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.

John Hawkes

As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.

A. Johnson

As a company founded by a competitive cyclist who wanted to create the first great-tasting, nutritious energy bar, we're ecstatic about helping bring professional cycling to California. We also value the opportunity to reduce the environmental footprint of this event while raising awareness about global warming.

Larry Ponemon

AOL's efforts in raising awareness and understanding about good privacy and data protection on the Internet is paying off in terms of positive consumer perception. This is an especially significant accomplishment given the rash of privacy issues such as phishing and spam that impact the ISP industry.

Paul Gewirtz

The society is more open and aware of what other countries do, and they're developing their own expectations about things.

H. Hart

The theme of the posters is 'Maybe history got things a little too straight,' ... We think it's important to make people aware of accomplished, successful people who don't fit stereotypes of an LGBT person. They humanize LGBT issues.

Carl Weathers

I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leadership issues, that sort of stuff. And try to, in essence, look at what training they're doing and say, 'This is how you can improve the training from a humanistic point of view.'

Bill Simmons

I've learned that water is certainly very complicated. Water and wet are two different things. But I'm aware of the issues coming up. There is a learning curve and I'm a little higher up on that curve.

Morris Gleitzman

I've always been interested in setting my stories against a big event, the importance of which my younger readers are slowly becoming aware of as they move into their teens.

George Gwozdecky

I use this term a little tongue-in-cheek, but they are finally getting interested. But I think there is some truth to that. Our guys are very aware of what's at stake, and when you can see the end of the regular season coming around and you've put yourself in contention, your heart's not beating if you can't get excited.

Christina Rocca

A spark could lead to an unintended conflict.

Russell Mael

Ours is a less obvious relationship conflict than Ray and Dave Davies or the Oasis brothers, ... They just punch each other.

John M. Smith

People's perceptions have settled in somewhat in regards to the conflict in Iraq and what it means to them. We see consumers' state of mind at being at a place to be receptive to a strong offer.

Nicholas Howen

The situation has deteriorated so much by the king of Nepal sweeping away democracy and suppressing democratic rights. And now that has become one of the most serious problems because the people of Nepal do not have democratic space to discuss and decide their future and to resolve the conflict peacefully.

Rebecca Kirszner

Sounds like a huge conflict of interest. As the president's homeland security adviser, Townsend was part of the administration's response to Katrina.

Joe Biden

Nowhere is it written that there must be conflict between the United States and China.

Kofi Annan

Terrible inequalities continue to scar our world. Too many people continue to suffer and die from poverty, conflict and disaster - despite all the means at our disposal to create and share wealth, protect people from the violence of man or nature, and deepen respect for the dignity of every human being,

Ken Bacon

President Yeltsin has said that the Russians do not plan to get involved in this conflict, and since that is a very reasonable tack for the Russians to take, we take him at his word on that.

Paul Clarke

It would be better if it were sometime after the election in order not to conflict with his responsibilities in Washington.

Susan Moores

If it's three flights or less, take the stairs.

Punky Moore

What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want to put people in those areas, and it reduces the number of flights we have to make to get a good picture of what's happening.

Geoff Hoon

Most people are flying to Heathrow because it's a hub, so they can fly on to other places, often long-distance flights. If they can't go on those long-distance flights from Heathrow, they will go to Paris, they will go to Amsterdam, they will go to Frankfurt, because those are viable alternatives.

Ted Forrest

When you have a carrier with something like 500 flights a day, its going to be hard for someone else to get a niche.

Mike Archer

I've been around a long time, ... and I've never seen anything like this in my life.

Carl Willis

Tell me the youngest person you have ever seen play this game.

Felix Sabates

Q:'You don't spoil your grandchildren do you?A:'Not this morning, I haven't seen them yet.'

W. S. Gilbert

I've seen it in all sorts of industries.

Claire Foy

I've seen 'Pride and Prejudice' about 4,000 times. I'm not joking: I know every single line.

Robert Williams

I've never seen anything like this in Detroit. It's different for sure.

Todd Pratt

I've never seen anything like that, ... You just sit down and go, 'This is unbelievable that this is happening.'

Doug Graham

I've never seen (a case) where they've taken the vehicles together.

Steve Rixon

I've not seen a series like it in a long time,

Ayn Rand

whose steps were a restless substitute for flight.

Burt Reynolds

I can tell a young person where the mines are, but he's probably going to step on them anyway.

Deng Xiaoping

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

Antonio Porchia

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

Hugh Johnson

(This) week is time for two steps forward,

Douglas Preston

One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.

Christopher Reeve

What can I do today to take a step forward?

Daniel D. Palmer

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

David Livingstone

Without Christ, not one step; with Him, anywhere!