Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jalal Talabani

I swore to respect the Iraqi democratic regime and the Iraqi laws.

John Kitzhaber

has less to do with me than the general malaise of the Democratic Party right now.

Daniel Greenberg

We've been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.

Larry Jacobs

We've gone from a situation of Democratic dominance to parity.

Jalal Talabani

We support the principle of democratic change, even with American assistance.

Stephen Breyer

I thought that that was an effort to inject a popular element, a democratic element into the selection of a person who, once he is selected and confirmed, is beyond electoral control.

Thomas Mann

I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The idea that somehow a Democratic majority is harmful for the economy strikes me as fanciful. It's financial fiction.

Tony Leon

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

Nkosana Sibuyi

It is our firm view that the declaration of this day as a public holiday will enable voters to exercise their democratic right to vote as enshrined in our Constitution.

Mr Howard

John Brogden leaves the Liberal Party as he found it: leaderless, directionless, divided and without a vision for the people of NSW,

Yvette Girouard

This was one of those teams that we said we needed to sweep and we're getting it done. We divided the programs up as to what was realistic and who we thought on paper we should sweep and we are on track so far except for Georgia.

John Ruskin

It is not, truly speaking, the labor that is divided; but the men: divided into mere segments of men --broken into small fragments and crumbs of life, so that all the little piece of intelligence that is left in a man is not enough to make a pin, or a nail, but exhausts itself in making the point of a pin or the head of a nail.

William Danforth

Our most valuable possessions are those which can be shared without lessening; those which when shared multiply. Our least valuable possessions are those which when divided are diminished.

Leo Nesmith

In this position, if you can't multi-task, you would struggle. Your time is divided in so many arenas.

Arthur Henderson

It has been said that since September, 1931, the world has been divided into wholehearted violators and halfhearted supporters of the Covenant.

Tom Day

In this divided system, there will not be an entity to hold accountable for the performance of the Postal Service.

Abraham Foxman

The findings suggest that American public opinion is starkly divided when it comes to the role of religion in the public square, and that our nation's proud tradition of church-state separation is threatened as never before.

David Banks

The effort is really divided into three phases, ... First, you have the emergency phase, which is how you respond in the first few days. Then there is a clean-up phase and finally long-term recovery.

Gary Sheffield

If you're equally good as this Latin player, guess who's going to get sent home? I know a lot of players that are home now can outplay a lot of these guys.

Alicia Sacramone

I think we could have sent three people to the Olympics and done equally well. We have a lot of great girls in our generation right now.

Carnegie Hall

He was just magic. He was equally as wonderful offstage as on.

Tom Lantos

I only hope we will have an equally charismatic and visionary leader in the future as Kofi Annan has been.

Kiaran McLaughlin

I hope this gray horse, like Giacomo, keeps improving with each race and is headed for a big performance on the first Saturday in the May. Of course, we're hoping for an equally good performance in the Florida Derby.

Keith Hembre

The historical pattern is for shocks of this nature to initially be absorbed roughly equally between lower savings and lower purchases for other goods and services.

Tanith Belbin

It's unnatural to think that in the past that everyone was equally strong in the compulsory, free and original dance. ... I'm proud to be part of this generation of ice dancing.

Caroline Shepherd

Do I think she's not equally guilty? No. That is 100 percent a negotiating tactic.

Tanith Belbin

It's so incredibly wonderful to see the movement, because it's unrealistic to think that each team has equally strong compulsory, original and free (programs). Everybody has different strengths, and we're so glad to be part of this generation of ice dancing.

Katherine Paterson

I'm a great believer in research. I have to know about a place before I write a story that is set in that place.

Darius Miles

Kevin had a great game. We have some smaller guards out there so he was able to do a lot more things. He had it going and was on fire.

B. B. King

Kevin did a great job tonight. He gutted it out there at the end for us. It was a great team win.

Brian Smith

Kieron has played some great rugby for us this season.

Larry Martin

Knoxville is a great place to live. It's a great place to raise kids.

James Patterson

Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from different perspectives. I mean, that's the great thing about books, still. Here's television, here are the movies, and it's pretty limited in terms of the perspectives.

Mary Carskadon

Kids are too sleepy to learn well. They're too sleepy to be happy. And they're at great risk for such things as traffic accidents.

Alan Trammel

I wouldn't say it was one of his greatest performances, but he pitched well enough to win.

Jim Schmitz

Jake Wade did just such a great job throwing strikes, going right at them. He pitched six quality innings. It was just nice to see him come out like that.

Gus Faucher

Katrina will weigh on growth in second half of this year and we'll make most of that back first half of next year,

Bill Cheney

Job growth has kind of stalled out. It's a puzzle.

Mark Zandi

I suspect this is a pause and we still see a resumption of top line growth and, ultimately, better hiring in tech.

Wayne Pace

He wants it to be profitable growth, sustainable growth and responsible growth,

Jill Dougherty

He did say that it must meet Russia's national interests and also that it should not restrict its growth and social development,

Maureen Allyn

Growth took them by surprise last year so I think this is paying back for all that growth we had last year.

Shuchita Mehta

Growth momentum remains strong and that should lead to higher inflation and interest rates.

Stephen Koukoulas

Growth momentum means offshore investors want to put their money in Australia.

Wolfgang Clement

have reacted in an appropriate way to the state of growth with rate cuts.

Gary Waters

He should have pulled up. He was trying to get fouled, I know that's what he was thinking.

O.J. Mayo

I think we pulled together as a team.

Ed DeChellis

He was guarded, he pulled it, and the senior made a big shot. That's what seniors do this time of year.

Corey Claitt

I didn't want to get frustrated, but I'm not used to losing. We just had to trust one another. We pulled together as a team.

Rick Noble

I don't know what we said, but it was kind of like a high-five, we really pulled this off. It was better than we thought it was going to be. Even now when I talk about it I get chills.

Ken Hitchcock

He has a sore groin. I saw him talking to the trainers so I pulled him out.

Rebecca Allen

I never thought I was a writer. My teacher, Ruth Johnson, pulled it out of me.

Shay Espinoza

I just pulled the stroller and pushed her up on the curb.

John M. Smith

I'm not surprised we pulled back that quick. That's our team. We make runs like that and we've been doing it all year.

Frank Middleton

He taught me a lesson, ... Never slow down.

Jeff Johnson

I have to tell her to slow down sometimes.

Dustin McGowan

I'm just not comfortable. I'm out there thinking too much and things are going a little too fast. I've got to find a way to slow it down and start pitching.

Jason Guffey

I?m disappointed because I wanted to win the match, but it?s just going to make me work harder. I can?t let this slow me down at all.

Rosie Jones

I'm going to go out slower than I anticipated.

Donald Bachman

You can't stop the wear. But, you can slow it way down.

David Meredith

You can't stop it (the breathing), but you can slow it down,

Frank Thomas

It's been a slow start, but it's only 17 games.

Michael Apted

It's still the same job, the same anxieties, but it did feel a lot different, that kind of budget, that schedule, and frankly, the slowness of it all, and also having a lot of other units working.

Yanni

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.

Mike Ditka

In life, you get what you tolerate.

Sean Penn

You tolerate me. You really tolerate me.

Henry Cloud

It is true that you get what you tolerate.

Pete Williams

At least as long as we can tolerate each other.

Gary Mickelson

We do not tolerate discrimination in the workplace.

Michael Chertoff

We will not tolerate lawlessness, or violence, or interference with the evacuation,

Mike Tomlin

I'll tolerate you until I can replace you.

Nora Roberts

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

Robert Creeley

It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

Robert Crais

I have these huge black foam boards on the wall, and tacked to them, I have these white punch cards with my story ideas, scenes and notes.

Richelle Mead

Oh, so that's why you're up here. For a pity party." "This isn't a joke. I'm serious." I could tell Lissa was getting angry. It was trumping her earlier distress. He shrugged and leaned casually against the sloping wall. "So am I. I love pity parties. I wish I'd brought the hats. What do you want to mope about first? How it's going to take you a whole day to be popular and loved again? How you'll have to wait a couple weeks before Hollister can ship out some new clothes? If you spring for rush shipping, it might not be so long.

Russell Baker

Journalism was being whittled away by a Wall Street theory that profits can be maximized by minimizing the product.

Russell Baker

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.

Rose Macaulay

The very utterness of the crash and ruin, the desperation of the case, might be its hope. On ruins one can begin to build. Anyhow, looking out from ruins one clearly sees; there are no obstructing walls.

Rose McGowan

There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'

Rose McGowan

You have to work to carve out your own little corner, and I'm certainly smacking my head against the wall trying to make a dent. I just hope I don't get brain-damaged before I get there

Ronald Ross

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.