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.

The Talmud

There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow.

Rose McIver

There is humor in the darkest of moments - People who I have loved and passed away, and very high stake situations where you can't help but laugh. I think that's very human.

Olivia Thirlby

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

William Cowper

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have past away.

Amanda Lindhout

I must thank my good friend Nigel Brennan. His strength of character in the midst of extreme hardship inspired me during the darkest days. Despite our separation, he always managed to find small ways to remind me that there are gentlemen in the world, even when I was surrounded by just the opposite.

Ben Mendelsohn

In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.

Dante Alighieri

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Donna Favors

You are only as sick as your deepest, darkest Secret.

Michael R. Bloomberg

In our darkest hour, he was a ray of hope, a voice of reassurance to millions, ... He made us all proud, and he reminded the world that New Yorkers don't quit.

Ron Fournier

Part of the problem is voters know relatively little about Romney. And some of what they know about him complicates his task: Romney has a history of flip-flopping on issues, he's extraordinarily wealthy, and he can be tone-deaf about what moves voters. He just doesn't seem comfortable in his skin.

Jacob Reitan

Our message is: Learn from history and end religious-based repression.

Will Rogers

Statesmen think they make history; but history makes itself and drags the statesmen along.

Jack Turner

Spice: The History of a Temptation ... maddeningly disorganized but intriguingly varied and rarely dull.

Xinhua Agency

Some Japanese politicians stick to their wrong view of history and try to justify their country's past military misdeeds. Those Japanese politicians should stop their fallacies, give up their wrong views, and return to the right track of mending fences.

Viktor Yanukovych

Our victory will open a new page in the history of Ukraine. We are ready to work together with any political party.

Bernard Beckett

Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.

Bernard Berenson

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

Brad Lidge

I think they're professionals and they're going up there and looking for something and trying to hit it. I don't think they're thinking too much about the history of us, but if they are and it can work to my advantage, that's great.

Pam Collins

People like a library with more services and more hours ....

Wayne Martin

People know that we're doing that. It's a lot of the same people, and they can watch it an hour earlier. But we take pride in providing that service.

Jon Harmon

Steady progress is being made on the issues, but there is still some left to go through. We're looking at several hours left, certainly, if not longer.

Georgia Johnson

Rise with the hour for which you were made.

Peter Goldman

Playing poker in their Quonset hut on Tinian, killing the last hours of the preatomic age.

Michael Brown

Maybe I should have screamed 12 hours earlier.

Nancy Floreen

We need more options, not fewer. We need them to increase trains and hours to get people out of their cars.

Ken Matthews

We never taught him to sit. We spend hours teaching them to stand (for show).

Stephanie Davis

I went to the doctor, and about an hour later, I was in the trauma center.

Eric Dubin

Regardless of what she did for a living, Bonny loved her kids and her kids loved her,

Tony Arntson

Really what we are focussed on is getting better each week. The kids keep competing.

Joan Chen

Relatively speaking, I was a lot more naive than kids today.

Craig Pippen

Our players have stayed positive even though we haven't come up with some wins. There's been some negativity surrounding our program, and the kids haven't listened to it.

Mark Douglass

Our rebounding killed us. In all of our losses rebounding has been an issue. We must become a better rebounding team. We need kids to step up.

Kendy Hinkel

Parents will see differences in the way kids are talking about what they learn.

Jim Wiscombe

Part of it was fatigue. We didn't sub a lot and kids got tired. We didn't make plays we normally make.

Billy Donovan

Part of it is youthfulness, but the one thing about the kids is that they're in every game.

Bob Williams

Part of this river is the Native Americans and the people we took it from. These kids never had that as part of their experience, so why not throw that in?

Bruce Aidells

It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak.

Barry Alvarez

I'd like for him to be matched up that way all day. I don't think we'll have that luxury.

James Morris

For too many ordinary people, political progress must now be matched by substantial humanitarian assistance.

Mark Jula

We matched them hoop for hoop in the third quarter. We needed a stop and then they got some breaks.

Jon Monti

We thought Beecher would be patient. We matched that patience when it was necessary.

Scott Bogumil

We're really excited. We wanted to keep playing at night and we matched our goal.

Pat Monroe

It was unfortunate the way things turned out. We wanted to see how the team matched up and how much we progressed. We were going to play a top quality opponent.

Mike Anderson

We mixed and matched our defense; some zone, some man. I thought we did defend. They only shot 37 percent, but the thing about them is they are so long and athletic, they would just go get it.

Jim Seals

Everything matched psychologically and physically. Then it was a matter of just putting me into the (donor) system. I got a week's notice and went to Spokane,

Neil Ingle

I wish there was something we could do to stop it, but it is zoned GB (general business), and it is perfectly in their right to put it there.

Chad Brown

He was an equal-opportunity dotter. No one has played perfectly this season, so he spread the, I won't say love, but he spread his laser pointer around.

JoAnn Carrin

We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Elsa Peretti

I hate that impeccable, perfectly perfect look, all matched and prearranged.

David Schwimmer

To be perfectly honest, I feel I have a duty to use my celebrity status in a positive way.

Gena Pharis

To be perfectly honest, it's never been too rough. From the start, everyone's been really good.

Kurt Vonnegut

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

Tom Lewis

I think it will be a lot like our first match, where Nos. 2-3 singles will be critical,

James Nesbitt

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

Daniela Hantuchova

I feel fantastic. It's something really special. Now I can concentrate on my singles career.

Michael R. Bloomberg

had to work every single day of his life.

Carl Sandburg

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Cameron Diaz

It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

Bryant H. McGill

One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single thing you are taught.

Enrique Pena Nieto

One single visit is not enough to be able to say that you know Mexico.

Ken Kutaragi

My homeroom teacher told me I wasn't cooperative, ... I used to get mad, thinking I was being singled out.

Steve McQueen

Nobody trusts anyone, or why did they put tilt on a pinball machine....

Robert Battle

Reflection is not something you have a lot of time for.

Amar'e Stoudemire

Swag is something that I've had for a long time.

E. O. Wilson

Springtime is the time for gazing at galaxies.

Adam Carolla

spontaneous, clever, specific, oblique and at the same time very human.

S. Walker

That could be a possibility. I'm thinking, hopefully, we can get something worked out. As of right now, we'll just take it one day at a time and see what happens.

Charlie King

Right place at the right time is all I can say about that one.

Gil Brandt

Really? I think for a long time they probably didn't have a quarterback because they were a wishbone team.

Boy George

Most psychiatrists or analysts are a waste of time

Bob Rose

We need solidarity. This is a union town, and it's time to show that.

Spanish Proverb

I don't want the cheese, I just want to get out of the trap

Jennifer Lopez

She is so smart. But she is trapped in her body.

Mark Begich

Let's not get caught up in the D.C. trap of Democrats versus Republicans. When you're in Alaska it's about what's important for Alaska.

Chuck Feeney

When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.

Tadashi Yanai

Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

David Baldacci

Trapped in a trap of your own making.

Andy Serkis

You could go so wrong with a 'Planet of the Apes' reboot; you could make it melodramatic, you could make it campy, you could fall into so many traps with it.

David Levithan

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

Anais Nin

We are never trapped unless we choose to be.

Bob Enos

We've tried surgery, medications, and nothing has changed.

Tom Daschle

We've tried all the voluntary options, ... They have all failed. We know what we've got to do.

Joe Novak

We've tried A.J. at fullback and other types of things.

Sidney Crosby

I was too close, so I tried to back off and whack it. I didn't get it.

Jim Gallagher

I didn't get a sense of what the temperature is on that. I tried to allay the fears, and there are significant fears.

Nate Robinson

I am going to go at him (Iverson). I am going to make him play defense. That is what I tried to do tonight.

Jonas Jennings

Have you ever tried to write with one hand?

Vernell Brown

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

Grant Hill

I would probably say yes. I don't see getting another surgery. We tried it. It didn't work. I don't see doing another.

David Davies

Sven's got a roving eye. He's like a seagull and can wrap his wings around people.

Kevin Morris

Out the end windows of the cafeteria, it's all new,

Max Mathurin

Rene Preval has been declared the winner with 51 percent.

Ben Curtis

I'm here to win and that's what I want to do,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

Beck

I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn't something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for.

Beck

Let the desert wind cool your aching head. Let the weight of the world - drift away instead

B. B. King

I can't afford no liquor, all I can buy is beer and wine.

Kurt Angle

Wrestlers in the U.S.A. are very aggressive. All they want to do is attack, but they'll make mistakes.