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.

Albert Schweitzer

There is no higher religion than human service.

MaryEllen Elia

Luckily, in this community, we have a pretty good working relationship with all of those entities.

John Best

Making a left turn onto Sawmill Road (from Sawmill Forest) is difficult if not downright dangerous. The last thing this community needs is another fatality due to shortsightedness.

Richard Opper

Lewistown is not unique in having contamination problems, but what is unique is the way the community faced up to the issue. They got together and faced it head on.

James Browning

Look what's happened to our community we're starting to come back and not just Rome but this whole region. Look what happened with BRACC, the grant today. Ladies and gentlemen we've been kicked, beaten, and bloodied, and now it's our turn to come back and with this team of people with the governor, and lieutenant governor it's impossible for us to fail,

Mike Kearney

Last year was the first year that the community 100 percent funded it on its own. So we put some of that away, and would like to eventually start an endowment ... but we're just so happy that we finally crested the hill and that we are well on our way.

Dan McAllister

Last year we raised $140,000; but our goal this year is to raise $250,000 to ensure that the neediest and most deserving students get what they need to graduate and become successful community members.

Ted Kennedy

Many in the scientific community are concerned that the president's decision will delay development of cures for dread disease for many years, at the cost of countless lives and immeasurable suffering,

Henry Hubble

Many in the investing community weren't expecting these earnings.

John Ferguson

Major shippers expect C-TPAT compliance from their carriers.

John Petruzzi

Of course, it's not just about meeting compliance requirements. There are also some dollars we're saving by not having to go through the manual search process.

Rijkman Groenink

Further improving our compliance is the highest priority of the bank.

J. Taylor

I have exhausted the administrative process with this property and I have been met with refusal towards any compliance efforts,

Bradford Smith

Today we are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table so we can put technical compliance issues to rest.

Brad Smith

We are putting our most valuable intellectual property on the table, so we can put technical compliance issues to rest and move forward with a serious discussion about the substance of this case.

Chuck Allen

We are pleased that leading technologies such as JobFlash's unique and widely used telephone application system are now exposed and leveraged through integration using HR-XML's open standards, ... More and more, HR decision-makers are making compliance with open standards part of the criteria they use when procuring HR solutions.

Patrick Cooney

We are concerned about being in compliance with federal law.

E. B. White

We are continuing to work with the airport, and our hope is they will come into full compliance with our regulations.

Cameron Bennerman

We're not crazy, we know that teams in this conference are going to fight back tooth-and-nail. They've got good players and they did that.

Ernie Nestor

Like every team, we want to go to the NCAA tournament. Our seeding for the conference tournament is very important, as is the way you're playing. Hopefully, we'll have those in our favor when it counts.

Chris Grinde

Losing that game means if we are going to win a conference championship, we don't have any room for error any more. We probably need to win all of them.

Larry Eustachy

Look, UTEP was 11-3 in the conference for a reason. They had a lot to do in the difference in winning and losing. UTEP is a tournament-type team.

Brent Gentry

Last year, some of the money went toward their conference title rings. They use the money for many things - maybe a meal on the road. It's just a way to help the team.

Bob Scucci

Seattle was expected to win. Pittsburgh went through the one, two, and three seeds, and a lot of people think the AFC from top-to-bottom was a lot better conference than the NFC.

Rick Pitino

Missouri State is a great team. We now know how the Missouri Valley Conference is underrated and probably Creighton and Missouri State should be in (the NCAA Tournament).

Jason Long

One of the things I've done is take our players into the gym where they hang up banners for every sport that wins a conference or section title. I tell the kids, 'Look around. Do you see anything for football?' There's nothing.

Scott Wofford

One of our big goals is to be conference champions. We're going to have to work hard to get where we want to be.

Richard Peterson

Mr. Pompey may have told (another inmate) some of the same things he told me, to collaborate with some of the things I have already conveyed to you,

Debasish Sen

Now that the government has decided to erase graffiti, things are clear. The decision will be implemented in letter and spirit and with immediate effect. The decision has been conveyed to the commission.

Timothy Noah

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

Carmine Giovinazzo

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Morris Chestnut

I felt it was important to convey to people, especially younger people, that everything on the surface is not always what it seems.

Marian Keyes

Many nations use language simply to convey information, but it's different in Ireland. With most conversational exchanges you get an 'added extra' like the free little biscuit you sometimes get with a cappuccino in a fancy coffee place.

Tom Brokaw

You convey something that the public either trusts or it does not trust, and it has to do with the content and how you handle the news, but it also just has something to do with your persona.

Vince Staples

Basic emotions can be conveyed through anything. As long as you show people that you're human, they'll relate to it.

Ving Rhames

I don't need dialogue to convey emotion or thoughts to my audience.

Italo Calvino

My stories are full of facts; they have a beginning and an end. For that reason, they will never... occupy a place in contemporary literature.

George Santayana

Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence

Linda Hamilton

Life has worn me down to a very real shape. I'm a fully realized person, one that is truly in the world with talents and flaws.

Peerless Price

Life is funny. It all has come full circle.

William Shakespeare

Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Guillermo Coria

Luckily by the end of the match I was able to recover my full speed.

Martin Winterkorn

Last year, we set a sales record. This year we are also going to go full throttle.

Tessa Jowell

Serving a full term doesn't mean leaving office after a year or two.

Richard Holbrooke

Milosevic is now fully discredited or will be shortly whether he is in the Hague or in a Belgrade cell. Politically he is over.

Joe Kantarik

Make sure that you tell everyone that right now we are leading in points.

Tony Stewart

Obviously we wanted to win the race after leading that many laps.

Mark Ruffalo

I don't have to be a leading man. I can be a character actor. That's really what interests me anyway.

Conrad Hilton

My new hotels will play a leading role in promoting world peace.

David Chang

The process and organization leading up to cooking the egg can tell you a lot about the cook.

Abraham Lincoln

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

Imelda Staunton

I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.

Ellen Key

War can be prevented only by broad-minded statesmanship - a statesmanship that understands how to enlist people's interests in a leading cause.

Brian Cox

I didn't have this feeling that I should be a leading actor in the cinema. And I wouldn't want the responsibility of the opening weekend.

Efren Barajas

Let's push for 20,000 people marching that day.

Chris Vos

Now we are getting ready for the March 6 strike.

Tony Bryant

I don't know anything about it. I'm just working out to get ready for the season. ... When I get back to New Orleans on March 20, I'll find out what's going on.

Jim Steiner

We still have some very serious negotiating to do between now and March 3.

Jason Lee

When I first turned pro, it was March of '89-a month before my 19th birthday.

Al Sharpton

We blacks had problems in the '60s and we solved them by marching. We've still got problems - let's march.

David Brooks

Fundamentalism is still on the march.

Rudy Cruz

We're making up for winter now. March is December.

Barbara Boxer

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

John Spratt

We are pushing the envelope. We are using our troops pretty much to their maximum utility.

Dick Cheney

Obviously, it's a big problem how do we provide quality care to the maximum number of people. And it's not an easy problem to solve.

Fausto Bertinotti

We are in the moment of the maximum uncertainty.

James Sinegal

If somehow a proclamation were made that C.E.O.'s could only make a maximum of $300,000 a year, you would not have any shortage of very qualified men and women seeking the jobs.

Amity Shlaes

If you do a serious presidential bio, you want to supply the reader with maximum material because otherwise you're offending the reader. A president for many people is a serious thing and they want to know everything.

Sean Taylor

For us to win we needed to (capitalize). We needed to have maximum possessions.

Dan Boone

It can be a maximum of 25 percent of what you owe.

Daniele Audetto

We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.

Felix Gonzalez

This is one of the most destructive hurricanes. We are on maximum alert.

Publius Tacitus

Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety the rich

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.

John Milton

With necessity, / The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.

Cristina Correa

There's more of a necessity to work with minorities, period.

Chris Wilson

We haven't been sold on the necessity of this,

Bryan Moore

It's not just a road for pleasure, but it's a necessity.

William Shakespeare

Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity

Dave Wilson

The necessity of the median has never really been justified.

John Diaz

I don't see it as a necessity to run them.

Frank Haith

Like anything you do, it'll work for a short period of time. But he's so intelligent that he's going to keep working.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MILLENNIUM, n. The period of a thousand years when the lid is to be screwed down, with all reformers on the under side.

Michael Garnett

Getting thrown in like that is a tough way to make your debut. In between periods I talked to Dunham, and he said to go out there and relax. After that I played as I always played.

Andrew Barrett

I would be very surprised to see this spill over for a prolonged period of time.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

After a long period of not drawing, you have to, like, relearn how to draw. It's not very fun.

Neal Asher

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Curtis Jackson

My work out routine is always changing. It should never stay the same for long periods of time.

Lauren Socha

I'm ready for theatre. I'm ready for dramas, period stuff, films. I want to achieve everything.

Luke Evans

I've dabbled in period films in my career, and I've enjoyed each one.

Thomas Pickering

We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course.

Barbara Kingsolver

restraint equals indulgence

Alexandra Guarnaschelli

The hardest thing for me is restraint.

Mae West

I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.

John Stuart Mill

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint