Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yoshihiko Noda

I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.

Des Browne

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

Vladimir Potanin

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Samantha Power

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Menachem Begin

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

Pico Iyer

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

Richard Engel

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Bill Richardson

We have a good relationship with Russia, ... President Yeltsin was not pleased he was not consulted, but the Russian government -- the foreign ministry -- said that they supported the effort.

Yousuf Karsh

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Todd Rundgren

It's hard for me to say that what I'm doing isn't even really music, because deep inside of me, what I want to do is much greater than music.

Idina Menzel

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.

Idina Menzel

I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.

Ian Frazier

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

Ian Mckellen

Bolton School has a great tradition in the liberal arts.

Ismail Kadare

In antiquity, there were three regions in southern Europe: Greece, Rome, and Ilyria. Albanian is the only survivor of the Ilyrian languages. That is why it has always intrigued the great linguists of the past.

Gaines Adams

I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fame. I'd just as soon no one knew who I was. I want to play football because it's football.

Gad Elmaleh

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Thierry Henry

I always have a football handy at home, and I'll play with it. Sometimes it'll get on my wife's nerves. But the moment I've got a ball at my feet, I'm happy.

Abraham Torres

The overall way it is being handled for public relations and for the whole hospital is wrong.

Dale Romans

The pedigree says he should handle the distance, and he trains like it, too.

Dennis Christopher

I had a handle on satisfaction, and I loved my career, but I didn't really know what happiness was. So I started on this quest to have a happy life.

C. S. Lewis

Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose.

C. S. Lewis

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Carrie Brownstein

Over the years, music put a weapon in my hand and words in my mouth it backed me up and shielded me, it shook me and scared me and showed me the way; music opened me up to living and being and feeling.

Bethany Hamilton

There's no such thing as a handicap - it's all in your head

Bernard Beckett

I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Michael Greco

The ABA does not, and we will not, protect the interests of any political party or faction, nor the interests of any ideological or interest group.

Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Guillermo Ortiz

Parent banks' stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

John Tyler Bonner

My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

Amanda Vanstone

The Pacific solution has been an outstanding success,

Keith Aubry

No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Wentworth Miller

When I've had my periods of unemployment, I'll get these e-mails from my father: 'I've read that the LAPD has a reservist program. Perhaps that's something you'd be interested in taking a look at.'

Pico Iyer

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

Raymond Queneau

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it.

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

Orhan Pamuk

I think perhaps it is a generational thing,

Claire Tomalin

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Eric Brown

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down.

Azim Premji

You have students in America, in Britain, who do not want to be engineers. Perhaps it is the workload, I studied engineering, and I know what a grind it is.

Dan Auerbach

I don't make my living making records. Maybe someday I will.

Andrea Gibson

Someday we will dare to trade good for true

Christine Taylor

Someday I'd love to do Shakespeare.

Fred Armisen

Someday maybe I'll go back and see what the Deep South is like.

Jewel

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see

Sherry Turkle

Someday, someday, but certainly not now, I'd like to learn how to have a conversation.

Tom Cruise

Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.

Steven Morrissey

My love, wherever you are - whatever you are - don't lose faith. I know it's gonna happen someday to you.

Patricia Briggs

Someday, I'm going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner - but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.