Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Rita

The overall level of Afghan and coalition security forces in the country is growing.

Joseph Biden

We discussed...in broad strokes, the aid that's already going to help the Afghan people, ... the need to put together a broader coalition, probably under the mandate of the United Nations, but with our strong support of follow-on after this undertaking to take out Mr. bin Laden and his associates happens.

Bob Ainsworth

The reasoning for our civil-military plan is that lasting success will be when the Afghan government, security forces and people can resist the insurgents and terrorists themselves.

Tasnim Aslam

Today we called the Afghan ambassador and lodged a strong protest.

Tina Brown

In all the debate about Afghanistan, we don't hear much about our obligation to the wretched lives of Afghan women. They are being treated as collateral damage as the big boys discuss geopolitical goals.

Zahir Azimi

We don't know exactly the scale of the damage. Afghan National Army troops are on the ground helping villagers,

Hamid Karzai

We are making history. It's the day of self-determination for the Afghan people. After 30 years of wars, interventions, occupations and misery, today Afghanistan is moving forward, making an economy, making political institutions.

Richard Engel

The dangers of an Afghan collapse are many: Afghan deaths, a loss of American prestige, a loss of NATO prestige, a moral blow to U.S. troops and veterans, a Taliban resurgence, huge setbacks for women, and greater power for Pakistan and Pakistani extremists.

Donald Rumsfeld

We're working to make clear to the Afghan people that we support them, and we're working to free them from the Taliban and their foreign terrorist allies,

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Gary Bardini

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

Lisa Finstrom

That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaining.

Anthony Principi

This is certainly one of the most significant recommendations to come before the commission.

Steve Oestreicher

This is certainly not what we wanted to see.

Dave Trembley

This is certainly not the kind of start we wanted or expected. But we'll deal with it and we'll become better because of it.

Deepak Chopra

I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

Roger Tambellini

Jason is just playing great, ... He has the force on his side right now. It is good to get him off this tour and on the PGA Tour where he belongs.

Paul Manning

I said the other day no one knew what Steve could do, including himself. And he showed his potential here. He's going to be a force to be reckoned with.

Kammron Taylor

I was trying to force the issue too much.

E. P. Thompson

I thought it was a really good team effort. I thought we played well, defensively, and we forced them to take some tough shots all night. We did a good job on the boards.

Kathryn Jensen

He had such a sense of responsibility. He thought he could do the most good (in the police force). He told us he never regretted joining, even though the job was so hard.

Ron Gettelfinger

He himself (Miller) got a $3 million signing bonus, he gets a $1.5 million salary, he gets $4 million at the end, ... And then you talk about what you want to force down the throat of people who are working for a living.

Dror Etkes

Our message to the government is that if you won't take responsibility to uphold the law, we will force you to do so.

Allison Davis

Our motivation was to just keep pressing and force turnovers. Our starters picked it up in the second half and considering we played without one of starters, it forced us to rely more on our backcourt.

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Kirk Pedersen

Right now we are struggling a little big with our relay teams. We are going to work on those and hopefully get them to run a little better.

Mike Slive

Right now, there is peace in the valley. We hope to keep it that way for a little while.

Ian Shepherdson

This is as upbeat a testimony as could reasonably have been hoped for.

Tim Frisby

This is a start. Hopefully I'll get more this season,

Jimmy Rollins

You've got to respect them. You can't just put up lollipop pitches and hope to get them out.

Mary Shelley

You seek for knowledge and wisdom, as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you,as mine has been.

Rick Clunn

You're going to be making a lot of decisions, and you hope they're the right ones.

Baruch Spinoza

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Cesar Chavez

There are many reasons for why a man does what de does. To be himself he must be able to give it all. If a leader cannot give it all he cannot expect his people to give anything.

Daniel H. Pink

What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking. These skills have become first among equals in a whole range of business fields.

Daniel H. Pink

I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

Bobby Knight

I just love the game of basketball so much. The game! I don't need the 18,000 people screaming and all the peripheral things. To me, the most enjoyable part is the practice and preparation.

Dwight L. Moody

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

William Shakespeare

Everyone I meet is in some way my superior.

Oscar Wilde

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

Louis Farrakhan

Overall, the challenge of leadership is both moral and one of developing the characteristics that make us respected by one another.

Christine Pelosi

Speak out, educate, do not be intimidated by the apologists, and do not let extreme racism be mainstreamed. Hopefully there will come a time when we don't need to tell our kids that Halloween is no excuse for hate, and that blackface has no place in a civilized society.

Caroll Spinney

I've learned to say, 'I'm a friend of Big Bird. He even taught me how to sound like him.'

Tom DeLay

some things that we've learned and when we do it again, we'll probably be better at it.

Bradlee Pelt

I don't think it ticks him off anymore. I think Jake has learned to program critics, the media in general.

Harry Campbell

I went from summer school to merit roll. I learned that the more you do in school, the better you will be in life.

James Jordan

I've learned it's a lot more than what people see.

James Reed

I've learned a lot from him, ... I still learn a lot every time I talk to him.

David Berry

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

Italian Proverb

The stitch is lost unless the thread be knotted

Daniel Handler

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

Thomas Murray

I lost everything, mister, everything -- credibility, business,

Garth Nix

I can see time," whispered Mogget, so softly that his words were lost.

Dick Bennett

He totally lost his composure. He totally played into their hands. He had been playing so well.

James Billups

He told me that he lost it but that he didn't snap.

Kay Granger

I don't know how you can sleep at night, ... You lost the battle.

Michael Charles

I didn't know what else to do. I lost everything.

Joseph Biden

No. 1, on the police training, we've wasted 17 months,

Frank Serpico

The problem is that the atmosphere does not yet exist in which honest police officers can act without fear of ridicule or reprisal from fellow officers.

Robert Peel

The police are the public and the public are the police

Joseph Wambaugh

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because I was a cop when it happened. I saw some of the indifference that my police department showed to the surviving officer.

Terry Francona

Once you give up five, ... if they peck away and get one here and get one there, it makes it tougher to win.

Steve Barrow

We think it is unlikely, but it's a tough call.

Sugar Ray Leonard

The Ricky Hatton that beat Kostya Tszyu in 2005 can beat Floyd Mayweather, he was so focused and in such amazing physical shape that he would have given anybody at that level a tough time.

V. S. Naipaul

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

Jack Rio

He said he'd be back. That's a tough man.

Ryan Herrs

I think having Tommy back makes us a much tougher team.

Jayne Meadows

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

James Broughton

I like things which appear fragile but are tough inside.

Jackie Cooper

(Granite Hills) is a tough team. We just couldn't penetrate them. We had opportunities but we couldn't put it in.