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,

Marian Keyes

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

Sean Ross

As for how far it stretches, it's too soon to tell yet. So far, what we know is that it transcends national heritage among Hispanics.

Jared Diamond

The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among continental environments, and not to biological differences among peoples themselves.

Robert Shapiro

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Thomas Harrison

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.

Richard Lloyd

People recognize it, and history has placed it among the group of influential records. I'm gratified it stuck to the wall.

Steve Jobs

Apple had a terrific quarter -- we sold a record number of Power Macintosh G3 computers, customers love our new PowerBooks, Apple earned its highest profit in years and we ended the quarter with the lowest inventory level among the major PC players,

Gerald Andersen

The tie business went into the doldrums in the mid-1990s. Now there is definitely a dress-up trend among younger consumers.

Bo Ryan

The three of us appreciate where we came from and how we got here. There was no one that received a job here, among the three of us, by privilege. You had to get something done somewhere as a coach on your own.

Chris Burns

The thorniest issue of late is that Merkel's shadow finance minister wants a 25 percent flat tax and no loopholes as a way to stimulate the economy. The left says it will mainly benefit the rich, and some among Merkel's ranks object too.

Kris Alexander

As far as track meets, it's by far the best meet in the state.

Charles Bofferding

As engineers, we have a different perspective. If a company really wants to get its product to be the best in all areas, then it must listen to all sides. A union is the best vehicle to carry the engineers' perspective.

Jeff Bingaman

As best as I can determine, the process is going to be fair, ... explained in some detail the various steps that they were taking to ensure that the bids were appropriately considered and the factors that needed to be given the greatest importance were in fact going to be given the greatest importance.

Gerald Grinstein

As Delta continues its transformation to become a more customer-focused airline, we are incorporating the best of Song into the best of Delta, ... Our new Song service will set the standard in transcontinental travel, making Delta the first choice for customers on these routes.

Steve Fleming

As a father, I did a poor job at dealing with my son. The Special Olympics taught me how to deal with my son, and now he is my best friend. We do everything together.

J. M. G. Le Clezio

A writer is not a prophet, is not a philosopher; he's just someone who is witness to what is around him. And so writing is a way to... it's the best way to testify, to be a witness.

Russell Baker

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did. I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

John Longo

That's where we lost it, but we really, really grinded to get the score we did, ... I knew we would need our best day of the year to advance.

Christopher Shays

The bottom line is that the CIA knew before the war, during and war, and after the war where most of these chemicals were and most of these biological agents.

Jane Pauley

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.

Alexander Downer

No one is suggesting, and no one should suggest, that the United States is anything but vigilant and determined in its opposition to the proliferation and even the use of biological weapons,

Richard Lugar

No one would have predicted in the 1980's that Americans and Russians would be working side-by-side on the ground in Russia destroying thousands of nuclear weapons systems, as well as biological and chemical weapons.

Julia Sawalha

I'm single, and I think that by the time I met someone - if I were ever to meet the right person, which I don't think I will, because I am too fussy - my biological clock means that it will be too late.

Bruce Lahn

The next step is to find out what biological difference imparted by this genetic difference causes selection to favor that variation over the others.

Jean-Marie Lehn

Supramolecular chemistry, the designed chemistry of the intermolecular bond, is rapidly expanding at the frontiers of molecular science with physical and biological phenomena.

Robin Cook

It's very important that we all send Saddam Hussein a message that is resolute, is firm and is united, ... He must be firmly told that he is not going to be permitted to continue to build weapons of mass destruction, particularly biological and chemical weapons.

Richard Preston

There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.

Jim Sturgess

I was quite naughty at school. I was always in the back of the class messing about with the Bunsen burner rather than paying attention.

Jessie Stricchiola

We've seen a consistent downward trend in responsiveness to submitted activity.

Alec Stewart

England have been consistent in the past where if someone has made themselves unavailable for some of the winter, then they have been made unavailable for the whole winter by the selectors.

Holly Brown

Devin stayed within herself and relied on her mechanics. She's been one of our most consistent hitters.

Chris Smith

You have to have that consistent effort ... to win the game, period.

Bill Bavasi

This was a pretty high priority for us in the off-season. The signing for us is terrific because there's so few real quality left or switch-hitters that can operate in the middle of the lineup and be as consistent as Raul. We wanted to lock him up.

Bill Tolpegin

We're going to be consistent with our pricing.

Chris Petersen

We talked last year about him taking the next step there, and that didn't happen for whatever reason where we wanted him to. Did he get better? He did. He got better on occasion, but he wasn't the consistent guy that we needed.

Justin Griffith

We ain't very big, but we're consistent in what we're trying to do, and we'll stay at it, ... If we get a 2-yard gain on a run, that's a plus for us, we're happy. Other teams, they get a 2-yard gain, they're hanging their heads. We're thinking, 'Hey, second-and-8, we can go on, we still have the ball.'

Todd Pletcher

Pollard was tough, durable and consistent -- a real warrior, the type of horse everyone would want to own. He gave you everything he had.

Charles Curtis

A plane is not just a big toy but a useful thing. You can use it for travel, research and of course fun, like sightseeing.

John McCarthy

Proposals to forbid golf courses have about the same motivations as proposals to forbid skate boarding, although the rationalizations are different.

Andrew Magee

This is one of the top-five golf courses on the PGA Tour already after just one practice round,

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something

Todd Nelson

I have been looking at that course for years; it just fits into the program so well.

Fred Couples

I can't imagine the course playing any easier.

Etienne Lavigne

Of course there will be a Dakar 2007 with a great deal of work on security and prevention.

Anthony Wright

Of course it hurt, ... We were in the mode of trying to throw the ball.

Jerome Bettis

Of course it crosses your mind. I was on the ground and I just saw people running. I fumbled the football, and that's a no-no, something I can't do. I was mad.

Mickey Driver

It would be highly speculative right now to pick out a day. We have people on the scene surveying the damage and every day we learn more about the situation.

John McNulty

The worst damage had already taken place at the site prior to 1988, and was due primarily to unplanned development.

Bruce Buckingham

The winds must be in limits at that point to not risk damage to the vehicle during its most fragile point in the flight.

Bob Dylan

I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

Brian Lamb

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

Matt Farley

We hear speeches about how the rebuilding is in process and technically it's true, but those positive speeches overshadow just how little is being done and just how much damage there is here.

Maria Callas

Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the god dam rules.

Gregory Craig

emotionally damaged and exploited this most wonderful little boy.

Jay Clark

Florida citrus growers were devastated by the hurricanes of 2004 and 2005 due to tree damage and fruit loss, but more recently by the increased movement of citrus canker to new locations.

Jon Tester

As a policymaker, as a public servant, I come to Washington, D.C., and I make difficult decisions and I make difficult decisions every day. And sometimes those decisions upset people.

Stewart Tuttle

Our evaluation of all of our programs is ongoing and decisions on which programs will go forward -- and how -- will move on its own timetable.

Karen Hughes

Decisions must be made that are very hard,

Elbert Hubbard

An executive is a man who can make quick decisions and is sometimes right.

Michelle Gorman

The significance of this (preliminary) decision is sending a strong message to all countries, about the importance in basing your decisions on science.

Mary Chapman

I've never felt a need to have it. You always have in the back of your mind the issue of liability, and that's the way it should be. You're making important decisions about something you feel passionate about.

John Lemme

The most profitable decisions in your life will be the most challenging.

Inaki Saez

Now I have to take a decision and logically that decision is going to be to continue.

John Lemme

Self decisions are the #1 key for success or failure.

Rich McKay

The misses are hard to recover from. And the pressure on the player is tremendous. Typically, a player drafted No.1, 2 or 3 is on that team because they weren't very good. Now, everybody is labeling that player as the savior. He's just a rookie. That's not fair.

Dan Bartlett

You hit panic mode if you don't like the first draft at all.

Bobby Johnson

He was exactly right. He bettered us, he bettered his draft position and had a lot of fun doing it.

Tommy Williams

I don't know what they're talking about. A draft is just a draft until it's adopted.

Tom Florczak

The language of the early drafts didn't protect it.

Barbara Williams

All we have to do is get you to a point where you can write a good draft in 25 minutes. In 25 minutes, the people grading these essays are not expecting you to remember all the rules of grammar. To finish your paper is more important than having a perfect paper.

Mark Woodward

After we got it passed here, he helped so many other states pass laws, 34 in all. He flew to places like Tennessee, Minnesota, to help them draft legislation. It made such a difference.

Steve McKinney

It just got real interesting for sure. I was pretty much under the impression we were getting Reggie Bush. Now knowing it's going to be Mario, it'll probably be the most interesting draft I've seen in a while, if not the most interesting one I've ever seen.

Harold Feinstein

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

Diana Wynne Jones

Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!

Anne Sexton

I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

Victor Davis Hanson

Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.

John Shelby Spong

In fact, in 1724 the Western world learned that women were co-creators of life that's when it was discovered that women had an egg cell.

Alice Temperley

I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.

Hannah Kent

No doves come from ravens’ eggs

C. S. Lewis

You can't just go on being a good egg. You must either hatch or go bad!

Bill Buckner

I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Richard Beymer

I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.

Nada Doumani

Maybe it was an illusion to think people would understand after 23 years that we are unbiased. I can't understand why we've been targeted.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

When we make purchases on credit, they give us only an illusion of prosperity.

Ambrose Bierce

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.

Madonna Ciccone

Everyone is entitled to my opinion

Thomas Aquinas

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Charles Lamb

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

Benjamin Franklin

Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

Ken Perkins

We don't have an opinion or more importantly a vote one way or another. We're not thrilled with it ... but it's essentially up to the analysts.

Jerry Baker

We are just starting that process. Tom and I have already had some discussions. We'll have some more. He's on the road recruiting right now. We'll sit down and we'll look at the year. He'll give me his opinion on what worked and what didn't work. I'll give him my opinion.

Dave Bowman

As of now, no response from the public or business.

Dan Stessel

Some (drivers) have opted to switch to public transportation, and we're working to welcome them to the system.

Alicia Munnell

With public employees, the day of reckoning is more in the distance.

Claire McCaskill

Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

Adam Smith

We want the public to be more engaged.

Michio Kaku

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

Robert Reich

Public employees should have the right to bargain for better wages and working conditions, just like all employees do.

Michelle Williams

When you're in a relationship with somebody who is also a public personality, then it doubles the attention from the media.

Glen Richardson

I am very pleased. This is a win for public schools.

Peter Bergman

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win.

Robert Kiyosaki

For there to be an expense, there must be income somewhere else

Anthony Edwards

You've got to make the most of where you are. Then, when you're somewhere else, you've got to have the ability to fulfill that.

Steve McNair

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.

Tamora Pierce

You're an obnoxious canker-blossom. Go ooze somewhere else.

Ray Allen

Whether that is me retiring, staying here or going somewhere else, it will be on my terms. I've made it to this point, and I felt great that I have the choice to make it for myself.

Mason Cooley

I am the center of the world, but the control panel seems to be somewhere else.

Chris Pearmund

For the first year of production, the wines will be made somewhere else.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.