Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jalal Talabani

selected by Iraq's Transitional National Assembly to lead the nation's democratically elected government in over 50 years.

Muqtada Sadr

This is a result of the inadequate performance of the interior and defence ministers which has caused such a loss of life. They should stand in front of the national assembly and be questioned. If it is proven that they have failed to fulfil their responsibilities, they should be dismissed and stand trial.

Mark Hansen

The price of gas goes up every day, and the need to do this increases every day. We'd like to see the Assembly join us.

Abdallah Baali

You cannot give all the powers to the secretary general. The General Assembly has to keep its main prerogative, and the secretary general and all bodies should be accountable to the General Assembly.

Abdallah Baali

On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not ready to give up the prerogative of the General Assembly and would like to keep a close eye on the work of the secretary general.

Jason Davis

If we can get some energy to feed over from Assembly Hall and get it into Memorial Stadium, we'll be all right. It's set up good because those two home games can catapult us into the conference schedule.

Brett Hall

But we are gratified that the General Assembly has included quite a few of the governor's initiatives in this budget.

Patrick Rocks

The allegation that the assembly was faith-based is unfounded. We don't believe there was any wrongdoing.

John McArdle

The Assembly concurred that it was an unnecessary expenditure. It was not included.

Rod Nilsestuen

As electricity prices continue to rise in Wisconsin and the costs of renewable energy systems continue to fall, a growing number of the state's large farms are implementing anaerobic digestion to reduce their utility bills and improve the environmental performance on the farm.

Bernadette Chiaro

As huge energy bills hit California mailboxes this month, there is no better time to jumpstart a mainstream solar power market. Today's vote promises to eclipse expensive and imported fossil fuels with clean and homegrown solar power.

Jay Alan Sekulow

As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't.

Sam Bodman

As a result of tight oil and gas markets, and the damage done by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it's likely that consumers will see an increase in their heating bills this winter,

F. Stone

As of 2004, the New York State wine industry brings in about $3.3 billion in New York State. It'd be nice to get a piece of that in Jefferson County.

Duaner Sanchez

As long as it ends this way, I'm OK with it. I just wanted to be sure Billy had a lead when he came in.

Jason Napodano

Off the top of my head, $1.3 billion sounds like a lot of money. I think it will be a billion dollar drug but it will take some time.

Brad Dean

The signing of this bill is a huge victory for the residents of South Carolina, for millions of future visitors, and for our state's number one industry.

Jia Qinglin

The Taiwan issue concerns China's core interest and the national feelings of 1.3 billion Chinese.

Peter Murphy

Opponents of charter schools will be quick to draw the conclusion that charter schools aren't pulling their weight, but that's not fair,

Paul Hansen

We want to go back to what was the original charter back in 1781.

Newt Gingrich

Charter members contribute $10,000 per year and many ... are activists,

Kevin Allen

I think I was told later that people mentioned that they were heroes for what was done. I might be mistaken, but I thought the charter mandated that we investigate possible misconduct.

Bud Schmidt

I think the language to open it up to 'him' or 'her' language is important to do to keep the charter up to date.

David Ernst

We think that it's time for a moratorium on new charter schools so that we have an opportunity to take stock to see how those charter schools that have been in existence fare.

David Brehm

That is on the horizon. There is no doubt about it. A charter would provide a little more flexibility.

Gary Larson

Its clear that as long as this demand continues, then charter schools will continue to thrive,

Brian Kulpin

They are more of a charter company than a schedule service carrier.

Eckhart Tolle

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Sohrab Sepehri

Life is a dimension of tree in the eyes of an insect. Life is strange sence experienced by a migrating bird....

Jose Barroso

need to do more to explain the true dimension of what is at stake, and the nature of the solutions which only Europe can bring.

Cristela Alonzo

I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

Herbert Marcuse

Coming to life as classics, they come to life as other than themselves; they are deprived of their antagonistic force, of the estrangement which was the very dimension of their truth.

Frank Herbert

To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

William Saroyan

I don't like to see kids throw away their truth just because it isn't worth a dime in the open market.

Sam Walton

A computer can tell you down to the dime what you've sold, but it can never tell you how much you could have sold.

Bart Bryant

It looks like 4- and 5-unders are a dime a dozen today. I was fortunate enough to be one of those guys who went a shot lower than the other guys.

Gene Krebs

Polling indicates that 90 percent of the electorate opposes eminent domain for economic development. And that's without pushing. If you push, it goes to 98 percent.

Michel Houellebecq

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

George Clooney

People wax and wane, it ebbs and flows on what my standing is. Next year, I will be the butt of all the jokes. So it's cyclical.

Ronnie Bond

It all flows through her. We knew that going in, but she did a heck of a job. She's a good player.

Shannon Schonrock

As long as we're winning, it doesn't matter. It's great to see different people step up on any given night. And it makes us hard to prepare for because you don't know who to focus on. A lot of our numbers are down, minutes-wise, but it makes us that much tougher knowing that we have so many people that can contribute.

Lori Bennett

Our serve and service return was very weak in the first two games. But we had a lot of things that worked well. So for the third game, we focused on serving more aggressively.

Michael Barrett

The one thing I like about this team is as great as it was, as fun as it was, there's no real celebrating what happened today. It means we're focused and moving on.

Tim McCutchen

It was the same press. We used the same press-breaker, but we didn't execute. We just were not as focused and ready to play as we were the first time." ()

Jane Garvey

The whole issue of wiring is something that people have been focused on for a while,

Adrian Jones

You're not really focused on the star, but the co-stars to see what they're doing to help the whole scene.

Mike Scioscia

This win was a good win for the team and gave us a big lift. We have to focus on winning from here on out.

Asa Butterfield

I like to keep my options very open and try not to focus on trying to get something. That's just how I'm playing it and it's worked so far.

Daniel Goleman

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Bill Graves

When things go to 50%, in general there's still a pretty good selection. More than 50%, and you may get a good price on something, but it might not be what you want.

Rich Lowry

When they are treated, the seriously mentally ill aren't more violent than the general population. If untreated, though, they are.

Dan Hampton

It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.

Kevin Myers

I see our role as a complement, not an alternative to the public schools. We view ourselves as a partner, an extension. Our goal is to return the kids to the public schools as quickly as possible.

Adrian Fenty

This government can get things done when we put our minds to it. The real goal is that we institutionalize that in the police department.

Reggie Evans

That's why we still got a lot of our main guys still playing. That's our goal for right now these last three games, is to try and get the home-court advantage.

Brian Tracy

Success is goals, everything else is commentary.

Brian Tracy

Develop and maintain momentum by working continuously toward your sales goals every day.

Celine Dion

I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance.

Alanis Morissette

Getting married and starting a family has been a lifelong goal and one that I have persevered through different paths up to it!

Jane Wagner

I worry that our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months later we look in and the same stuff is still going on.

Chuck Logsdon

There are some key issues where we've not received a response that is what the governor wants to hear.

Margita Thompson

While we are disappointed we did not make the June ballot, everyone knew it would be very difficult. The governor has always said what is important is not June or November but that he and the Legislature work to rebuild California.

Larry Pendleton

We don't want them going to the Cactus League or anyplace else. We're pretty adamant about trying to keep them and I think the governor is, too.

Sharo Atmeh

We've been so shocked by what the governor has said that we've made it our first priority to speak to the state.

Paul Hoolahan

We want to be able to go to the legislators, the mayor and the governor knowing that we did everything humanly possible to make it happen in the state of the Louisiana.

Ric Williamson

Those are two guys under a lot of stress, as were all of us. They speak with candor, and that's what the governor expects.

Kate Phillips

Several major research institutions were present with the governor to show their support of the new program.

Ronnie Milsap

I became involved in a residential school for the blind in Raleigh - the Governor Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh.

John Jay Hooker

On the political side, I was the Democratic nominee for the Governor of Tennessee in 1970 and 1998.

Michael Davis

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Howard Rogers

The money can then be used only for road resurfacing,

Darrell Bryan

A number of us are very upset about this slogan. By having too little money you come up with poor ideas.

Ross Perot

Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world

Joan Laporta

Samuel is not for sale, not even for all the money in the world.

Hansjoerg Strohmeyer

Quick money is lifesaving money. The system is stretched.

Judith Yaphe

That's how you pay out money to your supporters.

Marty Scarano

You're not offering money, you're offering a scenario.

Jack Ablin

You needed to be a meteorologist to make money in this market.

Larry Moore

We just had to get into the passing lanes a little more and watch out for the threes.

Sidney Crosby

I was trying to be him when I was 10 years old. So now, with passing him, it's pretty special.

J. M. Coetzee

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.

Rich Mullins

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Umberto Eco

To establish what is true is very difficult. Frequently it is easier to establish what is false. And, passing through the false, it's possible to understand something about truth.

Thomas a Kempis

Oh, how quickly the world's glory passes away.

Therese of Lisieux

Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God alone remains.

Lauren Conrad

As a designer, you are flattered to see anyone in one of your designs, whether it's on a red carpet or passing by you in the market. It's this wonderful little high every time.

Bret Meyer

We need to start making some, especially in the passing game, that result in touchdowns.

Rick Page

Right now I don't think my 5A schools would go to the Valley. But they could put us with Laredo.

Matt Mullenweg

I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy.

Brian Tracy

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently.

Keanu Reeves

On his new motorbike: I wanted to spend some time with it and get to know it.

Brad Smith

If we need to spend more money, we will spend more money.

Kelli O'Hara

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

Cheryln Bennett

If you make a little money, you spend it on other things (for artwork).

Elizabeth Hurley

Spending time outdoors makes you feel great.

Jakob Nielsen

Users spend most of their time on other websites.

Carmen Busquets

I was always into fashion, and used to go on spending sprees when I was a university student in Miami. My father would be furious, but I would always say, 'It was an emergency! I had a party to go to!'

Scott Westerfeld

Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.

Chuck Eddy

Critics should stick to their convictions.

Zoe McLellan

I dream in numbers, and I like to look up the meaning of numbers, and numbers stick out to me.

Jayme Wilson

We know it?s going to be a challenge. We?re going to try to stick to what we do and give them a game.

Thomas S. Monson

Stick to a task 'til it sticks to you. . .for beginners are many, but finishers few.

Lorrie Moore

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Steve Smith

On paper, they're better for sure. But the measuring stick would be getting to that championship.

Seth MacFarlane

If something sticks around long enough that it makes it to seasonal D.V.D. release, I'll watch it. That's how I watched 'The Sopranos'.

Francis Bacon

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.

Terry Tamminen

It would be much stronger if it was a law.

Kathy Emerson

The work is very exciting. In fact, we've remarked how much stronger the work is now than what it used to be.

Baruch Spinoza

Reason connot defeat emotion, an emotion can only be displaced or overcome by a stronger emotion.

Azar Nafisi

The more we die, the stronger we will become

Brenda Strong

Balance for me now means seeing myself as a tree, being strong enough in my roots and trunk to not be a pushover, but being flexible enough in every circumstance not to break. I am continuing to expand, but not any faster than my roots can support me.

Jane Byrne

But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens.

Jan Schakowsky

Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

James Theodore Bent

The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.

James Weldon Johnson

Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much.

Charles Adams

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Robert Soper

The track has its own taxes that are distinct. It's not 55 percent, that's for certain.

Donald Trump

Donald Trump have proposed an approach that has a $4 billion tax benefit for your family.

Albert Camus

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

Herbert Hoover

There are only three ways to meet the unpaid bills of a nation. The first is taxation. The second is repudiation. The third is inflation.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax.

Wesley Snipes

I was never charged with tax evasion. I've never been a tax protester.

Robert Orben

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

Lyndon B. Johnson

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.