Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Bohn

We want to stay ahead of the competitive curve.

Adam Gilchrist

We know where we stand in this series, and we know we have a lot of hard work ahead of us.

Ron Vlasin

We know what's ahead of us, and we need to take charge, especially in this last home game.

Derian Hatcher

We know what lies ahead of us. We know who we're playing and where we stand.

Rick Comer

We know we have work ahead of us.

Paul Moroney

We know we have an exceptional horse, we don't have to panic, there is a lot of money on the international circuit and a lot ahead of this horse,

Mike Goforth

We know he's a tough kid, we know he can play within his limits. It's just a matter of if he can stand the pain. There's some things we can do for pain. You don't want to push it too far with that. He does have a career ahead of him. We'll do everything we can to make him comfortable . . . we're going to give him a shot. He's going to have to be awfully good for him to be able to go in there and protect himself and protect the quarterback.

John Gibbons

Very few guys come along like that, once every 20, 30 years, guys who take the game by storm right out of the gates. Hernandez is just way ahead of most 19 year olds, that's the difference. Otherwise these guys don't get here that fast. Same thing with Gooden. I don't know about that comparison yet, but he'd be pretty good if he is.

Owen Davis

Venture capital firm investments in the first quarter of 2006 were up from the fourth quarter of 2005 and they were also 6% ahead of first quarter 2005 investments.

Wayne Evans

The perception of a growing number of our citizens is that the all-white commission is biased and doesn't care.

Mark Geragos

She will talk at the appropriate time in a public forum when there isn't a biased prosecutor like there is right now.

Kim Gandy

Most studies submitted to the FDA have been conducted by the manufacturers of implants who obviously have a vested interested and whose findings are frequently biased and misleading. We must reform this heavy reliance on industry, which interferes with sound scientific decision-making by the FDA.

Jim Alexander

I think they are biased and unfair. I think there is a lot going on that should be investigated.

Brett Hoselton

I think they are being more straightforward with the costs since, given the current situation, the number can be biased a little more to the negative.

Steve Burns

We can't ever have the doc think the device is biased in one way or another. Few of the large pharmaceutical organizations have not approached us.

Stanton Glantz

It is biased too heavily toward the private sector.

James Comey

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

Ellen Stofan

I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life.

Jana Beth

We know how important it is for students to look at material, make inferences and look at the source of the material. Our speaker did a good job of showing how it's necessary to expand the borders of students' learning, but at the same time, be more deliberate in teaching critical thinking skills.

David Dewhurst

We need a human presence at the border and a humane presence at the border.

Bill Richardson

Border fence hasn't worked; border patrols & tech have.

Bobby Jindal

In the aftermath of September 11th, it is critical to secure our borders.

Bela Karolyi

I am very familiar with Hungary, because I grew up in Romania, which borders it.

Natasha Trethewey

When I was growing up there, North Gulfport was referred to as 'Little Vietnam' because of the perception of crime and depravity within its borders - as if its denizens were simply a congregation of the downtrodden.

Ibrahim Jaafari

We've said more than once that ... the Syrians should be more serious about controlling their borders and about preventing the penetration of terrorists into Iraq,

Alan Dershowitz

The Internet knows no national borders.

Bruce Lee

Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

Charles de Gaulle

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

Eric Keller

We spread the offense to spread the opposing defenses and that really creates running room.

Nora Volkow

When you start to live in a situation like that . . . it creates a sense of responsibility to your own life to do something that can help others.

Mel Thomas

Whenever we play good defense, it creates our offense.

Jesse Marsch

Watching the games last year and trying to get a feel of what it meant for this community, it's an exciting week for us. I've heard a lot about what the stadium is going to be like. The stadium was great two weeks ago when we played but I've heard that it creates an emotional environment and I'm pretty excited about that.

Rick Carpenter

What this initiative does, it allows government to grow steadily every year and creates a stronger rainy day fund that's harder to get into.

Tom Bissell

There's a sense of fiction in every video game. It creates a world for itself that you want to obey.

Chris Davies

When their competitors have a good story to tell about how they're managing greenhouse gas emissions, I think it creates pressure to have a good story themselves.

Tom Shadyac

The second we define someone as a Democrat or Republican, it creates a whole set of limitations.

Timothy Noah

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details.

John Prendergast

There is a long and successful tradition of popular movements in the U.S. and elsewhere having an impact on crises in forgotten places.

Spencer Wells

Many of the crises we see in the 21st century, I would argue, have their roots in the dawn of the Neolithic.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

As long as the United States - and the world - gets its oil from the Middle East, we will be drawn into the endless crises that seem endemic to the region. American energy independence would not only liberate us, it would also drive down the worldwide price of oil.

Ron Oden

Who knows what crises situations there might be when people are placed in that position and they're not developed? ... I'm not saying that I won't run again, but I'd have to feel something really, really special in order to stay.

Sidney Blumenthal

Like oil crises in the past, it strikes at American feelings of independence, mobility, freedom and exceptionalism.

Terri Blackstock

One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Chuck Palahniuk

My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issues. The crises the narrators found themselves in were generated by themselves.

Alan Greenspan

While the adjustments may be difficult for a time, these crises will pass. Stronger individual economies and a more robust and efficient international economic and financial system will surely emerge in their wake,

Ben Bernanke

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

Bob Watson

We respect the dilemma that A-Rod is in, and we wanted to give him as much time as he needed to make his decision. Are we surprised that the Dominicans have included him on their roster? No.

Gary Clark

What you have is all these various compartments, but there's no umbrella, and that's the dilemma that's emerging. You have to have a voice that can look at the big picture.

Q'orianka Kilcher

Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.

Victoria Jackson

That was, my whole dilemma was that when I got my first movie part The Pick Up Artist, I was playing a loose girl.

Dennis Ross

On the Israeli side there is real questioning, you do not see any signs of dilemma on the other side.

Tipper Gore

The dilemma for society is how to preserve personal and family values in a nation of diverse tastes.

Steven Seagal

For me, in Buddhism there is a plethora of specific teachings that one can seek out and find for the individual dilemmas you may have.

Scott Turow

Those kind of dilemmas are commonplace when you're a prosecutor. You're always in that position with the flipper witnesses.

Ian Johnson

We're all trying to work our way around this dilemma and find a solution,

Katinka Barysch

The perception is that foreign investment is not good for jobs.

Rahim Safavi

We are producing these missiles and don't need foreign technology for that.

Stanley Hauerwas

The problem with the U.S. foreign policy is that we're just so unbelievably powerful. And when you've got that kind of power, it's very hard not to use it.

Theodor Mommsen

The language of the land in the Parthian empire was the native language of Iran. There is no trace pointing to any foreign language having ever been in public use under the Arsacids.

Wang Jianlin

Foreign politicians don't have resources - or limited resources. It's useless dealing with them.

Condoleezza Rice

Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon, and Syria has to respect that,

Adam Ereli

sends the wrong signal to foreign investors and could negatively impact Russia's role in the global economy.

Christopher Low

So far, the refunding has been a mixed bag. The three-year saw little foreign interest and had a low bid-to-cover, but the 10-year went a little better yesterday.

Walter Salles

So I had this idea for the film but I was shooting Foreign Land and I had written 10 pages on it about what the story should be.

Charlie Chaplin

I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

Charles de Lint

Don't start brooding about that, too," she says. "Everybody's got a piece of stranger inside them. It's what lets us surprise ourselves and keeps things interesting." -Lupita

Charles de Lint

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

Alan Rickman

You try to find things that are challenging and interesting and hopefully it will be the same to the audience.

Alan Rickman

What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing.

Alan Bradley

I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of bringing my enemies to sudden, gagging, writhing, agonizing death.

Al Pacino

I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.

Dennis Morgigno

We want to start talking (soon) and make sure we let them know we want them. They've let us know they're very interested in talking.

Diane von Furstenberg

If you pay attention, everyone is a novel. The most boring person, if you sit down and really listen, is someone interesting.

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

I think the whole of people's psychology and where they are in life interests me, and the decisions you make that take you on particular journeys to different places.

Guillermo Ortiz

Parent banks' stakeholders are not necessarily the same as those of their subsidiaries. Moreover, their interests may diverge, especially during a crisis.

Danny Diaz

Sportsmen represent a very important constituency to this campaign. They reflect, in many cases, the interests and views of a majority of Americans and rural America.

John Tyler Bonner

My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.

Doug Bereuter

Releasing Mr. Pollard would put vital U.S. interests at risk and send the message that we are not serious about punishing espionage.

Ismail Haniyeh

Our people will not ... kneel before such Israeli measures.

Paul Spiegel

That will be between the Vatican and the Israeli government,

Dore Gold

Right now, Israelis want a security process rather than a peace process.

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Yitzhak Rabin

We were all surprised how smooth it went, relative to what was expected. It took Israeli society time, 10 years, to become ripe for such a move,

Rafiq Husseini

We understand that Mr. Sharon has to show the Israeli people that he is conceding on one side and strengthening his position on the other. That worries us, but I think that in the end, justice will have to prevail.

Jibril Rajoub

This shows how serious the Israelis are about security,

Steve Landes

When Salah was arrested, it was a very public event. It would not have been smart for Israeli officials to subject Salah to the torture he is claiming.

Ariel Sharon

I am the last person who would divide Jerusalem. I have said this many times. I don't plan to discuss any division of Jerusalem.

Nabil Sha'ath

There is no more time for interim issues, ... Jerusalem has to be solved, and the refugees and the territorial has to be solved, if we are going to make a permanent peace.

Bayard Taylor

I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here, I have read the accounts of several travellers, and in many cases the devotional rhapsodies - the ecstacies of awe and reverence - in which they indulge, strike me as forced and affected.

Elaine Pagels

The Romans weren't trying to kill all the Jews, but they did destroy Jewish resistance to Roman rule. Jerusalem was turned into a Roman army camp, and it was a total devastation.

Abdallah II of Jordan

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

Ahmed Qurei

an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.

Bible Bible

And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in abundance.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

Tertullian

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem.

Avigdor Lieberman

The vision I would like to see here is the entrenching of the Jewish and the Zionist state...I very much favour democracy, but when there is a contradiction between democratic and Jewish values, the Jewish and Zionist values are more important.

Amy Heckerling

To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they'd have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister.

Lesley Ann Warren

I was terrified, terrified in 'Songwriter,' because there I was, New York Jewish girl, singing country-western onstage with Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. I mean, forget it. I was so terrified.

Hankus Netsky

People were sort of stopping having the traditional Jewish music in weddings and ceremonies. And I kind of liked that stuff.

Calvin Trillin

Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.

Louis D. Brandeis

It is not wealth, it is not station, it is not social standing and ambition which can make us worthy of the Jewish name, of the Jewish heritage. To be worthy of them, we must live up to and with them. We must regard ourselves their custodians.

Lauren Bacall

I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Anita Diament

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

Harry Triguboff

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

Bill Gates

The mainstream is always under attack.

LaToya London

I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.

Ronnie Milsap

When I was doing mainstream country, there was no way that an executive was going to ask you to do a gospel album.

Shane Smith

Most of the time, when the mainstream media reports on something, it never tells the whole story.

Nicole Miller

I think they're more mainstream than people realize. The soda started out very Gen-X, but I think they've transcended that.

David Moody

We talked about what they already know ? that they spend a lot of time watching TV and that what they see is spread into mainstream ideals.

John Edwards

I'm a mainstream North Carolinian, ... I think my views and values represent the values of most people in this country.

Anne Boleyn

I didn't care whether or not it was acceptable to mainstream society to be in a rock band. This is what I wanted to do.

Leonard Sand

We realize we're plucking you out of the mainstream of your lives,

Christopher Hill

get parties together to push the process forward.

David Gibb

I don't think it's productive for the parties to snipe back and forth.

Lorna Luft

It was at one of the parties at our house that The Rat Pack got started.

Ahmed Hussein

Because we are not the only parties in this meeting, we can't predict the outcome.

Emma Roberts

I like to go to parties if I know who's going to be there, and if it's people I want to be with. I don't just go to go. And I always drive myself, because I hate being stuck places - there's nothing worse that going out and then being stuck!

Joshua Hoyt

The political parties have to understand that this is something that is not going to disappear.

Latin Proverb

Those who do a thing are consenting parties

Mike Journee

We're working with all the parties to see how we can do recharge when we've got all this snow in the mountains.

Lee Dean

We're working to try to get the parties together and get the situation resolved.

Brenda Holloway

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

Lindsey Tippins

I think administration has said, 'Well, we got to do that because that's what the policy says.' I don't think that's what the policy says.

Lee Fuller

Having a clear, stable royalty policy was of value to independent producers.

Wim Duisenberg

Our policy is to be as transparent and as predictable as possible,

John Prendergast

Sudan policy has run off the road into a ditch.

Bill Maher

I hear this all the time: 'Obama's policies aren't working.' He hasn't been allowed to put his policies into place.

Alec Baldwin

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

Abraham Lincoln

My policy is to have no policy.

Donald Trump

Hillary Clinton's policies obviously didn't work. What you have to do is look at Libya, look at anything you want to look at and to have it work.

Charles W. Pickering

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Chris Christie

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chiranjeevi

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

Diane Wakoski

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Jeff Long

Certainly, I don't think it puts us at a (recruiting) disadvantage.

Larry Coker

This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

David Whitehead

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

Chris Morgan

If Ryan doesn't make all-league, there's something wrong, ... He puts everything into every play.

Oscar Wilde

On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?

Mario Cuomo

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

Wang Guangya

The region is already complicated, we don't want to make it more complicated. We are not so enthusiastic about more resolutions.

Frank McDonald

We're getting into a new region of space never seen before.

Ian Mckellen

When I left Cambridge, I applied to regional repertory theaters in the U.K. and got accepted by one of them... And here I am, still at it.

Duane Gubler

Singapore probably underscores the need for regional controls.

Jeff Jensen

Keep our water treatment plant, ... Don't go with the regional system.

Lleyton Hewitt

I think the way that the whole region really took to tennis in that week was pretty amazing.

Saddam Hussein

for the sake of their own people, for the region and for world order.

Richard Aboulafia

It has a big feel in a regional jet.

Roy Nash

Our first win of the year could not have come at a better time. It was our first region game.

Jay Nixon

We all know there are problems with Obamacare, and Washington's implementation of it has been abysmal. But rejecting Medicaid won't fix any of those things.

Mirwaiz Farooq

We are unanimous in rejecting the round-table conference.

Ariel Sharon

Once in a while such reports are published, ... I'm not rejecting anyone.

Robert Casey

By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream.

Chad Harbach

There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.

Catherine Helen Spence

My return to London introduced me to a wider range of society.

William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

David Brainerd

I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.

Dean Koontz

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

Bill Gross

Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.

Russ Borman

We'll see them again, and we'd like to return the favor.

Bret Easton Ellis

I have to return some videotapes

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Madeleine Albright

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.