Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Ignatieff

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Martin Short

He is a complete goof and so stylish, I mean everything about Franz is about chic, it doesn't really matter if there's peace in Bosnia as much as if they're beautifully dressed at the peace table.

Boris Trajkovski

If NATO troops stayed on, this would only give us a sense of false security ... and create another Bosnia or Kosovo in the Balkans.

Peter Erben

In Bosnia in 2002 there were 55 percent, in the parliamentary elections in Colombia 42 percent, India 59 percent, Switzerland 42 percent.

David Owen

It's sad that justice in a way has been cheated. He was the first head of state to be given a trial, he's been given a very fair trial, it's taken an extraordinarily long time. I think people everywhere, but particularly in the former Yugoslavia and in Bosnia were wanting this verdict. They now will feel cheated and it's a tragedy in a way that justice has not been able to give the verdict which we was important to hear.

Richard Holbrooke

It's hard exaggerate this. If it had been for Alija Izetbegovic, Bosnia would not exist today ... He was the visionary.

Richard Holbrooke

It was his ruthlessness and vision that helped to create Bosnia and Herzegovina,

Richard Holbrooke

The main reason for this is that the Bosnian Serbs still have not given up their core dream of creating a separate state, and that is unacceptable.

Jim Hooper

And because they have been unwilling to intervene early in the crises in Bosnia and Kosovo, they have ended up having to intervene -- in particular in Kosovo -- in a much greater fashion, a much stronger fashion later on after the crisis has grown, has expanded and the killing has gotten very serious.

Paul Wolfowitz

I think it is important, this issue of voice, which is shorthand for how, to have particularly developing countries have more of a say in the operations of institutions like this one. It is a very important question,

Sebastian Thrun

I always felt that if countries knew each other better, there would be less war. Often, conflict goes with demonizing other countries and cultures.

Teju Cole

There are many people who know nothing of a world in which we take the reality of the 'other' seriously. I'm running on that platform: other people in other countries are really, really real, and there has to be a way of presenting their reality that is not condescending to them or about our psycho-social needs.

Tim Adams

There are still some countries out there that have yet to lend their full support.

Q'orianka Kilcher

I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

George Robertson

What will come out of today's summit will be the united resolve of European countries and all the NATO countries that (Yugoslav President Slobodan) Milosevic is going to be defeated,

Chris Hurt

What we've seen with the mobility of labor, particularly from Mexico, has enabled that industry to stay in the United States. It's entirely possible that if labor had not been mobile that parts of the industry would have to moved to other countries like Mexico.

Milton Friedman

Have all these countries found a genius like Greenspan? ... What the foreign experience suggests is, you don't need a genius. You just need someone willing to make fighting inflation his top priority.

Ted Heid

Here, we've developed an obsession for the long ball, just because we can. Other countries don't have that luxury, so they play a 'purer' form of baseball.

Anne Fortier

I was in Siena and decided I wanted to write a story set there. Then I discovered that the original story of Romeo and Juliet was set in Siena. It occurred to me that this was too much of a gift - I had to do it. That's how I ended up writing a parallel story to Romeo and Juliet.

Robert Browning

I would think the extra pair of eyes, extra pair of ears would maybe deter someone who may have decided to try something.

Bruce Bochy

Jake was feeling the effects of everything going on in his teeth and his hand. To me, that is major surgery. I made up my mind after talking to him. I was inclined to get him when I went out there. I decided he had enough.

Randy Barnhill

Jack was getting after it. We decided to switch him around and move him up front (from the midfield), because he can score when he's got the ball.

E. Hicks

John has an important job here with the Rangers. I want him as part of our team as we move forward and I am glad he has decided to stay with our organization.

Mary Reynolds

I think it is really unfortunate that the New York University administration has decided to take a page out of the Yale administration's anti-union book, ... It's shocking that in 2000 the NYU administration decided to recognize the democratic decision of their students, and then at the whim of the president of the university, they can take away their contract, take away their grievance procedure.

Jim Crosbie

It all started with our defense. They decided to go out and get some stops.

Marty Schottenheimer

He wanted to finish, but I decided it was time to give Michael a few shots.

Von Hayes

He walked into my office yesterday after San Antonio's game and said his passion is elsewhere, so he decided to retire. We wish him well.

Darryl Jenkins

I wouldn't put my retirement money on the line for something like this, ... It is a very difficult environment for startups right now, with jet fuel so high. That scares investors away.

Will Ferrell

I would tend to shy away from that, only because hosting those type of things is an extremely difficult task. I'd rather watch at home.

Dennis Hastert

Jack Ryan made the right decision, ... I know it must have been a difficult one.

Allan Kaplan

I would say that this a minor loss for the industry. I would say this is going to make it more difficult for them in their negotiations in terms of a settlement.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing. I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

Kevin Sutherland

Just the streak in itself is amazing, ... I don't think people realize how difficult it is to make that many in a row. That shows how hard he plays every time he tees it up.

William Keeler

I take this occasion to express publicly my apologies to all who have been victims and, in a very special way, to Mr. Stokes who is suffering, has suffered intensely because of the difficulty in which he now finds himself and which we find ourselves, ... I express my sympathy and to his family members, to all who suffered, because of what has been transpiring.

Jeremy Foley

I think it's a huge home-court advantage. I think the fact that everybody is on top of the court, the job the students have done making that a difficult place to play ... people say how loud it is in there. It's a different environment.

Mike Sanford

I think it helped us to learn more about him and what his strengths are. It was very difficult (with the injury).

Ariel Sharon

I talked today to the secretary-general of the United Nations. I talked to every European leader about this issue,

Jane Waters

I think it is important that our rides are really spectacular. These are big European rides. We've worked really hard at getting thrill rides.

Tony Judt

Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.

Michael Owen

What would happen to me if I stayed at Madrid? How much would I miss European football if I signed for Newcastle?

Bernard Arnault

What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest rates without any justification.

Dieter Zetsche

Here in the European Union, we need to learn from the American experience, because if we don't, we may end up reliving it.

Andrew Douglas

It is going to change, quite dramatically, the way European markets work.

Andrei Popov

We told our European partners that their policy towards Belarus is groundless and useless.

Olli Rehn

Today indeed marks the start of a new phase in the relationship between European Union and Serbia and Montenegro,

Rahm Emanuel

Here in Illinois it's known as Kid Care, and I talked about expanding it to family care. So if you work full- time, you get health care.

Richard Preston

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

Marshall Strickland

I think the key at this point of the season is to keep improving. Keep expanding your game.

Don Decker

We try to expand the series each year.

Bruce Allen

We're offering the suggestion that all penalties that are called should fall within the realm of instant replay. We suggest any penalties that are called be subject to review. After reviewing hundreds of plays, we feel it's time to expand on instant replay, since we have a system in place.

Don Garber

I think we've got some interest and I think we've got some momentum but we've got to be sure we do things right. There's no rush to expand this league,

John Barker

It gives you the opportunity to update your motel. You can expand your motel if the rooms become available.

Robert Brown

I watched my foolish heart expand / In the lazy glow of benevolence, / O'er the various modes of man's belief.

Stephen Phillips

I'd like to see it expand to include more artists,

Stuart Eizenstat

has the potential to rank ... as a landmark event.

Bible Bible

He shall not return into the land of Egypt, and the Assyrian shall be his king, because they refused to return.

Brad Little

He's got something he wants, if he has in mind a land trade,

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Richard Branson

We told him he had to land alive.

Martin Freeman

I think when see you a character on the screen who is actually being touched by the world, and the stuff is actually landing on him, it makes you empathize.

Tyler Farr

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.

Rick Riordan

No which fish are big enough to land

Rick Riordan

You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger at me. “Did you know the palm tree has six different edible parts?” “Um—” “And I’ll never be bored,” Neith continued, “since I’m also the goddess of weaving. I have enough twine for a millennium of macramé!” I had no reply, as I wasn’t sure what macramé was.

George Robertson

I will be taking that request back to NATO headquarters to see what we can do.

Vladimir Putin

[Egon] Bahr even said: If Russia agreed to the NATO expansion, he would never come to Moscow again.

Javier Solana

If Milosevic does not comply, I can tell you that NATO is ready to act,

Jaap Scheffer

This is the first time NATO has done something like this on this scale.

Donald Trump

I'm a big fan of NATO. But they have to pay up.

Jamie Shea

NATO will always be hopeful, but we'll always be realistic.

Jaap Scheffer

That will not keep NATO from doing what it is going to do. NATO will stay the course. We are not leaving.

Boris Trajkovski

We don't need NATO to stay on as guarantor for peace,

Sue Miller

I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.

Tony Rasmus

He's always pumped up. Sometimes, you have to pull the reins in.

Gary Waters

He should have pulled up. He was trying to get fouled, I know that's what he was thinking.

Lee Baca

He should have just let them pull him over and do their investigation and we would not have any of this.

Jamon Gordon

We thought we were going to pull it out. That?s how the season has been this year.

O.J. Mayo

I think we pulled together as a team.

Walter Dorman

I think it's the first time this season that we were rattled. It's unfortunate that we couldn't pull it out.

Juan Dixon

I was wrong, I was frustrated. I apologize. I just wanted to try to pull through and get us the win.

Ed DeChellis

He was guarded, he pulled it, and the senior made a big shot. That's what seniors do this time of year.

Joseph Biden

Judge, if I look only at what you've said and written ... I would have to vote 'no,'

Steve Southerland

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Rich Lowry

Bill Clinton was a liberal who could appeal to conservative-leaning Bubba voters.

Vivian Campbell

I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

Werner Herzog

I'm not a citizen of America, I cannot vote. But it is fascinating because there's a new kind of protagonist out there that we didn't expect. By the way, I'm not in any panic at all.

Washington Allston

Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.

William Hague

I've always been opposed myself to prisoners having the vote.

William Hague

It is not my policy to hit voters during the election.