Famous Quotes & Sayings

We should not go down the slippery slope of what other countries might do to terrorize detainees.

Amish Tripathi

While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.

Aravind Adiga

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Ellen Galinsky's surveys at the Families and Work Institute pointed to a desirable norm for many parents for working not full-time, but part-time. And I get that. I mean, Norway has a 35-hour work week. That counts as part-time for us in the United States, you know. And Norway's doing well, by the way.

Danny Glover

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

One of the criteria for a global company is that it should have a manufacturing presence in multiple countries and should not only be an exporter.

This will eventually be a like lot some of the jockey schools in other countries around the world,

This will encourage more to visit the county and to purchase more of our wonderful food and drink products when they are with us and equally importantly when they go back to their homes and tell their friends.

Janos Kadar

The Party counts on the support of every honest worker who declares himself in favour of the socialist objectives of the working class.

Chuck Palahniuk

The only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet that someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.

The President's visit, at least to some extent, marks the transition from a 40-or-so-year painful bilateral history to the transformed relationship the two countries have today.

There are a lot of worries circulating around about deflation, ... What the Fed is doing is saying we don't need to worry. If deflation happens, they will counter aggressively, and they have the tools to do so.

When you get this close, making your free throws, making everything count is important. We just didn't make our free throws for some reason.

Orrin Hatch

When you have no evidence of impropriety, no evidence of fraud ... to just count and count until someone wins one way or the other just isn't the way to do it.

We always work on doubles. When I go into matches, I always count on doubles points. We practice a lot on doubles and today they really pulled through for us.

We always thought we could do it, that's what has made it a little more sweeter this year. People have counted us out sometimes, we've been proving them wrong all season. It's good to be here.

When you look at countries like India, you see that there's a strong focus there on ramping up the technical education of its labor force,

Steve Largent

When you look at countries in other parts of the world with penetration rates exceeding 100%, it's only logical to predict that subscriber growth in the U.S. is far from over.

We've got to counter the idea in people's heads that we're still under water. We've got 800 restaurants open and we're ready for business.

We've got three good seniors, and those are guys we're counting on to be leaders for us. The younger players have been around the game, and right now they just need some experience at the high school level.

We've just got to get back to work. We've got two weeks before it counts for real. We just need time on the practice field to work on the little things and get them right.

This survey is the only organized effort to truly determine the number of people who are homeless at any given point in time in the seven metro counties area.

Tom Daschle

There have been so many unexpected twists and turns in the proceedings and in these developments to date, that to count on that, even though I know their word is good, is more than we can accept,

The reason we pulled the holiday issue from stores is because we just launched a new perfume called NOW and we had to make space on the counter for the product.

Jim Davies

We're much too spontaneous as a society. We need to become knowledgeable about our nutrition: Learn how to read food labels and count our portion size. Most of the food from restaurants is hugely over-proportioned.

We kind of dug ourselves a hole and tried to get out of there. It's not the start we wanted, definitely. But we're not going to count ourselves out yet.

We kept standing in the middle of the ring taking punches and by the eighth or ninth round, we were still standing. We started throwing counter punches. I am extremely proud of the way we competed.

Dick Thompson

We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.

We think that developing countries should not sign up to what's there if that's all there is.

John Ensign

Why should the American taxpayer not be paid back if the taxpayer in France, if the taxpayer in Germany, if the taxpayer in Russia -- countries that were not willing to support us when we were doing what was right in the world -- why should those taxpayers be paid back and not the taxpayers of America?

Jeremy Bonderman

You have to come in on him. But you have to do it on a better count than 1-1. He was sitting on one pitch and I gave it to him.

this triangular relationship involving Berlin, Paris and Moscow was a dangerous development. It was very dangerous for the small countries in Europe because they perceived it as an axis and you can understand why. We want good relations with Russia but we do not want those relations to be misunderstood.

Colin Powell

This time, we want a better solution, we want a solution that involves all the countries in the region. I hope North Korea understands that,