Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Kinzer

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Capt. Spirlet

He's definitely considered armed and dangerous and has extremely violent tendencies.

Rory Kennedy

I think the most significant turning point was when the militia was brought in. A few armed men and women couldn't take on the Pennsylvania militia.

Jamie Shea

Last night, NATO had a night of relative restraint. We were mindful of the Orthodox Easter celebration. At the same time, the Yugoslav armed forces continued to demonstrate signs of wear and tear.

Charles Grassley

The purpose of this letter is to express grave concern and raise questions regarding allegations that a textile contractor has been using toxic substances in the production of fabric used by armed forces personnel,

Steve Bolman

We're now considerably better prepared to deal with code-red situations, in which an armed assailant is on campus. Before then, we mainly emphasized earthquake preparedness. We've been conducting fewer drills for earthquakes lately, but we're making more preparations for them this year.

Stephanie Pell

He was recruited to travel overseas to engage in jihad or armed confrontation.

Sheriff White

He is armed and we believe extremely dangerous.

Ron Barber

Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.

Rodney Barker

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.

Mark Haddon

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

David Miliband

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

Richard O'Brien

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Walter Russell Mead

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Nick Harkaway

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Michael Apted

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Theresa May

The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Alden Ehrenreich

I would say that it's mainly about the director. It's a hard quality to find, but I always know whether I want to do something or not. The character is important to me, as is getting to work with people that I feel like I can learn from and make a great movie with.

Michael Santos

John always had his heart in this village. Sometimes he thought he was the village. He was a great ambassador. He put Brewster on the map on several occasions.

Carol Duncan

I'll do what it takes to win. We knew Missouri State had strong guards and that my team might need some help.

Gina Jones

I just want the guards and the nurse to be arrested. It's time now.

David Padgett

Their guards are so unbelievably quick on defense, they slap down a lot and get a lot of steals. Their press makes it hard for you to run your offense.

Evelyn Lewis

The guards had to work hard to get me the ball. I feel like no one can stop me but me. When I'm in a one-on-one situation, I like my chances.

Bob Hofman

They made the plays when they had to, and we didn't. And their guards hit the big shots when they had to.

Tony Fannick

There were two things that killed us. We couldn't score enough points and we couldn't stop their guards from penetrating.

Josh Page

We want to pressure them and get some turnovers right away. Hopefully we can pressure their guards and not let them get comfortable in the half-court set.

Richard Thurin

We've got more size than they do, but they have the quickest guards in the area. They will be a challenge.

Chris Smith

People's guards were taken down because there was a new wrinkle. Never, ever give out your PIN number.

Louis Graham

The people who are turning the guns in are not the problem,

Dennis Hastert

We support common-sense legislation that keeps guns out of the hands of unsupervised children,

Sylvester Croom

I thought we got better every day defensively. And we made improvement offensively. We had some big guns out most of the spring.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.

Jim Cavanaugh

They were throwing everything at us. Their guns sounded like cannons and our guns sounded like pop guns.

Anthony Williams

All of us are obviously outraged by this, shocked and saddened by this, ... We've got to get kids and guns separated from one another, they don't go together.

Alfred Taban

They were interested in silencing the guns and thats it ,

Jesse Jackson

We are at a tug of war over American values. Our nation must lead with superior ideas and sacrifices, not with guns and bombs.

Pierre Lafontaine

It was the return of the young guns tonight,

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Richard Dawkins

If you don't know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.

Woody Guthrie

All about a human being is, it's a great big hoping machine.

Rod Serling

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

F. Stone

I prefer live dealers, ... but the machines treated me all right today.

Jose Saramago

What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?

Henry David Thoreau

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Paul Sarbanes

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Gerhard Schroeder

Serbs who live here and who want to live here have the right to security and protection, not only for themselves but also for their property,

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

B. F. Skinner

The security for this is incredible. It's taken me by surprise, actually.

Juergen Peters

We wanted security and security is what we have got.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Tammara Rosenleaf

It will not be whether it's wrong or right to be there. There's no politicking at this table. If our soldiers are over there in harm's way, they should have the very best.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Brad Richards

I would say it was one of the better teams I've seen.

Trey Smith

Just the way they work together was really unique. A lot of other teams don't have that.

Dave Orlandini

He can penetrate. He can take it to the hole. Other teams have to worry about him.

Jack Rio

I think we're right there with a clump of teams that are on the verge.

Brad Joyner

I think it was huge. (Rocky Mount) is going to be one of the better teams in the conference.

Milan Brown

Other teams just were not going to let him do what he did.

Jim Kinyon

These teams know each other well enough that we know what to expect.

Bryan McCabe

It will be tough. Not many teams go out there and win too many games.

Devan Downey

They were one of those teams that we were so much better than them, we thought we could turn it on and off.