Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jesus Dureza

Knowing that the uncertain peace and order situation is a major impediment in attaining economic growth for the island, we are anticipating that the current peace efforts will strengthen the enabling environment for investment and growth.

Sam Brownback

Immigration is a volatile issue, but we're in the middle of it now, and probably the worst thing to do is to not do anything. Everybody recognizes the current system is not working the way we want it to work. It has huge flaws to it; need to do something.

Mick Davis

I think the current market price is a reasonable level.

Mahmoud Zahar

I think that during the current tour, we will be able to raise the needed funds.

Phil Goff

It is important in the current situation for steps to be taken to resolve the long-running public sector strike, which has contributed to this tension,

Roger Ashby

I will be talking to the current squad individually over the next few weeks about their futures and once they know, I will make it public.

Joel Naroff

There is an ever-growing number of homes on the market, and while the overhang is not great at the current selling pace, it could become a problem if we trend back toward more sustainable levels,

Douglas Hattaway

I don't know what planet he's been on for the past eight years, but this administration helped lay the foundation for our current prosperity.

Igor Ivanov

I am going to discuss the situation in the region, questions of our bilateral relations and the current situation at the Kosovo stretch of the Yugoslav-Macedonian border,

Angelina Jolie

There are so many wonderful pledges that could come in in the next few years, but this winter is in the next few weeks and so many people are in danger of possibly freezing to death,

Darry Sragow

Had he been able to portray the Democrats as a party that's preventing him from solving the problems of California, I think we could have painted ourselves into a very dangerous corner.

Cindy Hockenberry

I think it's dangerous any time you spend money before it's in your hand. You never know what's going to happen.

David Blankenhorn

We've gone from debunking heroes to needing heroes. We're in a time of such danger and such physical vulnerability, and we need to be protected by the strong and the brave.

David Blankenhorn

We've gone from debunking heroes to needing heroes, ... We're in a time of such danger and such physical vulnerability, and we need to be protected by the strong and the brave.

Chris Hadfield

I watched the first people walk on the moon, and to me, it was just an obvious thing - I want to somehow turn myself into that. But the real question is, how do you deal with the danger of it and the fear that comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger?

Patrick Lynch

I don't feel there's any danger issues that warrant it.

Derek Boyko

He hadn't shown any signs of heat stress. Who knows if, without the device, the training staff would have known he was in danger before it was too late.

Werner Herzog

My crew [on "Fitzcarraldo" filming] actually said, "We have filmed it from outside on the rocks of the shore. We should be on board [the ship]," and I said it's dangerous, I only do it if you cinematographer Thomas Mauch and you actor [Klaus] Kinski decide on your own.

Thaksin Shinawatra

We have no involvement at all, ... We don't have any detention or secret jails or whatever.

Nolan North

I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'

Howie Long

He's playing like he's been in the league for a dozen seasons.

Richard Cox

They are hosted on Yahoo! I just took three hot words, but there are dozens of others including misspellings. They are mostly phishing websites,w hich shows that the situation is out of control.

Edward Dmytryk

Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

Chester Moore

It's a serious pursuit and a fascination, ... I write for dozens of publications about all sorts of things, but this is the biggest, hugest prize.

Tom Renney

This lineup tonight could be symbolic of what it might take down the road here and in the playoffs. We hope the team understands the value of that and works harder to play that way than maybe they have the last half dozen games.

Linda Hall

This is the largest gift in our history and will enable us to help dozens of homeless families for years to come.

Matt Lombardi

There's a lot of things going on. You can have a dozen different kinds of vacations in Puerto Rico.

Mike Byrne

The sad thing is that his legacy is with us still today in dozens of investment schemes that sound too good to be true - and are.

Russell Baze

I shook the stick at him and boy, he gave me a good little punch. About a dozen lengths later he just quit. Just inside the eighth pole, I had nothing left.

Patty Krueger

Knowing when you are done, knowing when you are through with the entire painting, is the hardest thing to learn.

Jerry Sullivan

His versatility and value to the offense can't be overstated. If he were healthy for the entire season, even as inconsistent as we were in the pass game, Arnaz would probably have been a 60- to 70-catch guy.

Delia Ephron

It consists entirely of people who are not related by blood, many of whom can't stand each other.

Patrick Moore

It hurts not having Lips in there. But the entire field goal team has got to get better.

Kari Appler

I think the entire state of Maryland and D.C. within the next two years will be smoke-free.

Harrison Ford

I was always very grateful I was never 'hot,'... In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the hottest, the No. 1, the most adored. I've always been somewhere down from the top, so I've never had to suffer being knocked off the top.

Mike Schmidli

We took up the entire space (of the old Grand Wayne Center). All the side rooms, every inch of it. So now we're all in one area. So much nicer and it's great.

Mike Wallace

What you're saying is that you were a living steroids experiment for your entire career,

Wayne Butler

I think that, with six fish, we?re going to make it through the entire summer without a problem. But whether we make it all the way through (this year)? I?d say we have a 40-60 chance.

Ryan Crocker

It is a 4.5-million-dollar facility and it is state of medical art.

Charise McHugh

We may not make it. They could wake up one morning and find that the facility is closed. We owe it to them to tell them that everything isn't hunky dory.

Bill Gerstenmaier

The (Michoud) facility is in pretty good shape. The question is, what does the workforce want to do?

Allan Bristow

The big thing is where to set up offices and where to play games. We want to make sure that the first two weeks (of workouts) we're in a facility where we feel comfortable.

Tyrone Parham

It would be ideal to have the proper training facility where we can simulate incidents and train people properly.

Jeff Anderson

We have a facility we'd like filled and you have one you'd like to see stay filled.

Robert Lesley

There's no place in Carson that you can find another residential facility that will be four stories.

Mark McDonald

We talked to the architect, Darin Prost, and he showed us the plans and what the facility was going to look like.

Sean Hayes

We'll have a class-A facility in four to five years.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Mike Moore

We take it from the house and turn it into what you see here.

Robert Hoehn

I think by the end of next week they'll be cheaper. We'll get through some House legislation yet.

Tori Amos

I like cosy, intimate houses.

William Blake

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Poetry is certainly something more than good sense, but it must be good sense, at all events, just as a palace is more than a house, but it must be a house, at least.

Virgil Goode

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

William Cobbett

But I do not remember ever having seen a newspaper in the house; and, most certainly, that privation did not render us less industrious, happy, or free.

Joel Klein

has been and always remains open to a settlement.

Eric Wicks

I thought they'd try to run a lot more outside to open up the field. I think after a while, they were just trying to make a play, anywhere.

Anthony Geary

I have friends in France who are artists. I go to gallery openings and things like that.

Tom Peterson

Our middles are very good. We passed really well and that opened things up for our offense.

Cynthia Johnson

In the past two years, since so many burrito places have been opening up, people have been going there.

Paul Vachon

If you give them open looks, they don't miss. But if you have someone there, and especially with Paradis because she shoots from the hip, it's going to be a little tougher than if they're open.

Jeff Hironaka

In the first half, we (hit the 3), and that opened things up. We had better opportunities to go to the basket. That's how we have to play.

Justin Leonard

I played a practice round with him at Baltusrol in the '93 Open on my 21st birthday,

David Cross

If the owner hadn't come and seen the smoke, by time this place opened tonight it would have been rolling.

F. Schumacher

Going from two wheels to four, we've seen in the past that this can be done.

Richelle Mead

Don't judge the past by the standards of today. It won't work. They're incompatible.

Ronda Rousey

Judo taught me that I am capable of anything... I can mentally push past anything and be victorious.

William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

Richard M. Nixon

The 1970s must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never.

Richard M. Nixon

As we work to expand our supplies of energy, we should also recognize that we must balance those efforts with our concern to preserve our environment. In the past, as we have sought new energy sources, we have too often damaged or despoiled our land.

Richard Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else.

Robert Dale Owen

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past?

Robin Hobb

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

David Sedaris

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

Dwayne Andreas

I never knew what a reporter looked like.

Zhang Ziyi

Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world.

Ellen Goodman

Values are not trendy items that are casually traded in.

Eric Rohmer

You have to know how to go against the trend of the times.

Eric Ripert

I don't follow the food trends.

Rachel Roy

As far as things I avoid, I always avoid following trends just because they're trends.

Paolo Bacigalupi

The surfeit of bad trends pushes me to set my stories in worlds which are often diminished versions of our own present.

Elvis Presley

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

Manolo Blahnik

Trends don't interest me.

Roland Swenson

This is a trend going on around the country.

Sara Sheridan

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Samuel Rutherford

Those who can take that crabbed tree handsomely upon their back, and fasten it on cannily, shall find it such a burden as wings unto a bird, or sails to a ship.

Wallace Stevens

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

Warren Beatty

But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money and organizing and giving sound bites.

William Butler Yeats

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

Vladimir Nabokov

in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge. The arms of consciousness reach out and grope, and the longer they are the better. Tentacles, not wings, are Apollo's natural members.

William P. Young

Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.

Jose Saramago

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Kevin Spacey

Whether its Veep or Homeland or The West Wing - which is a more idealised version of democracy - people are fascinated by politics.