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.

Towny Anderson

There is a growing awareness of downtown as one of our primary assets -- that it's an economic driver and one of the reasons people live here.

Ben Bernanke

There is enormous demand for dollar denominated assets so I don't expect that this demand would drop precipitously.

Uday Kotak

We are extremely focused on building some of the assets which are going into mid-India, semi-urban and rural, and that's our DNA. We are building a retail bank, and a lot of the deposit base is still in urban India.

Jeff McKay

I think we have a tremendous number of assets in the region, and getting those assets marketed to the right people is going to be key to how the region grows, and how fast it grows.

David Menlow

Underperforming assets are not going to work in the marketplace. Spin-offs used to be desirable. Now it looks like companies want to give to the investing public divisions that they can't do anything with.

Mark Thompson

I don't have the assets to back up one these homes.

Jane Greer

I'd always wanted to be an actress, and suddenly I knew that learning to control my facial muscles was one of the best assets I could have as a performer.

Christopher Mesnooh

He has to pander to the masses in the same way George Bush does in the United States. But in this country they don't talk about religion and God. They talk about keeping certain precious assets in the hands of the French.

Kit Spring

Real might need to look for a merger partner and I think the assets are valuable.

Walt Disney

There is great comfort and inspiration in the feeling of close human relationships and its bearing on our mutual fortunes - a powerful force, to overcome the "tough breaks" which are certain to come to most of us from time to time

Peter Cardillo

I think what you're seeing is the process of the market setting a bottom. Obviously, September is living up to its reputation (for volatility), but I think the market will eventually lose its bear grip and focus on the economy and earnings going forward.

Nick Brown

It isn't my physical presence that bears down on the disease.

Karen Cook

I watched a few of the men's games (at USD). I couldn't bear to watch the women.

Dixie Jones

I was kind of concerned about them because we didn't know much about them. I said before the game I hope we aren't walking into a bear trap. But we jumped on them early and I think that helped.

Drew Altman

We may be looking at the start of a fundamental shift in what we mean by health insurance, from a system where we share risks to one where it's up to individuals to make their own deals and bear their own risks.

Dean Cain

I actually got better grades during football season, when I had no time, because I had to bear down and work a little harder.

Joe Ely

He was not only a great drummer but our favorite person to hang around with. He was this big, lovable bear with tons of great stories.

Millicent Fenwick

I have come to believe that the one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger, are more bearable than injustice.

Michel Bonnardeaux

Hundreds of civilians have fled the fighting and the militiamen have been torching houses as they disperse.

Mahmoud Othman

Everyone is nervous. The security situation is not good. There are so many explosions at the checkpoints and near the convoys. The Americans are afraid. And when the driver doesn't see them, it happens sometimes that civilians are killed. It is a tragedy that most of the victims are civilians. It is making life more difficult. But this is our situation. It is very dangerous.

Kofi Annan

It's incumbent on the leaders to really do whatever they can to reign in their forces and ensure that innocent civilians are not the ones to pay the price,

Peter Bergen

Where else in the world is a government helping the civilians they harm in conflict? Marla was very proud of this fact,

Kris Janowski

So-called winter training exercises by security forces, held in the midst of an already very tense situation, intimidate the local population and drive civilians out of their homes.

Sean MacBride

It is a rule of international law that weapons and methods of warfare which do not discriminate between combatants and civilians should never be used.

Stuart Symington

If civilians are going to be killed, I would rather have them be their civilians than our civilians.

Condoleezza Rice

made more heinous in that they deliberately targeted innocent civilians preparing for holiday celebrations.

William Schulz

Only the deployment of sufficient numbers of troops with logistical support by UN member states will provide the protection that the civilians so desperately need.

Kofi Annan

I think it was essential that he paid the money.

Sathya Baba

It is not enough, nor is it essential that you should repeat the name of Rama loudly; respect it in the fullness of love and admiration.

Terence McElroy

He is a free-market person, as I think most Americans are. The one exception is for basic, essential commodities during an emergency.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Discerning our personal gifts is essential if we are to experience harmony in our lives.

Sargent Shriver

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

Vinessa Shaw

The compassionate actions of a Buddha are essential to reforming and revitalizing society.

Vincent Van Gogh

Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague.

Winston Churchill

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from wantà. The fourth is freedom from fear.

Joseph Addison

The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.

James Rubin

That is a sure-fire way to give President Milosevic another pretext to kill innocent Albanians.

Jere Reneer

They are as innocent as they were when they first walked in here.

Benjamin Franklin

That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved.

Peter Simonson

These new stories are from a very innocent source,

Dr. Vlasak

So yes, I think the threat of violence would save lives, innocent lives. I'm sorry to say its true.

Barry Scheck

There's something wrong with the system. It's time to find out whether Texas executed an innocent man.

Donald Trump

There is the issue of security. Countless innocent American lives have been stolen because our politicians have failed in their duty to secure our borders and enforce our laws like they have to be enforced.

Anna Chancellor

I was never, ever the ingenue. The young, innocent lead was just not me.

Henepola Gunaratana

Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of socially conditioned responses or habitual reactions.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else.

Mary Morrissey

Nature herself does not distinguish between what seed it receives. It grows whatever seed is planted; this is the way life works. Be mindful of the seeds you plant today, as they will become the crop you harvest.

Deepak Chopra

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Ralph Norris

We will be very mindful of what our obligations are to our customers.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Stephen Graham

I adore my job. I think I'm one of the luckiest people out there. I've worked hard, but I get to mess about every day - that's how I see it.

H. Hunt

He used to laugh. He'd get people to do it and not tell them what was going to happen.

Graham Elliot

I do take pity on some of the people that have to work with me.

Gale Norton

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Gary Sheffield

I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

I’m protecting her. (Wulf) From? (Chris) Daimons. (Wulf) Big bad ones. (Cassandra)

Richard Dawkins

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Salman Rushdie

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

Vinton Cerf

Humor is the only thing that allows you to survive every pressure and crisis.

Yvon Chouinard

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Martin Filler

High among the unpredictable variables that endanger the survival of worthy buildings are the vagaries of taste.

Leonardo DiCaprio

We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.

Bear Grylls

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

Catherine Fisher

Freedom is a small price to pay for survival.

Neil Abercrombie

We are talking about the survival of this country.