Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Allen

In some ways, September 11, 2001, seems a long time ago. Yet we have done so much in only a few years, and we will continue to do so in the future, to prevent such attacks on America.

Paul Johnson

It would be wrong to say I enjoy having rows, because that would be un-Christian. If people attack me, then I respond, or if they do very wicked things. Then they must be brought to book.

Scott Long

The police are using brutal harassment and detention without charge to clear transgender people off the streets. These attacks reflect a law enforcement system that is unchecked and operating outside the law.

Edward Brooke

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.

Andrew Kohut

The overall finding of public opinion since the September 11 attacks is that the American public is willing to see the rules bent a little bit in the war on terrorism.

Noah Feldman

Cyber attacks are not what makes the cool war 'cool.' As a strategic matter, they do not differ fundamentally from older tools of espionage and sabotage.

John Banville

The 9/11 attack was a huge and terrible thing but it was not unique. I come from a country where, if you put it in scale, some say 350,000 people would have died from the violence.

LaVonda Wagner

That was huge. We talked about being focused (at halftime), we talked about having an attack mind-set, it was a five-point game at that point.

Carey Green

That was how the game was called. We want to be physical. We want to attack the basket and we want to get to the free-throw line. We've got a goal to get to the free-throw line 30 times, and we didn't. ? There were fewer calls than we expected.

Colin Hay

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

Adam Carr

The path of least resistance for the Australian dollar is down. Base-metal prices are likely to continue to come off a bit as inventories rebuild.

Bryan Brown

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

Richard Flanagan

The 2007 Labor campaign was the most presidential in Australian history, with a slogan - Kevin07 - exceeded in its banality only by its success.

Peter Singer

Then I think the sense of it being one community breaks down; but if you know instantly and respond within twenty-four hours, it's a very different sort of situation.

Peter Singer

Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Peter Singer

They tend to be pretty abstract ones then, like doing what will have the best consequences; obviously you wouldn't specify what consequences are best, they may be different in some circumstances, so at a lower, more specific level, you may well get differences.

Olivia Newton-John

My father was a headmaster in England and then the dean of a college in Australia. We moved there when I was about five, so my education was in Australia, and I always felt I was Australian even though my passport was British.

Mary Hansen

When I go to a film, you're taking it easy and you let things wash over you. That's what cinema's all about. You get involved in a world that's being created in front of you.

Tony Fernandes

I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

Lindsay Davenport

I am really excited to win over 50 titles, ... That means a lot to me as not many players have won that. I was thinking about it after I won Bali and was glad to be able to do it here right off the bat.

Marty Natalegawa

The explosion in Bali is reported to have taken place in a very crowded area, so if obviously it is confirmed to be a bomb, then it is aimed at causing as much casualties and ... as many victims as possible,

Joe Taslim

My favorite place in Indonesia is Bali. I was there with my family in Nusa Dua, and my kids loved it. I'm a workaholic, so for me, Bali is a place where you can have a vacation, but you can have your own moment as well. You feel like you blend with nature - and I love the beach.

Mick Keelty

So in that sense it's not exactly the same as the bombing of the nightclubs in Bali on the October evening back in 2002.

Rohan Gunaratna

The Bali bomb was designed to cause maximum fatalities and casualties.

Rohan Gunaratna

They chose Bali in order to embarrass and humiliate Indonesia. Especially in light of reports that said JI has been dismantled, they're now proving that JI is still capable.

Rohan Gunaratna

They chose Bali in order to embarrass and humiliate Indonesia, ... Especially in light of reports that said JI has been dismantled, they're now proving that JI is still capable.

Chip Conley

Bali is one of my favorite places in the world. In one of my past lives, I believe I was living on the island of Bali.

Yanni

When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.

Natalie du Toit

It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.

Bruce Steinberg

Today's unemployment data were as expected, showing that we are still in a recession, but that the worst is behind us.

Duane Blackburn

We have a good nucleus of kids coming back and another solid group coming up behind them. We'll be a challenge, no doubt. Kids like Wolf and (sophomore) Guy Price and some of the others, they will augment Chandler at the lighter weights. My assistant, Bo Ramsey, has done a wonderful job bringing all of them along.

Keith Newman

We've gotten some people back on our side. We haven't gotten them all back. But the more we win, the more we think we can get them behind us again.

Travis Barbary

We've got some pretty good arms. It's just a matter of throwing strikes and whether we can make the plays behind them.

John Flora

We've kinda proved to everybody, and ourselves, that we can win on the conference road. We've still got to make sure we don't fall behind and that we win on the road.

Sean Hill

We have to make sure we come out with a little more fire in the first period and take the play to them because when you don't, you're playing from behind all night, ... That's when you get penalties and when you get put away. And that's what happened.

Carles Puyol

Valencia is playing really well. It has a great team. We can't ignore Real Madrid either. It's a long way behind but it's also showing signs of a revival. We can't relax because we have to recognize that both teams have improved.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course... from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

'Beyond the Lights' took incredible fight to get made. Four years of writing and two years of overcoming 'no.' Every studio balked. Twice. But I kept fighting. What gave me the courage was 'Love & Basketball.' Every studio turned down that film, too. But I never gave up because I believed in it with my whole heart and soul.

Gareth Bale

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

Zadie Smith

Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.

Wesley Schultz

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Evel Knievel

I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

Ben Macintyre

'What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

Big Sean

Kanye didn't sign me to hold my hand and walk me through my career. He signed me because he believed in me as an artist and gave me a co-sign. I didn't see that at first. I saw it as him about to hold my hand, and I'm about to be the biggest artist because he's the biggest artist, you know?

David Kay

The Germans certainly - the intelligence service believed that there were WMD. It turns out that we were all wrong, probably in my judgment, and that is most disturbing.

Bobby Bowers

For September, October and November, tourism to New Orleans will be crippled for sure.

Randy Newman

Jackson Browne is underrated, at this point in his career. He has written consistently well his whole career. Maybe because he is always doing things for the Crippled Squirrel Foundation, things like that.

Tracy Morgan

My older brother was born, who was a cripple, then I was born, and my sister was born, the only girl. So I was between the only girl and the crippled guy. I was the middle guy.

F. Sionil Jose

I can imagine the writers of China, England and France, crippled and unsure of themselves when they feel that the ghosts of Confucius, Mencius, Chaucer and Shakespeare and Victor Hugo are looking over their shoulders.

Bill Thompson

We made sure all those young men being crippled by enemy fire were safe. We took them home.

Jerry Costello

The attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 completely crippled our Pacific Fleet.

Danny McBride

In my gym class, we had something called The Pit, this little alcove where we had to sit if we forgot our gym clothes. It was usually just the crippled kid, the pregnant girl, and me. It was pretty awkward, just hanging with all these freaks who didn't want to show their legs.

Greg Valliere

If the President is really crippled I would look at the dollar to see whether there really is a market impact,

Mike Antonovich

Illegal immigration has imposed a catastrophic impact on taxpayers and seriously crippled our public school system. While we need legal immigration, which is essential, illegal immigration has been detrimental to the economy and to our quality of life.

Bonaya Godana

We could not get into the embassy to remove the man ...

Somsak Kosaisuk

We will return to the embassy on March 9 to hear the response to our appeal.

Faye Belnis

We have received a suspicious package and we have informed the police. We have evacuated the embassy and then we are still waiting for further information from the police.

Hoshyar Zebari

Really there hasn't been any differences of opinion between the Iraqi government and U.S. Embassy at all,

Larry Johnson

The fact of the matter is when you look at the loss of life in Tanzania and the loss of life in Kenya, it was a simple function of where the U.S. embassy was located -- in the middle of the city.

Joseph Estrada

What I got were reports of the US Embassy about events that had happened here. There was nothing written there that we did not already know.

Mikhail Kamynin

Milosevic's advisers handed the Russian Embassy in the Netherlands a letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry on March 11, which we received yesterday afternoon.

Laszlo Garamvolgyi

At three o'clock (0200 GMT) the Slovak embassy sent a passenger list that included 43, and as there is one in hospital, that means 42 are dead.

Julie Reside

None of the military attaches at the US embassy in Caracas was or is involved in inappropriate activities.

Tina Brown

When Obama heralds another 'teachable moment,' it means he has already made an egregious rookie mistake.

Irving Ravetch

Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

Will Chase

'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Gary Bauer

The polls mean virtually nothing, ... We're not tottering on the edge. Each week we're picking up momentum.

John Anastos

The patients are happier, and we can serve more patients. More patients mean more revenues.

David Selby

And I haven't met too many actors along the way that haven't told me how much the show has meant to them. It's one of the reasons they say they are doing what they're doing, today.

David Wenham

My representation overseas can't stand me doing theatre because it takes me out of action. But it's what I want to do. If it means passing up other possibilities, them's the breaks.

David Foster

With Celine Dion, we were selling 25 million records a pop. 'Pop' stands for 'popular.' It means we're plugging into the masses.

Dev Hynes

'Chamalkay' is an old Guyanese slang word. It means a 'young mischievous girl.' It's not derogatory, but it isn't over complimentary, either. It was probably a word I just Googled one day, and the song kind of played into the feel of that.

Donald Trump

Somebody said I am the most popular person in Arizona because I am speaking the truth.

Clint Eastwood

When I'm a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It's somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Nancy Grace

Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Noreena Hertz

If somebody tweets 'I like Coca-Cola,' does that mean that they're actually going to buy Coca-Cola? One can? Two cans? Three cans? If they retweet someone else's Tweet, does that mean they're going to buy it?

Pat Robertson

I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.

Andy Jackson

We have a lot of talent on this team. We're not going to use somebody being out as an excuse.

Evan Osnos

Usually when you interview somebody for a number of hours, they'll say something that is self-aggrandizing or is a manipulation of the facts.

Paul Mooney

I have such an ego 'cause I'm a double Leo. I can't let go of me, you know, so it's very difficult for me to be somebody else and not me. I'm so into me.

Cristie Kerr

You just know when somebody is good. You can just tell.

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Carl Sagan

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

Carl Sagan

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Benjamin Rush

It would seem from this fact, that man is naturally a wild animal, and that when taken from the woods, he is never happy in his natural state, 'till he returns to them again.

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

I've spent more time than many will believe [making microscopic observations], but I've done them with joy, and I've taken no notice those who have said why take so much trouble and what good is it?

Antoni Tapies

At lucky moments this emanation could overwhelm the spectator in such a way, that because of all sorts of associations in his thinking, he could finally be taken to those areas which also had moved me so deeply and made me think I should draw the attention of others to it.