Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Costello

In my district, there is a significant population of Armenian survivors and their families that showed heroic courage and a will to survive.

Orhan Pamuk

Thirty-thousand Kurds and one million Armenians were killed in these lands and nobody but me dares to talk about it,

William Saroyan

I used to be the fastest telegram messenger boy in all Fresno. My nickname was "Speed." Finally, I said, "Take back your nickname. This pace is killing me." Anyway, I still write fast -- it's my impatient Armenian nature. I'm keen to find out how my plots end, and if I write faster I'll find out sooner.

Jerry Costello

This was a tragic event in human history, but by paying tribute to the Armenian community we ensure the lessons of the Armenian genocide are properly understood and acknowledged.

Jerry Costello

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.

Henry Grunwald

The new history is really ancient history newly discovered. Journalists are taking crash courses in the blood-drenched background of Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, North Ossetians, Armenians and Azerbaijanis.

Brian Kabateck

Many Armenians living in the Ottoman Empire during the early part of the last century deposited money, gold and other assets into Turkish branches of Deutsche Bank and Dresdner Bank.

Daron Malakian

If I was money-motivated, I wouldn't have joined a rock band with three other Armenian guys.

Andrea Martin

But I am Armenian and I understand what it is to lose a country and lose a family and have massacres and genocides and everything against my people.

Najib Razak

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

Greg Gallaspy

What we want to do is ensure there's a balance. That's the key.

David Hartley

Having a new state-of-the-art plant is encouraging, but it does not ensure that Cott will do a better job of managing its entire plant operations.

Norm Coleman

He's actually a good man (but) an incompetent administrator, ... heavy lifting that will ensure success for reform.

Michael Chertoff

to ensure a work environment free of unlawful discrimination and retaliation.

Denis MacShane

I will be urging him to ensure any shutdown is as painless as possible for local communities,

Lord Stevens

I will personally overview the inquiry and ensure that it meets the highest standards of investigation and evidence gathering.

Charles Grassley

We must ensure that this nightmare NEVER occurs again,

Jon Postel

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Julie Chapman

Katie could also be ready to do one or two events for us at Sectionals if we qualify.

John McEnroe

It can work. Hopefully, we can find a way into some of the big events; a combination of places like Naples, as well as having an event at the U.S. Open or Wimbledon.

Kenny Wallace

I always do look forward to the stand-alone events,

Kim Williams

He could score out in probably four events. He's going to help us in quite a few running events as well.

I. Stone

He can take two or three minutes with me just before an event and listen to what I want him to do and then put it all together and go do it. That's the kind of kid he is.

Michael MacCambridge

He consciously positioned it as a bigger, grander, more concentrated event than baseball's World Series.

Shyam Selvadurai

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there.

Chip Howard

There are so many events there - the floor is put up and taken down all the time, and that shortens the shelf life quite a bit.

Ryan Sprang

Having two guys that are completely fresh going into that event really helps.

Jeremy Jacobs

Jacques had done street theater in Paris. He'd always been interested in large architectural structures and how humans interact with them.

Muhammad Yunus

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

Jacqueline Novogratz

What we yearn for as human beings is to be visible to each other.

Milo Hamilton

He rode managers. He rode players. It didn't matter. He treated everyone the same way. In short, he was a miserable human being.

Susanne Bier

I think it's extremely difficult consistently being a decent human being.

Paul Taylor

I think that's a Jewish trait, ... It's also a human trait.

Jenna Marbles

There is no cure for ugly, but you can make yourself into a human optical illusion.

C. Hughes

We are experiencing a human catastrophe of immense proportions, ... We pray today for those who have lost their lives ... and for those who are risking their lives to rescue others.

Hu Jintao

It is only through the road of peaceful development that the progress of the human race and the prosperity of a nation shall and can be achieved,

Richelle Mead

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Russell Baker

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Walt Whitman

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Wiz Khalifa

Live longer or die hard is not just a movie title, there is a great lesson hidden in this title.

Zach Braff

Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?

William T. Vollmann

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

Rufus Wainwright

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.

William Green

I'm being pushed in ways I've never been pushed before, on and off the field. I think it's paying off.

Martin Bashir

I had a pension that I was paying into for 27 years... It's now worth less than a Herman Cain endorsement.

Silke Stegemann

The company's salt acquisitions are paying off big time thanks to the winter weather.

Ben Sherwood

You know people out there are paying attention.

Robert Baer

You can't work in Kazakhstan without paying bribes. It's that kind of Wild West. Everyone was doing it.

Steve Letarte

All I did was work. And it's paying off for me now.

Robert Chavez

On average, we're paying them back about $685,000 a year.

Swami Venkataraman

It's a very important issue. People are going to be paying more money.

Jason Chaffetz

Data indicate that taxpayers may be paying their public servants more than a little too much.

Jon Brion

We're so used to everything being properly manicured, like you can hear every footstep in a movie, you can hear every bit of dialogue, and everything is in its place.

Albert Murray

If it is properly done, the 'as told to' autobiography represents how the subject wants his story told.

Russell Tovey

I came out to myself when I was about 15 or 16, and to my parents when I was 18. When you come out to your parents, that's when it's properly official.

Errol Morris

I think an interview, properly considered, should be an investigation. You shouldn't know what the interview will yield. Otherwise, why do it at all?

Gregory Petsko

Alzheimer's disease starts when a protein that should be folded up properly misfolds into a kind of demented origami.

Helen Espy

It was an accident, a very tragic accident.

Samantha Morton

I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.

Thomas Aquinas

To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty

Jamie Dixon

It's a tribute to what we've accomplished here.

Jilly Cooper

Everyone was in stitches at the Queen's speech. It was such a lovely, affectionate tribute

Steve Forbert

He's the most well-known thing about the town, and I wanted to do a tribute to him,

Dan Donegan

I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag,

Pope Francis

Press on! Don't let yourselves be robbed of hope. Understood?

Leo Strauss

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Kanye West

I don't expect to be understood at all.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Hilary Clinton

As I understood it, it was not, no,

Joan Van Ark

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.