Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten.

Charles Caleb Colton

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over.

Alan Moore

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

Alan Jay Lerner

Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air.

Al Pacino

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Kathleen Bergen

We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands.

Chris Carter

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

Chris Brown

Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service.

Stephen Harper

We know we've run a good campaign. We've run the campaign we wanted to run and got our message out.

Ibrahim Hooper

We know how to deal with these things in a positive way. We're opening an education campaign on the life and legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

Dmitry Medvedev

Climate change is "some kind of tricky campaign made up by some commercial structures to promote their business projects."

Pam Brown

Unsolicited donations have doubled since the campaign started.

Terry Murphy

We are pleased to offer senior citizens the opportunity to join a national campaign that provides guidance and simple steps toward healthier lifestyles,

Jan Egeland

We stand by the report. The eviction campaign was the worst possible thing at the worst possible moment. ... The important thing now is to look to the future. We have to help these people.

Jean Chretien

We spoke in this campaign about preserving social programs and Medicare and that we will do,

Mike DeWine

We're not going to talk about campaign tactics,

Ben Bradlee

It is my experience that most claims of national security are part of a campaign to avoid telling the truth.

Andy Davidson

When your colleagues put that confidence in you and congratulate you on a job well done ? I'm pretty honored to get it.

Andre Geim

Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.

Jim Carroll

Many of her colleagues knew him and it was very emotional in the office. She had that memory in the back of her head while she was being threatened.

Michel Gauthier

What I can tell you, in the name of my colleagues and our leader Gilles Duceppe, is that we've had enough, ... Together, all the Bloc MPs intend to reverse the trend.

Emyr Parry

There are some points not in the text that frankly we would have preferred to have seen in the text. Other colleagues said no, that would send a different message at this particular time.

David Carter

I can't recall seeing more jockeying for position for a game ticket than in the last few days. I was just recently reminded of how many friends and colleagues in the state of Texas whom I have lost touch with.

Kathryn Minshew

There were so many lessons I learned the hard way: missing out on a raise because I didn't know to ask, having colleagues consistently get credit for my ideas because of how I spoke up in meetings. When I looked for a resource that addressed the challenges I was facing, I couldn't find it. There was nothing.

Yasin Malik

I will need to talk to my party colleagues and the decision will be conveyed by Wednesday.

David Kennedy

Just as the search committee rallied around this selection, I'm convinced that all of our industry colleagues will also find David Rehr the right person to lead NAB.

Maia Carroll

We want the hospital to continue to look diligently for cost-saving measures.

Kevin Krone

We want to thank our Customers for their continued excitement about DING! since its introduction last February. Thanks to our hardworking Employees, fare sales were revolutionized with the creation of DING!

Keith Miller

We know what we can do. This team has plenty of talent and potential; now it's up to us to just go out there and continue to make a name for ourselves.

Ray Brown

We know we've got to play better offensively to continue in this tournament.

Levance Fields

We know he's going to be all right and we've just got to continue our game plan. We're a little sick right now. That's all it is. Hopefully, it doesn't turn out any worse than it is. But we can't just stop.

Hilary Clinton

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Terry Lanni

Vegas will continue to grow and it will sustain downward trends.

David Holmes

Ultimately it could mean we end up releasing another record next year and continue to tour well in to 2007.

Lucas Papademos

A very difficult year is ahead of us. We must continue our efforts with decisiveness, to stay in the euro, to make sure we do not waste the sacrifices and do not turn the crisis into an uncontrolled and disastrous bankruptcy.

Judith Kipper

US-Syrian relations are extremely strained. There is virtually no diplomatic discussion between the two.

Joschka Fischer

When I heard that yesterday, I was very diplomatic and didn't pull a face. But in my head you could imagine what I was seeing: I saw people sitting around in dreadlocks with joints in their hands, and reggae music playing in the background.

Michael Carty

Yesterday (Monday) was a technical rally. There's still a lot of uncertainty about a potential recession and about what's going to happen on the diplomatic front.

Christopher Dodd

I don't think we've been muscular enough, if you will, at the diplomatic table. I don't disagree that we ought to leave the military option on the table.

Joe Wilcox

I would not say this is a sign of great openness. It's more like establishing diplomatic relations between two countries, rather than opening borders.

Tom Casey

We support the . . . efforts and the proposal they have put forward to find a diplomatic solution to this problem.

Donald Rumsfeld

to embark on a diplomatic initiative to work with North Korea to see if they wouldn't reverse their position of violating these three or four agreements.

Ye Xiaowen

We can establish diplomatic relations with the Vatican very soon if the two principles are accepted. But it is very hard for us to do so if the two principles are violated.

Adam Ereli

Our focus remains on diplomatic efforts to get six-party talks under way as a means of reaching the goal of a dismantlement of the North Korean program and a denuclearized Korean Peninsula.

Angelo Reyes

This successful operation could be attributed to the joint efforts of the soldiers with the participation of the American forces, and of course, with the prayers of everybody,

David George

Wealth is when small efforts produce big results. Poverty is when big efforts produce small results.

Ethan Moreau

We have to get that next goal. You either have to get a stop or get the next goal. It's happened a number of times. Good efforts have been wasted because of it.

Steve Denney

We're making Herculean efforts to get into some of these areas.

Allen Iverson

We're going to need team efforts and we need each other down the stretch.

Rudi Giuliani

We're going to focus our efforts on recovering as many people as we can and on removing debris, which will take at least two or three weeks,

Edward Jackson

We're getting offers of help; we're getting word that people are trying to structure efforts for us.

Tim Carney

There is a lot of focus on counter-drug efforts on the part of Rene Preval.

Jean Coutu

Since the acquisition of Eckerd, our American team has invested considerable efforts into its integration and operation,

Akhmad Kadyrov

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

Ban Ki-moon

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter,

Eckhart Tolle

When you say “yes” to the “isness” of life, when you accept this moment as it is, you can feel a sense of spaciousness within you that is deeply peaceful.

Bruce Cockburn

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.

Deepak Chopra

Remember that you will create peace only when you are peaceful.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Brad Pitt

Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.

Albert Einstein

Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!

Benjamin Franklin

Increase in me that wisdom Which discovers my truest interest, Strengthen my resolution To perform that which wisdom dictates.

Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't go around it, over it, or through it, you had better negotiate with it.

Tom Zbikowski

The only resolution I have is winning this game. I don't really have anything else.

E. Hicks

While we would like to have had some resolution today, we are willing to wait,

Anna Julia Cooper

Peace produced by suppression is neither natural nor desirable.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you flee from the things you fear, there's no resolution.

William Shakespeare

Who is so firm that can't be seduced?

Mark Gurwell

We're the first to have the combination of resolution and sensitivity to be able to do this experiment.

Bill Richardson

It is our view that this is a strong resolution with teeth that would send an unmistakable message.

Ryan Getzlaf

We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

George Borjas

What immigration really does is redistribute wealth away from workers toward employers.

Tom Wilkinson

Most manufacturers are working toward a two- to three-year period.

Katharine Graham

For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.