Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Kinzer

During the 1990s the United States sought to impose the 'Washington Consensus' on Latin American governments. It embodied what Latin Americans call 'neo-liberal' principles: budget cuts, privatization, deregulation of business, and incentives for foreign companies. This campaign sparked bitter resistance and ultimately collapsed.

Jakob Bohme

The sour quality is set opposite to the bitter and the sweet, and is a good temper to all, a refreshing and cooling when the bitter and the sweet qualities are too much elevated or too preponderant.

Gary Conelly

It would be easy to be bitter about the experience, but in life that was only a breath.

Judith Karpova

It was very bitter for me to see this happen all over again. And I felt I had to do something.

Buck Martinez

I sensed it was a kind of a bitter moment for them both. I've known them both for a long time, and we really thought they would bring a lot to our team. Then we got down into the numbers of the things and it just didn't work out.

Stanley Hauerwas

The very fact that doctrine is hewn from bitter controversy and tested through time is sufficient reason to make them a focus of theology.

Joni Mitchell

You're in my blood like holy wine, You taste so bitter and so sweet. I could drink a case of you darling Still I'd be on my feet. I would still be on my feet.

Vladimir Putin

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Britney Spears

I choose to be a happy person. I choose not to be a bitter person

Nancy Keenan

A woman's right to choose is at a tipping point. The Supreme Court is narrowly divided, and by selecting John Roberts to succeed the late Chief Justice Rehnquist, President Bush has raised the stakes.

Howard Dean

As long as George Bush is president, we are going to create a permanent class system, ... And we're going to change that as soon as we can. What George Bush has done is give our money to his friends paying for his re-election. He made it impossible for people like you to go to college.

Rudi Giuliani

As long as George Bush is president, is there any doubt they will continue to hear from us?

Edward Kennedy

Rather than selecting a nominee for the good of the nation and the court, President Bush has picked a nominee whom he hopes will stop the massive hemorrhaging of support on his right wing.

Sitaram Yechury

Probably, the government does not want to have a discussion on these issues before the visit of (US President) George Bush and the BJP also doesn't want to be seen supporting the government's line on the matter. If this is true, then it is really very unfortunate.

Jonathan Turley

People don't realize that the Obama Administration has been, if anything, harder on whistleblowers than the Bush Administration. Part of the reason is that they know that the response will be more muted because the traditional constituency supporting whistleblowers just happen to be the same constituency as Obama's.

John Hinderaker

On the whole, it was a good performance. Bush is always better off when people are seeing him, rather than reading what Democrats have to say about him in newspapers, or hearing what Democrats think about him on network news.

Katherine Harris

Actually, Governor Bush last week was so generous and gracious in his comments and wished me well and said I would be a formidable candidate.

Etan Thomas

Do you really think, had this been a rich, lily-white suburban area, instead of one mostly poor and black, that got hit, the administration would have waited five days to get food or water to those people? When the hurricane hit in Florida, Bush made sure those people got those supplies the next day.

Rob Sumner

Our defenseman couldn't get there because he was getting blocked. There was a scoring chance created off of it and they scored.

Phil Garner

No question about it, he's got to send him. I'd been upset if he hadn't sent him. If the throw's off at all, he's got a chance to be safe.

Phil Garner

No question about it, he's got to send him, ... I'd been upset if he hadn't sent him. If the throw's off at all, he's got a chance to be safe.

Mahela Jayawardene

No problems with him right now, I can say there is 90 percent chance of him playing tomorrow morning.

Chris Cauble

Northwest is too good a hitting team to take any kind of chance at all. We had to win. We knew we couldn't get down two games to them.

Matt Cooke

Normally I?m peeling away to be a third guy, but I saw his head down and saw I had a chance to poke it away from him and fortunately it went in the net.

Hiroichi Nishi

After the big losses in the U.S., Japanese stocks look likely to fall ... High-techs in particular have a good chance of being dragged down.

Shawn Berner

Again, we put out a lot of video, and it was another situation where we had to find a school that had a need. And also the kid has got to like the school as well, and Larry did. They run a lot of one-back offense, and he has a shot to play right away. He will be going with a teammate (Jesse Fox), and he has a chance to do good in the classroom and on the football field. He's excited and it's a great fit.

Tim Arnold

After-prom is the place to be. I think it's probably our last chance to hang out as a class and it's a better way to remember the night than being high or drunk.

Rasheed Wallace

As long as we got the win. We gotta deal with that other (stuff) every night. But we fought through it and got the W.

Randy White

Dealing with something like that is tough on anybody. I knew she really wanted to perform well. That was one of her incentives.

Robert Hill

dealing with illegal people movement, fishing breaches, transnational crime.

Tony Ridder

Dealing with a drummer isn't that much different from dealing with someone from IT.

Joanne Dobson

Detective fiction is an extremely moral genre, dealing with the strongest violation of the moral contract,

Doug Wilder

Despite weeks and weeks of evidence -- even before Hurricane Katrina -- that these families were going to face record energy bills, your Administration has made no recommendations to deal with their financial straits,

Scott Johnson

Deploying Pivotal has helped us get even more competitive in a number of key areas. We're definitely generating more revenue, while at the same time reducing administrative expenses. We have moved back into a membership-growth mode and were able to downsize our account-services department by reducing the paper they have to deal with. And, terms of retention, we're running at a 93 percent rate, which is 5 percent higher than before the solution was deployed.

Ricky Hatton

Dennis has put his money where his mouth is and put this deal on the table because he said he could get me what I wanted.

Hilary Cook

Any deal will be looked at closely, but on the other hand, BAA is bidding to run other people's airports, so why can't the reverse be true?

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Greek proverb

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words

Malcolm Gladwell

The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

George Glynos

Oil prices tend to fuel inflationary fears, and as they fuel these fears funds so investors tend to look for an inflation head. In this situation they have looked towards gold as that inflationary head. As oil prices have gone up we have seen an increase in metal prices.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Pray God our greatness may not fail/ Thro' craven fears of being great.

George Weinberg

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

Jodie Whittaker

I've never been mugged, never really experienced street fear. In fact, I'm the one who gets into arguments because I don't keep my mouth shut.

William Story

Ah, yes! Success, I fear, has come too late!

Max Brooks

Zombies are apocalyptic. I think that's why people love them because we're living in, not apocalyptic times, but I think we're living in fear of the apocalyptic times.

Richard McLaren

As a spy, under the laws of war, and his house being designated a military target, we are perfectly under international law in our right to do this,

Richard Gordon

Of the 300 houses in the area, only three are left that are not covered.

Bible Bible

And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

Grover Norquist

I've been in the White House more in the last two weeks than I was in the last two years.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Do you know, Watson," said he, "that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject. You look at these scattered houses, and you are impressed by their beauty. I look at them, and the only thought which comes to me is a feeling of their isolation and of the impunity with which crime may be committed there.

C. S. Lewis

Imagine yourself as a living house.

Bella Abzug

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

Arundhati Roy

Perhaps it's true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house---the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture---must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstitutred. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

Coco Chanel

It's not houses I love, it's the life I live in them.

Jalal Talabani

For the Iraqi state, it is very difficult,

Michael Rubin

The Iraqis have consistently surprised us at every milestone.

Patrick Burns

The Iraqi people are out of luck, the way it stands right now.

George H. W. Bush

This is a very positive day for the Iraqi people and as well for world peace, ... Democracies are peaceful countries.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

John Norris

You have enough men, ... We will work together. We will not let the Iraqi people down.

Alan Dershowitz

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

Ariel Sharon

When I was born here on one of the farms in Israel, my childhood, I never thought for one day that we will not be living together with Arabs.

Ariel Sharon

Aliyah is the central goal of the State of Israel.

Ariel Sharon

Close to 80 percent of all terrorist activity in Samaria was directed and financed either by Hizbullah or the Iranians. Iran continues to increase its involvement in terror attacks inside Israel, particularly through a small but radical minority of Israeli Arabs which Iran supports and directs.

Ehud Olmert

There is no ceasefire. There will not be any ceasefire.

Ehud Olmert

I dont know that there is one serious American representative that will advise Israel to sit with a terrorist government and negotiate with them.

Ehud Olmert

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

Cynthia McKinney

What I was doing was servicing the needs of my constituents and I was not allowed to do that because I did not toe the line on U.S. policy for Israel.

Dustin Hoffman

Humanity seized to exist when Israel was established.

Anthony Romero

A pardon for Edward Snowden would be good for America and would help burnish the president's legacy as one of the primary defenders of human rights.

Tyrone Brooks

Dr. King's legacy is as sound as a rock.

Brian Corcoran

What separates her is that she wants to set a legacy at Pope John. She wants to do things that nobody has ever accomplished. She's ready to show what she can do.

Nick Richardson

The track must be re-laid, as a legacy for the sport,

Duke of Wellington

When my journal appears, many statues must come down.

Sam Smith

Nature has no cure for this sort of madness, though I have known a legacy from a rich relative work wonders.

Tina Turner

My legacy is that I stayed on course...from the beginning to the end, because I believed in something inside of me.

Bill Bradley

I'm trying to remain true to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,

Paul Slattery

The important thing is the legacy lives and Tom lives with us.

Navneet Sikera

The situation has more or less returned to normal.

Leslie Fiedler

The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Sarah Clarke

There are more than 786,000 uninsured people in the state of Maryland, and less than one-half of 1 percent works for Wal-Mart.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Amber Tamblyn

Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.

Mark Pope

Every year, when I'm with a new team, that's one less team that doesn't know that I can't play.

Richard Rose

The results are less important than what's going on in Rajasthan.

George Rupp

The result is that we are less prepared than we would like to be for what could be a very serious humanitarian emergency.

David Wright

There's going to be a lot less pressure on Carlos this time around. That's why it doesn't matter where I hit. This team is going to score runs, period.

Marek Hlasko

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Gbola Amusa

The ones that are lost will probably be lost for good.

David Berry

Sometimes I get lost in the books, if they're good,

Aaron Woods

Once we lost our steam supply, we were unable to recover and prevent the event that occurred on Wednesday, March 1.

Andrew Engel

I've never lost to Severna Park. Everyone says that they are the better team, but we've got to go out there and prove it every time we play.

Kevin Grace

The store manager of the Tacoma Levitz told me 45,000 people lost their money at Levitz.

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Gerard Hopkins

I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.

Christopher Davis

It wouldn't be catastrophic if they lost it.

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

David Marcus

The secret is getting in early. You want to get in when it's a ripple, before the wave hits. Then you ride the wave.

John Bryan

The ride is set up to showcase South Carolina. We're trying to show off our state.

e. e. cummings

All in green went my love riding

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Napoleon Bonaparte

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

Gerald Laird

If it's the shoes, we'll ride it as long as we can.

Alderman Mokros

If we are going to get rid of it, then get rid of it. Let's get out of the business.

Eugene Ionesco

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,

Frances Wright

Credulity is always ridiculous.

Andy Grove

There's a tendency at the senior and middle-manager level to be too big-picturish and too superficial. There is a phrase, "The devil is in the details." One can formulate brilliant global strategies whose executability is zero. It's only through familiarity with details - the capability of the individuals who have to execute, the marketplace, the timing - that a good strategy emerges. I like to work from details to big pictures.

Alistair Cooke

I hasten to say to snobs from the Surrey pine-and-sand country that no invention since the corn plaster or the electric toothbrush has brought greater balm to the extremities of the senior golfer than the golfmobile, a word that will have to do for want of a better.

Alveda King

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

Allyson Felix

It was all kind of a whirlwind at the beginning. I didn't really realize that I had a special gift from God. It was probably towards the end of high school in my senior year when things really started to come together and I realized that I had more potential and that I could do this as a career and that the Olympics were a possibility.

Amelie Mauresmo

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

Alice Hoffman

In the darkest hour of winter, when the starlings had all flown away, Gretel Samuelson fell in love. It happened the way things are never supposed to happen in real life, like a sledgehammer, like a bolt from out of the blue. One minute she was a seventeen year-old senior in high school waiting for a Sicilian pizza to go; the next one she was someone whose whole world had exploded, leaving her adrift in the Milky Way, so far from earth she was walking on stars.

Andy Roddick

I don't have much interest in being on a senior tour. I don't think I retired so that I could be on tour.

Ann Patchett

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not feel right? Keep sitting there. Think of yourself as a monk walking the path to enlightenment. Think of yourself as a high school senior wanting to be a neurosurgeon. Is it possible? Yes. Is there some shortcut? Not one I've found. Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

William Shakespeare

This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

Francis Ford Coppola

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Ed Bradley

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Brad Barkley

I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.

Juvenal

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

Al Green

I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Janis Joplin

You know why we're stuck with the myth that only black people have soul? Because white people don't let themselves feel things.

bell hooks

It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

bell hooks

When liberal whites fail to understand how they can and/or do embody white supremacist values and beliefs even though they may not embrace racism as prejudice or domination (especially domination that involves coercive control), they cannot recognize the ways their actions support and affirm the very structure of racist domination and oppression that they wish to see eradicated.

bell hooks

Feminist pedagogy can only be liberatory if it is truly revolutionary because the mechanisms of appropriation within white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy are able to co-opt with tremendous ease that which merely appears radical or subversive

bell hooks

We don't hear much from revolutionary feminists who are white because they're not serving the bourgeois agenda of the status quo.

bell hooks

Shaming is one of the deepest tools of imperialist, white supremacist, capitalist patriarchy because shame produces trauma and trauma often produces paralysis.