Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Jose Maria Aznar

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5N1 virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only. The current situation in Italy does not provide consumers with any cause to avoid eating poultry products.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Mahmoud Othman

Everyone is nervous. The security situation is not good. There are so many explosions at the checkpoints and near the convoys. The Americans are afraid. And when the driver doesn't see them, it happens sometimes that civilians are killed. It is a tragedy that most of the victims are civilians. It is making life more difficult. But this is our situation. It is very dangerous.

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

Peter Bergen

Where else in the world is a government helping the civilians they harm in conflict? Marla was very proud of this fact,

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Stuart Symington

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

William Schulz

Only the deployment of sufficient numbers of troops with logistical support by UN member states will provide the protection that the civilians so desperately need.

Charles Singley

I got drunk that night in Honolulu, and we had some celebration. I went to the nearest joint I could find. Soldiers and sailors paid for nothing. Civilians paid for everything, picked up all our tabs. They loved us. The town was ours.

Terry Ryan

He did some damage to us. That was the type of scenario where you could envision him doing that for us. No doubt that will be fresh in many people's minds.

Elizabeth Harris

I think we're unlikely to sustain a lot of damage from Hurricane Nate,

Mark Elliott

It has been awesome. It is like a pretty poison. It is doing enormous damage but at the same time it is pretty.

John Zogby

I don't know yet whether he's turning a corner. He's a pretty resilient fellow, so now I think he gets it. But I think a lot of damage has been done to people's view of government and that's not the greatest thing to have presided over.

Wassily Kandinsky

Objects damage pictures.

William Landay

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Veronica Roth

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

Mary Kelly

Other than the staff time that has gone into this, there are no other expenses, which is fortunate. Certainly, viruses can do damage to hardware.

Bill Richardson

recent developments ... including violence directed at law enforcement, damage to property and livestock, increased evidence of drug smuggling and an increase in the number of undocumented immigrants.

Lao Tzu

Knowing others is wisdom; Knowing the self is enlightenment; Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength

Bo Ryan

He didn't force anything, and he gets a double-double. That's a good line for Brian. It's a good line for anybody.

Ronnie Moore

You have to force Richie to come off, but he will be okay.

Aaron Bruce

He's a force inside. You love to play with players who are that dominant.

Kim Whitney

Her reach, and well, her height, of course. She's so physical because she has this mentality and force of just wanting to win. That's important to go on to the next level.

Michael May

Holiday '99 will force a shake-out about who can and who can't stand alone.

John Knight

We told them this is gut-check time. It's who wants it more. It's going to be sheer force of will.

Steve Spurrier

We threw one up, but we should have tackled the guy somewhere. We should have been able to run that guy down, but we couldn't do it. That was just one of the big plays in the game. Nah, 28-7 is no safe lead for us. We didn't force a punt in the second half, so it wasn't safe. They should have scored another touchdown.

Ben Wallace

I thought they were the more poised team down the stretch. I thought we maybe lined up too many threes down the stretch and tried to force the outcome instead of doing what we usually do.

Ron Artest

The only thing on my mind is getting in shape. I've got an injury. So the only thing on my mind is getting over my injury and getting in shape.

Marty Hurney

He obviously is very disappointed because he wants to get out and play and we would have liked to have seen that as well. It was something that he didn't realize he did when the injury occurred.

Lawrence Dallaglio

Before Fraser's injury problems I thought he was one of the outstanding players in the Premiership,

Peter Thorne

I haven't played that much and then I got an injury at the worst possible time,

Bill Cowher

Tommy had the MRI and right now it looks like he has a non-surgical injury to his elbow. He will not be able to throw for six weeks and then at that point he will be able to start throwing and we will see where he is.

Bobby Johnson

It's been kind of a normal injury pattern,

Stephen Fleming

It's an inflammation injury that will settle down with a period of rest, we haven't been able to get him enough rest. I don't think it's a career-threatening injury, just annoying.

Publilius Syrus

Even to smile at the misfortunes of others is to do an injury.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is better to receive than to do injury.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.

Mack Strong

Just things that I've never experienced in my life.

Tom Arnold

I swear on my life that is true.

Tiffeny Milbrett

I want to be the goal scorer and the play maker out there. I have been doing that all my life.

Quentin Blake

You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.

William Ellery Channing

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Chris Stapleton

I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

Cate Blanchett

It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.

John Hawkes

I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.

Davis Love

Jack's got a loss and a tie. We'd like to get him a win.

Paula Carico

What do you do in a situation like this? I'm at a loss for words.

Derrick Landrus

To come back after the tough loss in the first game, we needed that.

Joan Anderson

Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

Dontrelle Willis

I don't even know what WHIP means, ... They were so similar, I have no idea. Maybe because I had more losses than him. That's the only thing I can see off the top of my head.

Tracy Morgan

Bones heal, but the loss of my friend will never heal,

Venus Williams

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.

Valerie Bertinelli

After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.

Roger Angell

Life is tough and brimming with loss, and the most we can do about it is to glimpse ourselves clear now and then, and find out what we feel about familiar scenes and recurring faces this time around.

Li Yizhong

We've met unprecedented safety pressures and all in all, all the iron-handed measures should be implemented thoroughly.

Michael Clarke

We used sophisticated security procedures and measures to make sure only people who are supposed to be on the network can get onto the network.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Richard P. Feynman

Teach principles not formulas.

Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Wendell Berry

Today, local economies are being destroyed by the pluralistic, displaced, global economy, which has no respect for what works in a locality. The global economy is built on the principle that one place can be exploited, even destroyed, for the sake of another place.

Ellen G. White

Fixed principles of truth are the only safeguard for youth.

Jean Baudrillard

The world is not dialectical -- it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Joseph Brodsky

I don't have principles. I have nerves.

Larry Burkett

The one principle that surrounds everything else is that of stewardship; that we are the managers of everything that God has given us

John Keats

I have loved the principle of beauty in all things.

Graham Elliot

Dining should be something that isn't always taken extremely seriously.

Tony Stewart

I'm scared of saying something that may get taken the wrong way.

George Best

It has been a long week but things have taken a turn for the best. I am very optimistic.

Richelle Mead

I’ve come to ask you where Seth is.” "Funny,” said Andrea. “We were going to ask you the same thing.” I was taken aback. “How would I know?” They both just stared. "I don’t!

William S. Burroughs

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

William J. Clinton

People ought to be going over this, finding things they don't like. Congress has clearly proved they can act in a hurry. If there's something wrong with it, it can be amended. If something needs to be kicked in, it can be put in. If something needs to be taken out, it can be taken out.

Will Ferrell

I guess ultimately a lot of comedians just wanna be taken seriously.

Sarah Addison Allen

He had a smug smile on his lips like he knew, even in his sleep, that women all around him were dying from love because he'd taken their hearts and hidden them where they'd never find them.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

There's no doubt in my mind that sleep deprivation is the hidden number one cause of arguments and cybersex. I'm convinced that countless good relationships end and bad ones begin because of chronic fatigue. Never make a major decision until after you've taken a nap.

Jay Watson

It's very nice. Whenever its available, we can play.

LaDainian Tomlinson

It is what it is, ... I just try to do what I'm able to do whenever I'm called. I can't go over there and try to holler at everybody, tell them, 'Give me the ball.' You know that's not me.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Whenever there are some who have more opportunities than others, this feeds corruption.

Eileen collins

I wish I could come back up here whenever I wanted.

Michael Redd

He pretty much just heckles me whenever we play.

Francis Lawrence

Whenever you're adapting something that's a 12- or 14-hour read down to something that has to be around two hours, there's going to be some cuts.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Rob Reiner

I think it is over-rated. Whenever I go to an Italian restaurant, I never get the tiramisu.

Alice Waters

Whenever I want to know how to cook something, I can't ask one chef - I have to ask six.