Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shibley Telhami

I think she's doing far better than her predecessors. Because of her closeness to the president, she has real influence on policy. The problem is that she and her staff still lack real expertise in the Middle East.

Ella R. Bloor

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

Todd Radford

Maybe we ran out of gas a little bit. A lot of those 19 losses have been just like this. We had a great first half. We were hitting well and getting a lot of good looks. In the second half they stepped it up defensively. The score doesn't represent the closeness of the game.

Chad Wampler

Then we would have to start looking at curb cuts per block. The closeness to the alleys and intersections.

Phil Summers

This was where the closeness of the competition was really showcased as every small error made the difference as to how you placed.

Mike Dowling

Why do Florida and Florida State go at each other? It's the closeness and the similarity.

Buck Rogers

There's a closeness between the team and the fans you'll never find in a major-league park.

Drew Mitchell

We feel like our crowd is unlike any others. They have the closeness of family. Everybody knows everybody. They have spirit and a passion for basketball.

Joseph Ratzinger

In Jesus' life from the Father, in the immediacy and closeness of his association with him in prayer and indeed face to face, he is God's witness, through whom the intangible has become tangible, the distant has drawn near.

Brandon Flowers

I'm not sure how young kids get to the point where they're memorizing and knowing songs, but I knew the words to 'Missing You' from John Waite probably from when I was three years old. For whatever reason, that was the song that I gravitated toward when it was on the radio and I was driving around with my mom.

Wole Soyinka

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

Steve Burtt

That was the driving force. That was in all of our heads and we wanted to prove a point and end that curse.

Gary Horrell

That was a great learning experience for him. It's kind of been driving him.

John Hargreaves

We can't have a police officer on every single street making sure that people are driving to conditions,

George E. Brown

You and I are paying for these thefts. If the public thinks the market is driving up home prices, they're only partially right. It's also theft from construction sites.

Kevin Osnes

We're still trying to figure out how to stop him from driving to the basket.

Megan Fox

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Brett Favre

I would love to go in. I thought about getting to Tennessee tonight and driving in with some supplies.

Iain Duncan Smith

Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

Gladys Knight

God is gracious enough to let us know, in due time while we're here and the fact that I'm still around and I'm still singing, it is really to his glory.

Peggy Noonan

The president - every president - works for us. We don't work for him. We sometimes lose track of this, or rather get the balance wrong. Respect is due and must be palpable, but now and then you have to press, to either force them to be forthcoming or force them to reveal that they won't be.

Joe Wilson

We have the new greatest generation. We don't need as large a military due to the technology we have, the equipment we have outfitting our personnel. They really are storm troopers.

Timothy Brown

Typically, you can get 20 to 25 years out of a mechanical operation system like a pump station. So obviously, this station was due for an upgrade.

Scott Lasswell

We've had great efforts all year and I think tonight was a real good example of when you're in the hunt for second, third or fourth and when you're not. We were due to have a lackluster effort.

Dean Ellis

We've made the ones that have counted, though. We haven't lost a game due to poor free throw shooting.

Alan Jones

We have been trying to secure Ryan's services for quite a while now but, due to other commitments, he was unavailable.

Howard Kramer

Usually the vacancies don't last that long, and I'm sure they'll get filled in due course.

Jacques Rogge

Whoever wins, it's going to be a prestigious city. I'm often questioned who might be the winner and I'm always inclined to say the winner is the IOC.

Jessica Biel

I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

Jim Talent

I don't know why there weren't plans, ... If there had been and they were inadequate, I'd be inclined to say nobody's perfect - but it just seemed like they weren't doing anything.

Leon Redbone

I don't do anything mysterious on purpose. I'm less than forthcoming, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm mysterious. It just means I'm not inclined to go there.

John Fiske

We shall be inclined to pronounce the voyage that led to the way to this New World as the most epoch-making event of all that have occurred since the birth of Christ.

Sivamani

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.

Mike Leavitt

People are not inclined to produce products for which there is no market,

John Thune

I think a lot of the co-sponsors of it probably are less inclined because of the commission's actions.

Hugh Johnson

That's the situation today, ... Since that's the case, I'd be more inclined to think this will be a negative year than a positive year.