Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rafael Marquez

We've had a bit of luck. It's a very acceptable group in which we can do many things.

Dylan Jones

So going from there to where they are now -- where it is acceptable for a man to nip off at lunch time and have a facial, or a pedicure -- is quite a journey.

Abdul Sattar

We hope that the two leaders will be forward-looking ... and try to identify a direction in which that will lead us to a solution acceptable to the Kashmiri people.

Wu Dawei

I hope the parties concerned could continue to participate in consultations in an earnest, responsible, flexible and pragmatic attitude so as to seek solutions acceptable to all parties,

Dr. Kohn

The idea that tobacco use is normal and that it is socially acceptable because respected adults and others do it encourages kids to pick up the habit. Tobacco-free school policies are helping change the perception that smoking and chew are okay.

Rob Manuel

The idea that everyone in their lives has played a video game is becoming more acceptable to the general audience. Now we just need to work on the idea that, even out of adolescence, that it's okay to still play.

Gareth Evans

The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don't seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome.

Jeffrey Montgomery

And let's not make any mistake, or gloss over that fact: Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people are at risk every day of their lives. Not only are we the group most at risk of violence, we are most at risk of job discrimination, losing our families; homophobia retains its title as the last socially acceptable form of bigotry.

Mark Bowersox

And that's acceptable to us. In a perfect world, we'd like to see the original House version.

Burn Gorman

I'm a film buff and I was keen to find out about the response to Daniel Craig's 007. 'Empire' and 'Hot Dog' had great reviews, and finally he's been accepted as the new Bond. So many millions go into that franchise that if you make a mistake, it's awful.

Richard Boucher

What we're trying to do now is get the parameters accepted in a way where the reservations are reconcilable and, therefore, we know that both sides are in a position to negotiate seriously.

Jim Wilkinson

Secretary Rice asked him to stay but he felt it was time for new challenges. She reluctantly accepted his resignation but told him to keep his uniform ready.

Walter Brisken

I always knew he was interested in engineering, and in what I was doing, but he surprised me by calling me to say he had accepted a job here.

Shannon Currier

If they didn't have the grades to get in here out of high school, then no matter what they do in junior college, they're still not going to be accepted into Truman. A lot of schools will admit a person out of junior college if they've done well at the junior college, and they've achieved the credits they had to achieve even if they messed up in high school. That's the difference.

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Helen Clark

I have left it there. I accepted the pilot's apology when it was offered to me.

Chen Shui-bian

I have accepted his resignation. He has stepped down after accomplishing his job.

Dick Cheney

I have accepted his decision with deep regret.

John Thune

People believe we have to finish the job. But certainly they're war-weary, they're battle-weary.

Don Aaron

Officers are permitted to use deadly force when their lives are in danger or citizens' lives are in imminent danger. Officer Davidson believed he was in imminent danger.

Stefan Molyneux

Deep down, I do not believe that there are any really good parents out there - the same way that I do not believe there were any really good doctors in the 10th century.

Linda Tripp

Despite this expensive lesson, I continue to believe that each and every citizen has the duty to turn over evidence of criminal wrongdoing, especially evidence that implicates our highest elected government officials.

Angus Campbell

Despite the U.S. earnings commencing in earnest this week, the recent inability of indexes to sustain their highs has led many to believe that there is impending weakness. For new highs to be set U.S. companies will have to report superb results, far outstripping expectations and things did not get off to a great start last week.

Emily Rose

Demons exist whether you believe in them or not,

John Kilduff

Apparently, the market does not believe a turn to colder temperatures will boost heating demand enough to make a significant dent in supplies. Obviously some other supply disruption may have to occur to take the pressure off prices.

Dave Nabity

A plan for improved tourism and recreation in Nebraska starts with a new vision for Nebraska. It will take a governor who not only inspires citizens with this new vision, but a governor who can strategize and sell this new vision to make it a reality. I believe I am the one who can do this for our state! For more than three years now, I have been developing new creative ideas to expand tourism and recreation.

Don Marquis

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.

G. H. Hardy

Anything we can do to help impart knowledge of our Constitution is important. If we spent a day recognizing, say, presidents or particular people, this certainly is the one thing we share in common - our Constitution. It's the thread that holds us all together.

Marc Berman

Pulling a stunt like this (which is certainly not a first) shows a lack of respect for the audience.

Brad Rubin

The salaried workers are certainly going to be touched by this. By how much, it's difficult to say.

Kirby Dean

It would certainly help. I think that would go a long way to deciding the team that comes out victorious. I think they probably feel like they can win playing our style and we feel like, if the chips fall right, we can win playing their style.

Gary Bardini

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

Lisa Finstrom

That the claims data were back at 356,000 was certainly better than expected and the dollar is gaining.

Anthony Principi

This is certainly one of the most significant recommendations to come before the commission.

Steve Oestreicher

This is certainly not what we wanted to see.

Dave Trembley

This is certainly not the kind of start we wanted or expected. But we'll deal with it and we'll become better because of it.

Jack Straw

are here for the long-term to see Iraq through to a better future.

Joseph Biden

This is poppycock that Iraq will be able to pay its way out.

Alan Dershowitz

What the United States has to do is send a clear message to Iran that they will not be able to develop nuclear weapons. Why endure the difficulty of sanctions if they are not going to be able to develop nuclear weapons anyway?

Michael Scheuer

If the Americans attack Iran for the first time in 1,400 years, we may unite Sunnis and Shias against us. So I guess there is room for accomplishment everywhere.

Christopher Hitchens

There are two clocks ticking in Iran. One is the democracy movement clock which is ticking now faster than it was but it's got a lot of catching up to do. And then there's the clock that's ticking towards a nuclear weaponry.

Hillary Clinton

We have to figure out how to deal with Iran as the principal state sponsor of terrorism in the world.

Leon Panetta

The terrorism from 9/11 has metastasized. It's metastasized in Iraq and Syria, in Nigeria, in Somalia, in Yemen and in other places in North Africa. We need a very comprehensive strategy to deal with that threat.

Leon Panetta

The White House was so eager to rid itself of Iraq that it was willing to withdraw rather than lock in arrangements that would preserve our influence and interests,

Paul Wolfowitz

Iraq has no history of ethnic conflict.

Michael Cohen

People responded to Sandy. At public hearings, which can be so contentious, people would listen to Sandy's presentation and stand up and cheer.

Chris Sullivan

I've been listening to them my whole life.

Brett Ratner

Listening is harder than just acting. Listening is the hardest part.

Barbara Bush

You get nothing done if you don't listen to each other.

Brian May

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

Joe Zwilling

What it is we may have overlooked, and why we might want to reconsider. We'll listen to what they have to say.

Amy Sedaris

If you see a shy person, ask them some questions like, 'Why are you so shy? Tell everyone, we're all listening.

Rick Owens

I almost cried the other day listening to ‘Vogue’ by Madonna.

Robert Anton Wilson

part of the humor of living on this backward planet is listening to the hominids rationalize their predations.

Juvenal

One path alone leads to a life of peace. The path of virtue.

Carl von Clausewitz

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression', human rights should be protected by the rule of law. That just laws which uphold human rights are the necessary foundation of peace and security would be denied only by closed minds which interpret peace as the silence of all opposition and security as the assurance of their own power.

Ariel Sharon

Like all Israelis, I yearn for peace. I see the utmost importance in taking all possible steps that will lead to a solution of the conflict with the Palestinians.

Bob Dylan

...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned?

Aesop

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.

Dorothy Day

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Donald Rumsfeld

There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact.

Don Henley

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

Ivo Andric

What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be.

Prem Rawal

Surrender to what is ultimate. Surrender to what you really are!

Alphonsus Liguori

The saved are few, but we must live with the few if we would be saved with the few. O God, too few indeed they are: yet amongst those few I wish to be!

Simone Elkeles

I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me.

Simone Elkeles

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.

Simone Weil

We must wish either for that which actually exists or for that which cannot in any way exist or, still better, for both. That which is and that which cannot be are both outside the realm of becoming.

Simone Weil

It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.

Robert Anthony

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

Robert Altman

I've never had a big hit movie. "MASH" was probably the biggest. I don't make those kind of films, and I never have. I wish each one of them would just do billions of dollars worth of ticket sales, but they never do and they never will.

Sam Smith

But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'

Rush Limbaugh

I deal with what "is," not with what I wish was or not with what was or used to be.