Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wesley Clark

A commander in chief with military experience might be able to prod a conservative military into thinking more imaginatively.

Harry Reid

We need to hear honesty, humility from the Commander in Chief, not swagger from the campaigner in chief.

Antony Sher

You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of the British Empire! It was just a completely overwhelming and exciting day.

John Reid

While we take what happened seriously, and I stand by everything that our commander on the spot did, don't let's take one incident like that and try to pretend that it reflects the whole of even the Iraqi police force,

Cindy Sheehan

Who do you want as YOUR Commander in Chief?

Eileen collins

Whether your commander is a man or woman doesn't really matter when it comes to getting your mission done.

Brad Adams

Because of the lack of transparency, we don't know whether the commander is a scapegoat, or if he is only one of many who should be arrested. The investigation must be conducted openly for people to have confidence that powerful figures will not be protected.

Zell Miller

The Democratic Party today has gone further and further to the left. It's left me, it's left moderates and it's left a lot of people who want to support a strong commander in chief,

General Boonyaratglin

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

Vikas Swarup

All I can say is that I am not one of those writers who want 100% of their book in the film. I recognize that film is a different medium and the filmmaker must have the right to bring some new elements to the table, provided the soul of the book is preserved.

Paul Johnson

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

David Walton

Hockey on roller skates is like MMA in a bounce house: the elements are there, but the medium makes the whole thing ridiculous.

Carl Rogers

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Ken Conway

We have always raised our levels of preparedness when hosting teams with elements of disappointing spectators, but in the Bulldogs case, history proves the problems are Sydney based.

Raven-Symone

I went to public school, elementary through high school. I went to homecoming, to football games, pep rallies, I got detention, I got an F. I've done it all.

Patricia Polacco

I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

Rick Rubin

There's just a natural human element to a great song that feels immediately satisfying. I like the song to create a mood.

Andrew McPherson

We were hoping at one point to sell the (old) elementary school and use that money, but that's a contentious issue now.

Patrick Wang

Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.

Trent Johnson

We played in one of the more hostile environments, so, yes, we played with toughness. We were in the game.

Jitin Prasada

I work in a hostile atmosphere, and my voters are the only strength I have.

Shane Warne

When we go to South Africa, it is going to be pretty hostile there. They are going to rip into us and try to nail us down.

Gary Sinise

My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.

John Bolton

whose pursuit of weapons of mass destruction makes them hostile to U.S. interests.

William Myers

The Net by its very nature is hostile to the traditional methods of governance,

David Hoffman

It suggests that he's not particularly hostile to securities plaintiffs and many judges are.

Newt Gingrich

Established systems are inherently hostile to change.

Stephen Jones

It doesn't mean there's an imminent threat. But people don't like the in-your-face discussions.

Bryan Whitman

I don't have any information on any imminent releases.

Kenichiro Ikezawa

It will probably be a long way off before we get to a 2 percent inflation rate, meaning the BOJ is not going do any imminent rate increases. That will keep the rate-differential theme and push the yen lower.

Laura Martin

We think it is imminent that you will get a new Pixar-Disney deal.

Jerry B. Jenkins

It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

Howard Dean

Iraq was not an imminent threat to the United States. It turned out they did not have the weapons of mass destruction that people thought they did, myself included. It turned out that much of what the president told us was not so.

Barack Obama

I didn't see the weapons of mass destruction at the time, I didn't think there was an imminent threat from Saddam Hussein.

Takahide Kiuchi

The market has already priced in an imminent move.

Dale Timmermann

The margin is less than what it was, but you do not have an imminent problem of meeting your obligations.

Ron Hebert

You always want to win. But we went into the jamboree with the intentions of looking at some different rotations.

Fred Jones

My sense is that this plan is well within that. Our intent is to do most in the condominium format.

Susan Hill

We're pretty stubborn. Their intention is to run us out; our intention is to stay.

Denise Layne

We're playing with technicalities, and the intent of what we tried to do is not there.

Kevin Essington

He was intent in seeing the property conserved.

Bill White

He wanted to know where he stood in this relationship. That's the only reason he went over there, ... He will tell you he had no intent to kill anyone.

Tom Gavin

He has every intention to seek re-election. But I'm going to let the senator make his own announcement.

Arn Tellem

He is intent on returning and playing. There has never been any thought to the contrary.

B.J. Upton

I don't have any intentions of moving to third, outfield, wherever it may be. I plan on being in that six hole.

Margo MacDonald

Some people may get in to the building without the proper passes and things, but I think that's the price you pay for being an open place for people to come.

Mike Fratello

We had open shots and we didn't make the shots that we made in the first half. They got in transition and we had some turnovers.

Matt Mahar

We were getting open opportunities. It was just a problem of stopping their little runs.

Nicole Klay

We have tons of terrain back there that will really open up the mountain.

Pokey Chatman

Usually when I give my opening statement, I can find something that's wrong. But, there wasn't a whole lot tonight.

Paul Horn

The 'Inside' record definitely opened up a whole new audience.

Greg Bonczkowski

Whoever was open made a three in the first quarter.

Christian Ehrhoff

You just got to get open and he s going to get you the puck.

John Cornyn

where we have wide open spaces and plenty of opportunity for high-density training.

Sabrina Harris

We ordered it, and it took a year to get here.

Mark Zauderer

They have been ordered to do what they should have done a long time ago, which is to process the club's application.

Oleg Cassini

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

Phil Klay

Pity addresses the perceived suffering, not the whole individual.

Karen Woodall

The poor are not perceived as voters. You can see that's what legislators think when they make these spending decisions.

Yasser Elguindi

OPEC wants to be perceived as part of the solution, not part of the problem,

Park Chan-wook

The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.

John Nienstedt

You have to be perceived as pure if you want a shot in this campaign.

Umera Ahmad

The Pakistani woman's image internationally is perceived to be regressive, which is not true.

Marianne Williamson

I didn't realize that running as an independent would be perceived as a threat to the Democrats.

Lord Puttnam

The substance of what we do and how we do it is probably even more important than how that is perceived and how we communicate it.

Brian Watson

That was the only real threat after the first inning.

Alastair Reynolds

I'm still bothered by the threat of nuclear war.

Bill Shaw

We threatened them for a while. But they would come back, sometimes on their own account, sometimes on our account.

Steve Cummings

When we have those incidents, when there is a threat of violence, we take it very seriously.

Busta Rhymes

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives

Al Gore

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Adrienne Rich

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

Ted Stevens

It is an offense, a threat to every person in my state.

Dustin Hoffman

If there is no direct threat why are we invading?

Larry Coker

We're going to need all our able-bodied troops in Tallahassee.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Nato allies have been looking at various missile-defence options for some time. Nato itself is developing protections for our deployed troops.

Katherine Jenkins

No-one had anticipated troops being there as long as this.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.

B. F. Skinner

We've never done anything like this before. It's going to be difficult, but we'll be there as long as the troops need us.

David Bonderman

Prices are always lower when the troops are in the street.

Kenneth Williams

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Kathleen Blanco

These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.

Howard Fineman

If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Bill Vaughan

Flexibility is indispensable in the talks, .. Only if (the DPRK and the United States) show flexibility, it is possible to reach compromise.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Stephen Pope

He's been the most beleaguered of any archbishop in the United States. It's like a battlefield promotion.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Charles de Gaulle

France was built with swords. The fleur-de-lis, symbol of national unity, is only the image of a spear with three pikes.

Charles Caleb Colton

Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.