Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathleen Troia McFarland

We in the West think of peace as society's default position. War is a temporary state of affairs that happens when peace fails. For us, war is something that has a beginning, a middle, and an end. When it is over, win or lose, the warring factions lay down their arms and resume their normal lives.

Cliff Floyd

He knows there is more to life then baseball and an affair like this is tremendous for someone at his age. He is a veteran now. I am not going to ask him to carry my bags anymore.

Scott McCloud

Hollywood has a love affair with heroes' stories right now. It depends on people being motivated to make the movies, because first and foremost they have to make a good movie." ()

I think the independent report makes it very clear and in very plain language, and it gives the board a fresh opportunity to attend to its affairs on behalf of its students.

It is getting free from tedious affairs in order to serve more as a body that conducts guidance and supervision.

Roger Bannister

It has been a life-long pursuit for me, ... Running is an affair of youth. It helps you through adolescence and, for me of course, at a certain point it opened doors. I met people, and traveled. Of course it can make life more exciting and fulfilling.

Jack Brooks

I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.

Rebekah Brooks

Any affair, by its very nature, is quite dysfunctional.

Sandy Berger

In international affairs, you never threaten things you're not prepared to do.

Virginia Woolf

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

Vladimir Putin

We have never meddled in the domestic affairs of any state and we never will.

Walter Lippmann

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

Ginger McCain

Paul was very good about the whole affair and said that if Inca Trail adapts to Liverpool and goes and does it, he could go very close. If he does, the credit's his, not ours.

In the midst of the negative atmosphere of the industry, this crowd was 180 degrees the opposite. The attitudes are up. ... They're not losing their love affair with the automobile.

Barry Mann

I'm very nervous that this whole affair will hurt our business financially.

Fareed Zakaria

If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

Edward McKendree Bounds

If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.

If you and your children fare well, and your affairs be to your contentment, I give very great thanks to God, having my hope in heaven.

Boris Yeltsin

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms.

John Adams

I know not whether any man in the world has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last 30 years than Tom Paine.

Edward Everett

In this critical and anxious state of affairs General Hooker was relieved, and General Meade was summoned to the chief command of the army.

I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.

I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.

Darren Star

I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'

In a way, it's more a 19th-century game. They are buying long-term supplies wherever they find them - including in unsavory places like Sudan, Iran and Burma where we won't buy. They say it is benign, because they don't interfere with the internal affairs of other nations. And we say it is anything but benign, because it finances these regimes' bad behavior.

James Allen

In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result

I like having some role and responsibility to preparing the next generation of student affairs administrators. I like what I do, I like the students I work with and I like my colleagues. I like working with new students every year and I still find the work that I do interesting and challenging.

Johnny Damon

I hope the fans understand what went wrong in terms of signing with the Red Sox. Nothing will take away from my memories and the love affair I had with the city. But I really don't care, I just want to help the Yankees win.

King Hussein

I intervened from my sickbed to prevent interference in the affairs of the army in a change that appeared aimed at settling scores and retiring loyal and qualified people.

The IOC takes this affair very seriously and is determined to do everything in its power to bring full clarity to what has happened in the past days. We must look at the bigger picture.

The IOC is feeling as if Austria is taking the piss out of them. After the doping affair (at the 2002 Winter Olympics) in Salt Lake City, the same thing happened again, with the same people and the same equipment.

The first priority in organizing personal affairs is a will that reflects your current family and personal circumstances.