Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Hanna

While everyone's experience of oppression is different and complicated and often overlapping, I really believe that if you have privilege, you need to learn as much as you can about the world beyond yourself.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital things; and that intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways that less intense emotions can never do.

Keira Knightley

I really believe that in this industry women have to be very true to themselves about what they're comfortable with.

Alex Guerrero

I was like, 'I can't believed I missed that.' It was a one-in-a-million that I'd miss that. That goal could have taken us to OT. I wanted to win this one. I'm so bummed out right now. This one was tougher than our last lost to them. We had our chances, and that's what kills me. We had more chances.

Dave Mirra

I was like, 'Dude, I can't believe it,' ... I don't know where I fit in, but I'm psyched. Whatever.

Jason Schmidt

I was laughing at myself. Every time I'd throw one 85 and Jeff Kent would pop it up, I was like, 'Oh my gosh,' ... There are other guys in the league who can do it, and it made me a believer in how you can get guys out doing it.

Hal Miller

I was lucky to get away from that with only a few small injuries, ... The next day I looked at the car and just couldn't believe I had survived it.

Iain McKie

I was in the police for 36 years. I always believed fingerprints didn't lie. Now ... I know different.

Hosni Mubarak

King Hussein was a great leader and brother and a dear friend ... he believed in justice and peace,

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Dean Rusk

I think we would be hard pressed to tell our own people why we are doing this with India when even the British won't do it or the Australians won't do it and the Canadians won't do it. We need to have those other flags flying on these joint enterprises.

Paul Darby

I think we can look for a strong consumer from pretty much Newfoundland to British Columbia.

John Lorimer

It is of deep concern that British soldiers held by the police should end up being held by militia,

Ian Walker

It isn't lost on me that sailing with guys like Iain is pretty awesome, ... Ben's sailing with me in Sardinia. It's good that we all get on; it's a big contrast to British sailing 20 years ago.

Colin Greenwood

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

Trace Adkins

I went to a Grammy party the other night. I had all these British dudes coming up to me, just patting me on the back. ... It was one of the strangest experiences of my life.

Jonathan Frid

I went over there to get a classical training and discovered that Canadians, because they are British subjects, are able to work without a permit.

Timothy Garton Ash

I will never forget meeting Suu Kyi in Rangoon - now officially known as Yangon - some six years ago, when she was still able to leave her house.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Dennis George

It is all symptomatic of the pursuit of the demands of the Washington consensus.

Daniel Doctoroff

We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.

Roger Toussaint

If the pension demands ... come off the table, that would go a long way to us resuming the negotiations and resolving the strike.

Rich Forslund

I just think that's from being 15-years-old. He has a big X on his back anyway. He's 6-9 and he's a tremendous talent. He demands attention. Plus teams try to play him very physical. It's a lot to handle. But he'll get there.

Octavia Butler

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that.

Graham Greene

If one is going to write about war, self respect demands that one

Derek Bok

In most of these programs, ... education is completely subordinate to the demands of the sport.

David Card

The Journal is spreading rumors that Microsoft's music subscription service -- itself a rumor -- is on hold due to heavy royalty demands from labels.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Randy Sharp

He's just there for everything I need. He never forces himself on me, which is very sweet. He waits for me to come to him.

Claude Bolton

We take every opportunity we can to get other forces, particularly land forces like the Marines, involved in what we're doing.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Jonathan Turley

In Washington, task forces work like Tylenol: they reduce the symptoms of scandal while leaving the substance untouched.

Jalal Talabani

In my opinion, Iraqi forces, the popular forces and government forces, are now ready to end the insurgency and this terrorism.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Phil Goff

What would have to be demonstrated, and hasn't been demonstrated, is that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and there is a direct, likely and immediate threat that such weapons would be employed,

Vijay Bakaya

Our requirement is for 35,000 tents because winter is approaching and there is an immediate need for shelters.

Roger Clemens

I know my immediate plans are I'll go back to Florida.

Tony Nunan

Immediate fundamentals look bearish, ... Weather seems very mild and inventory levels are high.

John Morgridge

I had no idea that social networking would be as prominent as it is today. And it's important to understand what that phenomenon is. If you text someone, you get an immediate response; if you e-mail them, you probably never hear from them.

Jo Koy

I'm never going to leave the stage. I love the instant, immediate reaction. It's my home.

David Smith

The immediate plan for the next 18 to 24 months is to reach out to Philadelphia and surrounding areas, especially Harrisburg.

Colin Boyes

The immediate monetary impact is one thing, but now people are saying we will be paying for this for months and years to come.

Paul Lee

There was a moment when we thought about not doing this. Then there was an immediate 'yes.' Life will go on and we are going to move ahead.

Howard Berman

It is longstanding U.S. policy that we will talk to the Iranians anytime, anywhere, on any subject, with no preconditions. So far, they have not taken us up on our offer.

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

I was able to slip into Afghanistan for a week. However, I had to go back into Iran to produce my film, shot about two kilometers from the border.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Salman Rushdie

In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.

Salman Rushdie

The West sees Iran as an important force in the gulf.

Salman Rushdie

In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.

Zalmay Khalilzad

We can't say whether Tehran is supporting Al Qaeda, but we do know that al-Qaida people come here from Pakistan through Iran.

Zalmay Khalilzad

Iran is undertaking a massive effort to expand its influence in southern Iraq. At the same time, that influence decreases the more the political process in Iraq progresses.

Rudy Giuliani

Keep pressure on Iran, because pressure works.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Richard Clarke

He seems to have been reduced to being a commentator on Islamic news.

Reza Aslan

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Reza Aslan

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

Reza Aslan

The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

Reza Aslan

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

William Kristol

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

Samuel P. Huntington

Islam's borders are bloody and so are its innards. The fundamental problem for the West is not Islamic fundamentalism. It is Islam, a different civilisation whose people are convinced of the superiority of their culture and are obsessed with the inferiority of their power.

Robert Novak

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic.

Mike Conley

He comes to play in big games, and today was two big games. I think he stepped up and led us to victory.

Steven Reinprecht

He led the way, that's for sure. I think he showed what a special player is.

Seth Vining

He's been so solid. He's come in and led the team from the start.

Dustin Milligan

I was always kind of a loudmouth and a class clown, and that kind of led to doing all the school plays and trying out all kinds of different stuff.

Winona Ryder

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

John Hull

Our research led on to other things, such as the fact that exchange rates are not lognormally distributed.

Wil Nichol

In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful. And that led to the big things, which is goals.

Mamie Gummer

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

Tyra Banks

I'm not led by money, because if that's the case, I can throw my name on everything and have a million-dollar company.

Alex Jones

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy is looted, the people are slaves.

Janet Reno

There are obviously a number of instances with respect to military personnel, with respect to Native American claims, with respect to Medicare,

Richard Perle

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Richard Holbrooke

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

Ruben Blades

So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

William Jennings Bryan

The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.

Woodrow Wilson

It is not an army that we must train for war; it is a nation.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Woodrow Wilson

The roll of honor consists of the names of meant who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

Nafisa Joseph

Most important was to remain focused and always have presence of mind.

Laurie Peterson

It's the presence of endorphins in the system that suppresses the cravings.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We cannot enter into the presence of God while we are rebelling against God.

Dee Brown

When he got back in, he made his presence known.

Nancy Young

We're still going to have a significant presence in Alabama.

Scott Matthews

Stover's presence was just a little too much tonight.

Jeffrey Montgomery

We just thought it would be important to have a presence right here ... a place to relax a little bit, warm up and find out what's going on around town.

Stefan Zweig

Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.

Robert Toombs

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

Rod Serling

I found that it was all right to have Martians saying things Democrats and Republicans could never say.

Rudy Giuliani

There are very few situations where Republicans cheat. They don't control the inner cities the way Democrats do. Maybe if Republicans controlled the inner cities they would cheat as much as Democrats.

Wendell Phillips

Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.

Malcolm X

I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it.

Mike Pence

A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Mark Twain

Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it.

Mark Twain

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

Mitch McConnell

Republicans will not be reduced to being the tax collectors for the Obama economy.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Shaharyar Khan

The ECB should not feel insecure. They have strict security at all the grounds.

Eric S. Raymond

A security system is only as secure as its secret. Beware of pseudo-secrets.

Paul Sarbanes

I was very concerned that President Bush is still trying to frighten or scare the American people with respect to the condition of the Social Security system.

Gerhard Schroeder

Serbs who live here and who want to live here have the right to security and protection, not only for themselves but also for their property,

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Taylor Swift

I don't have big security guards. I don't have an entourage.

Lincoln Chafee

It's a very tenuous security situation, ... I'd been there a year ago -- what a change.

Kevin Criswell

I thrive off of these types of situations and I can't wait to get out there.

John Tortorella

We've been through a lot tougher situations than this in our past. We will get it done.

David Francis

I think what we can say is we're watching the situation carefully.

R. Halloran

He was in a stressful situation that day.

Jonathan Vilma

I don't know what to say. I've never been in a situation like this before. It's tough, real tough.

Zeev Boim

I do not think that in this situation we can transfer the towns to the Palestinians. They are not exerting any control.

Joe Torre

He's come up in situations and you say,

Russell Hoban

There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.

Tracy McGrady

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.