Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salim Khan

Of course we would aid them, ... But there are soldiers here, there are rules. We can have no contact with them. We know only what we can see.

Bruno Seraphim

The most important thing is a possible aid package from the International Monetary Fund.

Shaukat Aziz

So this will be aid going in both directions,

Steve Pearson

It was almost a reflex reaction. If you have a good friend who can use your help, you just do it. It's all about coming to the aid of someone you care about deeply.

Jon Corzine

There won't be any state aid if we don't manage our budget in a way that we husband resources that we can do more than just provide property tax relief,

Ken Hutcherson

This is a tremendous opportunity for the Church to bridge the racial divide in the wake of Katrina; black leaders must aid these local churches that are providing shelter and relief to the poorest of the poor.

Pete Rose

This is a tragedy. Anyone who knows this young man knows he is a very, very fine young man. The use of this stuff is common. It's used as a sleep aid by many people in sports.

Charlie Dickinson

This is the first time the U.S. Fire Administration has published a report on confined fires. This report will aid the fire service and fire prevention communities in understanding the nature of such fires.

Matthew Geller

This is reminiscent of a period about five years ago when (National Basketball Association star) Magic Johnson got AIDS and any company with anything to do with AIDS research went up. Those companies that didn't have anything legitimate later collapsed.

Alphonso Jackson

The so-called black leaders of this nation have convinced a large portion of the black community that blacks aren't capable of self-advancement.

Michael Niemira

Additionally, there are two more shopping days this year than last, which may have caused soft Black Friday weekend sales as people wait longer to shop. Nevertheless, after Friday's robust performance, these numbers are slightly weaker than industry analysts would have expected.

Mollie Mayfield

After a week, we had a lot of black marks from track shoes on them. It causes an abrasion that slows down the surface, so our varsity team is not playing on as fast of courts as they may encounter.

Kevin Ward

String theory came out of here. Black holes came out of here. This is a real wellspring for discoveries in theoretical physics.

Rick James

Somebody told me it's the oldest legitimate black-owned business enterprise. It's pretty much the cornerstone of the black community.

Rafael Medoff

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history. Such analogies pollute public discourse, by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis. Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or Black conservatives?

Rafael Medoff

Some entertainers simply don't know much about history, ... Such analogies pollute public discourse, by trivializing the brutal horrors committed by the Nazis. Hitler was a maniacal dictator whose regime systematically annihilated six million Jews, and launched a world war that caused the deaths of more than forty million people. How can any reasonable person put Hitler and the Nazis in the same sentence as American or Israeli leaders, or Black conservatives?

Martin Luther

Some (demons) are also in the thick black clouds, which cause hail, lightning and thunder, and poison the air, the pastures and grounds

Bob Hunter

Speaker Black can use this as an opportunity to clear his name given all of this speculation that has been spreading around these contributions.

Craig David

The Bridge had a lot of long, soft profiles about the administration, ... In contrast, BU Today has shorter, hard pieces - more consistent with online journalism - which people can read every morning when they log on.

Charles Kernot

Somebody who can bridge the sort of BEE-related divide, that would clearly be very good.

Mark Lambert

You're talking different engineering for a raised bridge ... you're also projecting construction costs into the future, which has historically proven to be futile,

Chris Sutton

You're talking about a 40-year-old bridge. The bridge has outlasted its life expectancy and needs to be replaced.

Allison Watson

Customers are looking for partner companies that can bridge the gap between their business demands and technology capabilities.

Eric Gill

Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.

Rob Morosi

Essentially, this bridge has reached its life expectancy.

Tom Powers

We couldn't throw it from the river to the bridge in the first quarter. We really turned up the defense in the second quarter.

Kofi Annan

We do not want women, particularly poor women, around the world to suffer, so we are going to do whatever we can to try and bridge the gap until such time that the U.S. position changes,

Nancy Ammerman

These churches can do a ton of things that smaller churches can't.

Kevin Parker

This is a small church that was planted about five years ago with a focus on the post-modern generation. Goths, punks, homosexuals and yuppies make up a large part of the 80,000 people living within a half mile walking radius of the church.

David Hess

You read back through these old records when people were kicked out of the church for swearing,

Benjamin Disraeli

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Jasmine Guy

The state and the church seldom approve of anything I do. I don't need their approval. I don't aspire to the heterosexual nuclear family model

Brennan Manning

The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

Bill Hybels

The local church is the hope of the world.

Edmund Burke

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Stephanie McDonald

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

Nancy Ammerman

These churches can do a ton of things that smaller churches can't.

Stephanie McDonald

We have really expanded within the past month. We have around 15 regulars now. We learn new songs, and sing at various churches on Saturdays and Sundays. We have already learned about twelve songs; we will probably learn four or five more before the end of the school year.

Steve McKinney

I help companies educate their employees; I help churches and companies educate their people, We went out and purchased equipment for them and helped them set up their own program.

Ron Sellers

A lot of churches out there don't think through the use of the Internet as a strategic tool. They simply think, 'We need an Internet site -- put something up.' So that, I think, really lends itself to an incomplete use of what the Internet does have to offer.

Rev. Donaldson

When we went through it, we had nowhere to turn, no one to talk to who had a similar experience. Small, rural churches usually have no money and little or no insurance to rebuild. So we helped form an organization that gives guidance to pastors whose churches have burned.

Billy Graham

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Tom DeLay

There are about a thousand churches right here in Houston, and a lot of them are helping people with housing, but FEMA says they can't reimburse faith-based organizations,

Hayes Harbour

We furnished the farm house and the land. They furnished the labor and the equipment and then we divided the profits. It was a perfect arrangement.

Daniel Pipes

My career divides in two: before and after 9/11. In the first part I was trying to show that Islam is relevant to political concerns. If you want to understand Muslims, I argued, you need to understand the role of Islam in their lives. Now that seems obvious.

Utu Langi

I think it holds a lot of potential for the future, however they are able to divide the money.

John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

Najib Mikati

I choose my words very delicately because I have a divided society.

Tom Cleveland

We are restoring a fish that has huge dividends for the watershed and for the Sound.

Keith Boykin

We are part of this family, and we will not be divided by any person.

Octavio Paz

Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door through which we enter into things but also through which we come out of them and realize that we are not things.

Diane Ackerman

When all is said and done, we exist only in relation to the world, and our senses evolved as scouts who bridge that divide and provide volumes of information, warnings and rewards.

Michael Panzner

You normally don't find new leadership until you get washouts and corrections.

Babe Ruth

The most important thing that a young athlete must do it pick the right sport. Not one that they like just a little bit, but one that they love. Because,if they don't really love their sport, they won't work as hard as they should. Me? I loved to hit.

Arthur Ashe

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless.... We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models, when nothing could be further, in most cases, from their capacities.

Brian Tracy

Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.

Jan Schakowsky

The House Republican leadership has simply run out of ideas.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Carl Yastrzemski

I loved the game - I loved the competition. But I never had any fun. All hard work - all the time.

Charles R. Swindoll

This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry because it was Everybody’s job. Everybody thought Anybody would do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.

Desiderius Erasmus

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

Brian Sullivan

At the local level, to be able to say that you're doing better than you were, or you're not, is pretty important.

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Nathan Moss

I got to thinking of the school system, especially our local school here.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Mike Adams

Occasionally, you'll find a little tool. It all tells a story. I can show you some rocks that they used as a local source of materials.

Rand Paul

Marriage has always been a state and local issue.

Alan Curbishley

He is a local ref and perhaps it is something we have to look at.

E. B. White

Its important to do things locally as well, ... impeach.

Ricardo Garcia

We want to keep that money here, and we want to use local people.

Jonny Lee Miller

The whole thing about the way I approach work is to be surprised by an opportunity when it comes up. So I have no idea what I will be doing next, and I kind of like that.

Clive Woodward

This is an outstanding team for the tour and will be a tremendous opportunity for some other players to step up to the mark,

Mustafa Shakur

This is an opportunity to be around pros and watch Steve going around the court, trying to pick up some things.

Alexa Posny

This is an opportunity that only comes once in a lifetime.

Kate Buckley

That opportunity made me realize I wanted to be a director,

Arthur Miller

The witch-hunt was a perverse manifestation of the panic which set in among all classes when the balance began to turn toward greater individual freedom. The witch-hunt was not, however, a mere repression. It was also, and as importantly, a long overdue opportunity for everyone so inclined to express publicly his guilt and sins, under the cover of accusations against the victims.

Brenda Strong

We are all being called to be more present than ever, while dealing with a more challenging array of personal and professional challenges, opportunities and all-around growth.

Brad Pitt

When you first get opportunities, suddenly you get surrounded by a lot of people who want to make money off you but also are there to help. But they start telling you so much what you need to be and what you need to do to maintain some idea of career maintenance.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Mary Barra

My definition of 'innovative' is providing value to the customer.

Natalie Kerris

We are not providing a way to run Windows within OS X.

Thomas Jefferson

Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.

Rutherford B. Hayes

What Congress and the popular sentiment approve is rarely defeated by reason of constitutional objections. I trust the measure will turn out well. It is a great relief to me. Defeat in this way, after a full and public hearing before this [Electoral] Commission, is not mortifying in any degree, and success will be in all respects more satisfactory.

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

William S. Burroughs

Perhaps all pleasure is only relief.

Violette Leduc

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

Jim Andrus

It's been way too dry. There doesn't look to be any relief in sight.

Rob Carter

It was more of a relief than anything.

Ayumi Hamasaki

New York was a relief - not all hierarchical and rule-bound.

Eddie Griffin

We've lost a bunch on the road, I don't even know how many. It's a relief to get this one.

David Spade

Staying in a hotel this time. They put me up in a little bit of a shithole. Yeah. Just this side of rinky dink. The first 7 floors are a homeless shelter, but I'm on 8.

Norm Chow

I think he's a tremendous player. He's so explosive.

Dan Bennett

Dale Hansen is a tremendous talent, and we wish him the very best.

Bailee Madison

I wake up to an email from the writers with the new script, and I always get so excited because I know it'll be better all-around than the script from the week before.

Thomas Nagel

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Simon Sinek

Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do.

Sam Kinison

Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

Usain Bolt

It's always a wake-up call to get beaten.

Shirley Jones

It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.

Ridley Pearson

Be careful what you wear to bed, because you never know where you might wake up.

Michelle Rodriguez

Sometimes I wake up in awe that I'm alive. I can't get over that part, so I guess it makes me kind of like an existentialist.

Patricia Cornwell

You have to live where you wake up, even if someone else dreamed you there.