Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Zarifi

Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.

Aman Mojadidi

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

John Abizaid

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Jason Kamiya

One of the main vulnerabilities of the Afghan Army is their logistics system,

Emma Bonino

Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves.

Sam Zarifi

Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.

Azita Ghanizada

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Tasnim Aslam

Today we called the Afghan ambassador and lodged a strong protest.

Sergei Lavrov

We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.

Philip Dunne

Like any conurbation, you have the run-down areas where you wouldn't put the dog in,

Bruce Campbell

Make no mistake: given the dearth of black suppliers in key areas such as panel beating, tow-truck operators and the like, the charter targets will not be easily reached.

David Thompson

Make good choices and keep God at the center of your life. He's got to be the main focus. I grew up in a Christian household, but when I got away from that I made some bad choices and it caused me a lot of problems in all areas of my life.

David Frum

Liberals did well, and not only in the 'Michael Moore' precincts, but also in a lot of areas where their scandals should have hurt them more.

Mark Hendrickson

Last year was a struggle, as far as the first half and the second half. There's some areas I just wasn't too happy with it. I wouldn't call it, necessarily, a good year all around.

Steve Head

Last year's conference focused on the relationships and impact between the local, regional, state and national economies. Speakers focused on how south Montgomery County and The Woodlands areas are impacted by events beyond the immediate region. Attendees learned how changing demographics in the state and region should be a critical piece of future planning and vision.

Mike Matz

Let's celebrate the progress we're making in preserving a good piece of our 'original earth' -? the wilderness areas on public lands that belongs to all of us, no matter where we live.

Craig Kennedy

Leaders on both sides of the Atlantic need to build upon areas where Americans and Europeans do agree, like democracy promotion, to pave the way forward for transatlantic relations.

Todd Graham

Many of these grants exemplify our new direction to empower organizations with start-up funding. This quarter our board recognized several non-profit applicants who were beginning innovative projects in our priority areas of community development, economic development, education and social needs.

Michael Ledeen

Like Afghanistan before it, Iraq is only one theater in a regional war. We were attacked by a network of terrorist organizations supported by several countries, of whom the most important were Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia.

Don Peterson

Luke is a great competitor. There was no doubt about that after the way he attacked the golf course on Saturday. He got stronger as the day went on, basically.

Yolette Etienne

Many people are saying they will not go. Many people fear they will be attacked because of the big distances they must walk to the polls.

Joe Morford

Mortgage revenues were down for the quarter but at the same time (Wells) aggressively attacked the cost side of the business. We saw a 13 percent annualized drop in mortgage-related expenses in the quarter. That helps to preserve the bottom line.

Nathan Fillion

My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Yeah. I don't know why. I just love seeing guys who say, 'I'm gonna stick my hand in that crocodile's mouth and see what happens.' And then it snaps down on them. There you go - that's what you get! It's a wild animal, my friend.

Robert Knight

Four years ago, while the nation's eyes were fixed on the devastation in New York City, California's Democrat-controlled Legislature attacked marriage by enacting a sweeping domestic partner bill one day after September 11,

Joey Meyer

When we share the ball like that, we're a hard team to play. We attacked the basket and when you play as hard as we did, only a win is acceptable.

Lance Luitjens

When they started to go on their runs, we started looking for someone else to make a play. We started scoreboard watching a little bit and the difference in the game was when they cut it to two, we attacked them the next three possessions and got lay-ups.

Dave Duncan

I was attacked on the field. That's what it boils down to.

Isabella Rossellini

Most people divorce because one in the couple falls in love with someone else: it's a common cause of divorce. I still think that it's tinted - this is my opinion - with a veil of racism and American puritanism.

Isabella Rossellini

I'd love to meet Darwin. He caused such controversy over whether God created the earth in six days or whether we evolved over time. I'd love to discuss that with him - what a fantastic conversation!

Manmohan Singh

It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.

Menander of

Let not your friend your cherished secrets hear; Then, if you quarrel, you've no cause to fear

Ernest Moore

Making a stop gives us probable cause to check for other things like no driver's license, no liability insurance and maybe even illegal drugs present in the car.

Charles Wicks

Magma's always coming up in Sour Creek dome and going through the system. But maybe there are pulses when more comes up. That may be what causes the surface to rise.

Craig Colten

Levees have a tendency to cause a false sense of security.

Hasidic Proverb

Lies are usually caused by undue fear of men

Kofi Annan

Liberty is not just a cause for celebration today, but also a worthy crusade for our time, ... Where there is life, there is the thirst for liberty in all men and women regardless of faith, color or country.

Jacob Epstein

My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.

Edward Abbey

A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society.

Nancy Gordon

For me, rhythm, music and movement takes you to a deep place. It's a place not crowded by words or overshadowed by our thinking world.

John Cooney

Imagine 40 high school kids and adults crowded into the school library,

Rosaleen Tallon

Should we be going down in a confined, crowded space at a site that will always be a target?

Vonda Shepard

We've been waiting for a format like triple-A where you can hear Crowded House, Joni Mitchell and R.E.M.

Emma McLaughlin

It's funny, we started writing chick-lit when it was just becoming a crowded marketplace, and now the same thing is happening with YA. It really used to just be one shelf at the library - Nancy Drew and Judy Blume.

W. Hull

We're long past the point where individual cities, especially in the crowded urban areas, can go it alone. It is now time to work together.

Steve Stevens

This needs to be a little wider, ... I could see how it could get crowded here in the summer.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Darcie Vincent

Megan was more patient in the second half. When she forces shots, it's not good for us. She's a great scorer but we need her to be patient.

Charles Sawyer

Of all of the forces that make for a better world, none is so indispensable, none so powerful as hope

Peter Pace

only a small number of Iraqi security forces are taking on the insurgents and terrorists by themselves.

Robert Mundell

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Jaime Suchlicki

Now which way they're going to go ... I don't know. There are too many forces at work and too many people involved in this issue.

Ed Cogswell

Naturally you'll see more (campus police-JTTF partnerships) just because of the number of task forces that are up and running,

Jack Nicklaus

Naturally it is nice to be widely known for worthwhile achievements, but it forces you to do many things which you don't like to do and these things take up time you want for other things.

Jim Cooper

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

David Tom

Voters will be surprised when they show up at their polling place and find they aren't on the rolls. There are a lot of things we don't feel comfortable with.

Judd Gregg

That's why this has been put forward. This is a polling event,

Darlene Rickman

It is very much like voting at a precinct polling place.

Laurent Gbagbo

Go tomorrow to vote. Be vigilant, be there at every polling station to oversee the vote.

Mike Harris

She's our unquestioned leader. She does so much, whatever we need, whether it's points, rebounds, assists, setting up plays. She does it all.

Ariel Sharon

I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party,

Gilbert Arenas

I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy.

Veruschka von Lehndorff

In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk.

Patrick Leahy

A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.

Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

Stephen Friedman

To make it more meaningful, you really have to have the right class. What makes this work is the setting of the right person in the right class.

Kevin Henkes

When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind.

Sam Aiona

There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.

Holly Black

When I was a kid in the U.S., 'Doctor Who' wasn't really on, but you would occasionally catch an episode. Different stations did marathons.

Pat Robertson

I've managed stations.

Tom Waits

Presley's what I go by, why don't you change the station.