Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Bennett

For a town our size, this is going to be a huge issue for all of us to get an understanding. I hope we are able to take our time -- I hope it doesn't become a divisive issue for the town.

Harry Reid

It is unfortunate the president made such a divisive nomination.

Antonella Notari

We live in a period where these symbols are taking on very strong connotations and very divisive ones.

Larry Pearson

We're surprised it took this long and that they only got the number they did. It's been a divisive issue, and we're prepared to fight this battle.

Howard Dean

The president has a moral obligation to rein in the right-wing extremists in his party and stop this divisive rhetoric about immigrants.

Mark DiCamillo

She's a very divisive figure. In my opinion, most people either like her or hate her.

Bob Parker

Before this is over, I predict there's going to be a lot opposition to this program. This is a pretty divisive issue.

Jacob Lew

I think the thing that the American people want is for the divisive debate on health care to stop.

Debra Ness

We hope that he won't kowtow to the far right. It would be very divisive for this nation.

Charles Spurgeon

The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

Al Pacino

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

Chris Christie

I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.

Chogyam Trungpa

In your cocoon, occasionally you shout complaints, such as, "Leave me alone!" "Bug off!" "I want to be who I am!"... which comes from fighting against your environment... You can raise your head and just take a little peek out of the cocoon... The environment is friendly. It is called "Planet Earth.

Chinua Achebe

He who fights for a ne'er-do-well has nothing to show for it except a head covered in earth and grime.

Chinua Achebe

When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight.

Chief Joseph

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.

China Mieville

Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.

Eddie Izzard

I use a Bruce Lee technique: 'The way of no way.' He had the idea that he would learn everything, so that whoever he had to fight, he could improvise anything. The best way of starting a gig is just to not think of anything - to clear your mind, not in an empty Zen state, but more just to go on and see where you go.

Charles Caleb Colton

The martyrs to vice far exceed the martyrs to virtue, both in endurance and in number.

Charles Simmons

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Alan Greenspan

The economy is turning, and credit comes in with a lag, .. To the extent that a number of small firms are finding it difficult to get the credit they need at a price they can afford, that's likely to change for the better.

Alan Greenspan

Although the outlook is clouded by a number of uncertainties, the central tendencies of the projections .. imply continued good economic performance in the United States.

Alan Greenspan

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

Alain Prost

I have had some problems because the French don't like people to have success, they don't like the number one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

David Hilbert

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

Benedict Cumberbatch

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Samir Inamdar

We are prepared to play Zimbabwe in March.

James Hogan

We are prepared to go all-Boeing or all-Airbus,

Brian Bogosian

We are prepared financially to see this thing through to the very end.

Bob Castle

We're going to take our time and be careful. We are prepared for problems.

Alexander Downer

They have indicated they are prepared to resume talks and before too long, within a reasonable time frame,

PJ Crowley

They talked about where they were and what they should be prepared to consider.

Amanda Brown

They ran the play well. Props for them making it, but we should have been more prepared for that.

Regg Simon

There was one team prepared to play tonight and one team that wasn't. The team that was up 2-0 was prepared.

Charles Clarke

I told him (Blair) I was prepared to resign if he thought it was right, and he said he didn't think it was right.

Marty Schottenheimer

I should have still been able to get it done. I wasn't surprised they took me out.

Jeremy Trill

Things are going very well. I am surprised how well it's going.

Frank Sacks

This is really groundbreaking. We were very surprised by this data.

Dan Garton

Do they like what we're doing? No. Are they surprised by it? No.

John Gordon

Brandon is a comedian. I wouldn't be surprised if he's on TV someday.

Alicia Silverstone

I'm surprised by the fact that I like the word 'husband.' I thought I would hate it.

Melissa Lundgren's

We already had one of each. We wanted to be surprised this time.

Debra Jackson

Everyone was surprised that should have been surprised.

Mariann Boel

We are surprised and disappointed that the arbitrators did not back our proposal,

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Scott Justus

They took us out of some of the things we wanted to do.

Mark Tennis

They took the head-to-head thing to a new extreme.

Brad Stiles

They took it to us in the first half.

Ricky Proehl

They took away a lot of things. They took us completely out of our game, and that's a tribute to them.

Larry Jacobs

It's not like he took this for granted.

Drew Barrymore

I took a poo in the woods hunched over like an animal,