Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Kinzer

Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.

Capt. Spirlet

He's definitely considered armed and dangerous and has extremely violent tendencies.

Rory Kennedy

I think the most significant turning point was when the militia was brought in. A few armed men and women couldn't take on the Pennsylvania militia.

Jamie Shea

Last night, NATO had a night of relative restraint. We were mindful of the Orthodox Easter celebration. At the same time, the Yugoslav armed forces continued to demonstrate signs of wear and tear.

Charles Grassley

The purpose of this letter is to express grave concern and raise questions regarding allegations that a textile contractor has been using toxic substances in the production of fabric used by armed forces personnel,

Evo Morales

The people who are responsible must be punished harshly. Disarming a country and its armed forces really is a crime.

Steve Bolman

We're now considerably better prepared to deal with code-red situations, in which an armed assailant is on campus. Before then, we mainly emphasized earthquake preparedness. We've been conducting fewer drills for earthquakes lately, but we're making more preparations for them this year.

Jan Eliasson

We are facing an escalation that could end in armed conflict, with terrible suffering as a result. That's why the world should be very careful at the moment.

Donald Rumsfeld

Today, history is being written by the valiant men and women of America's armed forces and by determined citizens who will do all they can to win this test of wills ? for that is what it is ? to keep our children from experiencing the heartbreak and terror of Sept. 11,

Bob Kurtz

I was looking for something to do this summer, and I enjoy baseball a lot. Baseball and radio are a nice combination.

John Hart

Jon is young, but he has the qualities that you look for in a leader, ... He has the respect of everyone in the organization, the business department, the baseball people, the veteran scouts. He's going to be a great leader.

Mike Black

John has been one of our leaders this year. He stays steady from a 38 to a 40 all year. Our number two is Drew Waldrop, who is averaging a 39 or 40. He is just joining us back from the baseball team.

Richard Lapchick

I think in general, where he has had the influence, baseball has done well. Where he hasn't had as much influence, at the team level, there's a lot of room for growth there.

Paul DePodesta

It became clear to us that the inefficiency in decision-making in baseball was vast.

Ritch Price

I actually think baseball players like to play every day. I think you see the ball better and you're at better rhythm at the plate. I think the more you play, the better you are.

Scott Price

He was a big part of my life, still was a big part. He was a symbol of baseball in the late '80s and early '90s. He was somebody everybody wanted to be.

Leta Fickes

He was a baseball player and they called him Cubby Bear.

Bill Bryk

He wanted to pursue a job outside baseball.

George Herbert Mead

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Steve Collins

Gustav is a true master of the traditional repertoire; it's a real inspiration to work with someone who knows the repertoire with such intimacy. He's such a skilled communicator, and his conducting technique is unparalleled.

Joshua Bell

Good conductors know when to push and when to lay back. I've known so many great conductors that I'm still doing what I can to learn the craft of this role.

Jay Garner

to conduct assessments of how to establish local policing, local security.

O. J. Simpson

I will not conduct my own fire drills

E. Hicks

He was suspended for tonight's game for conduct detrimental to the team,

Joe Carnahan

I don't conduct my career for when I'm dead and people say nice things about me. I conduct my career for the here and now, and what excites me, and what interests me.

Earle McCurdy

I don't know where this goes from here, but this is the most ridiculous way I've seen to conduct business." ()

Sheriff Haggard

He is a walking library. He used to conduct four-hour seminars, and you would feel like you have been there 15 minutes.

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

Walter Benjamin

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

William Feather

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Daniel Ortega

His intelligence. He?s skillful and he?s very, very intelligent. He always just makes that right play.

Bill Frist

the intelligence committee's progress of the Phase II review of the prewar intelligence and its schedule for completion.

Friedrich Schiller

Every true genius is bound to be naive.

Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

John le Carre

I've had nothing to do with the intelligence world since I left it, in any shade or variety.

Joseph Joubert

No one is mediocre who has good sense and good sentiments.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

O. Singh

It is not my intention to put people on tenterhooks but that is how it is because of the weather.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Tom Renney

I'm leaning toward Henrik, but we'll see. Those are my intentions at this time.

Terry Allen

I'm looking to retire here. I have no intention of leaving here.

Dante Hall

I have no intentions on being a coach.

Angus King

I had no intention of getting back into politics. I was teaching at Bowdoin and happily retired from politics.

Tom Gorzelanny

I know there are jobs to be won and my intention is to win one of them.

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

That only can with propriety be styled refinement which, by strengthening the intellect, purifies the manners.

Robert MacNeil

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy.

Samuel Johnson

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Walter Raleigh

Better were it to be unborn than to be ill bred.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

Albert Chee

We are continually working to get the refinery back up in as quick and as safe a manner as we can.

Andrea Yates

They were not progressing the right way in school, and they had a problem with their manners, their social manners,

Charles Dickens

Oh! I know their tricks and their manners.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Gregg Popovich

It always has been that people didn't think we were for real,

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Jon McMullen

You can put poles up all day long. Thieves are ingenious, and it's unfortunate.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

David Clark

It's unfair to the students, because they don't know what they can do to get themselves expelled.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Aldous Huxley

They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Jen Kirkman

The women doing comedy do not even think of themselves as 'female' comedians.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Bill Belichick

I had no knowledge of the various steps involved in the game balls and the process that happened between when they were prepared and went to the officials and went to the game. So, I've learned a lot about that.

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Steve Ellis

You had various fiefdoms established in the contracting process.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Stefano Gabbana

Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility.

Sarah Shahi

I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.

Kellan Lutz

I love Poseidon. His trident - his weapon - is really cool.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have.

Helmut Schmidt

Admirals and Generals always want more ships and more weapons and they take the arguments where they can find them.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Who sows fear, reaps weapons.

Bernie Bickerstaff

They've just got so many weapons that somehow, someone's going to make a play.

Nelson Mandela

For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

Rachel Nichols

I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'

Noam Chomsky

Naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk... It's as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes 'Jew' and 'Gypsy.'