Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

While many parts of the United Nations have been involved in the peace-building process, the system has lacked a dedicated entity to oversee the process, ensure its coherence or sustain it through the long haul.

Michael Polanyi

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion for coherence, our judgment of it must always remain a qualitative, nonformal, tacit, personal judgment.

Herbert Read

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

Robert Zoellick

It is a very fluid situation ... the process of SLM coherence is proceeding.

David E. Price

The 2001 and 2003 tax measures are an unsettling reminder that unified party control is no guarantee of either coherence or fiscal responsibility.

Anna Lindh

We must focus much more on developing countries' own policies and priorities, and increase policy and operational coherence between national, regional and multilateral actors.

Nicolas Davila

The genuine coherence of our ideas does not come from the reasoning that ties them together, but from the spiritual impulse that gives rise to them.

Dana Spiotta

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

Emmett Hanger

We've got a start on this, but we need to come up with a dedicated funding source to ensure that we'll be able to do this for the long term.

Brian Cowen

We are all dedicated to getting these institutions back up and running as quickly as possible,

Dave Tuttle

It seems that most of the people who have them are very enthusiastic about them. It's kind of a dedicated following.

Mel Martinez

This administration is dedicated to serving the homeless ... and HUD is proud to be leading that effort,

Richard Freeman

This is a man who dedicated his life to looking after the unfortunate in this world,

Tammy Baker

They're up front about their struggles and everyone goes through their ups and downs when they're trying to lose weight. It's not easy, but they're really dedicated to doing it.

Jeff Eidson

They're very dedicated to us, and we're very dedicated to them.

Janet Heyman

It's their heart. And they're dedicated to the sport.

Debbie Kaplan

They are the most dedicated people I've ever encountered.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Amrit Bohara

At a time when the government was getting ready for a confrontation, the rebels' announcement has helped eased the tension and ensure that there will be no violence.

Greg Bird

It's entirely possible they get that money back. We just want to ensure that money is there.

Jim Zemlin

This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

Mike Cooley

It's meant to ensure that the person sitting next to you on the plane is who they say they are.

Phil Heatley

I trust that the Auditor-General will ensure a swift, thorough and transparent investigation, and I look forward to seeing the terms of reference.

Kip Hawley

This is the time to ensure that Secure Flight's security, operational and privacy foundation is solid.

Richard Blumenthal

The permit is issued to the national entity Andersen, and its actions, regardless of where they take place, are relevant to Andersen's fitness to practice in Connecticut,

Vince Sweeney

We are pleased to be acknowledged as a national leader in this area. Over the years, people have worked very hard to make things happen. You're never done. It's an ongoing process. But we think we've made progress and its' nice to have an external entity recognize the progress.

Mark Hatfield

It's a process by which the airlines, the carriers, actually are required to go through a series of steps to identify and know and vet the shippers so that there's not any kind of mysterious entity out there,

Larry Stone

Any for-profit entity of (Google's) magnitude using land owned by the people should not escape paying their fair share.

Pam Thompson

Any medical entity would prefer him not to do things like this.

Nancy Umstead

Sometimes it's the waiting game. It may not happen the first time. If that entity or being doesn't want to leave or want us to be there, then it may not reveal itself.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

The root problem of all problems is mind itself. The first thing to be understood is what this mind is, of what stuff it is made; whether it is an entity or just a process; whether it is substantial, or just dreamlike. And unless you know the nature of the mind, you will not be able to solve any problems of your life.

Scott Peters

Corporations are a fictional entity that are designed to make money, and they're neither people nor patriots.

Bruce Schneier

You have to make the entity in the position to solve the problem, responsible for the problem. Otherwise, it doesn't get solved.

John Maroon

We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.

Deborah Levine

We want to raise awareness. For those who find out they are positive, we want to get them into care. For those who are negative, but are involved in high-risk behavior, we want to get them into prevention programs so that they learn to keep themselves safe. Unfortunately, there are too many people out there who don't think they are at risk.

Adam Gilchrist

We have to get our priorities right. It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.

Paul Hawley

We're going to shoot the video in Spain, and there'll be water involved -- and I'm going to leave it at that.

Greg Brown

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

Jamie Carragher

We're involved in six this year and this is the first.

John Tortorella

We're getting ready for playoffs. I'm not going to get too involved in this game. ... We'll be ready to play. We're right where we want to be.

Pete Bodyk

We're getting more and more local law enforcement involved in our mobilizations.

Steve Wilson

A lot of restaurants are involved with fresh, local, organic food. This is just another step in the process of being green.

Cesare Beccaria

Happy is the nation without a history.

John Schafer

It really is kind of a little United Nations here.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

David Miliband

We are a European nation - must stay one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Jane Riley

They have a showcase every year and you get to see snippets of the shows. We saw parts of all of the shows we booked, and they're great.

Alfonso Soriano

It's two different parts of the game. I was doing the same thing when I was playing second base. When I play defense, I play defense. When I hit, I don't think about defense.

Russell Hoban

There were times when it seemed to him that the different parts of him were not all under the same management.

Tuppence Middleton

I don't think, as an actress, you want to be beautiful. It's actually a disadvantage because that's not where all the interesting parts lie.

Hoshyar Zebari

successes we are making in some parts of the country.

Don Shula

Now he's got the parts to make it all work.

Hanya Yanagihara

So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.

Ella Bell

That's what they did in other parts of the city. It's the same formula,

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Donna Griffin

We are trying to sustain or make more improvement.

Karen Evans

If it's useful and really needed, it will sustain itself.

Judd Terwilliger

We were never able to sustain (momentum). We'd get leads, but then they'd come back.

Paul Stone

We were never able to sustain a run.

Rick Adelman

He's in shape, much quicker. He can do the things he used to do. Now all he has to do is sustain it.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Jennifer Post

We're still making improvements to the system and assessing it, but everything is being done with long-term use in mind.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

Tony Smithson

This phasing went on until the system was completely overhauled.

Sebastien Caron

They play their system well, and they play very hard. That's why they're winning.

John Dunn

There's a lot of systems on (boats). They're complicated.

Greg Wright

It's a tremendous increase, ... We feel like we have a system in place that, if we had a rating, it would be superior.

Rep. Raecker

It's a system that has been significantly stretched.

Jim Hanson

The system won't work if you don't vote.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Robert H. Connelly

They're watching Katrina. They're watching Rita. They're watching what it's doing to the United States.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Jerry Costello

The United States transportation system is the envy of the world.