Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alison Nordstrom

I suspect that Rothstein was looking for an opportunity to show the dignity of African Americans, even in the South.

Chris Katongo

I think it could happen at the African Cup of Nations - you never know!

Jim Sinclair

I take great pride in the numerous accomplishments of our management team and the competence, drive and successes of our exploration group which is now being recognized by the growing number of Confidentiality Agreements that are now in place or under consideration. With the largest exploration undertaking on the African Continent, I look forward to more announcements of progress for our investors and potential industry partners.

Alpha Konare

Haiti is an African country outside of Africa. The AU wants to help create conditions in which a new government can be democratically elected in Haiti.

Leila Zerrougui

This was our first visit to an African country and South African conditions of detention could certainly be a best practice for any other country on the continent or anywhere else in the world.

Lonnie Bunch

He recognized this was an important niche, but I would also argue that he saw himself as contributing to the uplift of African Americans and contributing to a changing America.

John Prendergast

Having a strong African leader, with the confidence of regional governments, who's backed by high-level envoys from countries that matter

Neil MacGregor

Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many areas, the main weapon in the struggle against the forces of evil.

Frank Lambert

Here was the United States just emerging from its fight for independence when the young country finds itself blocked from free trade by North African countries in the Atlantic Ocean,

Rachel Sklar

I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

Ron Shelton

Joe's assignment was to keep an eye on him and be a role model, ... Joe never saw him, except at the ballpark. The idea of a wild, young pitcher who's out of control rooming with a veteran gave me the dramatic possiblity.

Bob Stoops

I thought the secondary played solid and good the entire day. The one deep wheel route we gave up on our boundary was somebody else outside of the secondary busting an assignment and not covering their guy. They tackled well for the most part, their positions on the ball and challenging in many coverage, I thought, were really pretty good.

Grant Wistrom

I think we might not have as much talent on our defense this year, but I think we have much better team players this year. Guys aren't going out there and freelancing. They're spending more time in film study and playing good assignment defense the only way it should be played, and that's at 100 miles per hour.

Jimmy Martin

I think we're ready. We're ready to get after them. It was never that we all just got overpowered. It was just one guy missing an assignment or two guys missing assignments. We were just never in sync last year.

Terry Ryan

He's been in a couple of these situations recently, and there's nobody that feels more grateful for getting this assignment than he. He's been close a couple times, and I'm sure he was wondering if it was ever going to be reality. But it was a matter of time. It was just inevitable. All he needed was the right mix.

Troy Vincent

I don't have a selfish bone in my body. I understand that moving on is part of the nature of this business. My assignment was up in Philadelphia. I did exactly what I was supposed to do there. It's not bittersweet at all. I feel exactly the same way I have for my 13 years in the NFL. You don't like watching two other teams going to the Super Bowl. But I'm overjoyed for them.

George H. W. Bush

I don't know whether or not the press corps realizes it, but his is a challenging assignment, dealing with you all on a regular basis, and I thought he handled his assignment with class and integrity ... It's going to be hard to replace Scott.

Stephane Dujarric

He will proceed to Beirut to take up his assignment as soon as practicable.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge workers are neither farmers nor labor nor business; they are employees of organizations.

George Hoffman

I would think that is highly unlikely any of our employees would do that.

Alan McCoy

Just shy of 150 employees is what I'm hearing signed up for retirement on Feb. 28." ()

George Reid

I think it has improved the safety for the public and the employees that work in this building. For the most part feedback has been positive.

Carol Chastang

It is full of suggestions on steps you can take to protect your building, contents, employees and customers.

Chip Desmone

I think a lot of our employees have come to us just because they like the space we work in. It's really inspiring space ... that kind of fosters the camaraderie and creativity.

Martin Frost

It had nothing to do with voting, ... It had everything to do with the fact that they were appreciative of things I did over the years to help the employees and the company.

Pascual Gonzalez

It is one of the worst things that a transportation employee can do.

Eric Johnson

He was just one of those low-profile, below-the-radar state employees that people don't know about, but who help make the state run.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

If you have time to knit, if you've taken up knitting, it means you're not worried about the essential stuff.

Koichiro Matsuura

Good governance is essential for managing our increasingly stretched supplies of freshwater and indispensable for tackling poverty.

Kirk Walters

It is great to have Hassan back. He is one of our leaders. He is a vocal guy on the team and he has been here four years. He knows what is going on. He is an essential part of our offense and defense.

Terry Riley

La monte's idea was just to have this one big form that were just long tones, I think that was the real essential heart of minimalist music.

Christophe Donay

We're in the middle of a wave of mergers and acquisitions. It's one of the essential motors for stocks this year.

Jeb Bush

Today is a good day to get your supplies and to execute your preparedness plans that are so essential for safety,

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Kit Bond

For this reason, it is essential that our Nation's rural transportation professionals be provided with the necessary tools and support to promote and showcase the value, benefits, and accomplishments of rural transportation planning and development.

Jaime Salazar

I wouldn't recommend the Foreign Legion for a thinking person, ... because it's going to wear you down.

Mike Forest

I would say since the Second World War, it was the most interesting time to be the foreign editor.

Howard Baker

I think it is a great tribute to the Government of Japan and to those who were handling it, including the Foreign Minister and the Prime Minister, that we were able to negotiate at the highest levels - I mean the President, the Secretary of State, and then my opportunity - without high emotionalism.

Dan Hall

I think it is wrong. I don't think it is safe to work with these foreign companies.

Peter Rohde

He's had this injury three times before, so it's not too foreign to him. He won't do much for the next week or two, but as soon as he's right he will be back up and playing pretty much straight away.

James Lago

There is a knee-jerk reaction to this short-term political concern. But should foreign investors realize that this is not for the short term, they may be prompted to sell as well.

Dmitri Trenin

I think what he did was a revolution in terms of Russia's foreign policy,

Jeff Gundy

Like most American or foreign players, he understands about half of what I say.

Hilary Clinton

I will be working with Senator Menendez to introduce legislation that will prohibit the sale of ports to foreign governments.

Irish Proverb

Youth sheds many a skin.The steed (horse) does not retain its speed forever.

Nell Leyshon

Writing a play, you have to retain it all in your head - you need more time. With prose, you can snatch an hour here, an hour there.

Lois Lowry

I'm a writer; I like to retain subtlety and nuance.

Susanna Moore

I have to admit that I was very happy to finish 'In the Cut,' and happy not to return to it.

Carlos Menem

Here we are. What Evita (Peron) said is being fulfilled: I will return and be millions,

Antoni Gaudi

Originality is a return to the origin.

Richard J. Needham

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

Truman Capote

Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

Woody Allen

I want to return to the womb, anyone's.

Richard Rohr

The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Warren Buffett

Returns decrease as motion increases.

Jose Ibarra

I think it's great. We need something on the south side.

Ron Howard

We're not going to think about that at all because we've got Southern Utah to worry about.

Edmund Hillary

I am hell-bent for the South Pole-God willing and crevasses permitting.

Woodrow Wilson

The only place in the world that nothing has to be explained to me is the South.

Sarah Addison Allen

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

Ric Keller

Illegal immigration presents a huge problem. That is why I decided to spend a week along the southern border to see firsthand how bad the problem is and, more importantly, what Congress can do to fix it.

William Faulkner

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

Willard Scott

I'm Southern Baptist, not a meteorologist.

Wilbur Smith

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.