Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allan Slater

When these people are released - and I believe they will be - they will be dumped onto the streets of Baghdad and the only place they will have to go is back to our apartment. We have to have someone there.

Scott Ritter

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.

Rich Lowry

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

Conan O'Brien

Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'

Jalal Talabani

No country, including the US, would dare stop Baghdad from approaching Tehran since Iraq is an independent state,

Isabella Bird

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.

Chuck Hagel

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Amy Grant

We did a show in San Antonio that was really amazing. The military helped us do a satellite to Baghdad where during intermission we had eight families seated in the front row and one by one they were able to communicate with their loved ones using the cameras to see each other. It was so emotional and nobody moved even though it was the intermission.

Dexter Filkins

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

Rita Ora

There are bigger queens of the selfie, but I'm up there.

Kent Partridge

We're in bigger markets now than when we first started, but the right ownership group and the right venue are more important than population size. The NBA hasn't put a timetable on going to 30 (development league) teams yet. We're always on the lookout for markets that make sense and we try to fish out and see if there are any interested groups.

Martin Seligman

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Leslie Bibb

I do have body-image issues, just like everyone else. I mean, I wish I had bigger boobs. And I hate my butt. I want an onion butt - you know, a butt that'll bring tears to your eyes?

Michael Franti

I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach.

Travis Bradberry

When you take on more than the norm, your boss can't help but think that you're capable of a bigger role. This includes showing that you're willing to take risks by making innovative suggestions.

Vern Lorsung

We have to get started cleaning up some of these lakes. Every year we let go by, it's a bigger hole we're digging.

Garrick Phillips

We have a special deal in our community, and with the kids. Unfortunately, it's about wins and losses sometimes. But overall it's a lot bigger than that.

Tom McKillop

We have no strategic need to be bigger -- none at all. So there is no reason to engage in major M&A activity.

Charles Stross

To boldly go where no uploaded metahuman colony has gone before' has a certain ring to it, doesn't it?

Darren Shan

Your spikes have gone floppy,

David Sedaris

I've never gone on Facebook and am not sure I understand it. The same goes for Twitter. I have someone sending tweets and pretending to be me, but I don't know why.

Cesar Romero

It's a new town. The old elegance is gone. It used to be one big family, this industry.

James Fenkner

Why sully the country's reputation when they've gone down this path only to back off at the end?

Mariana Fulger

Where is Philosophy sleeping this saturday afternoon? Are the philosophers already dead? Are the poets gone from the planet? I look through the window and all I see are advertisments.

Tim Purpura

When you've been teammates that long, you're going to go through some ups and downs. They've gone through some down times.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

William Shakespeare

I feel it gone, yet know not when it left.

James Rubin

We're not going to lose any sleep if Saddam Hussein suddenly isn't their leader, from whatever reason. No tears will be shed.

Brent Scowcroft

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Nicholas Burns

We are going to keep Saddam Hussein guessing. He'll just have to wonder what the United States has in store for him.

John Hewson

The reality is, it will be a significant conflict going for many, many months, if not longer. Saddam Hussein is not a fool. He hasn't been sitting there waiting to get shot for 13 years.

Antonella Notari

We were able to tour the premises, and we were able to speak to Mr. Saddam Hussein in private without any witnesses present.

Barton Gellman

The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.

Mohamed ElBaradei

the opaque nature of that Saddam Hussein regime.

Colin Powell

The burden is on Saddam Hussein. And our policy, our national policy - not the UN policy but our national policy - is that the regime should be changed until such time as he demonstrates that it is not necessary to change the regime because the regime has changed itself.

Sam Richards

Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

The inherited tradition is that we don't tell stories about slavery from the perspective of the slave. It's told through the president or the lawyer.

Allison Williams

My mom has beautiful eyes, and I inherited a lot of her rituals, accentuating eyes.

B. F. Skinner

I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.

Dick Bennett

I don't even look at those things. There were so many streaks that I inherited here, and Wisconsin. When I was at Wisconsin, there were so many streaks there, I kind of let them go in one ear, and out the other.

Martin O'Malley

We live in a very different world than the one that we inherited from our parents and from our grandparents. Times are changing, and states must adapt to win.

Stephen Sondheim

I have inherited my father's sense of humour about myself. It's a lot more pleasant to make fun of yourself than when someone else does.

Jon Adler

We seem to have inherited our own Loch Ness monster in terms of being able to find this monitoring.

Tony Robichaux

We were able to get some big outs. Brandt got a big out for us, and Farquhar inherited a tough situation because you never know when your big inning will be.

Ralph Goodale

It was a meeting that reflected very well, with a lot of pride, on the accomplishments of a successful administration. What we inherited in 1993, to what we turn over now in 2006 ... we can take a lot of pride.

Gene Smith

Much of what they do is mandated. They then take the mandates and massage them to meet the needs of this community.

Ken Trump

The problem is that most of this type of legislation has little to no resources for schools to do anything other than having an unnecessary and unfunded mandate that's really questionable whether or not it's needed.

Jenji Kohan

We're throwing everything in ... I think Showtime's mandate is to make some noise. And this is a pretty noisy show.

Ian Stannard

The reform mandate is probably not going to be as strong as it would have been under an outright victory by Merkel.

Charles Hasse

It doesn't work well to mandate that from the state.

Lakhdar Brahimi

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Lee Ferridge

The mandate for Koizumi is stronger than many had anticipated,

Ken Hammond

Any time you mandate something, you're going to have more resistance to it.

John Earl

OPG is not considering anything as a site. We have no mandate for that.

Bill Taylor

We want to send the message that New Orleans is up and running and it's OK to come back.

Mark Regev

We want to send a very strong and sharp message to the Palestinians, and the temporary suspension of talks is that message.

David Koresh

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Casey Kasem

If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Casey Kasem

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

Ron Gardenhire

We're not going to mess with it. He's pitched enough.

Edwin Land

We can be dramatic, even theatrical; we can be persuasive; but the message we are telling must be true.

Megan Challender

We want people to understand our message is one of peace and not one of hate.

Isaiah Swann

We want it. We feel hungry. But sometimes we mess ourselves up.

Albert Young

When you saw us getting pushed back over things that were non-existent ... come on. I don't know what to say about that.

Ted Ligety

My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I would have rebelled if they had pushed me, and I wouldn't have had the same passion.

Gordon Richards

But that's not to say they're not here - they just got pushed over the sides,

Jake Eakin

I got up to try to stop him, and he just pushed me.

Ricky Ford

Sri Lanka pushed us all the way. We've been tested and bounced back stronger every time.

Stansfield Turner

I think he's being pushed out or made a scapegoat,

Malik Rose

We pushed it and got up the floor. Now we just have to get into something.

Alija Izetbegovic

pushed Dayton forward, while they were obstructing it.

Richard Remus

Correctional officers, you really can't tell them what they can't do. They like to stand their ground. They don't get pushed around. They get that confrontational attitude.

Matt Brown

Having American refugees on American soil is heartbreaking,

John McCain

Bashar Assad is a major cause of the refugees which are now flooding Europe and causing such consternation in the United States.

John Dowd

They must be treated lawfully under the refugee convention.

Jamie Shea

We've prevented Milosevic from using refugees as a weapon to destabilize neighboring countries.

Doug Anderson

It's become increasingly indefensible to have no refugee admissions.

Michael Franti

If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

Marco Rubio

In 2013 we had never faced a crisis like the Syrian refugee crisis now. Up until that point, a refugee meant someone fleeing oppression, fleeing Communism like it is in my community.

Ayad Allawi

Today we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein,

Joe Biden

One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power,

H. Hart

Saddam is in box. We can tighten that box, and we don't need to go to war,

Joseph Cirincione

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.