Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Zarifi

Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.

Aman Mojadidi

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

John Abizaid

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Jason Kamiya

One of the main vulnerabilities of the Afghan Army is their logistics system,

Emma Bonino

Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves.

Sam Zarifi

Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.

Azita Ghanizada

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Tasnim Aslam

Today we called the Afghan ambassador and lodged a strong protest.

Sergei Lavrov

We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.

Evan Katz

Making things feel real is one of our primary concerns in the way we write it. And it's one of the gifts that the actors who do the show really have to make ridiculous situations feel real.

Michael Siegel

Sen. Baucus has said that he expects a swift and smooth confirmation process. The hearing is expected to focus more on the larger policy issues rather than any individual concerns about O'Neill's candidacy.

Koichi Hariya

Securing the funds is easing concerns of default and other risks. The gains are unlikely to last because there aren't any signs yet that earnings are recovering. You need money to restructure and all they have so far is the barest of necessities.

Dick Parsons

Secular concerns that have weighed on our stock are overblown. Secular trends warrant us accelerating the program.

Barclays Capital

Much of gold's recent rally has been supported by positive investor sentiment in light of rising oil prices, inflation concerns and geopolitical volatility, and we do not expect these supportive macro-factors to dissipate in the near term.

Pat Casey

Maxwell hasn't given us the same starts as last year and that concerns us. And we need to get better out of the pen.

John Teng

Net-net, it is quite positive and would help to alleviate some of the concerns on the credit. There is now ample scope for S&P to remove the negative outlook on its rating.

Jim McGregor

One of our concerns was smaller members who might not be very sophisticated might be swept into this.

Brent Plater

One of our concerns is the pollution that's accumulating in whales,

Annika Sorenstam

Luckily I had a little cushion, and at the end it seemed like I needed it, ... For me, a win is a win. I thought I played excellent the first two days. It's a tough golf course and a lot of things are shaping up for the end of year. So this meant a lot to me.

David Hilal

Let's not ignore the fundamental course of business.

Brian Henson

Lew Grade told my dad, I'll make your TV show. I know it's going to be a big hit,' ... The show had definitely not run its course when my dad decided to end the show. My dad just liked doing a lot of stuff. He was so full of stuff he wanted to do.

Salvador Carranza

Many of the issues are very sensitive of course for the people. They generally don't want to talk about them a lot because of the confidentiality.

Olusegun Obasanjo

Many are the people, Nigerians and non-Nigerians, dead and alive, that God has used and is still using in the course of my life journey.

Barry Scheck

Miss Woodward has always taken the course that would vindicate her and prove her innocent.

Mark McCutchen

Mr. Eaton either doesn't know what he's talking about, he's being deceptive, or a combination of both. Of course Clarksville could have hedged last spring for this past winter, that's the way we do business." ()

Roberto Azevedo

My job is to prioritize multi-lateralism, and that of course interests Brazil, which is a global player. I'm representing 159 members, and one of them happens to be Brazil.

John Reid

My intention is that in the course of the next week or two you will see that far from being an impasse, that this short and temporary suspension will have been a platform for us to go forward.

Scott Carpenter

Mac users have not been forced to deal with the storm of viruses and vulnerabilities that Windows users deal with on a daily basis, so they tend to feel that they are safer than their Windows counterparts.

John Becker

No dept personnel shall release any information to the Daily Press reporter Miguel Gonzales, ... Any questions he has shall be directed to my office. Any other information requested by the press shall be routed to me before it is released.

Phil Reed

My daily commute includes the future for most Americans.

J. Hoover

getting daily exercise to keep physically fit is always a problem for presidents.

David Duchovny

Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, that person, if she is smart and Gillian is smart shouldn't want to meet the other person after hours. That's also true for the other way round.

Hideo Kojima

Should I use this opportunity to start doing daily headstands?

Andrew Frank

Sixty-five percent of drivers will not use gas on a daily basis. The only time you ever use gasoline is when you go on vacation or go skiing.

Jeff Moorad

I don't foresee any reason for daily updates on Luis Gonzalez. At this point, he's our left fielder and obviously a terrific part of our organization's history and, presumably, a part of its future.

Sam Mendes

I'd like to think there's a huge interest out there because it's part of our daily life.

Brian Brown

If it's a global or regional meltdown, India is not going to be spared, whereas in the past the outstanding level was really small, so foreigners weren't influencing the markets that much.

Pico Iyer

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

Hideo Mizutani

Market participants are relieved as they now see the trend of foreigners exiting the Japanese market is over.

Evan Osnos

Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.

Sirio Maccioni

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

George Bernard Shaw

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

Norihiro Fujito

It is understandable that foreigners want to take profits for now.

Mahathir Mohamad

Foreigners who once colonized us, who have done nothing to help us, these foreigners have no good intentions,

Jody Brown

She's a perfectionist in a lot of ways. With her, you don't have to say things twice. She hears it, and you don't have to revisit it. She's such a responsible young lady.

James Jordan

Words give you a medium, if you will, and make your message part of the human thought process. Words are as portable as the human being who hears them.

Jose Carreras

In recitals, you are naked before the audience - well, naked with your jacket and tails. The audience sees and hears the real person, not some role you are interpreting.

Spanish Proverb

He who says what he likes, hears what he does not like

Edmond de Goncourt

That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

William Blake

For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they are in peace.For they know when their Shepherd is nigh.

Shane Matthews

It's just a lot different when he hears them from me.

Rhonda Bright

The staff sits in and hears things from the patients' perspective.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Then let us start as soon as it is light tomorrow, if we can. The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Michael Leunig

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Jeffrey Skoll

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Billy Joel

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

Mark Allen

Now that day has passed, they can get on with their lives again.

Lisa Pierce

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Richard Jaffe

may want to pursue the possibilities that a different person did them both, and neither was our client.

Gerald Schatten

Neither (the) results, nor we, support pet cloning.

Scott Brewer

Neither team made many errors. It was well played.

Larry Greene

Neither Savannah nor Brunswick has any kind of safe mooring or anchorage,

Michael Barnett

Neither of these goaltenders has ever been viewed as backups.

J. Paul Getty

I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.

Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.

Nancy Cartwright

I have neither been there nor done that

Michael McCabe

ICraveTV.com isn't playing by the rules. They have neither sought nor obtained permission to use our signals.

Mark McGwire

Like I said. I'm not going to talk about the past,

Robert Davies

Lycos has experienced phenomenal success during the past several months,

Alan Doss

Liberia has been the epicenter of progressive waves of instability that have swept through this region over the past 25 years,

Mike Nugent

One of the things I've been concentrating on is not worrying about the past, ... Even if it's not my past.

Chris Klein

Ocean's Twelve. Her and my relationship is a time in the past.

Bible Bible

One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

Landon Donovan

We (had) been in a rut for the past 12-13 games. Now we don't have any excuses. Everyone's here. Everyone is available, ... We have all the training time. We have only two more road games. We've got to show that we belong.

Charles R. Swindoll

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Diane Ravitch

American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Darin Lee

Murphysboro presents a whole different challenge. It's going to be a very, very tough sectional.

Joe Sims

If they can come up with something that is satisfactory, we'll present it to the DOJ. If they don't, well see them in court.

Chief Bender

I do not want my name to be presented to the public as an Indian, but as a pitcher.

Derrick Jensen

If the world is presented as resources to be exploited, then, more than likely, you're going to exploit the world.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.

Daren Beaudo

When a statute is presented I'll have something to talk about.

Terry Wogan

Most television could be presented by a dachshund. Radio can't, although there are a lot of dachshunds in there.

Alessandra Ambrosio

My little girl, Anja, is really excited. We had a baby shower yesterday and she took the presents from everyone for me and was telling them, 'No, it's my baby.'

Ewen Bremner

As parents, I think we're always novices, and every day presents a new challenge.

Doug Tygar

We probably don't want to be relying on passwords as we do.

Michael Young

I just want to be a little more consistent. I've been relying a lot on instincts.

Mary Chapman

They are relying too much on first impressions

Denis Johnson

We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves.

Denis Johnson

I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.

Edgar Allan Poe

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

Eleanor Roosevelt

About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.

Eduardo Galeano

So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me.

Elizabeth Bishop

I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it?

Elizabeth Edwards

A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you.

Elizabeth Bowen

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

Elizabeth Bowen

Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.

Michael R. Bloomberg

making sure there are things going on that are unpredictable.

Mike Holmgren

Let's just wait on that and make sure what's written and what's said is correct.

Andrew Burke

Look. We will give you the servers. We will give you the DRM. We will give you the middleware within the box. And we'll make sure that all of those work effectively together.

Josh Beekman

Now they want to be sure when you come in that you're going to graduate.

Larry Bloom

When he has time off, he isn't really sure what to do with it. He's a little lost.

Kenneth Lay

I did everything I could humanly do during this time. Did I make mistakes? I'm sure I did.

Jeff Hanna

If anything, it was, 'Are you sure you want to do this?',

John Currie

We need to make sure they all understand that this is a different Northeastern than it was 20 years ago,

Joe Wineke

We need to make sure our vote is out there.

Roger McNamee

Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company,

Mike Stoops

More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute.

Mike Sanford

I feel like we've improved, and we still have a long ways to go. By far, we have not arrived.

Jacob Lew

There are lots of ways to work together.

Craig Venter

We can create new ways to create clean water.

Emma Roberts

There's not a lot of original ways to get attention in the press.

Annie Leibovitz

I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Ethan Zuckerman

I study the ways new media shapes people's perceptions of the world.

Phil Savage

There are other ways to get up there to get him.