Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lakhdar Brahimi

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

Koichiro Matsuura

It is abominable to witness the cold and calculated destruction of cultural properties which were the heritage of the Afghan people, and, indeed, of the whole of humanity.

Jacques Chirac

It is not just refugees but all the Afghan people who are in a precarious situation, a situation of great distress, which is intolerable.

Cindy Moore

It is in the best interest of Afghan people if the election is held in a peaceful environment. A peaceful election is a success of the Afghan people.

Azita Ghanizada

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Lisa LaFlamme

He is just one of a million children there, and that is a boy who has put an Afghan face on Canada's mission in the country. I think it's important for people to realize that that's why the Canadian forces are there, to try to restore some of the things that take for granted in the western world.

William T. Vollmann

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

Azita Ghanizada

In Afghan culture, you don't date - you marry. Even talking to boys before marriage brings great shame to your family.

Greg Dulli

I love them. They're my brothers, ... I think if we were all in the same town we would all play together like we used to, but as far as playing as the Afghan Whigs, I doubt that.

Tommy Chong

Just recently up in Utah, some guy got 55 years for selling an ounce of pot to an undercover agent.

Elizardo Sanchez

I think it's a humanitarian gesture on the part of the Canadian government and we now hope our government will continue the process of prisoner releases. Right now, 110 people have been released, which means that the number of political prisoners in Cuba is diminishing.

Brian Mulroney

He certainly made an important mark on Canadian journalism.

Ross Outerbridge

I think the encouraging things are to see some of the performances of the young Canadians that have been at their first Games.

Naomi Fink

There is good reason for oil remaining positive for the Canadian dollar, if you look at what's going on in Iran. The Canadian dollar should be well supported.

Rene Fasel

I think Vancouver will be sensational. Canadians love winter sports.

Klete Keller

I was a little nervous. I didn't expect the Canadians to be so close.

Bob Lee

There is a more visible presence, with Australians, Canadians and Brits.

Ryan Gosling

I don't feel like I would be a good mentor. I don't know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.

Jim Cooper

There is a growing unease, but all the folks I talked to support our troops, want us to win in the Middle East and still trust our military leaders to do the right thing. I think there's some skepticism of our civilian leaders.

Michel Bonnardeaux

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

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson

Timothy Workman

I have reached the conclusion that the risk of (the death penalty) ... being imposed by a civilian court is negligible,

Jan Egeland

The insecurity in Sri Lanka has claimed over 100 lives in recent weeks with increasing civilian casualties.

Anil Kakodkar

The (fast-breed reactor) program is at a prototype stage and not ready for inclusion in a list of India's civilian nuclear reactors.

Lin Ezell

The Marines have a saying that, 'If you can't hire a Marine, you hire a civilian and you turn them green,' ... And greening is what is happening.

Phil Klay

The civilian wants to respect what the veteran has gone through. The veteran wants to protect memories that are painful and sacred to him from outside judgment.

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.

Matt Blamey

He continues to run with the team and we hope to have him back for the last couple of weeks of the season, in time for districts.

Penny Circle

He continues to respond to treatments and is improving every day.

Chris Thomas

Having a friend like Mike has been a blessing. He kept me on the right track as a youth and continues to be a good friend to me even today.

Dan Ronayne

Harold Ford Jr. continues to forget that he represents the people of Tennessee and not the celebrities of New York and Hollywood.

Hugh Johnson

It confirms that as we started the fourth quarter the economy continues to slow, ... At the same time that the economy is slowing, there is ongoing tightness in the labor markets and ongoing upward pressure on wages.

Robert Sinche

I think the housing data continues to allay some of the worst fears on how the economy might slow, and has some impact on how the Fed may act next year.

Neal Soss

It is magnificent that inflation continues to be low, but retail sales are smoking.

Kim Farah

He is home now and continues to rest comfortably. We expect he will be able to resume his normal schedule soon.

Larry Beinfest

He is not suspended. He continues to be paid.

Mike Babcock

He's been a courageous competitor. He probably shouldn't have played tonight, but he perceives this as his team and he wanted to lead them.

Jimmy Littleton

I'm totally proud of what we've accomplished. The kids were so courageous over the past five weeks. They weren't going to give up.

Jack Straw

As Prime Minister, (Rabin) made difficult and courageous decisions in his search for peace and was undaunted by the many obstacles he faced,

Mike Sutton

The most courageous person in all of this is my wife, Karen. She has not had a day off or any time to herself since this happened.

Steven Spielberg

This is a courageous year for filmmakers. ... They are saying 'If I never make another film, this one says what I think and feel.

Saddam Hussein

It was the most wonderful thing I've seen in my life. He was the most wonderful and courageous father,

Werner Herzog

Of course this is me revisiting my own past, going into the wilderness, telling a story, perhaps not the one I set out to tell, ... I had no opinion about Treadwell . . . I gave him space, let him tell me his story. And it was pretty easy to see that he was haunted by demons -- illuminated, courageous and cowardly, exhilarated and in love with the idea of himself as a star.

Herbie Hancock

Sometimes it was good and sometimes it wasn't, but I had to stand up for all of it or else I couldn't play any of it. I learned how to be courageous from that experience.

Garrick Phillips

Pretty darn courageous effort. We made the plays late we needed to win the game. These are kids I want to be with every day This is a special group of kids and win or lose they are going to have a special place in my heart forever.

Kevin Chapman

We talked a number of times about how good this team could be if we dedicated ourselves to a single goal. Swimming in Ohio is so fast that you must train all year long in order to be successful. Unfortunately, we didn't do that as a team. The drive to next year's state championship meet has already begun.

Mayor Bingham

I thank him for his years of dedicated service. We wish him well in his future endeavors.

Ben Wallace

I think that says a lot about the guys here; being dedicated to winning. And it says a lot about the organization being dedicated to winning and what they have to do to keep this group together.

Sherrie Williams

He was extremely dedicated to the zoo. It was really his life.

John Rhodes

He was extremely dedicated and disciplined. Through the years, he took on great responsibility.

Randy Gross

He is a great player and a tremendous leader for us. What makes him stand out is he is totally dedicated to basketball. He spent a ton of hours making himself a better player.

Dave Cook

It's something they've been doing for the last two years. They've got a great organization and have been very dedicated to doing what needed to be done to get hockey to this level.

Hans Kueng

That he dedicated to me so many hours and this was extraordinary I am happy that this was possible,

Hans Kueng

That he dedicated to me so many hours ? and this was extraordinary ? I am happy that this was possible,

Mark Stephens

He knew this was a judgment that would be of enormous interest. So I think he's playing to people who like intrigue.

Gerry Adams

I think that opens up an enormous opportunity for all of us but also presents a huge challenge.

John Calvert

ID is making enormous progress. Is it going to happen overnight? No. Is it going to happen? Yes.

Peter Douglas

He had an enormous impact on the department. He laid the groundwork for the system we have today.

Richard Dawkins

The evidence for evolution is so compelling that the only way to save the creation theory is to assume that God deliberately planted enormous quantities of evidence to make it look as if evolution had happened.

Ron Chernow

Unless you devote an enormous amount of time to anticipating the future, you won't have any future.

Walter Benjamin

The present, which, as a model of Messianic time, comprises the entire history of mankind in an enormous abridgment, coincides with the stature which the history of mankind has in the universe.

Peter Sorensen

Removing one female lamprey isn't always a terribly valuable exercise. But to prevent a group from spawning, there is enormous payoff there.

Pete Carroll

Reggie has had a great season. He's done everything. Every play he's on the field, he's been an enormous factor.

R. Robinson

Kids are facing problems earlier. Teen problems run the gamut: problems with friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, to suicide and abortion.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

It is good that these terrorists are now facing justice, but in the reporting of the case, it would be helpful if the media didn't help them with their propaganda mission by unquestioningly repeating false information about their detention.

Abdullah Gul

We are facing serious problems with the start of negotiations. We are in intense negotiations,

Howard Davidowitz

I think the advertisers are going to go away. She's tarnished. And in looking to the future will she plead guilty? If you're an advertiser, you're facing a woman who may go on trial.

Minoru Morita

He was facing increasing opposition and was standing on very weak ground. So in that sense it was a godsend.

Lance Butler

I'm not sure what I'm doing after practice, ... They're just another SEC team we'll be facing later this year. I wouldn't say I'm any more interested in them this year than any other.

Ivan Cleary

If you can't win your home games you're facing a long year, really.

Derek Jeter

It's always weird when you're facing guys that you played with.

Johnny Damon

It's tough facing guys you've never faced, that your team has never faced.

Harvey Pekar

I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have experienced the same things.

Bernard Parks

Having known Mr. Patton for a number of years personally, it was a shock to me to find this incident had occurred,

Gerard Kennedy

It is not inevitable that our schools have incidents like this. We can make our schools even safer,

Joschka Fischer

It is not only because of the incidents with the Swiss, Swedish, and Spanish embassies. There is an urgent need for discussions,

Diane Feinstein

In view of the 5,000 'air rage' incidents each year,

Brian Doyle

The incident was resolved before anything was moved.

John Peck

The incident is of a de minimis nature; and since the resources of this office are limited, I will not expend the resources upon a prosecution that lacks merit,

F. Stone

The jury's still out on the new system, because we haven't run that many incidents on it yet, ... But day-to-day, the hand-helds are working out quite well.

Gary Davidson

These incidents were not reported to us. When something isn't reported, there's nothing we can do.

Vincent Van Gogh

Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how paralyzing it is, that staring of a blank canvas which says to the painter: you don't know anything.

Werner Herzog

There are specific times where film noir is a natural concomitant of the mood. When there's insecurity, collapse of financial systems - that's where film noir always hits fertile ground.

Samantha Bond

I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.

Sam Claflin

I purposefully did not want to watch anything I've done so far; I actually don't like looking at my face, so I don't like watching myself on the screen. It's an insecurity thing I have.

Mike Leigh

The problem with the British film industry is the nervousness and insecurity about - and genuflection toward - Los Angeles.

Jonathan Sacks

The twenty-first century is, and will remain, the Age of Insecurity.

Kurt Russell

When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.

John Lennon

Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.

Alan Watts

Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.

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.

Woodrow Wilson

Americanism consists in utterly believing in the principles of America.

Richard M. Nixon

The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

Ulysses S. Grant

A military life had no charms for me, and I had not the faintest idea of staying in the army even if I should be graduated, which I did not expect,

Ulysses S. Grant

The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

Jim Tracy

I think the personnel is here to get that done.

Gerald Myers

It is pretty unique. They probably have all the Texas Tech tapes, and know what the different personnel does.

Chip Hester

They're starting from scratch on defense, so we don't have any film of their personnel playing that defense. We do have an idea what they'll do, but we know we'll have to make some mid-game adjustments.

Paul Davies

I don't think you can shut down all three of us. If it happens, somebody (else) has got to step up. We do have the personnel to step up and score for us.

Markku Niskala

If we don't get money, we must withdraw personnel and slow down the reconstruction of houses.

Mike King

I can't get into specifics regarding personnel issues.

Lord Shaftesbury

Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide.

Khaled Hosseini

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

George Will

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

Lynne Black

Our position right now is that this is not an appropriate program and population to put in a heavily populated two-square-mile village.

Kelley Armstrong

A stereotype becomes a stereotype when a significant percentage of the population appears to conform to it.

Niccolo Machiavelli

When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere... the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)

Noam Chomsky

You cannot control your own population by force, but it can be distracted by consumption.

Elliott Abrams

Syria's population is 74% Sunni Muslim.

Garrett Hardin

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Garrett Hardin

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

Marc Lumpkin

It's a way to go after another segment of the population that wants to sign up for satellite-TV service but hasn't had a way to do it.

David Price

Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.

Rick Riordan

The Olympians were a reminder that there was always someone better than you, so you shouldn't get a big head.

Paul Theroux

I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.

Todd Harris

It's a huge, scary in-your-face reminder of how out of touch the Legislature is,

Victor Davis Hanson

Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

Jennifer Morrison

For us it's a visible reminder of the season.

David Wallace

and take risks whenever you think it is right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small; if you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand, nothing.

Jimmie Johnson

It's just one of the risks that go with it.

Thomas Wilson

These risks are uninsurable because they are not predictable,

Benny Gray

We were going to get the people. We take risks all the time firefighting, but we didn't want to get shot.

Doug Pritchard

We know the risks involved. It's very much a part of our training.

Azouz Ennifar

There are risks that it doesn't work and there are risks that it works.

Helen Espy

It was an accident, a very tragic accident.