Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Harry Reid

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

Antony Sher

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

John Reid

While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,

Cindy Sheehan

Who do you want as YOUR Commander in Chief?

Eileen collins

Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.

Brad Adams

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Zell Miller

The Democratic Party today has gone further and further to the left. It's left me, it's left moderates and it's left a lot of people who want to support a strong commander in chief,

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

Idris Elba

Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

Ian Mckellen

Anyone in public life who comes out, comes out primarily for themselves, and their life is immediately improved. That's what happened to me.

Chris Carter

Producing a series is like being Lewis and Clark: You know where you're going, you just don't know how you're going to get there. When people say, 'You should create a bible for your show,' I say, 'You don't want a bible. It'll prevent you from making discoveries along the way.' And that's what happened on 'The X-Files.'

Chino Moreno

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Kevin Garnett

That was so unfortunate. It could have happened to any of us. I kept telling him, 'You'll be OK. We're right there with you.

Laurent Gbagbo

We have always wanted sanctions after what has happened in Cote d'Ivoire,

Reid Scott

One time, just passing by, I happened to see Jack White from the White Stripes. I'm a huge White Stripes fan, and I did a whole 180. It was like my jaw hit the ground.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.

Sepp Blatter

The source of wealth is from individuals with little or no history of interest in the game, who have happened upon football as a means of serving some hidden agenda.

Pat Camden

That was treated as an isolated incident ? that's the way it should have been treated. On the other hand, at Sox Park you get that reputation because it's on the South Side.

Patrick Modiano

I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

Mike Young

We investigated one incident and it turned out to have been shooting on the ground, not at the helicopter.

Cathy Schroeder

We don't feel like the incident warranted an investigation.

Dave Thomas

We can't walk away from here and wait for the next incident to occur,

Mardy Collins

Those little incidents don't measure up to the things he's done here at Temple.

Matt Bryden

Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocation.

Larry Wachtel

If it's just one,' that's the whole premise. That this is not the first in a series, this one isolated incident and then we're on to better things. This is a miscalculation.

Bernard Parks

Having known Mr. Patton for a number of years personally, it was a shock to me to find this incident had occurred,

Richard Lugar

It's very unlikely that we're going to send more troops to Iraq. We are going to have to train the Iraqis faster and harder.

James Dobbins

Most Iraqis remain less secure than they were under Saddam, less secure even than they were in the first year of the American occupation.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Mark Kimmitt

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

Kofi Annan

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

Paul Bremer

We need experienced Iraqi commanders who can lead troops. Listen, I've always told you that I opposed disbanding the army.

Stewart Davis

The police can't do anything unless they (catch them in the act).

John Blair

The police are trying to make or rewrite the law.

Rene Lavigne

That was a thankful sight, when we saw the police helicopter.

Ann Robertson

That was where we could be safe. Police could see us and we could see them.

John Hamm

That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,

Paul Michael Glaser

Secondly, I thought it was ridiculous to have two undercover policemen driving around in a striped tomato.

Nancy Bray

We got tired of watching him, and we called police.

Kathy Valentine

I think if they don't have enough police, they need to get some from other places. They need some radical cops.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Robert Smith

I've got a presence on all the social networks, in fact, but I've never once sent a message. I'm there because otherwise, someone's going to pretend to be me.

Beck

I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.

Mark Baker

We don't pretend to be holier than thou.

Ruth Rendell

I wouldn't be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light.

Martin Freeman

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Angus Young

From The Beginning, Ac/Dc Nerver Pretended To Be Anything Other Than A No-Frills,No Bullshit Blues-Rock Band.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Anna Netrebko

In Russia, I pretend to be a lot of princesses and wait for prince. That was my dream.

Peter Orszag

Well, a deficit reflects an imbalance between spending and revenue, and so narrowing it requires acting on one, the other or both.

Thomas Kochan

until we have a revision that reflects the way work is done today.

Ken Starr

Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.

Jeremy Corbyn

NATO expansion and Russian expansion - one leads to the other, and one reflects the other.

Kathy Burlison

Who we serve reflects where we are in the community.

Mike Stevens

That got my attention. They were asking, 'What are the values we have between us and how can we take all that and put it into a venture that reflects our values?' That is the right way to think about being an entrepreneur.

Charles Bradford

It's not surprising at all, because (Nucor) reflects the market.

Sam Brownback

I do think she reflects the president, and I think that's the strongest thing, really, that she has going for her,

Donald Norman

To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

Zeke Jones

I think in some spots we competed well and there were some spots where we could have done a little better.

Chase Utley

I don't really like the spotlight.

Archibald MacLeish

History, like a badly constructed concert hall, has occasional dead spots where the music can't be heard.

April Bowlby

I wanted to be a ballerina so badly. You can be seen and take over the spotlight without speaking. I had a fear of speaking in public back then.

David Garman

We're approaching 7,500 megawatts. So, we're in a sweet spot with wind and there's more we can do.

Brad Thor

There are writers who go their whole lives and never hit that No. 1 spot.

Ben Gibbard

I've always had a soft spot for Phil Collins. He's a great vocalist.

Ali Larter

What I do for a living puts me in the spotlight.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Robert Frost

Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty

Gerard Gallant

When something?s not working, you have to try different things. You can?t just stand pat.

Sophie Lowe

I think I've actually had a pretty standard upbringing. My parents are really normal, so I've always had them around to keep me grounded.

Diana Ross

Just because I have my standards they think I'm a bitch.

Robert Mueller

I will tell you we have no one person, specifically, that stands out at this juncture.

Ben Howland

I was uncomfortable standing there. I'm wanting water after water out of the machine.

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Michael Jansen

I wouldn't stand in the way of that.