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.

David Ferrell

We want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.

Angelo Forte

We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.

Joe Sakic

We want to play well against Vancouver. We want to make sure we try and get a good win and have a good game there. We'll see how it plays out.

Ken Williams

We have said over and over again that pitching is the priority when it comes to building our club.

Jeff House

We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.

Jon Jansen

We have to go out and prove we can do it against teams that we should have success against. We need to prove that we're a good team, and we haven't done that yet.

Tom Peterson

We have to go on the road against No. 2 (Cal Irvine) but first is tomorrow night. We have to make sure we're playing better each night. That's who will come out on top, who's playing better at the end.

Scott Johnson

We have to go back on to that drawing board and come up with something different next weekend against France.

Andy Nieto

We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.

Joachim Loew

We want to put them under pressure. Although they (United States) have developed greatly in recent years, we think they make mistakes under pressure.

William Shatner

We were basically one and the same, although Jim was just about perfect, and, of course, I am perfect.

Paul Allaire

We were aware that we really had to change the cost structure of the company and change the investment profile and the focus to some degree and shed some assets in order to remain competitive, ... It is clear that just fixing our operational issues, although critical, is not sufficient.

Jim Murren

We were already largely sold out through 2005, although we have been able to squeeze in some meetings.

Herb Mones

When you get to the counties it's like a new season and no matter what your record during the regular season, everyone is invited. Everyone gets their kids prepared for their match-ups and if they are favorable, you can do well. The exciting thing about it is that everybody is given a fresh start, although from a coaching perspective, Ward Melville comes very prepared and they keep all the other coaches on their toes.

Paul DePodesta

We've spent a lot of time together lately, ... The goal was to become very comfortable with the direction we are going. Although creative conflict is healthy, it is critical to our vision for the GM/manger dynamic to have enough consistent elements to move forward.

John Hughes

We've seen a technical improvement lately, with the indexes breaking out of the recent downtrend. We think there's going to be an uptrend in the market through the end of the year, although it certainly won't be without hiccups.

Thad Cochran

I think in national security, the war in Iraq is troublesome and a difficult challenge, but our troops and the military leaders we have are managing that situation, although it continues to be very risky and very dangerous.

Thomas Goodwin

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.

Jon Meacham

The powerful emotional connection between Roosevelt and Churchill and how they confronted tyranny and terror is an incredibly contemporary story that yields important lessons for leaders today on a personal, political, and diplomatic level.

Barbara Castle

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

Rick Pitino

Football is only once a week. NASCAR is once a week. Those sports are insanely popular. Horse racing is oversaturated. Unless tracks cut back to three days a week of full fields, a lot of people will really hurt down the road. Horse racing, to survive, has to go to that. Let's face it: Churchill Downs only does well on Derby Week.

Michael Howard

What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.

Doug Cauthen

He's doing great. It's great to see him not only love Kentucky but he seems to love that Churchill surface. But we're excited to be here this weekend and look forward to it.

Paul McGee

He was getting more horses and more clients, and he was winning races. He had a good Churchill meet, and things were really picking up for him. It's really a shame.

Kiaran McLaughlin

It gets more like Churchill ( Downs ) all the time.

Steve Sexton

It is a joy each year to see the Kentucky Derby and Churchill Downs through the eyes of talented young students.

Peter Parr

I think it would be silly to not have a chat. He fits our criteria. He's just captained a grand final-winning side, he just won the Clive Churchill medal, he's been on a Kangaroo tour, he's a north Queenslander and he's played at our club before.

Sartaj Aziz

We have never crossed the Line of Control,

David Gergen

When he hung up on Nancy Reagan, that's when he crossed his final threshold.

Mariella Frostrup

Mixed messages are just part and parcel of the romantic terrain, and rather than berate yourself for any crossed wires, you'd do better to work on your future resilience.

Patrick Valenzuela

When we crossed the dirt, the leader drifted out and we got through. He just took off and got the job done.

Phil Jones

What has happened in this situation is, it's sort of crossed the line.

Dan Gillerman

We are all keeping our fingers crossed and praying and are very elated by every small, however minute, sign of progress. But I think there is still a very long way to go... And hopefully Sharon will survive and come back.

Don Hill

She probably went over the edge today. She probably crossed over, really kind of marginalized herself,

Damien Mason

Lee crossed the line, but everybody does some wrong, and he has been very supportive of people in the community.

James Watson

We're just sitting here with our fingers crossed and hoping the eye goes east of us. If the TVA transmission lines go down, we'll go down, because we're dependent on them. Our system is in good shape, but when you get 80-100 mile per hour winds, it's hard to predict what's going to happen. We're making preparations for the worst, but hoping for the best.

Apparat

When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.

Stefan Sagmeister

I had discovered that I'm much less special than I thought I am. So whatever I find true for myself, other people might also relate to.

Tom Cotton

At Harvard College, I discovered political philosophy as a way of life.

Octavia E. Butler

Most vampires I have discovered are men for some reason. I guess it's because of Dracula; people are kind of feeding off that.

Tori Kelly

My fans were the ones who discovered me on YouTube. I don't ever want to forget that.

Tift Merritt

In France, I discovered that I love writing in the city. There's such an intensity to being in the city that matches the intensity of what you're experiencing in your head.

John Updike

For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.

Kim Cattrall

I enjoyed making people laugh. I discovered that I loved that power over them. On stage, I felt I could really express who I was for the first time.

Kathryn Harrison

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Rahul Gandhi is very idealistic and a very decent human being. He has real concerns for the downtrodden.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.

Kailash Satyarthi

I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.

Tom Shadyac

Truth can be a matter of perspective, but I also think there's a truth that exists, that there are laws to the universe the way Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King believed.

Jitin Prasada

Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi are our star campaigners. Our party will fight under their leadership.

Jesse Stone

Everybody knows who Gandhi is. Who knows Jesse Stone?

David Cronenberg

A History of More Violence'?... I think not. That reminds me of somebody's joke about Gandhi - 'Gandhi 2: Even More Non-Violent.'

David Cronenberg

A History of More Violence'? ... I think not. That reminds me of somebody's joke about Gandhi - 'Gandhi 2: Even More Non-Violent.'

Manmohan Singh

His heart is in the right place. If Sonia Gandhi would let him have a shot at the job she gave him, he might do quite a good job.

Aasif Mandvi

I was born in India - but never really lived there.

Charles Eastman

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Charles Eastman

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

Asif Ali Zardari

I am looking forward and I am hoping that I will be the catalyst that makes India and Pakistan live for peace forever.

Bill Gates

India is more of an aid recipient than a provider of aid.

Bill Gates

Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.

Terry Anderson

There is no money to pay any ransom, ... These were three nonpolitical missionaries working in an Indian village when they were taken. This was a mistake.

Jaswant Singh

Military intervention by India in Sri Lanka is ruled out,

Anushka Sharma

I have stayed in south India all my life. English comes more naturally to me than Hindi.

Chuck Morton

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Jim Ramstad

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night,

Doug Liman

'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' - every scene is from those characters' point of view. They're in literally every scene, very unusual in a big studio film.

Patti Savrick

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Lawrence Vale

New Orleans was slowly sinking, literally and figuratively, well before Katrina.

Bianca Kajlich

That's literally been the story of my career. I'm always the second choice. And you know what? I'm more than happy to be that person.

Kathleen Bergen

We've been consolidating radar services literally for decades. When we do this, we make optimum use of the resources we have.

Beto O'Rourke

We in El Paso and Juarez are literally one community. There's no separation; there's no DMZ; there's no buffer.

Ryan Rourke

We saw literally no response from faculty, which was disheartening.

Charles de Gaulle

It is better to have a bad method than to have none.

Chadwick Boseman

When I met Rachel Robinson for the first time, she is a regal woman, and she was like a grandmother in that first meeting.

Mike Birbiglia

When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

Louis Menand

When I met him, I didn't feel a particular warmth toward him.

Charna Halpern

When I met Del, I was doing these theater-sports type things, ... But I was very bored, and I said to Del, 'There's got to be something more than just games.' And he said, 'Well, you're not such a twit after all.'

Thomas Gray

Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

Thom Mayne

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Art Johnson

The point is, the Legislature has not met its constitutional requirements.

Nolan Sotillo

I met Victoria Justice once. She was so nice. I've always been a fan.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

Chris Clarke

I was saying, 'You've got to get up; you've got to get up,' ... He said, 'I'm getting up.' I went to get help, and when I got back, he'd passed away.

Martin Parr

My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down.

Petr Sykora

I don't think we passed any shooting chances. He just made saves. He was the difference.

Tim Powers

I have more questions than answers. I wonder, could a lot of these teachers have passed this test in the '70s?

Tim Zerull

I can't say enough about how well we passed and how well we served and how well we played defense.

Bill Engvall

I have been passed over on some things because people didn't think I was edgy enough. But the people who took those gigs are gone now, and I am still here.

Richard Cook

There are a lot of different paths that you can be on. We just have to wait to see which one.

Lao Tzu

There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a heart.

Mary-Kate Olsen

We did many of our own stunts. We had our hands full. In fact, the roles were physically demanding.

Bill Self

We're still playing better physically than we are mentally.

Twyla Tharp

Who a dancer is physically feeds into character for me. Always has.

Orlando Anaya

She's so personable, nice, and sweet, plus she's not that big for a swimmer, so she can relate to the swimmer's who aren't physically gifted.

Joost Hiltermann

But at the same time they play an important role because they physically stand between militias that are at each other's throats.

Devin Harris

I don't think it's going to be physically possible.

Irving Kirsch

Nocebos often cause a physical effect, but it's not a physically produced effect. What's the cause? In many cases, it's an unanswered question.

Alia Shawkat

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

Leila Janah

It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.

Carol Moseley Braun

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Carol Vorderman

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

Carlos Castaneda

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Carlos Castaneda

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.

Bob Dylan

I got this grave yard woman.

Larry Leopardi

We probably had about 300 cubic yards on Wednesday.

Carl Jung

Remember when you picked me up like a frisbee and tossed me across you yard?

Willie Nelson

It can't get much worse, 100 yards an hour, ... It's frustrating bumper-to-bumper.

Adam Grant

Being a giver is not good for a 100-yard dash, but it’s valuable in a marathon.

Steven Schier

We are many, many yards away from a score.

Greg Peterson

Let nature be in your yard.

Alan Zemaitis

I don't know how many yards they got, but they didn't do too much of anything. We went in there the same way; we didn't do anything special.

Jennifer Garner

I knew we were going to marry someday, but I was absolutely surprised when he actually proposed. And surprised he had bought a ring. I ran around the yard screaming.