Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rubin

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

Trent Yawney

Obviously, it's a sad day for the NHL. He's been a great ambassador for the game. ... He's probably been through more than any other superstar.

James Costos

One of the roles of a U.S. ambassador - anywhere in the world - is to promote bilateral trade and investment.

Alejandro Fernandez

I feel very proud to be an ambassador of Mexican music. Wherever I go, I will always bring my mariachi. It's what I grew up with. It's what I love the most,

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.

Guy Perron

She's great to the kids who come to our games and any time you ask her to do something, she goes beyond it. She's a great ambassador for our program.

Tom Mauer

I'd like him to be an ambassador for the sport and a great role model for the school.

Taro Aso

I don't know the reason why the Peruvian government has stopped the function of ambassador to Japan, ... I don't think it is related to Fujimori.

Carol Moseley Braun

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

Isabella Rossellini

When I was a teenager, I thought maybe I'll be a filmmaker, making film documentaries. My dream when I was a girl was I would be hired by 'National Geographic' or work with David Attenborough, but it didn't happen. I became a model.

Malorie Blackman

I remember, when I was at school, we would have a 10-minute storytelling session where we'd all sit on the floor cross-legged, and the teacher would read. It became something we all really looked forward to. That was part of the reason I grew to love stories.

Cherie Blair

Like every mother, it's my children; that's the first thing that makes me really proud. For my own part, it would be when I became a Queen's Counsel in 1995. I was the 76th woman ever to become a Queen's Counsel, so it was still a pretty rare thing.

Andy Stern

Let's be clear -- state employees and other voters in New Hampshire take a huge risk by supporting him. Wesley Clark has a life-long pattern of support for national Republicans whose policies have been disastrous for public employees, and that is a track record that raises huge doubts about what he would do if he ever became President.

Paul Dowling

Lending to businesses became the flavor of the month about 18 months ago. It's a direct consequence of heightened competition in the industry after mortgage lending slowed.

John Ortberg

Love of learning led to monasteries, which became the cradle of academic guilds.

Arthur Hamlin

Love made the team, but James and I saw we weren't going to get a uniform. We didn't see the need in sitting the bench our senior year, so we became their No. 1 fans. We didn't have cars back then, so we would thumb rides to the away games.

Rep. Detert

Last year we did this bill, and it became a train. This year, we hope to just have a home run.

Shannon Hawrylo

Last year, we made a breakthrough because we became the closest-knit group since I have been on the team. That really helped, being together. We came together a little late though. Near the end, we had some really good races, but had we done better, we would have been in the nationals. That was not cool, but at least we are taking a step forward.

Derek Loomis

We're not concerned with what those people think about what we're doing.

Bill Walker

We're not concerned with numbers. (The way the word gets out) is that I tell you, (and) you tell someone else.

Salvation Army

We're not concerned or scared about not being able to offer them shelter, ... (However), it puts us in a position of being scared of what we are going to be able to offer them, whether we are going to be able to keep them in the same way that we have been able to. We don't know that.

Bertrand Russel

Life is a brief, small, and transitory phenomenon in an obscure corner, not at all the sort of thing that one would make a fuss about if one were not personally concerned

Masaki Iso

Low rates have supported equities globally, so investors are concerned interest rates will rise further.

Rick Baughman

Last year we were all really concerned about his health. He always wanted to know if he could do anything. But then he bounced back and was there for the kids this year.

George W. Bush

Leaders who are concerned about the harmful effects of high tariffs and farm subsidies must move the Doha Round forward,

Steve Ray

Many people are concerned about not only the shortage of people who can run for public office, but also the shortage of people to serve on nonprofit boards.

Asahi Shimbun

Many people in Japan were concerned whether American meat processors can properly take out risky materials. The concern was proved right so soon. Many consumers are feeling cheated.

Frank Torres

Many Spaniards kept journals and pointed out some specific sights directly related to the San Pedro Valley. And the San Pedro River runs right through there. It would only make sense that they would follow the river.

Pope Benedict

No pope ever left us as many texts as he did; no pope in the past was able to visit all the world like he did and to speak directly to men of all continents. But in the end, he was struck by the path of suffering and silence.

Robert Patrick

For something like 15 years, all I did was films or, you know, movies that I thought were going to be films that ended up going directly to video. It was sort of a real narrow opportunity. And now, working on The X-Files has broadened it and I'm looking for whatever is good, good dialogue.

Ronald Kessler

Only when you are self-employed do you fully realize how much more efficient you become when your output directly correlates with how much money you make.

Jerry Wainwright

Shooting percentages can be misleading. Their steals led directly to baskets. I think they've done that all year. They're terrific open-court players.

Jim Carroll

She called me directly and is doing fine. We were glad to see her on TV this morning. She is in good health and we are pleased about that.

Barbara Perry

She completely represents this ideal. Janie has worked tirelessly to make Salisbury a cleaner, greener and better place to live. In fact, much of our community's recent success can be attributed directly to Janie.

Stephanie Nelson

If they can get you to go directly to their Web site that's pretty strong marketing. And, it's inexpensive for them.

Jonathan Ames

I don't know that I've gotten much feedback directly from the literary world; sometimes I doubt even the notion that there is a literary world, though I guess there is or was.

Steven Camarota

No one disputes that less-educated natives have done very poorly in the last five years.

Eliot Spitzer

No one can dispute that in the insurance industry there was massive fraud,

Mike Gascoyne

Obviously it is the end of an era but nobody can dispute that Toyota has made a big step forward over the last two seasons.

Mandy Moore

I had just laid down to go to sleep and got up to use the restroom and I thought it was just like a dispute or something.

Rep. Lang

I had hoped to use my appointment to overcome the dispute over individuals. Unfortunately, my own appointment is now suddenly drawing unnecessary controversy which risks further undermining the commission's larger purpose.

Randall Howard

Should the dispute still not be resolved, the unions will recommend a national strike on March 6.

Lindsay Pearce

I would never dispute that I've been given a gift by God. That's something I've been raised to believe. I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing, and I know that I can act.

Ed Skyler

We have had several major incidents since this protocol went into effect and there hasn't been any disputes over who's in charge. Everyone did their part and saved lives.

Jim Hunter

We know pundits are going to come up with various ways to dispute facts in every situation, ... However, we are proud to hold the No. 2 position on television.

James Turner

Ms. Patrick is entitled to her own opinion.

Derrick Jensen

If you see yourself as entitled to a resource, and if you're not willing or incapable of seeing this other as a being with whom you can and should be in relation with, then you're going to take the resource.

Robert Chapman

We're not saying (Richards) can't sue in court. But she should not be entitled to reveal the confidential information publicly.

Gerry Adams

The people are entitled to know what has been negotiated,

Alex Gibney

People who lie, particularly those who lie really big, can't do it effectively unless they feel that there's a righteous power behind what they're doing. You're entitled to lie because the end justifies the means.

Alex Gibney

We live in a world where everyone thinks they do the right thing, so they are entitled to do the wrong thing. So ends can justify the means.

Chuck Feeney

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Chuck Feeney

I'd be the last guy to tell a wealthy person what to do with their money. They're entitled to do whatever they want.

Ariel Sharon

We respect them (the Palestinians) and have no aspirations to rule over them. They are also entitled to freedom and to a national sovereign existence in a state of their own,

Douglas Sirk

Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.

Douglas Sirk

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.

Douglas Sirk

But I always wanted my characters to be more than cyphers for the failings of their world. And I never had to look too hard to find a part of myself in them.

Klaus Fuchs

I had therefore, no hesitation in giving all the information I had, even though occasionally I tried to concentrate mainly on giving information about the results of my own work.

Klaus Fuchs

I think the one thing that most stands out is that my father always did what he believed to be the right thing to do and he always told us that we had to go our own way even if he disagreed.

Eduard Shevardnadze

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

George Rockwell

I was subjected to everything German as a young lad growing up, like traditional songs and talk of the old country. All my German relatives lived in New York City, and we used to visit frequently.

Charles Grant

She will repair bridges, and that will restore some German weight to the EU.

Matthew Stewart

I don't have an M.B.A. I have a doctoral degree in philosophy - nineteenth-century German philosophy, to be precise.

Phil Garner

make your pitches, (it) doesn't matter if we walk him.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Willie Revillame

Mr. Lim has always been there for me. No matter where I go, he's always there to support me.

Mark Zandi

One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.

Lindsay Meggs

One of the things we talked about is it didn't matter about how we won, we just needed to win.

Meryl Thomas

One of the things I've always tried to do as president of the (Penn Hills) PTA is to get everyone moving in the same direction, no matter what the project was.

Jorge Posada

None of this matters if we don't go out there and play the way we're supposed to,

Sushma Swaraj

Now we can only pray in God's temple for him to get better. It is a matter of prayers and medicines. The medicines are being administered internally and the prayers are being sent from outside.

Andrew Barrett

Next week is going to be more normal, when we get back to the real matter at hand, which is earnings.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Vajira Premawardhana

New projects could be put on hold, especially now with the peace process under pressure.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.

Ludwig von Mises

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Charles Peguy

It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.

Denis Diderot

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Dean Rusk

The fidelity of the United States to security treaties is not just an empty matter. It is a pillar of peace in the world.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of the outcast, the suspects, the maltreated, the powerless, the oppressed, the reviled ---- in short, from the perspective of those who suffer . . . to look with new eyes on matters great and small.