Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Kinzer

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Capt. Spirlet

He's definitely considered armed and dangerous and has extremely violent tendencies.

Rory Kennedy

I think the most significant turning point was when the militia was brought in. A few armed men and women couldn't take on the Pennsylvania militia.

Jamie Shea

Last night, NATO had a night of relative restraint. We were mindful of the Orthodox Easter celebration. At the same time, the Yugoslav armed forces continued to demonstrate signs of wear and tear.

Charles Grassley

The purpose of this letter is to express grave concern and raise questions regarding allegations that a textile contractor has been using toxic substances in the production of fabric used by armed forces personnel,

Steve Bolman

We're now considerably better prepared to deal with code-red situations, in which an armed assailant is on campus. Before then, we mainly emphasized earthquake preparedness. We've been conducting fewer drills for earthquakes lately, but we're making more preparations for them this year.

Stephanie Pell

He was recruited to travel overseas to engage in jihad or armed confrontation.

Sheriff White

He is armed and we believe extremely dangerous.

Ron Barber

Having grown up in a military family, I know that politics should have no role in determining who is best qualified to lead our armed forces.

Deborah Fallows

For men, it's just, 'Give me the facts. For women, it's 'Let's talk about this. Are you worried about this problem?' It's keeping in touch and connecting with people in a richer way.

Jan Denise

When I am me, I can see me in my space. My desk faces the window and an ocean. The flower on my desk gives off a wonderful aroma. The refrigerator has something in it I feel good about eating. When I am me, I can see me in my day. I am writing. I am talking from a heart of love. I am reviewing my notes, or editing, or walking, or something outside. I am connecting with nature and people.

Geoff Mayfield

I know at least two major distributors think the gap will get wider before the end of the year. There has been softness in the top 10 throughout the year, and in most weeks, it didn't take as much to be in the top 10 as it did in 2004. The music is not connecting with consumers the way it did last year.

Rick Jackson

I never met a man that more personified the ideas of a Southern gentleman. And I've never heard another radio man who was better at connecting with his listeners.

David Horowitz

You can't read a story about me in a leftist journal without connecting me to right-wing funding and this and that. Why don't they just deal with the issues?

Dick Enberg

The ecstatic leap of two years ago ? smiling and subtle today. Phil Mickelson, at 35, connecting his personal legacy with the legends and tradition of The Masters.

Mark Cuban

It's just connecting with fans and lets them know we recognize that they're responsible for paying all the bills. It's not meant to be a league thing. It's a Dallas Maverick thing.

Summer Luciano

They're not connecting the dots between tuition increases and voting. So it's important to connect these dots to the issues.

Craig Hatkoff

Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories.

William Gray

The rest of the globe that has 88% of the tropical storms hasn't changed, ... If I'm proven wrong, I will jump off the highest peak in Colorado.

John Fusco

We searched around the globe and looked at well over a hundred 'Marco Polos,' came down to the wire, and went back and looked at our Italy tapes, and we realized that we had overlooked someone. That was Lorenzo Richelmy.

Chris Coleman

There's no other place it could be. It's how people around the globe know St. Paul.

Nas

Read more learn more, change the globe

Clive Thompson

Railing at scientists for massaging tree-ring statistics won't stop the globe from warming if the globe is actually, you know, warming.

Anna Kendrick

I stole a little snow globe from the set of the first 'Pitch Perfect' that I don't think ever made it on-screen, so it's not like fans would be tickled by that information, but I still have it.

Gillian Zinser

I am mad about hats. I collect them as souvenirs from my globe trotting.

Anthony Horowitz

My generation has left the globe in a mess.

Vinny Testaverde

Knowing his past history ... I was very concerned.

Jaclyn Smith

Kmart's as much a part of my history as 'Charlie's Angels.' Twenty-five years! It's not just a celebrity brand.

Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

Harry S Truman

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know

Dani Shapiro

I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

Lindsey Graham

What would you like history to say about you when it is all said and done,

Alec Reid

history will prove that this is the end of the IRA.

Alison Weir

History was a hobby for about, oh, 20 years before I got into print.

Don Rittner

History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity.

Chris Coste

Kirby was the first name on everyone's list. That smile and that magnetic personality. He was a huge role model for so many people in that area. He was a huge influence in the way that I hit.

Bud Keene

Kelly really pushed the limits of women's riding by going huge and super technical.

Doc Scheppler

Just returning to the team was a huge lift for us.

Ben Howland

Josh Shipp was huge tonight. I mean, having not played 13 weeks, for him to do what he did tonight was just miraculous.

Brian Fanelli

I think it's a huge accomplishment for her.

Mike Szabo

He just stepped up and made a play. That was a huge play.

Sven Eriksson

He seems like a different player and very mature in his way of playing. He's a huge talent and has been doing very well for us

Zell Miller

His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

Mustafa Alani

His organization is going to be under pressure. He's anticipating a huge challenge, not from the Americans but inside Iraq.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.

Dave Finkel

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.

Henry Giroux

We're talking about race. It's ideology, it's a mode of policy. It's a practice. And it intertwines with class in a very specific way to create something very distinctive that we see now being legitimated in the United States by fascists who absolutely are unapologetic about what they're saying.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need time to tackle this complicated problem,

Joe Slovo

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Joschka Fischer

Violence was a mixture of ideology (and) macho status...,

Joel Friedman

Ideology aside, I think he is a terrific guy, a terrific choice,

Brad Henry

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

John Ashcroft

I think it is always very important for us to take those kinds of requests very seriously,

David Sanborn

I think the kind of chronology of the whole thing was that I was making records in the 70's and 80's that used pop production values, but instrumental music; like improvising with R&B kinds of song structures, but with improvisation in them, and pop production values.

Debra Lee

I was working on all kinds of projects. Every six months we were starting something new.

Ron Prince

I don't even talk about those kinds of things.

Jim Calhoun

In those 11 games, we did all kinds of things. We played and got better during this period. And I don?t know if we ever peaked, per se, nor did I want us to.

Will Shields

It's different kinds of strengthening things. Some things that are more specific to strengthen the things around your back, things you don't think about. I'm just going to see how I feel after today's practice.

Chuck Anderson

I've got all kinds of stuff, but I don't use them, ... They just get in the way.

Richard Eastman

It's not possible that you could get into the kinds of things that could do damage.

Tony Fratto

No one wants to see these kinds of international tensions over these issues.

Scott Erickson

What we wanted to do was just put to rest the question of, 'Hey, are they going to be around now that (Apple is) making a major switch to Intel?

Jon Cryer

His name is Blane? That's a major appliance, that's not a name!

Dr. Armstrong

I think it's a major step forward. There's no question about it.

David Becker

I think it's a major step forward, I don't think it signals any retreat from vigorous enforcement.

Rhodri Morgan

It is all part of a major Welsh revival. We are raising our game, and not just on the rugby field.

Jalal Talabani

I think the majority (of all Iraqis) will vote yes,

Daniel Breaker

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

Sylvana Foa

I think (that) the major conclusions are that there are a lot of very rich people who are getting very, very rich, and there are a lot of very, very poor people who are getting even poorer.

Alex Jones

The majority of world stock markets are now owned by the Arabs.

Karl Albrecht

Old paradigms die hard, even if they don't work.

Thomas Kuhn

To reject one paradigm without simultaneously substituting another is to reject science itself.

Robert Shea

Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general.

Simon Fuller

If it were up to me, I'd rather create things that last long-term, but my thrill comes from reflecting what's going on now.

Mike Tollin

He's at a place where he's more honest, reflective and self-effacing.

Bernie Williams

Today is a day to reflect upon our season. The day will come when I will have to make a decision, but that isn't today.

William Whewell

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Shatner

Marriage is a reflection of your life in general: how you treat people, how you argue, how secure you are in your own thoughts. How vehemently do you argue your point of view? With what disdain do you view the other's point of view?

William James

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.

Tracy Kidder

What interests me is trying to catch the reflection of the human being on the page. I'm interested in how ordinary people live their lives

Robert Schumann

Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

Vincent Van Gogh

Accurate drawing, accurate colour, is perhaps not the essential thing to aim at, because the reflection of reality in a mirror, if it could be caught, colour and all, would not be a picture at all, no more than a photograph.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

The Palestinians have voted for the resistance and have shown their loyalty.

Wayne White

But nobody predicted anything of this magnitude in terms of resistance. And in part, the magnitude of the resistance was spurred by our failures in reconstruction.

William Hazlitt

Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.

Evo Morales

The way I see it, it's impossible to change things without encountering resistance.

Muqtada al Sadr

We have not forgotten the occupier. We remain a resistance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Bryan Stevenson

I have to get comfortable with resistance, and even sometimes with hostility.

Susan B. Anthony

I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.

Dennis Quaid

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.

A. Hodge

What will be very interesting at this stage is that for a lot of guys, this will be the first time that they have raced all year.

Christy Austin

I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.

Rick James

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

William H. Macy

You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.

Yelena Isinbayeva

The whole stage was only for me. It was so cool.

Henry Rollins

I'm most comfortable on stage.

Miranda Sissons

This is a very important stage in the trial.

Chris Hamilton

Talks are progressing on one or two fronts but we're not yet at the stage where we are waiting on anybody.

Marc Cohn

I wanted to just get back out and feel my way back to the stage in a low-key way.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.

Townsend Harris

In time of war steamships and improved arms are the most important things.