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.

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.

Martha Griffiths

Give us a chance to show you that those so-called protective laws to aid women - however well intentioned originally - have become in fact restraints, which keep wife, abandoned wife, and widow alike from supporting her family.

Enrique Garcia

If someone has second thoughts, they should know that they have other options than to abandon the baby -- anywhere. There was a risk that the child was not found in time and died.

Tohru Sasaki

If these Japanese individual investors choose to abandon their massive holdings for one reason or another, the Kiwi could fall by more than 5 yen.

Maria Semple

If I had written something, and I had written myself into a corner, I didn't abandon it. Because I remembered: There's always more.

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.

Patrick Fearon

The 1.9 percent December year-over-year rise in the core personal consumption expenditure index reflects a stable and modest inflation rate. That would support the idea that the Fed can stop raising rates soon.

Robert Crawley

That's a welcome sight, job creation in the area's core business.

John Marks

I was really happy because it showed we have some real hard core hockey fans in Greenville. If we have to come back and play on Wednesday, I hope even more people will come out.

Mark Mersel

Marcus would love to come back. He loves the coaches. He thinks they have a great core of players, of which he is one. They have a great future. But our position is he receives fair compensation, especially as he gets more reps on defense.

Dick Durbin

I wonder, where are you? ... All of us are trying to get down to, what are your core values?

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...

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.

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.

Alexandra Robbins

There are three elements to perceived popularity. A student has to be visible, recognizable and influential.

Hagrup Haukland

The question is how much the security forces can take and the ceasefire can hold. There are powers and elements that do not want peace within this country.

Hagrup Haukland

The question is how much the security forces can take and the cease-fire can hold. There are powers and elements that do not want peace within this country.

Ken Conway

We have always raised our levels of preparedness when hosting teams with elements of disappointing spectators, but in the Bulldogs case, history proves the problems are Sydney based.

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.

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.

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,

Renaldo Wynn

I'm sure they're going to try to come at us with those same kind of things.

Manu Ginobili

I?m sure they?re going nuts, ... I just tried to be in the right spot.

Shane Costa

I'm sure they'll get one. And then things will get better.