Famous Quotes & Sayings

John O'Donoghue

I also believe strongly that capping this exemption would send out a message internationally that we do not encourage success in the arts ... We will force our young talent to go abroad as soon as they become successful. This is wrong.

Shashi Tharoor

Going abroad to study as a teenager, and joining the United Nations at 22, confirmed my ease with the world of the frequent flyer. I saw the average airport terminal as a familiar haven, like a friend's sitting room. But 9/11 changed all that.

David Rubin

It is no secret that the image of the United States abroad is not as positive as it must be. To the degree we can help to repair that image by introducing these visitors to American views of democracy, a free press and the role of citizens, we will have provided a valuable service to our country.

Kelly Corrigan

I moved from Philadelphia to California when I was 25, after traveling abroad for a year. I thought I'd come home eventually and settle down, but I didn't.

Noam Chomsky

Rendition is just sending people abroad to be tortured.

John McGonegal

In 2005 our strategy to aggressively pursue quality listings both domestically and abroad proved a major success for the Amex. We plan to capitalize on our strength within the domestic markets and further expand our commitment to attracting desirable foreign listings by demonstrating the strong value proposition a listing on the Amex provides.

Henry David Thoreau

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Yelena Isinbayeva

I may not stay in Russia all the time but I'm still based in Volgograd and I don't have plans to move abroad permanently, at least for now.

Gloria Lee

I really wanted to go abroad to South Korea, the country of my heritage, in order to increase my fluency in the language and really become immersed in the culture, ... This experience would be perfect, I thought to myself, and I applied.

Nick Saban

He's going to have to carry a little more than maybe he's ready for. We're very pleased with his development, but in the absence of Ricky, we're going to lean on him a little more than we would like to.

John Pickett

Today is a one-piece news day, and we'll have several such days ahead as the market focuses on the economy in the absence of any other major indicators until December. I wouldn't put too much emphasis on this rally because this market can still turn on a dime on any negative news. I think we'll be stuck in a trading range until then.

William Raspberry

It isn't the incompetence of mothers that is at issue, but the absence of half of the adult support needed for families to be most effective.

David Trimble

In the absence of those certainties, in the absence of those commitments, we have decided it's premature to form a shadow administration,

Doug Schoen

In the absence of specifics that would throw his nomination into doubt, Democrats will be loath to want to be as combative and confrontational as they might otherwise be.

John Bolton

In the absence of serious Syrian cooperation on substantive matters, the mission can't get to the ultimate truth. That is what is seems to me the focus the U.N. Security Council should be.

Richard Opper

In the absence of real action at the federal level, states, cities and other nations are stepping forward to address the serious issues presented by climate change.

Jared Bernstein

In the absence of immigrant labor, wages might be a bit higher, particularly in sectors that hire lots of low-skilled labor, which could potentially show up as slightly higher prices.

Steve Gross

In the absence of having a formal discussion about expectations, most employees do what they think appropriate, which may not be what the company values most.

Gary Price

I think you need a legal chiropractor to make your way through some of the bends and twists of the case.

Herbie Hancock

I think a lot of young people being brought up in this scene feel a sense of ruthlessness. There's nothing to plant them deeply down in the soil somehow so they can bend and sway from there.

Gilbert Arenas

It's in a lot of pain. It's throbbing right now. I can't bend over. But you go through the season, you're going to get injured. You're going to play with pain. I've played with pain before.

Mark Spier

It was 80 today. We've already seen 90 this year. But even 50 at Big Bend is better than 20 in Denver.

Joe Girardi

It's always one or two innings that seem to get us. You have to learn to bend a little but not break, and we haven't figured out how to do that yet.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There is another bend in the road after this. No one knows what will happen.

Chinese Proverbs

A young branch takes on all the bends that one gives it

Jane Russell

Sometimes the photographers would pose me in a low-necked nightgown and tell me to bend down and pick up the pails. They were not shooting the pails.

Robert Rich

Composing music today is a fascinating business. As the technology gets more complex, I feel more like a computer programmer than a musician. But I take the sounds in my head and in the world around me and bend the technology into the world I want to create.

Joe Pistone

John and I go way back. We worked a lot of cover cases together,

Ruben Donis

We are going to monitor all cases of human exposure, but at this point there is no reason to panic.

Anne McLellan

It is going to take a very long time for them to be able to resume their lives and even in some cases I'm sure determine whether they want to return to homes that have been largely destroyed or whether they want to start over somewhere else.

James Laughlin

There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small.

Matt Taibbi

In reality, everybody in Congress is a stand-in for some kind of lobbyist. In many cases it's difficult to tell whether it's the companies that are lobbying the legislators or whether it's the other way around.

Jason Calacanis

I have hundreds if not tens of thousands of fans... The people who have negative things to say are typically loser-type people who are probably in some cases mentally ill.

Jim Harlan

I don't know of any cases that have actually ended up in the hospital, but it's gotten close.

Condoleezza Rice

He talked... about the cases of these American citizens and permanent residents and the importance of transparency, the importance of humanitarian considerations,

Dirk Kempthorne

He has long-standing ties in the community, and will have an excellent temperament for the bench, ... He has litigated some very complex cases and clearly has demonstrated a keen knowledge of the law.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I am interested in agricultural corporations and how they function. The idea that they own the genetics of our food supply is a really compelling thing to me.

Joe Carson

Previously the Fed had a reason to raise rates. There is no compelling reason to raise rates at the present time.

Kim Edwards

In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Frank Lautenberg

The compelling factor, I've got to tell you, in my decision was the searing reality that I would have to spend half of every day between now and the next election fund-raising,

Tim Cranton

This is compelling information that will hopefully get people's attention.

Greg Robinson

They made a couple of really compelling arguments (Tuesday) night,

Sheldon Adelson

I am willing to spend whatever it takes … My moral standard compels me to speak out on this issue because I am the largest company by far in the industry and I am willing to speak out. I don’t see any compelling reason for the government to allow people to gamble on the Internet and nobody has ever explained except for the two companies whose special interest is going to be served if there is gaming on the Internet, Caesars and MGM.

Shane Carruth

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

Pat Doyle

The movie was outstanding, very compelling and very well done.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Tony Greig

Well the war lasted for three months, from April of 1994 until the Tutsi army, the exiles as it were, gained control of the country and then it stopped.

John Cornyn

What worries me more than anything else is this mind-set that once people go to Mexico there's nothing law enforcement in this country can do.

Bruce Anderson

Hawaii is leading the country in development of offshore aquaculture. It's been done well here, with minimal environmental impact.

Jeff Allen

I would say it would come down to Reggie or myself of Johnny Crumpler or Daryl (Baysden), just for the experience. All of us have played the courses right much.

Hank Bontrager

Golf courses don't really want us very much. But some of them are so generous for letting us play there.

William Fannin

I think those first four (engineering) courses will be very important to this area. We think it's going to be very useful. We're very excited. The ink's not even dry (on the agreement).

John Daly

I love this Open, I love Scotland and this is one of my favorite courses in the world,

Freida Pinto

Of course I'm going to marry, but I don't know when.

Chris DiMarco

It's one of those courses that just fits my eye. Of course, it's getting harder to see because the pins are getting away from me.

Charles Haynes

This is very unusual. In fact, it is unprecedented to have these kinds of courses offered with this kind of support from the state.

Greg Fealy

Very few graduates have that combination of skills ... many students are shying away from language courses and travelling to places like Indonesia or Malaysia because of the terror warnings.

Jeremy Teela

Other courses there's a lot of rest, you can work hard and rest, work hard and rest. And if you don't have as good a physiology, you can get away with the techniques of speed and power. But this kind of course, the guys who are genetically gifted ...

Jim Calhoun

In those 11 games, we did all kinds of things. We played and got better during this period. And I don?t know if we ever peaked, per se, nor did I want us to.

Chuck Anderson

I've got all kinds of stuff, but I don't use them, ... They just get in the way.

Richard Eastman

It's not possible that you could get into the kinds of things that could do damage.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Mike Wilton

The team did well at times, and didn't play well at times. It was one of those kinds of matches.

Bertrand Russell

We have in fact, two kinds of morality, side by side: one that we preach, but do not practice, and another that we practice, but seldom preach.

Dr. Gershman

To my knowledge, the flesh-eating kinds of infections are not on the increase. People want to find a connection, but often, even when you look there's no connection.

Tom Shaheen

We've got a lot of tired people around here. People have been working all kinds of hours.

Rob Babcock

We had to do something with our roster. We could have waited but we looked at all kinds of different possibilities, two-for-one (trades), things like that. We just couldn't come up with anything that worked.

Dave Tippett

I thought tactically we were pretty good, but we were a little sloppy at the end, which leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

Walt Whitman

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least.

Jason Wallace

That leaves it up to me to make plays and open it up for him, and then we'll be pretty interchangeable.

John Reid

take stock because there can be no justification for the kind of violence that leaves 39 police officers injured.

Justin Williams

It's huge. He does so many little things away from the puck, things nobody sees. He occupies one, sometimes two guys. That leaves a lot of room for people like me to work.

Josh Franco

It puts a strain on you. It leaves us wondering what are we going to do?

Alice McDermott

The thing that fiction can do is look from the inside out rather than from the outside in. Even memoir leaves me somewhat frustrated. I think now we need a poet to uncover what isn't on the surface.

Baha'u'llah

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

John Hurt

I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location.

Tom Davies

I think there are several reasons for that.

Doug Gottlieb

There are reasons why teams are 8-9 seeds.

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Cal Brown

Ah, to be young and in love, in Southern California.

Joe Tex

Currently, I bowl regional tournaments out of the PBA Southern Region.

Mike Colter

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

Peter Mayle

No matter what their background, the southern French are fascinated by food.

Kami Garcia

...south of Somewhere and north of Nowhere...

John Oliver

A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.

Luke Grimes

I'm so southern Ohio. And Cleveland is a different world, you know?

George Mason

As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states into the union, unless they agreed to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the union.

Richard Baxter

We must study as hard how to live well as how to preach well.

Rick Warren

It seems we are often guilty of being more interested in defending God's Word than in studying it.

Rodney Mullen

I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Kathryn Lasky

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

Peter York

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Paulo Coelho

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.

Philip Emeagwali

I preferred to study those subjects that were of interest to me.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The resources of the scholar are proportioned to his confidence in the attributes of the intellect.

Sean O'Casey

The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.