Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward James Olmos

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Eddie Murphy

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

Hafeez Khawaja

WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Chanel Iman

Mostly I'm proud to be an African-American woman, but I'm glad I have a universal look as well.

Wayne White

We've all seen the progression of ideologies in Arab society,

Ghassan Khatib

We believe that the Palestinian leadership should be treated by the Israeli government like they treat other Arab governments.

Eskinder Nega

I've never conspired to overthrow the government; all I did was report on the Arab Spring and suggest that something similar might happen in Ethiopia if the authoritarian regime didn't reform.

Moshe Sharett

As for the future, we are equally determined to explore all possibilities of getting rid, once and for all, of the huge Arab minority which originally threatened us.

Daniel Cohen

Yes, I'm scared. Very very scared. I have not been to an Arab city, and I don't know what to expect. All of the stories I've heard are one big jumble. I am interested, and I want to go, but I nearly decided not to.

Dana Perino

A terrorist will try to exploit every possible means to carry out their evil plans. The fact remains, however, that the United Arab Emirates has been a strong and valuable partner in the global war on terror.

Stephen Kinzer

Accepting that Arabs have the right to elect their own leaders means accepting the rise of governments that do not share America's pro-Israel militancy.

George S. Patton

It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.

David Harris

American Jews are schizophrenic. Our polls year after year after year show the very same thing: On the one hand, on the peace process options, a majority of American Jews support - let's call it the liberal option. At the very same time, a clear majority of American Jews in the next breath say the real goal of the Arabs is to destroy Israel.

Leith Kubba

We strongly condemn these attacks and offer our condolences to the families of the victims.

Bob Garcia

We have never had bites, attacks and injuries as we have seen with any breed like we've had with pit bulls.

Nancy Merrill

Women often have atypical symptoms of heart attacks when compared to men.

Leonard Mlodinow

The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.

Yumi Oshima

At first, the doctors were unable to diagnosis her. She also had three heart attacks back in December before she was finally diagnosed later in the month.

Jomo Gbomo

At a time of our choosing, we will resume our attacks with greater devastation and no compassion on those who choose to disregard our warnings.

Jason Miller

A couple months back, I noticed it full of attacks and inaccuracies, so I replaced it with one of our biographies.

Enrique Salem

A lot of the new attacks are targeted at individuals or corporations, and so the notion of trying to write a signature for each one of these attacks doesn't make sense any more.

Brian McCabe

a man of great character who deserves genuine consideration and not automatic attacks and partisan indignation.

Bill Gates

The personal Web is a tool that brings together all the good things we're used to in a new world of communications, ... It will make us think differently about the PC and the Internet.

Chris Hernandez

The only reason I think about it is that you guys (reporters) bring it up. It's worse if you think about it, so I try not to.

Greg Wilkins

We are pleased to reach this significant milestone. The powerful combination of these companies will bring the assets, people and projects together to deliver value to all stakeholders.

Rod Thorn

We are pleased to bring Cliff back. He is a seasoned player who defends well in the low post and can also step outside to make a three-point shot.

Ed Huydic

We started to bring our four and our five players out to be distributors instead of keeping them on the inside because (Ridgefield) stretched their zone so well and we were really having trouble with the passing angles.

Bobby Jackson

We started this really for race relations, to bring people together from all races and to show that people can get along. Before the race we brought about this heritage house to promote unity.

Melissa Gregory

We started talking via e-mail for a couple of months. Then we decided to bring him over for a tryout. From the first time we skated together, we just knew.

Stu Walters

We struggle offensively. Defense is what keeps us around. Senior forward Evan Walker brings it every night defensively, he works his butt off. All our guys do.

Andrew Pantano

We are a full-service caterer that will bring everything to an event from the food to the tables, the liquor, decorations and of course a professional staff.

Jesse Jackson

We want the people resettled and the damages paid for lives lost and lives injured.

Gary LaGrange

The outcome is not good. Yesterday, I thought the damage could have been worse; but today, I'm not so sure.

Li Bingbing

The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.

Carrie Ann Inaba

I love the show 'Damages!' I am truly addicted.

Cherrie Moraga

To assess the damage is a dangerous act.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

Bill Vaughan

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

Michael Morris

would be surprised if we couldn't prove damages north of $1 billion.

Steve Mitchell

We're still assessing the damage, but we now realize it is more in the range of $10 million. We just have a better idea of what the damage is.

Helen Clark

would now be able to resume friendly diplomatic relations.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Daniel Shea

This diplomatic move has stopped the suit right in its early stages.

Hasan Askari

This breakthrough is a diplomatic plus for Pakistan.

Gerhard Schroeder

There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,

Nicholas Burns

It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.

Joseph Cirincione

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

Pamela Falk

The more defiant Iran becomes, the more the spotlight is on the U.N. to try to find a diplomatic solution.

Kofi Annan

stress the desirability of a peaceful and diplomatic solution, but events on the ground may be running away from us.

Ed Asner

I will always have enough money to last the rest of my life...as long as I don't buy anything.

Lou D'Ermilio

We acknowledge it's a valuable graphic enhancement. Unfortunately, in this economic climate, we've been forced to tighten our belt, and it's an expensive enhancement.

Stephen Leeb

We are probably on the verge of an economic recovery.

Mary Farrell

We are at a moment here in economic time that things are really going remarkably well on virtually all fronts and that's why you see the market at all-time highs.

Phil Pantano

We want everyone to understand what we've done and what we plan to do. We're talking about jobs, investment and economic opportunity.

Bill Maher

We survived the 1980's. Back then, the economic program was called 'trickle down.' That actually meant they were pissing on you. How the whole theory goes was this: 'We have all the money. If we drop some, it's yours. Go for it.'

Chris Lynch

There is no question that there is going to be an economic impact from the expansion in the short term. We're unsure at this point as to how great the impact will be.

Khalid Malik

There is no question that more can be done to mend the gap that so often triggers social unrest when economic growth on a national scale leaves the poor and disadvantaged behind.

Natalie Massenet

Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.

Patricia Hewitt

There is no question of the NHS being privatised.

Jim MacDonald

There is no question it has to happen.

Joel Hollander

We're going to take a hit, no question about it.

Tom Jr.

With the wind blowing, (and) shooting 2 under here, you've got to be happy, there's no question about that.

Susie Wisniowski

We're going to have to come up with some sort of strategy. There are just so many questions.

Bill Uttley

The more questions that are being answered, the more get asked.

Bob Garcia

It's a severe bite. Certainly, it's up there with the worst we've seen. There's no question about it.

Derrick Brooks

A lot of questions have to be answered,

Rich Gadomski

They may be worn out, over-used, mishandled, abused. It is a question of how reliable is the source you got it from. Unfortunately, that is not always a very safe bet.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Lincoln Chafee

It's a very tenuous security situation, ... I'd been there a year ago -- what a change.

Christopher Shays

Awesome. This wasn't about Connecticut. This was about the security of the United States. & It was an overwhelming vote by the commission.

Max Baucus

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Chuck Austin

Our distributed support and security system was failing.

Richard Pennington

The things we need for security aren't getting done,

B. F. Skinner

The security for this is incredible. It's taken me by surprise, actually.

Rosemary Jenks

They always look for a shortcut when it comes to security.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Charles Caleb Colton

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.

Charles Caleb Colton

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Clive James

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Albert Camus

It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.

Anatoly Chubais

It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.

Timothy Garton Ash

The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.

Thomas Jefferson

If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Robert H. Connelly

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

Jerry Costello

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.

Evan Osnos

The United States, of course, in the late 19th century was extraordinarily corrupt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Sam Curry

This is Old World crime, but it's using new tools.

Edward Looney

We're using the word 'gambling' more often now.

Stephen Chbosky

So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

Shaun White

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

Theodore Sturgeon

I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

Maxwell Maltz

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Silas Lee

There's a lot of frustration. Whether or not all the incumbents get defeated, that is to be seen.

Teresa Heinz

I've always worked on bipartisans, whether it's on healthcare, drug reform, et cetera. All my work is bipartisan, because what I'm - as nonpartisan actually, because I look for solutions. I'm very practical.

T. Boone Pickens

I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.

Simon Sinek

Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.