Famous Quotes & Sayings

O. Singh

The outbreak is under control and the influx of patients to hospitals has come down. Fogging of insecticide in affected areas has started. People have been advised to sleep under mosquito nets.

Todd Kort

We've advised them to look at alternatives, but most companies are staying put.

Otto Schily

Wherever he is extradited depends on the country where he is. We are well advised to give the U.S.A. the first choice because the attacks took place in America. We will not make any demands (to go first).

Steven Taylor

We have assessed our situation and are making adjustments as needed based on the crisis in the Gulf that has impacted our state and our nation. We are making every effort to ensure we continue our delivery of service to students without interruption, understanding that some measures may have to be taken given the daily status of the situation. We will keep staff, parents and students advised of any measures that will impact them directly.

Fred Eckhard

United Nations security had a general concern about the secretary general's visit to this region. But in the end, the chief of staff advised the secretary general to make the trip anyway.

Ken Stott

I read 'the Hobbit' at the age when you're supposed to read it. I didn't read 'The Lord Of The Rings.' My father, who was an English teacher, advised me that once I had read 'the Hobbit,' that would be enough. I could then move on to Dostoyevsky.

Juan Williams

Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism.

Carol Woods

She advised them that the building would be closed and secured for the evening as it is normally. She asked the students to leave at that time.

Julius Schwartz

She advised me that my main job would be plotting stories and editing them. I would not have to bother with the artwork, which was a relief.

Darin Schreck

The only reason why I know is because I get asked all the time.

Ron Beck

The person we interviewed is definitely the person we got. He's real. He's doing everything we asked to do.

Raul Cisneros

The people who got star loans, they just went to the bank and asked for a loan, so they didn't take away in any way money someone in New York.

Lee Huenecke

We are pleased with this decision. We asked them to talk to us when they made this change, and they wouldn't. That forced us to go through the court system. And yet again, the courts have supported our position.

Ann Thomas

We've always asked people to leave earlier, but because of Katrina, they are now listening to us and they're leaving as we say,

Gary Woods

We started talking and half-jokingly, I think, I asked if he would be in (the movie), and he said 'Yeah, I could do that,'

Luis Walter Alvarez

If the president of the college had asked me what I thought about Dewey McLean, I'd say he's a weak sister. I thought he'd been knocked out of the ball game and had just disappeared, because nobody invites him to conferences anymore.

Liane Balaban

I've signed autographs as Natalie Portman. I was at a Film Festival party where someone asked if I was her, and I didn't want to embarrass them, so I signed the autograph as her. I hope she doesn't mind.

Chris Cain

We actually got it from a guy that works at a U-Haul truck place in Berkeley. He thought that the three of us all looked very similar to one anotherwe all had on glassesand he asked whether we were all brothers and we said no and he asked whether we were all scientists. We said that we were not, but that was the theme of the name.

David Strickland

If something is bothering you, keep it to yourself.

Louise Leakey

With the discovery of Zinjanthropus at Olduvai Gorge in 1959, my grandmother Mary Leakey pioneered the research in East Africa with my grandfather Louis. Many more spectacular fossil finds have since been made, both in Africa and elsewhere, by many researchers driven to understand our past.

Lisa Cholodenko

Wendy and I both wanted kids, but since we were pushing 40, the clock was ticking.

Maajid Nawaz

I care not to debate which came first, Islamism or anti-Muslim bigotry; suffice to say that both feed into each other symbiotically.

Mackenzie Astin

There is a healthy fraternal rivalry, but nothing serious and we both have been looking for a project to do together. I guess he may direct me in a project some day.

Richard Cohen

The other side said (there are) 799 federal and state laws mandating the use of English. ... We would say those kinds of laws are not at issue here. I think that English is the official language of this country in a practical sense already. And I think that most people who come here both learn English and want to learn English.

Ben Folds

The other reason Rufus and I are great together is that we're both really lazy. The rehearsing, the sound checks -- he's actually worse than I am, and that's something. To get us to do anything other than sit in our dressing rooms is a challenge. Who knows what will happen?

Duncan Chase

The potential is unbelievable with both those girls.

Tarun Das

The potential is huge for them both in sales and production.

Ed Patru

The perception that candidates who are war veterans are influencing the national party is wrong.

Cooter Failla

We started the process in October, had 12 candidates which we reduced to three, then two, and today was the day the decision was made.

Peter Wong

We're in talks with about three to four Chinese candidates for a joint venture brokerage, and we should be able to set it up sometime this year.

Phil Price

We want to run candidates (for City Council) that will dissolve the city.

Edith Nawakwi

When we were fighting the third term 'King Cobra' was still in MMD. He fought all potential candidates and took them out of the MMD. He got out of MMD after 90 minutes of the game.

Ed Patru

What we're seeing around the country is a concerted effort by Democrats to manufacture momentum by talking up a lot of candidates with no resources.

Steve Ross

What this decision stands for is that there is a limit to the circumstances under which the federal government can dictate to the citizens of Nevada who they can or can not have as candidates for state or local office,

Rick Perlstein

For conservative leaders, making candidates pay them court, publicly and ostentatiously, is a colossal source of their symbolic power before their followers. It's kabuki theater, mostly.

Steven Schier

Lightning probably won't strike again. Jesse's undistinguished tenure as governor in Minnesota, coupled with Arnold's troubles in California, make it unlikely that celebrity candidates will ever have the inviting luster of novelty that they had a few years ago.

Charles Caleb Colton

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing that will keep a person from Christ like a good opinion of himself.

Al Pacino

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

Catherine the Great

I do not love strife, because I have always found that in the end each remains of the same opinion.

Catherine the Great

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

Carl Hiaasen

I still do a weekly opinion column for the Miami Herald, and it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Rotten fish.

David Hume

All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I genuinely don't know Julian Assange well. To authenticate an opinion, I really would have to meet him.

Diana Gabaldon

I swore an oath before the altar of God to protect this woman. And if you're tellin' me that ye consider your own authority to be greater than that of the Almighty, then I must inform ye that I'm not of that opinion, myself.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

Chris Christie

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

Chris Christie

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

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.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so.

Charles Caleb Colton

When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into vice, none appear to do so. He that stops first, views as from a fixed point the horrible extravagance that transports the rest.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some men are very entertaining for a first interview, but after that they are exhausted, and run out; on a second meeting we shall find them flat and monotonous; like hand-organs, we have heard all their tunes.

Charles Dickens

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

Charles Dickens

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

Charles Studd

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell, I want to run a rescue shop within a yard of Hell.

Charles Stross

My gut feeling is that SF as we know it today is actually a heavily propagandized field that grew out of a specific set of cultural trends running in the USA and Europe between 1918 and 1950, during the post-imperial modernization period.

Charles Stross

Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast?

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.