Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Gerard Kennedy

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

James Purefoy

I think the business affairs people at the studios get some kind of perverse satisfaction in finding the worst hotels for actors to stay in.

Tang Min

It is getting free from tedious affairs in order to serve more as a body that conducts guidance and supervision.

Jack Brooks

I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.

Michelle Johnston

The packs include information that students might not be aware about. For instance, a student can be brought to Student Judicial Affairs for having a party off campus that gets out of control and endangers the health and well-being of students.

Mark Twain

The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust out doors I would drown him

Gurudas Dasgupta

There is a memorandum given by the US embassy in Delhi to the external affairs ministry on this issue. We have confirmed information on this. We want the government to officially deny it.

Owen Young

We may debate political participation in the affairs of the world as we will, but we must participate it its business, and business, like science, knows no political boundaries and in its dictionary there is no such word as isolation.

Garry Trudeau

Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.

Kathleen Horning

We've been thinking a lot about what the boundaries are.

Tom Malinowski

It is illogical for companies to say they are expanding the boundaries of freedom in China if they strip their product of the very qualities that make it a force for greater freedom. These companies must protect the integrity of the product they are providing, or that product will no longer be the Internet as we know it, and will no longer have the impact on society we all wish to see.

Tracy Morgan

When I do stand-up... I get to do whatever I want to do. There's no boundaries. You'll get to know me. You'll leave with a piece of me.

Robert Plant

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

Cliff Martinez

I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.

Blake Irving

If you leave the boundaries of the U.S., it's MSN and Yahoo. ... You don't find a whole lot of AOL,

Scott Turow

I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart to the imagined world and read on.

P. J. Harvey

Individuals are not skilled in setting the boundaries between work and home (and) colleagues fail to respect other's rights to free time.

F. Stone

I would say that the immigration debate is as hot as gun control, abortion, the war in Iraq. I've never seen it this hot in terms of emotion.

Tom Campbell

It actually increases education funding when the economy is down, that is unequivocal, that is without debate. Then when the economy is doing well, the legislature could put the money back in or not. It's up to the legislature. Its not automatic.

Steven Hall

What we don't want to do is turn the forum into a debate.

Tom McClintock

He offered a perspective to the debate that will be missed, ... But his decision to withdraw intensifies my resolve to stay and fight." ()

Michael Powell

Here's the truth: the ownership debate is about nothing but content. Don't be fooled. I mean, this is my greatest warning to the American public.

H. Hart

It comes down to the familiar debate about whether reporters are ignoring the good news.

Robert Hale

It comes down to a policy debate about whether the Internet is open or not.

Nancy Pelosi

It is a disservice to a very serious debate about security and liberty for him to resort to that kind of a statement.

Tom Daschle

I think that there is an implication here, as they've done throughout this debate on Iraq, that if you oppose the president, your patriotism ought to be questioned, ... Meet the Press.

Joey Santiago

I just found the word 'Pixies' in a dictionary and it sounded like rock 'n' roll.

Melanie Rawn

I have six or seven 'what to name the baby' books, the Oxford dictionary of names, and a fabulous tome that's 26 languages in simultaneous translation - French, German, all the European majors, plus Esperanto, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, and so on.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.

Jeri Ryan

I started by looking everything up in a Star Trek dictionary so I knew what I was talking about, but you can't do that because they talk in circles, and half of it doesn't make sense, so you'll just end up driving yourself more insane.

Marvin Emerson

When you look up the word team in the dictionary his picture is there.

Sri Chinmoy

Impossibility is a dictionary word.

Mark Strand

To open the dictionary of the Beyond and discover what one suspected, that the only word in it is nothing.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

GENTEEL, adj. Refined, after the fashion of a gent.Observe with care, my son, the distinction I reveal: A gentleman is gentle and a gent genteel. Heed not the definitions your ""Unabridged"" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents. --G.J.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Pete Boone

He wanted to be here. He knows that he can be a success here. He's been a success before. He knows what it takes.

Chris Moore

He can split through two guys, and nobody knows how he got through,

Craig Smith

He knows the biotech world very well. We need someone like that at this stage.

Larry Coker

He knows that there is that window of opportunity and he has to respond,

Channing Crowder

He knows that I love him and I always will love him. Everything comes in time. It'll be OK and we'll be OK.

Kevin Rogers

He knows that he can't win it on his own, but he sure can loose it on his own.

Keith Johnson

He knows that everyone is going to be gunning for him now.

Lamar Butler

He knows next year his turn is going to come. He's just stepping up for us. We need him to.

Freddy Adu

He knows me, so he'll probably know what I'm up to, but I've matured a lot since I went pro,

Robert Sullivan

Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

William Wilberforce

If . . . a principle of true Religion [i.e., true Christianity] should . . . gain ground, there is no estimating the effects on public morals, and the consequent influence on our political welfare.

Michael Harrison

He isn't just a political talk show host, he's a showman,

Russell Brand

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot.

Rose Macaulay

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Willie Brown

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

Willie Brown

Dressing is a matter of taste, and I've met very few Republicans with good taste.

William S. Burroughs

Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

Toba Beta

I do not say words, which you want to hear. The words just told me, to write them down.

William J. Clinton

The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.

Sue Moores

Partially hydrogenated such-and-such oil,' which is kind of the kicker word for trans fats.

Curtis Strange

I know he doesn't like the word 'ceremonial,'

Eric Byrnes

It's not even close. I can't get that many words in that quickly.

Rick DiPietro

It's frustrating as a goalie. I can't even put it to words right now.

Jules Verne

I am very bad at expressing tender sentiments. The very word 'love' frightens me.

Nikki Giovanni

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.