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.

Robert Horan

He just wanted (to punish) the CIA and was willing to shoot whoever happened to be there,

John McCain

I am concerned -- and I think most people are concerned -- about the lack of coordination between agencies, ... The failure to work together to share information -- they're doing that now, in fact. As we know, the CIA director and the FBI director are briefing the president every morning, so there were obviously breakdowns -- particularly in coordinating and sharing information.

Thomas Egan

He is not a Navy SEAL and he's not a CIA operative.

Karl Rove

remains a focus of the CIA leak probe. He has told friends it is possible he still will be indicted for providing false statements to the grand jury.

Larry Wilkerson

I have no idea, ... That text was presented to me by the secretary only days before the presentation, and the secretary's words were something to the effect of, 'This is what the White House has given us.' And that was the text I took to the CIA and within 16 hours had totally discarded because it was garbage.

Ray Close

I'm sure the FBI and CIA must be mortified by this because it is extremely embarrassing to them.

Thomas Goldstein

The federal government really has tried to use the concerns of terrorism in the post-9/11 world to expand its powers and to keep the courts out and say no, the police, the FBI, the CIA need substantially greater discretion,

Jennifer Millerwise

The CIA thoroughly pursued this issue and did so on more than one occasion.

Alvin Hellerstein

The CIA shall search and review in response to plaintiffs' FOIA requests,

Lou Fintor

All embassy personnel are safe and accounted for.

Julie Reside

None of the military attaches at the US embassy in Caracas was or is involved in inappropriate activities.

Julie Reside

None of the military attaches at the U.S. embassy in Caracas was or is involved in inappropriate activities.

Laszlo Garamvolgyi

At three o'clock (0200 GMT) the Slovak embassy sent a passenger list that included 43, and as there is one in hospital, that means 42 are dead.

Lou Fintor

The location of the explosion was not on U.S. Embassy property and all embassy personnel are safe and accounted for.

David Gillette

They should not have an embassy here in the United States.

Faye Belnis

We have received a suspicious package and we have informed the police. We have evacuated the embassy and then we are still waiting for further information from the police.

Larry Johnson

The fact of the matter is when you look at the loss of life in Tanzania and the loss of life in Kenya, it was a simple function of where the U.S. embassy was located -- in the middle of the city.

Mikhail Kamynin

Milosevic's advisers handed the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands a letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 11, which we received yesterday afternoon.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Grief is so human, and it hits everyone at one point or another, at least, in their lives. If you love, you will grieve, and that's just given.

Janet Leigh

I was in that shower for seven days-70 set-ups. At least Hitchcock made sure that the water was warm.

Lori Cooper

Kim may also play some outside hitter for us this season.

Sue Adams

Kim hits a 3, and all of a sudden everyone just started playing.

Ryan Zimmerman

I wouldn't say I am a power hitter. I am a gap-to-gap guy. If I hit one like I did today, so be it.

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Jackson hit a lot of big shots. I thought that everyone stepped up. This was a big win for us.

Allison Johnson

Just like practice. I knew I just had to hit it hard.

Ron Whitehurst

Katy was hitting all her spots. She was able to pitch it inside and outside.

Mike Trout

Keep your head on the ball. You've got to hit it first, then look where it goes. People get in trouble when they look for where the ball's going, and they haven't even hit it yet.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Matthew Storin

Patricia Smith is a writer of extraordinary talent and this is a tragic development. We wish her well and she retains many friends at the Globe, including myself.

Takashi Sensui

Our message is this: We're prepared to do everything that's needed to make Xbox 360 a success around the world, including Japan.

Scott Shaffer

In 12 years of coaching, including nine years here, I?d never seen an overtime game. Now I?ve seen two.

Bill Reynolds

If you go back, including the Reynolds, I?m part of the Murphy?s, the McNally?s and the Cass. My sister even married an O?Brien recently.

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.

Hank Blalock

It is just part of Spring Training soreness. If this was during the season, I'd play through it.

Richelle Mead

What am I supposed to do with a wool coat? Especially here in Palm Springs?” “Sleep with it,” he suggested. “Think of me.

Truman Capote

June, July, all through the warm months she hibernated like a winter animal who did not know spring had come and gone.

Truman Capote

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

Reinhold Niebuhr

I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Since inequalities of privilege are greater than could possibly be defended rationally, the intelligence of privileged groups is usually applied to the task of inventing specious proofs for the theory that universal values spring from, and that general interests are served by, the special privileges which they hold.

William Zinsser

The sound of the bat is the music of spring training.

William S. Burroughs

No atomic physicist has to worry, people will always want to kill other people on a mass scale. Sure, he's got the fridge full of sausages and spring water.

William Maxwell

Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan of hot water and Epsom salts. When she gets into bed and the springs creak under her weight, she groans with the pleasure of lying stretched out on an object that understands her so well.

Marjorie Gubelmann

The truth is, I was D.J.-ing on my college radio station in 1987, and I was called 'Mad Marj.'

Pat Robertson

I've managed stations.

Thomas Williams

This is the third station we've been to and there is no gas, ... I don't know what we're gong to do.

Tom Richardson

It pretty well emptied our station for a while.

Sylvester Stallone

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It's always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Mary Roach

A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.

Timothy Brown

We are taking this station from the 1960s to the 2000s.

Tariq Anwar

You can go and see the Katihar railway station. This is the most beautiful station in Bihar, even better than the Patna junction.