Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Jianchao

Recently, there were some developments of the Iranian nuclear issue. We expressed our concern. ... We hope the parties should exercise restraint and not take any actions that lead to further escalation so we can solve the question properly through dialogue and diplomacy.

Maurice Hinchey

Recent FDA actions have created serious doubts about whether committee members are serving only the public interest and, as a result, industry biases now taint many advisory panel decisions, ... Today we took a giant step forward to squash those doubts.

Kristen Kinley

Recall numbers vary from year to year, and they don't necessarily rise consecutively year after year, and they aren't in the case of Ford. This was a hit to our recall volumes, but the number of actions was down.

Charles Holliday

Recent movements in long-leading economic indicators and in raw material prices offer hope that an end to the spreading global downturn is in sight, ... Despite that, we continue to take actions necessary to emerge from these difficult times as a much stronger company.

Gerry Adams

Regrettably a small, unrepresentative group chose to ignore our appeal. Their actions were entirely wrong and reprehensible.

Boris Berezovsky

organizers of this provocation should be punished and answer for their actions in court.

Tom Cain

Part of it, I think, was fate but it was also a different approach that helped. They were more motivated. What helped so much was their compassion and understanding, but they also made some overt actions to find a buyer.

Robin Conrad

Particularly with securities class actions, he will not let class actions go forward lightly.

John Duncan

Paul Martin's softwood strategy is backwards and is designed to spin the Canadian electorate rather than end the dispute. His long overdue call to President Bush is better late than never, however, I am concerned that his recent actions have threatened any potential progress in resolving the softwood dispute.

Brian Barnhart

Regardless of the number of participants we have on May 30, and I'm confident it will be 33, we will have again for at least the second year in a row, one of the deepest and most competitive fields in the history of the Indianapolis 500 with more cars, more teams and more drivers capable of winning than this place has had in past history.

Janet Reno

regardless of the conclusions that the department has reached concerning Microsoft's conduct, as of yet no court has found that Microsoft has violated the antitrust laws; to the contrary, the recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has raised serious questions about the validity of the department's antitrust suit against Microsoft.

Peter Goelz

Regarding some of the issues raised by Mr. Salinger in recent days, they are again a combination of falsehoods and claims that are only partially based on the truth and, when taken out of context, are completely misleading.

Donald Walker

(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when we're running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.

Wayne Richardson

Reece worked a little bit today on the side, and his arm feels real good. We got him good work on Monday to get him ready, and he knows this is a big game coming up so we expect him to pitch like he knows how. He'll be up against a good, hard-throwing arm with whoever Benton goes with, but we've got confidence in our guy.

Sean Miller

Recently against us, if you're that guy that can't make a 3, you usually knock a few down. It was good to see that percentage come our way.

Lawrence Eagles

Recently a former aid, giving evidence against him, said he was running short of funds. Therefore, if he was the instigator of the attacks on the US, another sponsor was likely to be involved.

Jamie Dixon

Rebounding is our biggest fundamental. It's our biggest emphasis. We didn't get it done against DePaul.

John Shoffner

Records and style of play go out the window. I think we match up well against them.

Oscar Wilde

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die

Alan Winter

Sure, there have been deaths and injuries in boxing, but none of them serious.

Joel Hirschhorn

Sprawl is killing people, some 300,000 premature deaths annually because of the sprawl sedentary lifestyle, and it is killing our natural environment, scenic vistas, biodiversity, rural towns and much more.

Bill Gates

Some global health problems, like AIDS, have no easy solution -- but this isn't one of them. The world has an opportunity to stop millions of newborn deaths each year.

Slobodan Milosevic

Our priority is the nation which will starve and freeze to death if there is no aid,

Sue Miller

Our whole home, our lives, got turned inside out. We just felt fortunate ours was still here, fortunate there were no deaths or anything like that.

William Butler Yeats

Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face.

Pam McCoy

I'm here to support the May family. It has nothing to do with the death penalty." ()

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Dan Brooks

People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Paul Horsnell

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Tim McGillivray

Some of our schools are more full than others, so you can't always place them at their neighborhood school.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Peter Schnorr

Our goal is to get a full day -- 10 hours -- of active, pen-down writing.

Richard Clarke

Our goal is by the third week in October to open the full 20.9 miles of road for travel.

Wally Amos

Regardless of any unpleasantness in my life, I still get up every morning and look for positive things to do, ... Who's In Charge.

Bob Harrington

Our plumbers will snake the pipes. At the Student Life Center, there is a problem because the pipes are smaller than we would like them to be.

Newt Gingrich

Paul Coverdell lived a life that we can all be proud of and look up to,

Paul Azinger

Payne Stewart loved life. He was the life of every party.

Joe Gibbs

Part of playing the game of life is you're going to have some losses.

Jack Hannah

Our lifestyle has always been cowboy. We were raised that way as a way of life.

Jean-Marie Messier

Our multiaccess approach will make the life of the customer simpler.

Mike White

People kind of stumble their way through life a lot of times.

Jennifer Coolidge

People have this view, 'Oh, you're in movies, your life is so glamorous' but it can really suck.

Russ Jones

Our rates only go up once a year, and that's in June.

Charles Nelson

Overall, the story is that uninsured rates are relatively stable.

Juergen Michels

That will probably keep the ECB waiting until September, rather than going for a rate rise, as a done deal, every quarter.

Roni Java

That's a very respectable rate for a rural county. We know they're trying to reach 50.

Jill Dougherty

I think one of the misconceptions is that it is fatal. If it's detected early, the five-year survival rate is 95%.

Judy Garland

Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else

Astro Teller

Going from an error rate of 25 meters in GPS to 2.5 meters is huge. Going to 25 centimeters is going to matter just as much.

Lawrence Yun

Obviously, many renters have become homeowners as rates have fallen.

Mark Langan

This rates up there as one of the worse we have ever seen.

Cindy Shaw

Some of this is just a little relief rally,

Susanne Beauregard

I think it was a relief to her.

Susan Manning

Since this play is about six women from Louisiana, we wanted to do something for the relief effort.

Phil Flynn

We are not completely out of the woods yet, but we saw a lot of relief yesterday (Tuesday) and that trend is continuing,

Jochen Behle

We are sorry that it had come to this. It's a relief for Evi now.

David Copperfield

My show is constantly evolving... new tricks are added, old ones are dropped... so it stays fresh. But it's the randomly selected participants from the audience that make it fresh and provide some of the best comic relief.

Ann Brashares

Sometimes it is a relief to be invisible

Larry Rice

We'd get some sort of relief rally, ... And then we'd have a sobering up.

David Crystal

Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism

Allan Bense

Hopefully, the Senate can muster the votes as well,

Pauline Hanson

She may not be sitting in the Senate but she's still standing for us.

Richard Lamm

If I wanted to be president of the United States, I'd run for the Senate in 1986. And I'm just not going to do it.

Gary Brown

We're not done yet. We know the Senate has to take it up yet. We're a ways away from groundbreaking and a ribbon-cutting.

Powers Boothe

I think I'm pretty politically informed, and I find myself watching Senate hearings on C-SPAN.

Gordon Smith

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

Henry Hyde

The Senate shouldn't tell us how to try our case,

Harry Reid

the Senate must be vigilant in considering this nomination.

John Deane

The Senate has the right to look at Roberts' papers.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

He had taken seriously words which were without importance, and it made him very unhappy.

B. F. Skinner

A piece of music is an experience to be taken by itself.

Billy Corgan

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

Big Pun

When you awaken, your manhood will be taken.

C. S. Lewis

Could one start a Stagnation Party-which at General Elections would boast that during its term of office no event of the least importance had taken place?

C. S. Lewis

Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position.

Cecelia Ahern

She had been given a wonderful gift: life. Sometimes it was cruelly taken away too soon, but it's what you did with it that counted, not how long it lasted.

Cecelia Ahern

Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn’t care about so that I couldn’t lose anything I really loved ever again.

Carrie Brownstein

I think one of the reasons I haven't been doing music is because I think that some of my performance, like, needs are being taken care of in other mediums.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

Bud Perrone

This temporary setback can and must be overcome.

Gus Van Sant

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Napoleon Hill

Remember when your plans fail, that temporary defeat is not permanent failure.

Napoleon Hill

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination.

Napoleon Hill

You are fortunate if you have learned the difference between temporary defeat and failure, more fortunate still if you have learned the truth that the very seed of success is dormant in every defeat that you experience.

Henry Rollins

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Lou Reed

It's just a temporary thing.

Suzanne Collins

If my holding out those berries was an act of temporary insanity, then those people will embrace insanity too.