Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lakhdar Brahimi

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

Cindy Moore

It is in the best interest of Afghan people if the election is held in a peaceful environment. A peaceful election is a success of the Afghan people.

William T. Vollmann

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

Lynsey Addario

The first time I visited Afghanistan in May 2000, I was 26 years old, and the country was under Taliban rule. I went there to document Afghan women and landmine victims.

David Edwards

The film observes these people in the course of their daily routines, and hears the stories they tell about their past and present lives and their concerns for the future. The film is about the ways in which foreigner and Afghan warily co-exist in the city, each relying on the other, but neither sure of the other's intentions.

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.

Hamid Karzai

and not to forget the Muslim Afghan population who they assisted during their jihad against the Soviet occupation.

Anand Gopal

In 2012, I received a phone call from the family of Arsala Rahmani, the Afghan senator with whom I'd become friendly. That morning, a gunman had pulled up alongside Rahmani's vehicle, idling in a crowded intersection, and shot him point blank.

Anand Gopal

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Stephen Rodrick

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Mikhail Gorbachev

We could only solve our problems by cooperating with other countries. It would have been paradoxical not to cooperate. And therefore we needed to put an end to the Iron Curtain, to change the nature of international relations, to rid them of ideological confrontation, and particularly to end the arms race.

Chris Mangum

Guy is an attacking wrestler. He is tall and long and creates match-up problems for other kids in his class. Most of the kids are three to four inches shorter and he uses his arms and legs to his advantage.

Julia Allen

He said I'm so proud of my daughter, and I love you and dad so much. That was the last conversation I had. I didn't get to hold him in my arms before he left. It just hurts.

Jarrod Kerr

I think the bank (RBA) will welcome that with open arms and it will further confirm their idea to sit on the sidelines at this stage and ride out the blip in oil prices.

Gerard Bisceglia

Lance Armstrong is one of the most tested athletes in the history of sport and he has come up clean every single time. This kind of years-ago testing of a single sample with new technology is completely without credibility.

Dick Pound

There is a direct link between Armstrong and a positive test that he signed.

Sergei Ivanov

There is no better advertisement for our arms and military hardware than a real demonstration of their capabilities in the course of practical exercises,

Jaswant Singh

There is no arms race in South Asia.

Jennifer Granholm

Her greatness lay in doing what everybody could do but doesn't. She was unexpected. She was untitled. . . . (She was) an improbable warrior that was leading an unlikely army of waitresses and street sweepers and shopkeepers and auto mechanics.

Gene Luen Yang

I think the 'Boxers' book was easier for me to envision as a comic, because they were on this epic journey. These teenagers basically gathered into this army and marched to the capital city where they had a showdown with the Europeans and Japanese. On the 'Saints' side, it was a lot trickier.

Justin Ramsey

We took very seriously our responsibilities with the government. All of us have a very strong belief in the Army and how it operates and what it does for us. We took a lot of pride in supporting the soldier in whatever way we could. When we left the Arsenal, it was very difficult for us. We wanted to let them know we would support them in any way we could.

Jeff Sessions

I am bitterly disappointed that Anniston Army Depot did not gain personnel from Red River Army Depot as the Defense Department had recommended,

James Barber

He had his mind set for what he wanted. And he was going to get it no matter what, ... He went into the Army thinking, 'I'll give it a try.'

Bret Meyer

We can enjoy this win a little bit, but we need to come back and focus, ... It's great to celebrate, but at the same time, we need to remember that going to Army is a business trip.

Ruben Aguilar

In no way have we contemplated the intervention of the army in tasks that belong to police at the different levels of government. What is contemplated .. is support from the army in these tasks but not in direct actions that correspond to municipal, state and federal police.

Truman Capote

[T]he army of wrongness rampant in the world might as well march over me.

Trey Songz

I grew up poor, but I didn't really know it because of amazing places like the Salvation Army where we got a lot of our Christmas presents from.

Kofi Annan

I was encouraged by what he said in the speech that he will cooperate with the U.N. investigation. I think that is essential and is good for Syria to cooperate. It is good for the region and the international system so I am happy that he did indicate he would cooperate,

Jeff Tedford

He's been one that has been cooperating. None of our players have been implicated with any wrongdoing. We're doing everything we can to cooperate with the investigation.

Kazuo Kitagawa

There are numerous reasons why people have not moved out, but municipalities are working hard to visit and talk to each of them. We hope we can have people cooperate and move out of the dangerous condominiums soon.

Ibrahim Jaafari

I hope they will cooperate with us now,

Sarah Ludford

I hope that we will be inviting very senior people from governments, from non-governmental organizations and people who have knowledge of the intelligence community. If they are seen not to cooperate then I think we can draw conclusions.

Stephane Dujarric

These are only inquiries at this stage and not part of any judicial proceedings. We have always said we would cooperate with U.S. judicial authorities or any other judicial authorities which are currently investigating the procurement department.

John Ostrem

Not only do we want to reduce the fragmentation of Linux, but we also want to reduce the fragmentation of the standardization groups around Linux. So we're all trying to talk and find a way that we can all cooperate together and work towards one platform and one solution -- that's an ongoing effort.

Robert O'Meally

It's a music that has to do not only with improvising by yourself, but being able to cooperate with other people.

Edvard Moser

Most couples manage to cooperate on child raising - for us, our brain project is our third child, so nothing different, really.

Donald Rumsfeld

It has to have forces which are not paper forces,

Jackie Williams

The hardship and inconvenience of traveling forces many people out.

Douglas Wood

The Iraqi forces did a very good job of saving me.

George Casey

The development of the Iraqi security forces is very much on track,

Dan Harel

All in all this is a victory for the security forces and for the settlers.

Eddie Compass

Once the voluntary evacuation has taken place, we will concentrate our resources and our forces on the mandatory evacuation.

Muqtada al Sadr

The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.

John Linder

The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.

James Woolsey

They are looking hard for technology to get leverage with their conventional forces and to move more quickly than they have been able to in the past into the world of computers, electronics and so on.

Barbara Matthews

Right now police officers are trying to keep people off the road.

Don James

It puts officers in a situation where they have to think about protecting people or violating policy.

Charles Ramsey

There was a convoy of delegates that got trapped by the crowds, and the officers were trying to get them out,

Don Kelly

With everyone working 12-hour schedules, we went from three shifts a day to two shifts a day, ... Now we're able to give our patrol officers time off.

Josh Duncan

It is huge. Another win provides more motivation. We'll keep going.

William Cowper

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.

Jacqueline McKenzie

I have provided a soundtrack for a scene that I am in which is pretty cool.

Mike Drake

I want to start seeing some of the results and know the provider is up to speed.

David McCandless

Data is the kind of ubiquitous resource that we can shape to provide new innovations and new insights, and it's all around us, and it can be mined very easily.

Richard Davidson

That is making it a lot more complicated for all social services, ... We are going to have to 'band' together to provide these services.

Bob Beauprez

It's something we can do an do quickly to provide some relief,

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Ralph Alvarez

This is our way to provide them the taste that they crave.

Mark Messier

Well, my transition into being a captain was easy.

Gavin Bryars

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

Doug Freeman

It's a little gut-wrenching for me for us to have to make this decision, but at least we were able to transition into something new.

Brit Hume

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

Ann Brashares

There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.

Victoria Pratt

I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

Jeremy Rifkin

Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies are defining features of the emerging economic paradigm. In the new era, we each become a node in the nervous system of the biosphere.

Greg Buckner

The playoffs, that's just the way that it is. You're not going to get too many transition (baskets).