Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Joel

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

Ari Fleischer

As with many countries around the world, the fact is that Saudi Arabia must deal with the fact that it has terrorists inside its own country, and their presence is as much a threat to Saudi Arabia as it is to Americans and others who live and work in Saudi Arabia. These bombs kill not just Americans, but Saudis as well.

Richard Gephardt

This administration needs to stop behaving like the United States of Saudi Arabia and it needs to start mobilizing international pressure to get Saudi Arabia to stop funding, training and breeding global terror in the first place,

Loren Thompson

They're (the Emirates) not going to retaliate because they need us. Who is going to protect that little outpost of modernity on the Arabian Peninsula if it isn't us?

Glenn Murray

It's all about perception. Just the idea of an attack in Saudi Arabia is enough to make the market jumpy.

James Zogby

They recognized the Taliban, as did Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, because the United States wanted them to.

Jon Stewart

Prior to heading FEMA, Brown spent the '90s as a commissioner -- this is true -- of the International Arabian Horse Association,

Stephen Kinzer

Other places are also generators of far-flung violence beyond their own borders - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are obvious examples - but none has as long a history of war, resistance, and terror as Chechnya.

Patricia Mohr

Oil & Gas was the only sub-component to decline last month. Rising 'geopolitical risk premiums' for light crude oil - linked to recent unrest in Nigeria and international tensions over Iran's decision to resume nuclear research - were more than offset by sharply lower natural gas and propane prices - the result of exceptionally warm winter weather in key U.S. heating oil markets. A foiled late-February terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia has bolstered the risk premium in oil prices.

Rick Sandlin

We always have trouble finishing, and I think some of that is because ... when you get beyond seven- or eight- (deep) for us, our quality, talent ... drops off. You get tired.

Billy Beane

The perfect guy either might not be out there or beyond our (financial) means.

Herb Vincent

The people who met today aren't the people who work out the nitty-gritty details to make things happen. LSU will obviously be reimbursed for expenses and would not suffer financial losses from this arrangement. Beyond that, not a lot of details have been settled. They will emerge in the days to come.

Paul Kemp

There are some disasters beyond comprehension, and I think this is one of them.

Mark Kiesel

We still think inflation will be contained. The reality is the economy is going to slow sharply over the next three to six months, and that should keep the Fed from hiking beyond May.

Josh Bolten

We're in a transitional period, and I want to make sure I have a team in place that is with us for, at a minimum, the remainder of this year and to some extent beyond that.

Matt Lawton

We started out by looking at profitability, but we found by talking with partners, they viewed their business performance in a number of dimensions that goes beyond simple net profits.

Nico Melendez

Why someone would leave $4,000 in their checked luggage is beyond me. Why don't they just take the $4,000 and leave it on the seat at Aloha Stadium during a football game and let somebody pick it up? Because that's essentially what they did.

Tom Rath

When you tell people at a convention that you're from New Hampshire, they tend to hold on to your hand a little longer and look into your eyes a little deeper, ... But beyond that, there was no overt, 'Are you with me if I go?'

Bill Maher

Mitt Romney, who is on record saying that he would not waste money going after bin Laden, and on record saying he would not violate Pakistan's border to get bin Laden, this week said, 'Of course I would have gotten bin Laden.' Even his Etch-A-Sketch went, seriously?

Natasha Trethewey

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Bill Richardson

Border fence hasn't worked; border patrols & tech have.

Bill Frist

A country that cannot secure its borders cannot secure its destiny.

Shivraj Patil

For long, the two unmanned borders have presented opportunity to forces inimical to the country's interest to further their nefarious designs through subversion, militant and fundamentalist activities.

Ulrich Beck

For example, European countries have still not yet really opened up their borders to products from these countries, something that is fundamental.

David Greene

It's a demographic game. Any country that borders on China is bound to do pretty well with their gambling industry.

Ban Ki-moon

Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.

Augusto Bastos

There were epochs in the history of the humanity in which the writer was a sacred person. He wrote the sacred books, universal books, the codes, the epic, the oracles. Sentences inscribed on the walls of the crypts; examples in the portals of the temples. But in those times the writer was not an individual alone; he was the people.

Melissa Gilbert

Thank God I have four sons. The mother/daughter relationship is one of mankind's great mysteries, and for womankind, it can be hellaciously complicated. My mother and I are quintessential examples of the rewards and frustrations, and the joys and infuriations it can yield.

Sathya Baba

Teachers must be examples of LOVE and TRUTH.

Paul Greening

Be prepared to give honest, specific examples of when you've used your skills at work. Showcase yourself.

Sven Eriksson

Many times the words I say don't come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Mark Fuhrman

Now those are the two--two examples -- pimps, three. They're your third... probably the three most worthless type people in a large city.

Joseph Yam

one of the rare examples of a smooth change.

Tom Megeath

Obviously, we can't go back in time and look at the Trapezium when it was still forming, so we try to find younger examples in the sky.

Philip Solis

Examples show that this single technology has the flexibility to be included in a huge variety of applications.

Todd Engle

Everything from roofs to hurricane panels and hurricane shutters and windows to generators and screen enclosures and on and on.

Kurt Barnard

The numbers today are nothing other than big generators of yawns.

Gregg Fishman

It was an isolated event. That's not to say it can't happen again. Big power generators and big transmission lines do trip off occasionally.

Alva Noto

I usually create sounds and have different generators running over it. You know you can open a word-file as a picture or the other way round. I do the same with sounds.

Edward Gibbon

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

Edward Gibbon

Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.

Edward Gibbon

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

Edward Gibbon

The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind....

Edward Gibbon

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase the favour of Heaven if he maintained the idle at the expense of the industrious, and distributed among the saints the wealth of the republic.

Edward Gibbon

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty, was successfully practised; honours, gifts, and immunities were offered and accepted as the price of an episcopal vote; and the condemnation of the Alexandrian primate was artfully represented as the only measure which could restore the peace and union of the catholic church.

Edward Gibbon

While the Romans languished under the ignominious tyranny of eunuchs and bishops, the praises of Julian were repeated with transport in every part of the empire, except in the palace of Constantius.

Edith Sitwell

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

David Hume

History is the discovering of the principles of human nature.

Lord Lyttelton

Where none admire, 'tis useless to excel; / Where none are beaux, 'tis vain to be a belle.

William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before

Plaxico Burress

The regular season is here now so you don't have time to worry about none of that anyway, ... You've just got to go out and you've got to make it right. You can't sit back and say 'Oh, we've got time.'

Kenny Perry

We're going to make sure none of his partners put him in any kind of stressful situation.

John Cain

As recently as three years ago, none of this development was here.

Ahmed Ali

accomplishments, and at the same time, none of the competitors is stronger than him.

Nicholas Scoppetta

There were 22 interventions during that little girl's six years of life, and none of it prevented her death. I think the system was not functioning in those days.

Susan Jones

It's a little ironic. But none of us are impervious.

Dean Cox

It's a year none of us want to repeat.

Howard Dean

We have no idea what this woman's record is about. She's obviously an accomplished attorney. The question is what does she believe. We have no idea, ... This Week.

Billy Wilder

Make subtlety obvious.

Billy Coleman

We're going to obviously put a lot of thought into this. You don't want to keep shifting in and out, especially through intersections.

Ryan Kolb

We're still struggling with the first period and I don't know what to do about that. But obviously we were able to regroup in the second period.

Richard Browne

As we got into making the first three, it seemed obvious that we should do more,

Robert Saunooke

They obviously want to be pr-s about it. I thought we'd worked things out.

Mary Neubauer

They obviously scored the highest. There was no favoritism shown to any of these companies.

Keith Wright

They obviously have to be prodded, pushed and cajoled into doing their job.

Tony Greig

They obviously have had to come up with something.

Bilawal Bhutto Zardari

I will take back Kashmir, all of it, and I will not leave behind a single inch of it because, like the other provinces, it belongs to Pakistan,

Asif Ali Zardari

I've always maintained terrorism passes through Pakistan, it doesn't evolve in Pakistan.

Rear LeFever

The response to Pakistan was quicker and more long lasting, and more supplies (were delivered) than we had done in the tsunami relief effort.

Stephen Hadley

Pakistan is an old ally of the United States.

Sushma Swaraj

If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.

Shaukat Aziz

We need prefab housing, we need to repair what can be repaired. We have appealed to the whole world to ship tents and blankets to Pakistan.

Ted Rall

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Max Cleland

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

Imran Khan

You all have to make a new Pakistan. Naya Pakistan is not a slogan - it's a belief,

Bill Murray

Morocco is the greatest. I should be getting money from the Moroccans because I'm just telling everyone that it's a wonderful place to go.

Jerry Jeff Walker

A lot of Texans go up to New York and stay there forever. If there are any two places with more individual characters, I don't know them.

Bill Clinton

A lot of places can be the wrong place at the wrong time

Scott Ledbetter

They had other places to look at and many other options. We were respectful of that because they made that statement very strongly.

Linda Jeffers

They are sending us to places that we know not of. Who do we know in Kansas?

Brent Heavner

(This) places us consistently within the top 20 programs in the nation.

Chan Gailey

I told the team there's a lot worse places to go than San Francisco. It's historical. It's something they'll remember the rest of their lives.

Mark Kruea

There just aren't that many places that we can stop providing service.

Diane von Furstenberg

Bali and the Aman resorts are all very luxurious, great places to go.

Bill Ayers

Terrorists destroy randomly.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Arthur Conan Doyle

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

Bashar al-Assad

When you have terrorists, you don't throw at them balloons or you don't use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments.

Bryan Sierra

We are not alleging any connections to any terror organization other than the FARC.

Asa Hutchinson

Terrorists can utilize any vulnerability in the system and that would include outbound shipments.

Ang Lee

I had to test a new terror in myself.

Peter Lindbergh

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have terrorism.

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?