Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Carlos Fuentes

What I want is to respond to the challenge posed by the mass media - to permit the novel to say what can only be said by narrative - to allow it to be itself.

Brian Nelson

What I've learned in this game is that good teams don't let one loss overwhelm them or allow one win make them comfortable.

Dr. Schaffner

We cannot let our guard down, because a series of genetic changes could happen at any time that could allow this virus to pick up the capacity to move from person to person.

George H. W. Bush

We cannot allow the world's most dangerous nations to possess the world's most dangerous weapons.

Franco Frattini

We cannot allow safe havens in Europe, because now it is possible to escape due to the huge diversity in our laws.

Mark Riley

We cannot allow our pharmacists to take the hit for this administration's failed plan.

Carol Foreman

We cannot allow Magna to dictate to this industry how racing should run in this state, ... This plan has set us back in Annapolis. It has not been well received, make no mistake about it.

Nancy Johnson

We cannot allow families to get hit with unanticipated taxes on college savings just when they need them to pay for their children's tuition.

Liaquat Baloch

We are of the view that Indian movies spread obscenity and vulgarity. These (Indian) movies cannot be watched with family members and as such we will be opposing their exhibition in Pakistan.

Vauvenargues Marquis

We are often dismayed to find that even disasters cannot cure us of our faults.

Firman Gani

We cannot yet conclude the source of the blast.

John Murtha

We cannot win this militarily. Our tactics themselves keep us from winning,

Jacob Lew

We cannot win the future, expand the economy and spur job creation if we are saddled with increasingly growing deficits. That is why the president's budget is a comprehensive and responsible plan that will put us on a path toward fiscal sustainability in the next few years - a down payment toward tackling our challenges in the long term.

Steve Frank

We cannot win as a party that wants more regulation, more taxes and more Democrat judges. If he continues to do that, it's going to be a very long night in November for him.

Paulo Autuori

We cannot vulgarize the deaths. We can't keep talking about winning or being competitive while there are people dying.

Xia Bin

We cannot underestimate the possible loss to the reserves if, in the long run, the United States adopts a weak-dollar policy and we are still maintaining a high level of dollar reserves.

James Wolfensohn

We cannot turn globalization back. Our challenge is to make globalization an instrument of opportunity and inclusion -- not fear and insecurity. With all the forces making the world smaller, it is time to change our way of thinking, time to realize we live together in one world, not two -- this poverty is in our community wherever we live. It is our responsibility.

Sam Cassell

We're just the same old Clippers. That's all we are. We're just the same old Clippers. We want teams to continue to take us lightly.

Karolyn Grimes

Life continues to be difficult. It always will be because that's just life. But I am so glad I have put some happiness into the world.

Jason Hall

I always work hard on my game. I want to continue to improve each and every season.

James Rubin

But we have made clear, while we recognize the territorial integrity of Iraq, that we think it's important and appropriate for us to meet with ... Kurdish officials in northern Iraq, and we will continue to do so as we see fit.

Scott Gottlieb

But as generic drugs continue to play an increasingly prominent role in the health of Americans, we need to also continue to make sure that the generic drug program remains on stable financial footing.

Tracy Lefteroff

Barring catastrophic occurrences, we expect investing to continue in this range through the rest of the year. I'd say if you have a good deal, there is probably not a better time to go out looking for money.

Fadel Gheit

Barring any serious supply disruption, there is plenty of oil and prices could drop if the weather stays warm. But we have tremendous speculation in the markets driving prices, so there is no way to guarantee they will continue to fall.

Stephen Stanley

Barring an abrupt weakening in the economy, the Fed will continue to hike rates at a measured pace for the foreseeable future.

Ron Wister

I'm already pumped up for next year, because I see the improvement. If they continue to put in the work, they'll get better.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Chuck D.

The Illuminati is just the evil, 'nameless' people who are behind governments.

Daniel Inouye

There exists a shadowy Government with its own Air Force, its own Navy, its own fundraising mechanism, and the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.

David Attenborough

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

Daniel Webster

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

Andrew Cuomo

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me

Ambrose Bierce

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

Albert Bushnell Hart

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

Anna Quindlen

More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down--not by solving the problem, but by deciding it's their own damn fault.