Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Beckenbauer

He could avoid constant criticism that he is never here,

Stephen Colbert

Use the word 'zeitgeist' as often as possible. Ideally, you want to find words that sound familiar but people don't really know their definitions: 'zeitgeist,' 'bildungsroman,' 'doppelganger' - better yet, anything Latin. But avoid 'paradigm.' It's so 1994. If you say the word 'paradigm,' everybody knows you're a poser.

Hector Jimenez

What we were not able to avoid today, just like yesterday, was volatility. We have to see how investors receive the information (about Iraq and the budget negotiations).

Christopher Meyer

Had Britain so insisted, Iraq after Saddam might have avoided the violence that may yet prove fatal to the entire enterprise.

Mike Kuntz

He?s good at avoiding getting served, ... He?s good at dragging things out.

Greg Nie

I think the market has enough positives to get back to the upside shortly. We need to avoid any mistakes. I think that's the catch for today. The Dow breaking 7,600 would be a mistake.

Jose Maria Aznar

It is our grave mistake that for many years we neglected pro-Western groups in order to avoid any friction with the existing rulers.

Juan Lubroth

It is important to underline that there is no evidence that the H5N1 virus is present in poultry in Italy. At the moment, the disease remains confined to individual cases in wild birds only. The current situation in Italy does not provide consumers with any cause to avoid eating poultry products.

Ted Stevens

It is important for us to get the facts and avoid speculation.

Marshall Curry

I think that in our society we use the word 'terrorism' a lot - individuals throw the word around a lot without carefully considering it.

Enrique Manzanilla

Restricted use pesticides must be handled carefully in order to protect the users and the environment. Companies selling these chemicals must make sure that they do not fall into inexperienced hands.

Walter Miller

Price is a big concern in school districts all over the state. We didn't necessarily look this carefully at our contracts before.

Charles Lieberman

Investors worried this morning when the oil inventory report was released, but the market is taking a second look and interpreting the data more carefully now.

Philippe Petit

If you see how carefully I prepare for any kind of walk, legal or illegal, small or big, you will see that, actually, I narrow the unknown to virtually nothing. And that's when I am ready to walk on the wire.

Ahmed Qorei

I invite the Israel, the international community, the world to listen carefully, to remember carefully who is the murderer.

Grover Norquist

I hope you read them carefully and you'll see that there's nothing here that says who to vote for or who to vote against. It's strictly on the issue of Medicare.

David Paine

The Mighty Ducks' organization very carefully considered the question of whether to change the team name, and spent many months evaluating various options.

Margaret Teo

Their feedback was carefully evaluated and appropriate adjustments were made to the specifications where necessary and practicable, but without compromising on the objectives of the IR and Singapore's interests.

Frances Beinecke

Under pressure from a growing movement of people who want their money out of fossil fuels, universities, pension investors and foundations are looking to exclude coal, oil and gas stocks from their portfolios.

Mike Holmgren

I'm not sure that even happened. If I did exclude him, I am very, very sorry.

Jacques Rogge

If any sport wants to come in, one will have to go. But no sport will be excluded before 2012.

Hugo Young

But I also think what you see is a larger segment of society excluded from the mainstream, in effect, an underclass.

Denis MacShane

He never used the phrase 'ethical foreign policy'; instead, he said there should be an 'ethical dimension' to foreign policy.

Jaime Salazar

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

Jon Porter

In light of the recent controversy surrounding foreign management of U.S. Ports, a thorough review of foreign management of U.S. airports needs to occur.

Margaret Thatcher

Fear is not the basis for foreign policy.

Jim Walsh

touches on huge and important issues of foreign policy.

Mark Twain

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

Porter Goss

foreign policy team was all on the same page.

Colin Lundgren

Foreign investors will still get a lot of yield comparatively in the U.S., so we could see them buying.

Hideo Mizutani

Foreigners have, thus far, made a lot of money by investing in Japanese stocks which were relatively cheap.

Greg Beratlis

I would've liked to have heard something out of his mouth. Yes, anything. A plea for his life or just his opinion on what went on over the last two years,

Mark Mandel

John is never at a loss for words. But when he heard the news, he was speechless.

Cindy Sheehan

Have you ever heard the sound of a nation-

Carl Dodd

Her mother done told her a lot of stories. My plan is to sit down and talk to her and let her know that a lot of things she heard aren't true, and let her be the judge.

Charles Smith

He said he was worried about his sister. He hadn't heard from her since the Sunday before the storm.

Kelly Williams

He's heard it from gang-bangers right in his ear when he played at Crenshaw.

The Beatles

To every word of love I heard you whisper, the raindrops seem to play a sweet refrain.

Jeff Soref

I thought this system could lead to us being re-marginalized by the party. I have seen or heard nothing since that makes me feel that is not happening.

Denise Wilson

I think it's so new that people haven't heard about it yet.

Mark Gwozdecky

IAEA received a prompt response from Iranians to visit the site, prompt access,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

the same as those of the Iranian nation.

Hassan Rouhani

When it comes to nuclear technology, the Iranian people are very sensitive. It is a part of our national pride, and nuclear technology has become indigenous.

Alexander Yakovenko

Moscow sees no reason to submit the question of the Iranian nuclear program to the UN Security Council,

Jacques Chirac

I was profoundly shocked by the statements of the Iranian president, which are totally senseless and irresponsible,

Mehrangiz Kar

It doesn't mean that the majority of the Iranian people think like that. They are staying in their homes. They are not on the streets.

Sergei Kiriyenko

Our Iranian partners should come here in the near future, and talks will take place constantly.

Tetsu Emori

Traders are looking at the Nigerian and Iranian issues. They don't like to sell at present.

Rick Warren

If you aren't serving, you're just existing, because life is meant for ministry.

John Tesh

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

Geoffrey Chaucer

And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach

Jakob Nielsen

On the Web, all advantages are temporary, and you must keep innovating to stay ahead

Jerry B. Jenkins

No life is messier than one in ministry

Gholamhossein Elham

The government's reading is that a new three-month period has been established and there is no problem about the Oil Ministry being run by a caretaker.

Nicolas Sarkozy

If you want to have me say that it would have been better to have not launched into this affair, I rather agree. But once we were there, it was necessary to find a way out of it, quickly and as painless as possible.

Max Baucus

If I were the president, I would be very concerned, ... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.

Duncan Hunter

This legislation implements appropriate and necessary solutions to many of our nation's immigration problems,

Samuel Bodman

We are prepared to do what is necessary with regards to the strategic reserves,

Alireza Jafarzadeh

This is a welcome and necessary step that the IAEA has taken. It is long overdue.

Shane Osborn

We did it right, ... No apologies necessary on our part.

Sharon Stone

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

Ariel Sharon

do what is necessary to protect the people of Israel.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

You are the only person in the world that was ever necessary to me.

Blair Jones

The American people have the right to protest, and the president welcomes the opinions of all Americans.

Joe Heim

We wanted to get a broader-based opinion, not just voters' opinions.

Mike Malaise

There are a lot of people who are energized by this race now, some who have had longstanding opinions about Tom DeLay.

Sam Wright

with 50 different opinions we wont ever get anything done.

Alan Sugar

The only people whose opinions I worry about are my wife, my children, and my employees.

Christina Richmond

Partners are getting more and more savvy in services because they have to.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Reg Alcock

We view the public service as our partners in this,

John Oates

I've been asked to do various types of cruises.

Kevin Hall

We will be considering the views of the various stakeholders.

Ed Gillespie

Our party may have swung too far right at various times.

Bob Greenly

Justus is very much a work in progress, ... but he's getting better all the time.

Mads Mikkelsen

I take my work enormously seriously. When I do something, it has to feel right. Everything has to be right.

Dan Kane

It can happen. We just all have to work together.

Glenn Storch

I think it's going to work out fine.

Ben Kuehne

It had nothing to do with her work as a lobbyist.

Irwin Cohen

I think this works for New York City.

Sienna Guillory

I think that, with homoeopathy, if you get the right mix, it works 20 times quicker than conventional medicine.

Rod Argent

I was wondering, 'Is this going to work?'

Sophocles

A word does not frighten the man who, in acting feels no fear.