Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Charamba

The American ambassador must consider himself very lucky that he is dealing with a professional army that the Zimbabwean national army is,

Julie Andrews

Be a part of all that is decent and be an ambassador for the kind of world that you want to live in,

Heinrich Mann

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

Tor Naess

The reaction has been so positive, we think it is worth informing the (foreign) minister. It is very nice being the Norwegian ambassador to Canada today.

Bob Beauprez

True enough, Osama bin Laden is dead and other al-Qaeda leaders have joined him. But, the assassination of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans in Benghazi is a brutal reminder that radical Islamic terror groups have not disappeared and certainly are not dormant.

Pierce Brosnan

I hold Bond dear to my heart. I've traveled the world as an ambassador for that character, and I had a bloody great time doing it.

Liya Kebede

First I became U.N. Goodwill Ambassador for WHO, and that was in 2005. And then, about a year or so later, I decided to start my foundation.

Stephen Kinzer

When Prime Minister Erdogan came to Washington in 2009, he sounded almost like the ambassador from Iran.

Salome Hernandez

To the best of our knowledge, Ambassador Brownfield has not met with these people. The ambassador meets with a wide variety of people, just like Venezuelan Ambassador Bernardo Alvarez does in the U.S.

Patty Murray

Our entire country owes Sam a debt of gratitude for all he has done for so many,

Terry McAuliffe

the whole country has been in play, all the different groups of the Democratic Party have been involved in this process, and we need to narrow this down.

Gary Bauer

This country can be better than it is today, and I intend to make it better,

Brett Eldredge

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they'd accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

Boris Spassky

In my country, at that time, being a champion of chess was like being a King. At that time I was a King and when you are King you feel a lot of responsibility, but there is nobody there to help you.

Argus Hamilton

Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.

Argus Hamilton

The Country Music Awards were held Wednesday night at Universal City. The best country songs are always about drinking and guns and love gone wrong. Next year they're giving Robert Blake the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Aravind Adiga

Mangalore, the coastal Indian town where I lived until I was almost 16, is now a booming city of malls and call-centres. But, in the 1980s, it was a provincial town in a socialist country.

Brian Spears

I want a competitive edge for my company, and, as a member of the community, I want to do the right thing. Energy efficiency has become more important in our lives.

Mark Zandi

This is going to keep energy markets on a razor's edge for the rest of the year,

Stefan Hell

I think that's something a scientist can do because a scientist works at a border, at the edge of science, at the edge of knowledge, and so there's a lot of fun of reaching out and thinking about things that other people didn't think about. And so it has a kind of exploratory notion, kind of adventurous part in it.

Bible Bible

And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

Roger Simon

So far the hunters have taken 3,000 to 4,000 seals. That's not ridiculously slow, but it's not fast either. It's the lower edge of the norm.

Julian Bond

People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked away some place else. I don't see them; they don't see me; we don't interact; we have no relation one to the other; no physical relation.

Dean Eberling

Morgan Stanley has a leg up because they've been there and done that. The Lombard acquisition was really a perfect edge for them in that it gave them a nice window into the world of online trading.

Ken Hitchcock

Goats is a very emotional player who plays on the edge, and sometimes that edge tilts.

Ray Liotta

I get up at six to work out. I've done it since school, it's always been part of my life. It's a good way to take the edge off. I like getting up early; I've got a daughter, I'm a single dad.

Laura McDowell

People get very nostalgic. They're probably doing traditions that they've done in their family for years.

Luke Young

Saturday was a big day for myself and my family - it was a qualifier which made it more pressure on myself,

Lisa Randall

There are women for whom family is a priority, and they do it. It just wasn't as much a priority for me.

LaDainian Tomlinson

People always say, and my family has said it to me, that you know who your real friends are when you're at your lowest point and you don't have a job or whatever.

Ewen Bremner

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

Charles Eastman

The family was not only the social unit, but also the unit of government.

Charles R. Swindoll

I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

Charles R. Swindoll

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Liam Payne

Being a fan of someone's show and the way they still hold a family together doesn't mean I am OK with all they say.

George Cox

It was this issue of prior restraint that was at the heart of our objections.

Brett Ratner

Having love in your heart doesn't count for much if what comes out of your mouth is ugly and bigoted.

Benito Mussolini

Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.

Brian Tracy

A major stimulant to creative thinking is focused questions. There is something about a well-worded question that often penetrates to the heart of the matter and triggers new ideas and insights.

Brad Paisley

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

Jane Hirshfield

A tree lives on its roots. If you change the root, you change the tree. Culture lives in human beings. If you change the human heart the culture will follow.

Jane Hirshfield

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Jane Goodall

Without the heart to ground it and open it to who we really can be as human beings, the brain is a very dangerous machine. A machine that is saying: we've got to have economic growth; we've got to have unending economic growth, otherwise societies will collapse. And yet there should be something saying: wait a minute, this isn't going to work.

Benjamin Disraeli

The feathered arrow of satire has oft been wet with the heart's blood of its victims.

Sara Barker

We'll sit in a canoe, quietly, and we'll watch that hole until just after dark. Hoping, hoping that just maybe it's the ivory bill.

Pat Hurst

I saw after nine holes (Creamer) was 6 up. She's our rookie, and she was unbelievable.

Carlton Fisk

I'm a six-handicap but those two holes scare me every time,

O. Singh

I'm just not playing well enough to win on Sunday. There are too many mistakes. I play two or three holes that really put me down. That's what's been happening.

Seve Ballesteros

I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I miss the hole, I hole it.

Stuart Appleby

You can't run away from the pack if you aren't running away from it. Running away would be six shots up with six holes to play. That would be pretty much a run away. There is a lot of golf, 25% of the tournament still left out there.

Will Champion

We're trying to find somewhere we can set up and work. In all these years we haven't got a HQ, our own studio or anything like that. We want somewhere that we can sort of hole up and see what happens.

Peter King

Now John Kerry voted for the war and now he says that he would still vote for the war, so what's the difference?

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

Alex Pettyfer

Being an actor in L.A. is like being in prison: you go, you serve your time, you try to replicate Johnny Depp's career - and then you move to Paris.

Philip Kerr

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

Dick Cheney

Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people,

Tasha Joseph

So, if you look up John Smith you can see what a woman says about John Smith and you can see whatever John Smith says about whatever was posted.

Ken Duberstein

There are only two United States senators who have a truly national constituency. One's name is Ted Kennedy and one's name is John McCain,

Michael Owen

I am sure some people will say John or Steve are more obvious skippers but I like to think that I have people's respect.

Jack Campbell

From the third inning on, he was the John Lambert we're used to. He was really in charge.

Richard Bracken

Probably until June when there is another month when there will be three pay periods.

Jeff Reinebold

This is where I want to be. I love this program, and I love working for June Jones.

Bill Kirby

We are largely out of the woods with the June meeting.

Archibald MacLeish

What you really have to know is one: yourself. And the only way you can know that one is in the mirror of the others. And the only way you can see into the mirror of the others is by love or its opposite—by profound emotion. Certainly not by curiosity—by dancing around asking, looking, making notes. You have to live relationships to know.

Alanis Morissette

I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true.

Daniel Handler

We need things, and the opposite of them, and we are so rarely completely comfortable.

Dan Barker

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Edmund Burke

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Eckhart Tolle

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Ronald Reagan

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Shakti Gawain

Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

Shakti Gawain

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.

Sebastian Bellomo

You don't have to worry about safety. It's very safe.

Donna Reed

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

Alexander Hamilton

The circumstances that endanger the safety of nations are infinite, and for this reason no constitutional shackles can wisely be imposed on the power to which the care of it is committed.

Andy Stanley

Rich people have the potential to reach a point where they see money as the source of their safety and security.

Robert Frost

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Thomas Guthrie

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people.

Veronica Roth

I came here so that no one else would die. I came here to protect as many people as I could. And I care more about Tobias's safety than anyone else's. So why am I here, if he's here? What's the point?

Cloris Leachman

Everything is so sad and so wonderful.

Christopher Walken

No, improvising is wonderful. But, the thing is that you cannot improvise unless you know exactly what you're doing.

Anne Frank

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Thom Gunn

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Susan Lucci

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Michael Faraday

Nothing is to wonderful to be true

Maureen O'Hara

How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?

Maya Beiser

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Max Beckmann

It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!