Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zhang Yadong

Our confidence are not based on the performances at the recent National Games and East Asian Games, but come from the disappointments over the last few years, like in Athens and at this year's worlds,

Alexis Herman

Of greatest concern to me is the relationship of the manufacturing sector to the Asian market and the need to bring stability to that area,

Nick Carter

After the Backstreet Boys' last Asian tour, everyone was taking a couple months off. Instead of taking the time off, I decided to write. I was just going to be in the studio and maybe start building something on my own, just to see what it sounded like - to see if I was even capable.

David Thurtell

Oil could ease back a bit today, though the hurricane season runs into November so we're not out of the woods yet. Asian demand is still pretty strong, so we're likely to see some buying if it goes much below $60.

James Cayne

Despite the Asian economic crisis, we continued to find opportunities in the Far East, ... We attribute the record results for the quarter and the fiscal year to strength in all of the firm's core businesses.

Jeremy Stretch

The statement was a lot more forceful than the market was expecting and that has given Asian currencies a strong boost. Japan is going to have to tolerate a stronger currency, like the rest of the countries in the region.

James Rubin

The work on Iraq, the work on the Middle East peace process and on the Asian financial crisis continues with no effect.

Michael Woolfolk

The United States is very dependent on Asian bank buying and petrodollars.

Bob Filner

You saw a lot of African-American faces. But what you really see is poverty every one, white or Asian or Hispanic, can be in that position. This administration has done nothing about it,

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Chet Culver

As a lifelong Iowan who has been a farmer, a registered nurse, a small businesswoman, a state senator and secretary of agriculture, Patty has spent her life devoted to her community and her state.

Jen Schlegel

Our theme is, ?Every walker counts in a community that cares,? because a walk like this shows the number of people who do care. I think the numbers speak loudly and are overwhelming that this is a great place to live.

Jeff Corey

are the types of tragedies that impact entire communities.

Danny Saenz

A positive response has occurred and we hope to continue to work together with the community to have a nicer place to live.

Mariana Boneo

The site is not perfect. There are a lot of community members that feel uncomfortable about that.

Alan Goldberg

The scientific community would like to go to in vitro approaches. They're quicker, offer better information, and are more humane.

Linda Williams

is honored for her dedication and generosity of resources and time given to projects enriching lives and enhancing the community through the arts.

John McNeil

I've been very happy serving in a smaller school. It's a way of life for me. The interests of mine and the community have been the same. Rural schools have been my life. Montana is one of the most rural states. There's a need to educate every kid in the state.

Kurt Woerner

I've been doing this job (in different cities) for 25 years. This is only the third time in any community that I've seen anything this bad.

Gore Vidal

As dumb as this administration is, they don't look ahead. They don't know where any countries are. They don't know how to make deals. They don't really know much about anything. There is no plan.

Ayad Allawi

As far as Germany and France are concerned, really, this was a regrettable position they had, ... I don't think the Iraqis are going to forget easily that in the hour of need, those countries wanted to neglect Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

normally ministers of defense visit countries where there's that type of activity.

Sue Kelly

The United States must remain ever-vigilant in finding and freezing terrorist money around the world, and we need to demand similar vigilance from all countries around the globe,

Audrey Tautou

When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.

Alex Thiermann

Countries have far exceeded what is science-based and they have further complicated the losses to the industry.

Liu Jian

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

Christopher Painter

Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws. But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

James Woolsey

Countries are effectively paid deference in direct and indirect ways if they're huge oil suppliers.

Larry Sabato

As far as others in his party are concerned, Simmons' district is highly competitive and in a strong Democratic year, it could easily be lost. ... These favors are done for Simmons simply to save the seat.

Iqbal Sacranie

Our democratic values need to be upheld, not undermined.

Jalal Talabani

And the Iraqi people are liberated from the worst kind of dictatorship. Now they are enjoying their democratic rights, all kinds of freedoms, a free press.

Ron Gidwitz

I've never heard of internships that pay $50,000 or $60,000. These internships are simply a way to reward those who pay their dues to Democratic campaigns.

Mo Ibrahim

The Zimbabwean people, like everyone else, have a right to live in freedom and prosperity and to select their leaders through fair and democratic elections.

Condoleezza Rice

This is the democratic process at work, ... What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Jeremy Corbyn

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

R. Ingram

What I can say is that U.S. forces helped to provide urgent medical support at the scene of the incident, something for which I know our forces are grateful,

Charles Sawyer

Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

John Linder

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

Anthony Sims

It's a lot better than a loss. Van Buren is a great team, even better than last year. But we played solid all-around. I think the forces were with us tonight.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who I really am.

Bob Shacochis

The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.

David Reed

As a parish priest you're formed much by the people you serve and live with.

Richard Lewis

Back in the day, people used to have more patience for the long form and for storytelling,

Thomas Kyd

Oh eyes, no eyes, but fountains fraught with tears; O life, no life, but lively form of death; Oh world, no world, but mass of public wrongs

Paul Richards

The thought was that it was better to withdraw the proposal rather than risk a formal veto at this stage,

Walther Bothe

During conversion, the newly formed nucleus is not always immediately in the ground state, but is at times in one of the possible activated states.

Alan Greenspan

While these forms of protection have often been imposed under the label of promoting so-called 'fair trade,' oftentimes they are just simple guises for inhibiting competition.

Seth Godin

We've had people who were yoga instructors. ... We have a former marine, and we have everything in between,

Jacques Rogge

We are still in the preliminary phases of the general outlook of the torch relay but the route is not yet defined. The practical circumstances of the torch relay and the whole format is still under discussion.

Brad Smith

We want to formulate a new framework and new principles. Principles need to emerge.

Tom Freston

As a global media platform company, we are looking at various projects in many parts of the world.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

Matthew Davis

This isn't something we're going to solve overnight. The problems of global warming have just begun.

Richard Grasso

to make them more competitive in the global arena.

Tommy Franks

We're taking part in a global war on terrorism,

Raghuram Rajan

We see a shifting of global growth away from the United States to other countries. Whether it's enough is still for the jury to decide. The jury is still out.

Craig Venter

There's not going to be any one replacement for oil: we need to have hundreds of solutions to this global issue.

Markos Kyprianou

We have not yet reached the level of preparedness that we should have. This is a global threat and there is need for international action.

Brett Lee

Growing up, you look at guys like Jeff Thomson as heroes, so going past him is pretty special.

Barbara Kingsolver

But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that. About how your kids aren't really YOURS, they're just these people that you try to keep an eye on, and hope you'll all grow up someday to like each other and still be in one piece. What I mean is, everything you get is really just on loan. Does that make sense?" Sure,"I said. "Like library books. Sooner or later they've all got to go back into the nightdrop.

Bailey Chase

It was a great time to grow up in Chicago. It was the mid-80s, and we had the 85 Bears and the Michael Jordan era.

Bruce Kennedy

We're growing up, and we've got growing pains,

Brendan Fehr

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Brad Pitt

Indian cinema seems to be growing very well at its own pace.

Jane Campion

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Tori Kelly

I remember growing up singing; even when I was just three years old, I was singing all the time in the house. My parents said I was singing before I could even talk properly.

Janet Jackson

A lot of people who start work at a very young age never grow up because they never got that opportunity to be a child, so they hold on to that and still do a lot of childish, silly things.

Francis Mathew

Seek to join Power, do not seek to stop power because you will fail.

Stephen Baldwin

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Irving Berlin

We joined the Navy to see the world, / And what did we see? We saw the sea.

Ice Cube

I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure.

Anita Elberse

What you get when you put all your resources behind a product, is you get everyone to join in.

Willie Nelson

I don't smoke as many joints as I used to.

Sean Connery

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Stephen Kinzer

As recently as the 1970s, some Pashtun leaders in Afghanistan were pushing to create a new state, Pashtunistan, by joining with Pashtuns in Pakistan.

Sgt. Frevola

They spent most of their time in one particular part of the store, so we would like to look into that and see if they had cased the joint earlier.

Carl von Clausewitz

In war, while everything is simple, even the simplest thing is difficult. Difficulties accumulate and produce frictions which no one can comprehend who has not seen war.

Carl T. Rowan

(President Nixon,) in the face of a vote to impeach he might try, as "commander-in-chief", to use military forces to keep himself in power.

Carl von Clausewitz

Only great and general battles can produce great results

Carl von Clausewitz

War is the province of chance. in no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. it increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.

Charles Kingsley

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

Charles Cumming

I find a difference in British spy fiction and American spy fiction. In the American version, it's more militaristic, partly because the CIA has more of the military makeup. Whereas MI6 is more of a cerebral, intelligence-based, relationship-based service, i.e., all they do is recruit people to get information out of them.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Arleigh Burke

Success can not be administrated.

Ehud Olmert

The military operation in Lebanon was the most successful military operation in recent Israeli history. Many in Israel don't recognise that.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

Anton Chekhov

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

John Eaton

I wait until something is really in the shape that I want to make it as a permanent record, because I think of recording as a permanent record.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Robert Southey

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Publilius Syrus

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

Jerry A. Webman

The rise in equities helped strengthen the economy.

Edward Abbey

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

Dr. Seuss

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

Dalai Lama

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

Andrei Sakharov

Both now and for always, I intend to hold fast to my belief in the hidden strength of the human spirit.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

While Genius was thus wasting his strength in eccentric flights, I saw a person of a very different appearance, named Application.

Alice Cooper

You know it's always funny - the more legend awards you get, the closer you get to the grave, I guess, i am going full strength right now so it's great to get these while you're alive, I'd hate to get them after you're dead.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Alexander Crummell

If you are to be leaders, teachers, and guides among your people, you must have strength. No people can be fed, no people can be built up on flowers.

Baruch Spinoza

Nature has no goal in view, and final causes are only human imaginings.

Auguste Comte

After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.

Ayelet Waldman

I wish I could view the belly that oozes over the top of my pants as a badge of maternal honor. I do try. I make sure that the women whose looks I admire all have sufficient fat reserves to survive a famine, and I make a lot of snide comments about the skeletal likes of Lara Flynn Boyle and Paris Hilton.

Carter Burwell

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

Arthur C. Clarke

What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy's point of view.

Austin Mahone

I promoted myself on Twitter and Facebook as hard as possible, nonstop. People started realizing that if they commented on my videos, I'd reply to their comment, so I started getting a lot more views and comments.

Delta Goodrem

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

Billy Corgan

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Edmund Burke

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever