Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee H. Hamilton

He certainly has kept his agenda in front of us,

Shakira

In Colombia, education is sometimes considered a luxury, not a human right. And it's not a priority in the agendas of many leaders.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I think the environmental problem will be the number one item on the agenda of the 21st century... This is a problem that cannot be postponed.

Howard Dean

Hard-working Americans will see through this President's effort to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon.

Jim Brandt

It is a highly focused agenda on storm recovery issues, as well as seeking the budget she wants.

John Reid

There is a great deal of urgency about this. I think it is the most important thing on the agenda in Iraq, which is to respond to the efforts of the terrorists to divide by terrorism by uniting through democracy.

Dan McLagan

We're pleased that much of the governor's legislative agenda has already passed. We'll be keeping an eye on the budget process, of course, and the governor's eminent domain legislation.

Jon Kyl

We've got to set an agenda that deals with a lot of different things here, and where estate tax fits into that is just not known at this time.

John Cornyn

to extraordinary and unprecedented measures to obstruct the business of the American people. Because the Democrats have no ideas or agenda of their own, they've made an awkward attempt at changing the subject.

Larry Petersen

Just look at what already happens on the freeway now and triple it.

Kofi Annan

I suspect, whatever happens in the future, that kind of consultation will take place.

Bobby Bowden

It could be a lot worse. We could have two quarterbacks with no talent. What you hope happens is someone will separate themselves from the other.

Maria Shriver

I thought a lot about what I could say here today. I also thought a lot about what I couldn't or shouldn't say for one reason or the other, ... We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off they get sent to first ladies' dungeon, and you wouldn't want that to happen to me.

Marcus Aurelius

Whatever happens at all happens as it should; you will find this true, if you watch narrowly.

David Wyss

We've got to see what happens in October. There was an initial shock after the attack. Nobody was doing anything.

Marty Schottenheimer

I think what happens is a sense of panic sets in. It's a natural reaction.

Felipe Alou

It happens -- but it's a rare occasion for a pitcher of that stature.

David Stern

It happens at least probably 5 percent of the time.

Walter McManus

This is like putting lipstick on a pig. They're a higher-cost producer than most of their competition. To be the low-price leader, you really need to be the low-cost producer as well.

Fred Bentley

This is not just putting lipstick on the big chicken.

Bobbi Brown

When I first got into making makeup, I didn't necessarily want to start a company. I just wanted to make a lipstick that looked like lips, only better.

Al Gore

He wants to start this on a message of prayer and healing,

Ray Nagin

I think it's going to send a wonderful message to the world that New Orleans is on the road to recovery.

Terry Wood

We try to get the message out there that the ongoing support of our organization is essential,

Shirley Eaton

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

Susan Collins

He was unambiguous in his message to us,

Richard Dawkins

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.

Salman Rushdie

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

Virginia Satir

The message sent is not always the message received.

William Thomas Stead

What is my message? That is what troubles me. I have not got a message.

Richard Dawkins

With respect to those meanings of 'human' that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig,

Vladimir Putin

I'd rather not deal with such questions, because anyway it's like shearing a pig - lots of screams but little wool.

Voltaire

Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

Robert Jordan

A pig painted gold is still a pig.

Willie Nelson

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.

Jorja Fox

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next!

John Green

If I could do it all over again," he said, his speech slow and vaguely mangled by his massive lower lip, "I'd just let myself be trampled to death by the Satan Pig.

Julia Quinn

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Julian Assange

I may be a chauvinist pig of some sort, but I'm no rapist.