Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rodney Barker

The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.

Mark Haddon

I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror.

David Miliband

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world.

Richard O'Brien

We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

Walter Russell Mead

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America.

Stephen Kinzer

In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place.

Nick Harkaway

In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline.

Kate Hudson

In the early 1980s when the British government decided to purchase the Trident nuclear weapons system, Britain faced a perceived threat from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union.

Aidan Turner

In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere.

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Katharine Whitehorn

Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel.

Sean Connery

His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962.

Stewart Gary

It hurts me not to have them. We can't pretend it doesn't matter. It's like a British Invasion set without the Beatles.

Jeremy Bulloch

I think The Empire Strikes Back had everything.

Rhianna Pratchett

I think the Dutch certainly get British comedy. And let's face it; a lot of it is pretty low-hanging fruit for the whole world now. There are probably tribes in the heart of the Papua New Guinean rainforest that know all the words to the Dead Parrot sketch.

T. S. Eliot

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?

John Thaw

When he's solved that particular clue, then he's back to reality and he doesn't like it. I think that's why he drinks more than most.

Ian Gow

I think we have made a British degree affordable.

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.

Marty Schottenheimer

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

Dave Jones

He could have done anything else, but he decided to come out for track. I'm proud I got to be his coach.

Sam Jr

He decided to wait because he knew he was going to get some interest late. It was a very good decision for him to wait.

Raul Cisneros

He decided to take them up on the offer.

Patrick Mouratoglou

He decided that his parents had to come. Marcos is someone who likes to share.

Saeb Erekat

He decided not to go to New York because of the (Israeli) handover of the (Gaza) settlements and the security situation.

Tony Raines

Knowing how we ran early in the race and how I think we could have run, I was disappointed. But at the same time, I went there knowing I was going to race for a finish. I didn't race anybody.

Helen Brown

I would say that Cosmo was always a feminist magazine; it was before the movement really took shape. The early feminist movement felt I put a lot of emphasis on beauty, which was true.

Mike Ledsome

Katie was ready to go (Thursday). She got into a groove early and started hitting her spots and pitching stronger as the games progressed.

Rich Brands

Just looking at their results, I think it will be a pretty even match. We want to come out and not make any mistakes early on. We want to try and exploit some of the free kicks and throw-in stuff we've been working on.

Ben Gordon

Just like Tuesday (against Dallas) we struggled early and in the second half we were able to make a run. It was just a little to late.

Frank Warren

Joe is never going to be ready for that (November date) so we'll try to rearrange it for next year. It is frustrating for Joe but these things happen in boxing. It is a great shame. We'll do the fight early next year, maybe February.

Kevin Merkle

I think it is too early to form a long-lasting opinion. It is good to get some feedback first.

Derek Jeter

It all starts with pitching. This offense got so much publicity early on, but you're going to win if you pitch. We've got a lot of guys who know how to pitch.

Curt Schilling

It always makes a difference, when you get a lead early in the game. Every run early on is just a mistake you can make later.

Martin Jacques

Just six years into the 21st century, one can say this is not shaping up to be anything like an American century. Rather, the U.S. seems much more likely to be faced with a very different kind of future: how to manage its own imperial decline.

Grant Achatz

Whenever people are faced with any sort of adversity... they tend to gravitate toward things that make them comfortable, and things that they feel are important.

E. B. White

We've faced lots of competitors in the marketplace.

Derek Jeter

We've faced him 100 times playing with Baltimore. He's always been pretty tough. He knows how to pitch. He mixes it up.

Flip Saunders

We've faced a lot of teams that have had that sense of urgency, so what has happened, teams have kind of jumped on us early. We've had to fight our butts off to get back in games.

Jim Heacock

We've faced a lot of good offenses, so I don't know that that's going to be any different.

Rahul Dravid

We've faced a few (fast) bowlers, so it's nice to have someone who can give it back.

Jim Stagnitta

We threw a kid out there who hasn't faced off all year, and he battled.

Sheraz Mian

We are faced with perhaps the worst possible situation that planners and policy makers could image.

Sondhi Limthongkul

He is very arrogant, insulting other people and running the government as a one-man show. He is worse than a tyrant.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Najib Razak

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia.

P. J. O'Rourke

Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

Umar Juoro

He runs things day by day. You can't run government like that.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Ernest Wamba

It comes at a time when the government pretends it wants dialogue, but instead it is killing people indiscriminately.

Rick Blount

I thought for sure the government at some level would have solved my problems for me, but since that doesn't look like it's going to happen, we have to go this route.

Buzz Aldrin

I think you have to talk to your congressman to try to get the government to want to work with the private sector.

Irene Smith

There are no nuclear tests planned or desired.

James Davis

He is a sophomore at N.C. State studying nuclear engineering.

Walther Bothe

Direction coupling between the various radiations generated in a nuclear reaction both with one another and with the initiating radiation can also be detected and measured by coincidences; this provides valuable information about the structure of the atomic nuclei.

Robin Quivers

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything

Walter Kohn

Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

Wendell Berry

The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

Andy White

In a carbon-constrained world ... nuclear plants have got to be in that mix.

Michael Scheuer

In this case, nuclear material, so by the end of 1996, it was clear that this was an organization unlike any other one we had ever seen.

Tariq Altaf

In a nuclear environment, this is obviously not a prudent course.

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Spencer Waller

I don't think they want to be perceived as doing a lay-down in some kind of face-saving settlement, especially where that won't end the case, with the states going forward.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Quintilian

A laugh, if purchased at the expense of propriety, costs too much.

John Andrews

I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.

Don MacDonald

When you, the consumer, look for a brand, you want it to simplify your purchase and come from someone you trust.

Susan Klein

Make sure when you purchase your ticket, you know what you're really getting.

Rebecca Fuller

We purchased one lesson. And that's all he needed.

Toshihiko Sakai

We see the trend of Treasury purchases continuing.

Vladimir Putin

Back in 1956, we signed a treaty and surprisingly it was ratified both by the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and the Japanese Parliament. But then Japan refused to implement it and after that the Soviet Union also, so to say, nullified all the agreements reached within the framework of the treaty.

Joe Biden

Would Colonel [Bernie] Sanders honeymoon in the Soviet Union?

Anatoly Lebedko

If in Soviet times we had Stalinism, in Belarus today we have Lukashenko-ism.

Rob Bell

If your faith is threatened by something that's true, then it wasn't much of a faith to begin with, was it?

Pope Francis

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself.

Rachel Corrie

We are protecting civilians. We are unarmed. We are no threat to you. Please do not shoot.

Jim Rohn

Without constant activity, the threats of life will soon overwhelm the values.

Rob Mullens

It is very much a threat at this point.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Julia Dixon

The threat exists. We're trying to extinguish that threat.

Hironari Nozaki

Aeon isn't going to be a threat to the big banks.

Gao Zhisheng

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

Sarah Shahi

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

Kellan Lutz

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Helmut Schmidt

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Manly Hall

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Mahatma Gandhi

I have no weapon but nonviolence.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Bryan Whitman

It's part of our conventional weapons inventory. We use it like we use any other conventional weapon.

Bernie Bickerstaff

They've just got so many weapons that somehow, someone's going to make a play.