Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Tariq Aziz

Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.

Paul Bremer

We need experienced Iraqi commanders who can lead troops. Listen, I've always told you that I opposed disbanding the army.

Kofi Annan

would be insufficient to address, even as a temporary measure, all the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people.

Mark Kimmitt

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

George H. W. Bush

If the Iraqi regime were disarming, we would know it because we would see it.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Dennis Weaver

Practically every environmental problem we have can be traced to our addiction to fossil fuels, primarily oil.

Dennis Weaver

The Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and it has actually become a danger to our lives and our ability to survive on the planet.

Deng Xiaoping

There is oil in the Middle East there is rare earth in China.

Edgar Allan Poe

He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth.

Edvard Munch

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Ed Markey

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Dizzy Dean

It puzzles me how they know what corners are good for filling stations. Just how did they know gas and oil was under there?

George Baker

To produce this oil efficiently and quickly, you need people who've done it before.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Arthur Smith

Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Denene Millner

I knew that Steve Harvey had a good, solid message to share, and I wanted to use my knowledge and skills as a relationship author to help him bring his message to those who were willing to receive it.

Ed Parker

Condition and guts take over where knowledge and skill end.

Earl Nightingale

Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it...there is no limit to what person can do. We need people, we need the cooperation of others. There is very little we can do alone

Eliot Spitzer

Imagine if the pension funds and endowments that own much of the equity in our financial services companies demanded that those companies revisit the way mortgages were marketed to those without adequate skills to understand the products they were being sold. Management would have to change the way things were done.

David Nicholls

Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.

Kim Hostman

She has a lot of new skills that she's working on. Hopefully, she'll have them down for conference.

Mark Cuban

Doesnt matter what your skill and physical gifts are if you cant get your head right.

Charles Caleb Colton

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Stross

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

Charles R. Jackson

We continue to experience a steep growth curve and positive response from customers that are aggressively transitioning their procurement processes to leverage our technologies' benefits.

Diane Sawyer

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Dennis Ritchie

For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace.

Dennis Gabor

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by technology of yesterday.

Denis Hayes

America has the technology and resources to meet all its energy needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it.

Denis Hayes

We presently have the technology ... fuel cells, solar cells, hydrogen ... the opportunities are amazing for clean energy.

Dean Wareham

It's a scary question for a musician or songwriter today - what does the future hold? It is a strange time in the music business too; it feels like we are all in some kind of transitional period, stuck between old technology and new.

Dean Kamen

[Chuck's wife] was standing behind me at the time and she said, 'Chuck hasn't fed himself in 19 years. So, you've got a choice: We keep the arm, or you keep Chuck.'

Dean Kamen

In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

David Whyte

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

George Bernard Shaw

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Justin Tuck

This camp, being my first, it's a vital one.