Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fisk

The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.

Neil Kinnock

Mr Blair made the decision before the election that it would be his last as leader,

Tony Woodley

Mr Blair has made history and no one's more pleased than me that we've got a Labour prime minister in for a third term. No-one's more pleased than me. We put our money, and our people and our efforts, where our mouth is. We've done that as a whole trade union movement not just the T&G.

Joe Wilson

Mr Blair came to the US when Mr Bush was talking about regime change, and when he left Mr Bush started talking about disarmament as the objective.

Malcolm Rifkind

Of course there is a risk. But ... neither Gordon Brown nor Tony Blair had even been a junior minister before they took up their present responsibilities. So sometimes these risks are justified.

Anders Rasmussen

I have great respect for Tony Blair who, like few, has shown that he is a man who dares to stand by his decisions.

George MacDonald Fraser

Tony Blair is not just the worst prime minister we've ever had, but by far the worst prime minister we've ever had. It makes my blood boil to think of the British soldiers who've died for that little liar.

Will Tudor

I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone else. At the time, I used to do people like Tony Blair and William Hague. It was very good fun hearing people kind of thinking, 'Hmm, is that who I think it is?'

Anthony King

Whereas last year there was a clear popular preference for Mr Brown over Mr Blair as Prime Minister, that has now all but vanished.

Liu Zhengrong

Major U.S. companies do this and it is regarded as normal. So why should China not be entitled to do so?

Evan Osnos

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Jamie Smith

Secretary Albright was in China with government officials and people in the private sector to help them better understand DP World's interests in China.

Sha Zukang

So it is in that connection I can tell you China will not sit on one hand.

Herbert Lau

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Daniel Basse

Much of the run-up this year has to do with a smaller-than-expected crop in China due to excessive rains.

John Snow

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Fernando Alonso

McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.

Alex Wong

Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

Samir Geagea

Lebanon is the true land of consensus par excellence,

Keith Sherin

Given the current outlook, we expect to modestly exceed the first quarter consensus estimate of $0.75 per share,

Joe Sims

Getting a global consensus, it turns out, is not that easy. We're hoping we're going to get widespread support so we can stand up and say to the U.S. government that this is a true consensus document.

Natan Sharansky

The prime minister is traveling without trying to make consensus here. I prefer to be with the majority.

Robert Pavlik

If we get a GDP or deflator number that's much stronger than the consensus estimate, then it could hurt the market because people will be talking about a tougher Fed.

Phil Hansen

Basically, the consensus is Stayton and Cascade will be at the top. ... But I think we've improved enough to be in the playoffs. It's just how focused we can be in the next (eight) games.

Lloyd Banks

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Tom Chatfield

For the moment, machines able to 'think' in anything approaching a human sense remain science-fiction. How we should prepare for their potential emergence, however, is a deeply unsettling question - not least because intelligent machines seem considerably more achievable than any consensus around their programming or consequences.

Herb Kohl

After a week of back and forth, and forth and back over firearms, it's good to see a consensus developing on this common-sense amendment to keep handguns away from children.

Stanley Burrell

We're not defending like we usually do. It's putting us in a position where we all have to score the ball, because we're not getting stops. We're not defending at all. That's been our motto. That's our identity. We defend, and we get stops.

Rodney Harrison

We're not defending anything, because we don't have anything. (This) is a new season, just like 2005 is a new season for the Raiders.

Mick Durham

We're not defending and offensively we don't play together. Those are the two things that define us at this point.

Alan Curbishley

Luke defends well and he gets forward too,

Matt Brady

Liberty plays so hard. They run hard, they rebound hard, they post defend hard. If you have poise, you give yourself a better chance.

Daniel Nepstad

Many indigenous groups are very well organized, and they are also willing to use force to defend their lands.

Kim Yuna

Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.

Mike Williamson

Mike has really developed into a guy where if you need a goal, you have him in on the ice and the same when you are defending the lead. He plays in all situations and provides leadership in the dressing room. He logs a ton of ice time.

Ivica Dacic

Milosevic did not die in The Hague, he was killed in The Hague. But, he had managed to defend the national and state interests of Serbia and the Serb people, and everybody should be grateful to him for that.

Unknown

May the love you've expressed to each other today always be the first thoughts during any trying times in the future.

John Pearson

Mortality, and Paternity; the one supposed, the other expressed in the text: Jacob was the Father of Joseph, and that Father dead, and therefore Joseph mourned for him.

Luhanna Chesley

I can tell you that my sister never expressed fear to me. I talked to her the Sunday before she died. She was her happy-go-lucky self.

Brett Hall

Frankly, we haven't had any major discussions on that bill, but no one here has ever expressed any objections to it.

Shinzo Abe

... I have heard that the North Korean side also expressed views and questions of their own.

Om Puri

When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.

Luc de

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it is a proof that it should be rejected.

Oscar Arias

On Dec. 1, 1948, after the triumph of the revolution, which insured the final victory of the will of the people expressed through elections, President Jose Figueres abolished the army in my country.

Simon Van Booy

There are times in life when language fails us, when everything that needs to be said can be expressed only by saying nothing at all.

Mikhail Fradkov

On inflation, the president took note: things are bad.

Thomas Friedman

Presidents grow up in the White House. The times shape the man.

Dee Dee Myers

President Clinton intentionally created a structure that was a little loose. And one that kept him a little in the center. He didn't want one person filtering all the information that went to him. He had always operated with a lot of information coming in and a lot of stuff going out.

Dikembe Mutombo

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

Eleanor Clift

If you look at where presidents come from, they're former governors or senators.

Eliot Spitzer

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

Elena Kagan

I do not espouse the unitarian position. President Clinton's assertion of directive authority over administration, more than President Reagan's assertion of a general supervisory authority, raises serious constitutional questions.

Abdul Kalam

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

Abraham Lincoln

I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.

Albert Schweitzer

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.

Chris Evert

I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

Charles Spurgeon

Nothing binds me to my Lord like a strong belief in His changeless love.

Charles Spurgeon

Show the world that your God is worth ten thousand worlds to you. Show rich men how rich you are in your poverty when the Lord God is your helper. Show the strong man how strong you are in your weakness when underneath you are the everlasting arms.

Charles Spurgeon

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

Charles Spurgeon

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Charles Perrault

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won’t deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Charles R. Swindoll

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

Diane Lane

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

Denis Kearney

California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

Elbert Hubbard

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Elizabeth Drew

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

... the hey-day of a woman's life is on the shady side of fifty, when the vital forces heretofore expended in other ways are garnered in the brain, when their thoughts and sentiments flow out in broader channels, when philanthropy takes the place of family selfishness, and when from the depths of poverty and suffering the wail of humanity grows as pathetic to their ears as once was the cry of their own children.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.

Dirk Benedict

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

Dirk Benedict

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

Edwin Arnold

Pity and need Make all flesh kin. There in no caste in blood.

Edwin Arnold

Pity makes the world soft to the weak and noble to the strong.

Ian Mckellen

Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.

Peter Steele

If someone told me when I was 16 or 18 years old that I'd be doing a side project with Tony Iommi, I wouldn't have believed it.

Ethan Suplee

I think anything Tony Kaye would've done would've been interesting, definitely. And worth seeing.

Ricky Rudd

I wish it could have been a little better, better than Tony ran, ... But it didn't work out that way.

Audra McDonald

I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

Bette Midler

I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.

Jeff Gordon

I'll take part of the blame. I think Tony should take part of it as well.

Louise Nurding

I'm a big fan of Tony Blair. I'm not saying that I think his judgment has always been right, but I look at him as a person.

I. Stone

A lot of this has to do with the Tony Awards.