Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Hegseth

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.

Bruce Afran

A sitting member of the United States Senate had the power to foreclose on the home of the head of the largest public workers union in the state. That is one of the largest conflicts of interest that we've ever heard of.

Bruce Arena

Despite the fact we've had a rash of injuries and some conflicts with clubs, we feel this game is an excellent test for our veteran players in Europe as well as some new players in the team.

Vicente Fox

The survival of small islands of prosperity surrounded by seas of destitution is not viable, ... provokes conflicts which respect no borders, and it threatens peace and security at a regional and global level.

Gerald Mueller

This isn't a magic bullet. It's not usually a lot of fun to do, because you're usually involved with people you may have had conflicts with and that you may not like.

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Jonathan Proctor

We hope to save wolves by preventing conflicts in the first place. Who could disagree with that?

Clarissa Ward

Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.

Pat Gallagher

This timber project directly conflicts with the purpose of National Monument status. Judge Breyers decision helps ensure that the Giant Sequoia Monument will be protected and can continue to inspire visitors for generations to come.

Fisher DeBerry

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Rob Judson

The outcome of the game is important for us to continue to play well. Sometimes seeding for a tournament can be deceptive.

Howard Johnson

The potential offensively is pretty good. If we can stay healthy and these guys continue to do what they did all spring, we'll be fine. We're going to be exciting at the top of the lineup.

Ken Goldstein

The performance of the leading index is suggestive of continued momentum or growth in the spring.

Peter Cardillo

The perception is turning toward the fact that the economy is slowing and we can still continue to grow even if the economy grows at 5 percent.

Scott Kessler

The point is that Yahoo continues to invest very, very significantly in this area, and is doing good things, and will continue to do good things, which steps up the pressure.

Adam Ereli

Until and unless we can be sure the food we give is really going to those who need it, then we can't continue to provide aid.

Peter Kelly

Unprecedented levels of unfairly traded imports continue to flood our markets. We renew our request that the Administration fully enforce our nation's trade laws and support recently introduced legislation intended to restore a level playing field in steel trade matters.

Margaret Miller

We are proud to have him as our leader for the past 17 years and are honored to continue to have his participation and experience in our department.

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

Eddie Murphy

Every bad decision I've made has been based on money.

David Drake

History was a series of decisions about what to tell and a series of accidents about what survived after telling. Not truth, but a historian could search for truth, and the search was as worthy as any other human activity.

David Duchovny

I don't make decisions based on money.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Don't be afraid of making decisions.

Barney Frank

But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.

Armstrong Williams

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

Milan Mandaric

We're still expecting a response from Sheffield United to give us a green light to talk directly to Warnock.

John Spencer

We're sticking to what we can infer from our instrument, and we are not directly seeing temperatures warm enough for liquid water.

Daniel Andrews

We can directly measure water ice, and then we can fly right through the plume.

Chris Stanton

We're going to do some investigating to see if this event was directly related to her employment.

Bob Condron

At first, it was more of a grass-roots operation. What I see, and this is my opinion in the way the organization is now running, is that we will increase money being given directly to athletes.

Laurie Johnson

About half of the economic losses would be attributable directly to the flooding.

Chris Kilham

It's been said that mistletoe extract enhances immune function, which increases the production of the immune cells. When administered as a form of therapy for cancer, the extracts are given by injection under the skin, into a vein or directly into a tumor.

Mike Mills

A lot of people think they can't help directly with the Hurricane Katrina, but if you come out to 'Burgers at the Beach' Thursday night, you can.

Jack Romanos

This innovative publication strategy takes the e-book from the realm of novelty and directly into the very mainstream of today's culture. And it reaffirms the publisher-author relationship at a moment when it is fashionable to predict its demise.

Gerhard Schroeder

Whether it will be a success, I do not know. But I want to help ensure it works,

Tom Vilsack

When we find new markets for our harvest, we ensure the security of our state's economy,

James Larkin

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

Amrit Bohara

At a time when the government was getting ready for a confrontation, the rebels' announcement has helped eased the tension and ensure that there will be no violence.

Greg Bird

It's entirely possible they get that money back. We just want to ensure that money is there.

Jim Zemlin

This certification lab will increase the number of Linux applications and ensure that Linux does not fragment.

Phil Heatley

I trust that the Auditor-General will ensure a swift, thorough and transparent investigation, and I look forward to seeing the terms of reference.

Li Keqiang

Ultimately, stable growth will ensure that urban and rural incomes increase and people's lives improve.

Paul Bresson

As communications technologies develop, we must ensure that such progress does not come at the expense of our nation's safety and security.

Al Pacino

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Neil Armstrong

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Bill Murray

You don't have to have all this film stock, you can work faster, and you don't need a giant crew. It's great.

Beth Moore

The giant step in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part of our lives. He IS our life.

Dennis Miller

Even the best psychiatrist is like a blindfolded auto mechanic poking around under your hood with a giant foam "We're #1" finger.

Ron Russell

This movement is like a sleeping giant that has awakened. Some people have called this the next civil-rights movement.

Woody Johnson

It is our intention to be partners with the Giants in perpetuity.

Mike Crosthwaite

It really was just one giant publicity stunt to promote the resort.

David Starr

They're making them more like the trucks. The trucks push a giant hole in the air, and we can really race each other. That's what NASCAR wants with this car.

Sadhu Johnston

For a city, it really helps to solve a number of our problems.

Paul Nelson

It really helps to find out what kind of things you will be running into.

Liz Harrison

It really helps people get through the turbulence.

Jeff Butts

It's all right. It helps rejuvenate you. But at the same time, you want to keep working on things.

Scott Roesch

This Land Is Your Land. It helps if a film is animated, musical and political in nature. There's a piece that had all three.

Lamar Butler

They play so well together. It's like they know each other like the back of their hand. It helps us on the court. They just shut down the other team's big men. They've been doing it all season long.

Mario Bandiera

They're in the monochromatic tones of the outfits, and that helps elongate the strong, narrow line of the silhouette.

Richard Wright

They record that which helps them and not that which doesn't.

Alejo Rodriguez

It's a tribute to (White Plains) and their defense. But (the game) also helps us get more experience.

Mark Cuban

I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

Pauline Flynn

Well be inspired by these poles and their messages for years to come.

Eric Clapton

It's been so long since I've been around something from somebody else that's inspired me. For the last 20 years, it's been up to me to inspire me.

Ben Marsh

They played inspired defense. They simply took it to us.

Billy Donovan

They've been able to inspire a lot of different people... people that maybe are really, really in need.

Matthew Bourne

It's a piece of theater that's been inspired by a movie that we all love. But it has to surprise people who know the film really well.

Diane von Furstenberg

Women never cease to impress and inspire me.

David Krumholtz

I came away from that set [ Hail, Caesar !] super inspired, and like I said, it ruined all future endeavors. I'll never have as good an experience as that.

Eleanor Norton

The tests we've had do not inspire confidence,

Alan Jay Lerner

Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a belch into an aria.

Dean Acheson

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Byron Katie

A mind that doesn't question its judgements, makes the world very small and dangerous.

Kathleen Marvelli

They kind of want to run away from it. They think, 'this (gift) proves to her how much I love her.' They feel they will be judged by what they give.

Joe Mesi

It's not supposed to prejudice a judge, but judges are only human,

Mark Moller

It's the question of independence. Is she as a judge going to be the person who will stand up and tell the president no when he's doing something he shouldn't be doing?

Robert Gottlieb

This is the right decision, and the judge should be commended.

Toby Dawson

It's a little frustrating. But you take what you get. That's what you get for having a judged sport.

Lena Wosik

They really nailed her on the interview. The judges were ruthless.

Marguerite Gardiner

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

Michael Ramsey

This is a monumental problem. It overshadows all the other problems we have.

Robert Lowell

The monument sticks like a fishbone / in the city's throat.

John L. Motley

Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Rick Riordan

Great, I thought. We just blowtorched a national monument.

Frank Wedekind

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

Fabien Barthez

He's a monument and he's my friend. For me he's the player of the century.

Huston Street

That says everything right there. That's how monumental that win was.

Claes Oldenburg

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Bill O'Reilly

Gross negligence in handling national security is a felony.

Lee Melchionni

Whenever you can be a part of something where the number one team and number two team are playing each other on national television, it is special. How many people get that opportunity?

Russ Knocke

We were already operating under the National Response Plan.

Nerlens Noel

My goals for next year are to win a national title first and foremost.

Michael W. Smith

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

John Wilhelm

We've become persuaded that, after two years of trying to reform the national AFL-CIO, it is unwilling to change,

Garth Jowett

Woodruff is a public personality with wide public recognition. He's a national story.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions. You can't spell BCS without USC.

LenDale White

We're back-to-back national champions, ... I know you can't spell BCS without USC.

Les Claypool

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.

John Loyd

They did try working one day. The soil could not be worked to reach the project specifications.

Curt Johnson

They're stuck. This project is in serious trouble.

Ken Ward

It's the kind of project anticipated in a redevelopment area.

Terry Williamson

It is safe to say that we support projects such as these.

Tom Moore

This is what the water project is all about.

Kay Crites

It's a big project and one that we desperately need.

Damien Chazelle

'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.

Vince Staples

Every project has to stand on its own. It's a different identity within each project, and I feel like that's the way it should be.

Randall Howard

We want SAA, but we need to make sure our workers are protected and the strike is legal.

Thomas Haden Church

I made a comfortable living for several years. I invested, and I protected myself, so I enjoy that freedom.

David Henderson

The public has to be protected from these unscrupulous practices.

Christie Brinkley

When I started modeling, I was told to tan, but I always protected my face.

Serena Williams

I'm not taking Zika lightly. Especially being older, I definitely am going everywhere protected. I'm protecting myself.

Michelle Moran

there is nothing to fear but fear itself yet even then fear shouldn't be feared because fear cannot take what is protected by change

Todd Blythe

If we would have protected the ball, it would have been a different outcome.

Jack Valenti

If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.

Bryan Brown

That's because they took out everything that protected us.

Chinua Achebe

It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of interfering with its purpose! For when language is seriously interfered with, when it is disjoined from truth, be it from mere incompetence or worse, from malice, horrors can descend again on mankind.

Mark Cuban

But we have to ask ourselves, what's the purpose of the stock market? It's supposed to be a source of capital for growing business. It's lost that purpose.

Beth Moore

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.

Bernard Malamud

The purpose of freedom is to create it for others.

Benjamin Hoff

Under Confucianism, the use of precisely measured court music, prescribed steps, actions, and phrases all added up to an extremely complex system of rituals, each used for a particular purpose at a particular time.

Bob Marley

Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season.

Madeleine Albright

the purpose of foreign policy is to persuade others to do what we want or, better yet, to want what we want.

William Shakespeare

Every why has a wherefore.

Billy Sherwood

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

Charles C. Mann

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Jack Kelly

Visitors may want (the vendors), but it's not all about the visitors.

Jeff Kinney

fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

Ernest Hemingway

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

Dennece Knight

Most of our visitors will be here to have fun.

Jeremy Paxman

Has there ever been a visitor to Ludlow who hasn't wished they lived there?

Mikhail Bulgakov

Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.

Henry Rollins

I feel like a visitor that got left behind by his ride.

John Corbett

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.