Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.

James Mooney

Our priorities are national security. People linked to terrorism are number one. We are looking at the borders with interior enforcement - places that would be harmed by illegal terrorists working in places like nuclear power plants and airports. We are dealing with the criminal alien element. We can't be everything for everybody.

Tracy Mullin

Retailers don't want to alienate their loyal customers by making their return policies too strict, but they also need to create policies that discourage return fraud,

David Grinspoon

I was just so impressed with the diversity and inventiveness of the artwork submitted. To me, it bespeaks of a vast global awareness and excitement about imagining and exploring a neighboring world that is so like our own in some ways and so completely alien in others.

Ram Prasad

It is an alien place for me. Most of the locals here don't talk to us and there is a communication problem. And there is always fear of an attack.

Joan Kirner

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

Jon Katz

(Jesse) was alienated from school. He wasn't learning much. He didn't have a lot of teachers who were close to him. He didn't have social acceptance. He had never been invited to a party in high school. He's very much a loner.

Charles Albert Gobat

It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.

Fairuza Balk

I was worried, I just couldn't relate to those neo-Nazi white power groups who hate everybody who isn't a white protestant. Those feelings were alien to me, so I went and found several groups of skinheads and hung out with them and tried to find out why they feel that way.

Ken Kramer

Recreational interests of our members was not sufficient to give us a claim to be able to contest the permit. However, one of the three state environment commissioners disagreed with the majority and indeed felt that Sierra Club should have standing. So, we think we have a pretty strong case to argue that because of the recreational interests of our members in Sam Rayburn.

John Culp

Our lawyers are prepared to argue that we have the right to strike.

Karla Owens

People have a tendency to argue less with a judge.

David Deutsch

Surely it is more interesting to argue about what the truth is, than about what some particular thinker, however great, did or did not think.

George H. W. Bush

Some have argued we should wait, and that's an option. In my view, it's the riskiest of all options, because the longer we wait, the stronger and bolder Saddam Hussein will become.

Shane Oliver

Some have argued the fall in the Australian dollar at a time when commodity prices are still strong is telling us global growth is about to collapse. However, there are few indicators of any impending collapse in global growth or commodity prices. In fact, global growth seems to be strengthening thanks to stronger growth in Europe and Japan.

John Hutton

Some people argue that we should limit choice in favour of good local services. My response is simple: why should we assume those two concepts are mutually exclusive?

Don Rittner

Rittner's Computer Law: "Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

Amy Irving

I will argue my points; I will have my opinions. But at the end of the day, it's the director's choice.

Howard Thompson

Our office is in pretty good shape, but the building itself had some damage. We're setting up a temporary location in Baton Rouge.

Yulia Tymoshenko

picking up Kuchma's baton and wanting to get rid of me in the same way.

Jim Haslett

I was kind of surprised, to be honest, because I thought we would play here or in Baton Rouge,

Robbie Robertson

I think the most important thing here is... paying homage to other artists. Everybody (is) passing the baton because there are many people who are going to be in this show. If it wasn't for them, a lot of the rest of us wouldn't be doing this.

Aaron Brooks

Just about everywhere we go a hurricane hits. You just can't believe it. ... It's like a black cloud. We may not be able to play in Baton Rouge if it hits like that.

Archie Manning

I was very proud of them. It was heavy on their hearts and they moved fast. Peyton got the plane lined up. Their mother and I think that it did some good. I've heard so many comments from people in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. And after talking to the boys when I got back I could tell it did them some good, too.

Jim Haslett

I'd like to have them here because we're practicing here, ... But I think we owe it to the state and the region to play a couple games in Baton Rouge if we can.

Glen Davis

He didn't make it. He was being transported to Baton Rouge General. He didn't make it I heard. I heard he passed in the ambulance.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

When you run a part of the relay and pass on the baton, there is no sense of unfinished business in your mind. There is just the sense of having done your part to the best of your ability. That is it. The hope is to pass on the baton to somebody who will run faster and run a better marathon.

Dan Maloney

Our people are in Houston, Atlanta, Dallas and elsewhere, and they don't have places to live here.

Mike Hebert

Our tournament this weekend in Dallas gives us three matches. And that will have to do it, because we start the Big Ten right after that. And we open up at Wisconsin, which will be a pretty severe test.

H. Hunt

Last weekend I had to have tests done in a Dallas hospital, so I missed the Raiders game, the 18th,

Bob Larson

I do not want to hang around and root for Dallas to lose.

Dale Rich

He just kind of tried it out and found out he was pretty good at it. Right off the bat, he won the Dallas Golden Gloves.

Steve Sampson

I felt in the second half the players played with a lot of pride and they showed they weren't going to drop their heads and roll over and that was important. They wanted to show the Dallas fans that we can play this game too.

Dwane Casey

I thought Dallas took us to the woodshed, especially in the first half. We didn't come out like we were on a three-game skid.

Marco Rivera

If it's anything like that Packers-Bears rivalry or that Packers-Minnesota rivalry, it's a big-time rivalry. I've seen Dallas and the Washington Redskins play before. I've heard all the stories.

Rich Carlson

We train in El Paso, Midland-Odessa, Amarillo and Albuquerque, so they don't have to come all the way to Dallas for everything.

William Taylor

reasonable doubt as to the guilt of the appellant.

S. Hughes

Regulation is a factor, no doubt about it. But it may not be how tough the regulation is, but how fast it is -- how fast can you get your paperwork through?

Pat Hill

Paul is a proven winner, ... He'll be the key for us, no doubt about it. He won't be rattled.

Peter Ueberroth

Our old system is less favorably positioned. To follow the same path would not lead to success in our view. We were doubtful the last meeting, now we're convinced. If we go through this whole process it's not going to work. If we want to bid, we want to win. We have to figure it out and make sure we have everybody on board.

Peter Ueberroth

Our old system is less favorably positioned, ... To follow the same path would not lead to success in our view. We were doubtful the last meeting, now we're convinced. If we go through this whole process it's not going to work. If we want to bid, we want to win. We have to figure it out and make sure we have everybody on board.

Tish Lyons

People have doubted us because we lost our big guns and everything and we lose our point guard. I think we've come together nicely. We really are starting to play well together and I hope that continues.

Sun Moon

Some may doubt that such a project can be completed, ... But where there is a will, there is always a way -- especially if it is the will of God.

Sheryl Krmpotich

Our plan is to get the job done this year. To leave no doubt on the floor.

Gene Brown

Rod had it pegged from the beginning. I had doubts about his methods. But he's got guts.

Carmelo Anthony

Regardless of who it was, I was going to the hole. They weren't going to stop me that time. I was either going to get a foul or a dunk.

Jamie Dixon

Records on the road usually aren't as good as records at home. We want to be undefeated on the road well but we had all five games down to the last minute. They could have gone either way.

Marty Barnes

Really you don't want to reflect too much on either the wins or the losses after they happen. At the next practice you have to start getting ready for the next opponent.

Sanjaasuren Oyun

Parliament will reconvene either on Wednesday or Thursday when possibly a new government will be formed.

F. Schumacher

Park Rapids runs an unbalanced line formation trying to outnumber you on either side of the line. We have to be disciplined on defense.

Amy Taylor

Part of that patience is we're looking at the post more. And our posts are either finishing or getting the foul.

Carla Sullivan

People haven't been complaining. Either they don't care, or they know it is right for the students.

Michael Chertoff

People have got to take some responsibility for preparing themselves, ... That means you get yourself three days' worth of food, three days' worth of water; you get yourself flashlights, batteries, either a hand-crank radio or a battery-powered radio, a first-aid kit precisely because you know it's going to take 48 to 72 hours to be able to fully service everyone.

Victoria Chan

People have to either lose weight, or we have to use longer needles.

Oliver Luck

From this day forward, the Houston 1836 logo will be a symbol of a hardworking team. This is a team for Houston. If you live in Houston, you must like it here. If you like Houston, come out and support another Houston franchise.

Bill White

Hurricane Rita is dangerous, and Houston is well-prepared,

Ray Stone

We pre-positioned about 60, some in Houston and some in Atlanta, so we could set up a storm office as it unfolded and move the others in quickly.

Conan O'Brien

A store in Houston is selling Donald Trump piñatas filled with candy. So finally something good is going to come out of Donald Trump.

David Foster

Whitney Houston was a laser beam ... She always gave me better than what I asked for in the studio

Roger Clemens

When I tried the sandwich, I had to invest with Nolan Ryan in the Houston market.

Brad Lidge

When you're a pitcher for the Houston Astros and a stranger notices you in a mall in Colorado, you know things have really changed.

Edward Hirsch

When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.

Barbara Morgan

I'm living here now. This is my place. I'm not going back. People in Houston have been wonderful to us,

Tim Bawmann

Staten Island (the Yankees' New York-Penn League affiliate) knew we were going to do this. They're planning to retaliate.

H. Hart

Pine Island Road is just one strip mall after another with trash. We might as well sell and leave.

Ashton Kutcher

Romance is sort of an island right next to care. When you care about someone and you listen to them and you hear them and you can feel them and you know just what's right, and generally it's something that will be very unimpressive to a room of strangers.

Arsene Wenger

I'm French. I have not become an Englishman. I have the impression of living on an island called Arsenal. If you fancy a sightseeing tour of London, don't ask me. You would get lost.

Mandy Hotchkiss

I was just totally overwhelmed. Their whole island has been totally wiped out.

Gerry Adams

I think people throughout this island have voted for change. The task now is to manage that change.

Stacy Stewart

I wouldn't be surprised if much of the island is under water. It's just a speck on the map.

Fred Glass

Just like Kings Island has to have a new ride every year or so, we need to have a new thing.

Mitchell Pally

I think it's essential. In the past 10 years, where people live and where people work on Long Island has changed.

Lalah Hathaway

I wrote that song as sort of a prayer, listing all of the things I would do once the plane landed safely on the ground,

Mark Twain

If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.

Bonnie Tyler

I started singing when I was 18 and landed my first record deal with RCA when I was 26 after a lot of grafting singing in pubs and clubs.

Cindy Morgan

I landed the role in 'Caddyshack' auditioning, like everybody else. It wasn't a role I thought I'd get, so I had nothing to lose.

Marquand Manuel

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

Dennis Kuhl

We were some of the first Americans who landed in Vietnam without weapons in our hands, you might say.

Zhang Xin

Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.

David Allan

We then resorted to watching them through a telescope and marked the places where they landed to pick up sample droppings for viral tests,

Johnny Whitaker

the only way he could have landed where he landed was if he jumped.

David Martin

Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Stephen Gallagher

Reduced liquidity in the markets is likely to result in a wider swap spread.

Mark Collins

I think this particular time, it's more likely we'll be successful.

Ben Halliburton

I think we are likely to remain in a trading range for some time.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Scott Provancher

It is likely that we will not get all the way to our end of the season.

Gennaro Castaldo

I think come the weekend it is quite likely that retailers will be sold out and will be waiting for the next allocation.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Carolina Milanesi

Over all, their mix is improved. They are shifting more toward that mid- and high-tier model,

Cato June

Playing linebacker is completely different than playing safety. You're in the mix every play and those big linemen get on you real fast.

Emanuel Ungaro

The '60s were free, innocent, without pressure. I did what I wanted to do. Remember when I was mixing prints. I started that in 1969 and '70,

Lance Briggs

I think we're in the mix of putting something together incredible.

Richard Hamilton

He comes at you on every possession. You've got to mix it up on him.

Richard Shelby

because they all go into the mix of the economy.

Josh Elliott

I was a subscriber to 'Sports Illustrated' like so many of us, and I was overwhelmed by a toxic mix of naivete and arrogance, and just thought to myself, 'I think I can write like this.'

S. Walker

He's been out of the mix for a long time.

John Updike

A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal.

Scarlet Knights

Stay on her, ... You go where she goes.

Arsene Wenger

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.

Laime Contreras

I was just trying to concentrate on each point. I was like, 'This is 5-2 - we can't get any worse.' So I was just trying to stay focused.

Dave McCullough

It is a readjustment. We're going to stay here and I think we will survive this, but it won't be easy." ()

Jose Gonzalez

That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.

Dick Umile

I think if we all stay healthy, we'll all keep going.

Vincent Lecavalier

I think he thought I was going on my backhand but I stayed with my forehand.

Juan Rincon

I thought I would never see him again, ... We have been able to stay together through baseball.

Reggie Myles

I'm still trying to get them to come up and stay with me, but they won't,