Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terri Sullivan

I think it is a really good opportunity to show off Vancouver to the world. He's gone from having everything done for him and now there he is in Turin accepting the Olympic flag for Canada.

Julian Peterson

He was aggressive and you saw him accepting that challenge, ... Guys like him are going to do nothing but help our team.

David Twersky

He is really trying to change the rules of the game. Right now, those rules keep various parts of the world population from communicating with each other. He is trying to change those rules, and he is doing it in a very dramatic fashion by accepting the invitation to the September event.

Ahmed Rahman

He sabotaged the Mitchell report instead of accepting it when he said that he will continue building settlements. So what does the Mitchell report mean? Sharon wants to continue building settlements; therefore there will be no peace. Therefore if the occupation continues and the Israel army continues raiding Palestinian cities and people. So what does it mean when he accepts Mitchell report?

Ashley Lelie

He's definitely been playing a lot smarter. He's not trying to make every single play. It's a credit to him understanding and accepting his role on the team. He puts up wins for us when he plays smart like that.

William Cox

He shouldn't be even contemplating accepting employment for anything with somebody who's got an application before the board.

Duncan Hunter

I think that's accepting a falsehood and giving to the American people that somehow we don't treat prisoners right,

Ryan Phillippe

LA can be a very open and accepting creative environment. But it is important, because there is this odd separation here, it is important to make your kids mindful of other people and other people's plight.

Joe Trippi

What drives me, really, is changing things, not accepting the conventional wisdom. I hate it when somebody says it can't be done. I know there are people saying Mfume can't win. But why? Tell me why.

Howard Dean

John Kerry's position and my position are not very different about what we would do. Interestingly enough, neither is George Bush's position because George Bush adopted John Kerry's position after John Kerry won the primaries.

John Patrick Shanley

I adopted two children, then I got eye disease and five rounds of surgery. I went blind in one eye, then the other eye, and that went on for three or four years. I got very enamored and involved with the theater and did a lot of plays.

Jason Taylor

He did his time and paid the price that he had to pay for what he did and he is back. From Day 1, we've adopted him as back in the family, and everything is fine. ... Hopefully he can help us get some victories.

Mary Gauthier

I was adopted when I was about a year old. My adopted parents tried, but their marriage was doomed. Music saved my life. I couldn't relate to things in Baton Rouge, but I found songs that spoke to me.

Rick Parry

We're obviously delighted. It's a combination of three years of a lot of hard work and a vindication and endorsement of the policy we adopted that we had to be very much a part of the community plan. We couldn't go ahead in isolation. I think the outcome will be very exciting, not just for us, but for North Liverpool as a whole if the whole plan comes together.

Thomas Hall

What I see is a quagmire developing because the rules adopted by the Nevada Tax Commission are not clear. The system is going to be held hostage by not having a rulebook.

Ed White

I think what happened is we all adopted each other.

Ann Widdecombe

It is only by maintaining the current law and making it the norm that adoption takes place by married couples and stability for an adopted child can be achieved.

Richard Thompson

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

Tyler Colvin

I was just a mental case, to tell you the truth. I worked on my approach and learned what pitch to swing at and it's paid off. I was just swinging at bad pitches.

Lou Holtz

Knowing Bill Snyder and the disciplinarian he is and the approach he has, yeah, I think he will bounce back, ... And he doesn't have to be real good to be pretty good in that North.

Klaus Toepfer

I would urge Presidents and Prime Ministers to make this WRI report and the findings of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment indispensable parts of their reading. I am sure that the conclusions will suggest to them, as they do to me, fresh, imaginative, sensible and truly sustainable approaches to the pressing development issues of the day,

Ben Saylor

I take the same approach every time. Early in the count I'm hoping they throw me a mistake and that's what I feel like happened in the first couple of at-bats. It's really important when another team makes a mistake, you've really got to bury them. You have to go right after them and make those mistakes hurt. I think our team did a good job of that.

Katrina Kaif

You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.

John Denham

What won't work is an approach which just says 'We have decided what we are going to do and we are just going to spend a lot more time explaining it to you'.

Steve Gardner

He's a good hitter. You put it where a guy like him likes it you're going to pay the price. We didn't pitch him very well. Our approach was to work him away, work him off-speed and elevate the ball. We just didn't elevate it enough.

Jim LaBelle

He said he had the runway in sight ... and was going to circle to land. He thought he had enough visibility to make a visible approach to the runway.

Ronald Reagan

History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20% of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government. . . . When it reaches 25%, there comes an increase in lawlessness.

Kent Willis

Jails may accommodate the religious needs of inmates by funding chaplains' services that offer assistance to all prisoners regardless of their faith. But they cannot pay a Christian ministry to bring only the Christian message into their jails.

Hans Blix

There are still a number of questions, including the question of possible further external assistance to the nuclear program. You don't know what you don't know.

Mike Reilly

I think it's going to take some federal assistance to ... deal with this.

Mark Birdwhistell

We feel it is important to provide this assistance to small businesses.

Peter Fitzgerald

I think this assistance is too generous, it gives too much money,

Mark Bruener

I just wished him the best and offered my assistance in any way I could.

Gerald Harris

I imagine (the Grand) will offer some temporary assistance to employees, ... But this is a reality check. Thinks we normally are concerned about are all irrelevant.

Charlie Dickinson

The federal government continues to support the critical work of our nation's firefighters by ensuring departments attain a basic capability level through the competitive Assistance to Firefighters Grant program.

Joseph Domenech

The countries urgently need international assistance to build up basic surveillance and control systems.

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

Stan Perkins

I was a chunky little kid, and when they sat me in that wagon, it tipped backward and I banged my head on the (concrete) floor. I was howling pretty good, but Dad went outside and cried his eyes out.

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

Tony Vis

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Joe Ferrer

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Joan Baker

Everyone's bent over backward in the Whitesboro school district,

Robert Greenstein

The new data are particularly troubling for working people, showing backward movement for most workers. In short, the census data provide new evidence that, as in 2002 and 2003, the recovery was neither robust nor broad-based.

Sheila Dikshit

It's a very sad day for all of us because Delhi is celebrating a festive season.

Kapil Sibal

The most modern weather forecast system will be in place by 2009, in time for the Delhi Commonwealth Games.

Karl Inderfurth

New Delhi has joined the list of capitals to which a US presidential visit is now imperative.

Sonu Nigam

I was born in Faridabad and I spent a major part of my growing up years in Delhi before shifting to Mumbai. Delhi-NCR is still very special to me.

Omar Abdullah

There has been a setback and the problem is not between us and New Delhi. It is between the separatists and New Delhi and has to be addressed collectively by New Delhi and the separatists.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Vladimir Putin

We should find other platforms, other forums for that [foreign policy], and there are plenty of them, including, for example, the UN and the Security Council.

Enrique Pena Nieto

I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Jon Porter

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Giuliana Sgrena

These people don't want foreigners here, nobody should come to Iraq at this time. Not even journalists. Nobody.

Olivier Martinez

I'll always be a foreigner.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Pearl S. Buck

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

Alephonsion Deng

I think it is important for my self-esteem to be able to tell the stories. I think if I'm helping myself, than I'm helping other people.

Kiki Vandeweghe

He wants to be helping his team. Let's just leave it at that.

DeAndre Rice

Here, he's more humble. He's taking his time with us and learning from the mistakes he made. And he's helping us to be together and play as a team.

Bob Cole

He's a lot better from where he was last year. I think all the reps he is getting are helping him out. He's played more than he thought he was going to play.

Dana Brown

He's a local guy, so that's helping us getting him signed.

Schoolboy Q

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You only can help the world by helping the people next to you.

Anthony Fauci

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.

Nate Robinson

I'd like to say thanks to Spud for helping me out because I think that put me over the hump.

Paul Wolfowitz

Helping people lift themselves out of poverty is truly a noble mission.

Donald Rumsfeld

It's safe to say that Pakistan has been very cooperative.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

Hamid Karzai

No peace will arrive unless the U.S. or Pakistan want it.

Imran Khan

I am not anti-west, I am PRO PAKISTAN

Imran Khan

These so-called extremists in Pakistan should be brought into the mainstream; if you marginalize them, you radicalize them.

Virender Sehwag

I think Pakistan is more under pressure than us because they are playing at home.

Harsha Bhogle

Misbah is rated far higher outside Pakistan than within. Afridi is rated far higher in Pakistan than outside!

Ronald Neumann

Pakistan is doing a lot more than they were doing, ... They have put thousands of troops on the border. ... I think this is a considerable effort. It is going in the right direction.

Manmohan Singh

We are willing to supply to Pakistan whatever is on their priority list,

Dave Tuttle

Harland understands the technical side of 9-1-1 and how it's supposed to work.

Zydrunas Ilgauskas

I think it's going to be a little different for him because he's going to play the same team so many times. But we're going to see an even better side of him because he's going to be able to adjust.

George Clooney

I think it's important to be on the right side of history.

S. Hughes

I think you're going to see some sideways consolidation throughout the summer,

Roz Chast

I think when your parents die, it is kind of like a moving sidewalk: you're not just on the sideline and watching them go by. You know, you're going to the same place they are.

John Stevens

We're on the wrong side of being close.

Bill Ritter

We're on the Durango side of the litigation, not the Texas side.

Joe Mires

There is another whole side of her when she is playing.

Carl Jung

Mine. I'm on my side.