Famous Quotes & Sayings

Li Deshui

Any sovereign state will not allow such a thing to happen.

Kofi Annan

Any solution to the conflict must allow these unfortunate people to return voluntarily to their homes in full security and dignity,

Muhammadu Buhari

As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

Dennis Rice

As good business people, we'd be silly not to tap into every fan of the book and hope they will become a fan of the movie. We don't believe we're making a Christian movie. We believe we're following the story of the book faithfully and allowing everyone to interpret it how they want depending on how they've connected to the book.

Irene Cheung

Asian economies are in better shape, so it's more than possible that Asian central banks will allow further gains.

Chris Cagle

As excited as I was about becoming a new father, my disappointment now is equally as strong. So out of respect for all that are involved, please allow this situation to remain private.

Piara Powar

As for the precise detail of this proposal, we will have to look at it once Fifa have sent it through, but our existing disciplinary procedures do already allow for points deductions in certain extreme cases.

Mitch Robinson

As a general rule, larger districts can support lower administrative and support costs. So you have to ask yourself where the money would come from. . . . The Granite School District is at the maximum (taxation) level allowed by law. We cannot bring any more money as allowed with property taxes.

Shyla Nelson

As a fledgling company, we made this choice as a first production one that allowed us to really stay true to the opera and not overwhelm ourselves with managing a very large cast.

Fred Diaz

An overriding spirit of humanity became a stronger force in play on Sept. 11 in the compassion and courage in the attempt to save lives,

Mahathir Mohamad

ASEAN must resist and reject such attempts at coercion,

Anil Sahin

As a business man, I can only thank German politicians for helping to sell my movie. As a democrat, however, I am disgusted with this attempt to play politics with the basic rights of free speech and expression.

Chris Hanks

As a managed service provider, we focus on customer availability throughout high demand periods. We spend time with each of our customers forecasting peak loads and attempt to accommodate as deemed necessary. For some customers it's just a matter of flexible bandwidth coverage for peak events while other customers require more grid related environments. It is not unusual for us to cluster robust hardware, software, security and balanced environments specifically geared towards the high demand.

Rick Garcia

The bottom line is they are just attempting to build a right-wing voter base in the state of Illinois, which traditionally has been moderate.

Dan McTeague

The broadcast was another attempt to reinforce the message that we are all working together.

Carl Icahn

a weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

D. James

Australian consumers will have to tighten their budgets, spend less at the shopping mall and attempt to pare back existing debt.

Nicholas Kristof

At some point, extra incomes don't go to sate desires but to attempt to buy status through 'positional goods' - like the hottest car on the block. The problem is that there can only be one hottest car on the block.

Brad Shaw

As a team, we played our most desperate hockey.

Liz Compton

People are very desperate this time of year right after the holidays when they may not have realized how much they have spent. But you want to make sure that where you turn is actually helping you and not putting you further in debt.

Michel Salgado

After winning the double, he is desperate to come here.

Michael Leunig

Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit.

Kelly McCrimmon

Perhaps in the third period they were the more desperate team, and, as a result, they got it done and we didn't." ()

Kevin Calabrese

The whole long-distance industry will be getting shaken up. Nobody's sure how desperate MCI will be to regain business,

Michael Chertoff

This is a system in desperate need, ... and people are rightly upset and distressed.

Brett Hall

That tells us the national AFL-CIO is in a desperate effort to protect its position in Kentucky and has very little regard for the welfare of the majority of people in this state. We fully expected this.

Frank Robinson

You've seen how ugly it's been and how desperate we needed to win a game. Hopefully, this will get us going.

George Goncalves

As people read the economic numbers, they know the Fed is still there.

John Hughs

So much of this economic news has been anticipated that you're not going to get much reaction either way, to better than expected news, or to something that misses estimates,

Kathleen Camilli

The stock market could be on track for a recovery. The stock market is one of the key leading economic indicators and it tends to turn up about six months before the official end of recession. So, if in fact it stays up now, it would be signaling that the recession could be over sometime next June.

Klaus Schwab

The World Economic Forum tries to keep away from issues that are too politicized.

Douglas Duncan

These are very modest interest rate increases for the level of economic growth we are expecting.

Robert Robbins

This is a wonderful economy, you've got great economic growth.

Bob Woods

This is a severe hardship on the families right here at school time. These people are economic refugees. They are having to leave to find work and they are skilled, so they can find jobs.

Susan Mitchell

This is a quality of life and economic development improvement.

Mike Greene

This is huge for the town. We will now use this Internet utility for economic development and distinguish ourselves.

Abdul Reeki

No Sunni has a right to become a president, prime minister or even a minister in the Iranian government.

Greg Potter

The telecoms and construction sectors are likely to be up because that's where the money is going after the government said it wants to up its investment in these sectors.

Richard Fisher

So this leaves a third option: better calibrating government spending programs,

Bill Frist

Now my hand, my hand can be grasped, and the hand of government can be grasped, by you, by your families, by your communities, and that others can together with us in government seize what may well be an unprecedented, unprecedented opportunity,

Zach Hall

Scientists. What will not stop this from happening is government oversight.

Rigoberto Medina

Protests have halted while government officials meet with local leaders to look for a solution.

Jack Straw

putting the government of Syria on notice that our patience has limits.

Edil Baisalov

Quite a lot of high placed government officials wish to limit and restrict NGOs funded from abroad.

George Speight

There will never ever be a government led by an Indian, ever in Fiji.

Barbara Jordan

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

Ayn Rand

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Carl Sandburg

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Calvin Coolidge

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peacethat we have incurred the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it as an instrument of national policy.

Cesar Chavez

Nonviolence is really tough. You don't practice nonviolence at conferences; you practice it on picket-lines.

Cesar Chavez

Through Gandhi and my own life experience, I have learned about nonviolence. I believe that human life is a very special gift from God, and that no one has a right to take that away in any cause, however just. I am convinced that nonviolence is more powerful than violence.

Cesar Chavez

Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. Cesar Chavez Address to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, Nov. 9, 1984

Dakota Blue Richards

As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.

Daniel Sharman

As an actor, what you dream of is being able to portray people that people empathize with and understand and really feel for.

Rick Riordan

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'

Rocco Calo

As a stockholder myself, I want to see the stock do well but I also want to see them treat people well.

Shawn Amos

As a child, I experienced black culture as many people did in America: on the TV, radio, and stages.

John Eales

As a captain, it's important to have the right people around you,

Peter Ueberroth

As a lot of people said, 'The U.S. is back,' in a way. We were well received.

Ray Santiago

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

W. H. Murray

The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.

Tim Burgess

The sooner we can come to some resolution of that, the sooner we can come up with a process for the distribution of those dollars.

Long Yongtu

After going through this long negotiation process we know it is still not time for celebration, and there is still a lot of work before us.

Zheng Jingping

So there must be trade surplus in the processing trade.

Gary Wright

Sometimes when you make a record and it's not successful, you just don't want to go through that process for a while. You want to have your wounds heal.

Source Unknown

Thinking is only a process of talking to yourself.

Martin Eggleston

The whole process was done very wrong, very unfairly.

Gwen Cote

This is a year-long process of self study.

Bob Carlson

This is the first step in a long process of restoration.

Arlen Specter

The whole confirmation process is in her hands. If she does well (in her public testimony) she will be confirmed. It's up to her as to how well she does.

Dennis Prager

The Left is not interested in prosperity, it is interested in equality

Aristotle

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

Robert Southey

Happy it were for us all if we bore prosperity as well and as wisely as we endure adverse fortune.

Publilius Syrus

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.