Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Piketty

What I argue for is a progressive tax, a global tax, based on the taxation of private property.

John Taylor

He secretly knows what happened. You're always looking for the right place, which was here. Board members didn't argue about petty things and wanted to do the right thing. I used to tell friends I knew I had found the right place.

James Mullen

I think we've been one of the real innovative states. It doesn't mean we don't argue and fight we do because we're human. But what will sustain the state of Washington is that we have an awful lot of dedicated emergency managers who have worked together for years.

Ken Kramer

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

David Garrity

In my view, shares of Ford would probably become more attractive if it got down to say $22, $23 a share. Although, I would argue that as long as these investigations are continuing, they'll probably serve to put a lid on the stock price performance. Other stocks in the auto sector we are more positive on include General Motors ( GM : Research , Estimates ). Also at GM, you've got a change in management -- you've got a significant outside shareholder developing in Carl Icahn, owning 30 percent in GM. There's just a lot of value to be realized in the group.

Willie Mullins

I never thought I'd say this but you could argue that he's a bit of a handicap snip now!

Bruce Anderson

In fact, it tends to argue the opposite.

Jermaine Dye

If you look at the replay, it shows it hit the bat, ... I can't argue with that. I'd tell you lies if I said it hit me.

Tom Farley

In this article we argue that directing our efforts towards changing the overall acceptability or opportunity for risky sexual decision-making might be more effective than the one-on-one interventions.

William Daley

I think it is important that China be in the WTO. But they must come in a commercially-meaningful way. And that means that their market has to be open for U.S. products to be sold into.? They should live by the rules the rest of the world lives by.

Li Jian

Hitler used the Olympics to show his people that his government had legitimacy. The Chinese government wants a similar result: that countries recognize that China is a great and powerful country.

Tim Adams

I think it's important for us to get a better sense of China overall,

O. Henry

We think China is a growing regional power and we want to partner with them to manage their gradual rise.

Zhou Xiaochuan

I think it's very clear that China is introducing a new exchange rate mechanism. It is not a one-time adjustment.

Chong Quan

In 2005, foreign investment into China maintained sound momentum and the quality of foreign investment improved.

Ping Chew

If you look at what most other money going into China is earning, it is not that inefficient. If you don't invest in U.S. bonds, what do you invest in?

Shi Yinhong

In the future, China will provide more international public goods in many areas.

Phil Crane

In telecommunications, China represents the largest potential market in the world,

Ken Buck

I think it's wrong to compromise your values to fit in with the social climate in Washington, D.C. When it comes to spending, I'm not compromising. I don't care who, what, when or where, I'm not compromising.

Stavros Dimas

The EU is committed to international efforts to combat climate change, which requires that we meet all our reporting obligations.

Brian Dunbar

It's important, with climate change, landfills, hazardous waste, the health of humans and other species, future generations and the health of the planet.

Vivian Campbell

Slang' was a really stripped-down, live-sounding record. But this time, we wanted to return to our sort of sound, because the climate in the industry was warming up to it, ... We put on 'Hysteria' and 'Pyromania' and took our sonic cues from those albums.

William Strampel

The labor levels, Medicare climate, malpractice insurance, general weather climate ? there's no simple reason why these people are leaving Michigan.

Peter Lilley

I am a global lukewarmist.

Prince Charles

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.

Lois Capps

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

James Lovelock

All the modelling we do shows that the climate is poised on the jump up to a new hot state. It is accelerating so fast that you could say that we are already in it.

Paul Bubb

It can tend to get cold inside Holt Arena. That can be remedied. I am working with the facilities people to better control the temperature. We are looking at a number of different things.

Markus Persson

The only thing I think that is wrong with modern gaming now is the free-to-play stuff on mobile phones. I think it's very cynical and cold and weird.

Luke Donald

It got considerably colder and it was just hard to keep your hands warm, hard to keep your rhythm.

Dusty Baker

He has been knocking on 99 for a while and never had 100. He was knocking on it last year and got cold at the end.

Bruce Miller

Right now the colder temperatures and higher humidity have really reduced it so we are going to be able to contain it and start establishing control lines to get a handle on this thing.

Eric Ellis

If you start processing now and we have a cold spell in between and it starts freezing up, it's just a lot of work to keep everything liquid. Once you start processing, you like to be able to do it day after day and not have those long spells in between.

Glenn Johnson

In the winter, early in the season, it actually can have a warming effect and hold the temperatures up, where temperatures drop much colder in interior sections, and then the opposite takes place in the summer.

Jonathan Witz

I'm confident we are going to have a great festival under any (weather) conditions. We are not dependent on snow or cold weather to pull this festival off; snow would simply be the icing on the cake.

Ken Perkins

If the price of oil remains between $45 to $50 a barrel, that's not a good sign especially if we experience a very cold winter. Heating oil prices will go up and that's likely to dampen consumer spending during the winter months.

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.

Peter Mayhew

Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world, despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on.

Ismail Haniyeh

We think countries in power can decide for themselves what kinds of positions and policies they can take.

D. James

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

Jamie Cullum

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

Ernie Whitt

I know for a fact we don't have the depth that some of the other countries have. But we do have a lot of heart.

Juan Lubroth

I have praise for the European countries because they have they have implemented their surveillance and identified the virus in migratory birds. This shows us the surveillance is working.

Jose Reyes

I'm looking forward to learning more about what other countries are doing with innovative passive safety systems. The second thing I see is the potential for collaborative research. And when you have people from so many countries in one room, you make new friends and learn about different cultures.

Jose Maria Aznar

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

Red Cavaney

In fact, there are news reports today that the Congressional Research Service has attributed the gasoline price situation in the Midwest to supply disruption problems and the use of reformulated gasoline with ethanol,

Phil Jenkins

It was not an overly serious violation. There was just one pup involved and there was no serious disruption of the herd.

David Swenson

Any kind of disruption or slow movement has a dampening effect on commodities.

Dariusz Kowalczyk

The situation between Russia and Ukraine is a rather (supportive) factor for oil ... as the potential for (gas) supply disruption in Europe is having a correlating effect on other energy commodities including oil.

Maria Caccaviello

We were really shaken by the vandalism. It was such a disruption to everyday work life.

Tara Lemmey

I think that privacy is sort of the nature of your identity, and how you transfer your identity is a very important global issue.

Bill Gates

It has been a great year for global health to get more visibility. The more people know about it, the more they want to act.

Igor Luksic

Regardless of our ambitions to become part of the E.U., we have to keep in mind that Turkey is also a very strong voice that can represent the needs of our region in wider terms in global platforms.

Joanne Woodward

I'm upset when I see that people don't seem to observe what's happening with the environment, what's happening in terms of global warming.

Kofi Annan

immediate and exceptional escalation of the global relief effort.

David Robinson

The impact is presumably larger than the Asians' on global interest rates.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalization of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

Raymond Martin

A lot was achieved, including the finalisation of a protocol setting out global standards for the provision and hygiene of public toilets.

James Hansen

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening.

David Clarke

He wants ten inches. Right in the middle of the fillet.

Susan Jovanovic

He'd be out on the track, running on his sled in the middle of the night.

Aaron Nieckula

Going out there I think he was at 76 pitches. I told him he was one over 75, we'll take him up to 80. I told him to work the middle and pitch to contact.

Adam Mueller

We're pretty pleased with where we're at. We're right in the middle of it, and it's going to be a very important weekend for us.

Larry Wortzel

We're in the middle of methodically moving through this.

Henry Winkler

I think this is the most important depository in the Middle West.

Sarah Dessen

I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.

CJ Adams

CJ is my nickname. It stands for Cameron, and my middle name is John.

Justin Johnson

I'll be back up to about 280 before the middle of the season. I'll probably be about 280-285 ... somewhere around there. I still got my speed and can still be swift.

Andy Reust

It could be a possibility he might run it. At this point, I don't know where I'm going to go with it.

Scott Arneson

I think the proof is in the pudding. The Valley produces state championship contenders every year. Some people might not think that the Valley is that tough, but no one has proven otherwise.

Mike Kemp

I think that might have been a turning point in the game.

Lois Lowry

I think teens are drawn to these speculative books that portray what might happen and what could happen.

John Higgins

I was worried when I returned that I might be booed or barracked. Nobody has waved fivers at me. I am touched by the reception since I have come back.

Ben Kay

I was worried I might end up on a pizza advert.

Brian Smith

I think they might have some more to come yet. You never know, do you?

Lena Headey

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving.

Fred Couples

Unless we get rain to soften it up, if it's windy then 2 or 3 under might not win.

Walter Kohn

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Christopher Hill

Once they are back in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, with IAEA safeguards, at an appropriate time we will have discussions about the subject of the provision of a light-water nuclear reactor.

Nelson DeMille

I thought to myself, what is everyone's worst fear? Nuclear terrorism in America.

Joe Lieberman

The danger of terrorists and rogue states is compounded by the proliferation of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons.

Jane Jacobs

While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Donald Rumsfeld

After he saw what happened to Saddam Hussein, he ( Gaddafi ) did not want to be Saddam Hussein. He gave up his nuclear program.

Andrei Sakharov

In 1947 I defended my thesis on nuclear physics, and in 1948 I was included in a group of research scientists whose task was to develop nuclear weapons.

Amory Lovins

Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.

Nicole Scherzinger

We're on a wave, ... And we're going to ride it as long as we can.

Patrick Surtain

We told him to get out, but he wanted to ride it out. He was a little stubborn,

Kevin Mahaney

If you're going to ride a bike, the ultimate ride is the Tour,

Tracy Anderson

The trick this year is the '1080'. If you can't do that you won't get on the podium. Riders are airing much better.

David Robinson

This is all just a part of the roller-coaster ride of a winter we're having this year.

Fred Berry

Eighty-seven-thousand riders may not be as many as other areas, but that's still 87,000 riders.

Joe Polizzi

It's too silly. Save it for the ride home.

Rudyard Kipling

There's a little red-faced man, / Which is Bobs. / Rides the tallest 'orse 'e can - / Our Bobs.

David Marcus

The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it's a ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave.

Reinhold Niebuhr

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Sarah Palin

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

Ronald Reagan

I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.

Viktor Yanukovych

I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.

Kenneth Rogoff

Russia exists in the context of open global economy and is a part of it

Karl Marx

Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable.

Paul Ryan

Take a moment to imagine a world led by China or Russia. So we must lead.

Natalia Vodianova

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In Russia, there are those who make their money in criminal ways, but I earn everything myself.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

John Bruton

Ireland has a role to play in making the E.U. united and strong.

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Muqtada al Sadr

Anyone supported by the United States is cursed by us.

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.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

The President of the United States thinks that for the Japanese opium is more dangerous than war.

Townsend Harris

The expense of a war could be paid in time; but the expense of opium, when once the habit is formed, will only increase with time.

Rick Riordan

Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.

Rick Riordan

When I was alive, I mean the first time, Mussolini was in charge. We were at war.” “Mussolini?” Leo frowned. “Wasn’t he like BFFs with Hitler?

Rick Riordan

Love and war always go together. They are the peaks of human emotion! Evil and good, beauty and ugliness

Rick Riordan

Ceres wanted a united front in the plant war." "The plant war," Percy said. "You're going to arm all the little grapes with tiny assault rifles?

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Rick Perry

We don't have to apologize for American exceptionalism or western values.

Mel Brooks

I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.