Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Odom

In World War II in Germany, we had a ration for one U.S. soldier, or one allied soldier for every twenty inhabitants. The ratio in Iraq is about one for a hundred and sixty.

Bill Walton

Edwin Harper's extensive business experience and his keen knowledge of financial services and insurance will augment and complement the strengths of our Board. We welcome Ed to Allied Capital and know that he will make considerable contributions to our company and our leadership team.

William Manchester

The destruction of Manila was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Of all the allied capitals only Warsaw suffered more.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.

Roger Corman

The majors now have sort of semi-independent companies allied with them, making lower-budget films. They're competing with us. And television is a huge target for young people. So we don't quite have the monopoly on young writers, directors, producers and actors that we formerly did.

Laura Bush

They understood that the sacrifices of allied forces would mean nothing unless we used our victory to help the Japanese people transform their nation from tyranny to freedom, ... There were many doubters. American and Japanese experts claimed that the Japanese weren't ready for democracy.

Randy Charles

Our editors spend their time ... trying to figure out what new allied health-care disciplines are coming into existence. We want to be there first as a publisher of educational materials.

Jamie Shea

Operation Allied Force will continue until those conditions have been fulfilled and fulfilled in full.

Michel Lu

The six allied countries have received invitations from Beijing but they have certainly decided not to go.

Peter Schultz

Jaco signed a three-year deal with NEC and it's unlikely they'll release him.

Dave Musgrove

Jack the Ripper remains an iconic figure today, and perhaps is seen as the forerunner of the serial killers that society has had to deal with since.

Richard D. James

I would say the Borg presented us with a great deal of imagination.

Tom Renney

Just something we have to deal with internally as a team when it comes to penalties.

Lee Mazzilli

Joe is the master in terms of dealing with people. But that has come with experience. He has a way about him now he may not have had before.

Larry Dixon

I think it's a little different when you're in the middle of the points deal for the championship going into Pomona with everything going on,

Garrett Jones

He dealt with the entire process better than most would. But you can tell that he's just so glad to be back to playing again. He always wants to be out there on the field hitting. He's smiling more and just having fun.

Joe Torre

He deals with the stress and pressure very well,

Steve Atkins

He deals with it well, and it makes things run that much more smoothly. He's also very forthright. He knows how he feels and tells you how he feels and that makes the process of governance that much easier.

Tom McKillop

I'm not at all frightened, ... We are big enough now -- we now have the scale from this merger to compete.

Robert Cahill

It has a lot of history. My grandparents owned this and my son is planning on taking it over. I'm not going to quit now? I'll keep going.

John Scalzi

Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; it's a privately owned space on the Internet.

Byron Dorgan

I know of no concessions (the Chinese) have owned up to.

Todd Tate

They pretty much did whatever they wanted to do. They owned us on the glass.

Daniel Petrocelli

I would have never owned those ugly-ass shoes.

Frank Hamblen

If I owned a team or was in charge, I'd want Phil Jackson, also.

Bill Shorten

We're not slaves if we're workers, we're not owned by our employers.

Idina Menzel

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

Peter Jackson

Once the film is out and a lot of people are seeing it, it becomes almost owned by the cinemagoers of the world.

Rick Whatley

Nothing has changed. We are just in a smaller (space). We didn't really need all that space.

Andre Williams

It's going to be a while before any one of us want to get on a smaller plane, I think.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

Michael Shaw

It's a little smaller but it utilizes space much better.

Daniela Ruah

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

Rose Macaulay

Once you get to know your neighbors, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.

Jonathan Safran Foer

And so it was when anyone tried to speak: their minds would become tangled in remembrance. Words became floods of thought with no beginning or end, and would drown the speaker before he could reach the life raft of the point he was trying to make. It was impossible to remember what one meant, what, after all of the words, was intended.

Kate Chopin

But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!

Oprah Winfrey

I don't go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning. I feel like he did that intentionally for us, like McCain would never put a 10 percent tax on tanning because he's pale and he would probably wanna be tanned.

Bayard Taylor

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

Pete Seeger

The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

Julius Nyerere

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

Kami Garcia

I pulled Lena's necklace out of my pocket. I let the charms roll around in my palm, but they were tangled and meaningless without her. The necklace was heavier than I imagined, or maybe it was the weight of my conscience.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the 761st was Patton's best tank unit and nobody knew about it.