Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Rodrick

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Chris Mangum

Guy is an attacking wrestler. He is tall and long and creates match-up problems for other kids in his class. Most of the kids are three to four inches shorter and he uses his arms and legs to his advantage.

Julia Allen

He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.

Jarrod Kerr

I think the bank (RBA) will welcome that with open arms and it will further confirm their idea to sit on the sidelines at this stage and ride out the blip in oil prices.

Gerard Bisceglia

Lance Armstrong is one of the most tested athletes in the history of sport and he has come up clean every single time. This kind of years-ago testing of a single sample with new technology is completely without credibility.

Dick Pound

There is a direct link between Armstrong and a positive test that he signed.

Sergei Ivanov

There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises,

Jaswant Singh

There is no arms race in South Asia.

Sean McCormack

has talked about the need for reform in Uzbekistan. Very basically, the Uzbekistan government needs to trust its people." ()

Wazhma Mojaddidi

He said what he said because he thought he was telling the government what they wanted to hear.

Will Rogers

I don't know jokes; I just watch the government and report the facts.

Jim Pugh

This was not unexpected. Madison is a government town.

Richard Posner

MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

It is the censor's business to make a judgment about the propriety of the content or message of the proposed expressive activity. The regulation here does not authorize any judgment about the content of any speeches. ... A park is a limited space, and to allow unregulated access to all comers could easily reduce rather than enlarge the park's utility as a forum for speech. Just imagine two rallies held at the same time in the same park area using public-address systems that drowned out each other's speakers.

Richard Perle

Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

Richard Holbrooke

Bureaucracies have a natural tendency not to cooperate, coordinate or consolidate with each other. They won't cooperate with each other - unless they are forced to do so by political level authority.

Ruben Hinojosa

Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

Jeff Garcia

I am going to do everything that I can to maintain my physical strength, maintain my physical conditioning. I'll even sit on my butt and throw the football, just so I can keep that motion intact.

Robert Venturi

Main Street is almost alright.

Kip Winger

Rock stardom and all that stuff like that was never like my main M.O., my main M.O. is musical growth, and if I become a rock star in the process, great!

Carlos Ghosn

Our objective is to maintain the successful momentum of the team.

Steve McDonald

Our main strategy is to secure America's borders.

Tanya Lysacek

Our main role is to be supportive caregivers and parents.

Richard Goodfellow

Our main priority is to get our staff working, and that is what we are seeking to do.

E. B. White

Our main goal, obviously, was to get sanctioned in Nevada,

Nicky Hilton

Our main demographic is 12 (years old) to 30 (years old), but I've had women in their 50s come to my signing wearing pieces from the collection.

Dominik Hrbaty

I was already tired after the second five-setter, it was already quite enough.

Trevor Noah

Comedy is really getting quite popular in South Africa.

Gwendoline Christie

I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look.

Dina Emde

I really wanted the record to be quite honest.

Gabrielle Aplin

I'm quite annoying and can't imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

Gerald Smith

If not, it's going to be quite a nut.

Lawrence Jacobs

I have never seen anything quite like this.

Lee Janzen

I'm not going to say it could never be that way. But I don't think (Woods) is quite there right now.

Jeff Saturday

I'm ready to get back. I probably could have come back a while ago, but it just wasn't quite ready.

Julia Sweeney

Well, you can't be depressed and sad 24 hours a day.

Richelle Mead

Rose you can't go." This time the sadness in Lissa's voice was mirrored though the bond, flooding into me. "It's not that Dimitri didn't ask to see you. He asked specifically not to see you.

Virginia Woolf

I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.

William Wordsworth

The weight of sadness was in wonder lost.

Robert Ryan

I sometimes use a lot of light greens and greys when I feel there is sadness in the painting.

Robert Plant

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

Sarah Dessen

He was looking at me, jsut as I'd thought he would be, but like Bert's, his light was not what I expected. No pity, no sadness: nothing had changed. I realized all the times I'd felt people stare at me, their faces had been pictures, abstracts. None of them were mirrors, able to reflect back the expression I thought one I wore, the feelings only I felt.

Roland Barthes

Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.

William Styron

In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come - - not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

Will Durant

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

Friedrich Engels

The state is not abolished, it withers away.

Jules Verne

I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Milton Friedman

If you cannot state a proposition clearly and unambiguously, you do not understand it.

Mike McCurry

there will be steps that the United States will take." ()

The Bravery

the only town in the United States of that name!

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

James Williams

Even the United States is soft-peddling sanctions, but I think we need to wait until we know.

Brad Bayne

We've had over 45 inquiries from 35 states in three weeks of being live with the web.

Robert Torricelli

The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life.

Robert M. Gates

The United States has been a global power since late in the 19th century.

Virginia Foxx

In the face of terrorism, a united front is one of the strongest weapons.

Zhu Rongji

Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade

Donald E. Graham

I'm not wise enough to know what is the right immigration policy for the United States of America.

Nancy Pelosi

Yes, [I am accusing the CIA of] misleading the Congress of the United States, misleading the Congress of the United States. I am.

Northrop Frye

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Leon Panetta

Well, the United States is a Pacific power. And we have always had a presence in the Pacific.

John McCain

Barbara Boxer is the most bitterly partisan, most anti-defense senator in the United States Senate today. I know that because I've had the unpleasant experience of having to serve with her.