Famous Quotes & Sayings

John R. Allen

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.

Ed Rollins

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Anhamirak, abandon and freedom.

David O. McKay

Many banks and independent finance companies have abandoned new-vehicle leases because their residual exposure was too great.

Gary Graves

When tragedy struck, we could have easily abandoned our commitment to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and focused on the people who were displaced by Hurricane Katrina. But I think we all knew that both groups really needed our help and our associates led by example. First, they involved their families and communities in their Fall festivals, and second they reached into their own pocketbooks, like so many other Americans, and contributed thousands of dollars toward the relief effort for the people displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

Lajos Kossuth

But the Hungarian nation, although taken by surprise, unarmed and unprepared, did not abandon its future prospects in any agony of despair.

John Doolittle

Bush is our man. We don't have an alternative. I am not going to abandon him over this, but it is a real disappointment.

Nobutaka Machimura

Only after the DPRK implements its commitment to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs in a verifiable manner, may we discuss the issue of a light-water reactor,

David Thornton

Corey Simon can help us out a lot. He's a veteran to provide leadership and a big man who can plug things up in the middle, ... He'll help with the run defense and put pressure on the quarterback.

R. Inge

Is there, as the medieval mystics taught, a "spark" at the core of the Soul, which never consents to evil, a Divine nucleus in the heart of the personality, which can take no stain?

Jeffrey Lacker

On the one hand we've got some good core numbers in the last few months, but on the other hand, we're facing the prospect now of the possibility of the energy price surge passing into core prices, and we don't want to see that.

Richard Butler

But, as I understand it, the core (of the inspection team) would still be the technicians and professionals from UNSCOM whose job it is to identify anything relevant to weapons of mass destruction. If that's the way this thing comes out by way of a solution, fine, because the core is still our technical work and our task of disarmament.

David Walton

Jason Katims creates truly relatable three-dimensional people you fall in love with right away. Jason always puts a lot of heart into what he does. He has a way of touching your emotional core in a life-affirming way. And he's a great show runner.

Tsutomu Takebe

Japanese voters have shown in the last elections their deep understanding toward Prime Minister Koizumi who says pos-tal reform is the core of his reform program.

Rusty Petrea

I saw that it was about nine core values, and it rung so home and true, I said this is a fit. We are so proud to be a First Tee chapter. To see that sign here is phenomenal.

David Wright

Surprisingly, Utah is the second highest in the nation in the number of eighth-graders taking algebra, but we are still low in achievement. Our state math core only goes through linear equations.

Dave Brennan

Some of those jobs are still going to migrate back down to Cincinnati, where Federated is located. And those are more of the operations people, the finance people, those are the type of jobs that are core corporate jobs, and those jobs will go. So it's not that there won't be something (of a) direct impact locally. There will be some.

John Pomfret

The work is a calling. It demands that type of obsession.

Sushil Koirala

This is not enough, the King has not addressed the minimum demands of the seven-parties alliance.

Ken Starr

There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.

Keith Tkachuk

He's a competitor, I'll tell you that much. He wants to win; he's been with the Rangers and he demands a lot.

Octavia Butler

I have the kind of mind that demands that I work things out, to see how they would really work if they were real. I have to be able to do that.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I love my man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage; and even then the submission is to reason, and not to man.

Christopher Hill

The issue is the tactics of how we express the elements of the document.

Karl Marx

Moments are the elements of profit

Margaret Atwood

As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter...

Marcello Mastroianni

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Lauren Jackson

When I'm on the court, I feel like I'm in my element.

Cristina Henriquez

I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.

Neil Jordan

Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.

Tabatha Coffey

I'm a sucker for expertly-executed detail and surprise elements in clothing.

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

Gerry Adams

strenuous efforts, taken initiatives and stretched ourselves and our constituency to the limit.

Mike Glumac

We were going pretty well there for a bit. And all of a sudden, we've been sliding. We just have to find a way to get ourselves out of it.

Albert Young

We're not putting pressure on ourselves like this is a must, must win. (Because) then we're not playing relaxed and loose. We're playing tense.

Walt Harris

Our special teams is the most respected part of our team.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

John Thomas

By this afternoon, I'm sure there will be some emergencies.

Gar Heard

He'll be back, I am sure he'll be back.

Tom Fisher

He's a veteran quarterback. I'm sure he'll be on top of his game.

Chance VanGundy

I thought for sure we were a top-10 team in our district.

Tom Costello

I'm not sure where we're going to go from here,

Bob Shoop

I'm not sure what to make of them.

Bob Brenly

I'm pretty sure Tony has already been ejected from this ballgame,

Susan Hill

I'm sure they thought they could get it done in Mississippi faster.