Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Rotten

(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.

Martin Parr

I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain.

Alice Lowe

One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama.

David Miliband

I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party.

Tony Blair

cement the new modern relationship between Britain and India.

Rowan D. Williams

More perhaps than any war for centuries, the conflict that ended sixty years ago had for us in Britain the clear character of a moral struggle.

Jennifer Morgan

My hope is that the end product won't look like the draft. I am counting on Germany, France and Britain to ensure that this text is put into shape.

James Bamford

Maybe nothing will come of it. Maybe the next time he tries to enter the United States or Britain he will be denied, without explanation. Maybe he will be arrested.

Maajid Nawaz

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Kirk Kennedy

A waterfront project must fit our town's character.

Greg Rucka

That people can be threatened by a fictional character speaks volumes about them.

Sister Parish

Our American forebears included Cotton Mather and Oliver Wolcott, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and we were told that a strong wire of character stretched from them through all generations of our family.

Chris Mitchell

People say sports teaches character but that's not true. Sports reveals character and then the word of God can come into a life.

Indian Proverb

No one was ever lost on a straight road.

Jimmy Tubbs

Once we got it to overtime, I felt decent about our chances. To force overtime was a credit to character and that we played extremely hard.

James Nesbitt

Actually, I played Pontius Pilate as nice. An actor spends his life thinking he is Christ, and then he gets to play the character that killed him.

Jonathan Dimbleby

The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.

Lawrence Eagles

As far as the Middle East is concerned, there is still strong justification for a premium to remain in the market until it is clear the situation is much calmer on the ground,

Larry Ellison

Back in 1995, it was very clear to us that we had to stop doing desktop software and we don't do any desktop Windows software, ... We moved everything to big Internet servers. Our database is designed for the Internet, our applications are designed for the Internet.

Mohamed ElBaradei

As long as we are making progress and as long as we don't see clear and present danger, let us continue at it ... before we take escalated measures,

Richard Bliss

As parents, of course we don't want him to go back, but he's a determined young man and he wants to clear his name.

Clinton Portis

That play was designed to lose two yards. I spun around a guy and it was clear from there.

Robin Petrini

That picture could clear up this weekend. It should be clearer, but it could be more muddy. That's the fun of being in conference play.

John DiLorenzo

Rae made it very clear in comments to the press that Commissioner Englund did everything by the book.

Nancy Kress

Readers want to visualize your story as they read it. The more exact words you give them, the more clearly they see it, smell it, hear it, taste it. Thus, a dog should be an 'Airedale,' not just a 'dog.' A taste should not be merely 'good' but 'creamy and sweet' or 'sharply salty' or 'buttery on the tongue.'

Richard Williams

Pricing pressures are definitely an issue for software companies. This strikes me as a clear sign that things are still not getting better,

Joel Campagna

There are formidable risks in trying to cover this conflict. Large swaths of the country are simply too dangerous to cover.

Elizabeth Bowen

I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.

Raila Odinga

We do not want this conflict to continue. We have said that 2006 will be a year of reconciliation, tolerance and dialogue. For that matter I am happy that the president has read the mood of the year and is positive like other Kenyans.

Stephen Kinzer

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded, and an insurgent Islamic-based movement that seeks to increase the role of religion in public life.

Chris Walsh

Every team has a doctor. But when players get injured, they don't go see the team doctor. There is a conflict of interest because the doctor is paid by the team.

Jennifer McMahon

At the heart of every story is conflict - whether external or internal, make it a good one, and remember that this problem is going to shape your character, leaving her forever changed.

Gerhard Schroeder

Up to the last minute, together with a majority in the Security Council, with France, Russia and China, but also with states such as Mexico and Chile, we pursued all efforts within the framework of the United Nations to solve the conflict by peaceful means,

Carl Truman

There's probably ideology connected to each group that would conflict.

Alija Izetbegovic

The time of confrontation and conflicts should be replaced with a time of construction and prosperity.

Leslie Howle

The thing I think I'm missing the most is she was so much fun to go places with. Sometimes, Octavia ended our phone conversations with, 'I'll be seeing you then.' I didn't get to say goodbye, so I'll say, I'll be seeing you then.

Cierra Ramirez

A dream of mine is to become an executive producer and writer. I would love if that ended up happening to me in the future.

Mel Kahele

Actually, we ended up with a real deal, a package that I don't think we would have been able to refuse.

Lorraine Jones

Ten would have been nice for the first one. We've ended up with this.

Luc Robitaille

It was the second time we've done it. Most of the guys ended up playing with their kids in the back yard, or they took naps.

Anthony Crescenzi

It was very well subscribed -- and that was why they raised it and it ended up being $4.8 billion.

Mark Philippoussis

It was a long day, but it ended up well so I'm happy. The hard work is paying off. I've just got to be patient and keep working at it.

Donald Brownlee

They always ended up with a rigid, crusty material. If you were standing on it you might go right through it.

Greg Holle

That shot gave us all the momentum. When he threw it up over what seemed like 15 guys I was thinking, 'What the heck are you doing?' but it ended up being the smartest shot he's ever taken. He's a genius.

Linda Jackson

The big questions have to do with moral development because there is not much research,

Joe Biden

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

David Vincent

A record's a record. A number doesn't have any moral value. People do.

Carl von Clausewitz

Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

Alan Dershowitz

It is difficult to offend a New Yorker.

Bille August

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Dennis Prager

We have a moral obligation to act happy even if we don't feel it

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Stacy Stewart

Perhaps by the end of the work week it could be posing a threat to Bermuda, but not the US.

Oliver Kahn

Perhaps we will still be using this policy for the World Cup. That would be a new concept.

Ann Gerhart

Perhaps this is how she is spending her capital,

Todd Hamilton

I'm so excited, I probably won't sleep for two or three or perhaps seven days,

John Lennon

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Michael Robotham

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

Bob Eastwood

Sixty is just a number. I don't feel 60.

Lou Holtz

There are certain things in this world we all have in common such as time. Everybody has sixty seconds to a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours to a day. The difference is what we do with that time and how we use it.

Ben Macintyre

Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.

Bashar al-Assad

Many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don't have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria.

Bashar al-Assad

Whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That's in any war, any war is a bad war.

Bashar al-Assad

In any war, people will pay the price.

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Baruch Spinoza

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

All wars are popular for the first 30 days.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Art Buchwald

War for most men is not fighting or marching in parades. It is sitting around somewhere wondering what the hell you are supposed to be doing.