Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack Kelly

The Bush Administration got it right when it claimed that the world is indeed flat despite media and scientific community criticism. John D. Sailor, a veteran seaman of some six voyages, has reported that he has been to the edge, and peered into the abyss.

Mary Landrieu

The Bush administration can't investigate its own failures,

Paul McMasters

The Bush administration came to town with the purpose of exerting better control over information as a way of restoring power to the executive branch.

Jose Serrano

The Bush Administration calls President Chavez a threat. I agree- he is a threat. A threat to poverty, illiteracy and injustice.

Mike Johanns

The Bush Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture are now very supportive of renewable energy.

Phyllis Schlafly

The Bush Administration and Congress should fix the injustices caused by the feminist-enforced Title IX quotas, which specify that the proportion of men to women who participate in competitive sports cannot exceed their proportional enrollment in college.

Jack Jennings

The big question is will the Bush administration be able to defuse this political opposition.

Holly Cartner

Azerbaijan has a poor human rights record, yet it is an important U.S. ally. This is a key moment for President Bush to take a principled stand on human rights and to clarify the administration's expectations.

Charles Gabriel

A year ago, people were making lists of Bush stocks and Gore stocks. Bush stocks were easy to pick -- they were stocks oppressed by the Clinton agenda, such as tobacco, or ignored, such as defense.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Joseph P. Bradley

As marriage and the family institution constitute the foundation and chief cornerstone of civil society, it is of the greatest moment that the marriage-tie should never be dissolved save for the most urgent reason. I cannot assent, however, to the doctrine that it should never be dissolved at all.

Alaa Makki

People cannot walk 10 or 12km, but the election commission isn't putting in more polling stations.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The moment of truth has come. I cannot sanction a decision which threatens state security,

Al Harrington

Defensively, I guess you could say they took us out of it. They are playing much better defense than they have in the past. With a team like that, with so much offensive firepower, you cannot get behind.

Enrique Manzanilla

Companies distributing products over the Internet cannot ignore federal pesticide laws. Due to the scope of the Internet, these products have the potential for negative impacts on human health and the environment over a wide geographic area. All pesticide producers need to ensure that their products meet all federal and state regulations.

Peter Bakker

Companies cannot solve worlds problems all on their own, that's not what we are trying to do with our partnership with WFP,

Randy Rogers

Code Enforcement will be provided noise meters. Off-highway vehicle riders cannot disturb the peace.

Abhishek Singhvi

Coalition partners do not or cannot have veto power especially on matters related to foreign policy.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

Ben Okri

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Barbara Kingsolver

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

Barbara Kingsolver

Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Ayelet Waldman

I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

Brad Meltzer

She wasn't tracking down her father to learn more about him. She was tracking him down to learn more about herself.

Brad Pitt

With sons and fathers, there's an inexplicable connection and imprint that your father leaves on you.

Jane Fonda

How would you like to have a father who keeps getting younger looking every year? Do you realize what that can do to a woman?

Abby Cohen

Opportunities are likely to present themselves, especially given a 6- to 12-month time horizon.

Patti LaBelle

I've never ever given you less than I can give. I'm gonna give you everything you deserve.

Stevie Jackson

I've always just given myself to the band, if you know what I mean, and been busy with that.

Jennifer Crider

I've already given you an answer. I've talked to six reporters about this today, and everyone else has been able to understand that sentence and write it.

John Kasich

So when they don't have certainty, they go the other way. In Ohio, we have given them certainty and things have been improved. But if we can get a Romney presidency, they are going to get much better.

Chris Klug

One day I was on my deathbed. The next day I was given a new lease on life.

Carmelo Anthony

Now I do. I never really listened to them (before). Just seeing their merchandise and listening to them here and there (has given him an appreciation).

Jennifer Pahlka

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you're one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

Jerome Bettis

Thank you for all the memories that you've given me and the way that you've taken me in.

Henry Ellis

The sun and the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

Steve Kerr

This ranks right up there, ... Right up there at the top with anything that happened with the Bulls.

John Green

Whenever you use historic models, the housing market is going to be underestimated, and I think this is what has happened here.

Terrell Owens

When I haven't been outside signing autographs, I've been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that's what happened today.

Doug Elmendorf

Yes. We do think that the stimulus package is raising GDP and raising employment relative to what would have happened otherwise.

David Wright

We had a respectful disagreement. It has happened before and it will happen after me.

Steve Robinson

We've had such a strong run that a pullback was inevitable, and what we see today is just the reflection of what happened in the metals market.

Rob Parsons

Everyone's talking about it, ... I mean it's a huge thing that happened here.

Pierre Turgeon

At that point, I don't know what happened on the bench. I was just so happy about putting the puck in the net.

Brian Tracy

The product has to work. It has to be a good product. An enormous number of them are all hype with no value at all. People get into them because they want to make a lot of quick, easy money.

Derrick Rose

I just don't want to get caught up in the hype.

David Chamberlain

What this means is a return to sanity. There has been so much hype and so many promises made and promises broken.

Aesop

Appearances are often deceiving.

George Santayana

A conception not reducible to the small change of daily experience is like a currency not exchangeable for articles of consumption; it is not a symbol, but a fraud.

Fergie

I love Nelly. He's such a great performer. He's so hyper and so am I.

Harry Shearer

The last president we had was the smartest guy anyone could remember and he did the dumbest thing anyone has ever seen in the White House so go figure.

Shane Larkin

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball.

William Friedkin

The studios are making fewer films. They are making more expensive films. Profits are tougher to come by. Not only because of the expense of production. But also because of the expense of promotion and hype. To boil that all down, it's more about hype than it is about filmmaking.

Fatos Nano

The Socialist Party has a mission of peace,

Susan Mitchell

These recent seizures demonstrate that our officers are aggressively and effectively pursuing our traditional mission of narcotics interdiction.

Eric Anderson

There will only be one first private mission to the moon,

Geoff Hoon

to do so would risk the operational security of the mission and potentially the safety of our forces.

Philippe Perrin

This mission was the project of a decade's work.

Don Kelly

We are going to be here until the mission is complete,

John Phillips

You have to think of staffing in terms of the mission. And if the mission is working within the community, those positions are justified.

Jeffrey Hammond

We're going to be in the outer cordon-type mission of controlling traffic, posturing ourselves in a position where if we have to respond, we can react immediately,

Paul Theroux

I feel as if my mission is to write, to see, to observe, and I feel lazy if I'm not reaching conclusions. I feel stupid. I feel as if I'm wasting my time.