Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Gerry Adams

Regrettably a small, unrepresentative group chose to ignore our appeal. Their actions were entirely wrong and reprehensible.

Boris Berezovsky

organizers of this provocation should be punished and answer for their actions in court.

Tom Cain

Part of it, I think, was fate but it was also a different approach that helped. They were more motivated. What helped so much was their compassion and understanding, but they also made some overt actions to find a buyer.

Robin Conrad

Particularly with securities class actions, he will not let class actions go forward lightly.

John Duncan

Paul Martin's softwood strategy is backwards and is designed to spin the Canadian electorate rather than end the dispute. His long overdue call to President Bush is better late than never, however, I am concerned that his recent actions have threatened any potential progress in resolving the softwood dispute.

Jason Schenker

Regardless of how large the draws are expected to be, especially in gasoline, seeing the actual numbers will be a shock.

John Ortberg

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

David Tanner

Particles of the allergen -- in this particular case, peanuts -- are small enough to actually float in the air, ... If they land on someone who is allergic, land in their eyes or in their nose, they can cause them an actual allergic reaction.

Whitney Ransome

Part of it has to do with the actual journey of finding your own identity, apart from your mother's, while you're still connected to her.

Tobin Gorey

Ordinarily comfortable inventories would mean lower prices -- probably closer to fifty-five dollars. But the Iran situation, and several smaller actual interruptions to crude supply, are keeping prices higher.

Thomas E. Mann

Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

Mark Bowden

Staring at all the green bundles, ... Joey felt suddenly overwhelmed by the challenge of hanging onto it. The idea of finding that much money was proving to be more thrilling than the actual experience, much as the highs he got by shooting speed had long ago stopped living up to his expectations. The hard truth about life, which most people learned but that Joey had not, was that things had to be earned to be fully enjoyed. Success, accomplishment, the admiration of the world -- these were all things that could not be faked, or purchased with a needle or a windfall.

John Zimmerman

Some of the numbers in the first half are about us rehearsing and getting ready to go on tour. The opening of the second half is a parody on things, and the finale is supposed to be the beginning of an actual show.

Albert Lin

Some of the basics of the technology may be similar, but the way it's been implemented is different. And these differences impact the actual user experience. FLO was designed especially to deliver mobile TV, while DVB-H is a standard based on older broadcast TV technology.

Lou Piniella

I think it will probably curtail that type of thing from happening at other ballparks. It'll keep the playing field safer, which is a concern. You hate to see a fan penalized, but what are you going to do?

Seiji Shiraishi

Fukui may make remarks that seek to curtail the recent spike in yields, on the view that recent rises are too much.

David Bennett

If we get help from the state it enhances our opportunity to curtail the problem which is what we want to do.

Dale Niewoehner

One needs to curtail something like this after getting a collection. But mysteries remain out there.

Jay Foreman

The data shows an urgent need to strengthen policies at all levels of government and curtail pesticide use.

Kate Hudson

the serious threat that these laws will be used to curtail the right to protest ... We must defend our democratic right to protest.

Ron Perry

Anything will help to curtail these roadside fires from getting onto private property.

George Perkovich

This deal not only lets India amass as many nuclear weapons as it wants, it looks like we made no effort to try to curtail them.

Sherry Cooper

The repercussions on global trade would be devastating, ... Given that virtually all major economies have a surplus with the (United States), trade disruptions would shutter manufacturing plants and curtail global demand for most commodities.

Shawn Ryan

He's going to be a great foil for the guys on the show.

Jim Lee

When you have a Green Lantern mixing with a foil like Batman, you get scenes that are comic-book history. There's the epicness of it all.

Abdur Razzak

They are trying to foil our plans by issuing threats and imposing bans. But we are not cowards.

Juliet Rylance

Producing is a wonderful foil to being an actor: acting being largely about getting out of my head, being present, a little irresponsible, whilst producing is the polar opposite. You need other players to act; you can't act in a void, but producing is about making something out of nothing - conjuring a thought or an idea into reality.

Jerry Falwell

I think he is genuinely a state's righter -- and so am I.

John Lloyd

Jokes are a lot about meaning. I think if we understand what jokes mean and why they work, we'd understand everything else. Genuinely I do.

Scott Archer

He was genuinely nice. (The movie) is an honor. It's something you thought would never happen.

Lynn Coady

There are people out there who genuinely love literature, who genuinely love to read and read widely, who will never like, or even necessarily get, my books. That was a hard one to swallow, to not feel slighted by.

Joey Avila

Last year we had a lot of egos. We had some issues. We don't have that this year. This team genuinely likes each other.

Eric Fellner

It is rare that you read scripts that genuinely move you and make you feel that, regardless of the commercial possibilities, you have to make the film.

Simon Van Booy

The most frustrating part of trying to direct everything is not that it alienates you from people who genuinely want to help, but that it's actually impossible.

Camille Paglia

No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.

Chris Hayes

It is genuinely shocking to me that I'm on a television show.

Larry Walker

Reggie? Good luck. Congratulations. ... You guys win the championship down there?

Lydia Lenker

Re-election doesn't lead us. These are good issues.

Gregg Hostetler

Recognition is always good for the program. I think they have to prove it to me.

Jane King

Realtors should be all over this. It's a good product.

Joe Torre

Reggie was one of those guys who knew how good he was and let people know how good he was. Some players resented that during those times.

Stephen Hadley

Our relationships are in good shape. This is not a trip where the president has to come with a deliverable or an initiative.

Carl Pettersson

Pars are good. I had a good round going,

Mark Brunell

Patrick is a great guy and a very good player,

Doug Higgins

Patrick did a good job and we moved some guys around on defense. We started to play a little more solid.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Big Pun

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

C. S. Lewis

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.