Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yuriko Koike

People are worried that in order to achieve structural reform and postal privatization, LDP politicians will be less engaged in pork barrel politics.

Zach Schade

The thing that got me interested was helping the people who need help -- the athletic achievement is kind of secondary to the actual fundraising.

Dave Redden

Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.

Kofi Annan

The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor.

Chris Phillips

It would be a good achievement for us. If we won (the trophy), it would just be something else that we could take into the playoffs with us, but the more important thing for us is to be playing well.

Sandra Cisneros

These stories celebrate what's at the heart of so many Latino success stories -- a desire to achieve and make a difference, ... Visitors to this Smithsonian exhibit will have the opportunity to learn about Latinos who have made varying but very important contributions to the American fabric.

Victor Hobson

It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all.

Suzanne Somers

I understood something way back when I was on 'Three's Company.' When I got the part, I was flat broke. I was so happy to get the part, but I kept thinking, 'Ugh - dumb blondes are so irritating; how do I make her likable?' I think that I achieved that. It took a while for people to realize I was acting.

Grace Speare

Think and feel yourself there! To achieve any aim in life, you need to project the end-result. Think of the elation, the satisfaction, the joy! Carrying the ecstatic feeling will bring the desired goal into view.

David Blunkett

People from all over the world were killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre. They came from many different cultural, ethnic and religious backgrounds. Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Hindu believers were killed together as they worked in the towers.

Dirk Ryneveld

The witnesses will tell you that the vast majority of refugees fled their homes because of the attacks by Serb forces and not because of NATO bombing.

Kent Jarrell

This is not a normal Vioxx case, which is about heart attacks and strokes being increased by the use of the drug, ... We plan on making it about the specifics of causation. ... This is a good case for us.

Dorothy Denning

Cyber protests have emerged in a climate where computer network attacks have become a serious and growing threat.

Brian Doyon

Eagle Valley passed really well and started digging well. On some attacks they didn't put a block, and their back row was digging up the ball. The work Rob (Crawford) has done with them on defense has really paid off.

George Burgess

Each year we would expect more attacks than the previous year based on the fact that the human populations grow, and there's more people entering the water.

Francois Gere

Europe has looked at terrorism differently since the attacks in London, even if the terrorism we're experiencing is fundamentally different from that in Israel.

Mohamed Salah

This new generation of radicals is very dangerous. They are willing to perform suicide attacks and no one knows who they are.

Karen Hughes

We are taking all precautions and are working to identify those responsible for these despicable attacks on the American people. The federal government continues to function effectively.

John Hawkes

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

A. Johnson

As a company founded by a competitive cyclist who wanted to create the first great-tasting, nutritious energy bar, we're ecstatic about helping bring professional cycling to California. We also value the opportunity to reduce the environmental footprint of this event while raising awareness about global warming.

Larry Ponemon

AOL's efforts in raising awareness and understanding about good privacy and data protection on the Internet is paying off in terms of positive consumer perception. This is an especially significant accomplishment given the rash of privacy issues such as phishing and spam that impact the ISP industry.

Morris Gleitzman

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

Michael Bell

pretty aware of what happened and he's just sick about it.

Brian McCarthy

The Stones were aware of it, and they were fine with it.

Bob Bennett

is fully aware of what we're doing and is encouraging me to go forward.

Atsuko Abe

Your Excellency, I am aware of my responsibilities,

Steve Warren

You wouldn't believe how busy we are, ... It's very interesting to see the awareness pick up. Most (people) are finding out that technology is your friend in this situation.

Michael Korda

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Kate Fox

The British male is either reticent, tongue-tied and awkward, or boorish and crass, and he usually consumes too much alcohol. English male flirting tends to be very circuitous, and involves a lot of insults rather than compliments.

Alan Johnson

The British government was disappointed that the meeting did not make more progress but relieved it did not end in failure like Cancun and Seattle.

John Scarlett

The skills of the British intelligence community are a great national asset.

Rhona Mitra

I wanted to go out and experience the fields.

Shahid Malik

the most profound challenge yet faced by the British Muslim community.

Martin Rees

Some things, like the orbits of the planets, can be calculated far into the future. But that's atypical. In most contexts, there is a limit. Even the most fine-grained computation can only forecast British weather a few days ahead. There are limits to what can ever be learned about the future, however powerful computers become.

John Deacon

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

Faith Hill

Thank you, fans, very much. She would say that in a British accent. ... She's a fantastic director, one of the greatest that I've ever had the pleasure to work with. She's in London editing another video for me for a song called 'Stealing Kisses.' It's amazing. It was an honor to work with her, and I know she would ... thank the fans and she would thank hair and makeup. There was a lot of hair. There was a lot of makeup. It was just very exciting to do it.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

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.

Benito Mussolini

Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.

Calvin Coolidge

It is very difficult to reconcile the American ideal of a sovereign people capable of owning and managing their own government with an inability to own and manage their own business.

Roby Witcher

It's just a process and they still have to learn. There's no way to hurry it up.

Karen Johnson

We have to hurry and get the kids back into the routine of being a part of the YMCA.

Dallas Willard

Ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Mr Bush

I've made my decision. We will stay on the offensive. We will stand with the people of Iraq and we will prevail,

Cindy Sheehan

So you're the little woman who stopped the Iraq war.

Scott McClellan

It would be wrong to suggest that he (Bush) was saying that there would still be substantial number of troops in Iraq after he is out of office. That is not he was asked. That is not what he was talking about.

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Craig Kilborn

In a new poll 54 percent believed President Bush exaggerated the size of Iraq's missile threat. Hey, he's a guy.

Charles Evers

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

Abdallah II of Jordan

At the end of the day we want to bring stability and hope to Iraq. That's the only way to defeat terrorism.

Virginia Foxx

We went to Iraq because Saddam Hussein's dictatorship was a threat to his neighbors, the Middle East, the United States and his own people.

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.

Steve Anderson

People think they're doing the right thing by leaving them here - but they're not.

Andy Jones

The ones that are left are the die-hards. These are people who are more scared of leaving than staying.

Dennis Roth

The science says if you can keep the soil from leaving the property, you keep pesticides out of the water.

Colton Fretter

That thing's not leaving my side all night.

Michael Hachey

At this point in time, we're not sure. We're leaving all options open. We feel a presence in the West End is important, so some level of service there is likely.

Donald Trump

Once you say you're going to have to tax them coming in, and our politicians never do this, because they have special interests and the special interests want those companies to leave, because in many cases, they own the companies. So what I'm saying is, we can stop them from leaving. We have to stop them from leaving.

Donald Trump

The first thing you do is don't let the jobs leave. The companies are leaving.

Don DeLillo

Coming and going I am leaving. I will go and come. Leaving has come to me. We all, shall all, will all be left. Because I am here and where. And I will go or not or never. And I have seen what I will see. If I am where I will be. Because nothing comes between me.

Donald Trump

All you have to do is look at Michigan and look at Ohio and look at all of these places where so many of their jobs and their companies are just leaving, they're gone.

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Madonna Ciccone

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

Thomas Aquinas

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Charles Lamb

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

Benjamin Franklin

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Ken Perkins

We don't have an opinion or more importantly a vote one way or another. We're not thrilled with it ... but it's essentially up to the analysts.

Jerry Baker

We are just starting that process. Tom and I have already had some discussions. We'll have some more. He's on the road recruiting right now. We'll sit down and we'll look at the year. He'll give me his opinion on what worked and what didn't work. I'll give him my opinion.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Michio Kaku

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.