Famous Quotes & Sayings

John R. Allen

And the narrative for the Taliban that they can wait us out is a flawed narrative. I think that the unambiguous international support for Afghanistan has been a very powerful message. You know, that was the message that came out of the NATO summit. We will not abandon Afghanistan.

J. Taylor

Quite frankly, you've had a lot of companies that came public too early. In markets where we've had a large sell-off, IPO stocks tend to be the ones that are abandoned first - and the e-health sector is rather new. Most of these companies have not even been public a year.

Ed Rollins

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

Timothy Garton Ash

What we in the community of established liberal democracies should do is not abandon the pursuit of democratisation but refine it.

Gifford Miller

We have a president and a federal government that have abandoned our cities.

Jose Mujica

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

Martin Baily

While the short-term growth outlook is somewhat weaker, the underlying economic fundamentals remain strong. This is not the time to abandon fiscal discipline in favor of large tax cuts. Maintaining a fiscal surplus helps keep interest rates attractive for investment.

Laura DiDio

Corporate customers want and are demanding that their vendors abandon divisive rhetoric and useless posturing and get on with the business of working together constructively,

Eliot Spitzer

Warner Music has illegally provided radio stations with financial benefits to obtain airplay and boost the chart position of its songs, ... abandon the industry-wide practice of providing radio stations and their employees with financial incentives and promotional items in exchange for airplay.

David Harsanyi

A cultural shift is not always an ideological one - or at least not always the one you imagine. Our norms are always evolving.

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

I have strong interests in supporting sport, primarily football, and also in developing cultural relationships within national communities and their diasporas, with special reference to Ethiopia.

Johnathan Frakes

I didn't know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.

Darell Hammond

A cultural shift is needed to incorporate exercise into our children's daily lives.

Geoffrey Canada

When I was growing up, kids used to talk about snitching... It never extended as a cultural norm outside of the gangsters.

Joel Salatin

We've got this cultural mentality that you've got to be an idiot to be a farmer.

Douglas Coupland

The thing about the future is that it never feels the way we thought it would.

Burt Rutan

There will be a new industry, and we are just now in the beginning. I will predict that in twelve or fifteen years there will be tens of thousands, maybe even hundreds of thousands of people, that fly and see that black sky.

David J. C. MacKay

In a climate where people don't understand the numbers, newspapers, campaigners, companies, and politicians can get away with murder

Paolo Bacigalupi

I think that, when I think about the future that 'The Water Knife' represents, it's one where there's a lack of oversight, planning and organization.

Ashton Whidden

We gave it to them. It's a little hard to swallow, but you have to look to the future and hope to get better at what you do.

Steve Jordan

We hit it off during those sessions. I was very impressed with his guitar playing, more than anything, and I thought I would like to work more with him in the future on various projects. So any time I got something that I thought he might be interested in I would let him know.

Mike Verrill

We're going to be real good in the future but we just have to give these kids some playing time.

Stuart Pearce

We wish him well for the future and thank him for his efforts.

Dale Carnegie

People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?

M. Wolfe

Do you own your history, or does someone else own your history? ... There's the play that you're telling, and then there's the play that's underneath that.

Eurico Guterres

This is an opportunity for us to take a new step in history.

Rich Brooks

That (the 9-1 mark) doesn't mean anything this week. The history of the series is something people need to write stories about or talk about (on the radio). It doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

Eugene Levy

I think I'm the only actor in the history of film who got to slap Sam Jackson on the face and butt and lived to tell about it.

Gary White

We want to go to the place where history started.

Elizabeth Blackwell

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Philip Kerr

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

Javier Aguirre

This team knows that they are part of history but it also knows that they have done nothing yet.

Matt Clement

This team is pretty resilient, ... Their history is being pretty resilient and hopefully that will be the case.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.

Miguel de Cervantes

Riches are able to solder up abundance of flaws.

Matthew Henry

The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.

Mignon McLaughlin

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Master P

I want to get rich and die old.

Mason Cooley

The rich are happier than we are, and should be.

Patsy Cline

I don''t wanna be rich, just live good.

Patsy Cline

I don't wanna get rich - just live good.

Michael Cunningham

I just don't feel much interested in the lifestyles of the rich and famous.

Roberto Unger

The supreme good of life is vitality. And vitality is always seeping away.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.