Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

It is high time that the Palestinian people restore their freedom and independence. It is high time that the decades, the long decades of suffering and pain would stop.

Douglas Coupland

My house. It's kind of eccentric. It's two decades worth of accumulated personal projects. Yeah, it is pretty dense in my house.

Jim Whitehurst

My goal at Delta is to return our service levels to industry leading, which they were for decades until the mid-'90s. If we do that and keep the hearts and minds of our people as we do that, it will ultimately lead to financial success.

Juan Felipe Herrera

My grandmother and my mom and my aunt Aurelia, my grandmother Juanita, my mom Lucia - we lived on the outskirts of a barrio in Mexico City called Tepito, and Tepito for many, many decades was the largest barrio in Mexico and perhaps even Latin America.

Kevin Browne

Four generations of our family have lived and worked here at Shafer Shores. Through the years we have thrived on repeat guests, many of whom measure their time here in decades rather than years.

Sen. Langhorst

What Idaho should be recognized for is a really huge question; that's the kind of thing that develops over decades or generations. I'm not sure that's a decision we want to start making today.

Cathleen Schine

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.

Vint Cerf

The net's future is far from assured, and history offers much warning. Within a few decades of Gutenberg's creation, princes and priests moved to restrict the right to print books.

Sue Brush

We have literally waited decades -- and I mean decades -- to have a hotel in St. Paul. It is a dream come true for Westin.

Richard P. Feynman

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Shen Si

So far, we have just been notified by our shareholders about such an internal deal, which is still pending on our board's permission.

Lao Tzu

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

J. J. Johnson

Title 26 of the Internal Revenue Code. Taxation, basically. It's what tripped up Al Capone.

Katsuya Okada

The reform of Japan starts today. There is no tomorrow for the Koizumi LDP government, which spends all its time in internal power struggles.

Laila Robins

That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

Mike Turner

He will not be rehired ... regardless, ... an internal personnel matter.

Allen Freeman

Our internal polling has been showing that we're up by 20 points.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is an internal Russian problem to be solved between the Chechen people and the Russian federation.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Bashar al-Assad

The most significant indicator that there is no disaster in Iraq is the fact that there is no exodus.

Elizabeth Dole

In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.

Ahmed Chalabi

What was said before is not important.

Ahmed Chalabi

I call on the international community to be fair to the Iraqi people. My position is that we respect international resolutions but in return demand justice and accountability for those who stole Iraq's money.

Ahmed Chalabi

Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq.

Ahmed Chalabi

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors.

Ahmed Chalabi

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

Bible Bible

Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Mark Ritchie

So it turns out an only private-land preserve wasn't going to be able to meet legal (standards). The only thing that seems to work is a combination of public and private lands.

George Grace

One thing we've got a lot of, ... is land.

Mark Roberts

Neil Armstrong, when he was out there landing on the moon, I was there first.

Tony Smith

Whenever you look at it in its entirety, you could be losing all the land to a developer.

Richard Zuschlag

We won't go into the Superdome landing zone until security is restored.

Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Eleanor Roosevelt

...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Steve Black

If a person wants to keep their land from ever going into urban development, they get a conservation easement,

Jim Parks

My father-in-law used to work in the mines years ago and my youngest son is presently working out here on second shift.

Robert Robinson

I have never discovered a penicillin, and I have not worked in the mines where ores of the more Nobeliferous metals are to be found.

Benjamin Franklin

Mine is better than ours.

David Levithan

These words are now mine, but soon they’ll be ours.

Aeschylus

My will is mine...I shall not make it soft for you.

Nicholas Kristof

In Angola, I visited 'HeroRats' that have been trained to sniff out land mines (and, in some countries, diagnose tuberculosis). In a day, they can clear 20 times as much of a minefield as a human, and they work for bananas!

Hillary Clinton

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

George Best

I will respect this liver. After all, it's not mine.

James Cook

I don't know how they could really make mines much safer than they are. What else can they really do.

Jerramy Stevens

So it's not a surprise that he's got something to say about it and that he's getting upset. Because that's his style, and I know that.

David Bone

No one was more surprised than we were,

Floyd Reese

We won't exercise. You can write that if you want, though I don't think it will be a surprise to anybody.

Jeffrey Rea

I was real surprised to see him out there.

Michael Moskow

I was surprised they wanted to talk about education.

Janet Reno

I was surprised that there were so many

Jim Noonan

I was surprised that one didn't go in too.

Tom Poti

I was surprised I had that much time.

Randy Gipson

I was surprised and flattered. I had not thought about something like this happening.