Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Pomfret

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

John Pomfret

For me the much more significant question is what did the Americans do, if anything, to help the Croatian army, because they are the ones that changed fundamentally the map of Bosnia, not the Bosnian army.

Slobodan Milosevic

I was happy to shoot Muslims (in the besieged Bosnian capital Sarajevo),

Nicholas Burns

We're calling for their immediate release. We are making this known privately to the Bosnian Serb military commanders, and we're now making it known privately just in the next couple of hours to President Milosevic in Belgrade, and we very much expect that this call for the immediate release of these people will be met.

Danis Tanovic

I call it Bosnian minimalism. I was somehow thinking of the Roman comedies where it all happens in the square.

Michael Ignatieff

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Daniel Goure

I am enormously skeptical that the Serbs are ready to negotiate, or more importantly, the Serbs that we are talking about here are the Serbs of Belgrade. (Bosnian Serb leader Slobodan) Milosevic, we have not heard from because the administration refused to directly negotiate with the Bosnian Serbs.

Richard Holbrooke

The main reason for this is that the Bosnian Serbs still have not given up their core dream of creating a separate state, and that is unacceptable.

John Spencer

We're sticking to what we can infer from our instrument, and we are not directly seeing temperatures warm enough for liquid water.

Daniel Andrews

We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.

Chris Stanton

We're going to do some investigating to see if this event was directly related to her employment.

Bob Condron

At first, it was more of a grass-roots operation. What I see, and this is my opinion in the way the organization is now running, is that we will increase money being given directly to athletes.

Laurie Johnson

About half of the economic losses would be attributable directly to the flooding.

Mike Mills

A lot of people think they can't help directly with the Hurricane Katrina, but if you come out to 'Burgers at the Beach' Thursday night, you can.

Jack Romanos

This innovative publication strategy takes the e-book from the realm of novelty and directly into the very mainstream of today's culture. And it reaffirms the publisher-author relationship at a moment when it is fashionable to predict its demise.

Todd Miller

This is truly a localized show down to the jokes, so it's not translated directly from the original script. But if you are familiar with 'The Nanny' and you happen to be watching the Indonesian television, it will unmistakably be 'The Nanny,

Chris Jordan

What I aspire to is to have the viewer look directly at the subject, as if they're looking through a window at the real thing.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the ref once, you've kind of got to suck it up.

Tom Renney

When you've heard from the referee once that you've got to kind of suck it up and quit yapping, you should probably do that.

Michelle Evans

We were at a cross-roads last week when we heard the news that Ft. Chaffee was no longer sending hurricane survivors to the area.

Dan Doherty

When we heard the news yesterday, everyone was just devastated. He made a huge impact at Pearl River in a short time 5 1/2 years.

Tom Eagleson

When we heard it was her appendix, we all thought the worst. But then, it turned out to be kidney stones.

Todd Helton

When we heard about (Barmes), we were thinking, 'That's terrible, what are we going to do,' ... Then the skipper leaves and his daughter's having seizures, and it puts it all back in perspective really quick.

Ednita Nazario

It's fascinating to be in a place where no one has ever heard of me

Charles Kuralt

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

Michelle Collins

At first I didn't say anything, but when my roommate got home she said she heard people talking about it all over the city. By then it was like IHOP on a Sunday morning.

Charles Stanley

God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fear. We step into these things because we are insensitive to the leadership of the Holy Spirit within us.

Alan Autry

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

Al Oerter

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

Al McGuire

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.

Al McGuire

I believe in a business boarding up early. If you make a mistake, you put the boards in the window of the store and say, "Hey, I made a mistake." Let me take two shots in the arm and a punch on the nose and let me get on to the next thing. I don't believe in worrying over failures. I worry about successes. This is opposite from most people. Most people zero in on their failures. I try to keep all my attention on a pyramid type philosophy rather than the averaging-down philosophy.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The ideal leader is one who hears the voice of God, and beckons on as the voice calls him and them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

A true leader will have no desire to lord it over God’s heritage. He is rather ready to follow as well as lead.

Chris Copeland

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

Steve Perry

We have to go through minefields that we have to negotiate just to reach the listener,

Mike Boyd

Unions don't give in easily. It's going to be ugly, and Parker can't do much about it but negotiate with the winner.

Bill Richardson

They're very dogmatic. The North Koreans, they are very programmed, they have their policy statements they don't want to diverge from. They're very doctrinaire. They don't negotiate like others -- quid pro quo.

Abdel Rahman

You negotiate with us not around the table, but with bullets,

Robert Kiyosaki

It's tough to negotiate from a position of weakness.

Olusegun Obasanjo

We need to negotiate with other groups, unless our objective is to prevent any decision.

John Findlay

If they don't give us the information, we can't negotiate properly with them,

Mark Shapiro

If we can't get something done by the end of spring training, we'll stop. We will not negotiate during the season.

Bruno Julliard

We don?t want to negotiate ... we don?t want it at all.

Leonard Edelstein

We were supposed to be ready to go in 48 hours, but it took a little longer.

Eric Munson

We'll see what happens. I'm just going to try to be ready when my name's in the lineup, and we'll see what happens.

Steven Gerrard

We are all ready for the second leg,

Charlie Sheen

I'm here and I'm ready. They're not. Bring it.

Jim Epperly

We're going to have to be ready to go.

David Brown

We're doing great. We're ready, we've got 100-percent deployment ready to go at about 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Joe Torre

We're fine. We're ready to go. Everybody's had enough work.

Jeff Mathews

We're ready to make our point. We're ready to get it on and get it done.

Joe Torre

We're ready to go. We're as ready as we're going to be.

Jim Hall

They refused to participate at all, even though we requested them.

Alberto Sanchez

They refused to come, and three times they told me they were not doing that service any more.

Dallas Drake

That was unacceptable. We just refused to shoot the puck.

Diane Jacobowitz

He refused to sign the petition. He didn't want any part of it.

Sadaharu Oh

I was disappointed but it's up to him to decide. It was not a surprise that he refused since he had been hesitating for such a long time.

Rory Robertson

I am skeptical that this time will be different.

Joe Wilcox

I'm kind of skeptical about its ultimate usefulness.

John Malkovich

I'm not a very skeptical person.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Al Jarreau

To sing the ballad with a knowingness about what you are talking about. If it's somebody else's lyric, and the message is a little unusual for you, it requires that you learn that new message.

Chris Colfer

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

Chief Seattle

When the green hills are covered with talking wires and the wolves no longer sing, what good will the money you paid for our land be then

David Wain

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

David Hoffman

Despite his deeply-held ideology, Reagan was willing to talk to Gorbachev. He willing to do business with him. We should realize that engaging with adversaries is often one of our great strengths. As long as we use the engagement to stand up for the things we care about, there is no harm in talking.

David Hockney

On the 31st of October 2011 year, I had a mini-stroke. I couldn't finish my sentences. So I went to the doctor. It was a tiny one. The speech came back in a month or so. I did notice I could draw even better, I felt. I was concentrating more. And I wasn't talking much, but I was drawing. I said, "Well, I don't have to talk much."

David Hume

The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about.

David Brock

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.