Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry A. Kissinger

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Thomas Schieffer

We want the Japanese-American alliance to be a global alliance that will contribute to the peace and stability of the international community, as it has contributed to the peace and stability of Asia.

Bob Burns

We wonder if the Legislature would approve a law that violates freedom of speech protected by the First and 14th Amendments, simply to create a test case. It seems to be a peculiar approach to lawmaking.

David Fischman

The conventional approach in this country is not to proceed with the PFO until at least six to eight weeks have elapsed from the time of the stroke. Our protocol also dictates that the procedure is not done until and unless there has been a second stroke, except under certain conditions.

Jim Buckee

We're excited to be part of the museum's renewal and its innovative approach to presenting current, objective scientific information about environmental change to the public.

Jon Davidson

We want to be fair and perform due diligence on nominees. We are trying to figure out not just how he might rule on an issue but what his approach is. There are so many split decisions on the Supreme Court because they take difficult cases. You want someone who doesn't rule by gut reaction but will decide based on a commitment to core constitutional principles.

Don Gray

We want to assure our customers that this strategic approach will validate that our plans are in line with the projected growth.

Charles Cunniffe

We want to approach it carefully and do the right thing. They all had different leases. We're trying to figure it all out.

John Russell

What I expect is consistency of doing it right every day. Each day has to be a learning experience, but at the same time you have to be at the top of your game. That's tough to do, that's one of the things if you're going to be a major-league player the consistency factor of your daily approach has to be very good. That's what I expect him to improve on.

Steve Thompson

What we've been seeing in the Canadian Flathead is sort of a shotgun approach to industrial activities,

Joe Gibbs

What we try to do is be balanced. I think what we will try and do is have a balanced approach to the game. I don't think you can be one-dimensional in any way.

Paul Perry

I think that positions No. 2 through 7 could be inter-changeable all year.

William Joyce

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Liberty sustains the same relation to mind that space does to matter.

Sam Altman

AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

Vladimir Nabokov

while the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.

Paul Auster

I have difficulty orienting myself in space, and I'm probably one of the few people who gets lost in Manhattan.

Natalie Babbitt

People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.

Ken Wilber

Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth, and we are introduced to the mysteries of the deep, the call of the within, the infinite radiance of a splendor that time and space forgot

Krista Tippett

Being intellectually hospitable is a virtue that I bring into the interview space,

Kevin Pollak

I've loved the Internet space in terms of creative content control and ownership, the things I haven't had since I started as a stand-up comedian.

Andy Roddick

I cook a little - I've never taken classes or anything - but enough to get by.

Margaret Mead

If I were to be taken hostage, I would not plead for release nor would I want my government to be blackmailed. I think certain government officials, industrialists and celebrated persons should make it clear they are prepared to be sacrificed if taken hostage. If that were done, what gain would there be for terrorists in taking hostages?

Greil Marcus

I never find myself even catching lyrics until something in the sound has taken me captive. Thinking about anything else is just the pleasurable byproduct of wow.

Gregory David Roberts

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Ian Mckellen

Quite low down in the list is "How much am I going to be paid?"... my main feeling about money is that I don`t want to feel as though I`m being taken advantage of... The other actors they asked to play Gandalf wouldn`t go to New Zealand on that money for that length of time. I thought it would be a bit of an adventure... I`m an eccentric actor, and there`s a lot of us around.

Ian Anderson

There seems to be an inclination among rock musicians to be very carefree with money, but I negotiate the best flight and hotel deals on our tours to maximise the band's income - I don't want too see too much taken off the top line.

Iain Banks

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.