Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Zeller

These are the sort of films we are actively and passionately looking for. They have excited audiences and jurors alike at a number of film festivals because they are stunning and emotional pieces of work, and we are happy to be involved with such excellent movies.

Robert Creeley

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it.

Gordon W. Allport

A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

Naomi Hasegawa

Bond prices got a boost from the fairly good outcome of today's two-year debt auction, while index-trackers actively purchased government debt paper, which supported the market.

Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?

Toni Simonetti

We are still actively engaged in discussions about Hughes with multiple interested parties. Those discussions are progressing.

Justin Harmon

We are still actively building the Green Street Arts Center, its outreach, its programs. We expected this would take time. We're in it for the long haul.

Gary Loveman

We are very actively pursuing that. We think we have a very good chance to win.

Daniel Okrent

We think it's crucially important for us to understand and be actively involved in the digital distribution of content.

Paul McCaffrey

These mid-day fights in broad daylight on State Street is a broad change from how gangs used to steel their difference, which tended to be more in back allies at night, in neighborhoods belonging to one gang or the other. Meeting together in the most visible, heavily traveled area of Santa Barbara is something we want to stop right now.

George H. W. Bush

the terrorists will lose their sponsors, lose their recruits, and lose their hopes for turning that region into a base for attacks on America and our allies around the world.

Robert Lichter

The thing that really matters that weve seen in the past is when the presidents allies desert him, ... When reporters go to natural supporters and they provide the criticism, youre a goner.... Right now it is the shock value. This is actually news.

Kevin McCarthy

The principles that should guide American foreign policy are simple: the world is safer when America leads, only strength ensures peace and freedom, and America must stand with its allies and challenge its adversaries.

Duke Cox

No one but the energy industry and its allies stand by it now.

Clint Bolick

Napolitano decided that her special-interest allies are more important than Arizona schoolchildren.

Saddam Hussein

The Americans with their allies will fly out of Iraq very soon, and their puppets will leave even before the Americans.

Cathy McMorris

We must not allow Iran to bully the world or our allies or fail to show Iran that we will take their irresponsible and careless behavior seriously.

Sandy Berger

We can proceed to develop the options on missile defense on a much more measured timetable which allows China and our allies like Australia to have a greater degree of input.

Donald Rumsfeld

the sooner it is done, the fewer Iraqis that will be killed, the fewer Americans or coalition forces that will be killed.

Dick Gephardt

We have a big job of reconciling the people in Iraq. We need to pull together that international coalition that we should have gotten together a long time ago,

Yulia Tymoshenko

Today, much more than yesterday, there is a threat of a coalition between Our Ukraine and the Regions Party.

Gernot Erler

We will not form any coalition with the Left Party, that's definite.

Muqtada Sadr

We have noticed that the coalition has pulled back,

Hossam Bahgat

Because of the wide coalition of forces supporting the judges, it will only become more difficult for the government to suppress their activism. But whether or not the government will compromise on a draft judiciary law will be seen in the next few days.

Eyal Arad

No party will be able to get everything it wanted. A coalition is about sharing power.

Robert McKillop

From a symbolic perspective, this is a very important election for Japan as a victory for Koizumi and the coalition would be the most powerful signal yet that the economic model in Japan will change. Ultimately the economic cycle will prove a more significant driver of share prices.

Richard Gibbs

If the coalition partners think they can't win the election because of Mori they will push for him to go, and LDP will have to listen.

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.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

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.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Tim Powell

The BRAC issue is as important as it has always been, but things are fast and furious here, ... We are fully engaged and sustaining lives.

Kenzaburo Oe

During the last few years I have been engaged in writing a trilogy which I wish to be the culmination of my literary activities.

Marcus Williams

So much so that who he really is and the world around him has sort of passed him by. He lives in the past and he's not very engaged at all.

Joseph Biden

The American public must become engaged on this issue,

Joseph Castelo

I can't wait to start working on something else. You make a film. You are very engaged and insolated. And you come out on the other side, it is over and everyone wants to know what do you mean by this and that?

Tom Kehoe

I hope the village gets engaged in it because there's a lot of serious things going on.

Jim Clark

It was a very touching service that engaged the hearts, the minds and the souls of the participants, ... It made us feel like we're glad to be who we are and to be able to be of some help. God has given us something to share with other people because there are a lot of people who don't feel they have something to share. We need to help them feel like they can be full participants at the table again.

Saint Francis de Sales

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Carlton Forrester

We're engaged in a struggle here in 2005 in New Jersey.

Kofi Annan

The secretary-general hopes that the tribunal will uphold the international standards of justice necessary to ensure its legitimacy, fairness and independence.

Tony McNulty

These are serious allegations and I will ensure that they are fully investigated.

Stephen Toulouse

We've taken a look at this situation and incorporated some lessons learned. We will work very hard to help ensure something like this doesn't happen in the future,

Rudolph Penner

To improve highways, we should rethink the way revenues are raised instead of only increasing them. The present highway finance system can remain viable for some time, but the right reforms might give us a system that not only pays for roads, but also allows us to manage traffic flow and ensure that scarce funds are invested in projects with the greatest public benefit.

Richard Berner

Upside inflation risks may require that the Fed move promptly and perhaps a little more forcefully to ensure that inflation and inflation expectations stay low.

Harold E. Varmus

The NCI scientific programme leaders meet regularly to ensure that we are not ignoring highly original proposals and that we are not creating an unbalanced grant portfolio.

Herschelle Gibbs

Obviously my first objective will be to ensure a good start for the Cobras, but obviously I also intend taking the opportunity of showing what I can do at the start.

Mary Chapman

More needs to be done to ensure young people get a better understanding of the world of work and what it involves.

Robert Sweeney

Now we'll be able to ensure they will go to a more suitable location, and not be housed together.

William Drummond

Of this fair volume which we world do name / If we the sheets and leaves could turn with care.

Lizz Harmon

The theme of the fair this year is All-American Fun, so we wanted to make it something that all Americans could afford.

Gary Bardini

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.

John Freeman

This is an issue of fairness and doing what's morally right.

Antonya Nelson

I think about and study people. I think I make people uneasy sometimes by being so curious as to why they do what they do. I find myself thinking about this fairly obsessively, and I can't stop until I've found an answer.

Allan Houston

Even though I wasn't practicing twice a day, I was still doing some stuff, ... So it just really didn't have any time to recover. I don't think it's fair to judge it off training camp, though.

James Hill

We've got a better proposal. We've got a fairer proposal.

David Murray

Every manager sees different things in different players, so it's fair to say there will be changes.

Henry Hyde

We think it would be helpful to hear from the president and we'd like to participate in any fair examination of him,

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Brian Jacques

Where's the point in fighting and slaying if you can make a friend out of anybeast instead of a foe?

Brenda Strong

It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.

Jane Hamilton

We're only passers-by, and all you can do is love what you have in your life. A person has to fight the meanness that sometimes comes with you when you're born, sometimes grows if you aren't in lucky surroundings. It's our challenge to fend it off, leave it behind us choking and gasping for breath in the mud. It's our task to seek out something with truth for us, no matter if there is a hundred-mile obstacle course in the way, or a ramshackle old farmhouse that binds and binds.

Channing Tatum

I know I will never wear sandals now anywhere. I got in a fight in the back of a grocery store when I was really young, like 14 or something. And I remember my feet were so torn up afterwards because I lost my sandals in the middle of the fight. My toenail was missing. It just sucked.

Ban Ki-moon

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

David Davies

The price of a foreign holiday is a requirement to be put on the national identity register.

Linda Sherry

Be prepared for some runaround when trying to find out the fees for foreign transactions. A lot of representatives don't have a clue, so you have to be persistent.

Madeline Albright

But we have to do it in some way that does not harm our overall foreign policy interests,

Slobodan Milosevic

Since foreign military intervention or a war are out of the question, other means of destruction of Yugoslavia are being mentioned -- psychological, media and political pressures.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Soichiro Monji

Foreigners are selling and it seems that Japanese investors are also getting rid of stocks because they are worried about selling by foreigners.

Bob Doll

Without question, foreign stock markets are doing better than the U.S. market.

Bill Plympton

I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.

Carlos Ghosn

Russia is an important part of our global growth strategy.

Lorenzo Codogno

Protectionism remains the major threat to global growth.

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.

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.

Richard Stallman

Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.

Patty Stonesifer

Rick has provided outstanding leadership for the global health program during a time of tremendous growth.

Charlie Miller

But at the same time, global warming is such an overwhelming problem that we need to keep nuclear power on the table as an option.

Andrew Chesley

That's No. 1. It's probably impossible to overstate the importance of getting the Measure K renewal program.

LL Cool

To he who much is given, much is required. That's the importance of this day,

Andrew Luck

Whether I'm on or off the field, I know the importance of getting enough sleep and starting the day with a wholesome breakfast like oatmeal made with milk and fruit.

Mike Degory

If we're going to take back the Swamp, it's going to start Saturday. We know that and understand the importance of this game. We're not overlooking it.

Kevin Johnson

Being selected Most Improved was a special individual award because when I speak to young people I always try to tell them the importance about it's not where you start but where you end up.

Scott Peterson

I've seen them on every national broadcast. It's pretty amazing.

Alfonso Scanio

The problem of railway safety has by now become a national emergency.

Rod Smith

Those are tragedies that have to be addressed on a national level.

Larry Diamond

How can we communicate effectively if you risk being intercepted by the National Security Agency?

Bruce Bartlett

Remember, personal savings is only a small portion of total national savings,

The Jerusalem

Orders have been issued regarding this by the Palestinian National Security Council.

Hong Feng

I suggest taking pictures here with an unfolded national flag.

Tom Golisano

If we go by the National Popular Vote, we'll get more people voting.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Roger Ebert

In my reviews, I feel it's good to make it clear that I'm not proposing objective truth, but subjective reactions; a review should reflect the immediate experience.

Wyndham Lewis

Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

Mike Hamilton

Are we going to recognize our tradition or not? If we're going to recognize our tradition, then let's get on with it.

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Gordon B. Hinckley

I've tried to recognize my wife's individuality, her personality, her desires, her background, her ambitions.

Loretta Lynch

Everyone wants to be seen. Everyone wants to be heard. Everyone wants to be recognized as the person that they are and not a stereotype or an image.

Marc Racicot

We recognize that this is a regional resource, and its development has regional implications.

Waris Ahluwalia

Supporting causes with whatever we do can be effective.

Gao Zhisheng

I've been threatened before. But this time they wanted to kill me.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Bertrand Russell

War doesn't determine who's right, it determines who's left

Benito Mussolini

War is to man what maternity is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

Brian Jacques

There is no greater evil than killing. I don't care whether they call it war or justice. Life is precious.

Brenda Strong

The mind and heart is the field upon which war is waged within us. If we can stop that internal fear-based battle, then those outside of us will be affected as well.

Jane Goodall

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.