Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Schumer

On foreign policy, President Obama has kept our nation safe from terrorism and restored our standing in the world. When it comes to one of our closest allies - Israel - President Obama has been resolute.

Barack Obama

I said that America's role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Saddam Hussein

The Americans with their allies will fly out of Iraq very soon, and their puppets will leave even before the Americans.

Rick Perry

Vladimir Putin uses energy to hold our allies hostage. If energy is going to be used as a weapon, I say America must have the largest arsenal.

Colin Powell

We are committed to ensuring that as we review our force posture in the Balkans, we do so with full consultation with our NATO allies ... and in the process of doing so, make sure that we have the right mixture and balance of forces at all times.

Michael Sheehan

It entails exchanging terrorist information and cooperating with many countries, going beyond our traditional allies and nurturing security relationships with many, many countries.

Sandy Berger

We can proceed to develop the options on missile defense on a much more measured timetable which allows China and our allies like Australia to have a greater degree of input.

James Rubin

We do not consider this problem resolved. On the contrary, we continue to consult with NATO allies about next steps.

Saint-John Perse

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Ike Barinholtz

Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.

David Wenham

Hollywood's a big place, and they make all sorts of different movies. Some movies I'm attracted to; a lot of the movies I'm not. But there are some terrifically talented people over there that I'd love to work with.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I was attracted to 'Half of a Yellow Sun' because of the story.

Victoria Justice

I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

Wolfgang Puck

The good news about showcasing chefs and the TV shows is they've attracted a lot more smart kids to the profession than 30 years ago. On the downside, though, these young chefs all say they want their own restaurant and their own TV show.

Roman Coppola

There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters.

Patti Stanger

I state in my book 'Become Your Own Matchmaker,' confidence is the key to any endeavor. Women don't realize that when they do things they love and are passionate about - their confidence soars. Men are attracted to women who feel happy and decisive about life.

Richard Schwab

We have a lot of really good faculty and really good students. Our talented faculty has attracted top students from all over, including Connecticut.

Siouxsie Sioux

I was never attracted to being a very proficient singer or player. I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way I was very drawn to tension within cinema.

Ice T

I think the most successful are the most paranoid. The first thing people do when they buy a mansion is they build the biggest wall you could possibly build around it. What happens is, now you become a target. If I go into the hood, I'm at a disadvantage. They could carry guns. I can't. They can hit me in the face. I can't.

Ice Cube

I never get tired of 'It Was A Good Day' references or jokes or anything like that. It's just, you know, keeping my biggest hit alive. Nothing wrong with that.

Isaac Brock

I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?

Ian Watson

My father-in-law just happens to be a global procurement guru. Now retired, he was the global head of procurement for some of the biggest companies in the world as well as our very own treasury.

Giovanni Agnelli

The Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy, and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside the Soviet Union.

Gianni Agnelli

Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

Gareth Bale

My dad's the one who's always been there; he's my hero, you could say. Even when he was working, he'd do anything for me. He's been the biggest influence in my life.

Vonda Shepard

The biggest similarity between me and my character is that we've both played clubs for 20 years. In real life, the clubs aren't quite as controlled - and my hair isn't quite as in place as it is on 'Ally McBeal.'

Christian Bale

The biggest rebellion I could've ever had with my father would be to work in a bank. He would have disowned me. As long as I was doing something where I didn't have to wear a tie, I was good.

Yahoo Serious

We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.

Thorstein Veblen

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.

Todd Rundgren

Sometimes being a musician has little to do with viability and everything to do with survivability. Many musicians start out great, and they wind up out of the business in 10 years.

Thomas J. Watson

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business and your business in your heart.

Imelda May

One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in - I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

Ian Watson

People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.

Gladys Knight

I know how hard it is to send two kids to college when you ain't got nothing. I know people may not think of me in that way, but this business gives you ups and downs.

Donald Trump

I had tremendous success in show business - star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 'The Apprentice' was one of the most successful shows.

Zac Goldsmith

You know I don't really have faith in politicians - this is quite a sleazy business. But there is no law which says that all politicians will turn out to be scumbags.

Ranbir Kapoor

Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

Andrew Whitworth

Year by year, they've been getting better and better. I think they're a good program. I know they've gotten some flak for not being any good for a long time, but they've been getting better that last two years.

Steve Ryan

New South Wales has been getting a lot of flak for holding back the national economy, but the latest signs point to a turnaround. We think the state will surprise the doomsters.

Ian Stewart

I think he got all kinds of flak for that.

Anne Sebba

You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.

Irving Stone

My goal always is to tell a universal story, meaning it's about a person who has an idea, a vision, a dream, an ambition to make the world somewhat less chaotic.

Wendelin Van Draanen

I write early in the morning at the computer, and people think I'm crazy, but I still use my Mac-Classic even though we have a state-of-the-art PC. There are just less distractions with the simpler machine.

Pat Craig

The police like that it's in the afternoon. They think less people will be drunk.

Phillip Neuhart

The picture is getting less and less pretty.

Winona LaDuke

Eliminating some 3600 post offices - mostly rural - will save the USPS less than seven tenths of one percent of their operating budget, but nationally, a number of tribal communities will be hit.

Joyce Cary

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

Larry Colagiovanni

That was his normal route. He said he didn't like (Interstate) 95. Less traffic. Less lights.

Kati Haycock

That we have such problems is clear. The way to better results is less clear.

Porter Goss

We need to have this surveillance, and if there's a way we can do it differently in ways that are less offensive to some people, that might be a matter worth discussing.

Michael McDonald

We have to work with a lot of other local agencies, and that takes time.

Catherine Martin

My children's favourite thing is to con me into buying them ice-cream if there's not too big a queue at our local gelataria, Messina.

Roger Szendy

I think it would be a disadvantage to lose local control.

Peter Woolley

I think it will be a local outcome; it's a local fight.

John Hurt

I think it would be really sad if the local people didn't realize how important he was.

Joan Greenberg

I think locally we're seeing more than that.

Eric Newman

Yesterday we finalized plans with a local theater in Tulsa (to show the movie),

Dan Sleeper

We're a local government, we always pay our bills.

David Barry

We really wanted a local flavor, a unique flavor. We wanted to make it different than going out to the Monmouth Mall or the Bridgewater (Commons) Mall.

Yahya Jammeh

You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

Glenn Martin

What you're going to start seeing is the infrastructure the roads, doctor's offices and stores come next.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

Jay Cairns

It sort of said we should be the standard as to what other prosecutor offices should be doing.

J. M. Roberts

We see some representatives out here, but I think most sit in their offices and don't see the people that they affect,

Peter Gould

For 'Breaking Bad,' our offices were in the ugliest building in Burbank, California. Which, if you know Burbank, is really saying something.

Herb Kohl

All the Wisconsin and Beloit stuff in their offices made me feel at home,

Yahya Jammeh

Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.

Yossi Vardi

In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.

Yancy Butler

Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself.

Ian Mckellen

I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

Ian Mckellen

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?'

Irwin Thomas

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

Irwin Rose

I don't have any hobbies. You know, I'm very embarrassed when people ask me what are my hobbies; I don't have any hobbies. I mean, it's just enough to keep up with the things I'm trying to solve.

Isiah Whitlock, Jr.

Usually, when you're working or you're on set, everything is very guarded. At parties, people have a tendency to relax.

Imani Hakim

When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

David Richard

I worry about the stigma -- especially in rural areas.

Erin Matson

In rural areas, this can be very serious.

Hideo Kojima

My games are rather stressful games, where you have to play for a long time.

Hussein Hindawi

He was only hospitalized because of stress. We have a stressful job.

Byron Katie

There are no new stressful thoughts. They're all recycled.

Chadwick Boseman

There's nothing more stressful than your stomach growling.

Bill Crawford

There's no such thing as a 'stressful' situation.

Irene Towell

It's very stressful here in the summertime when we've got 100 kittens.

Ian Laperriere

This is what the NHL wants. It's stressful for everyone around here, but that's OK.

Mike White

From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

Jerious Norwood

I know it's going to be a stressful (time).