Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohamed ElBaradei

a state of play of where we are, what we have achieved, what is left for us to do and an assessment of the degree of cooperation we are receiving from Iraq.

Phil Jones

You might want to check with the IPCC Bureau. I've been told that IPCC is above national FOI Acts. One way to cover yourself and all those working in AR5 [the upcoming IPCC Fifth Assessment Report] would be to delete all e-mails at the end of the process. Hard to do, as not everybody will remember it.

Robert Brusca

How could we have such a turnaround in job growth and have the Fed find that it doesn't change its assessment of risks in the economy whatsoever?

Ursula Plassnik

My personal assessment is that direct contacts are positive development if it leads to increased dialogue, something that I view positively.

Karen Finney

We can only win if the Iraqi people are able to play a greater role in peacekeeping, and we can only win if the president gives an honest assessment of what's really happening on the ground in Iraq. Staying the course and paying for good headlines are not a strategy. It's merely a bad excuse for not having a plan.

Carsten Fritsch

There was an upgrade in the economic assessment by the BOJ and comments from governor Fukui. From that point of view an end to the zero interest rate policy is coming closer.

Jason Mraz

A rescue mission doesn't involve going in and just taking a child and leaving. You can't just choose any child at random. Every kid has a case that is based on that child's original family. So, we made it over to a village, found the child; we were interacting with the child.

Yubaraj Ghimire

This emergency debate is based on political rivalry. They're playing power politics with the emergency.

Natasha Josefowitz

You may not be well read, you may not know how to count, you may write poorly, but as soon as you open your mouth people get an impression of you based both on the content of your message and on the way you deliver it.

Mary Karr

Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.

Ignacio Bunye

This is based on our civil service rules,

James Nichols

This is based on emotion. Those jurors had a lot of pressure on them ... and public pressure changes people's minds.

Thomas Reese

This is based on Catholic social teaching, the concern for the poor, that we should be hospitable to visitors and immigrants. This is not based on partisan politics.

Gale Kaufman

This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they don't.

James E. Faust

Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.

Rick Barnes

Back in the beginning of the season when I was looking at the schedule I knew it was going to be a tough finish for us.

Tim Evans

Profit-taking was the most widely employed term for what (happened Friday), but we see the potential for this simple turn to develop into a much more substantial decline, as the fundamentals behind the push higher were not all that strong to begin with.

Joey Kalmus

People should not judge us on where we stand at the beginning of the season. If we start 3-7 in our first 10 games, it's OK if I see promise.

Brad Cashman

An unintended consequence of such liberalization has been the often-reported blending of the dark-colored home-team jerseys and the light-colored visiting-team jerseys, creating confusion on the part of players, officials and spectators. Beginning in 2010, that confusion should be eliminated.

Joan Rivers

Once you begin to believe there is help ""out there,"" you will know it to be true.

Jessica Bird

The writing comes first for me. Not Facebook, not Twitter, not the Internet or signings or merchandise, or 'the career.' Everything begins and ends with the writing for me, and I build my entire life around sitting my butt down 365 days a year.

Ned Colletti

This is one of the proudest days of my life, if not the proudest, ... From humble beginnings ... I find myself in one of the greatest places, Dodger Stadium, with one of the greatest franchises of all-time.

Marshal Cohen

This is the beginning of the disappearing tag. Smarter merchants are trying this, and if it's done right, the design inside romances the product even more.

Dr. Kryger

This problem often begins in people when they're in their mid-teens.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Ron Wilson

We're 3-0 and scored 15 goals since we picked up Thornton. It's kind of nice, the things you were hoping would happen with the trade have.

Dave Ramsey

Goals convert vision into ENERGY.

Bruce Alter

Each year, every team's goal is to get to the playoffs and then to get to the state championship. Last year, we didn't do that. We want more this year.

Cristy McKinney

We did a little better in the second half than we did in the first. We had to set new goals at halftime. At least we didn't give up 60 points in the second half.

Bernie Sanders

If the goal of health-care reform is to provide comprehensive, universal health care in a cost-effective way, the only honest approach is a single-payer approach.

Jim Wilson

Twice we were at the goal line and couldn't get it in. (New Brighton) did a good job of defending.

Doug Grout

This year, our goal is somewhere around 300.

Kirby Moses

Ten of our 14 wrestlers scored points which helped us today. There were 15 teams and we didn't know what to expect. We were the smallest school there.

Danielle Jackson

Ryan has really stepped up and takes some of the pressure away from the rest of us. She's going to help a lot.

Daniel Burns

It was unbelievable, ... but I knew it was helping us.

Paul Tagliabue

The state of Texas, and San Antonio, are helping shelter hurricane victims. That is the most important mission right now.

Bruce Cunningham

This is special for him. He tried to stay with Shawn and that helped him stay focused.

Charles R. Swindoll

It helps me if I remember that God is in charge of my day - not I.

Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Howard Dean

At this point, my position is pretty delicate, ... If I come out in the newspaper (with my opinion), it may not end up helping New Hampshire's position.

James Wolfensohn

At this moment the world is willing to help at the highest level,

Cierra Ramirez

I've loved taking on roles that have a very universal message that lots of people can identify and relate to - and at the end of the day can get people talking.

William Johnson

If they are not in school and they are supposed to be in school you can identify the ones that are supposed to be in school and the ones not supposed to be in school.

Ben Horowitz

If I'm in my position at a company, I may not have the knowledge of the C.E.O., I may not know what's possible, or I may not have the creativity, but if I can identify a problem, that's a valuable thing.

Ed Cogswell

We can use them and if a need presents, I'm sure we do. But we do not want to identify what our sources are.

Joe Piscopo

It's vital to getting out the vote because the kids identify with it so much.

Marcia Townsend

There were more than 100 plants. We had a wonderful time trying to identify all of them.

Brett Favre

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Brandon T. Jackson

I'm always doing comedy and will never hit up a 9-to-5 desk job.

Brandon Sanderson

My job is not to save 'The Wheel of Time', to fix 'The Wheel of Time', or anything like that. My job is not to screw it up.

Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.

Benigno Aquino III

I'm not concentrated or concerned with any other factors rather than just being able to do the best job that I can.

Brad Friedel

Being a goalkeeper gives you quite a unique perspective on things. You are part of a team yet somehow separate; there are no grey areas, with success or failure being measured in real time; and you have a physical job which you can only do well by paying attention to your mental well-being. A great goalkeeper has to have the keys to a great mindset. To be able to work well in the box, I believe you have to be able to think outside the box

Cameron Diaz

I'm honestly so grateful to have a job when I get a job, I'm always amazed - I just appreciate what I have when I get it.

Vandana Shiva

If you want a cow to be not just a cow but a milk machine, you can do a very good job at that by creating new hormones like the Bovine Growth Hormone. It might make the cow very ill, it might turn it into a drug addict, and it might even create consumer scares about the health and safety aspects of the milk. But we've gotten so used to manipulating objects and organisms and ecosystems for a single objective that we ignore the costs involved. I call this the "monoculture of the mind."

Elizabeth Strout

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Don Haskins

I spent 18 months, off and on, with the script writer. I might as well have not spent one second with him.

Gordon Strachan

You might as well scrap offside now if you are not going to rule that offside.

Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

Pat Olmi

We might go over there and watch 'em. We can sit back and rest a little bit.

Ryan Ward

We might be related, but it's very distant.

E. B. White

And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me,' and that might take up 15 minutes of your time allotment.

Kevin Kodama

We might see some sun Sunday ... It will be partly cloudy, some staggered showers.

James Carrick

We might not see retail sales numbers that are that strong yet, but they will pick up toward the end of the year.

Rahul Dravid

We might not risk him if the problem doesn't settle.

Greg Beals

At times, we've pressed to the point where it's tough. When you're not winning, it makes it even tougher to have fun.

Chris Horner

At some point in the future, there may be a market, but it's not like that's anything we've really factored into our planning.

Ray Giacoletti

Offensively, I'd say he's more of a point guard. Defensively, I'd say he's better off guarding a two.

Sarah Brown

No one wants to look like they are spackled, ... The point is to make your skin look better than it is.

Jon Brion

I've made a point of not being, say what I refer to as a 'careerist' about anything.

Cara Castronuova

I'm the type of person who can get a feel for what you need and what I need to do to push you to get you to a breaking point, where you realize that you can't go on this way anymore, that the reason you're heavy is because you're ignoring all the stuff that's going on inside.

Sherry Sylvester

Doug always makes it a point to talk to Peter.

Gregory Allen

At one point he said, 'Do you want to torture me?'

Prakash Karat

At that point of time that was the situation, and today there is no point in talking of what happened. Nothing is static and there is no ditching also.

Brian Jacques

Any weapon is a good weapon as long as ye can use it with honor and skill.

Roy H. Williams

If you want the truth to prevail, you must cause people to realize the truth. This requires much more skill than is required to simply tell it.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.

Tony Gilroy

What you need to know to direct a movie is [of] such great variety. I've worked with people who were maestros, who know everything. I've worked with people who were empty and lost, who had no clue what they were doing. You wouldn't hire them to paint your apartment. And then there's everything in-between. There's no list of skills you have to have to sit in that chair.

Shiv Khera

There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.

Gregory Maguire

She assumes that skill will guide her fingertips, that shapely lines will uncoil out of the pencil the moment she starts. Surely talent is a thing curled deep inside, just waiting to be exercised, and at the slightest invitation it will stretch, shake itself, make itself known? Talent, it seems, is not so insistent.

Sarah Wayne Callies

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

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Socializing is more positive than being alone, that’s why meetings are so popular. People don’t like being alone. That would be, however, an important skill to learn...

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Most enjoyable activities are not natural; they demand an effort that initially one is reluctant to make. But once the interaction starts to provide feedback to the person's skills, it usually begins to be intrinsically rewarding.