Famous Quotes & Sayings

Calvin Hill

I came to understand that women often keep it together by stepping into the breach to provide for and protect their families.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I am horrified by Cosatu's call to the President to break his oath of office, as well breach the Constitution, by interfering in the administration of justice in respect of the (Jacob) Zuma case,

Wayne Fisher

Our position is they need to do the right thing and honor their obligation. In our opinion this is a clear-cut case of breach of contract and we intend to seek redress in the courts.

Frank Murkowski

Clearly, this is an extraordinary breach of national security, ... The last time we went through this with the Wen Ho Lee case, and now we find ourselves right back where we started.

Des Gleeson

The issue of horse welfare is of paramount concern for us. We regard this is as a very serious breach of the rules of racing.

Sue Trinh

The continued failure to breach topside resistance at $1.22 will see some investors turn bearish on the single currency.

Frank Hilldrup

The fire was very intense in that area, it did breach the fuselage.

Jack Straw

The conclusion is now inescapable that Iraq is in material breach of Resolution 1441, ... But, I also say this: That war is not inevitable.

Tony Blair

The judgment has to be, at the present time, that Saddam Hussein is not cooperating with the inspectors and therefore is in breach of the U.N. resolution. And that's why time is running out.

Amelia Torres

We can confirm that we received the request last week. We are assessing it ... and expect to come to a conclusion in May.

Charles Stross

I am a lazy, cynical, middle-aged guy who has long since come to the conclusion that most historical periods really sucked, for most people, most of the time.

Seneca

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct

Robert Falcon Scott

I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

David Vladeck

If you only read half the statute, you can come to that conclusion (that expert fees are not allowed). We think their reading overlooks half the statute.

Larry Gray

That's something that's being looked at but there's no conclusion yet.

Greg Burke

That is a very nice conclusion to a great story.

Warren Riley

It's still ongoing, but we hope to have a conclusion within a few weeks.

Nick Fry

Takuma Sato has been an extremely valuable and much-liked member of our team for four years in the roles of test driver, third driver and, latterly, race driver. He has made an enormous contribution to B*A*R Honda's development. Takuma's current contract reaches its conclusion at the end of 2005 but B*A*R Honda is in discussions with Takuma and his management regarding possibilities for the future.

Richard Ben-Veniste

Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.

Traian Basescu

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Robert Byrd

The money the president wants to borrow for Iraq will come directly out of the American taxpayer wallets in the form of Medicare and Social Security receipts. That's your money

Robin Hayes

I have been to Iraq on a number of occasions. I was with the first group that went in.

Sandy Berger

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I've never signed any contract and never received a cent from Iraq.

Walter Cronkite

The invasion of Iraq was illegal from the start.

Walid Jumblatt

The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.

Walid Jumblatt

We are all happy when U.S. soldiers are killed week in and week out. The killing of U.S. soldiers in Iraq is legitimate and obligatory.

Francis Bacon

When he wrote a letter, he would put that which was most material in the postscript, as if it had been a by-matter

Rudolf Steiner

The time has come to realize that supersensible knowledge has now to arise from the materialistic grave.

Zac Posen

I am totally unattached to material items.

William Joyce

Recent volatility in raw material prices, however, makes first quarter forecasting difficult.

Jan Connelley

In the past, there has been up to 100 yards of material in the basket.

Lionel Trilling

In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Jacque Fresco

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society...

Mary Baker Eddy

If materialistic knowledge is power, it is not wisdom. It is but a blind force.

Nicki Minaj

See me in that new thing, bums is gaggin

Sandra Day O'Connor

You have to answer the question, like it or not. And the questions deserve a valid legal response, even if the response isn't one that will be easily understood. You have an obligation as a member of the court to do what you are bound to do under federal law, even if it isn't an attractive resolution from a public standpoint.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant ...

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Karl Albrecht

Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal.

Bill Richardson

It is our view that this is a strong resolution with teeth that would send an unmistakable message.

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Benjamin Franklin

No Resolution of Repenting hereafter, can be sincere.

Ken Williams

I've never made a New Year's resolution before. I didn't think about it until now.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Rebecca West

Neurotics, who cause less distress to themselves and their neighbours than those in the other category, are at war with their own natures. Their right hands are in conflict with their left. Psychotics, and it is those who commit purposeless crimes and prefer death to life, are at war with their environment. Right and left hands strike against the womb that carries them.

Russell Banks

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.