Famous Quotes & Sayings

John R. Allen

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.

Ed Rollins

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Enrique Garcia

If someone has second thoughts, they should know that they have other options than to abandon the baby -- anywhere. There was a risk that the child was not found in time and died.

Tohru Sasaki

If these Japanese individual investors choose to abandon their massive holdings for one reason or another, the Kiwi could fall by more than 5 yen.

Maria Semple

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

Dr. Tucker

As far as total expectations, we know that we have work to do and we want to continue to improve. Magnet schools are just a vehicle that we are using to improve education in Texarkana. So, until education improves, then our expectations are not met.

Ari Fleischer

North Korea continues to engage in provocations and now reckless acts.

Thomas Neil

Now is when they have to decide how much they want to continue to play football.

Carles Puyol

Samuel said he didn't want to continue but we wanted to convince him that he should not let them (the racists) get to him.

Duane Grant

The work they do continues to be on the cutting edge of bio-energy.

John Smoltz

This is for all the nay-sayers. This is for all the ones that said there's no way this can continue ... to the ones that are waiting for the next debacle.

Kevin Knight

This is exciting, ... I haven't lived in Colville for 18 years, but I think that there is a positive influence here. I'm excited about helping to continue the excellence in our schools.

Carmen Mirochna

This is exactly what we needed. Their dedication really shows on days like today, and we will continue working hard.

Stephanie Bunker

This is exactly what we had feared. We need to continue to do as much as possible to help mitigate this situation and prevent, insofar as that's possible, any such occurrences in the future.

Dan Hendricks

The state veterinarian made a note of it and put him on the injured list. It was just a mild little thing and not a problem at all. It won't cost him any time.

Rick Ford

When it was tied, we didn't do what you have to do to win a game like this. We were impatient and we forced the issue and it cost us the game.

Mike Chung

You may be saving $30 to $40 a month (the cost of one tank of gas for a typical driver. But is it worth a $4,000 or $5,000 premium?

James Leal

The results are fine. The issue is they are not telling us anything we don't already know ... we had a share buyback from Royal Bank, we had a cost efficiency program from Lloyds, but nothing new from HBOS.

Wayne Morris

There's no direct cost for that transaction but it's mainly for paper and the cost of keeping the system as a whole running.

John Woods

There's no consequence to them because Nova Scotia Power has been coddling these electric-heat customers and not forcing them to pay the cost they have been incurring,

Rock Cartwright

There's no excuse, ... I shouldn't have fumbled the ball, and it cost us seven points. It was a huge play. It was crucial.

Todd Purvis

There's nothing serious that will cost a long period of time. He's just resting comfortably at home.

Phil Jamieson

Whatever we do in food and whatever we do from a pricing perspective, the cost has to be competitive, without question.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

James Forni

It was an unintentional consequence of development. Each individual developer made the decision on their own.

Douglas Lee

I've been told a decision isn't likely until very late this year or early next year.

Adrian Bevington

It would be wrong of us to take a decision today. No decision has been taken.

John Cox

The right to deny the decision to land remains with the captain. The pilots have the most up-to-date information on board.

Scott Skiles

As long as they're good shots. You have to earn the right to take that many shots, and you do that by taking good shots, making a good percentage of them, by playing good defense and staying out of foul trouble.

Derek Thomas

Our shots weren't falling, but we were able to do it by locking up on defense and we just didn't let them score. On the other end, we had guys passing the ball, not turning it over and it got exciting.

Ed Sennett

Our defense took them out of it. It looked like their kids were a little tired. They played three pretty hard games in a row. We put the defense on them, got ahead, and when you're tired, it's hard to come back.

Jack Siedlecki

Our defense stood up each time we turned it over.

Chris Carlson

Our defense played tough. I just thought our zone did a really nice job on them.

V. S. Pritchett

Our defense performed well tonight. But we weren't scoring and the team started to get frustrated.

Bill Davis

Our defense made its stand the entire game. But offensively we had a lot of mental breakdowns. We just have to stay focused.

Dale Neibauer

Our defense kicked in. I had several freshmen in there, and I was happy how we pressed. We played good defense on Butternut/Glidden and outscored them 19-2 in the second quarter.

Ben Howland

Our defense kept us in the game when we really had an inability to score. When you go on the road you've got to be able to rely on your defense.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Edward Norton

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

Edward Snowden

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Edward Snowden

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

Fadel Gheit

Oil prices, ... are probably going to go over $26, which will mark the highest level outside the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

Swami Vivekananda

Music alone can take you to the Highest!

Publilius Syrus

The highest condition takes rise in the lowest.

Jim Puckett

When you're a cash-strapped school system, you're going to go to the lowest bidder. The lowest bidders are the ones who are going to export.

Kelly Clarkson

Thank you so much. You have no idea how much this means to me.

Steven Forester

He'll be singing in his upper register to give the idea of what it means to be roasted on a spit.

Leon Hall

That just means we have to do everything that we need to do perfectly. Know where we need to be at, know our technique. If you mess up your technique with this guy, he can make you pay.

E. Hicks

It means a little stability, a little security.

Michael Drake

Evolutionary theory says if there is a God, then he has not made things by means of design, purpose or, in the creationist point of view, with immediacy.

Dwight Yorke

It means now that we have it all to play for and a win will seal it for us,

Brendan Gaughan

We don't need to talk about what Vegas means to our family,

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.

Arleigh Burke

Success can not be administrated.

Abdallah II of Jordan

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.

Colin Powell

No battle plan survives contact with the enemy.

Colin Powell

In the military we are always looking for ways to leverage up our forces. Having greater communications and command and control over your forces than your enemy has over his is a force multiplier. Having greater logistics capability than the enemy is a force multiplier. Having better-trained commanders is a force multiplier. Perpetual optimism, believing in yourself, believing in your purpose, believing you will prevail, and demonstrating passion and confidence is a force multiplier. If you believe and have prepared your followers, the followers will believe.

Clara Barton

I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.

Duane G. Carey

And, so I set my goals on astronaut because, as a military aviator, it was, I considered that to be about the peak of a flying career.

Donald Trump

I like the concept of the penny plan - not for the military because the military we have to build up. But we can save probably in many case more than a penny if you look at it. I mean, the penny plan is a pretty good plan, and it's a pretty simple plan.

Jon Jansen

People say this stuff like they just thought of it, ... Everyone thinks they're so clever. I'm like, 'Heard that two weeks ago. Where ya been?'

John Abraham

People talk about the money, but it had nothing to do with the money,

Andrew Sukawaty

people that want to use the phone a lot.

Paul Douglas

People that like snow, need to get out there and play in it.

Nancy Cole

People that I've talked to today, their question seems to be: Will he quit again?

Chris Squire

People are used to us being onstage for a while.

Jeremy London

People are used to seeing actors in LA.

Andrew Spence

People are turning up and the police turning them away.

Joe DeRupo

People are trying to look at satellite photos, and people are trying to get in there to look. Unfortunately it's not only impassable but dangerous. We're still waiting to hear.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think it's possible to have been a happy child, as I was, and still question and push back with regard to societal conventions.

Arlen Specter

three possible verdicts: guilty, not guilty, not proved.

Mark Pincus

I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Steve Mahoney

Landowners can use these products for beautification or for conservation purposes.

Marco Arment

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Aeschylus

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Tony Robbins

The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.

Tony Robbins

Quality questions create a quality life.

Tony Robbins

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Susan Orlean

Among all life forms, there are creatures with charisma and creatures without. It's one of those ineffable qualities we can't quite define, but we all seem to respond similarly to.

Sonia Johnson

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Tim Allen

I know it sounds odd, but I want to make a Rolex-quality screwdriver.

Stella Adler

By taking elements you observe in life, you can develop qualities in your acting life that you don't ordinarily call upon in your personal life.

Thomas Harris

One quality in a person doesn't rule out any other quality. They can exist side by side, good and terrible. Socrates said it a lot better.

Rachel Johnson

After that I received 74 unsolicited text messages,

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Walter Wriston

Capital goes where it is welcome and stays where it is well treated.

Paul Singer

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.