Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabih Alameddine

In 1975, I left the burning city of Beirut for the quiet insanity of England. To say that short, frail and wispy 15-year-old me didn't fit in would be such an understatement as to be a joke.

Dick Cheney

Was it in 1983, when terrorists hit our embassy that spring in Beirut and killed several Americans, including the CIA station chief?

Rashad Janahi

The Beirut Gate placement also marks our entry into markets outside the GCC in the region. In line with our charter to offer unique investment mechanisms, we are also in the process of developing instruments that will tap growth opportunities in international markets.

Reem Acra

Beirut is where I was born and raised.

Denis Simonneau

We condemn the incidents that happened in Damascus and Beirut on Sunday and led to fire and ransacking of several diplomatic and consular representations.

Peter Hain

I take heart in the statements made not just by the IRA leadership but by the president of Sinn Fein in repeatedly condemning criminality and saying it has no part for the future Republicans.

Michael Schiavo

I was condemned by the President, the majority leaders of the House and Senate, the governor of Florida, the Pope, and the right-wing media, all because I was doing what Terri - the woman I loved - wanted.

Jose Vicente

There is a legal measure in the United States that condemns and punishes statements of this nature,

Sathya Baba

There is no discipline equal to service to smother the ego and to fill the heart with genuine joy. To condemn service as demeaning and inferior is to forego these benefits.

Mohammad Khatami

We are following a religion which condemns the killing of even one innocent person, including an innocent Jew.

Bible Bible

If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous, and condemn the wicked.

LaVar Arrington

If people want to ridicule me and condemn me for losing a job after an injury then so be it. But I'm still not going to be part of an ongoing soap opera. I've got to be supportive of my team.

Franklin Graham

I'm not condemning people. God's going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. ... People don't want to know what I have to say. They want to know what God has to say.

Publilius Syrus

The judge is condemned when the criminal is acquitted

Tom Casey

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Alexander Rumyantsev

I support diplomatic solutions to all issues at those talks.

Christopher Hill

Everybody has got an interest in solving this problem through diplomatic means. ... There will be a point at which we look at the deadline, but we are not at that point yet,

Daniel Shea

This diplomatic move has stopped the suit right in its early stages.

Gerhard Schroeder

There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,

Nicholas Burns

It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Joseph Cirincione

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

Ryan Howard

I think it gets guys fired up. If it doesn't fire you up, you've got issues.

Alex Rodriguez

I think it gave us a little fire in our butts. We were a little flat, and I thought after that, we kind of picked it up a little bit.

Charles Dean

He was a disciplinarian, ... Any time you got out of line, any time you fired back or had an attitude, you ran a lot of laps. I think I ran more laps than anyone.

Gary Gait

He just gets fired up and thrives on that challenge.

Casey Hampton

He likes to pick a fight. But in so doing he gets us fired up, too. He says things a lot of guys are thinking, but just don't say.

Ray Durham

He jumped up quicker than I thought he would and hauled butt back into the fire. He ran right back into the hottest part.

Ian Thorpe

Having time away, it reignites that passion and that fire that you have. And I have that back and I'm looking forward to the next four years,

Steve Eckert

He's a slow starter and it's been that way most of the season -- he gets better as the match goes on. I don't know what fired him up, but he got a second wind and it was over.

Jerry Davis

He's just on fire when he comes into games. I really haven't seen him too much this year, but last year we saw him a lot.

Tim Mead

He could remember things that happened 40 years ago better than you or I can remember what happened last year.

Diana Yates

What would have happened to Citigroup under a weaker operating environment?

Rick Barnes

He's been through tougher things. What he went through a year ago, what happened (against A&M) pales to that.

Tomas Enge

I think it's going to take us a week to understand what happened today.

Kevin Boyer

I think it's going to take a while. You had residents on television saying pretty raucous things. We can't ignore what's happened over the last month.

Bill Hauck

Lake Tahoe is the key to our water supply, and what has happened there this past month is nothing short of awesome.

Makosi Musambasi

I was drunk, Anthony was drunk. No one will ever know what happened in that pool.

David Cameron

Whatever happened to no reverse gear? Whatever happened to the historic turning point? If you keep turning it's not going to be very historic.

Frank Beamer

Whatever happened is unfortunate. I'm not happy about some of the things that happened in the first half. We'll leave it at that.

Harvey Pekar

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Gerard Kennedy

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Joschka Fischer

It is not only because of the incidents with the Swiss, Swedish, and Spanish embassies. There is an urgent need for discussions,

Diane Feinstein

In view of the 5,000 'air rage' incidents each year,

F. Stone

The jury's still out on the new system, because we haven't run that many incidents on it yet, ... But day-to-day, the hand-helds are working out quite well.

Gary Davidson

These incidents were not reported to us. When something isn't reported, there's nothing we can do.

Mark Feldstein

These incidents become viewed through the lens of metaphor,

O. J. Simpson

I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.

Rick Dunlap

These two incidents in the jail could have been prevented.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Steven Reinprecht

He led the way, that's for sure. I think he showed what a special player is.

Seth Vining

He's been so solid. He's come in and led the team from the start.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

Winona Ryder

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Shelden Williams

People have different paths in life. Quincy's led him to a different place. What matters is how you play.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

Mamie Gummer

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

Luiz Scolari

There are several teams, and one of them could be Corinthians.

Noam Chomsky

There are nuclear-weapons-free zones in several parts of the world already, except that they're not implemented fully, because the U.S. won't allow it.

David Hastings

I have had several say, 'I don't want to go,' and I said, 'I'm sorry, you're going.'

Reinhard Selten

I did several types of work about several investigations of application of game theory to international relations.

Marcia Powers

If you would have told us several years ago that we would be doing all these hikes, we would have said you were crazy.

Joe Girardi

I have to make several duplicates of every scorecard.

John Allen

I had talked to several other guys, but (Jones) was, in my opinion, a better candidate.

Fred Couples

These two guys, they're going to win this thing several more times.

Larry Parker

I stick by what I say. He (Dr. Atkinson) was there, but so were several others. It was implied, even if it wasn't said outright.

William Wilberforce

O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

Quentin Jammer

He doesn't keep me up. I think the more you worry the worse you play. If you get too worried about him, you're going be worried about him on Sunday when you play and it's going take you out of your game.

Truman Capote

But it's Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.

Samuel Pepys

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

Verne Troyer

I went to see the film with a regular audience for the first time on Sunday, and was basically swamped.

Vance Havner

The same church members who yell like Comanche Indians at a ball game on Saturday sit like wooden Indians in church on Sunday.

Sara Paretsky

And the fury in my community was just staggering. The young priests in the parish were behind the message. The older priests weren't necessarily, but they all followed the orders of the cardinal and read the letter. Every Sunday, 2,000 people came to mass at that parish. The following Sunday, the attendance dropped to 200, and never recovered.

Sara Paretsky

When I tell people I was in the St. Justin Martyr parish, if they are native Chicagoans they know exactly where I was and what that was like. The Sunday before this particular march, the archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Cody, had required all of his pastors to read a letter in support of open housing and economic justice in every parish in the city.

Wayne Dyer

Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.