Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carolyn Heilbrun

As E.M. Forster so brilliantly put it, 'It is difficult, after accepting six cups of tea, to throw the seventh in the face of your hostess.' Sometimes the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously contemplate getting out, doing the impossible, flinging the conventional tea.

Dale Thomas

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Earl Devaney

Rather than simply accepting the results of our testing and promptly addressing the underlying vulnerabilities, the department and bureaus have, to date, expended considerable time and energy debating our findings, challenging our methodology and impugning the credentials and integrity of our staff and contractors,

Shen Guofang

Proceeding from this principled position, the Chinese delegation cannot support the Security Council's recommendation to the General Assembly for accepting Tuvalu as a new member state,

Theis Finlev

Officials should be aware that these connections are going to be seen by some as a conflict, and they can take steps to mitigate it, like not going on these flights and accepting all the other offers.

Jack Straw

Offering to be transparent now is simply saying you are going to be compliant and really accepting you have not been compliant (with IAEA demands) in the past,

Bryan Berard

No question, I'm embarrassed about it. There's nothing I can do about it now, other than accepting what I've done. We'll learn from it. It was a mistake and it won't happen again.

Ricardo Mayorga

De La Hoya doesn't have the pants to stay in the ring with me. He is going to pay for the mistake of accepting this fight.

Keith Andrews

Despite our agreement on Monday, we felt it was essential to add a factor that safeguarded the employees' pension scheme. This was rejected by the trade union which prevented them from endorsing or accepting the rest of the offer.

Dennis Martell

Avoid large crowds, keep moving, know that law enforcement can declare unlawful assembly any time. If that happens, you need to get out.

Jalal Talabani

selected by Iraq's Transitional National Assembly to lead the nation's democratically elected government in over 50 years.

Nicholas Burns

I've pledged to all of my Japanese interlocutors over the last two days that we would work with them over the next several months to see if it's possible to fashion a plan that would receive General Assembly support in New York, so that Japan could enter the Security Council as a permanent member,

Muqtada Sadr

This is a result of the inadequate performance of the interior and defence ministers which has caused such a loss of life. They should stand in front of the national assembly and be questioned. If it is proven that they have failed to fulfil their responsibilities, they should be dismissed and stand trial.

Mark Hansen

The price of gas goes up every day, and the need to do this increases every day. We'd like to see the Assembly join us.

Abdallah Baali

You cannot give all the powers to the secretary general. The General Assembly has to keep its main prerogative, and the secretary general and all bodies should be accountable to the General Assembly.

Martha Blowen

We were part of that era that said the establishment and giving away your life to spend 40 years on an assembly line is not OK. But it took us a while to figure out what to do if we're not depending on the establishment.

Jason Miller

We'll let him stick to the gimmicks. Governor Sanford's focus right now is on getting the charter schools bill over the goal line, passing a strong eminent domain bill, and encouraging the General Assembly not to spend every dime of tax money that flows into Columbia.

Abdallah Baali

On management reform, you have one side basically saying that the secretary general should be empowered and should have all flexibility as a kind of C.E.O. and the other side saying that it is not ready to give up the prerogative of the General Assembly and would like to keep a close eye on the work of the secretary general.

Abdullah A. Badawi

As far as we are concerned, he has committed a serious offense and we cannot hand him over to others to be extradited,

Jalal Rumi

A shadow cannot ignorethe sun that all day creates and movesit.

Jessye Norman

As for my voice, it cannot be categorised - and I like it that way, because I sing things that would be considered in the dramatic, mezzo or spinto range.

Rig Veda

A scholar cannot sit with an ignorant person and expect to gain by the meeting.

Laura Bush

As China reforms its economy, its leaders are finding that once the door to freedom is opened even a crack, it cannot be closed,

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.

Lord Chesterfield

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones

Gloria Bergquist

Automakers need a consistent national policy for fuel economy, and national fuel economy standards cannot be written by any single state or group of states.

Kofi Annan

a unique evil, which cannot simply be consigned to the past or forgotten.

James Hong

As long as I have the talent and there's a demand for the old Chinese man - whether he's a philosopher, or a master, or an old-time restaurant owner, or a villain, or a so-called good guy - I will always be working.

Tim Peters

North Korean women, in particular, are in extreme peril in terms of being snared by human traffickers either to be sold into marriage to a Chinese person or to be pulled into the sex trade.

Rebecca MacKinnon

Anything illegal under Chinese law is, of course, not protected by copyright.

Sung Kang

I've actually started to drive slower. I never want to see a news headline that reads, 'The Chinese Guy from 'Fast & Furious' Pulled Over for a Speeding Ticket.'

Jim Bowers

After looking at all of the 500 pieces, I think they were either some sort of game pieces or were used for trading by Chinese workers. I lean toward the game pieces, though.

Robert Holleyman

These discussions are headed in the right direction, and we remain hopeful that the Chinese government will translate these principles into concrete action.

Mandy Chan

There won't be surprises on the upside. The market will be resilient, though profit-taking will continue on Chinese equities.

Jiang Zemin

This is an important symbol of the Chinese government's recovery of sovereignty over Hong Kong. The mission is sacred, the responsibility is great,

Daniel Collins

This is going to take a lot of teacher training. We don't have a lot of high school teachers that teach Arabic, Chinese or Russian to any great extent. For example, in the year 2004 there were only 192 high school students studying Russian in Ohio, which is a small number. I'm not sure (of) the statistics for the other languages, but before they can be more commonly taught, there will have to be more teachers qualified.

Christopher Hill

Some delegations prefer to leave some things more ambiguous, my delegation would like to see things less ambiguous.

Sen. Leatherman

I think it's urgent to show support for what our congressional delegation has done.

Doug Snyder

We look forward to sending a strong delegation to the first USA National Games.

Christopher Hill

I hope the Democratic People's Republic of Korea delegation has done some homework. We had more than four weeks to look at the text of the proposed agreement.

Julie Teer

It makes more sense than the piecemeal process in use today. Gov. Romney looks forward to working with the entire New England delegation on a more rational permitting process.

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

Jim Tharp

Young kids were about a third, parents were about a third, and then the rest was the general audience.

Bob Fitzsimmons

Younger people especially, I urge them to open a Roth. Being able to get tax-free withdrawals is very powerful, so the general notion is you should look to the Roth IRA right away.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Jeffrey Bewkes

We think it's a general malaise about the (media) sector.

John McHale

Issues of this type are really between the general partners, ... Our office will get involved only if there is a request for a transfer of power.

Claire McCaskill

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

Don Stewart

As many members as there are in Congress, there are that many opinions on how to secure the border.

M. Wolfe

People say you have to be a member before you're serviced. No, you do not,

Richard Durbin

The secretary testified without even indicating to the members of the Senate that this story existed, about to be disclosed to the American people. That is unacceptable.

Jason Chaffetz

Now I get a very nice salary as a member of Congress, but when I'm in Washington, I sleep in my office.

Troy Vincent

That's his right and that's our fiduciary responsibility to protect him - any member of our association.

Eric Swalwell

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

Lawrence Wilkerson

When I rationalize for myself not resigning, I did it by saying, 'This is the only sane member of this administration.

Trevor Noah

There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge.

Fatih Birol

We think security of supply will be a big problem.

Colin Powell

Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Thomas Brooks

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Rand Beers

The precondition to freedom is security.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Jay Leno

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The only security is courage.

Ken Stern

It has to come to a head. We won't have Social Security if it doesn't.

Chris Schuster

The Tigers would like to thank all the support throughout the season.

Bob Storman

Now he can mobilize the 'Z Team' to support other candidates.

Dave Fleming

Things are going well, ... We've had a lot of support so far.

Brian Sandoval

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

Brian Tracy

The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.

Arthur Bloch

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

Bill Hayden

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS.

Edmund Hillary

I'm definitely a Queen supporter. She was great.

Ann Macbeth

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry.