Famous Quotes & Sayings

John R. Allen

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.

Ed Rollins

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Bob Johnson

MCI still has a solid customer base and operations. There is no risk of customers being abandoned in the short run.

Frank Murphy

It is a rank appeal to abandon the fate of all our liberties to the reasonableness of the judgment of those who are trained primarily for war.

Carrie P. Meek

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

Larry Harris

As Cotton turns around, he hollers, 'No!' and sort of brings his arms up and that's when she shot him.

Matt Maldre

Rolling up your sleeves is like wearing capris on your arms

Kim Clijsters

I've been happy with how I've played all summer. It took a while to get my rhythm since I hadn't been on Armstrong Stadium court in quite some time.

Jack Dean

When I called Kelly she opened her arms to us. They instruct some of the girls privately, so we coordinate our lessons so the girls are working on the same things.

Ivan Basso

Armstrong is the strongest man on this Tour. I think he's still got gas in his tank.

Johnny Depp

At Last My Arm Is Completee Again XD

Tyra Banks

I have scars on the backs of my arms from dressers in Paris scraping me with pins as I was taking a shirt or gown off.

Mike Adams

I'm loving it. These kids ? they love playing the game. They love giving maximum effort and the people surrounding the program have just welcomed me with open arms and it's been a great experience so far.

Janet Pelasara

I'm pretty darned excited. Hopefully . . . I'll have Taylor back in my arms soon, very soon.

Jeffrey R. Immelt

As one of America's largest exporters, GE remains committed to producing more products in the United States, which is our home and largest market.

Michael Goodman

People dedicated to committing piracy are going to find ways to do it.

Terry Garcia

Salmon are in serious trouble. Regardless of the final outcome of this case, we remain steadfastly committed to our goal of recovery of these species.

P. Herbert

It would be a failure if we don't come up with something and do something, ... The governor and I are committed to taking the information received here (at the summit) and putting together some sort of transportation initiative.

Tim Richards

It was a long match, ... Jerome played well as a team. Wood River committed a lot of unforced errors.

Paul Casey

I've been elected nine times, ... I've seen and done most things that a representative can do. I went from a freshman rep to chairing one of the most elite committees ? the Joint Committee on Taxation.

Chris Cox

It would make sense to consider, and this is only under consideration, a committee that would be focused on the subject matter rather than on a corner of it within the jurisdiction of one of our committees,

David Gill

We hope to make one or two very big signings this summer - and we are already committed to that.

John Ensign

We all have a commitment to this and we need to keep our eye on the ball,

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Laura Martin

There are very few executives who can be a No. 2 guy for 20 years and then suddenly be comfortable making big, empire-changing decisions five months later, and this is one of those guys.

Brian Tracy

To improve your life, be prepared to make new choices and decisions.

C. S. Lewis

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

Graham Sharpe

Dr Fox's decision to run does not seem to have excited political punters.

John Wagner

depends on strength because he can't retain technique.

Barbara Turner

This is going to let us know if we're mature enough to come out and play really well on the road and be together. It prepares you for the tournament. Very rarely do you get to play on your home floor. I know we've been fortunate a few times, but it's rare. It's a totally different atmosphere. You don't have the normal support that you usually have. You have to depend on each other to win.

Timothy Karr

This is the first step down a slippery slope. A large e-mail provider wants to turn e-mail into a paid and privileged realm, but what about the non-profits that depend on a free and open Internet?

Chris Chelios

We've got a lot of guys at camp, so it's an opportunity for maybe one of them. But, they had high expectations of (Nik). You could see the way he was playing so far, what he did last year. They were depending on him a lot this year. Hopefully he'll heal quick and be here for the middle of the season and the remainder of the season and the playoffs.

Ra'anan Gissin

From here we go only to the road map to peace, or we stay put. It depends very much what measures the Palestinians will take and whether they will, for the first time in a lifetime, take their destiny into their hands.

Rory Schmidt

I don't know how much better newer editions are than the old editions, but I guess it depends on the subject.

Aaron Stockstel

It all depends on where the points are needed, and where the team needs me. I like the four and eight, but I also like the one and two. So it all depends.

Jesper Parnevik

It all depends on the weather. If you get weather like we had on the second round there, then it's a really tough course. Now we are back to nice desert weather again. If you play well, you can shoot pretty low scores.

Mike Wilton

It all depends on the MRI. I saw him pop it back in.

James Purnell

There is a possibility that the number of offences will increase. That in itself could be a sign of success because more people are using the powers of the act.

Albert Camus

An intellectual is a person whose mind watches itself

D. James

If that swelling comes down and they can do some things with it and get itself worked out, then possibly he could come back. But if it doesn't, that's something he can't play with.

David Friedman

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

Quintilian

Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

Gever Tulley

The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery slope.

Daryl Hannah

I'm one of those people who figures that it will eventually sort itself out.

Stephen Ambrose

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

Tablo

The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.

Kim Young-ha

A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.

Clint Eastwood

I was an Eisenhower Republican when I started out at 21 because he promised to get us out of the Korean War.

John Stephens

It took us seven years to saturate Northern California.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The U.S. engages with North Korea, so I don't see why they can't engage with Iran.

Alexander Ahndoril

We do not even see the sun for several months in the north of Sweden.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Susan Rice

We are safer if there are not nuclear arsenals around the planet that can be utilized, stolen, sold to terrorists and others who would do harm.

Tom Harkin

There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.

Fareed Zakaria

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

John Street

I don't think he had an idea that all of this would result from it,

Mr Bush

Ahmadi-Nejad is a result of all this appeasement,

Molly Ivins

The Founders were right all along, but the results are a lot funnier than they intended.

Pope Benedict XVI

Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary.

Hariadi Wibisono

We got the results back from Atlanta, and they were positive.

Sarah Brightman

I have the sort of round face that you complain about when you're younger, but which serves you well as you get older.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.