Famous Quotes & Sayings

Suzy Merchant

Kent can be extremely explosive. I was certainly frustrated. They just gave it to us.

Lloyd Carr

I think it is certainly one of the better defensive teams in the country.

Stephen Hess

It certainly has some effect on his immediate domestic agenda. He has no money for anything but Katrina.

Aaron Boone

It certainly doesn't impact me much this year. You never know what's going to happen down the road, but I wouldn't expect it to have much effect on me this year. If it does, then I'm not doing my job, anyway.

Dennis Ruedinger

It certainly doesn't get old. As you progress through a season, you grow closer and closer to the guys on the team. Each season is its own entity. Watching your team grow and get better, that never gets old.

Stephen Black

It certainly doesn't get any harder, ... I think Townsville in Townsville is probably the big game.

Lee Mercer

It certainly dispels stereotypes about who needs food, like the conventional stereotype being homeless people. It is actually a lot of working families.

Ed Renwick

It certainly didn't look like there was any mass movement out of Houston to Lake Charles to vote.

Mark Clarke

It certainly didn't look good. We've done well with the full-court press this season. I didn't think it would work with their good ball-handlers and guard play.

Daniel Healy

If Cindy Sheehan comes to Brunswick, well be there to meet her,

Cindy Sheehan

Why don't you put this one on the front page? Cindy is proving herself a nut, but you are suddenly silent concerning her.

Jerry Costello

Jobs are disappearing from every sector of the economy, from engineering to health care workers, forcing hundreds of thousands of families into unemployment and low-paying jobs.

Amar'e Stoudemire

It hit me personally because I've been in that type of situation when I was a kid (living in a number of different homes in Florida), when I really didn't have a household to go to. When I see those families and kids down there, I see myself.

Jose Bono

Today is a day of pain and mourning and solidarity with the families who lost loved ones.

Davitt McAteer

The families ought to be involved. If we have families that are involved in mine safety, the mines will be safer.

Laura Bush

This holiday, when we have so many American military men and women deployed, it's a bittersweet holiday for the families who are here separated from their loved ones, ... Larry King Live.

Jon Meyersohn

We actually see families work through their problems. It's a very positive story.

Brenda Guiden

It's important for their families to let them know they are not a disgrace. They're the ones who really need us.

A.G. Lafley

It's incredible. We've got to get some of these families back on track.

Rosemary Fox

It's very painful physically ... away from families and familiarity.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Richard Engel

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north.

Don Evans

I'm not scared here, ... I feel very safe here, quite frankly. And I'll tell you what else -- the people of Iraq are not scared.

Nancy Pelosi

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader,

Nancy Pelosi

Saddam Hussein certainly has chemical and biological weapons. There's no question about that.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

Abbott L. Lowell

All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.

Antoni Gaudi

The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God

Lord Shaftesbury

Temper, if ungoverned, governs the whole man.

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Richard M. Nixon

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Robin Cook

I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support.

Werner Herzog

I do not recall to [Kim Jong-un], but it was complex. "Dear young leader of the people and chairman of the joint military commission" or something like that.

W. G. Sebald

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.

William Cobbett

The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people believe that immense fleets and armies are necessary.

Robert Parry

... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one of U.S. benevolence, generally held by the public, and the other of ends-justify-the-means brutality sponsored by counterinsurgency specialists. Normally the specialists carry out their actions in remote locations with little notice in the national press. That allows the public to sustain its faith in a just America, while hard-nosed security and economic interests are still protected in secret.

Robert Payne

The second corruption of the state is oligarchy (oligos = few), in which the military elite is narrowed down to a few ruling families of immense wealth and prestige, who now openly flaunt their wealth and possessions.

Vance Havner

Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'

William Carey

Is not the commission of our Lord still binding upon us? Can we not do more than now we are doing?

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ellen G. White

The spirit of Christ is a missionary spirit.

John Ellsworth

I want to make sure his mission is finished.

Dave Winker

It's nice to have this part of the mission done. It's been a long week.

Sam Altman

It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.

Frank Robinson

They were on a mission to win three ballgames. It's probably the first times this year we thought about sweeping a series before we played the first game, and we got it done.

Terry Pratchett

We're on a mission from Glod.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sam Rockwell

I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.

Sam Worthington

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.

Alan McCoy

This is not chest-thumping. This is not done to intimidate. It is about serving our customers." ()

Clarence Fountain

And when you are serving the Lord, you go where he takes you without fear.

Bob Woods

We always want to work on our serving and serve-receiving.

Jim Glassman

He does speak more like a professor. He's a straight shooter.

Sarah Palin

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Sandra Cisneros

Don't be afraid to say what you don't know, and speak for what you do know. Say, "I can't speak for all Latinas, but I can speak for me and tell you very, very honestly."

Milan Kundera

Speak truth to power.

Emmeline Pankhurst

[To the heckler who said, 'If you were my wife I'd poison you':] No, you wouldn't. I'd do it myself.

Darian Townes

It's my first time to see him in person. I'm going to take some of what he speaks about and try to put it in my game.

David McFarren

It's upsetting for me. I can't speak for everyone else, but I know it's upsetting for me.

Seth Vining

That speaks well of the team. But we still have a lot of work to do.

Dan Rather

They were willing to speak truth to power.

Wayne Dyer

Any success that I've had in my life has been in spite of my education rather than because of it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Bette Midler

I love nature, in spite of what it did to me.

Paul Mooney

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Brad Childress

If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.

Joseph Lieberman

We support a woman's right to choose, ... The other ticket does not.

Ryan McGinley

Most of the e-mails I get nowadays are from students who ask me how I got my start. In truth its from having a really supportive family but also having a good patron who will help you - like financing all those early trips I took.

Rhianna Pratchett

I enjoy co-directing or even being there just for support because you get to see your script come to aural life in front of you.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Tory Burch

Having an environment that is supportive is really important for success.

Winona LaDuke

If we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms.

Rudy Giuliani

If there's no other alternative, I support civilian trials for terrorists.

William O. Douglas

Christianity has sufficient inner strength to survive and flourish on its own. It does not need state subsidies, nor state privileges, nor state prestige. The more it obtains state support, the greater it curtails human freedom.

Frank Bennett

Part of it was to support the facility,

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

Richard Whately

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Woody Allen

See, I will always have this penchant for what I call kamikaze women. I call them kamikazes because they, you know they crash their plane, they're self-destructive. But they crash into you, and you die along with them.

Vanessa Bayer

Sometimes the funniest people don't know that they're funny - like the administrators in my high school.

Robin Hobb

A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.

Samuel Johnson

Ladies, stock and tend your hive, Trifle not at thirty-five; For, howe'er we boast and strive, Life declines from thirty-five; He that ever hopes to thrive Must begin by thirty-five.

Warren Beatty

Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with.

Virginia Woolf

Young women... you are, in my opinion, disgracefully ignorant. You have never made a discovery of any sort of importance. You have never shaken an empire or led an army into battle. The plays by Shakespeare are not by you, and you have never introduced a barbarous race to the blessings of civilization. What is your excuse?

Virginia Woolf

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Virginia Woolf

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.