum,

Tom Schrader

We had such big gains yesterday that it is not unusual for us to consolidate a little bit. Then, oil's down but gasoline is up and that is counterbalancing each other. The economic news we had this morning was less than inspiring.

Lauryn Hill

I had an economic system imposed on me.

David Emery

Maine's economic performance has been spotty for a long time.

Steve Frady

Public safety is essential for a community's quality of life, and it's one of the first things people look at in judging a city.

Romesh Gunesekera

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

S. Truett Cathy

Food is Essential to life, therefore make it good.

Chris Mooney

Shooting is a pretty essential thing in basketball, and when you make shots, it's so much easier. There's so much less tension and less pressure on you.

Jeff Jarvis

Make linking to the rest an essential part of what you do best.

George III

It is essential to our interest and the security of our colonies that the several nations or tribes of Indians... who live under our protection, should not be molested or disturbed.

Jack Turner

Chemically, the qualities that make a spice a spice are its rare essential oils and oleoresins, highly volatile compounds that impart to the spices their flavor, aroma, and preservative properties,

Daniel Barenboim

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

Alistair Darling

Local and regional pilots are essential if we are to explore and understand the possibilities of road pricing at national level.

Zhang Ning

Even though I played three games, I don't feel tired, ... There were not a lot of exchanges on the points.

Jay Bender

I think the idea that it is a limited public forum is the one that would give them the most traction.

Bill Clinton

You won in the WTO forum and you in the NAFTA forum, so in that sense I'm sympathetic.

Michael Boss

The traders are for the most part are out. So we're just biding out time.

Donald Trump

You have to be able to negotiate our trade deals. You have to be able to negotiate, that's right, with Japan, with Saudi Arabia.

Stan Eby

My sense is there will not be a rehearing and trade will continue. But we have to be watching all the time.

Macaulay Culkin

I wouldn't trade any of my experiences for anything in the world, ... 20/20.

Hillary Clinton

The biggest one [trade deal], a multinational one known as CAFTA, I voted against. And because I hold the same standards as I look at all of these trade deals.

Christine Lagarde

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

Gray Davis

I don't care. My trademark is I say what I think, for better or for worse.

Zayn Malik

My trademark saying is probably “VAS HAPPENIN?!”

William Daley

Our trade laws, which are all WTO-consistent, are used very rarely,