Famous Quotes & Sayings

John R. Allen

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.

J. Taylor

Quite frankly, you've had a lot of companies that came public too early. In markets where we've had a large sell-off, IPO stocks tend to be the ones that are abandoned first - and the e-health sector is rather new. Most of these companies have not even been public a year.

Ed Rollins

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

Timothy Garton Ash

What we in the community of established liberal democracies should do is not abandon the pursuit of democratisation but refine it.

Gifford Miller

We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Martin Baily

While the short-term growth outlook is somewhat weaker, the underlying economic fundamentals remain strong. This is not the time to abandon fiscal discipline in favor of large tax cuts. Maintaining a fiscal surplus helps keep interest rates attractive for investment.

Laura DiDio

Corporate customers want and are demanding that their vendors abandon divisive rhetoric and useless posturing and get on with the business of working together constructively,

Eliot Spitzer

Warner Music has illegally provided radio stations with financial benefits to obtain airplay and boost the chart position of its songs, ... abandon the industry-wide practice of providing radio stations and their employees with financial incentives and promotional items in exchange for airplay.

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.

Ian Thomas

Under a code share relationship, it's very much a commercial relationship that allows the carriers to operate independently, even though they might be sharing seats on the same aircraft.

David Burks

The consumer long-distance sector is viewed as an albatross for all of the long distance carriers these days. AT&T is not the only one considering such an action.

David Stewart

At last count, there were about 50 low-cost carriers in Europe, which is totally unsustainable.

Tom Parsons

As we forecasted yesterday, it took less than 24 hours for the five remaining legacy carriers to match Delta's moves.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Vince Lombardi

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Daily Express

The terrible events of yesterday were like scenes from a Hollywood fantasy film,

Umberto Eco

Today, political events are nullified unless they're on TV.

Scott Brown

We did real well. Having three girls in five events and we got 10th, I'll take that.

Roland Swenson

We've seen big events go down very fast.

Wendy Cheung

There are a lot of events happening this month and we hope lots of people will come to them.

Kevin Mawae

What Pop Warner does for kids on and off the field is great. It's nice to take part in events like this. It is all about youth football and it is the future of our sport.

Chris Bucknam

You have to have the right surface, the right field events venues and the right track width in order to win those bids.

Tom Williams

We will try to exploit our depth. We would like to send two kids (to state) in five to six events that can score. That's one factor we can control.

Bruce Brown

As a CPA, I have the experience to prepare financial statements.

John Davis

Our experience has been very, very good. They are very comfortable, one doesn't think that they will be. They ride well ... we've had very little problem with them.

Sally Paine

Or they can just show up, sign in and walk around and volunteer. No experience is necessary.

S. Walker

Now I've got so much more experience and I feel way more confident.

Jeff Lacy

Sometimes you need a loss to win. I think it could be a good learning experience for me. Joe is a great champion. I shot for the No. 1 guy in the division. Maybe someday we can do it again.

Donna Mechley

These sophomores have limited experience at the varsity level. But they are all playing very well as of now.

Igor Andreev

This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.

Joe Kasper

This is going to be my last year. I hope to get a little experience in the field.

Chris Dancy

The whole idea is to get someone who has thought about flying, but hasn't taken that first step, to get out there to experience it. That way he can get a pretty good idea if he wants to become a pilot or not.

Charles Schumer

Any talk of dismantling it would be inappropriate given its unique expertise and resources.

Carl Jacoby

But it won't be with my merchandise, my expertise or my wife's.

Eduardo Ermita

He can be removed and, as a CESO, he can be moved to another place where his expertise can be utilized,

Tom Sykora

It's something we didn't have the expertise to do.

Malcolm Gladwell

Often a sign of expertise is noticing what doesn't happen.

Steve Willsey

We led them in. They had the rescue expertise but we had the knowledge of the cave.

Ian Macdonald

As IT projects come up, we go in and do the research into the technology and identify what level of risk and exposure that it gives to the company.

Atsushi Osa

Most of the Japanese automakers have a lot of exposure in the U.S. and it's important for their overall performance how the U.S. market performs.

Bill Self

Today couldn't have been scripted much better for Kansas. This did a lot for our program from an exposure standpoint. Playing well was icing on the cake.

Brian Ross

It's an interesting concept. I don't see it as a threat at all. The plus side is that it will reach people who can't come to the theater. In the end, it will mean new exposure for this smaller product.

Flula Borg

More exposure has give to me more discipline because I am seeing that more people are wanting to observe what I am making/filming/singing; this does motivate me to make videos for every week.

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Aaron Rowand

After playing 14 innings, when my head finally hits that pillow, I don't think I'm going to have any trouble sleeping tonight.

Bela Lugosi

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

Linda Kilpatrick

We're just too inconsistent right now. We're not ready for the playoffs. We're not playing like we should be in the playoffs. Our players need to do a little self-analyzing before our final three games.

Charles Bukowski

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

Cameron White

To get to the final would mean everything.

Amleto Monacelli

To get to a television final in the last major of the year is what it's all about.

Pete Carroll

Tonight the offense was just rolling. We finally got rolling in the turnover situation. We've been quiet lately. Stanford has been such a stingy team. We wanted to turn that thing around. To get five and give none, we loved that.

Neil Tovey

There is still a lot of room for improvement. If he works on his final touch he would be able to score many goals because he can position himself very well.

Chan Gailey

We had the opportunity to make the play in the final minute, and we just didn't make the play. I guess that's life. I don't like it, but I guess that's life.

Philip Glass

And then I went back to New York and found other people doing it. A handful of people.

Mahmud Abbas

President Mahmud Abbas on Friday November 11, 2005 laid the foundation stone of the mausoleum of the late president Yasser Arafat,

Randy Ridley

This is the foundation of the whole season. These are the guys that we really want to look at who we feel will be an important part of our season.

Bob Macey

This is the culmination of everything we said we would be doing. The foundation and the supporters of the foundation made this happen.

Ira Kurzban

The wet-foot, dry-foot policy has no foundation in law.

Vandana Shiva

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Boris Kodjoe

I knew immediately that she was going to be in my life forever. I didn't know in what capacity, but I knew that I had found someone who was going to be close to me for a long time. We became great friends fast.

Russell Feingold

Even the Heritage Foundation is interested in that kind of approach,

Paul Kern

We found that the pictures you have seen, as revolting as they are, were not the result of any doctrine, training or policy failures, but violations of the law and misconduct,

John Sherman Cooper

Rather, like the anarchists of the last century, he didn't care if he was killed or not. They just wanted to be known. We found no trace of any conspiracy.

Michael Redd

I've thought of guys, whether they were here last year or not, and doing something special for them.

Shane Olivea

This is probably the worst performance we've all played, together, in the last two years.

Brooks Bollinger

This is so tough, ... People on the outside don't realize how tough it is to get to the playoffs. Last year, we were one victory away from a championship game.

Brian Tracy

Do your own market research; ask your last ten customers exactly why they bought from you.

Jane Jacobs

A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.

Channing Tatum

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

Steve Spurrier

What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.

Bobby Lutz

We're a better team right now, the way we've played the last 10 games.

Wayne Gandy

It was the normalcy we've been looking for.

Mike Browning

You're looking at the young guys. You're not looking to win, just to get a win.

Nick Vujicic

If you're looking for happiness in things, you'll never find it.

Sandy Greenberg

We're looking at palm trees now to replace the shade trees.

Allen Iverson

We're looking at our own sizes, we're looking at our friends' sizes,

Jared Bernstein

We're looking at a recession/jobless recovery that's two years old to the day.

Bobby Shelton

I'm a little set back. I had no idea they were looking at retirement. I thought it would stay around for many, many years kind of like the old B-52s did.

Chris Rudge

One would rightfully say that you shouldn't just be looking at the quantity of medals, you should also be looking at the quality of medals.

Kate Jackson

She was looking for something that she really wanted to do. Something that made her happy. And this did,

Tom Browning

I've never seen a reaction like it, it's just incredible.

Renee Fleming

I'm not a reactionary.

Brian Tracy

The future belongs to the risk-takers, not the comfort-seekers .

Brenda Blethyn

At the risk of sounding naff, it is having hope fulfilled

Brian Ferneyhough

If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.

Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Alicia Silverstone

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

Anne Lamott

Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?

Alfred Adler

Courage is not an ability one either possess or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it. Given that life offers few guarantees, all living requires risk-taking.

Angela Merkel

...climate change is accelerating. It threatens our well being, our security, and our economic development. It will lead to uncontrollable risks and dramatic damage if we do not take resolute countermeasures.

Anthony Bourdain

Good food and good eating are about risk.

Chris Duerksen

This is simply something you don't have right now.

Becky Lourey

I don't just want to talk about goals. I know we can get there. We simply can't wait.

Paul Cleave

You simply couldn't make a living as an author if New Zealand was your only market.

Howard Hawks

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level.

John Roberts

I was a staff lawyer, ... I didn't have a position.

Paul Tagliabue

I think that I see (finding a replacement) as one of opportunity. I told the staff that we have a lot of things in place, a lot of initiatives under way.

Brandon Sanderson

People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort.

Ayn Rand

He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning...

Benjamin Cardozo

The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more.

Brad Pitt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Jan Schakowsky

In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.

Jamie Dimon

Unraveling the euro is a terrible thing. This is a 50-year endeavor to get this continent together and that's a wonderful endeavor.

Catherine Opie

I do photograph things for people to look at 100 years from now. But we're such a mediated society that things become historical the next day.

Al Yankovic

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

Al Davis

If it weren't for a new rule that came into being, we'd have played three years in a row in the championship game.