Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynsey Addario

As a woman, I have tried to take advantage of the extra access I have in the Muslim world: with Muslim women, for example. Many people underestimate women in that part of the world because, typically, they don't work.

Bill Bradley

The most important thing we can do is use our authority to petition to get access to markets, ... The problem with agriculture in America is serious. In Iowa, it's dead serious.

Peter Clark

Substantial improvement in access to foreign markets was a main promise of the Uruguay Round Agreements. Canada has been very assiduous about living up to its WTO obligations. It has reduced subsidies - indeed; Canada did so faster than required, in part to reduce budget deficits, and in part because Canada always respects its international obligations. However, in general, farmers were not able to export much more of their products after the last round.

Sharon Hess

Southern Illinois University donated five laptop computers to the Red Cross so that they could go out and register people for FEMA, since so many need help but don't have access to a computer. We are still trying to figure out what kind of housing is needed and trying to help anyone who comes to our agency.

Steve Largent

Spectrum is the life blood of wireless, and by putting it to its highest and best use we are creating enormous economic opportunity because we are allowing the American consumer to access the most innovative and modern wireless services.

Marc Rotenberg

Once you enable third-party access to Internet-based communication, you create a vulnerability that didn't previously exist. It will put at risk the stability and security of the Internet.

Lucy Dalglish

Once you turn your hard drives over to a government entity and they have your computers, they essentially have access to the newsroom.

Julia Cameron

So much of our mythology around money centers on the illusion that if we had 'more,' we would be more comfortable and more able to access our creativity. But creativity and prosperity are spiritual matters, not fiscal ones.

Lord Warner

Practices must already offer quick access to a GP, but we will move to guarantee patients more flexible access if they want to book ahead.

Claude Mandil

What we decided was in response to a shortage caused by Hurricane Katrina, in a situation where there was lack of spare capacity, which is much more difficult to offset without the reserve release. The prices are a signal, but not the basis for us to decide. We are convinced that they have hurt the economy since last year.

Richard Cripps

We've set up a situation where a 25 basis point (a quarter percentage point) cut is good but you're looking at a market that's desperate.

Robert Lang

Are you telling me they're going to do a new urbanist village when the center of the economy is vice? ... Casinos in Mississippi were such a pariah land use that they were not even on land. Now they're going to be the basis of a traditional community?

James Robertson

Even though I'm quite well established, it's not always easy to have a real security of income for the next two to three years. It gives me the freedom to experiment with form and style, and not just write a conventional novel. It gives me the breathing space and the time. They are trusting me on the basis of my track record to produce something of value and quality.

John Shelby Spong

My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?

Rick Francis

We feel we can play pretty good defense, and any time you play good defense on a consistent basis you're going to be in the game.

Scott Handy

When we started off with Linux six years ago, we promised to invest $1 billion, and now we are getting that investment back on a quarterly basis going forward.

M. Wolfe

People who are on this campus on a day-to-day basis know the campus better than a consultant. It's very important for their input.

Condoleezza Rice

Nobody, especially the president, would have left people unattended on the basis of race.

Casey Stengel

I stayed up last night and watched the Republican Convention all night long. I watched all of them talk, and listened to them and seen them and I'm not interested in politics. If you watch them and listen to them you can find out why.

Harold Ford, Jr.

I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

Ralph Brennan

We need to be able to increase our efforts and the efforts of the CVB to sell the Convention Center. This is a huge investment for the state, and we need to make sure it pays off.

Justin Trudeau

In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.

Joan Didion

I lead a very conventional life.

Barack Obama

Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan.

George Takei

I thought this convention phenomenon was very flattering, but that's about the extent of it.

Peter Sealey

Advertisers have to find another way to deliver their message. Because of the decline in traditional media, they have to make themselves more interesting.

Trilby Lundberg

This is really a resumption of the 22-cent decline since the peak price, back on May 21,

Steve Edwards

We're past the peak and on the way down, but how far down we don't know. However, the kiwi's fall is helping and it will offset some of the decline in prices.

Randy Johnson

Was the decline in the union movement due to a lousy message, or are they going to try a different tactic that will be more effective? It still remains to be seen as all this unfolds.

Keith Schwer

Still, the one-month modest decline in the index is in line with the general trend of economic expansion since 9/11 (terrorist attacks) and the weakness of 2002.

Mark Snyder

The decline was probably linked to a shift in construction patterns. Last winter was a much harder one, and the construction season started later than usual.

Riccardo Marzi

The decline of oil prices will weigh on the market in the short term. BP Plc's results yesterday and geopolitical tensions are contributing.

Alan Bollard

The decline in the exchange rate will either be gradual, as domestic spending pressures ease, or it will be more abrupt as global investors reassess New Zealand as an investment destination.

James Caron

The decline in starts shows that higher interest rates are impacting the housing market. That is a story for the bulls.

Roger Stone

Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

J. Paul Getty

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

Claire Tomalin

I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did.

John Bolton

I think the uranium enrichment program is the 800-pound gorilla in the negotiating room. You can't solve a problem if you deny that it exists or if you wish it away.

N. Robert Hammer

There is no denying that downsizing can happen when a company receives private equity funding. It is unfortunate and hard on everyone who is affected.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We are here to affirm, not to deny... when we affirm all that is God, all that is not God is automatically denied.

Florence Hartmann

We officially deny that Mladic has been arrested. To our knowledge there is not even an operation ongoing to find him.

Bryce Dallas Howard

Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.

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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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

Cameron Diaz

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.

Alan Vega

It's easy for me to say that now, now I'm a father, I've got a four-and-a-half year old boy, I'm a different person. Well, I'm still the same person, but I'm different.

Blair Underwood

I haven't done a lot of things in my career that my kids can watch, because they are 8, 6 and 3, and they are pretty young; so given the concepts that the film was about a superhero, it was a black superhero, and it was a father and son type partnership.

Diane Cilento

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Clyde Tombaugh

I guess the two things I was most interested in were telescopes and steam engines. My father was an engineer on a threshing rig steam engine and I loved the machinery.

Bret Easton Ellis

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Billy Crystal

I never stopped believing in us and I never felt like I was wanting for anything, except for my father, and that was not going to be. I describe in the book [that] I don't think I ever felt young again in that way. I never felt I had my 15, 16, 17 kind of years the way I maybe should have. It's a huge dent in you that it's hard to knock out and make it all smooth again.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Bill Graves

When things go to 50%, in general there's still a pretty good selection. More than 50%, and you may get a good price on something, but it might not be what you want.

Rich Lowry

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Victor Hugo

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Robert Burns

Morality, thou ly bane, Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Henry David Thoreau

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Henry David Thoreau

What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.

Hugo Ball

Everywhere, the ethical predicament of our time imposes itself with an urgency which suggests that even the question Have we anything to eat? will be answered not in material but in ethical terms.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Marc Jacobs

And when I see students now, I just don't think they are prepared to work so hard. It comes too easy.

Chris Crocker

You can't be prepared for something you haven't seen.

Pat Frazer

What Fauquier does is nothing we weren't prepared for. But you got to do it, though.

Julie Gerberding

Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.

Steven Smith

I think the schools are prepared for some reduction.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

James Canning

It's a proposed vision for the city, and it was used as we prepared this year's budget.

Wolfgang Schauble

If you are prepared to run for public office, you also have to be willing to accept a debate about you.

David Fischer

We've been recommending that they go slow, be prepared to get out of the combine, be prepared to remove debris,

John Schultz

He was starting to get inquiries from relatives as to, 'Where's Dad?'

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Albert Einstein

The State is made for Mankind, not mankind for the state

Stirling Moss

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it’s the best state ever.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

Jack Nicholson

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Thomas Sowell

When all is said and done, the Constitution of the United States is a set of words on a piece of paper. The only way that the Constitution can protect us is if we protect the Constitution.

Michael Lewis

The United States stock market, the most iconic market in global capitalism, is rigged,

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Jeffrey Goldberg

There's nothing that the United States can do. Nothing that would change systems in the Middle East, nothing the United States can do that would make the Middle East a better place.

Jim Bishop

Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

Jesse Helms

The interests of the United States are better served by demanding reform and seeing that reform takes place than by removing our influence from the UN.

Hillary Clinton

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again.