Famous Quotes & Sayings

Evan Bayh

Regrettably, the readiness of the Iraqi army is wholly inadequate for the needs. Our own government has said so.

Fred Kaplan

President Bush is going to begin withdrawing troops from Iraq. That no longer seems in doubt. The question is: How does he plan to do it? Which troops will come out first? How quickly? Where will they go? Under what circumstances will they be put back in? Which troops will remain, and what will they do? How will they keep a profile low enough to make the Iraqi government seem genuinely autonomous yet high enough to help deter or stave off internal threats? Who will keep the borders secure, a task for which the Iraqi army doesn't even pretend to have the slightest capability? What kinds of diplomatic arrangements will he make with Iraq's neighbors -- who have their own conflicting interests in the country's future -- to assure an international peace?

Matt Daniels

Our overarching goal is to build a national grass-roots army,

Dave Brown

Or I could just hold on with one arm if you like. What do you think?

John Carpenter

Our officer reached out and grabbed her arm just as she was about to go over the edge.

Ken Olson

People need to continue to call the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, ... The support we have received from the community has been great, but we need more help.

Sean Mallon

State lands permitting is finished. And the fully executed document is on the way from the Army Corps, we understand.

Clint Hurdle

Spinning out of his delivery. Most of the times when he misses, it's (to his) arm side.

Mary Shelley

Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

Tom Kloza

Refiners are very popular on Wall Street now. If you bought refining (capacity) before the summer of 2005, you suddenly got one of the hottest assets on Wall Street.

Kit Spring

Real might need to look for a merger partner and I think the assets are valuable.

Trent Duffy

President Bush participated in briefings, phone calls and conversations throughout this process, and his administration was focused on making sure that the federal assets were in place to help the people of New Orleans.

John Ford

Part of the reason we're doing this is that we like both the assets and the people.

Jacques Chirac

Our objective is simple: to give Europe back its dynamism, ... It has all the assets to be at front of the global economy. But, faced with international competition, there is urgency.

Jim Hankinson

Our mandate is to operate our assets as efficiently and as cost-effectively as possible. We don't see a sound business case for returning Units 2 and 3 to service.

Antonio Costa

States are required to return money and other assets obtained through corruption to the country from which they were stolen.

Doug Rockel

Splitting up the assets makes infinite sense, not only from a financial perspective but from an operating perspective or competitive perspective.. No one wants market dominance to take place. The shipping community certainly doesn't want it, even the competing railroads out West don't want it.

Sonya Morris

Some funds shift their assets heavily, but it's really hard to blunt the blow of volatility. Negative returns in the double digits are not uncommon.

George H. W. Bush

Recovery is going to take years. We need to help these Gulf Coast communities and, of course, the great city of New Orleans get back on their feet. The job is too big, too overwhelming for any one group.

John Grant

Reasonable people in the city of Oceanside would say, 'Great, get rid of that old trailer park,' ... don't like it, (but) they're going to have to move.

Paul Eisenstein

Our readers really stepped up with some insane street names. We learned a lot about the byways of this country, not to mention the collective sense of humor of city planners everywhere.

Felicia Londre

Patricia's move to Kansas City sent shockwaves through the scholarly world. People wondered why she was 'throwing away' her career. They didn't understand it.

Victor Batarseh

Our message is that tourists are still welcome. This is a peaceful city and there is no reason they should not come.

DeJuan Blair

People have been overlooking the City League like crazy for years. It's good that we got here. Hopefully we can win it.

Sunny Mindel

People know him as the man who was the leader of an urban renaissance of the city that was deemed to be ungovernable. His legacy is sustained by the accomplishments as leader of New York City for eight years.

Glenn Thomas

People need to authorize that the city is not out any money. The money we refund is in lieu of money spent on infrastructure.

Kelly McCann

People in this city are starting to realize that HIV is everyone's disease.

Gail Dudack

Really what the markets have been struggling with is: What is the direction of the economy and therefore corporate profits.

Kimberly Caughey

PC sales are strong and this quarter shows it. And Microsoft still has room for growth in the corporate segment.

Matt Smith

Our objective was to select an anti-spam and anti-virus provider that complimented our overall corporate strategy of continually providing our customers with 'best-of-breed' solutions. Another key criteria for our search was to implement a solution that would be easy to manage and administer.

John Matelski

Oracle has done an excellent job integrating PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers, not only into their overall corporate support structure, but also their Fusion application strategy as well.

Darren Dopp

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter. If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Eliot Spitzer

People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter, ... If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.

Greg Myers

Our problem was that we did not receive the corporate sponsorships this year that we have in past year, ... That represents $1,500 right there.

Claire Buchan

Our focus is on ensuring the SEC has the resources it needs...so that it can go after corporate corruption and fix the system so that abuses do not occur in the future, ... We view this as something that can be viewed as a distraction from those important goals.

Robert Scoble

Our corporate policy is, be smart. We don't talk about things we don't know about.

B. J. Novak

I'm a believer in trusting the director.

Antoine Fuqua

I became a director just for the love of movies, because of the power of cinema.

Paul Clarke

The 48-hour stoppage is aimed at CIS staff and CIS directors but unfortunately there will be an effect on some customers,

Julianne Moore

I think people are always really surprised when they realise I'm not a very serious person and that I'm not tremendously serious about acting. I don't like to rehearse; I hate improv. Directors that don't like to talk, they're my favourite ones.

Patricia Clarkson

I think I am monumentally lucky but I do have the good fortune to have these great young directors offering me parts in their scripts.

Colin Trevorrow

'Jurassic Park' is like 'Star Wars.' Different directors can give a different taste to each movie.

Lesley Manville

I'd love it if doors open for me in America. There are directors I'd love to work with there. I'll always do theater, but I've got to pay the mortgage.

Grant Heslov

You work with great directors and terrible directors, and so you learn; you take what you think will work for you.

Stephen Chbosky

'Rent' was a special project for me. It was my first notable screenplay job. I worked with two wonderful directors on it, starting with Spike Lee in the summer of 2001. I wrote a draft for Spike and he was really good to me.

Chuck Hunter

Our members are the owners, but the employees are more important than the owners because we can't operate without them.

Ira Cohen

Some of them will be with Meow Mix employees and their friends and relatives. But we're also expecting a lot of regular New Yorkers to stop by.

Mike McCurdy

Our whole theme is to get it done and get our employees back as soon as possible." ()

Scott Sharp

Most senior management do not even know if their employees actually understand what they should be doing,

Martin Frost

It had nothing to do with voting, ... It had everything to do with the fact that they were appreciative of things I did over the years to help the employees and the company.

Scott Roberts

I was getting paid, several employees weren't, they were being paid in food.

Ed Dumas

It is commonplace for employees to volunteer their personal time to organize such events for public officials.

Curtis Gray

I didn't mind talking about it. It showed there needs to be better security at convenience stores, and to the employees working the third shift an idea that it might happen to them.

Stephen Jones

I don't know which employees he's been talking to - I suspect the senior managers on generous severance packages. This is the wrong plan for Telstra and the wrong plan for Australia.

Joe Farmer

Our staff has been trained extensively on how to teach students with multiple levels of intelligence in the same class.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

The president doesn't order the military to seize political opponents. He doesn't order his intelligence community to lie about national security for political purposes. He uses the military or intelligence communities to protect the United States and our citizens, not to help him win elections.

Richard Durbin

For the president to suggest he had the same intelligence we had is just plain wrong,

Mark Turgeon

He had a tough night at Southern; it's as simple as that. He didn't play with the intelligence he usually plays with.

James Woolsey

had to do with coordination of intelligence in the United States.

Bertrand Russell

Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

Billy Higgins

Let's just say that more intelligence is needed. You can't just run up and do this, you have to think about it.

Bat for Lashes

In the music industry, intelligence in women is undervalued.

Dick Cheney

We haven't really had the time yet to pore through all those records in Baghdad. We'll find ample evidence confirming the link, that is the connection if you will between al Qaida and the Iraqi intelligence services. They have worked together on a number of occasions.

Charles Keating

Regarding the differences between playing in various mediums, television and theatre, one's job is to tell the story.

Bobby Cox

Reitsma can do the job, we know that.

Mark Fischer

Pat always took the jobs nobody else wanted. What makes this place work is the people who give their time to others and that was Pat. She wasn't an ordinary soccer mom.

Tom DeLay

People need to be doing their jobs right now,

Joe Torre

Stepping up is one thing, getting the job done is another.

Jim Christian

Some of my friends said I was taking the Kent job at the worst possible time. They said all I could do was go down.

Tim Roth

Some jobs, which would otherwise have been lost in the industry, have not been lost because of NAFTA.

Roy Roberts

Our whole line did a nice job of moving people around.

Michelle Sommers

Right now negotiations remain civil. We want to keep it that way. We want to get the job done.

Jon Lester

Pitchers really don't deal with the managers a whole lot. When we come in the clubhouse, we see him, we say, 'Hey.' That's really it.

Michael Bell

We've talked to a lot of students and property managers about this, and we're trying to sort out the pros and cons, ... A staunch position, yea or nay, can't be reached at this point.

Scott Cooley

He is one of the smartest managers around.

Donald McDonald

We've been trying to get applications out, but everything has been rejected because of his record. I would go with him to talk with some of these managers to just be a support for him.

Namie Amuro

I came back to do a live concert. Nobody had done that before and I know my managers were worried.

Ted Lindsay

The owners and managers were too stupid to realize we had brains.

Bill Lee

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Arne Glimcher

I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager.

Michael Carty

We're seeing a little turnaround, after so much negative news. It's also the end of the quarter, so portfolio managers need to do a little window dressing.

Nina Daniels

People just have to have an open mind and a better understanding of the sport. People don't really understand it, and how it works.

Gitte Lindgaard

People make up their mind very, very quickly about how much they like what they see.

Jon Gruden

Some of those runs you will never forget. And you may never see them again. Those are the one where you say 'Oh, my God! Oh, my God!' They are runs etched in your mind forever.

Chris Martin

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Allan Ray

That comes with experience. We've been through this. We know we can come back if we put our mind to it.

B. R. Ambedkar

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence

B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

B. F. Skinner

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

John Tinker

Peace is the right approach. War is the wrong approach.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Javier Solana

Peace is more than the end of violence. Peace is more than just a cease-fire,

Jan Pronk

Peace is being jeopardized in the short run.

Ringo Starr

Peace and love! Peace and love! Peace and love!

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Ring out the thousand wars of old,/ Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ron Johnson

Rest in Peace, Brother, you will be missed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace is present when things form part of a whole greater than their sum, as the diverse minerals in the ground collect to become the tree.

B. H. Liddell Hart

Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.

Jim Lord

Reasonable people have to find that reasonable line.

Stephanie Laurens

Real people are never central characters in my works.

Tom Tremont

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Jyoti Amge

Regular people should not underestimate people who are small. In every aspect, they can do the things that normal people can.

Robert Hamilton

Our policy is to let our people know first.

Alex Halavais

Part of it is it's a really safe place for people to talk about this.

Hanya Yanagihara

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

Joel Edgerton

Particularly when you're making a movie of a book, people are always waiting with their knives - you know?

Jack Horn

Part of the problem, ... is there are so many more things that can be done for people - drug therapies are better, but more expensive. And there are more and better scanning technologies, which are also more expensive.

Jason Wu

I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells.

Robin Day

I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth.

Albert Einstein

Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant

Sarah Hall

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

Frances O'Grady

There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.

John Fleming

We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer.

Alber Elbaz

I'd rather be relevant than cool.

Makhosini Nkosi

The investigation was also conducted in consultation with the complainant and the relevant witnesses.

C. S. Lewis

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Carrie Mae Weems

It's very important for me to really use this body as a barometer of a certain kind of knowledge--to take the personal risk of exposing my own body in a certain kind of way. I can't ask anybody else to do something that I don't do first myself.

Carl Sagan

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You risk tears if you let yourself be tamed.

Bill Vaughan

Improving efficiency on the farm is not only a risk-reduction strategy, it's a profitability strategy.

Brett Basanez

That's the risk you take in the shotgun. But it was nothing serious.

Scott Riggs

That's the risk when you come down here with no points.

John Barlow

That's a world worth taking a risk for,

Paul Browne

I think that we are talking about a very, very small risk -- but not zero.

Matt Emmons

Basketball made me happy to be tall. And more secure about myself than I ever would have been without it.

Kai Holm

If we take a look at security right now, this place is probably the most secure place in the world.

Rick Comer

Secure the ball, get it out and don't pivot with it because they're pressuring us.

Bob DuPuy

We haven't secured it in other stadium deals,

William Shakespeare

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

Larry Wade

We always look at how secure the berth is and what it can withstand,

Michael Gray

It would secure ounces that they desperately need to secure.

Francis Chan

There's no sense in improving your marriage until you are secure with God.

George Herbert

Nothing secure unlesse suspected.

Jim Keller

It does give them a sense of security.

John Gadd

He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Neil Callaway

We'd like to have one of them, yeah. You'd always like to have more security and more depth.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?