Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Gerard Kennedy

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

Tang Min

It is getting free from tedious affairs in order to serve more as a body that conducts guidance and supervision.

Jack Brooks

I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.

Edward McKendree Bounds

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.

Bible Bible

If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

John Adams

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last 30 years than Tom Paine.

Edward Everett

In this critical and anxious state of affairs General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army.

Ben Roethlisberger

I talked to Dan Marino. He told me to stay focused and that I'd get butterflies and be nervous and that there would be anxious feelings, but to make sure I stayed under control and not let it get the best of me. He said to enjoy it, have fun, because you never know if it's going to come back.

Vladimir Guerrero

I think it probably seemed like I was anxious because I was swinging at bad pitches. I was thinking about it, but I'm going to keep swinging. Sometimes it looks bad and sometimes it doesn't, but I'm not going to stop swinging.

Greg Haga

He?s always been a tough kid, but now he?s anxious to get in there and fight, to open up and mix it up. And that approach has created more opportunities for Jon to score.

Mary Shelley

I thought and pondered - vainly. I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.

Sami Kapanen

Last month I finally started feeling good, ... I was just anxious to get back -- with the new signings and the new rules -- and seeing as we were out for a year. Not being able to play the next couple of months will be hard.

Dave Clausen

I am extremely honored that the governor appointed me, and I am going to work as hard as I can to justify his confidence in me. I'm excited and looking forward to it. I know it won't be a cakewalk, but I'm anxious to get at it.

Lee Humphrey

I am anxious to see how this team plays in the conference. That is when you really find out how good you are.

Roger Sullivan

I am anxious to begin developing a strong roadmap for 3S, its products and solutions. Our goal will be to expand existing markets and identify new opportunities where our sensors provide our customers with a continuous stream of critical information about their products or business, with little or no human intervention. This is a great opportunity to tap into growing industries with specialized products developed to precise specifications.

French Proverb

He who is anxious for the death of another has a long rope to pull

Julian Barnes

I was also interested in the racial side of it. Even today, the Chief of the London Metropolitan Police is trying to make the force more representative of London and there's a lot of resistance from the predominantly white force.

Cesar Conda

Josh will be a policy-oriented chief of staff. I think that will be reflected in his hiring decisions.

Terry McAuliffe

He'll be back as a United States senator, or he's back as chief justice because he can run again. Or he'll be back as governor,

Matthew Szulik

Hal is an talented chief financial officer who has made valuable contributions to the company, and we wish him well in the future,

Teju Cole

Where land mines are indiscriminate, cheap, and brutal, drones are discriminate, expensive, and brutal. And yet they are insufficiently discriminate: the assassination of the Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud in Pakistan in 2009 succeeded only on the seventeenth attempt.

Larry Wall

The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris.

Peter DeLorenzo

Heroic in scale and impact, the Super Chief was what concepts should be all about: 'blue sky' thinking combined with an unmistakable foundation in reality. Take a long look at that front end, pickup fans, because that's what the next generation of the F-150 is going to look like.

Ricky Rudd

I have been privileged to drive for some of the best. I also want to thank all of the talented and dedicated people I have worked with in racing over the years, the crew chiefs and the crew members, who put in so much time and effort to give me competitive cars.

Zainab Salbi

Women have never been a chief negotiator in any UN-sponsored talks.

Scot Meeker

Jake had good command of his stuff. He did a nice job.

Jon Daniels

He was able to command it better than he has and he was able to manage the game better.

Eric Nieslanik

He kept his pitch count down, he had pretty good command. He always has good command of his pitching. We let him down early in the game, didn't make some plays for him and got him some runs, but he battled back and got out of some situations and kind of cruised there at the end.

James Cunningham

Gynecology is not my field and we have no command officers in this department who are schooled in that. If he is pregnant, he'll get his leave.

John Gibbons

His presence, that's a big boy. He commands respect that way.

Aaron Heilman

I threw all my pitches that were ready today. The split's always the last pitch to come around for me. My fastball command was good, and that's key for me.

Aaron Heilman

I threw all my pitches that were ready today. My fastball command was good, and that's key for me.

Bruce Bochy

I thought Eaton was better. His overall stuff and command were better. He should feel good about that outing.

O. Singh

Whatever He has done, has come to pass, how can we command Him?

Edgar Chen

He is one of the most critical high-level insiders that the prosecution has been able to produce.

Joseph Stiglitz

Greenspan's irresponsible support of that tax cut was critical to its passage.

Tony Vecchio

Her loss will be felt not just here locally, but world-wide due to the critically endangered status of this species.

Tom Daschle

I think it's critical that we offer minimum wage limits to all these jobs,

Matt Fidler

What ETS is hoping to do is test vocabulary in a different way under the umbrella of 'testing critical thinking' without the use of antonyms and analogies.

Tom Peterson

We've got to let ourselves play well at critical times in the match. Sometimes, we didn't even get swings.

Martha Stewart

I had a critical father. I'm more like my father. He was a sales rep for pharmaceutical companies.

Adam Barrett

I really thought it was critical for the fans to share in the experience.

Brian Finnerty

I really think the worst is over. And IBM is the critical reason.

Pat Hanlon

I wouldn't say disappointing. I think surprising is the right word. And that includes sales to the general public, not just the waiting list members.

Andrew Miller

It can't be right that ministers be given such wide and general powers.

Roland Hemond

There are so many demands, on general managers especially. Doug listens well to the scouts and player-development people. People are loyal to him because he's loyal to them.

William Hazlitt

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript

Bill Donald

I think it's going to be important, if we can get markets open in the same general are of the world. It will help instill trust in the product we were used to before the ban.

Richard Hughes

I think it's going to be a great adjunctive therapy. Patients generally like the robot. Many think of it as similar to a video game.

George Savile

It is a general Mistake to to think the Men we like are good for every thing, and those we do not, good for nothing

M. Wolfe

I am impressed that the stock market generally speaking hasn't been taking it worse than it has,

Rick Dinse

He is an individual that during our investigation, generally speaking, he never volunteered a lot of information,

Sergei Bubka

His statements are really crazy, we are really shocked.

David Wojciechowski

He?s going to play. It?s the state championship game.

E. O. Wilson

I was completely surprised at his statement (to resign).

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Quinnetta Claytor

We can do it, we can win state championships.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Willy Brandt

Peace, like freedom, is no original state which existed from the start; we shall have to make it, in the truest sense of the word.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Taro Aso

international responsibilities and the state of reconstruction work.