Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mike Mislak

Jon is a gifted athlete who likes to take the big shots. He is popular among his teammates, has a sharp wit and a great sense of humor. His versatility is a great strength and causes match-up problems for other teams.

Stephen Gengaro

Halliburton's product and services, down at the operating level, are among the best in the business. He leaves it in a better position than when he began his career there.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

HALF, n. One of two equal parts into which a thing may be divided, or considered as divided. In the fourteenth century a heated discussion arose among theologists and philosophers as to whether Omniscience could part an object into three halves; and the pious Father Aldrovinus publicly prayed in the cathedral at Rouen that God would demonstrate the affirmative of the proposition in some signal and unmistakable way, and particularly (if it should please Him) upon the body of that hardy blasphemer, Manutius Procinus, who maintained the negative. Procinus, however, was spared to die of the bite of a viper.

Marc Basnight

Ham was a great senator and a great North Carolinian, but first and foremost he was a great American. He was the most special among us and he will be missed - God gave us the greatest when he gave us Ham.

George Ryan

Our capital system is haunted by the demon of error: error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. What effect was race having? What effect was poverty having?

Trevor Noah

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.

Tim Crawford

There are still signs that Scotland is faring better than the U.K. as a whole, with pessimism among businesses less widespread and new order levels rising.

Drew Gilpin Faust

The seductiveness of war derives in part from its location on this boundary of the human, the inhuman, and the superhuman. It requires us to confront the relationship among the noble, the horrible, and the infinite; the animal, the spiritual, and the divine.

Unknown

Here's to health, peace and prosperity. May the flower of love never be nipped by the frost of disappointment, nor shadow of grief fall among your family and friends.

Angelos Anastasiou

I think it is bolstering management rather than bringing in someone who is going to say yes to a bid.

Mike Trgovac

He keeps growing every year. There are certain times when Pep is going to have growing processes. It seems like early in the year he seems to get frustrated because everybody is bringing people to him.

Drew Stanton

He's gonna come up and hit you every time. You can never relax. It's good because he's bringing that tough mentality that we need over there on the defensive side of the ball. We've just got to be ready for it on offense.

David Castelveter

We supported the TSA initiative and still do. We certainly respect the flight attendants' perspective on cabin safety, but it's not scissors that are bringing down airplanes today.

David Thomas

We think (acquiring Whistle) is a very important acceleration of our focus of bringing e-business to small businesses around the world.

Eve Ensler

We are focusing on bringing the stories of these women to the world. These stories must be told if we are going to stop this from happening again.

Dave Popielarz

I was asked, 'Are you worried about bringing it home?' No, I've got $500 in the thing. If it turns into a smoking heap, I don't care. I know a guy who crashed this Subaru; they put it on top of two trash cans and left it there. You go home, pick up the Thrifty Nickel, find a four-cylinder junker and offer them $300 for the thing. Weld up the trunk and go racing.

Justin Gatlin

It is possible. I have the competitive spirit. I am working on my starts and bringing sound races.

Timothy Ghriskey

I think we've had a pretty significant correction in the stock market since the highs in early March, and we've reached a level that seems to be bringing in buyers.

Hu Jintao

I hope my visit will strengthen dialogue, deepen cooperation.

Richard Boucher

Their transparency and cooperation in resolving this matter is a strong example of how states should respond in complying with their obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Johannes P. Muller

The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.

Detlev Mehlis

At this rate the investigation might take another year or two. Cooperation in good faith should be diligent and timely.

Maggie Kuhn

You can't be human alone.

Navtej Sarna

The leaders essentially discussed bilateral issues, including cooperation in the field of energy.

Jim Dyke

The law says in order to be an independent expenditure, it can not be made in cooperation, consultation or coordination at the request or even at the suggestion of the candidate. Is someone suggesting she has no knowledge of her husband's campaign?

Bela Anda

The main point of the talks will be economic relations, especially cooperation in the energy sector.

Wen Jiabao

The developing countries themselves should also strengthen cooperation and help each other,

Donald Rumsfeld

I think it's interesting that other countries wonder why they would be increasing their defense effort at the pace they are and yet not acknowledging it, ... That is as interesting as the fact that it's increasing at the pace it is.

Peter Mayhew

Whatever people say about America, it is still one of the most wonderful countries in the world, despite the politics, religion and everything else that goes on.

Ismail Haniyeh

We think countries in power can decide for themselves what kinds of positions and policies they can take.

D. James

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

Jamie Cullum

I lived my twenties on the road, in all different countries experiencing this momentum of a career which was taking off in its own way.

Ernie Whitt

I know for a fact we don't have the depth that some of the other countries have. But we do have a lot of heart.

Juan Lubroth

I have praise for the European countries because they have they have implemented their surveillance and identified the virus in migratory birds. This shows us the surveillance is working.

Jose Reyes

I'm looking forward to learning more about what other countries are doing with innovative passive safety systems. The second thing I see is the potential for collaborative research. And when you have people from so many countries in one room, you make new friends and learn about different cultures.

Jose Maria Aznar

In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

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.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Richard Bush

Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?

Matt Murray

He wanted peace and everyone to be equal.

Peter Alter

I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.

Silvan Shalom

It could happen, ... But we need to see a timetable ? how we will start the peace process and how we will end.

Oprah Winfrey

There is no feud. It's only peace and love.

Rumer Godden

It is My own peace I give unto you." Not, notice, the world's peace.

William Westmoreland

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

William Westmoreland

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

William F. Buckley, Jr.

France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

Richard M. Nixon

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past; his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future." (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Friedrich List

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

Adam Carolla

Welfare is monetary methadone.

Thomas Sowell

The way the [welfare] programs are organized, poor people are only paid to do things that are counter-productive - such as breaking up their families, such as not earning above a certain level of income.

Paulo Freire

Welfare programs as instruments of manipulation ultimately serve the end of conquest. They act as an anesthetic, distracting the oppressed from the true causes of their problems and from the concrete solutions of these problems.

Gerhard Schroder

There's no conflict between the social-welfare state and open markets.

Gregory Benford

Modern economics and the welfare state borrowed heavily on the future.