Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Johannessen

Our agency will pay for this if we have to. It's too critical to get caught up in a question of who ultimately is going to pay for it.

Jan Egeland

We estimate that humanitarian agencies have access to about 350,000 vulnerable people in Darfur - only about one third of the estimated total population in need.

Janet Yellen

For my own part, I did not see and did not appreciate what the risks were with securitization, the credit ratings agencies, the shadow banking system, the S.I.V.’s — I didn’t see any of that coming until it happened.

Edward Snowden

We need to put the security back in the National Security Agency. We can't have the national surveillance agency.

Norman Cousins

The great challenge of the '90s... is to salvage and improve the UN and to develop it into an agency capable of meeting the wide range of serious problems that are inherent in a world that has become a single geographic unit.

Norm Dicks

The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.

John Sparkman

The Community Relations Service would be another pro-civil rights Federal agency attempting to make people do what the policy of the Federal Government demanded that they do. Moreover, in title II of the bill, this Service is made an agent of the court without due thought as to the effect on legal and judicial procedures.

John Sculley

Apple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.

Richard Kaplan

We're giving it to any government agency that needs it. We just want to help people.

Mark Changizi

Company logos, for example, are meant to be recognized, and we found that logos have a high correlation. Shorthand systems, which are meant to give a note-taker speed at the expense of a commonly recognizable system of symbols, do not.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it, there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace.

Jose Rizal

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

Janet Jackson

Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.

Blaise Pascal

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.

Edmund Hillary

We had so much in common [with June Hillary] that we just carried on with life as we had been doing. It wasn't easy, but it was - I realise now that it was the only thing to do.

William Wordsworth

Turning, for them who pass, the common dustOf servile opportunity to gold.

Anthony Concil

Common sense says if you want to help the developing world, you do not discourage people from traveling there.

David Wyss

Common sense says consumers have to stop spending money at some point. But consumers haven't shown much common sense lately, despite griping about gas prices.

Jennifer McMahon

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

Alija Izetbegovic

The time of confrontation and conflicts should be replaced with a time of construction and prosperity.

Donald Rumsfeld

What will follow will not be a repeat of any other conflict. It will be of a force and scope and scale that has been beyond what has been seen before.

Thom Mayne

I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Nigella Lawson

I don't like conflict.

Cherif Bassiouni

One wants to engage the local judiciary and the local population. It is important that any kind of post-conflict justice be owned by the people affected.

Andrew Mitchell

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

Ellen Jones

We don't see it as a conflict of interest because of that.

Scott Skiles

I suppose that's a good question. I don't know. Would there be a conflict of interest there because he was in Washington? I really haven't given that a whole lot of thought.

Jeff Fager

People don't want to leave it. They want to stay, even though covering Katrina has been so difficult and painful in so many ways.

Donna Doherty

It was very forgiving at that time, there were a lot for women in the sport and covering it. It is the hardest sport to cover in terms of accessibilitythere are no teams and some players just don't have any incentive to talk to the pressbut there were great people to work with.

Cedric Sawyer

The water started rising. It started out about a foot high. Within five hours, it was covering the tops of cars.

John Stack

This really does remind me of covering a war zone or a Third World story.

Clark Chapman

There are essentially no craters visible at all. Instead, there are rocks and boulders covering much of the body. And then there are the remarkable flat areas.

Patrick Walsh

I think my dad was back there covering him,

Joe Collins

It wasn't easy covering 6-7 and 6-6 shooters. We weren't playing hard in the first half. In the second half we outplayed them, but they did the same to us in the first half.

Lon Kruger

We had trouble covering the dribble. We didn't handle it well. Our personality is to switch everything (defensively). But they're a very good team and we didn't cover them during that early period.

Banks

I have freckles; I don't like covering up too much. I like things dewy and natural, and I think that having moisture in your skin is really beautiful and youthful - sometimes that's more important than coverage.

James D. Watson

I started doing science when I was effectively 20, a graduate student of Salvador Luria at Indiana University. And that was - you know, it took me about two years, you know, being a graduate student with Luria deciding I wanted to find the structure of DNA; that is, DNA was going to be my objective.

Vladimir Kozhin

The public can always have a say in deciding the future of the buildings, but the president will take part in decision-making, too, because it is a unique architectural compound.

Dennis Burke

Essentially, you start with the frame. You start out by deciding how tall you want to make it.

Joey Cheek

He would have been a great part of the team. If you look at the times those guys skated, he would have probably been a deciding factor there. (But) I don't fault him for it.

Chan Gailey

I think in the fall we'll still be in the position of deciding who's going to play what positions for the first two weeks. And then we've got to make a decision one way or the other after two weeks and go with it. And the interesting part will be how quickly any of the freshmen might be able to get involved.

Dries van Noten

I have my own office, and I'm there during the evenings and weekends. But during the week, I'm sitting in the middle of my studio, talking with everybody, deciding together every detail, every pallette, every yarn, every colour.

The League

We've already been looking at - for the past six or seven weeks - a number of hunts and we will now be deciding on which ones to put our resources into. We will definitely be monitoring hunts in Wales.