Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lakhdar Brahimi

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

William T. Vollmann

'In the nineteenth century, we beat the British more than once,' Afghans often told me. 'In the twentieth century, we beat the Russians. In the twenty-first, if we have to, we'll beat the Americans!'

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

The majority of Afghans do not see the Americans as foreign occupiers who must be defeated. Instead, they are hungry for the Americans to step up and help them make their country safer, their government cleaner and their economy stronger. They are disappointed because the international community has done too little, not too much.

Anand Gopal

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Joby Warrick

After spending time in the East and meeting with ordinary Afghans there, it's hard to imagine how a future Afghan government will retain control of provinces such as Khost or Paktia once U.S. forces are gone.

Sam Zarifi

The London Conference should not be an occasion for celebratory backslapping, but for rolling up sleeves and making up for past weak performance. The gains made by Afghans are not sustainable without greater international support and commitment.

William T. Vollmann

Americans worry that Afghanistan has become a petri dish in which the germs of Islamic fanaticism are replicating - soon Afghans will be hijacking American planes and bombing embassies everywhere. And their fears are not necessarily unfounded. The Taliban are unemployed war veterans, ready and even eager to return to the battlefield.

Peter Kessler

A new wave of millions of Afghans will overwhelm hospitality, (we must) insure that we have local and federal governments on board.

Richard Engel

The Taliban may pine for a pre-industrial society, but most Afghans do not.

Dan Jenkins

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.

Joel Silver

Joel Silver has confirmed that a controversial London bombing scene from next year's

John Hamre

What you do with a bombing campaign is bring a whole country rallying around its radical leaders.

Jim Cavanaugh

Our bombs don't work. But without these agents' hard work, we could very easily have ended up working a bombing fatality.

Zhang Qiyue

Our position on this question is clear; NATO must immediately halt the bombing of Yugoslavia as a necessary precondition for solving the Kosovo crisis. The bombing should stop before the Security Council discusses this issue.

Vladislav Jovanovic

The insistence of the continuance of the bombing is crystal clear, that they are opposed to a peaceful resolution of the problem.

Dave Foley

It's less lonely. Sketch comedy is much more fun than stand-up. You can still have a good time when you're bombing in sketch comedy because at least you're bombing with other people.

Noam Chomsky

I stated that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are 'among the most unspeakable crimes in history.' I took no position on just where they stand on the scale of horrors relative to Auschwitz, the bombing of Chungking, Lidice, and so on.

Tim Hogan

There's been a continuous upgrade since the bombing of the Murrah building.

Casey Affleck

I'm not that into the fake meat anymore. The familiar texture makes the transition from meat to soy and wheat products easier, but it's kind of limiting. There are lots of great ways to prepare meatless dishes without simulating meat.

Rick Bayless

I'm meticulous about tasting everything at the restaurant, so I taste all the preparations before lunch and dinner. That means tasting around 50 dishes twice. There are times when I think I can't taste another thing.

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

It is never right to compromise with dishonesty.

Lindsey Miller

This house, there were still dishes in the dishwasher. They just left their house and thought everything was going to be normal.

Raul Roges

All different ingredients get incorporated into Nuevo Latino recipes. I personally love it. The many different spices in traditional dishes give you a different taste.

Jeff Green

I've had to go to a friends to get a shower. Laundry piled up. dishes piled up. Can't even flush my toilet without water from someone else to flush my toilet.

Newt Gingrich

So when you hear about Hillary's [Clinton] dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships - remember, this is not about politics.

Craig Nichoson

They do have electricity and are providing meals and showers for workers. They have had workers from Missouri, Texas, Florida and Ohio. Paper plates are a huge item right now. All water has to be boiled, and if you are feeding 50 to 60 people a meal that's a lot of dishes to wash.

Ricardo Patton

There was nothing on film that indicated they would take that many 3-pointers. They were primarily a penetrate and dish team.

George Pierce Baker

Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences.

Justin Leonard

I think that being around and meeting a lot of their people at Nike, getting into the new equipment and all those things kind of renewed my energy a little bit. I think that's the reason I got off to such a great start in '05, because I was so excited to play and eager to prove to Nike that they made a good decision.

Vernon Smith

I know I'm going to a school that is eager to reach a high level again, and I think they're getting a good football player.

Hiroyuki Nakai

The market is under pressure from three E's -- energy, euro and earnings, ... With third-quarter results about to come out in the U.S., investors are not so eager to take positions now.

Otto Friedrich

Americans have always been eager for travel, that being how they got to the New World in the first place.

Robert Mancini

There probably will be a road trip home next week. A lot of us would be really eager to get back to the 'Burgh.

Jennifer Diebling

They're so eager to watch the acts. They've been extremely respectful.

Tom Burns

They're eager to participate. If every day could be like this, I'd be happy.

Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Fisher Ames

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

John C. Calhoun

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

Amos Oz

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Nikki Giovanni

Kevin Powell is pushing to bring, as he has so brilliantly done before, the voices of his generation: the concerns, the cares, the fears and the fearlessness.

Renato Vercesi

Investors were calmer today, thinking Wednesday's fears over inflation were exaggerated.

Jonathan Ames

A lot of writers, probably because they're sensitive, which makes them want to be writers, have fears about their masculinity, so they overcompensate by having an interest in boxing and tough-guy things.

Alexander Lebed

It's been long since I've lost all fears and concerns. I don't worry, I calculate.

Jim Benson

There were some fears it was being pulled off the shelves and this is not the case. There is a shortfall, but it is not just at the VA. All pharmacies are experiencing it.

Tim Heekin

It's a quiet day before Easter, and we're waiting for the bunny. You have people not wanting to make moves before a three day weekend, and you have some fears about terrorism -- with Rice speaking, and because this is a religious holiday.

Lon Anderson

There seems to be a good supply of gas. The governor's office sent out a release that there is a one-and-a-half to two-week supply of gas on hand in Virginia, so there is no reason for fears about a shortage of gas or gas lines.

Edil Baisalov

It was feeding instability and insecurity. There were these fears that after March 25 the mob would run the country.

John Donne

As he that fears God fears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees everything else

Kelly Rowland

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray.

Sophie Swetchine

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Raymond Martin

I don't think nuclear war will get us, but germs will.

Florence Scovel Shinn

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

Buzz Aldrin

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Harry Samit

That's pretty ominous and obviously suggests some sort of hijacking plan.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Richard Clarke

He seems to have been reduced to being a commentator on Islamic news.

Reza Aslan

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Reza Aslan

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

Reza Aslan

The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.

Reza Aslan

It took many years to cleanse Arabia of its “false idols.” It will take many more to cleanse Islam of its new false idols-bigotry and fanaticism-worshipped by those who have replaced Muhammad's original vision of tolerance and unity with their own ideals of hatred and discord. But the cleansing is inevitable, and the tide of reform cannot be stopped. The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

William Kristol

And on this issue of the Shia in Iraq, I think there's been a certain amount of, frankly, Terry, a kind of pop sociology in America that, you know, somehow the Shia can't get along with the Sunni and the Shia in Iraq just want to establish some kind of Islamic fundamentalist regime. There's almost no evidence of that at all. Iraq's always been very secular.

Ruhollah Khomeini

When anyone studies a little or pays a little attention to the rules of Islamic government, Islamic politics, Islamic society and Islamic economy he will realize that Islam is a very political religion. Anyone who will say that religion is separate from politics is a fool; he does not know Islam or politics.

Yasser Arafat

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Emily Oster

I travel a fair amount, read on the plane, and I read fast.

Joe Hopkins

There will be planes in the air, and no, we're not worried,

Andrew Kluger

Rather than rush through with the inspection, to get the planes up right away faster, that they should take their time carefully.

Howard Dean

no safer today than the day the planes struck the World Trade Center.

Charles Bickers

Deliveries will take place as soon as planes are completed.

Anne Hathaway

The movie showed on planes it seems like forever,

Claudio Ranieri

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Cillian Murphy

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

Yorvit Torrealba

I was in one big rush, that's probably why I'm taking so long. I should have just taken my time in Spring Training and I'd probably be ready now. I want to be out there. I wanted to throw more today, but we're going step by step.

Mitch Gilfillan

It all starts Sunday. Trust me, we'll be ready to go.

Sasha Cohen

It can be frustrating, ... But I am where I am, and everyone has their own trajectory. I know my time will come. I just have to be ready for it.

Mike Greene

Hamburg?s not going to show us anything we haven?t seen. I think we?re well-seasoned and ready for anything that can be thrown at us.

Barry Alvarez

He runs through a lot of tackles. He's a very strong runner. You're not going to arm-tackle him. You'd better be ready to gang-tackle him.

Terry Hill

He said he was ready to come home.

Mark Headley

He's always going to be well-prepared mentally. He's not a big talker, but he's always ready to play.

Thor Hushovd

It is about getting ready for Madrid. But for sure I will try to get a stage here first.

Dean Laidley

He was just tight. If it was a home-and-away, he would've played, but we want him up and ready for round one.

Samuel Johnson

To forget, or pretend to do so, to return a borrowed article, is the meanest sort of petty theft.

Warren Buffett

Returns decrease as motion increases.

W. S. Gilbert

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns, And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns

Ronald Reagan

There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values.

Ben Kingsley

I may return to the stage, but not in the foreseeable future.

Jack Wagner

If PCI is not going to use these funds, they should be returned to their rightful owners, Pennsylvania taxpayers,

Kenneth Fisher

Having different types of stocks in your portfolio can enhance returns.

Shimon Peres

It's a very sad day and a very serious situation. And the first and most urgent task is to return from shooting to talking,

Christie Collins

(The VEDP personnel) will return to Danville in several weeks to give ways that we can work with Danville to help.

Steve Ball

I would sooner go back to, if you want to vote you have to come here and vote.

Bob Woodward

He made the point, which is right: I should tell him more. More is better. Sooner is better.

Elian Gonzalez

I know that you're scared. This must be frightening, but this will be over very soon and you will feel much better. I'm going to take you to Poppy.

Herman Edwards

I'm not listing him as anything right now because I don't know what the tests are. I'm not a doctor. As soon as I know, I'll let you know.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Don Temeyer

It's probably too soon to say how we'll do it.

Silvan Shalom

It is very, very important to stop them, and the sooner the better,

Gregg Overman

That's a 'no-later-than' date. It could be sooner than that.

Thomas a Kempis

We feel and weigh soon enough what we suffer from others: but how much others suffer from us, of this we take no heed.

Erik Jensen

And then I was unemployed for a while.

Jason Read

Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.

John Eisenhower

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

Al Spalding

No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.

Dito Montiel

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Robert E. Lee

Sir, if you ever presume again to speak disrespectfully of General Grant in my presence, either you or I will sever his connection with this university.

Richard Perle

Even now, the irony that so non-intellectual a man should choose to engage the Soviet Union on the battlefield of ideas has eluded most commentators and historians.

Richard Paul Evans

. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.

Richard Holbrooke

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Townsend Harris

In case of war, a treaty would have to be made at the end of the war.

Townsend Harris

If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.