Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Mulroney

It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it.

He convinced me that if we're going to have honest government that you can't leave it up to the crooks and that honest people have to get involved in government. So I did. I got involved as a criminal prosecutor with the U. S. Justice Department.

Brian Herbert

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project.

Finley Dunne

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

Ike Barinholtz

I take my dog to the vet a lot because he's old and sick, and I always step on the scale when I'm there. Let's just say shirts that were once button-able are no longer. I'm constantly being roasted by my wife.

Iris Chang

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

Irene Rosenfeld

There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.

Ira Sachs

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

Dan Millman

Life is constantly supporting us and giving us gifts. It's a matter of opening ourselves to that.

Izaak Walton

The person that loses their conscience has nothing left worth keeping.

Isaiah Washington

I've written a book; I've become a better husband and father because I'm home every day. My connection to the Hollywood world has only been through Facebook.

John Schultz

Without those days they can't progress forward into the next grade, so that's a concern of a lot of families too. That their child's education is going to progress at the same pace that it's supposed to.

Arun Jaitley

Without the presence of separatists on the round-table conference on Kashmir called by the Prime Minister, the entire exercise has turned futile.

Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is responsible for what happened in the Balkans.

With a weakening hedging profile, fuel costs will continue rising, and a slowing pace of saving on other costs will likely keep a lid on expectations for profitability.

With an event like this, we always have to take precautions. We're taking the type of precautions we took last year and it went off without a hitch. We're confident it will go off without a hitch this year.

Sarah Lewis

The prohibition from participating in the competitions is not a sanction, but is considered to serve to protect the health of the athlete.

Christine Quinn

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

Gia Coppola

I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.

Gabourey Sidibe

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

George Karl

I think we, as pro coaches, should have a consciousness towards having an image and a role model mentality for kids.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

She did not admire him any more than she had. It was merely that she considered him the Lesser of two evils.

Elizabeth McCracken

Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.

Ginni Rometty

The only way you survive is you continuously transform into something else. It's this idea of continuous transformation that makes you an innovation company.

Georg Simmel

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Geoffrey Canada

In two-parent households, women have increasingly entered the workplace, and in single-parent households, there is even more of a need for the adults to work. That means parents do not fully control their own schedule and have to scramble to find high-quality after-school options.

We have county employees who wanted more money and processed a contract giving themselves more money, ... To me, there is a conflict-of-interest situation that is fairly blatant.

We have considered many strategic options over the last several years and this merger is by far the most attractive.

Robert McCullum

We're still winless in conference play but we've played a number of games that could have gone either way. I feel our fortunes are going to change." ()

Alan Furst

Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

Banks

When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.

We urge the government of National Unity to continue to take steps to stop the violence, to promote reconciliation and to maintain momentum on implementation of the comprehensive peace agreement.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.