Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Koech

Once we have ministers fully in charge of the affairs of the community in all the three countries, they would be in a better position to lobby for more funding.

Adam Ereli

And the next day, an official from the ministry of foreign affairs also contacted Ambassador Dell and conveyed a similar apology. So for our purposes, this incident is closed.

Liam Fox

It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.

Chuck D.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

Steve Robinson

so concerned about what I saw that I called the House Veterans Affairs Committee as soon as I got home.

Marilyn Monroe

Wouldn't it be nice to be like men, just getting notches in your belt, having affairs with the most atttractive men . . . and not getting emotionally involved.

Terence

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

Paul Di Filippo

There must be a rule of thumb in pop-culture archaeology that states that the allure of any topic is inversely related to its assigned importance in the affairs of humanity. The more trivial the subject, the dearer it is to most of its partisans and the more worthy of scholarship. The smallest things in life often mean the most to people.

Alanis Morissette

Alpha men are very turned on by the alpha woman, really high chemistry, really fun to work with, probably really fun to have affairs with, but there's not sustainable harmony in that lack of complement. There can only be one person in the driver's seat.

Brian Meehan

They allowed it to be physical, and that's just the way it is.

Tim Craft

We really got after them on defense. That allowed us to get off to such a quick start.

Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.

Jessie J

I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

Walter Smith

I spoke to Jackie last week. If you look at the possibility of him coming away to play two international games then it is better for him and the type of injury he's had that he's allowed to finish the season, get the summer over with and get a good pre-season.

John Wagner

What this technology did was take away the guesswork, ... It allowed them to have -- and know that they were going to have -- a healthy child and one that would be matched.

Lynn Fegley

What this seems to tell us is, whatever the conditions were that allowed for a good recruitment index last year are persisting this year.

Rachael Leigh Cook

We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!

Peter Fenton

What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.

Mahbubur Rahman

The university authority often conduct survey in the Hall, but that is all. We are forced to live in the Hall risking our lives.

Zhu Bangzao

If the Taiwanese authorities refuse peaceful negotiation to solve the reunification issue, China will have no choice but to take all measures, including the use of force, to defend its territorial integrity.

B. F. Skinner

Most, if not all, of these people down there were trying to do the right thing. They were under a lot of pressure, and they took a lot of shortcuts that may have resulted in a lot of waste. And they may have abused their authority to enter into contracts that they were not authorized to do.

Webster Franklin

When you're creating a new taxing authority, it could possibly create instability, of which Tunica has been fortunate not to have over the last 14 years.

Sol Campbell

It is now being dealt with by the authorities.

Toby Miller

In a world where 50 percent of the budget of a film actually goes on promotion, as opposed to what you see on screen, the idea that we have a worlds where the consumer can exercise authority and sovereignty is absurd,

Richard Goodfellow

The case has been deferred till May 2006 while there are ongoing discussions between the Civil Aviation Authority and the Federal Aviation Administration into the matter.

Don Capshaw

The finance committee has been given authority to determine what to do as far as do we tap the reserves or make uniform proportionate cuts. We are looking at tapping the reserve as part of a possible solution.

Adrian Bebb

The Commission should be welcomed for acknowledging a problem with their food safety authority, but it needs to go further.

Jason Chaffetz

There should be a pathway to citizenship - not a special pathway and not no pathway.

Ashley Painter

I'm praying they're going to give him his citizenship.

Jerry Cochran

What we're going to take away is a lot of lessons learned. The more we can exercise, the more we can test things, the better we're all going to get.

Bruce Forsyth

It gets harder every day to get out of bed. I don't feel like it loads of the time. It is only my exercise routine which wakes me up.

Ludwig von Mises

A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!

Billy Blanks

What I'm teaching as an exercise instructor, my goal is to be able to take all the love off myself to help someone else.

Andrei Lankov

Most people in Seoul don't care about the North's belligerent statements: The farther one is from the Korean Peninsula, the more one will find people worried about the recent developments here. Scary impressions are important to North Korea because for the last two decades its policy has been, above all, a brilliant exercise in diplomatic blackmail. And blackmail usually works better when the practitioners are seen as irrational and unpredictable.

Alva Myrdal

The smaller nations can in fact exercise greater influence on disarmament negotiations than they have hitherto done.

Anna Deavere Smith

You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

Andrew Solomon

Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds.

Clay Aiken

I don't think that there's substantiated evidence that shows that voter fraud is such a rampant problem that we have to put in place measures that people have to pass in order to exercise that constitutional free right. Voting should be -- and is required to be -- a right that is unencumbered. That does not have tests that people must pass.... Anything put in place to restrict that right, or to make it more difficult for people to exercise it, should be outlawed, and should not be allowed.

Mike Leavitt

Schools are fundamentally local creatures, and they need, while there is a national interest, and we need a national obsession with improvement of schools, it must not become a federal agenda.

Eric Stern

But we're not a federal lobbying group. Our work is electoral.

Stephen Bernstein

But at least we have the federal judge saying he should be released.

Alcee Hastings

Today, the Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years. Let me repeat: The Federal minimum wage purchases less than it has at any point in the last 50 years.

Joe Sinsheimer

We shouldn't have to wait for state or federal indictments to get rid of Jim Black.

Brian McDonald

We think that federal law trumps what's in state law. You would not have to put this to a vote.

Doug Johnson

I've been here four years now, ... and I know this offense. I know what needs to be done. We'll still be a contender. I don't feel any different today than I did yesterday. I was a leader on this team before this happened and I'm going to be a leader now.

Mike Falbo

This is not at all like fourth quarter of last year.

Mark Murray

This is something that's been in the works for three or four months and frankly, it only represents a tiny fraction of Internet users.

Terri Mitchell

All-American players go from four points in the first half to 20.

Brett Ratner

You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.

Tom Odell

The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

Bruce Steinberg

And the signs since the fourth quarter suggest growth picking up in the first quarter more strongly than most people had anticipated. So I would say the recovery is here.

Reggie Sanders

Each day is better, ... I'm not 100 percent. I'm not going to be 100 percent because it's going to take another three to four months for it to heal completely. For me, it's being 100 percent functional and doing what I need to do to help the ballclub win.

Al Northington

We just had to play smart in the fourth quarter. Our girls showed a lot of heart and a lot of grit.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Bernie Sanders

Now is the time to alter our government. Now is the time to stop the movement toward oligarchy. Now is the time to create a government which represents all Americans and not just the 1%... No more excuses. We must all become involved in the political process.

Gore Vidal

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

David Warren

All applications are looked at on their merit. I don't have a problem with them making applications. Whether they get granted or not is a whole other issue.

Darren Sinnaeve

In the second half, we played real hard, pressed hard, got up in their faces. In the first half, we relied on 3-point shooting. We had one 2-pointe and seven 3s. Granted it was a zone defense, but we did a lot of standing around.

Rick Sandlin

We were hollering '3,' and when I got over to the corner, he said he didn't hear it, and I probably should've called timeout and made sure he understood that. I think I took it a little too much for granted for this young man to know what to do, being down three with 18 seconds or so.

Jamie McMurray

We can't relax or take anything for granted until after Richmond is over.

Rep. Arza

We don't want the state solving local problems, but we want to be partners in the local problem.

Ronan Farrow

Manners. Manners will get you through anything.

Michael Zenker

There's a geopolitical overlay that's going to look similar to oil.

Shigeru Omi

I think it is similar to tsunamis and earthquakes...we do not know when,

Madhur Bhandarkar

For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.

Corrine Brown

Marriage has historically been in the domain of the States to regulate.

Sallust

Most honorable are services rendered to the State; even if they do not go beyond words, they are not to be despised.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.

David Cameron

There is such a thing as society. It's just not the same thing as the state.

Melinda Gates

I'm constantly saying to myself, 'I'm lucky I was born in the United States.

Paulo Coelho

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Herbert Hoover

Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the basic strength of business in the United States is foolish.

Gary Numan

I've spent a lot of time in the United States and I'm not under any illusions that it's a crime-free nirvana. I'm well aware it has plenty of problems, though they seem to be associated with particular areas.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.