Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lakhdar Brahimi

I think they want support from the U.N.. They think the U.N. has a role to play in helping them understand these problems and also in working out compromises and concerns amongst themselves.

Andrew Ferguson

The rank and file members of the club have the capacity to determine whether the proposal has merit or otherwise ... however, we appeal to all concerned to conduct their campaign in a manner which avoids unnecessary division and antagonism amongst supporters, including sponsors, after the issue is decided.

Mary Pierce

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

Nicholas Hoult

The action stuff is only good if you get the character stuff in there as well. Sometimes that get lost in amongst all the trying to make stuff blow up.

Jack Peter

We look forward to learning the results of this year's class so we can begin the process of their induction and most importantly, begin preparing to preserve their legacies amongst the game's greatest players and contributors.

Rob Reiner

We made the joke when we screened 'Bucket List' that there was 100% desire to see amongst our demographic with a 40% ability to get them to see it.

Kim Stanley Robinson

Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.

Sathya Baba

I am a man amongst men, when they see Me, I appear as a man. Amongst woman, I am a woman. Amongst children I am a child. When alone, I am God. This is the truth about Me.

Steven King

He has been there and we know he handles it. You look at the statistics, he is right amongst it. Put it this way, there's a lot of ticks next to him.

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.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

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.

Katy Trotter

Just to be a member of the Stanford women's cross country team with those girls, I was in awe.

Patrick Sweeney

Kaneohe's kind of a country town, I guess. There's not really too many places to go not too much stuff to do.

Kathryn Bigelow

Jordan is a very secular, Westernized country in some respects.

Bryan Lowry

Joe Mansour put his life at risk and made enormous financial sacrifices for his country. I hope that in the end the system that until now has failed him will set circumstances right.

Joseph Kabila

I swear my fidelity to the country, ... and I will respect the constitutionality of the republic, to guarantee its independence and to unite the Congolese people and to unite the entire country and defend its borders.

Mark Martin

Kind of made it easy on me here at the end without me having to fight for it.

Gail Goestenkors

I wouldn't say it's an easy fix. I think it's a mentality. Once again, I feel like we have to become mentally tougher.

Rick Soracco

I think in that first quarter we could have been out by a lot more. We missed some easy shots.

Jim Kramer

It can be easy to be not ready to go. We liken it to a game. You have to be up for every game.

Karl Malden

He could handle longtime stars like Joan Blondell and Edward G. Robinson, and he also could handle Steve McQueen. Norman stepped in at the last moment (Sam Peckinpah had been fired after a week's filming), and that's not an easy thing to do.

Gregg Zaun

He didn't have his command, that was pretty much the difference. It's not an easy role.

Marcus Banks

He just told me just run the team, make stuff easy and let's get this victory. I kind of patted him on the butt and told him don't worry about it, we'll go get it for him.

Antonio McDyess

He just made it so easy for me to score. He's such a good passer. I kind of knew where his passes were going to be at any time. Not even looking, I knew where he was going to throw it and when he was going to throw it.

Matt Letourneau

He kept us in a lot of games. It's really easy to do your job when he's back there.

Ken Hill

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Charles Warren

I was like, 'Wow,' something's going on here, ... Something good is about to happen.

Ramon Hernandez

I was looking for a fastball. I got it on the good part of the bat. It went where no one could get it.

Carl Pohlad

Kirby's too good a guy to have something like this (stroke) happen.

Paul Marsh

Kinston paled a great game, and with them, it's always a battle. We didn't shoot well from the outside, but it's good to pick up that second win in a row.

Buck Showalter

Kenny was effective. They've seen Kenny so much. They hit some good pitches for hits. He bent, but he didn't break.

Alex Winter

Knowing that it is highly competitive, and I'm not the first person to say this, but good stories do tend to get made.

Kevin Towers

Khalil is an exciting, popular player. We think he's going to have a real good year, offensively and defensively.

John Crumbley

(Key West) had a tough week this week, but (starting pitcher Daniel) Foltz pitched a good game. It was good to be in this type of pressure situation.

Mike Quigley

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

Ted Cruz

I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.

Judith Sayers

There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but those negotiations will be between First Nations and government.

Lawrence Jackson

I think it's a pride issue for us. The more you win, the more you want to win. Why stop now? We want to make history.

Colin Hanna

I think it's an issue whose time has come.

Reuben Brewer

I think the most salient issue right now (in the industry) is how to make a buck.

Simon Crean

I think that the real issue is not just what they did then, but who else has been spied on and what does John Howard know about these circumstances,

Paul Charles

It is for Chubb and the RMT to resolve this issue as soon as possible.

David Dreier

We take this issue on one vote at a time,

Valerie Solanas

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes...

Walt Whitman

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Sandra Day O'Connor

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

Warren Farrell

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

Warren Farrell

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

Trisha Yearwood

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

Manuel Miranda

Roberts has soaked up the white male seat.

Jen Kirkman

I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics.

Emilie Autumn

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Nicki Minaj

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population

Elliott Abrams

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

James Lovelock

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

Garrett Hardin

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

William J. Clinton

Hope I lived up to my reputation for being slick.

Robert De Niro

Reputation, you know – a lifetime to build, seconds to destroy.

Warren Buffett

We can afford to lose money - even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation - even a shred of reputation.

Wayne Dyer

Your reputation is none of your business.

Willard Scott

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

Will Rogers

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

Washington Irving

Those who are well assured of their own standing are least apt to trepass on that of others.

Zig Ziglar

When you do more than you're paid for eventually you will get paid for more than you do. This is a basic truth that also applies to Business, Sales or anything you do. Whatever your endeavor always provide more service than you get paid for and you will develop a reputation that will separate you from the rest.

Frank Tyger

Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Wiz Khalifa

Being single doesn't necessarily mean you're available. Sometimes you have to put up a sign that says "Do Not Disturb" on your heart.

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Vince Lombardi

Leaders are made, they are not born

Ethan Russell

If there is one you had to single out, it would be Lennon.

Mike Purcell

He really wouldn't stand out in the crowd.

Holly Derrick

We told her, just standing there, in the street. It was bad.

Glen Taylor

I do not see that as a possibility. As I stand here, I just don't see a possibility that makes sense.

Fred Miller

He has that persona. He stands in there. He's poised.

Rick Riordan

Stand your ground!" Stheno yelled. "I've got free samples!

Robin Williams

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Wavy Gravy

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

Walter Scott

I like a highland friend who will stand by me not only when I am in the right, but when I am a little in the wrong.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

M. Wolfe

He was unique. He stood out from the crowd.

Rod Serling

Writers vary tremendously. Was it Tom Wolfe who stood up or was it [Ernest] Hemingway who had to stand up? I don't know.

Bob Dylan

You've got a lot of nerve, To say you are my friend, When I was down, you just stood there grinning

Ken Sawyer

They stood under it as if it were a shelter.

Annika Sorenstam

We stood at the tee and I told Suzann, 'We can turn this around and be 1-up. Suzann said, 'No, we could be 2-up.' I said, 'Yeah, you're right.

Tammy White

We all stood at the window and cried,

Ron Schiller

What NPR did, I'm very proud of, and what NPR stood for is non-racist, non-bigoted, straightforward telling of the news.

Courtney Adams

We just stood there and watched it burn.

Robert Brown

We two stood there with never a third.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

I was 11 years old and horse-obsessed. New York City was an unfortunate place for a girl like me to be growing up.

Aileen Quinn

I will always be a New York girl at heart, but I am really liking the L.A. lifestyle.

Gina Rodriguez

I can live in L.A. as a struggling artist. I cannot live in New York as a struggling artist.

John Catsimatidis

I think New York is destined to have a Democratic mayor, and I want Freddy Ferrer to be that mayor.

Mariska Hargitay

I'm an L.A. girl who became a tough New York cop.

Phil Esposito

I only see myself doing this in two places, New York and Boston.

Scott Westerfeld

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

Robert Parkes

You could take this place out and put it in New York City.

Fred Wilpon

You can't get much more New York than this.