Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arthur Koestler

If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some built-in mental disorder which drives him towards self-destruction

Ahmed Qurei

The French and Palestinian doctors have concluded that there was no known cure for the illness that afflicted the president,

Lucinda Franks

They can be cranky, bewildered, giddy, frustrated and sometimes moved to violence. In short, they are afflicted with the New York City Getaway Fever.

M. Wolfe

That's an awful lot of people to be afflicted by the disease of compulsive gambling. Wouldn't you call that an epidemic?

Nelson Mandela

All South Africans would want me to take this opportunity to convey in person our heartfelt condolences at the tragic event which afflicted your family recently,

John Galsworthy

And he continued to stare at her, afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Jim Palmer

We started this thing (the Josh Palmer Fund) to help people who were hurting and were in need of a helping hand. There's nobody hurting as much in this country right now as those people whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Although our primary mission is to help young people afflicted by cancer and ultimately to find a cure for cancer, these people need help right now and we're going to do our best to help the American Red Cross help them.

Barry Ritholtz

When you stop and think about it, if the Fed were to pause, what does it actually do for anybody ... in the afflicted Gulf region? At this point they're more concerned with basic food and shelter and not really comparison-shopping for mortgages.

Bible Bible

Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy.

Evan Wilson

I was intrigued by the opportunity to live and experience a country less well off than ours. And see firsthand the problems that plague a developing nation.

Troy Sunderland

Kish is a kid that pushes the tempo, even though he might not be as highly ranked as other guys, but he will be a guy ranked high in the country by the end of the year.

Brian France

I would vote no. Other people in our organization would like to see it. But I like distinguishing the elite division in the country with a unique way of settling the championship.

Ifzal Ali

Just look at the organized sector of the economy in a country such as India, which employs less than 10 percent of workforce, you are worrying about this when there is a multitude of people completely being bypassed.

Brian Martin

I think it's a great idea, there are a lot of different cultures in the fire departments throughout the country. It's a neat idea.

Otton Solis

I think it is a very delicate moment for the country and we are going to wait until the end, until the electoral tribunal has processed all the votes because with such a small difference, anything can happen.

Silvio Berlusconi

Italy will always be grateful to the United States for what this country has been doing to free us from totalitarianism in the past century,

Adam Gladstone

He was a guy we talked about (bringing to Somerset) initially. Kevin Nicholson is having trouble getting into the country, and that could take one day or one month (to get straightened out). We wanted to be protected.

John Rich

He wanted to find out what's going on in country music and what's going on with us.

Jimmy Conrad

I was like, well, there goes my chance.

Roy Sommer

Kaspar took a selfish penalty. He goes after the referee -- what's he going to do? They scored twice because of that.

Ken Davis

Keeping it tuned up and keeping it well maintained it goes a long way.

Brett Lebda

Just throw it at the net sometimes and it goes in.

Julius Peppers

Jordan (Carstens) has played and Kindal (Moorehead) has played, so we feel good about those guys. You have to go to be ready when someone goes down.

Robert Gottlieb

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Dana Martell

It can't just be something that goes on for one year and just stops. It has to keep going.

Bob Stern

It always raises questions when someone goes from one side to the other. One of the questions that comes up is, where is his loyalty?

Lorenzo Bundy

He just goes with the flow, wherever the water takes him. He knows he's going to play in the leagues. He knows he's a big leaguer waiting to happen.

Brad Hintz

I would say they're the weakest trading house on Wall Street.

David Gregory

Kelly O'Donnell at the White House for us this morning. Kelly thanks very much.

David Stanley

He didn't go over to that guy's house for a confrontation, he just wanted to know what was going on.

Mike Nichols

What we've offered is a house where they could all live.

Jerry Shuster

He (O'Connor) can't be indiscriminate. He can't tear down a house here and tear down a house there, because then it looks like it's more for show. But if they can do three, even though they need 30 taken down, if those three are strategic, it's a tremendous plus.

Cecil Roberts

going under your house and taking the support beams out.

Kim Etheredge

He's downsizing. It's 15,000 square feet. That's a very large house for one person.

Fred Siegel

It is a joy to live (on campus), and it is a pleasure to open my house to students,

Stan Turner

We try to get to every house in Keizer.

Angus T. Jones

Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a non-existent character.

Janet Weiss

Just really be yourself, and if being yourself means you play two snare drums and nothing else, then play two snare drums and nothing else! Really figure out who you are and how you want your drums to feel because it's a very emotional instrument.

Craig Williams

I think it means a lot to the stable

Jerry Jeff Walker

'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.

Chris Higginbottom

Going to the state tournament means lot for our team, the school and the community. I think it's been six years since they've been, and to go in my first year here, there's just nothing sweeter.

Matthew Glotzbach

We're in the first inning of an extra-innings game. By no means are we at the point where search is perfect.

Ed Howat

I think that number is staggering. It means a lot to have a rate that high.

Jonathan Turley

Law professors like Obama tend to view the law as one means to an end, and others, like myself, tend to view it as the end itself.

Ray Winstone

Well, you create your own persona, don't you? And you have to live with that. But the people that I meet, they don't think that I'm a lunatic. And if they do, then that's OK, because it means that I'm playing the parts all right.

John Hoffman

Jacobson was the least stoned at the time, I guess. But he was plenty stoned during the interview.

Sue Hales

If you haven't filed yet, you're not alone, and you have plenty of company.

Craig Bellamy

I have seen plenty of level-headed kids, but I don't think I have seen any with his sort of talent.

Jesse L. Martin

I have plenty of 'Law & Order' on my resume.

John Asher

It's very quiet back here for this time of the year. There's not a lot going on. But they will all be here in plenty of time for May 6.

Trent Johnson

They've had plenty of time to adjust, and someone else will step up.

John Dryden

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

Adam Timmerman

There's been plenty of weird things going on this year.

Tim Howard

I've made plenty of mistakes as a keeper, that's for sure. I'll make plenty more before I'm through.

Richard Wright

Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.

Richard Avedon

I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

Sarah Silverman

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

Sara Blakely

I didn't like the way it looked in white trousers, and I couldn't find anything to work underneath them.

Richard Rogers

I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.

Richard Pryor

You can have a film and have 200 white people working on it, and nobody finds anything wrong with that. But if you insist on having a black crew, all of a sudden there`s something wrong.

Richard Pryor

Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.

Tupac Shakur

It aint about black or white cause we`re human