Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Jim Murphy

I don't believe that we can justify any war that we've been in since I can remember - World War II, we had President Bush's grandfather helping finance German industry. I think that we could have avoided war if there wasn't money involved. MacArthur provoked Korea and Vietnam was obviously engineered.

Vernon Geberth

The key to this investigation is finding out which no-tell motel that blanket came from. There's trace evidence that he could not possibly have avoided leaving on there.

Joe Domino

For every megawatt of Entergy New Orleans transmission, we avoided about half our purchased power costs.

Jeff Gordon

There was a lot of stuff going on. We avoided most of it, and then unfortunately there toward the end I couldn't avoid Mike Bliss . We had to fix the right front fender. We had a great car. We really did. We never really got to show it. We got it really good the second half of the race, and the whole time we were playing catch-up.

Steven Sinofsky

Despite demand, the BlackBerry avoided offering generalized web browsing support.

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

Christian Stracke

Where the credit is really due is in the early part of Greenspan's tenure: being faced with the aftershocks of the Wall Street crash in 1987 and dealing with that quite well. He confronted some very serious potential crises and got us to a point where we avoided them and are better off than we might have been otherwise.

Nell Newman

After getting recognized in public from my picture on our pretzel bag, I can understand not wanting to be in the public eye. It has given me a public persona I had always avoided as a child. I do it because it's for a good cause.

Kelly Rowland

Self-reflection is so healthy. Journaling works for me - when I record the details of what I'm going through, whether it's a relationship issue or negative thoughts, I can look back and see how far I've come. It makes me proud to see my progress and how I got through a bad situation.

Kazuo Ishiguro

We always like to keep our children in a kind of bubble and censor the bad news about the world. We like to tell them the world is full of benevolent, nice people.

Katy Perry

I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease.

John Huston

I was in such a bad position probably a couple of months ago I just decided to start playing every week. I wanted to see if I could kind of get some sort of a feel for the game back.... I've started playing a little better.

Joyce Johnson

I was in really bad shape. I don't remember a lot of it. But after I got out of there, I spent a week and a half in the hospital. Half of it in the intensive care unit.

Nicholson Baker

Keyboard work creates a class of unwanted things - one-letter typos, failures of phrasing, bad punctuation. If you don't want to delete these entirely, you can use the Return key to push them to the bottom of the screen.

Joan Greene

Kids today are very bright. They know bad things happen, and they need to know that this man who has been so wonderful has done nothing wrong.

Richard Armitage

I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks.

Paul Di Filippo

'James and the Giant Peach' magnificently starts out Dahl's career as a blithe and droll Bad Uncle corrupter and affirmer of youth. Its influence can be subsequently traced down the decades in everything from Maurice Sendak to Lemony Snicket to J. K. Rowling.

Terry Ryan

He did some damage to us. That was the type of scenario where you could envision him doing that for us. No doubt that will be fresh in many people's minds.

Peter Pan

He damaged whatever legacy he has. When people think of him now, they think of molestation.

Phil Esposito

Hockey has to repair the damage that has been done.

Elizabeth Harris

I think we're unlikely to sustain a lot of damage from Hurricane Nate,

Mark Elliott

It has been awesome. It is like a pretty poison. It is doing enormous damage but at the same time it is pretty.

John Zogby

I don't know yet whether he's turning a corner. He's a pretty resilient fellow, so now I think he gets it. But I think a lot of damage has been done to people's view of government and that's not the greatest thing to have presided over.

Wassily Kandinsky

Objects damage pictures.

William Landay

Damage hardens us all. It will harden you too, when it finds you—and it will find you

Veronica Roth

The opinions of others cannot damage you.

Ron Gardenhire

He's just rushing. He's not being patient enough.

Bob Cimmino

I was a little more patient with him after that.

Gail Dudack

We have to be patient with this recovery. It's not going to be a youthful one; it will be a slow, lumbering one.

Garry McPeek

We have to be patient and take what they give us.

Rocky Peterson

I could see we started off intense, but tight. We were patient offensively, but not aggressive.

Warren Buffett

The stock market is a wonderfully efficient mechanism for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.

William Kamkwamba

One thing that has helped me to become patient and cool is that I grew up with sisters.

Tony Snow

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

Edward Miller

Patients who are receiving therapies, come here for hope, are not going to be able to receive that because of this issue.

Andrew Cooper

We feel it would be inappropriate for us to race.

Alex Jones

Some people say they're gathering DNA. Perhaps they're gathering it for the future when the human race is stronger or weaker, who knows. That's science fiction and mere speculation.

Keith Williams

I thought the races would be a little closer,

Greg Gilchrist

I want to win this race really badly,

Allison Duncan

I don't know that there is any more urgency now that Erin has run a Busch race,

Sarah McCune

I don't know what happened. It's not the way you want any race to go, especially when you're leading." ()

Rebecca West

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

William J. Clinton

The world economy, the world environment, the world AIDS crisis, the world arms race: they affect us all.

Valentino Rossi

Once the races begin it's more difficult and there is never that much time for testing.

Willard Scott

I've always had a reputation as a buffoon.

Will Rogers

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

John Abraham

The film has this reputation of being controversial,

Martin Amis

The true manipulator never has a reputation for manipulating.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Sydney Smith

Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory.

Ben Jonson

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Sienna Miller

I'm supposed to be this complete slapper, that's my reputation.

Pat Riley

I'd like my reputation to stay as it is and to be remembered for a wonderful decade.