Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Nordstrom

I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, even in the South.

Chris Katongo

I think it could happen at the African Cup of Nations - you never know!

Jim Sinclair

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

Alpha Konare

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

Leila Zerrougui

This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certainly be a best practice for any other country on the continent or anywhere else in the world.

Lonnie Bunch

He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributing to the uplift of African Americans and contributing to a changing America.

John Prendergast

Having a strong African leader, with the confidence of regional governments, who's backed by high-level envoys from countries that matter

Neil MacGregor

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Frank Lambert

Here was the United States just emerging from its fight for independence when the young country finds itself blocked from free trade by North African countries in the Atlantic Ocean,

Gordon Brown

What we have decided today, conscious of the poverty that we face, is a decision of 100 percent debt cancellation for the poorest countries backed up by greater trade justice, by a doubling of European aid, by a commitment to provide AIDS treatments for people by 2010,

Keith Greene

I think it should be required that every paper says something about AIDS in their pages,

Jesse Helms

It had been my feeling that AIDS was a disease largely spread by reckless and voluntary sexual and drug-abusing behavior, and that it would probably be confined to those in high-risk populations, ... I was wrong.

Susan MacKay

It had a dramatic impact on my children. It was wonderful to see and get to know these children and see how little they have yet they still manage to find ways to enjoy their lives. They have all come back not only wanting to do more for AIDS orphans but all people who need help.

Swoosie Kurtz

I am a passionate AIDS activist, and I wouldn't want to be part of anything that made fun of a disease. I thought this movie had a beautiful message.

Keith Boykin

He was unusually committed to exposing the truth about AIDS in the black community, and he was unafraid to challenge conventional wisdom.

Richard Gere

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

Walter Bagehot

The cardinal maxim is, that any aid to a present bad Bank is the surest mode of preventing the establishment of a future good Bank.

John Davis

Really, we were six or seven years into the AIDS epidemic at that time, and I think it was a move that offered an acceptance. You know, sometimes movies are great because I think they can precondition society for acceptance, and I think when they do that we're really at the statesmanship level of film-making.

Stella McCartney

I was in this stadium with 200,000 people looking at my mum and dad. That was mind-bending.

Harry Redknapp

I was looking out there with two minutes to go thinking 'Don't do this to me again'.

John Smoltz

I was looking forward. It was brutal. I was tested to the max.

Trot Nixon

I was looking for Baez to come after me like he normally does,

Flavio Briatore

I was looking at the No. 1. That's the only thing I was looking at.

Jim Crawley

I was looking at our play sheet at halftime,

Shannon Stewart

I was in shock when she told me. I would never think in a million years that she would be fired, especially after looking at her record and all.

Dwight Davis

I wouldn't be surprised to see anything at this point; this is the Wild West in terms of licensing models, ... Everyone is looking for models right now.

Dan Bonner

Just looking at the process, and seeing how things worked, I just thought that I would like to get involved.

Christopher Traulsen

I think the odds are good. I would be surprised if he didn't (beat the S&P).

John Wilson

There are no secrets. We know what they like to do, they know what we like to do. We play them three times, and the odds are that we win at least one of those.

Robert Cormier

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Roger Martin

You need to be uncomfortable and apprehensive: True strategy is about placing bets and making hard choices. The objective is not to eliminate risk but to increase the odds of success.

William J. Clinton

Volunteering is an act of heroism on a grand scale. And it matters profoundly. It does more than help people beat the odds; it changes the odds.

Walter Becker

I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.

Robin McKinley

Never assume. Never make plans. Keep doing the press-ups and deep knee bends: you'll need all your strength and flexibility when your life suddenly implodes. Maybe it won't — some people do lead enchanted lives — but odds are that it will. Some time.

Warren Farrell

In brief, our genetic heritage is at odds with our genetic future. For the first time in human history, the qualities it takes to survive as a species are compatible with the qualities it takes to love.

Jeff Berg

I think in time, once the production catches up with demand, that this won't be a problem anymore,

Patrick Moore

There are a lot of strains on the infrastructure, our roads, our schools, and I think that sometimes the problems haven't been anticipated.

Igor Shuvalov

Having this tension is okay, it's a problem with any growth.

Ron Dennis

His problem was not the engine, his problem was the tyre selection.

Youssef Squali

I think it's a trend. Problem is, you can't quantify it.

Kristin Accipiter

I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.

John Carter

It could be a problem at that point.

Johnathan Frakes

I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.

John Fernandez

I think we've come up with a program to start the year that, as we progress in the season, that we'll be able to solve the problem we've got one way or another and we'll be competitive again.

Anton LaVey

Religions are easy to invent. Most traditional religions have little or nothing to do with reality, are dependent on obfuscation, interpretation, guilt, and unreasoning faith...

Robert Creeley

No matter how wild reality was obviously often being, it was an absolutely secure place, as a tone and intelligence, and a thing happening.

Rob Enderle

The physics chip adds a level of reality in games we just haven't been able to get.

Rob Conway

Motorola has led the mobile phone industry in turning our vision of low- cost, yet quality, handsets for the developing world into a reality. In so doing, Motorola has played a major role in transforming the mobile phone from a luxury item for the few into an affordable tool for the many.

Richard P. Feynman

The 'paradox' is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality 'ought to be.

Richard Whately

Christianity, contrasted with the Jewish system of emblems, is truth in the sense of reality, as substance is opposed to shadows, and, contrasted with heathen mythology, is truth as opposed to falsehood.

Richelle Mead

It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.

Richard Avedon

The pictures have a reality for me that the people don't. It is through the photographs that I know them.

Russell Hoban

If reality had a stage door I'd hang around there to see what comes out after the show.