Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orhan Pamuk

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there.

We just didn't play smart in the first half. Rapids attacked the basket, and we gave them a lot of easy baskets by loosing somebody on defense.

Robert Kelly

We came out in the second half and we defended batter, our press began to wear them down. And offensively we started to run our break a lot better and we attacked the basket a lot better.

Pat Conroy

My great fear of being attacked or trivialized by my contemporaries made me concentrate on what I was trying to do as a writer. It forced me to draw some conclusions that were my own.

We had our chances and at the end, we got some goals. Marietta attacked well, and we gave Marietta too many chances. But we hung in there and scored when we needed to.

John Ashcroft

We won't tolerate it any more than we will tolerate the financing of groups that on September 11 attacked our homeland.

The defendants have ... acknowledged that they harassed, attacked and physically injured the victim because he was different from them,

Jackee Harry

If you're being attacked by something on the outside, which I feel a lot being in show business, you just have to dial it back and breathe and know that you are protected.

Judd Gregg

You know the way Washington works. Once you start floating ideas, they are immediately attacked by all the different interest groups before the ideas can be brought to fruition.

We had two poor practices the last two days (before the game) and coming down here, we seemed like we were a little flat. But you have to give Davidson credit. They got after us, attacked us and played a good game. Davidson stepped up defensively and we stopped running what we were supposed to run (on offense), and that's a bad mix.

Lawrence Wright

When I went to Egypt right after 9/11 I was very upset. I used to live in Egypt. I had a lot of friends there. I spent two years teaching there. I had very fond feelings for that part of the world, and the fact that a culture I liked so much had attacked my own culture was really very upsetting to me.

Mike Gordon

We wanted to get the ball down low and we just attacked them early in the game. And then that opened it up for the perimeter game.

We wanted to frustrate them. It worked for 40 minutes but then we let in a silly goal. But if we had gone in 0-0, we could have attacked more in the second half.

We came back. We didn't start out real well, though. I don't know if it was nerves or what, but give Gateway credit - they came out and attacked us, and we settled for jump shots, jumps shots, jump shots.

We only got into the bonus once, at the end of the third quarter. They called 26 fouls on us and 16 on them. We attacked the basket all night and were not rewarded.

Queen Rania of Jordan

The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.

The governor is clearly a passionate person and he's spent every day for the last 20 years being hounded by members of the media and being attacked by Republicans and the question for people who live their life like that is not how come it happened, but how come it doesn't happen more often.

We've been a very good rebounding team, but they kept us off the boards and attacked the boards themselves. It was good for them and bad for us.

Mark Gottfried

We had a couple of different things we did. I didn't think they attacked it well at times. Sometimes, you can stay in it too long and teams can find holes in your zone and I thought they did a couple of times late in the game. We wind up in a little bit of a pickle when we don't have depth.

We attacked them inside and were able to get some key shots.

We attacked (the full-court press) pretty well, but we just weren't getting back defensively in transition. This is the first team we've played that had this kind of speed.

We attacked the basket. When you're not shooting well, you have to stay aggressive.

We attacked the ball, and things happened good for us and bad for them. We made a statement that we're ready to go.

Menachem Begin

We attacked selected military targets of the P.L.O. Around, civilians were hurt, I don't want to deny it. Very regrettable, very regrettable. We regret it deeply.

We attacked and dismantled the organization. We aren't going to be naive and say someone else won't fill their place but right now we have hit that organization hard.

Ike Skelton

That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

There are reports that some of the northerners attacked a primary school near the barracks this morning and killed some children.

Barton Gellman

For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.

What's happened is that an incessant, an insidious insurgency has repeatedly attacked the key infrastructure targets, reducing outputs.

Gary Johnson

Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.

We showed a lot of character in the third and fourth quarters coming back. We weren't ourselves at the beginning of the game, but as the game wore on we attacked better and played smarter.

Brendan Myers

Our world is utterly saturated with fear. We fear being attacked by religious extremists, both foreign and domestic. We fear the loss of political rights, a loss of privacy, or a loss of freedom. We fear being injured, robbed or attacked, being judged by others, or neglected, or left unloved.

We have been protecting the lives of the Russian peacekeepers who had been attacked by their Georgian comrades, because there was a joint peacekeeping force.