Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Johnson

We have to first secure the peace, we have to make our nation secure, people must feel safe and confident, ... That means we have to address the issue of young people particularly, the war-affected youths ? both ex-combatants as well as the victims.

Steve Carr

We have no evidence the Web address in question is being used. If and when we are notified that they are using our name for monetary gain, we will take the appropriate action.

Brian Morris

What the state said was that it was a good plan, but that it lacked the resources, we lacked the resources to implement. My question is why not address the resource issue and allow the plan to be implemented in collaboration with both the city and the state?

Stephen Hourahan

What the senator wants is a bill that will actually pass, be effective and address some of the issues hindering the Endangered Species Act.

Mark Shapiro

We want our players to be aware of the short and long-term dangers of these substances. Until Rafael decides how he will address this finding, we will have no further comment on the situation.

Bob Noun

The real irony is that this is probably the most important moment in the laboratories' 28-year history in terms of being a very critical part of our nation's effort to address these significant energy problems. At that moment, we're facing a substantial threat to the laboratory.

S. Walker

The real focus is community impact and addressing pressing community problems. We like to see ourselves as a community solutions provider. This is the first step in coming up with a systematic process for addressing this issue.

Debbie Wang

The real concern is what is Coke doing to address this trend and take advantage of it. Pepsi has done much better than Coke both in the bottled water and health drinks categories.

W. Hull

When I delivered my first State of the State Address on January 12, 1998, I spoke of a flame burning in my heart to help Arizona's children.

Roger Wicker

We were available, but FEMA chose to send them to San Antonio or Utah or other far destinations,

Talib Kweli

As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.

Ted Cruz

Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

Edward Brooke

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life.

Edward Brooke

I chose the Republican Party early on in the 1950s and 1960s in Massachusetts. My father was a Republican, as was my mother, in Virginia.

Lori Wilde

To be honest, I chose romance because writing a book seemed so dauntingly long. I looked around for something short, discovered Harlequin romances, and decided to read a few to see if I could do it.

Jessie J

I think being nice and being safe is unfair to yourself when you have big dreams as a woman. I think you have to prepare yourself that not everyone in this world has the same personality... The one thing I've chosen to be great at in my life is singing - so why not be proud that I'm great at it?

Louis Gossett, Jr.

I was always told that I'd have to do a movie with a white guy in order to get the money. That's the way it was. That made me feel that I should have chosen some other profession, so I could have gotten my just deserts.

M. Night Shyamalan

I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.

Cory Booker

We have to have a mayor and a council who will take City Hall and fight that fight.

Jim Gaylor

We have to go and play them down there Friday and I'm sure they are going to remember. I'm sure it's going to be an exciting time over at Lenoir City for that game.

Mike McDaniel

We have to get the water out of the city or the nightmare will continue.

Arthur Hardy

We have no model for this. Will the city ever be back to normal? We don't know. All I can tell you is we're going to enjoy this Mardi Gras.

Cynthia Rezentes

We have moved not one inch. There are options that the city could have been approaching.

Roxanne Rogers

We want people in Valley City to see how normal meditation is, and how healing.

Kirby Nishikawa

We want him to leave the city with a good feeling about Winnipeg.

David Nicholas

We've shut everything down. We evacuated all our workers from the offshore platforms in the Gulf, shutting in production. We have shut down operations at our Texas City refinery.

I. Stone

The fact of the matter is I've got some new commitments, ... My focus on those new commitments would really preclude any intense kind of focus on city issues. It's not that I'm ready to move on - it's very bittersweet.

David Cross

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

Chris Bohjalian

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

Doug Arthur

We're in a very negative phase with the stocks right now.

Barbara Corcoran

Good salesmanship is nothing more than maximizing the positive and minimizing the negative.

Catherine Tate

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Casey Kasem

I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing,

Bertrand Russell

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

Charlie Munger

For society, the Internet is wonderful, but for capitalists, it will be a net negative. It will increase efficiency, but lots of things increase efficiency without increasing profits. It is way more likely to make American businesses less profitable than more profitable. This is perfectly obvious, but very little understood.

Doug Flynn

We had back-to-back negative years in the market, and this mimics the market. It's very discouraging for people.

John Lee Hooker

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.

Rob Enderle

LCS and Communicator are not worth a whole lot without the back end. They have to have the back end in place, or the other parts don't move.

John Scalzi

I don't think we're at the point where most people are willing to get rid of body parts and replace them, but then again, people who shoot lasers in their eyes come out with better-than-perfect vision.

Jerome Flynn

I don't think it takes much for a cult to be a cult. Many parts of our society are cultish, and you only need a charismatic leader and some teachings, and before you know it, you have a cult.

Bill Stoneman

One of the strongest parts to our organization is depth. It allows us to do a lot of things.

Bill Cosby

Things are old. Parts are old. I'm talking about 'us' parts. AARP-parts. Some of us were born with stronger parts than others.

Larry Rice

The parts are worth more than the whole.

Steve Daignault

We need to get the other parts on.

Jim Tracy

We need to get him back to where he is completely functional, rather than seeing parts of him here and there.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Alan Ball

What the series is all about is: We die. So while we're here, let's live fully.

L. J. Smith

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.

Lorraine Toussaint

I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book.

Laurel Lea

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

James Van Der Beek

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Mike Birbiglia

Louis C.K. directs his show, which is very much like a series of short films.

Victor Diaz

I was so stressed. Every at-bat's been like the World Series for me.

Phil Garner

Getting this World Series start is probably going to go a long way in getting him over the Tennessee loss.

Ryan Miller

I don't want that to be the way this series is remembered.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Jeri Morin

We've got to get better at serving, because we are really struggling with that right now.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Jeff Kasko

We're struggling to get there. But we're still hopeful.

Bryant Young

We're struggling to get back to where we were years ago. It's a cycle.

Joseph Smith

We're struggling a little with that right now. We just need to keep working hard.

John Dos Passos

If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

Jean Paul

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Aminatta Forna

Most writers I know go for word counts, and I used to be a journalist, so I guess that's ingrained.

Claire Tomalin

Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.

Arthur Bryant

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

Robert Klein

In some articles written about me, writers have said I'm a link between the old and the new, and I think, in a certain sense, that's legitimate.

Scott Adsit

'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives.

Brian Keene

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

Marianne Williamson

I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.