Famous Quotes & Sayings

I knew it to be very doubtful whether the Cabinet, Parliament, and the country would take this view on the outbreak of war, and through the whole of this week I had in view the probable contingency that we should not decide at the critical moment to support France.

I am just like 99% of my friends in France, who say on their resume they can speak fluent English. In reality, they can't even count up to three.

We left insane three counties ago. This is goofball territory.

Alan Ball

I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do know they're tremendously powerful. I mean, there's a vampire on 'Sesame Street.' And Count Chocula. I don't know why it's so powerful.

Politicians said that with our cheap labour, we could be competitive in the world. Nothing could be further from the truth. We were the most uncompetitive country with that cheap labour.

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

Dan Fogelberg

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

Cyril Connolly

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people.

Dan Lipinski

As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

Cornel West

To accept your country without betraying it, you must love it for that which shows what it might become. America -- this monument to the genius of ordinary men and women, this place where hope becomes capacity, this long, halting turn of 'no' into the 'yes' -- needs citizens who love it enough to re-imagine and re-make it.

Cormac McCarthy

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it.

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.

Abraham Verghese

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

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.