Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Eaton

We feel like we're in a pretty good spot right now, but we still want to work our way up. There's still almost a third of the season left to play and there's a lot of teams lumped together so we know that we can't afford any long stretch of losses or we could be on the outside looking in.

Albert Wynn

Today, 45 million Americans cannot afford a Cadillac health insurance policy with all the mandated benefits, ... However, they might be able to afford a more modest vehicle that would get them to their doctor's office for a diagnosis . . . and recommendations to improve their quality of life.

John Leonard

Parrish has all this nice stuff. Of course, they can afford newer stuff if they don't have to pay $70,000 for a new chief.

Frank Hadden

In Scotland, we can't afford to get too far ahead of ourselves and our entire focus will be on the first game. If we are as successful as we'd like to be in the first game, that can generate tremendous momentum.

Shigeru Omi

In my view, Asia is doing quite reasonably well for communicable diseases that now we have reached the point we can afford to discuss suicides and mental health problems in general.

Al Harrington

In a close game like this, you're battling and you can't afford turnovers and allow them to score. When they were shooting free throws, we were taking jump shots. It doesn't work that way. You've got to attack the basket.

Ledy VanKavage

If you're on food stamps, there's no way you can afford $300 to alter your dog. This will help them get that done.

Tom Daschle

Instead of passing another big tax cut that we can't afford -- a tax cut that leaves out middle-class families -- we need a fair, responsible tax cut,

Jack Johnson

If you can afford to have all these trucks and buses out, you can afford to do it, ... It costs more. It's about 30 cents a gallon more to do it at this point.

Mark Roberts

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

Steven Camarota

The whole idea that 'America has a 5 percent unemployment rate and therefore clearly we need lots of immigrant labor' is very foolish.

Joe Biden

The United States, to state the obvious, is greatly concerned by the startling number of unaccompanied minors that - children and teenagers who are making a very perilous journey through Central America to reach the United States.

Michael Mandelbaum

The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.

Monica Crowley

The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country.

Dennis Hastert

The United States of America is prosperous and free. But storm clouds gather on our horizon. Our national security is challenged by the continued malfeasance of Saddam Hussein. Our economic security is challenged by a growing worldwide recession. Our future is bedeviled by too many schools that perform poorly and by a Social Security system in need of reform,

Jalal Talabani

The United States of America is not the lawyer of the Kurdish people, it is a big state, with its own policy, and it has its own national interest.

Ezra Taft Benson

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

George H. W. Bush

The United States may not necessarily be dependent on foreign aid, but the donation presented by Kuwait is an expression of solidarity with the people of America and a small contribution in efforts to help the victims of the hurricane,

Rajneesh

Attachment is the food for the mind to continue. Non-attached witnessing is the way to stop it without any effort to stop it. And when you start enjoying those blissful moments, your capacity to retain them for longer periods arises.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Morgan Betscher

We thought we got gypped a little. We thought we'd get a four or a five.

Brent Walston

I think that we have two to four girls that can help her with the scoring.

Maurice Greene

I think the 3 medals are between four people ,

Steven Aftergood

It is ironic, ... We sued the C.I.A. four times for this kind of information and lost. You can't get it through legal channels.

Mike Rathgeber

Last year, it took us six meets to get that relay team under four minutes.

Dave Roberts

Last year I think the situation we were in was a lot tougher task than the situation we're in right now, because we were down to three outs, and had to win four straight games,

John McKay

I will be disappointed if we do not win three or four medals,

Sasha Roiz

I went to theatre school for four years and just wanted to do theatre. I had no ambition to be on TV or to be on camera. I just wanted to go to New York or London and be on stage... I did a lot of theatre in Montreal, got involved in TV in Toronto and then moved to L.A. I hope that film and TV will take me back to theatre.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Israel is a colonialist-imp erialist phenomenon. There is no such thing as an Israeli people. Before 1948, world geography knew of no state such as Israel. Israel is the result of an invasion, of aggression.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world

Mitt Romney

I respect the right of Israel to defend itself, and - and we stand with - with Israel. We're a - a nation - two nations that come together in - in peace and that want to see Iran being dissuaded from its nuclear folly.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.

Leon Panetta

Rather than undermining the Palestinian Authority, it is in Israel's interests to strengthen it by... continuing to transfer Palestinian tax revenues and pursuing other avenues of cooperation.

Ken Livingstone

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

Margaret Thatcher

Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for it, the backlash against both honest brokers and Palestinians would be immense - 'land for peace' must also bring peace.

Martin Buber

In the story of the Creation we read: ". . . And behold, it was very good." But, in the passage where Moses reproves Israel, the verse says: "See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil." Where did the evil come from? Evil too is good. It is the lowest rung of perfect goodness. If you do good deeds, even evil will become good; but if you sin, evil will really become evil.

Pope Benedict XVI

That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world.