Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Levin

He was a forceful advocate for causes he believed in, ... Sometimes he regarded himself as the conscience of the University.

John Chisholm

There are still decent prospects within emerging markets. We wouldn't advocate getting out of them completely. We just don't think you're going to see the same kind of performance you've seen coming out of them in the past five years.

Russell Schweiss

He's always been a strong advocate for tax relief and believes some of the surplus should be returned to taxpayer pockets.

Bob Richardson

He's a very very strong advocate of science and education.

Ivory Phillips

I thoroughly enjoyed being an advocate for the faculty as far as shared governance was concerned.

Don Fowler

It is fully appropriate for the head of a national political party to secure a meeting for a supporter with an administration official or even to advocate a worthy cause.

Tom Jensen

It is my understanding that public funds cannot be used to advocate for a particular result in a bond or budget vote.

John McHale

If there is a Fourth Estate function, if the press is supposed to be an advocate watching out for the public interest, then cases like these merit the attention.

John Davis

If she wanted something, you better had figured out a way to make her happy. She was a very, very aggressive advocate for Buncombe County.

Alison Nordstrom

I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, even in the South.

Chris Katongo

I think it could happen at the African Cup of Nations - you never know!

Jim Sinclair

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

Alpha Konare

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

Leila Zerrougui

This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certainly be a best practice for any other country on the continent or anywhere else in the world.

Lonnie Bunch

He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributing to the uplift of African Americans and contributing to a changing America.

John Prendergast

Having a strong African leader, with the confidence of regional governments, who's backed by high-level envoys from countries that matter

Neil MacGregor

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Frank Lambert

Here was the United States just emerging from its fight for independence when the young country finds itself blocked from free trade by North African countries in the Atlantic Ocean,

Tom Casey

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Alexander Rumyantsev

I support diplomatic solutions to all issues at those talks.

Christopher Hill

Everybody has got an interest in solving this problem through diplomatic means. ... There will be a point at which we look at the deadline, but we are not at that point yet,

Daniel Shea

This diplomatic move has stopped the suit right in its early stages.

Gerhard Schroeder

There will be diplomatic relations to North Korea,

Nicholas Burns

It is our judgment there is life left in the diplomatic process.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Joseph Cirincione

As always, the different factions (in Washington) will use it to justify their existing positions. The vice president and his hawks will use it to show that the Iranian program can't be stopped through diplomatic means and, therefore, their preferred option of a military strike is the only option.

Graham Hawkes

If you build a Model T and you can see the Camry, you don't spend time tinkering with the T; you go straight to the next thing. Once you build the Camry, you can see the Ferrari, so you go straight to that.

Tibor Kalman

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right.

Suki Waterhouse

I think with modelling and acting these days, the lines are blurred. Everyone can do all sorts of things, so why do just one?

Bob Dole

I think it's pretty obvious the model for victory is the Ronald Reagan model,

Joe Browne

Other sports have modeled their drug programs after ours, which has been around more than 15 years.

Jessica Hart

If you see me or another model in a bar, wait until you are spoken to before you speak.

Andres Duany

In every way, this is a model of how things should change.

Tim Sampson

I submit to you that this development is a model for transit-oriented development. This type of development is a type of solution to the regional traffic problem.

Gigi Hadid

In California, I'm more of a beach chick, and I kind of take on a model city girl when I'm in New York.

Sara Gruen

Although, pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing.

Donald Rumsfeld

I'm not sure I should have said that, ... Let's pretend I didn't say that.

Julian Barnes

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Edmund White

I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.

Abraham Foxman

This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is.

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Eric Maskin

I'm not a housing market expert, and I don't want to pretend to be one.

Taylor Handley

When you get to play pretend for a living and do it with really talented people, it's really fun to go to the office!

Will Durant

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

Ronald Reagan

Balancing your budget is like protecting your virtue. You have to learn when to say no.

Samuel Johnson

The highest panegyric, therefore, that private virtue can receive, is the praise of servants.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If there is no immortality, there is no virtue

Jose Marti

It is necessary to make virtue fashionable.

John Adams

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Friedrich Schiller

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

Henry Ward Beecher

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.