Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Wilkins

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Teemu Selanne

I think we have played like a playoff team for some time. We can still do better. The key thing right now is to look forward, not behind you.

Eddie Slovik

I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime you wanted to.

Eddie Slovik

They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that. They're shooting me for bread I stole when I was 12 years old.

Eddie Slovik

I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

Eddie Slovik

The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy.

Eddie Slovik

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

Calamity Jane

By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider for a girl of my age.

Lew Wallace

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Carol Moseley Braun

I'm used to people not paying me a whole lot of attention and underestimating me and, frankly, for me a big challenge is to have people believe that I can be the president of the United States.

Carol Moseley Braun

I believe that our message of rebuilding America is one that will resonate with the American people.

Carlos Mencia

I don't have the time to steal other people's material even if I wanted to. The reason why these rumors got started is that I don't really contest them because I don't believe they deserve contesting. I really don't.

Carlos Mencia

God has a sense of humor. If you don't believe me, tomorrow go to wal-mart and just look at people.

Carlos Ghosn

I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.

Carlos Ghosn

Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

Carlos Castaneda

... when confronted with unusual life situations... A warrior acts as if nothing had ever happened, because he doesn't believe in anything, yet he accepts everything at its face value.

Carlos Castaneda

What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is that without ever stating it in so many words, we believe that we have entered the realm of immortality. We behave as if we are never going to die - an infantile arrogance. But even more injurious than this sense of immortality is what comes with it : the sense that we can engulf this inconcievable universe with our minds.

Carl Bernstein

Even at the end of a presidential election campaign, we have no way to know what Mitt Romney really believes.

Vladimir Putin

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

Madhur Bhandarkar

In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.

Rep. King

There are conditions, which shows they had concerns, but it's all procedural and relies entirely on good faith. There's nothing those conditions ... nothing that assures us they're not hiring someone with bin Laden.

Pervez Musharraf

When you talk only of bin Laden, frankly, the issue is not going and locating one individual,

Rick Keller

We've wanted to do this for 25 years. No sense in getting in a bind about one more year.

Francis Wacziarg

We've always tried to focus on productions that bind two cultures.

Phil Flynn

When we consider Iran, Nigeria and now the tape from Bin Laden, the terror premium must be put back into the price.

John Garrott

She enjoyed the bingo parlor and that's what she was doing the night that she was killed. She was coming back from that. She was doing something that she loved anyway.

Mark Warren

Since the USA frequently brings cases before the ICJ for binding judgments, it would be extraordinary indeed if the USA were not to comply with the final decision of the court in this case.

Carlos Fuentes

chaos: it has no plural.

Ed Stoppard

I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

Alan Watts

Chaos is always losing, but never defeated

Bruce Schneier

Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet.

Charlie Kaufman

The end is built into the beginning.

Benoit Mandelbrot

The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.

Dean Koontz

When tempest tossed, embrace chaos

Elizabeth Janeway

We put up with a lot to be saved from chaos. We always have.

Isiah Thomas

My job is to make sure in all the chaos you can still see the flowers, you can still see the good things happening.

Ouida Forsyth

Watching TV is just passive, because they are just sitting there. You are not developing your gross motor skills. ... It is not conducive to oral language development. It is not going to increase your oral language skills.

Charles Clark

on the grounds that his presence is not conducive to the public good.

Sarath Amunugama

I am quite confident that the policy environment is quite conducive for taking our economy towards a six to eight percent growth path with significant reduction in poverty over the next three to five years.

Christina Ricci

Nobody's kissing my ass, unfortunately. I could use a little. But then again, my personality isn't conducive to butt-kissing.

Robert Andrews Millikan

Fullness of knowledge always means some understanding of the depths of our ignorance; and that is always conducive to humility and reverence.

Dave Baseggio

I don't think it was conducive to what we had. We've come a long way since that game.

Douglass North

My wife and I now live in the summers in northern Michigan in an environment which is wonderfully conducive to research, and where most of my work in the last 15 years has been done.

Steve Turner

We would have loved to have him stay. But he was able to get back to his school and be in an environment much more conducive to his comfort.

William Wagner

The patch helps keep the tissue thick and mechanically softer, creating a more conducive environment for healing instead of scar tissue formation.

C. S. Lewis

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

Charlie Haden

In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness.

David Eckstein

There is definitely a lot more to it than show up and swing. I'm working on staying inside the ball, working on different hit-and-runs, moving runners, creating situations in your head. So when the game comes up, you're prepared to execute whatever needs to be executed.

CEO Bowen

There is currently substantial interest for multiple tenants, but the announcement is premature. The names you are going to like, but the flip side to creating something this great means it will take longer.

Ricky Gervais

I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

Tom Hodgkinson

Whether you live in the city or in the country, creating time for a leisurely ramble is an easy thing to do.

David Selby

When you succeed at creating your own world, whether it's in any realm - like Tolkien was able to do - and people are able to enter that world, it's a special thing.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

Tracie Peterson

I enjoy the research and love actually creating the words. There's not too much I find a drudge when it comes to writing.

James Rubin

The procedural hurdle that emerged yesterday has been overcome and we are proceeding apace.

Robbie Fowler

When I emerged Liverpool had a tradition of their players working hard and playing hard, back before the Nineties and through all the glory era.

Timothy Noah

Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth.

David Mitchell

Probably" is a word with an emergency ejector seat.

Bryce Courtenay

sometimes in life doing what we shouldn't do is the emergency

Chris Smith

We want to see Thailand emerge as a bastion of freedom and democracy, not as a ... partner with the Burmese dictatorship. Friends don't let friends enable dictatorship.

Mark Oaten

We still want to try to seek consensus, however two sticking points have emerged for us.

Mark Olsen

We're looking to see who emerges as the No. 5 right now.

Andrew Friedman

We're seeing the emergence of a new political culture, and the folks in Washington had better wake up and be responsive to it.

Cass Sunstein

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

Laith Kubba

Muslim extremists will be surrounded then wiped out,

R. Inge

The government of Afghanistan should prove that they are protectors of freedom by releasing Abdul Rahman and protecting him from extremist elements.

Ben Johnson

The opening salvo of Commander-in-Chief is a guilt trip for all those Americans who thought an unelected (and then-unelectable) feminist extremist should refrain from imposing her will upon the nation.

Ron Lewis

Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of Islamic extremists will be a disaster for the world.

Vladimir Putin

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

Najib Razak

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

Najib Razak

In any society, there will be the whole spectrum of views. You will get the extremists on the far right and also the far left.

Ayad Allawi

Whenever the results of the investigation come to the surface, then the time will be suitable to talk about forming the new government.

Matt Mullenweg

Whenever there's a new form of media, we always think it's going to replace the old thing, and it never does. We still have radio, however long after TV was introduced.

Trevor Hohns

We have rejigged the one-day side to what we hope will provide a range of options to take on a formidable World XI side, as well as forming the nucleus of the 2007 squad for the World Cup.

Kim Clijsters

There are a lot of good players here this week, but Amelie is in form and playing well so she will be tough to beat.

Tori Amos

I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.

David Knopfler

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Chad Harbach

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Mutula Kilonzo

We are going to ignore it because it has no value. It is pure nonsense and the former president will go on with ordinary life.

Gary Wolf

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.

Charlotte Bronte

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

Michael Moskowitz

The reality is that the Internet is not friendly to mobile devices. But over time, the Internet will bend.

Doug Henderson

There is a stigma that we are not friendly to minorities. When we go out to recruit, that image is there.

David Cross

I know Dave [Attel] and we're friendly, and I have nothing but respect for him.

Olof Mellberg

We did nothing well today. It's another friendly in which we don't reach our normal level. Hopefully, we can pull ourselves together and step up our game when it really matters.

Chord Overstreet

I love John Stamos. John's a really friendly, cool dude.

China Mieville

I'm a very friendly socialist.

Marge Kennedy

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Eckhart Tolle

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Barry Eisler

Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.

Brad Henry

No matter where you stand politically - even if you're unsure of what your political ideology is - it is important to take part in the process of shaping our government.

George Rockwell

Hitler produced a local "lab experiment"; he provided me with an ideology in the same way that Marx provided one for Lenin. My task is to turn this ideology into a world movement.

Bob Casey

I think it's time we had a senator who wasn't pushing a narrow, intolerant ideology that says 'I'm right, you're wrong and you don't know better.

Maajid Nawaz

Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

Joe Slovo

It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

Thaksin Shinawatra

The separatist ideology remains and the violence will be a prolonged one because authorities need time to tackle this complicated problem,

Dave Finkel

I liked Norman Lear's ideology that you could trust an audience to stay with you.

Henry Giroux

We're talking about race. It's ideology, it's a mode of policy. It's a practice. And it intertwines with class in a very specific way to create something very distinctive that we see now being legitimated in the United States by fascists who absolutely are unapologetic about what they're saying.

Carol Moseley Braun

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Oskar Lafontaine

We are not a sovereign country; as long as the US can operate from here, we are a participant in the Iraq war.

Jared Diamond

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Argus Hamilton

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Alan Rudolph

You know, sometimes I feel like I walk around with a target on my back with the films I make.

Jon Sakoda

Worms that are traditionally targeting MSN will also target the Yahoo users,

Ashleigh Brilliant

To always hit the target, throw a dart, then call whatever you hit the target.

Eileen Claussen

Binding emissions targets for the developing nations are out of the question.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot see.

Kevin Appier

I can't see your target because of the sun, so you'll have to tell me where it (the ball) goes.

Joe Cunningham

We probably could play him at first (base); he just wouldn't be a very big target to hit.

Jean Fernandez

I always said that we had a team to target the top five.

Nick Zito

He worked well and is on target for Tampa.