Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harvey Pekar

I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.

Hassan Rouhani

We are not seeking... and looking for war with any nations. We are seeking peace and stability among all the nations in the region.

There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

Luke Harding

Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed.

Lawrence Summers

We discussed developments in our exchange and financial markets, ... In this context, we emphasized our view that exchange rates among major currencies should reflect economic fundamentals. We will continue to monitor developments in exchange markets and cooperate as appropriate.

Kate Brown

We discovered that members were being deprived of an important opportunity to ask questions and speak freely among themselves. Families have curtains for a reason, and that is to provide them with a certain level of privacy as they develop relationships. The same can be true of a caucus.

We are dealing, among other concerns, with 826 kids who lost a mother or father to terror, and 28 youths who have lost both parents.

We are not going to cause division amongst the group. We are not yet committed to the May 1 boycott.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men.

McDermott and two colleagues - James H. Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard University - published a paper titled 'Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing it Too.' Their study shows that divorce can spread like a virus among friends, siblings and co-workers.

Lamar Alexander

I think there are too many bosses in Washington telling Nashville Diesel College and Harvard University how to run - how to run their campuses, and I'd like to reduce the number of Washington regulations on higher education and keep this marketplace of wonderful institutions among which students can choose; that's oriented toward job growth.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

Kathleen Hanna

I have chronic - well, I like to call it late-stage Lyme disease and not chronic, because I like to think someday I'll be all the way cured. It took me a really long time to get diagnosed, and I was misdiagnosed for a long, long time. I was very ill during the end of Le Tigre, which was kind of why that ended, amongst other things.

My father was a Foreign Service officer, a diplomat and an Arabist who spent virtually all his career in the Near East, as it was called in the State Department. So I spent most of my childhood among the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.

We had a pool among the coaches. Would John Neal get a free throw, or would Shawn Taggart get an assist first.

We are confident of being among the top three research academies throughout the world.

Whereas wine disorders the mental faculties, opium introduces amongst them the most exquisite order, legislation and harmony. Wine robs a man of self-possession; opium greatly invigorates it.

Where all that stuff's piled now, we were all in amongst that. It's hard to believe.

Peter Abrahams

Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.

Robert Emmet

When Ireland takes her place among the nations of the earth, and not 'tll then, let my epitaph be written.

When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppressed, the working masses, and it seemed to me, mistakenly, that I would not find them among the Jews.

Siobhan Davies

We need to find the money to do it again, but there was such a genuine interest among the dancers who did come forward that I feel we should.

Unlike in past years, we are deep at every position. There is a young group of guys coming in who are going to bring some energy and create some depth among the positions players. We've got an opportunity to use a different combination of players to attack any situation. If an opponent doesn't catch-and-throw that well, we'll go with our speed. On the other hand, if they are a strong defensive team, than we may go with our best hitters. I can see a lot of different guys making significant contributions this season.

Chris Duhon

We got together as a group -- just a little airing out -- and let everybody say what they had to say. So everybody had a night to think about it. You kind of have these things with the coaches at times, and sometimes players can hold back and not say what they really want to say. But once you're amongst the guys, you can get everything out.

Our intellectual property is among our most valuable assets, ... This lawsuit represents an intensified effort to protect our intellectual capital. This isn't the first time we've sued to protect this investment and it certainly won't be the last.

Our hope is that these funds will help catapult the (project) into one of the nation's leading efforts to eliminate health disparities among minority populations,

Our charge was to look at the facilities and to look at the county farm. There are a lot of options to move forward with. I can't say what two weeks will cost us that much. Just because we aren't recharged doesn't mean we won't talk about it amongst ourselves.

Panelists at the meeting will be discussing among other issues which population sectors need to be engaged to try to bridge differences and combat extremism particularly in youth and immigrant populations.

Our plan is to wrestle once on Thursday, once on Friday and twice on Saturday. But once you get to the semis, all bets are off. I know I'm going down there with six quality kids who are probably among the top eight in the state. And if they all wrestle to their potential, all six can make it to the semis.

Our pitching has been consistent from Day 1. The hitters have been inconsistent. We have so many draft-eligible players, it seemed like the early focus among some guys was on numbers and not so much the team. That's been adjusted.

Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.

Our state tourism and hospitality industry professionals and the quality of our product offerings are among the finest anywhere. By providing specialized training and encouraging leadership engagement, the conference serves as a catalyst for increased synergies, innovative thinking and the continued strength and vibrancy of our industry.