Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Ferrell

We want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.

Angelo Forte

We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.

Joe Sakic

We want to play well against Vancouver. We want to make sure we try and get a good win and have a good game there. We'll see how it plays out.

Jeff House

We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.

Jon Jansen

We have to go out and prove we can do it against teams that we should have success against. We need to prove that we're a good team, and we haven't done that yet.

Tom Peterson

We have to go on the road against No. 2 (Cal Irvine) but first is tomorrow night. We have to make sure we're playing better each night. That's who will come out on top, who's playing better at the end.

Scott Johnson

We have to go back on to that drawing board and come up with something different next weekend against France.

Andy Nieto

We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.

Matt Cavanaugh

We have to get the turnovers under control. But it is more than just Tyler -- our receivers have to work back to some balls, our line has to protect a little better. But if we can cut down on turnovers against Nebraska we will have a chance. There are a lot of nuances about the college game that I have to learn as well. It's only two games so it is too early to press the panic button just yet.

Igor Ivanov

We have assurances by the president and vice president that the American side says they will follow the ABM treaty, ... Any possible plans must be agreed to, and that's what we discussed.

Rupert Lowe

We have not agreed to sell Theo. We want to keep him.

Joe Dumars

We have not agreed to anything with Larry and there is no buyout yet. Both sides are still talking.

Saddam Hussein

We have not agreed on this constitution. We have objections which are the same as we had from day one,

Mahmud Othman

We have never said we wanted a Kurdish state. The Arabs have never said they wanted a totally Arab state. So I think as long as we all agreed to democracy we should be flexible and meet in the middle.

Bob Kovitz

What the town agreed to do, was share 45% of the sales tax revenue generated by the businesses there, with the developer, for about 14 years.

Kenichiro Sasae

We have presented our plan and agreed to bring back the proposal to our respective government for consideration.

Adam Ereli

We've seen the allegation, but we have not seen any information to substantiate what would seem to us to be rather bald assertions. And we would also note that Saudi Arabia is a party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, under which it has agreed not to obtain nuclear weapons.

Ronnie Mamba

We have received this and have agreed to inform our members so that this order can be complied with throughout the areas where our members are striking.

Thomas Mallon

Nixon had been to China. He had been to Russia doing arms negotiation. And so, he was on his way toward what happened in November, which was an electoral win with 49 states. And the sheer unnecessariness of the Watergate break-in is something that must have tormented him and his allies in all of the years that followed.

David Wilder

The pro-disengagement forces still have a long way to go in their work. We have allies there and we can still stop it politically.

Carl Pope

We applaud those in Congress who have refused to let drilling proponents manipulate them and the democratic process. Although there are some still willing to do Big Oil?s bidding, the drilling lobby and their allies will be hard-pressed to keep Arctic drilling in the budget knowing that it is dead on arrival in the House.

Barbara Kingsolver

I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.

Kay Granger

Having removed the dictator, the allies have moved to put Iraqis in control of Iraq. Now, as they draft and ratify their Constitution, we will indeed see the character of a new Iraqi nation revealed through the principles it chooses to uphold.

Klaus Fuchs

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

Klaus Fuchs

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

Joschka Fischer

Loyalty to allies is an important and central issue in German foreign policy but reason must always take priority,

Saint-John Perse

Poetry allies itself with beauty - a supreme union - but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.

Anthony Cordesman

Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the Balkans have already shown how difficult it is to split cities, and with Iraq's centralized and failing infrastructure, and impoverished economy, violence and economics cannot be separated.

Kevin Jackson

leadership experience using these type of communications tools in his past experiences in state and federal government and as a community commander at both the city of West Point, N.Y. and overseas in the Kosovo theater in the Balkans where he provided support to several countries.

Strobe Talbott

On the four biggest challenges he faced -- putting Russia on a course toward a pluralistic democracy, integrating Russia with the rest of the international community, respecting the independence of the other CIS countries, and bringing peace to the Balkans -- he demonstrated foresight, fortitude, and courage. Russia and the world were lucky to have this man in the Kremlin during that crucial period.

Misha Glenny

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.

Viktor Chernomyrdin

Both Russia and the U.S. understand now what's really going on at the Balkans and what needs to be done. We were searching for ways of settling the conflict, but it's a difficult task.

Nicholas Burns

When (Christopher) travels to the Balkans late next week and into the following week, he'll be making his point personally. And by then we expect that all prisoners will have been released.

Ismail Kadare

Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Bill Young

We need to start the process quickly on the dollar numbers, ... The number that I am reading in the newspapers, in my opinion will be totally inadequate to carry even the Balkans issue to the end of the fiscal year.

Paddy Ashdown

The present Europe is unfinished business unless the Balkans are a part of it,

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

C. S. Lewis

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Michael Polzin

We have to follow the law. We don't have a choice in this matter.

Saudi Arabia

We have no other choice. Those who say nothing create the impression that they secretly want to see the prophet be insulted.

Jeff Ulbrich

We have no other choice but to stay positive. We have no other choice.

Frank Maloney

We have no choice but to pull Scott out. I am hoping that the fight can be rescheduled for later in the month but I just don't know what the prospects of that happening are at the moment.

Dan Kelly

We have no choice but to pick up what the state has refused to fund,

Dennis Davin

We have no choice but to initiate foreclosure.

Clinton Solomon

We have no choice but to get ready. We've got to take strides everyday in practice.

Mark Billingham

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

Ashwin Sanghi

In India, we never distinguished between history and myth. Our Puranas as well as Itihasas contain fantastical tales. They are lies that convey deeper truths.

Simon Langford

We did discover some materials, and they've been sent away for analysis. We're not prepared to speculate on what was contained in the vials.

Lynn Lavner

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Julianne Moore

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

Gretchen Rubin

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

Eric Lander

We're not going to stand up and say that these 14 things make us human, ... But it's not trivial to be able to say, 'Here is an inventory of the most important differences, and now go at it and figure out which of these differences contain the signatures of what is distinctively human.'

Jim Jones

This proposed rule contains some of the strongest protections for human subjects ever proposed by the federal government.

Kenneth Branagh

I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.

Thomas Mars

When I started writing, the first thing that came out was in English. I liked a few French things, but they were very overwhelming.

Charles de Secondat

Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.

Charles de Secondat

Power ought to serve as a check to power.

Charles de Secondat

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

Charles de Secondat

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Charles de Secondat

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Charles de Secondat

Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.

Charles de Secondat

There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.

Karl Lagerfeld

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

Javier Solana

NATO is ready to intervene if the situation requires,

Alan Steinberg

If any party tries to intervene in the litigation, it could be delayed.

Kevin Evans

You can't come here as a Pollyanna. We're able to intervene upstream and stop it.

Ruben Aguilar

The president's office does not intervene in union decisions. We respect citizens' demonstrations.

David Borden

Going to school is their way of getting back on track. This is a second punishment that can intervene with the process of recovery.

Masood Khan

If we do not intervene aggressively now, many lives will be lost,

Bob Lynch

At least the ECB showed that it is still willing to intervene to support the euro,

Mike Smith

The problem before was, so you intervene -- where do you send people.

Seijiro Takeshita

If there is an accelerated depreciation to 105 yen, they will intervene without a doubt.

Carlos Fuentes

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Carlos Castaneda

Well being is a condition one has to groom, a condition one has to become aquainted with in order to seek it

Carlos Castaneda

Let's say that when every one of us is born we bring with us a little ring of power. That little ring is almost immediately put to use. So every one of us is already hooked from birth and our rings of power are joined to everyone else's. In other words, our rings of power are hooked to the doing of the world in order to make the world.

Carlos Castaneda

... everything in the world is a force, a pull or a push. In order for us to be pushed or pulled we need to be like a sail, like a kite in the wind. But if we have a hole in the middle of our luminosity, the force goes through it and never acts upon us.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

Alan Sugar

Above all, in order to gain respect, you need to be true to yourself. There is no point in trying to be brutal if it's not in your nature; there is no point in trying to be suave and sophisticated if it doesn't come naturally.

Charles Taze Russell

Our Masonic friends have it down very fine. I do not know where they got it so well. I have often wondered where they found out so many of the secrets of our High and Accepted Order of Masonry.

Charles de Gaulle

The cabinet has no propositions to make, but orders to give.

Charles Caleb Colton

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

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.

Susan B. Anthony

Now, Mr. President, we don't intend to trouble you during the campaign but after you are elected, then look out for us!

Susan B. Anthony

Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.

Bill Richardson

very disappointed in what the president said on energy.

Dick Armey

I deserved better than to be bullshitted by the vice president,

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

David Greenberg

Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.

David Powers

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

Carolina Herrera

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

Bernard Laporte

Our success comes from stability.

Klaus Kleinfeld

It comes down to the long-term stability of this corporation,

Ken Ham

We just can't get comfortable with the stability of the situation.

Darcy Regier

A year ago we were just trying to survive. Now we have a sense of stability and direction.

Valentino Rossi

For sure tomorrow will be difficult. We are still struggling with stability and grip.

Frances Newton

If you allow yourself to get bothered by the change, then you're not stable. But God is so stable, and if you keep yourself in Him, that stability is going to come off on you, too.

Ben Howland

He's righted them with stability and direction. He's done an outstanding job.

Jean-Claude Juncker

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact with wisdom and rationality.

Elizabeth Smart

Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

Niaz Siddiqui

I think it was a targeted attack, and we are investigating.

Mark Williams

That's targeted as one of our big projects.

Bill Golden

It's scaled down in terms of the days, but I think it's more targeted now.

Diane Setterfield

Tragedy alters everything.

Carlton Cuse

Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic.

Jane Smiley

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity.

William Shakespeare

I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy.

Carl Jung

The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

Benjamin E. Mays

The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.

Charlie Munger

Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Charlie Munger

Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Brian Weiss

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Brian Cox

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy