Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ultimately the decision as to what happens will be made by the decisions and actions of the Yugoslav leadership. They have the power to stop this tragedy. They have the power to take action to reverse it.

Sylvester Croom

Ultimately, I am responsible for their actions and I take full responsibility. But I want to stress that these are good kids who come from good families, who made a serious mistake in judgment.

Meg Garlinghouse

The potential consequences of climate change are so sobering that it's difficult to imagine how individual actions can make any impact. We are hopeful that Yahoo!'s Earth Day campaign will illustrate that if we act as a global community, together we can make a difference. We encourage citizens everywhere to embrace our collective responsibility to protect the earth for future generations.

Vladimir Litvin

The people will not benefit from this. The people's homes will not get warmer. It is nakedly clear that actions by those who are responsible for this sector are neither professional nor competent. Those people have triggered the gas crisis in relations with Russia.

William Dempkowski

The pledge says 'I won't smoke in the high school and I won't smoke on school grounds. The last part says I will try by my actions to be a positive influence and help my friends so they don't smoke.

Raul Gonzalez

We are prepared to defend the EO. We have anticipated these actions by various sectors,

Michael Capellas

We are aggressively taking the appropriate actions to restore the company's growth and financial performance. The realignment of the company is fully underway, our management team is basically in place and we already offer the powerful solutions and range of products customers need to maximize Internet benefits.

Dan Stein

We believe that the actions and rhetoric of the Mexican government constitute an attempt to infringe on the sovereignty of the United States, and we urge an immediate and strong response from the Bush administration.

Alan Lacy

We believe that Sears Canada shareholders should consider the actions of the senior management and the largest independent shareholder when making a decision with respect to whether to tender their Sears Canada common shares.

Pierre Lafontaine

We know we can still count on him to help us in our efforts to build and strengthen Canadian swimming as an ambassador and as a mentor to young athletes.

Tom Park

We are a highly-visible brand ambassador for the Disney brand as a whole.

Lew Wasserman

We had an interesting thing at that first dinner. It was prior to the availability of several new hotels in Los Angeles, and we were more or less committed to the old Ambassador Hotel that has the famous Coconut Grove.

Michael Budman

Wayne is a natural leader of the Roots athletics team, Team Roots, and a great ambassador for our company. Both on and off the ice, he exemplifies the best of Canada and the Canadian and Olympic heritage of Roots.

Joseph Biden

What happens when our ambassador has to stand up and make the case on intelligence relating to Iraq and North Korea? ... Do you think John Bolton is going to be believed? And do you think it matters? I think it matters a great deal.

Bryant H. McGill

Become an ambassador of peace in your own life.

David K. E. Bruce

The real duties of an ambassador are to enter into or follow negotiations between his own government and that of the country to which he is accredited.

James Rubin

Secretary Albright had asked Ambassador Ross to travel to the region this week. Of course, she will be following the situation closely.

Jennifer Pagonis

She takes her work for us extremely seriously and that means a lot to her and the staff. She's a terrific goodwill ambassador who can help people understand the difficult life of a refugee.

Charles Dunstone

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

Charles de Gaulle

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Charles Dickens

Industry is the soul of business and the keystone of prosperity.

Charles Caleb Colton

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

Charles Dickens

Most men are individuals no longer so far as their business, its activities, or its moralities are concerned. They are not units but fractions.

Charles Dickens

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you

Charles Stross

Contract law is essentially a defensive scorched-earth battleground where the constant question is, "if my business partner was possessed by a brain-eating monster from beyond spacetime tomorrow, what is the worst thing they could do to me?"

Alan Greenspan

It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.

Alan Greenspan

...our market system depends critically on trust-trust in the word of our colleagues and trust in the word of those with whom we do business.

Charlie Daniels

I love my country. I love my guns. I love my family. I love the way it is now, and anybody that tries to change it has to come through me. That should be all of our attitudes. Cause this is America, and a country boy is good enough for me, son.

Charles Tupper

A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any broad distinction is drawn between the rights and the privileges that were enjoyed and that were taken away.

Charles Tupper

My great desire has been to remove from the political arena a question of this kind that is calculated to prevent us getting a verdict upon the important political issues that separate the two parties in this country.

Charles Taylor

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

Charles Sumner

There is the National Flag. He must be cold, indeed, who can look upon its folds rippling in the breeze without pride of country. If he be in a foreign land, the flag is companionship and country itself, with all its endearment...The very colors have a language which was recognized by our fathers; white is for purity; red, for valor; blue, for justice. And altogether, bunting, stripes, stars, and colors, blazing in the sky, make the flag of our country, to be cherished by all our hearts, to be upheld by all our hands.

Charles Sumner

From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.

Charles E. Wilson

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

Charles de Gaulle

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

Charles de Gaulle

Yes, it is Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals, it is Europe, it is the whole of Europe, that will decide the fate of the world.

Brian Lara

We are looking forward to the World Cup also. We hope the big event would do a lot of good for the cricket at grass roots level.

Greg Chappell

We won't have a long duration camp. We had lot of cricket over the last few months. So, we will probably get together only the day before we leave for Pakistan.

Michael Vaughan

We haven't been to the sub-continent and won yet. If we play good cricket over there, I'm sure the rankings will change.

Andrew Flintoff

Simply because he encourages you to enjoy cricket without fear of failure.

Ted Dexter

The only way to give satisfaction in all these quarters is by inspiring his men to win more cricket matches than they lose.

John Read

It is an evolving situation and we will do whatever the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) tells us.

Ian Bradshaw

It is great to be selected in a West Indies Test squad. I've really enjoyed my time representing the West Indies at the one-day level, but Test cricket is the real test.

Ryan Hinds

I thought that we played really good cricket. It's just unfortunate that we lost a few wickets. That is what put us back.

Brad Haddin

We're pretty confident, we've played good cricket in Adelaide in the past and had a good win there this year, I think it suits our style of team.

James Blake

We know what's at stake. If we don't win this match, we can't win the Davis Cup next year.

Rafa Benitez

We know each other so well and when you play a cup tie you know it will always be a difficult tie. We shall see what happens.

Franz Beckenbauer

Unquestionably, it was also thanks to the World Cup win in 1974 that I was lucky enough to spend four years as a player in New York from 1977.

Lawrence Dallaglio

We started the (northern hemisphere) season by winning (November's World Cup final) in Australia, and we have to try and finish the season by winning in Australia,

Diego Maradona

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

Who would drink from a cup when they can drink from the source?

Adrian Bevington

We have said that when the World Cup comes back to Europe it is something that we will give serious consideration to.

Boris Said

Until this year, I only competed in three oval point races in the Cup series, ... Racing is all about experience and I am getting there. I have now raced in nine oval races in total -- that's not a lot, but I feel we have the resources to set a realistic goal of finishing in the top 20 this weekend.

Paul Guen

We were superb. We showed no weaknesses, it was a highly deserved success. Now we are going to try to take some rest before next week's French Cup match.

David LaChapelle

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

E. Hurley

We are providing a stage where everyone can participate and everyone can be seen. We see ourselves as a combination of America's Funniest Home Videos and Entertainment Tonight.

Mike deMaine

We're interested in providing something for people of all types and ages. It's going to be family-friendly, and there'll be entertainment between each inning.

Eartha Kitt

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

Dick Cavett

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

Chad Hurley

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

Kevin Spacey

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

Bob Hope

Television is the box they buried entertainment in.

Charlie Worsham

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

Charles Dudley Warner

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.

Charles de Gaulle

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Charles Dickens

Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.

Charles Simmons

He who feasts every day, feasts no day.

Roger Morris

Venissa is a perfect destination for day-trippers from Venice proper who are searching for great food and a little adventure; it's a 30-minute jaunt by vaporetto from St. Mark's, quicker by water taxi.

Italy will always have the best food.

Dave Barry

In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abcess.

Catherine Bertini

We need a new definition of malnutrition. Malnutrition means under- and over-nutrition. Malnutrition means emaciated and obese.

Kathleen Blanco

The power is out, the phones are down and there is no food or water, and many trees are down.

Charles Dickens

Money and goods are certainly the best of references.

Ricardo Garcia

We're going to do it a little different. We're going to trade goods for services.

John A. Logan

Legally, ... purchasers of goods over the Internet have always been required to pay sales tax on their purchases, but as a practical matter, many haven't, and this will be seen as a tax increase.

Alan Greenspan

Keeping out competitively priced goods would materially lower our standard of living.

Michael Niemira

I think initially the industry will try to keep the discounts more narrowly focused. The problem is, if sales don't pick up, retailers will start to spread out discounts to those goods not selling as well.

Jim Sullivan

People have seen weakening in goods prices and have been pointing to deflation. This tells us we're not going there.

Loretta Young

I was not quite 4 when Mamma moved all of us and all our worldly goods to Hollywood.

Jim Amoss

His view prevailed. The goods went back to the shelves and on they drove, empty-handed.

Igor Ivanov

on goods that may be used for humanitarian problems in Iraq.

Helen Sharman

Is a one-way trip to Mars ever really seriously going to happen? Surely that's morally reprehensible. However old people are, however much they say they want to go on a one-way mission, people should be thinking about the possibility of returning.

Kelly Macdonald

L.A. is brilliant, but however long my trip is I'm always ready to leave. But New York I'm never quite happy to see the back of.

Janie Jamieson

We're prepared . . . for however long it takes.

Errol Alcott

He is responding well to treatment however he will be out of tomorrow's Twenty20 match.

Heinrich Pierer

Our first quarter results are better than we expected, however we stand by the overall outlook we provided in December,

Paul Mason

I'm shocked, there's nothing to justify the prices we're paying before Katrina, however there's a little more to justify the prices we're paying now,

Debra Roberts

We live life moving forwards, however we learn the most by looking backwards.

Richard Collins

We just wear our long johns and sweatshirts and socks and stay warm however we can.

Rob Hoffman

It doesn't matter who I wrestle. You still have to go out and get the job done. You only have to win by one point. Sure, you'd like to pin, but it's rewarding however you get the win.

Charles Taze Russell

I am very glad to have this particular opportunity of saying a word about some of the things in which we agree with our Masonic friends, because we are speaking in a building dedicated to Masonry, and we also are Masons. I am a Freemason.

Charles Dickens

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

Charles Dickens

Then idiots talk....of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy. It is such a conventional superstition, such parrot gabble! What the deuce!....But show me a good opportunity, show me something really worth being energetic about, and I'll show you energy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Charles Caleb Colton

The road to glory would cease to be arduous if it were trite and trodden; and great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities but to make them.

Charles Spurgeon

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

Charles Spurgeon

When facing the apparent denial of my request, God gave me the opportunity to honor him by trusting His Word.

Alan Moore

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Bobbi Koppel

We're able to provide a lot of opportunity. These are the things that students see the most.

Wang Guangya

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

Frank McDonald

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

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.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Lleyton Hewitt

I think the way that the whole region really took to tennis in that week was pretty amazing.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Roy Nash

Our first win of the year could not have come at a better time. It was our first region game.

Ed Keon

When things seem very risky it often represents opportunity.

Jeremy Osborne

He represents that person or that thing that everyone is waiting for.

Frank Taylor

That was between Rick Hamlin, who represents La-Van, and the Treasury Department,

Twyla Tharp

My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.

Jonathan Fox

No one represents their interests, here or in Mexico. They have to speak up and do it themselves.

Inder Singh

We view this as a particularly important win for Lucent as it represents its first large-scale IMS deployment with a US carrier.

Vincent Sollitto

This represents one of the more atypical inquiries we get.

Laura Smith

It represents me. My old room was from when I was 6 or 7. This room is more up-to-date.

John W. Snow

Social Security represents an $11 trillion unfunded obligation. And when I say unfunded obligation, I mean we have to come up with $11 trillion at some point to make the system whole.