Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Sharon

The one who is responsible for that is only one man and that is Arafat who pre-planned it, orchestrated it ... It did not start on my visit day, it started about 10 days earlier. They already had casualties then.

Colin Powell

We didn't deal with Yasser Arafat when we were putting the road map together, and so his comments don't mean a whole lot to me.

Dore Gold

Unless the green light is turned into a red light, unless there's a clear message (from) Mr. Arafat to stop terrorism, there can't be any peace process.

Ehud Barak

Since Arafat has wasted much of this time in dragging his feet ... we have very serious doubts about the seriousness of his intentions to reach an arrangement,

James Rubin

Frankly, we want to talk with Chairman Arafat about that schedule and what is possible, and thus take stock for us in trying to assess how realistic it is to make that schedule that's been laid out.

Ehud Barak

If a single crack will appear, Arafat will enter into it and crack the whole system,

Ehud Barak

We looked for an equilibrium point that would provide a peace for generations, ... but unfortunately Arafat somehow hesitated to take the historic decisions.

Nabil Sha'ath

President Arafat has always wanted to go back to the peace process on the right basis. He was very clear. ... and said (the) Israeli attack has to stop first. The deployment of heavy forces and tanks and the disproportionate use of force has to end, and only this will be able to calm down the situation and bring back the peace process.

Benjamin Netanyahu

It is, in fact, the failure of the Palestinian Authority and of Mr. Arafat to keep the pledge that he gave my predecessor, Mr. Rabin, and that is we give them territory, they give us a pledge to fight terrorism,

Stan Lowe

We laid 27 counts . . . based on our charge assessment standard, those are the ones that have met it so far.

Charles Hasse

We know going into it that the WASL is not an appropriate assessment for some students, so to require them to take it is poor professional practice.

Liz Boyd

The potential impact to Michigan can be huge. Like everyone else, we are keeping a close eye on the unfolding situation and trying to assess how large the impact may be.

Anita Foster

We are going to start damage assessment this morning and decide how to help families determine whether it's safe to go back home.

Jack Straw

We are awaiting the police assessment of the video,

Robert Irwin

When you walk into a room, you assess it instantaneously, habitually, before you're even aware of it. I mean, you make sure there's not a hole you're going to fall into, but mostly you're not even aware of what you're thinking.

Andrew Kirk

When you take a person with dementia and you put them in a car and drive them for four hours to come for an appointment, they're not really at their best when you assess them. Some people get more confused or even a bit agitated,

Mark Cuban

Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price.

Edward Gibbon

To maintain the harmony of authority and obedience, to chastise the proud, to protect the weak, to reward the deserving, to banish vice and idleness from his dominions, to secure the traveller and merchant, to restrain the depredations of the soldier, to cherish the labors of the husbandman, to encourage industry and learning, and, by an equal and moderate assessment, to increase the revenue, without increasing the taxes, are indeed the duties of a prince . . .

Jerrold Nadler

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

The Edge

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

Natalie Massenet

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Kevin Yoder

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

Ahmed Tugod

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

Gary Weiss

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Sen Freedman

Given the circumstances and given the experience CL&P has had in dealing with storms, I don't think they did as well as everyone expected. He's the chairman of the committee. I can't force a hearing, but I hope others request a hearing. Even if the utility company performed the way it should have, the public should be informed about how.

Ed Rollins

From my perspective, if getting 24 percent of the vote is a victory, than we probably need a new party chairman and we probably need a new thought process.

Anthony Chan

I think these numbers pretty much put a nail in the coffin of the notion that a 75 basis-point (three-quarters of a percentage point) cut will occur. I think (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan will get his wish for a move at the regular meeting, but they will do a 50 basis-point (half-point) cut.

Hassan Adams

We laid it on the line. I have no regrets.

Chace Crawford

Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

Jeff Roberts

We've got a master trail system that has ? laid down on a map ? hundreds of miles of what will someday be trails.

Ed Widdifield

When I was laid off I didn't even know what a resume was.

John Browning

We remain well on track to meet all the new targets laid out in July.

Tim Johnson

So far, we've laid 5,000 tons of rock and about 300 yards of grout.

Bart Schouten

She's laid back, but we all know she can step up when she wants to. In the big competitions, she always skates well. She WILL skate well at these Olympics.

Scott Winfrey

She completely laid out. She saved us three runs.

Gerry Fleming

Fresno played well, we laid an egg, and it was an unacceptable performance. We have to play better.

David Henkin

I don't think it's at all realistic for them to get the EIS done before they deploy in August.

Maira Kalman

who never told me to do anything realistic and who never told me to stop daydreaming.

Clint Eastwood

You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it.

Dwayne Johnson

Any time I'm on-screen it is realistic because I don't pull my punches or anything like that.

Debby Ryan

I'm very practical and realistic.

Aaron Finch

We set a realistic vision on the playoffs.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a pretty skeptical person, and I'm a realistic person.

Abdolkarim Soroush

A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

Elton Brand

We wanted to go undefeated, but it's not realistic to win every game,

Bryan Ferry

I don't do interviews at all when I'm on tour, so this time, on a day off, I'll do that kind of thing a little bit. I don't do big promotion schedules, not when I'm touring.

Ato Boldon

Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Arthur Bloch

The Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules - the first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.

Aaron Sorkin

The downside to series television is that the schedule is ferocious. It constantly feels like you have a midterm due that you haven't started yet.

Mark Few

When it all shakes out and these teams play on, it's going to be the toughest non-conference schedule in the country.

Nathan Fennell

We're going to play a rougher schedule this year than we have for many years.

Bill Hybels

If you don't change your schedule, you'll be the same person you've always been.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.....We must not.....assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow it to be arranged by God.

Danny Wuerffel

If anybody's willing to schedule us, we're willing to play.

Drew Brosseau

It can be a mid-30s stock in 12 months.

Rick Drake

I think these stocks will have a pretty good-size correction.

Steven Patch

I see a lot of stocks on there.

Jim Cramer

I got a subpoena because I said that a stock was going lower.

Barry Ritholtz

If tech stocks keep going up with no pause, they will get insanely frothy.

Michael Holland

Merrill Lynch could go down some more, but I like stocks like that. I like Merck, but they got pounded on Friday,

Peter Greene

My suspicion is the stock is not doing much now, it's not earth-shattering.

Richard Jaffe

If we don't see Pressler departing, the stock treads water.

Brian Hill

Obviously, (CMGI) stock should be up with Lycos,

Charles Dickens

When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.

Charles Caleb Colton

It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!

Alan Watts

People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.'

Alan Watts

We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.

Alan Rickman

If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation.

Alan Rickman

What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.

Alan Moore

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

Alan Greenspan

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

Gustav Krupp

We are all proud of having thus contributed to the heretofore magnificent successes of our army.

William Shakespeare

Thus to persistIn doing wrong extenuates not wrong,But makes it much more heavy.

Michio Kaku

Thus the yeoman work in any science, and especially physics, is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.

Charles Dickens

Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.

Charles Spurgeon

Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original

Charles Spurgeon

The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.

Alan Watts

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Alan Watts

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

Alan Watts

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

Alan Parsons

That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

Alan Moore

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

Alan Arkin

Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.