Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of humor, calls the nose the organ of quell. It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others, from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout:""No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!""So the lawyers applied For injunction. ""Denied,"" Said the Judge: ""the defendant prefixion, Whate'er it portend, Appears to transcend The bounds of this court's jurisdiction."" --Arpad Singiny

John Koech

Once we have ministers fully in charge of the affairs of the community in all the three countries, they would be in a better position to lobby for more funding.

Rose Mashigo

Deal with your current affairs now, have their facts in order, because they have a tendency of resurfacing as ghosts of the past; as background check or as some research in history and whether you like it or not, that is your life - so handle it with love and care while you still have the opportunity.

Adam Ereli

And the next day, an official from the ministry of foreign affairs also contacted Ambassador Dell and conveyed a similar apology. So for our purposes, this incident is closed.

Thomas Tusser

Some respite to husbands the weather may send,/ But housewives' affairs have never an end.

Ghalib Ghalib

Sometimes I take it paradoxically--to the extent that it is unthinkable, but the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was kind enough to recognize my hotel suite as my office for four months,

Liam Fox

It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.

Chuck D.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

Lisa Graves

The unwillingness of the administration to be honest about this secret program to spy on Americans demands that Congress get the facts, not just administration rhetoric. The truth can be determined without compromising national security. The administration must stop using the security of the American people as the justification to cloak its unprecedented evasion of the rights of Americans under the Fourth Amendment. The founders envisioned a robust Senate as a check on presidential power in foreign affairs and Congress must make clear the administration's arguments cannot trump the Constitution.

John Savage

You need to make the distinction between external motivation and internal motivation. While the former has short-term effects, the latter is far more important.

Jeffrey Benjamin

External superiority is the result of internal inferiority.

Jennifer Granholm

Sometimes leadership is planting trees under whose shade you'll never sit. It may not happen fully till after I'm gone. But I know that the steps we're taking are the right steps.

Susan Thomson

These are all fully-licensed and fully registered brokers,

Peter Coleman

This is still a significant injury, but one that with rehabilitation Troy will be able to fully recover from.

Irish Proverb

You are not a fully fledged sailor unless you have sailed under full sail,

Russell Simmons

To be awake is to be fully present, no noise, just you and God. Most of us only have seconds of full consciousness. To live in a state of Samadhi - that's what we're here for.

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Bob Stoops

He's probably still not fully healed, but you won't notice it. He looks great. He's back. He jumps through the hole. You notice it. He looks really good.

Diane Hendricks

I don't think I have ever taken any 'offbeat' advice. Actually, I don't know I take any advice very often. I trust my own instincts and seek out information so I can make fully informed decisions. That's what's worked for me.

Jami Attenberg

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

Gareth Edwards

After JPR Williams was involved in a road traffic accident: 'Bloody typical, isn't it? The car's a write-off. The tanker's a write-off. But JPR comes out of it all in one piece

Dan Henning

There's going to be a lot of temptation on people around the league this year on (wide receiver) Terrell Owens. I can tell you right now, we won't be involved in that temptation. That's part of the plan.

Ray Arvidson

Water was involved in practically every one we have seen so far.

Jason Goldberg

When things like this come up, there is a part of me that really wants to get involved and do something again,

Zach Pollakoff

Music is one of my passions. If I'm not making music, I want to be involved in it in some way.

Ferdinand Marcos

Frankly, if there's money to be made the province would have involved itself.

Nina Banister

If it launches or explodes, it's illegal. There is a risk involved with fireworks, period. Everything is at risk, your pets, your shrubs, your house, your car, your neighbor's house, your neighbor's car. Because something that launches or explodes can be unpredictable.

Kevin Doll

She mentioned to someone that she was involved in a similar incident, and that person read about it in the paper and notified a detective.

Dick Pound

But when you get lawyers involved that takes time. We are looking at ways to shorten that.

Farooq Abdullah

I want to become foreign minister of India one day and then President of India.

Tammy Cox

You say you are not going to watch the news but you do. You want to know what is going on there.

Elizabeth Edwards

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

Richard Gilhooly

There's nothing surprising in this when you see day after day after day after day, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000 layoffs, ... So if anyone's shocked by this, they haven't been reading the newspapers for the past three months.

Daniel Schorr

All news is an exaggeration of life.

Soren Kierkegaard

The best news the World has ever heard came from a graveyard - Christ is risen!

Norman Cousins

If news is not really news unless it is bad news, it may be difficult to claim we are an informed nation

Paddy Chayefsky

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

Kelli Durham

Possibly it could be copycat, because it's getting a lot of news coverage.

Stephen Hess

Polls are a reflection of the headlines. When the news is bad, the president's numbers go down, and when the news is good, they go up,

Larry Jensen

Even if the reports are good, I'm still not going in unless I have to.

Robert Scheer

I was a finalist for the Pulitzer as a reporter.

Shaharyar Khan

We have seen these reports and we are trying to find out whether he has said these things.