Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Osnos

There was a docudrama that was made, called 'The Death Of A Princess,' which was about a true story in Saudi Arabia. It was about a public execution for adultery. And when the movie was aired on British television, the Saudi government threatened to cut off oil exports and to cut off diplomatic relations.

Greg Rusedski

There's a great opportunity for me to become British number one and it could happen very soon.

Greg Rusedski

There's a great opportunity for me to become British No1 and it could happen very soon,

Dana Allin

There's a general sense I think at least in the British Foreign Office and the British military that the U.S. tactics have been too heavy-handed and may be responsible for some of what we're seeing.

Alan Smith

When I was seven I started BMX racing. I could do tricks and when I was eight I was British champion - but the BMX trophy is the only thing I've ever won!

Tony Blair

We the British are a people that stand by our friends in time of need, trial and tragedy, and we do so without hesitation now.

Ann Macbeth

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads.

John Reid

The death of this British soldier in Iraq deeply saddens me. All our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this very difficult time.

Freddy Adu

The contract is for six years. We'll see after that. It has always been a dream of mine to play in the British Premier League for a team like Manchester United.

Ari Fleischer

When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone.

Tom Griffin

When you reach out for help and it's just not there, it's like signing a death sentence. The more they cut beds, they are killing people on the streets.

Ed Silliere

There's no anticipation they're going to cut production. Some people were wrong, and they're getting out.

Brian Holsinger

There's no ill will on my side. I have no issues with any of the kids. I did not cut any of them at all. But there is turnover with any new coach.

Eric Turner

There's no way . . . it will fly, ... The school district is going to have its highest tax increase ever, and now we pile on. We better learn to cut costs.

Mark Tinker

There's nothing in this statement that we didn't already know, ... Telecom operators have not been spending and six months ago we thought Marconi would go bust. Its priority is to cut debt.

Adam Cole

is still hoping to squeeze one more interest rate cut in.

Taquan Dean

We've played with all the top teams in the league. We just have to cut down on the mental mistakes at the end of the game and not let them be a factor.

Jay Wright

What happened? I thought this was a home game for us and all of a sudden when they cut it to seven, that shocked me. Where did all those people come from?

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Ani Difranco

You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.

Anthony Jeselnik

I was always fascinated by forbidden things people didn't want to talk about, like death.

Ann Druyan

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

Ann Landers

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

Amy Winehouse

My husband is everything to me and without him it's just not the same.

Amanda Crew

At some point, we all have to let go.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Death, with funereal shades in vain surrounds me, My reason through his darkness seeth light: 'Tis the last step which brings me close to Thee: 'Tis the veil falling, 'twixt Thy face and mine.

Aeschylus

A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

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.

Alexander Hamilton

It will follow that that government ought to be clothed with all powers requisite to complete execution of its trust.

Alexander Hamilton

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.

Alexander Hamilton

But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to the United States.

Alexander Hamilton

The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation.

Alexander Hamilton

If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.

Alexander Hamilton

Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with the probable exigencies of ages, according to the natural and tried course of human affairs. Nothing, therefore, can be more fallacious than to infer the extent of any power, proper to be lodged in the national government, from an estimate of its immediate necessities.

J. Paul Getty

Some people find oil. Others don't.

J. Paul Getty

If you get up early, work late, and pay your taxes, you will get ahead -- if you strike oil.

Ivan Krastev

Bulgaria has been deindustrialized by interest groups who extracted state assets like oil states extract the oil in their ground.

George Herbert

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

Gary Kovacs

The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

Jerry Brown

Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.

Jerry Brown

California is the third largest oil producer. More importantly, California burns more oil, consumes more oil than any state or collection of states in America.

Hunter S. Thompson

And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.

Patanjali

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Charles Kingsley

Love is sentimental measles.

Laura Bush

but we'll see if it's true once we get to New Orleans.

Ellen G. White

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Charles Dickens

My heart is set, as firmly as ever heart of man was set on woman. I have no thought, no view, no hope, in life beyond her; and if you oppose me in this great stake, you take my peace and happiness in your hands, and cast them to the wind.

Charlize Theron

Beauty is more than skin deep.