Famous Quotes & Sayings

John R. Allen

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.

Ed Rollins

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Lajos Kossuth

But the Hungarian nation, although taken by surprise, unarmed and unprepared, did not abandon its future prospects in any agony of despair.

John Doolittle

Bush is our man. We don't have an alternative. I am not going to abandon him over this, but it is a real disappointment.

Nobutaka Machimura

Only after the DPRK implements its commitment to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs in a verifiable manner, may we discuss the issue of a light-water reactor,

Pat Casey

This is the best conference in the nation from top to bottom without question. It is a great benchmark to have that we are not happy that we didn't sweep Arizona. That is the way we feel about ourselves. As a club, we thought we should have swept.

Chris Clarke

We really had to work her in and out. Michelle Dirks did a great job, got a few rebounds, hit her free throws, a few shots ... Our bench hadn't scored any points in the tournament so far and we challenged those kids today ... They're a huge reason we won this game.

Steven Wieting

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.

Bill Ford

I feel very good about our bench strength.

Mike Hall

I don't recall specifically what happened. We just got tangled up. I was so caught up in the moment and trying to win the game when it happened. ... There was a lot of commotion and when I saw their coach out on the court, I walked over to our bench so I wouldn't get caught up in the middle of anything.

Dwayne Jones

I think our team has a lot of good scorers, so I'm not going to try to come off the bench and score 20 points.

Erik Zaidel

Jordan Long and Vince Pappas really did play well off the bench for us.

Mike Barnett

It can have the same effect on the bench as a player taking it end to end on a scoring rush,

Joey Price

He can still go in the weight room and bench press 300 pounds. He's a man's man.

Bill Richardson

In my estimation, the sense was they have a small number on the lower end of one to five, ... My sense was two. But I can't verify that.

Alan Lightman

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

Jane Austen

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Andy Stanley

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

John Lancaster Spalding

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

John Dollar

There were things that we did were taught because of the biblical principles.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Faith is such a principle of power. God works by power, but this power is usually exercised in response to our faith.

Morris West

I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

Angus King

Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

Kathy Valentine

together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.

Mary Carillo

There's somebody to look at, and I think that really helped.

Peter Schmitz

Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.

Doug Adkins

Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.

Chauncey Billups

Somebody is always going to come up big in the stretch. We never know who, but somebody will come up big.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.

Don Robinson

I did talk to somebody one time who said he was Doug Wood.

Rachel Brosnahan

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.