Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Jamieson

As our country grapples with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Constitution Day offers young people an opportunity to learn how a cornerstone of our democracy -- the concept of federalism -- shapes our lives,

James Loy

The reason for the Department of Homeland Security was counter-terrorism. Everybody was focused on how do we handle the aftermath of a 9-11?

Rakesh Shankar

The recent cold snap seems more like a last hurrah for Old Man Winter, and with barely a few weeks left in the winter season, inventories for natural gas remain in near record territory. This will ensure that any price gains for natural gas in the aftermath of today's report will be limited.

Michael R. Bloomberg

To Americans suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, our deepest sympathies go out to you, this day,

Kurt Eichenwald

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible.

Mary Landrieu

FEMA has proven to be a shell of what it once was and has been unable, and seemingly unwilling, to provide the direct and immediate resources necessary in the aftermath of the most devastating natural disaster in American history,

Tom Staggs

The tragic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina continues to be an extraordinary challenge long after the daily front-page headlines have subsided.

Paul Tagliabue

When all was said and done, we reached a consensus. The consensus first was that the priority in this city, in this part of the state, in this part of the country, in this region, had to continue to be recovery and rebuilding from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Jeff Hall

What it seems we're seeing is the aftermath of a lot of different circumstances converging last year. If that's the case, then there isn't too much to worry about. If it's a situation where people are turned off lower-grade debt for good, then we have a lot more to consider.

Tim Sheldon

Offensively, we're working. We have a team concept going. We're working hard. They surprised me a little bit. I thought this was going to be a struggle, especially early on and it's cold. But they surprised me pleasantly.

Keni Thomas

Some (songs) were happy. Some were sad. Some were pretty motivational and some were just rockin'. It was a concept record, because we knew that you wouldn't be able to do this for the rest of your career.

Oscar Goodman

These were not simple concepts and the issues were complex. I think it has been a very worthwhile experience.

David Soul

I see my kids more often than ever, the six of them. The problems that used to be there, between myself and the first wives are gone. And what's happened over these years is that we've become friends. What a concept you know, become friends first, then get married. They all get on with each other too.

Theodor W. Adorno

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

Tao Lin

I don't think I understand the concept of regret. Because if I regret anything, that would mean, like, I hate myself.

Jerry Calhoun

During these negotiations, there has been a lot of discussion about pensions. What hasn't received much discussion is the concept of balance,

Jon Kelly

Even kids as young as nine years are learning about gambling. They may not be gambling with money, but they're learning concepts of gambling. They see it.

Joseph Conrad

Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow

Corey Dillon

Oh, I don't know. We'll see. I don't want to put any stock in that. I can't put stock in that yet. ... If he doesn't do it the right way, and that's going to be the defining mode of this football team, we won't miss a beat. He says the right things to me, but I see better than I hear.

Brian Bosworth

All I want is the defining moment.

Britney Spears

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

David Quarmby

Trafalgar was a defining moment in Britain's history as it established Britain's maritime ascendancy for 100 years which saw a fantastic growth of trade and empire during Victorian times,

Peter Lindbergh

The most important part of fashion photography, for me, is not the models; it's not the clothes. It's that you are responsible for defining what a woman today is. That, I think, is my job.

Sinbad

There's no one defining moment that kills you or makes you.

Jim Webb

There is nothing that's been in any of my novels that, in my view, hasn't been either illuminating surroundings or defining a character or moving a plot.

Zygi Wilf

We feel this is a defining moment in our ownership, and I think we did this as meticulously and as forthcoming as we could have. It really felt like this is our team. This is the direction we want to go.

Daniel Day-Lewis

There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.

Dawn Davis

A win is a win. We are struggling right now; our worst enemy is ourselves.

Sarah West

Anti-submarine warfare is the military version of chess. You must work out what the enemy is going to do before they even think of it.

Carl von Clausewitz

To be practical, any plan must take account of the enemy's power to frustrate it.

Al Goldstein

For me, the Church is the enemy.

Charles Kettering

We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.

Jane Addams

Keep friends close but keep enemies closer.

Anthony Trollope

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

Bruce Babbitt

We must identify our enemies and drive them into oblivion.

Eckhart Tolle

Always work with the present moment, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. This will miraculously transform your whole life.

Wolfgang Bernhard

Ten of them will be entirely new models.

Doug Aitken

The 'Station to Station' film is made entirely out of one-minute films, and each of the 62 minutes is a completely different person, place or encounter.

Jeremy Northam

I've never had a huge circle of friends. I can't spread myself that thin and go 100 million miles an hour all the time. I choose to give truly of myself, entirely of myself, to the people I choose to do that with, and I can't do that with everyone.

Rabbi Katz

This is a simple 16-minute speech, but it's so profound. It's one thing to have read it, but entirely another thing to hear it in its entirety. King's speech is one of the top inspirational writings in all of American rhetoric, ever.

Craig Davis

This proposal is unfair because the entire requirement is placed on the taxpayers of Jackson County.

Kristin Gore

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

Olesya Rulin

I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Daniel Benjamin

The protests were entirely to be expected. The Pakistanis know the U.S., if it gets high-quality intelligence, is going to act.

Lewis Clarke

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.

Steve Gross

The wholesalers and the retailers are fighting us very hard.

Brandon Lee

A fight can express things people might not be able to say with words.

Brandon Sanderson

And is an ending always bad? it asked. Must not all things, even worlds, someday end?"There is no need to hasten that end," Vin said. "No reason to force it."All things are subject to their own nature, Vin, Ruin said, seeming to flow around her. She could feel its touch upon her - wet and delicate, like mist. You cannot blame me for being what I am. Without me, nothing would end. Nothing could end. And therefore, nothing could grow. I am life. Would you fight life itself?

Boris Spassky

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

Archie Panjabi

I think it is vital to fight to do something you want to do despite not gaining your community's or your friends' approval.

Ben Okri

There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their goodness, their love of the people, these are easy enough to destroy... But there is a kind of love which is felt for apparently no reason... A love, inspired, it seems, by the gods, which it is impossible to fight, distort, destroy, or weaken. In fact, the attempts to destroy such loves only strengthen them. And to do nothing allows them to continue to grow at their natural pace, inexoribly, till this love becomes a wide and silent adoration.

Ben Okri

A man's greatest battles are the ones he fights within himself.

Ayn Rand

For they have nothing to fight me with, save the brute force of their numbers. I have my mind.

Ayn Rand

Fight for the value of your person. Fight for the virtue of your pride. Fight for the essence of that which is man: for his sovereign rational mind. Fight with the radiant certainty and the absolute rectitude of knowing that yours is the Morality of Life and that yours is the battle for any achievement, any value, any grandeur, any goodness, any joy that has ever existed on this earth

Kevin Keane

People shouldn't overreact. It's a very small number of products and not major brands.

Subir Raha

The Syrian acquisition is a major breakthrough for us.

Pat Gelsinger

This is not a minor retooling. This is a major leap.

Zhou Jixiang

That's why we need to stretch to other major cities. We've only started the work with Shandong Province.

Mike Wallace

You say this, 'I would never have been a Major League-caliber player without steroids.' Right,

Mat Sprague

Considering where the program has come from, it's a major accomplishment.

James Thurber

And unless there is a major stumbling or bombshell, I think he will be confirmed.

Mark Chmura

Every major network called, and every major talk show called, wanting me to go on. I did zip.

Richard Greco

As such, (he) was responsible for all repairs. He had to be notified even for minor repairs, and he was the only one who was permitted to do major work.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.

Stephen Bell

West Chester has a lot going for it.

Samuel P. Huntington

In 1920, the West ruled huge amounts of the world.

Whittaker Chambers

The satellite revolt was not sparked from the West. It was sparked by Communism itself.

Zhang Yimou

Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.

Eric Lefkofsky

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

Leona Lewis

I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End]

Jung Chang

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Markie Workman

They're a lot better than what we play on the Western Slope.

Alexander Siddig

There's enough of a willingness in the West to do sympathetic movies about Arab roles.