Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Gonzalez

We want to provide food, water, shelter and medical supplies to everyone. No one should be afraid to accept our offers to provide safety.

Martin McGuinness

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

Stephen Harper

We have no alternative but to accept the checks; they're part of our system.

Alpha Konare

We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is not the Ivory Coast that we know.

Geoff Hoon

We want Saddam to accept the will of the international community,

Nick Russo

We want people to understand this deadline is for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. New applications will not be accepted after the March 11, 2006, deadline.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Emilio Butragueno

We have received two bids from England, one of which has been accepted already. The other will be discussed by the directors today,

C. S. Lewis

Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

John Gonzalez

We've spread a lot of innings around. We've used nine different guys, and the roles on the staff are becoming much more defined.

B. R. Hayden

We have rockets stacking up and the storage is becoming a problem.

David Emerson

The fact that Mr. Harper has reached out to someone like me is an indication that they are becoming a middle-of-the-road party. I think I can be helpful moving in that direction.

John Thune

The fact he is doing this at the very time the Republican convention is going on tells me that his political situation is becoming very difficult, ... The Daschle campaign is very desperate right now.

Michael Marks

There is no doubt that governments are becoming much more protectionist.

Tom Watson

I have a special feeling for Blue Hills CC, where I won perhaps the most important tournament of my life when I was 14 - the Kansas City Match Play Championship. It gave me a dream of becoming a professional golfer.

Stephan Pastis

You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.

Thomas J. Stanley

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Zhou Xiaochuan

What the premier said means that China would continue to increase the flexibility of the RMB exchange rate in a gradual manner.

Brian Dolan

We've seen dollar/yen slip on that China comment.

George Bald

We have so many companies at Pease that are involved in international business. China is the world?s seventh-largest economy today and will likely be the fifth by the end (of 2006).

Tim Adams

The real issue is 'How do you help China integrate into the global economy in a way that maximizes growth and minimizes disruptions?

Jan Lambregts

There is a lot of focus on the visit and understandably so. China has shown last year that it will give into significant outside pressure. It wants to do as little as possible and escape a protectionist fall out.

Joyce Ma

When I met her in Hong Kong I was very touched by how she welcomed the eastern culture to be her own. And she was there, not now when China is open, but when it was during the cultural revolution,

Michael Callahan

Ultimately US companies in China face a choice -- comply with Chinese law or leave.

Tim King

We are going to launch our first joint venture in the middle of this year with China Resources (Holdings) Co Ltd, our largest franchise partner.

Tim McNulty

We are looking in many parts of the world and China is one of our focuses at the moment. We are currently surveying the landscape in China to identify any opportunities.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Nancy Talanian

We want the local police to do what they were meant to do -- protect their citizens.

David Dunn

Since Sept. 11, the local police, our role has changed, ... Before, we were worrying about burglaries, thefts.

Ryan Julison

She wants to support her local tournaments. We're disappointed, but we understand.

Jochen Zeitz

Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will visit.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

There are so many local nonprofits making a positive impact every day, and yet, oftentimes we don't hear enough about them or their needs.

Mary Mark

Make the most of your money. Use your local talent and try to have something for everyone's taste.

Martin Klein

People want to come to a local landmark, ... They want to be comfortable.

Adam Schiff

People want someone whose top priority is local concerns, not national, partisan, ideological crusades,

Larry Rogers

Ninety-five percent (of the workers) will be from the local area.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

Max Miller

We want it to be as normal as possible for the kids.

Jim Hall

We want it be as normal a setting as possible and not have them stigmatized as being retarded.

Charles de Gaulle

It's impossible in normal times to rally a nation that has 265 kinds of cheese.

Peter Rose

We've seen no disruptions. We are anticipating a normal work day.

Jamie Campbell Bower

When I was 16, I used to hang out at the Nambucca pub in North London and see The Libertines play live.

Leah Devlin

We use this work every day in North Carolina. All of these investments are not one-time. They require a sustained commitment.

Sandra Cisneros

What's always a challenge for me is that my Spanish is not the level of my English. Nor do I read in Spanish the way I read in English.

Taylor Lautner

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.

Thomas Mars

In California, there is a strong tension between north and south.

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.

Jared Ingersol

With this region being as strong as it is, it was important for us to get off on the right foot.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Carlos Gutierrez

only then will the region be truly reborn.

Joschka Fischer

The situation in Iraq is dangerous but the regional situation is also very complicated and precarious.

Wen Jiabao

There is still educational disparity between different regions and between rural and urban areas,

Antonio Guterres

We are really very concerned. The whole region is very unstable.

Chely Wright

I'm not a Democrat, I'm not a Republican-I'm an American, I'm a human.

Camille Claudel

My countrymen have commissioned a bust of the Republic. It will be placed on the fountain of my native town.

Bill Maher

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

Bill Maher

Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed!

Bill Maher

How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?

Madeleine Albright

I can't go out with a Republican.

Benjamin Franklin

What have you wrought ... A Republic if you can keep it.

Daniel Cabrera

We'll see what the Dominican Republic can do.

Charley Pride

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

Nick Whaley

We were better in the second game, so it's disappointing that we didn't play more relaxed.

Clint Hurdle

We've seen him play short and how he can play there. We want to keep getting a feel for him at second base.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

Reba McEntire

We did, Monday, a read-through, the first act; Tuesday, the second act. And then we did two shows.

Jandy Nelson

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

Jan de Bont

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Alan Bennett

Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it’s now or never.

Al Sharpton

We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.

Al Jourgensen

It certainly is gravy every day above ground right now, after kicking that heroin habit. I've been given a second chance in life, and I don't want to let a minute go by without enjoying it.

Jason Cirone

When it was 1-1, I thought something special was going on here . . . for about a minute.

Ed Belbin

We know, at this time of the year, special teams is everything.

Don Adams

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

David McCullough

If everyone is special, then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.

David Rudisha

It's something special to break the world record at the Olympics.

George Williams

This was a special season. We accomplished a lot... . It's special even though we didn't win the state title.

Janet Jackson

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Mark Cuban

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

Ava Gardner

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Annette Lu

Taiwan is democratic.

Eddie Huang

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Hu Jintao

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

Jeremy Lin

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

Steve Johnson

Democratic, market-oriented Taiwan is a thorn in its side.

George W. Bush

I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself.