Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

KNIGHT, n.Once a warrior gentle of birth, Then a person of civic worth, Now a fellow to move our mirth. Warrior, person, and fellow --no more: We must knight our dogs to get any lower. Brave Knights Kennelers then shall be, Noble Knights of the Golden Flea, Knights of the Order of St. Steboy, Knights of St. Gorge and Sir Knights Jawy. God speed the day when this knighting fad Shall go to the dogs and the dogs go mad.

Richard Boucher

Journalism is often a dangerous profession. Today, we take this opportunity to express solidarity with the brave journalists who risk their lives to inform the public and express their views.

Michael Drayton

Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.

Stockwell Day

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

Mark Rosenbaum

I think the homeless have just found shelter with the federal courts. I think it's a brave and courageous decision.

Chuck Prochaska

I think it's unfortunate because what we did for our readership was something that most newspapers were scared to do. I think Acton and I made a brave decision to publish the cartoons.

Brenda Jones

The owners at the time thought, well, were going to have to give all this money back, ... And he comes driving up, late, to do the show. Hed been to a Braves game.

John Donne

I have done one brave thing - Than all the Worthies did; And yet a braver thence doth spring - Which is to keep that hid

Scott Erwin

He was very brave and I'll miss him always.

Kelly Rowland

For a long time I wasn't happy, but that had nothing to do with Beyonce. That had to do with me trying to get my life in order and make better decisions for myself. I'm seeing all these wonderful things happen for her, and I am happy for her. But I want a path. I want things to pop off for me, too.

Gary Price

Know just what they have to and just what we have, but make decisions that serve all of us.

Deion Branch

I wouldn't say it was my decision. That was coach's decision and that is what I went with. Overall, I feel good and I think it helped.

Kelly Hughes

I would not term it a suspension. We do not disclose such information about students It was my decision that O.J. Mayo not travel or play with the team (tonight).

Jamie Mahaffey

I would not term it a suspension. He will not be traveling with the team and will not be playing in the game tonight. The decision was made by me.

David Stern

I would say to Byron let me make that decision and he should focus more on basketball. And if you see him, tell him that. We're going to be back.

Nick Saban

I would stop short of saying that Ronnie was 100 percent, but he did do everything in practice. Those decisions will be made on a day-to-day basis.

Pat Roberts

Kansas producers got an early present this holiday with the long overdue decision by Japan.

Larry Bowa

Joe tries to surround himself with good people. He relies on his staff. And yet, when there's a tough decision to be made, he makes it.

Graeme Souness

Kieron says he feels better now than at any time and that's encouraging. He has been extremely determined and shown strength of character, considering all the stories about him. It must have been, and is, a worrying time for him until he gets games under his belt. He deserves credit.

Byron Scott

Kirk (Snyder) deserves a shot. Kirk works his butt off every day. He's still out here. Matter of fact, do you see J.R.? (Smith had left.) That pretty much tells it. It's work ethic -- he has to work harder.

Stewart Downing

James has been playing well for a long time now, he deserves his chance,

Bobby Engram

(Jackson) is always going to be the primary guy, and he deserves that because he makes a lot of plays. I'm just trying to do my part and help us win some games.

Rob Douglas

Kelley is the kind of guy who deserves to be playing all the time. It's strange how he sort of blossomed out of nowhere. I think that's also what's so special -- there's a mystique.

Ryan Freel

I think it's a great signing. He has all the respect of the players and I think he's done a heck of a job since he's been here and I think he deserves this position.

Franco Carraro

Italy has been seeded because it deserves to be.

Phil Garner

He deserves that. Not only does he deserve it, that's the right thing for us to do in that situation. And that's what we've done.

Larry Rothschild

He deserves it. It's significant in a lot of ways. He's already established a record that's never been done before. Greg has a lot of pride in what he does, and it's significant to him, so I think it's important.

Ron Gardenhire

Kenny Rogers is not the guy he likes to face very often, so we sat him out. But he was ready to play. We've lost a lot of people, and Jacque is one guy who needs to step up.... Hopefully that's a good start for him to get on a roll.

Tim Thomas

Keep it simple and try to play it not like it's any old game because let's face it, it's not any old game for me. It's more important than that.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Arthur Jr.

Journalists should not have to face the prospect of imprisonment for doing nothing more than aggressively seeking to report on the government's actions.

Dana Williams

I swapped out the head for one with a face I simply loved. Seeing 'parts' on-line for sale is not uncommon, since many are interchangeable and some are no longer made, so you have to trade for replacements or alterations.

Rusty Hand

It actually was an important match. My senior year, probably the last time I'll face him unless I get him at districts, so yeah, it was an important match to me. I tried hard, but I didn't have the mental game today.

Monica

I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.

Erin Horn

I think it'll be a good series. We've faced good pitchers before and we did fine.

Dan Coughlin

He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.

King Abdullah

I know that you want to find a solution that the Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and harmony.

Mohammed Ghazal

The Israelis should reach that stage when they feel they should negotiate with us and at that time I don't think there will be a problem of negotiating with the Israelis.

Saeb Erakat

a monitoring system so they can tell the Israelis what the Palestinians are doing and what they are not doing.

Kim Howells

We all want to see Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and security.

Sandra Postel

Water is an undercurrent to tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.

Noam Chomsky

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

Dore Gold

Right now, Israelis want a security process rather than a peace process.

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Robert E. Lee

All military history records the triumphs of discipline and courage far more frequently than numbers and resources.

Robert Crippen

I was selected to be an astronaut on a military program called the Manned Orbiting Laboratory back in '67. That program got cancelled in '69 and NASA ended up taking half of us.

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Perle

Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after the first whiff of gunpowder.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Russell Baker

Industrial-strength foolishness sets in-in males, at least-at about the age of 18. This is why the military prefers males in the 18-to-25-year-old range when there's combat to be done.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Chamlong Srimuang

Our rally will persist until the prime minister quits.

Bill Clinton

In view of the American position, I don't see how your prime minister can be anything but really publicly very tough on this. I don't think he's got an option,

Chamlong Srimuang

If the prime minister doesn't resign, we'll stay here. We'll stay here for a very long time. We think that we are tougher than the prime minister.

Michel Lu

If necessary we will make proposals to the minister or even the president.

Jim Duffy

The Minister needs to work with Irish-speaking communities, not simply instruct them, as past Ministers did.

Zalmay Khalilzad

You can't have someone who is regarded as sectarian as the minister of interior.

David Blunkett

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.

Lemuel K. Washburn

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

Graeme Souness

He will have his operation tomorrow and he will be out for three months.

William Patterson

In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.

Maurice Luque

That's the end of the search, unless we get a missing-person report. Then it would be more of a recovery operation than a rescue.

David Butler

They'll have to shrink their operations and vigorously sell whatever they can.

Joseph Schwieterman

They have to completely revamp their operations to survive.

Dale Timmermann

It makes our operations show that there's a big surplus when you don't have a big surplus.

Carina Perelli

This has been a much more solid operation than the one we saw in January, ... It has been a peaceable election. Voters were much better prepared.

Kazimierz Krzowski

The rescue phase of the operation is over.

Charles Collins

Operation and maintenance of the water and wastewater systems have essentially been abandoned.

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Saeb Erekat

His words are (that) he won't give us anything on Jerusalem, on the (West Bank) settlements, on our refugees. What kind of peace can we make with those words?

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Robby Krieger

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

Atal Vajpayee

He (Lone) was working for peace; that is why he was killed.

Robert E. Lee

What a cruel thing war is... to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors.

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Robert Cray

I don't see how anybody cannot be political in this day and age. There's so much going on and you have to be aware and you have to vote. Our lives are political.

Russell B. Long

There are but three political-economic roads from which we can choose... We could take the first course and further exacerbate the already concentrated ownership of productive capital in the American economy. Or we could join the rest of the world by taking the second path, that of nationalization. Or we can take the third road, establishing policies to diffuse capital ownership broadly, so that many individuals, particularly workers, can participate as owners of industrial capital. The choice is ours.

Russell Baker

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the three most flamboyant political figures involved: Mark Hanna, Theodore Roosevelt, and Emma Goldman.

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Russell Brand

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

Nicole Perrot

The only thing I thought about was: Just stay in the present, ... This is my first win. It's special.

Steve Mansfield

We try to present users with what other users have found.

Doug Anderson

I think we need to put it in a referendum and present it to the people,

Shimon Peres

I think this is the end of the present government,

John Burton

I was actually present when she was examined. She wasn't pregnant. I know she wasn't pregnant.

Sheridan Samuels

I am here to work. I will have to work with the present administration because they are in charge.

Source Unknown

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Ed Goren

Present me a team, and I'll give you a story line.

Peter DeLorenzo

In the film, I present them as wanna be mobsters.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Steve Black

If you look at where the development goes, a lot of it is on prime farmland.

Tony Clark

It was prime property. It just wasn't hers.

Payne Stewart

I'm 42 now, what I would consider prime time.

Kamisese Mara

I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

Mahatma Gandhi

3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, but 9 is not prime; -in this incarnation.

Joel Chandler Harris

I am in the prime of my senility.

Dan Zimmerman

This is the prime time right now. They're there.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

W. Somerset Maugham

You must not pursue a success, but fly from it.

Michael Chang

In the 1980s and 1990s, no one wanted to touch a narrow-focused antibiotic, something that treated one or two things. Everyone wanted to pursue broad, across-the-board antibiotics. That's all changed.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Emile M. Cioran

Pursued by our origins…we all are.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.

Jerry Yang

The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.

Viggo Mortensen

I pursue the things I do because I'm interested in them.

Hosni Mubarak

Sharon is capable of making peace.

August Wilson

It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.

Tom Coughlin

He is starting to go through the throwing motion, ... He's doing soft-toss, not for any distance.

Nick Saban

Guys, let's get off this starting quarterback thing.

Sheray Thomas

I think we'll have another five-, six-game winning streak, starting with (Tuesday).

Kammron Taylor

I think we're starting to get our swagger back.

Anquan Boldin

I think we are just starting to get where we need to be.

Marcus Williams

I think that we know we're good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent, but we're starting to see flashes.

Rob Niedermayer

I didn't want to go. I really wanted to stay. Things were starting to go well. I was pretty disappointed when I got traded.

Dan McCarney

I don't know who the starting kicker's going to be.

Nancy Hague

I'm not a competitor. I do it strictly for me.

Steve Lekwa

And it will be strictly enforced. There will be a lot of unhappiness about it.

Arron Afflalo

When you're on the court, it's strictly about that.

Tom Coughlin

There was no fight. Were there discussions? There were discussions all week. I talk to a lot of guys, but that's strictly player-coach.

Gregory Peck

Ramon, whatever happens, it's strictly between you and me and the horse.

Roman Jakobson

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.

Robert Budi Hartono

I always assign auditors to strictly supervise the businesses.