Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hans Blix

Saddam Hussein has certainly figured himself to be a sort of emperor of Mesopotamia and the leader of the Arab world.

Carlos Haddad

The program has a duration of 52 minutes. It is too short a time to say everything I would like to say about the Arab countries. I like talking about the Arab people, and of their importance to the country.

Basmah bint Saud

On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

Marilyn Monroe

What I really want to say is that what the world needs is a feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, blacks, Jews, Arabs - we're all brothers!

Hannah Simone

The first concert that my parents took me to was in this canyon in Saudi Arabia called Buttermilk Canyon. You sleep under the stars in the desert, and ex-pats - German, Swiss, Canadian, American - would play classical music that filled the whole canyon.

Christopher Bellew

It will take a lot of time for this extra oil to be delivered by OPEC, ... The fears people had about supply interruptions still remain because of the instability in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Louie Gohmert

We see people in the Middle East begin to have dreams of new Ottoman Empire where everyone will be subjected to some of what we've seen happen in those countries where we helped bring about an Arab Spring that's turned into a Winter Nightmare.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

It is high time that the Arab world's professed desire for peace is matched by responsible action, and not more of the same equivocation.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Arab youth are taught to wonder, 'Since the Holocaust was a European affair, why are the Palestinians being forced to pay for the creation of Israel?'

Kathleen Sebelius

What we've been finding is that when you remove the barriers to innovation, you can actually hold costs down while lifting entrepreneurs up and getting better health results.

Hugh Williams

You become an explainer of certain things. You begin to lower barriers of ignorance for people who were genuinely curious.

Ray King

Baseballs haven't changed. They've been the same color for years and years. Now there is not really a color barrier in baseball the way there was back then. So let's recognize the guys that played the game the right way and deserve the recognition that they're getting.

David Foley

Those are significant barriers for us. But ... we're taking a long-term perspective. We're going take our time to build our brand, build our customers. We still believe this market has a great potential.

Doris Roberts

That's a social barrier I don't think we're ready to cross. It's two different worlds. Believe me, I know the import of the relationship of one to the other. We as a society, I don't think, are ready to see a woman. ... It's just very hard for me to imagine that.

Phil Garner

The interesting thing about him is that Dr. Mac, for all of the bravado about wanting to hold the line on dollars, became the first guy to pay a million dollars to somebody (Ryan). ... Fast-forward a couple of years, and people have somehow forgotten that this guy crossed a barrier that hadn't been crossed and treated Nolan great. I don't know all that went on between Nolan and Mac. OK, maybe it's probably not the bright spot, but it certainly shouldn't be how he's remembered.

Phil Garner

And a lot of people didn't realize he was the first to break the $1 million barrier in salary with Nolan (in the previous contract), ... As far as the players were concerned, we thought he was fantastic. He was tough but he was always fair and this was a first-class organization when he was here.

Chuck D.

This is a fantastic hold. We're probably looking at breaking the $200 million barrier by New Year's Eve. I think what you have here is a movie instantly becoming one of those holiday classics.

Gerard Burg

It's not out of the question that 80 dollars could be the next barrier if there's long-term damage.

John Jones

People talk about HP being a broken company, but they're not a broken company, ... Half of their business is printers and, they're growing at as much as 16 percent.

Amy Lowell

Love is a game-yes? I think it is a drowning.

Hal Stratton

We haven't had any fatalities with this particular product, ... But whenever we see broken limbs, particularly when it's in a situation where it's your bed, it's a very serious problem.

Tom Shields

Moving on after a break up is a great way to get back on your feet and start feeling happy again.

Michael Penn

Knowing when it is over is the beginning of a new life and the end of an old one.

Gilbert Parker

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

Will Estes

I try to date, but I take it so seriously. I am bad at having a casual relationship, so I kind of don't.

Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

Yogi Berra

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

Leslie Alperstein

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

Jim Young

And there is no such thing as a no-sale call. A sale is made on every call you make. Either you sell the client some stock or he sells you a reason he can't. Either way a sale is made, the only question is who is gonna close? You or him? Now be relentless. That's it, I'm done.

Ryan Evanochko

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Charles Grassley

Now is the time for each of us to stand up and demand change. Call your senators at once,

Jack Bicknell

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

John Marshall

It would be useful to the voters if Marc wanted to talk about the issues, but he's now proven he's incapable of civil debate. He's more interested in calling names. Holtzman is desperate for attention.

Mack Strong

It was very surreal. I came home one day and she said, 'You're moving.' I said, 'No, we're not moving.' Then about a day later I call a call from a coach and he said, 'Pack your bags.' That was a weird time in our history.

Juliette Lewis

It was traumatic and lovely. My character is always trying to get his attention, and I think she feels connected to him because the town judges her for whatever reason and thinks she's a trollop, a tramp, whatever you want to call her.

Joe Crede

Rules are rules and you got to follow them.

Bob Dylan

You're gonna have to serve somebody.

Kuntoro Mangkusubroto

We held a follow up meeting... they've done a good job.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I am a follower of Mahatma Gandhi.

Eric Walker

(Girting) told me to follow him, ... and he'd get me to the end zone. ... All I saw was the back of his jersey.

Gary Waters

I had a talk with Quincy. I told him ?You gotta lead this team. They follow your lead.? And he responded. This showed his maturity and his leadership.

Bobby Valentine

Koga put him in the No. 1 spot last year, and he got hot after that. I thought I'd follow suit.

Dilip Shanghvi

I am not comfortable at all with this tag of being dubbed 'the richest Indian' and all the attention that follows for the reason.

Randall Park

I don't want to be the actor who's followed by paparazzi, you know? I would like to just do good work and have that work be respected and acknowledged.

Tom Umberg

a little more outreach time with the political community.

Al Gore

Political will is a renewable resource, and everyone can have it in abundance if they so choose.

Dick Morris

Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Dick Morris

The greater informational levels of the voters, their decreasing inhibitions in expressing disagreement, and their greater preference for Jeffersonian direct involvement, all make the need for a 'permanent campaign' to sell a president's policies all the more crucial.

Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Thomas Paine

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

Victor Hugo

If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned!

Jim Hightower

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

George Washington

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

Jane Jacobs

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Blaise Pascal

All our reasoning boils down to yielding to sentiment.

Sandi Gibbons

This was the sentence that was allowable under the law.

Anatole France

The best sentence? The shortest.

James Joyce

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

Kathy Ireland

I was 40 before I learned that 'No' was a complete sentence.

Corrine Brown

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

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.

David Cameron

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

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.