Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Gerard Kennedy

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

Tang Min

It is getting free from tedious affairs in order to serve more as a body that conducts guidance and supervision.

Jack Brooks

I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.

Edward McKendree Bounds

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.

Bible Bible

If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

John Adams

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last 30 years than Tom Paine.

Edward Everett

In this critical and anxious state of affairs General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Katy Perry

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

John Huston

I was in such a bad position probably a couple of months ago I just decided to start playing every week. I wanted to see if I could kind of get some sort of a feel for the game back.... I've started playing a little better.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Nicholson Baker

Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen.

Joan Greene

Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has been so wonderful has done nothing wrong.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Paul Di Filippo

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Brian Clifford

I think it's a great time to find buying opportunities in names that you can revisit, ... It's a lot easier to buy stocks as they're coming towards you rather than running away from you. It's a good time to sharpen your pencil and go after some of these names that have kind of run away on valuation.

H. Hunt

I think it is rather unfortunate that motorists filled up in panic buying when they will find it 4p cheaper now.

Russell Hall

Having a good allocation only protects you if you're willing to rebalance periodically so you're selling high and buying low.

Simon Spurr

If you are already familiar with a brand, buying online is fast, convenient, and probably the way forward.

Stephen Briggs

Gold is fashionable today. Most people are buying because the price has gone up, not because they think the price will go up.

Marshall Cohen

Holiday 2005 will be remembered as the year of giving to those in need. Retailers want consumers to feel good about buying and helping others.

David Healy

I think that the sales drop is temporary, ... Explorer buyers, or some of the buyers, may be buying Ford's new small Escape SUVs or waiting until the new Explorer itself comes out after the first of the year.

Michael Silverstein

We may be seeing one of the greatest shifts in consumer buying habits and taste since the 1950s.

John Walsh

He was not talking about a specific object. Neither he nor any of us had information that any work we were considering buying was stolen.

Dr. Katz

There are minimal differences between races. We make a mistake thinking we're all that different from each other. The differences in our health are more related to lifestyle, education, finances and poverty than they are to genetics.

Gregory Smith

We need to wait a month or two until our finances are clear.

Bob Hatcher

Finances and scholarships will all take a different form.

Mitchell Daniels

The government's finances are in extraordinarily strong shape.

Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the people who handle it know what they are doing.

Laura Bush

When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.

Pete Boone

I think you weigh all of the issues together, including the interview. It still may be close, but you've got to have all of the components.

Gia Coppola

I watched a lot of movies about teenagers, including 'The Last Picture Show,' 'American Graffiti,' 'Rumblefish.' It's one of my favorite genres.

John Powell

We have tightened just as tight as we can go including the elimination of personnel,

Gary Roberts

I'd like to wipe out the whole month, including the hurricane.

Mark Trakh

They are going to be scary for a long time. And I'm including this year when I say that.

William Jefferson

the southeastern parishes including the New Orleans Metropolitan area.

Mary Roach

Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.

George Will

Schools, including universities, must insist upon the prestige of reading and especially of reading old books.

Bob Boughner

He interfered with me, but I did give it a little extra. I won't be winning an Oscar, put it that way.

Martin Druyan

If using the Internet doesn't interfere with work, then this is a very reasonable ruling.

John Malkovich

If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.

Li Hongzhi

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent, ... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics.

Nana Sutresna

This is a purely a bilateral issue between the United States and North Korea. The less people interfere with the problem, I think, the better for the solution.

Fred Jacobs

internal sloppiness in the management of that lab.

Ray Harris

I'm wondering why I'm not mapping fissures, ... We could do it with internal funding, if we had enough, but we don't have enough.

Megyn Price

I'm an instinctual actor. I don't really talk about it. Usually if I get a script and I'm having trouble with it, I go to sleep and I dream about it because I'm super internal with the way I work.

George Kafkarkou

It's not just about the end-user's needs, but also about the needs of the IT professionals who service those end-users, whether internal IT staff or an outside solution provider.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

Andy Fisher

This is not the first time this has happened. It may be some kind of internal bureaucratic problem.

Elliot Mincberg

The whole idea of the internal memoranda is to try to get a more unvarnished view of what Roberts said.

J. J. Johnson

Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code. Taxation, basically. It's what tripped up Al Capone.

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.

Helmut Schmidt

In those years,'80 was the, at the turn of '79/'80 you had the invasion of Afghanistan. It was the period in which the Americans attempt to liberate, to, to liberate the hostages in Iran and all these, all these things, the atmosphere was freezing - boycott of the Olympic Games and all that.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran.

Andrew Harrington

The geopolitical situation with Iran and the meeting on Monday...is weighing heavily on the market.

Oliver Stone

One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia.

Mike Jackson

There are still archaeological places (on the island) that are significant to our tribe culturally.

Chris Lee

It has a dream-like quality that takes you to places that don't exist,

S. Walker

In a lot of places this would've come off hokey because there's not the tradition this place has. It works here because it's not contrived. It's genuine. It's real.

Felicity Huffman

I'm not a beauty. That's not my thing. So it wasn't like I was risking anything. What I was risking is whether I could do it. There are many places to fall.

Rick Morris

I know that it is coming, such as paving places in Crusader Court, but we don't know the schedule and that's not under our purview.

Simon Baker

L.A.'s a better place to live than it is to visit.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Scott Hatteberg

This is probably the toughest seven-day stretch of our year, in two places we haven't played real well. So we really need to buckle down and play as well as we can.

Jorge Torres

This is something that should not be on places of education.

Frank DeSalvo

We're not worried about what they do or where they do it. We'll try it wherever they want.

Willie Nelson

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.