Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinaw Mengestu

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Durado Brooks

The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference.

Amr Moussa

The real European-African partnership should be based on promoting development and liberating the African continent from its debts, which have been preventing economic progress and depriving Africa of its equitable share in the global economy,

Paul Kagame

There is no doubt that both regional states and Africa in whole will gain toward peace and stability in Burundi,

Thomas P.M. Barnett

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Toyin Odutola

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Todrick Hall

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Tshepo Peege

We are going to isolate countries where these safety issues are a concern. The stigma that Africa carries leads people to fly non-African airlines and thereby deprive our airlines of opportunities to grow and expand.

Sarah Carmichael

There are a lot of child-run families, due to the impact of AIDS or land mines or other health issues. There's a need to train children and young teenagers how to maintain a family and a home.

Jeremiah Wright

We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.

Charlize Theron

I want to be part of the generation that stops AIDS.

Michael Specter

I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

George Clooney

We are a little bit out-of-touch in Hollywood. I think that?s probably a good thing. We are the ones who talked about AIDS when it was only being whispered ... We talked about civil rights ... I?m proud to be part of this Academy, proud to be part of this community.

George Clooney

We are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. This Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy.

Niki de St. Phalle

AIDS is a complex situation that's sure to bring out the best and the worst in people.

Larry Kramer

We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.

Larry Kramer

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

Carol Moseley Braun

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Carol Moseley Braun

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Carlos Mencia

I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

Carlos Mencia

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Carlos Ghosn

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Carlos Ghosn

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Carlos Castaneda

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

Carlos Castaneda

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

Carl Bernstein

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

James Kunke

The people of Lewisville should be proud of the response we were able to put on the ground. We had everything that the disaster response required, except the disaster.

Theodor Mommsen

The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.

Elizabeth Holmes

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

Jared Diamond

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Barbara Johnson

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

James Van Allen

These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur.

Rick Dickson

We're still absorbing everything that did happen. The worst national disaster in our country's history, and you're part of it.

Don Flanagan

We want people to come support us, and I think they're going to see a great game. They are an extremely quick team that plays hard. It should be fun to watch.

Loic Fauchon

We want man to once more become a friend of water, so let's hurry up, as there is extreme urgency.

Ashwin Sanghi

I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book that he had to take a day off from work just so that he could finish reading it. Such kind of responses from my readers is extremely endearing, and it keeps me going.

Alan Yates

The product has been extremely successful because it's more usable.

Daniel Roling

The outlook for steel is still extremely difficult.

Hugh Johnson

ultimately extremely good news for the health of the market.

Sharon Versyp

We are going to make this ride extremely special and we're going to have a lot of fun. This is a top-10 program, and we're going to win the big one.

Elliott Abrams

Sometimes the results of a first free election will find the moderates so poorly organized that extreme groups can eke out a victory, as Hamas did when it gained a 44-to-41 percent margin in the Palestinian election of 2006.

Kaki King

There are a lot of places that I know extremely well. Like, if I were to visit Sydney, Australia, I'd feel very comfortable there. I'm very comfortable in many, many cities.

C. S. Lewis

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces

Todd Galloway

We have to get out there and get to the shooters and at least put a hand in their face to make it a tough shot.

Andy Lopez

We have to get better pitching performances. When you face a team like Fullerton, you know their Friday night guy is going to be there for six or seven innings.

Robert H. Connelly

When faced with a tough choice, pause for a moment and think what your Mother would say about your decision.

Aaron Sorkin

A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say if you're not in the room.

Charles Dickens

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

James Comey

The fact of the matter is that the United States faces real threats from criminals, terrorists, spies, and malicious cyber actors.

Patrick Chinamasa

The faces sitting in front of you are hungry faces,

Eric Lotke

The reality is that recidivism rates are low - which runs in the face of the notion of the super-predator that these laws are aimed at getting. But do people know that? Do people know that if they were to go to the library and look up the recidivism rates for these offenders, the highest they would see is somewhere in the teens?

Tommy Thompson

We have a real serious problem facing us in America. It's nothing to get real worried about, just be careful. If you are out, make sure you put some mosquito repellent on,

Byron Jones

We're steadily approaching a point where if we don't reach a northern facing slope, we won't be as productive as we'd like.

Salah Bardawil

There is no longer any time to lose - we are facing public pressure.

Joe Papin

Tomorrow we have even a tougher task. We are probably going to be facing a stronger team. We have to play for three periods no matter what the score is. You would think being 14-0 I would be happy, but right now I'm not.

Matt Bowen

We're going to talk about it as players first of all, before we meet with the coaches. That's not the way we play defense. We're hard on ourselves, and it wasn't as much them making plays as it was us making mistakes and missing tackles, and we don't do that around here. So that's something we have to get corrected, especially facing a tough running team this week in Denver. We don't do that stuff.

John Edwards

What he does is he comes into a ticketed event, stands at the podium, delivers a speech, may shake a few hands on his way out, ... What I've been doing is I've been in people's homes, on Main Street, in cafes -- not only talking but listening. Giving speeches does not teach you what the problems are that people are facing in their lives.

Mike Felix

We were hot tonight. When you're facing a team that's hot, it's hard to stop them.

Dirk Niebel

Since September 11, 2001, we know we are facing terrorists who are trying to have their way with our constitutional democracies.

Michael Mori

Mr Hicks is the only one facing a commission,

Carlos Mesa

My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.

Mark Regev

We have never said more than we have said in the case. This issue has been solved in a satisfactory way with the New Zealand government.

Karen Dinkins

We have much different issues than the teachers. Just because the teachers go thus and so, it doesn't mean that's right for our members.

Ann Brackbill

We want interoperable systems and that's going to happen. The issue is how we will work together. Without the right coordination, privacy will be at risk in our view.

Alan Lowenthal

Im passionate about the issues that I care about, and Im a really good listener.

Charlie Crist

You know, as attorney general, there's no issue more important than making sure you are safe, that your families are safe.

Charles W. Pickering

Our legislation addresses broadcasts over the public airwaves, but I hope the cable and satellite industries see the importance of this issue and voluntarily create a family tier of programming and offer culturally responsible products.

Charles Dickens

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

David Nabarro

The real issue will be how the money is going to be managed and how we are going to coordinate.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Suzanne Vitadamo

She recognizes me. She's weaker but she's still trying to talk.

Ted Nelson

The only ones those certifications are recognized by are the associations who give them.

Tim Hearn

We're sensitive to consumers, we recognize there's more out of people's pocketbooks,

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

At Walmart, we recognize the need to support the development of our nation's youth.

Lauren Lee Smith

The only place I really get recognized is at Ralphs. Whenever I'm in L.A., I go to Ralphs, and for some reason, everyone there recognizes me.

O. Singh

I am a sacrifice to Your slaves, who recognize only the One Lord.

Bobby Gonzalez

I don't know what it was with Jason. I didn't really recognize him today.

Bonnie McKee

I was always super, super musical. So my parents recognized that and put me in choirs, piano lessons, and all that.

David Allen

You don't actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.

Dave Gibbons

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the reader and find a surprise for yourself.

Jane Smiley

With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.

Alan Bean

History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

David Cornwell

We want to take a step forward. There's some worries. But you just go in there and play.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Brandon Sanderson

Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.

Jack Jones

We are taking steps one at a time.

Al Horford

We're here to win it. This is just the first step to get there.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.

Carl Sandburg

The more rhymethere isin poetry the more dangerof its tricking the writer into something other than the urge in the beginning.

Jerry Jones

I don't feel an urgency to get a young wide receiver.

Antonio Munoz Molina

I'm afraid I have an incurable urge for teaching.

Jan Egeland

We need to have a sense of urgency here like we had in the tsunami.

Kate Fleetwood

I'd quite like to direct. I don't think it will happen, but my urge is that way inclined.

Kent Conrad

Those are the very things I've urged the administration to do for some time.

Stephane Dujarric

There is a sense of urgency because it is so perilously late.

Mark Butler

There is a real urgency here and there is an irreversibility. Look at the waters here, there's no groundfishery left.