Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tahar Ben Jelloun

The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.

Marwan Muasher

This will only strengthen our resolve to find a solution to all the problems of the region.... (We) express our sympathies to the victims of the terrorists inside Saudi Arabia and our condemnation of this act.

Elliott Abrams

Being an Arab leader has its rewards: the suite at the Waldorf-Astoria during the United Nations General Assembly, travel in your own plane, plenty of cash, even job security - whether kings, sheiks or presidents, with or without elections, most serve for life.

Elliott Abrams

Every Arab 'republic' has been a republic of fear, but only Saddam Hussein's Iraq surpassed the Assads' Syria in number of victims.

Wayne White

We've all seen the progression of ideologies in Arab society,

Ghassan Khatib

We believe that the Palestinian leadership should be treated by the Israeli government like they treat other Arab governments.

Henry Garza

We stood out. Me and my brother JoJo were the only two Mexicans in our whole school, and so was my little brother, in elementary school. We would have people come up to us and say, 'What are you?' and we would say, 'Well, what are you? We're just human like you!' They would just freak out. They thought we were Indians or Arabs or Iranians or something.

Jamal Qureshi

This really comes down to what can Saudi Arabia do.

King Abdullah

would be a constructive step towards closing the ranks of the Arab nation.

John Hope

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.

Michael Cullen

We have said throughout the campaign that New Zealanders would pay for National's tax cuts through higher mortgage and interest rates and today's statement from the bank bears that out,

Louis Reigel

We have no information that this case relates to identity theft or bank fraud.

Daniel Broby

We have moved from can General Motors go bankrupt to when will it go bankrupt. This is a dangerous company because of its size.

Ed Yardeni

When fixed-income investors conclude that the central bank isn't going to raise rates any time soon, ... there tends to be a convergence of rates.

Charles Spurgeon

The Lord is a good banker, and I trust Him. He has never failed me. Why should I be anxious?

Anthony Chan

The CPI report continues to be encouraging. These numbers are stimulating consumer spending by giving consumers more spending power. At the same time, lower inflation will also encourage the central bank to do whatever they need to do.

Anthony Chan

The CPI report continues to be encouraging, ... These numbers are stimulating consumer spending by giving consumers more spending power. At the same time, lower inflation will also encourage the central bank to do whatever they need to do.

Quincy Krosby

There is competition for customers, and banks are sweetening the yields.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been. The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Rob Friedman

We have not always been as careful as we could have been, ... The current ratings system provides a solid foundation for helping parents guide their children and the enhancements that we propose today offer substantial potential for improvement.

Kevin Kinel

We've still got to be careful to get things done at sectional. Once he's at the state meet, he'll be at home. That says a lot for a freshman, but that's sort of the way he is. He loves to race and loves a challenge.

Tom Peters

I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.

Tom Rath

People with high levels of wellbeing have been careful to work out early in the morning and not to have heavy meals throughout the day because you kind of fall off a cliff in terms of your energy by 2 or 3:00 if you have a lunch with a lot of heavy foods.

Ernie Harwell

Everybody we meet has an influence on us and an impact - good or bad. And I think that's why we have to be careful with the way we handle people because what we're doing is making an impact.

Dave Dunn

We want students to understand that they need to be careful on how to protect themselves.

Jasmine Guy

You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.

Jeff Lemire

We want to take our time with 'Descender' and let the story unfold at its own pace. But we have carefully planned each world and worked to give each its own look and feel. And each of the 9 core worlds will play a role in the series.

Vitaly Mutko

We want to return our team to the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Debbie Martinez

We have seen a lot of heavy traffic in the last week or two. The warmer days in early November were slower than usual, but it has picked up and doubled up since the weather has cooled off.

Todd Kapala

We have seen a good three or four days of trading so (investors) are taking profits at this point.

Chris Saunders

We have no excuses. They just didn't play good today. I don't think playing two days in a row makes any difference.

Ricky Craven

The fact is that some days are not your days and some days you get lucky. Over the long haul, that probably evens out.

Tim Tebow

I train about six days a week. I'm training at the same intensity as I did when I was playing football. I've done it for my entire life, and I love it.

Thomas Massie

I can focus on what seems to be the most boring things for days at a time.

George Nichols

We are going to look back at 2000 as the glory days that crashed.

Elon Musk

In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Laura Halldorson

We have to focus on playing solid defense to minimize scoring opportunities for our opponents because we probably aren't going to put up the numbers we put up last year. But winning by one or two is the same result as winning by four or five.

Junior Seau

Whenever the defense needed to get off the field, we didn't execute. We recognize that, and hopefully it won't happen again.

Jeff Gundy

When you score that little in a fourth quarter, it's usually part defense and part just missing some shots.

Charles Tillman

Defense is on the fly, it's reactive; you have to react to the offense. I have to prevent someone from doing something when they want to do it.

Alan Bennett

We have smaller defensive ends, but they're quick. They'll be OK. Everybody knows their job, and our defense is better this year. If we play better in the second half of the game this year, we'll do better.

Adam Kennedy

There is no doubt about it. It is a big situation, a big game, a fun game. It is fun to play defense like that and make big plays for your pitcher.

Ted Cruz

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.

Rashad Anderson

We know we're good. But now we want to be great. And playing tough defense is one way to get there.

Manny Legace

We know we have to come out strong this way every time we play this team. The guys have just been playing great defense in front of me. I didn't see much tonight, especially in the second period.

C. S. Lewis

Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day." (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)

Alexander Downer

We have said many times before that ... at the very least, Indonesia is responsible for the security situation in East Timor,

Levance Fields

We have to get ready for Seton Hall, watch how everything plays out and wish for that bye in the Big East tournament.

Charles Stanley

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.

Charles Spurgeon

Ready-to-Halt, Poor Fearing, and thou, Mrs. Despondency, and Much-afraid, go often there [the empty tomb]; let it be your favorite haunt. There build a tabernacle, there abide. And often say to your heart, when you are in distress and sorrow, Come, see the place where the Lord lay.

Charles Spurgeon

We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It must not be denied, by any who are willing to pay the slightest respect to the testimony of their fellow-men, that Jesus, who died upon the cross, and was buried in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea, did literally rise again from the dead.

Charles Spurgeon

Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.

Charles Spurgeon

This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

Charles Spurgeon

The fact of resurrection is not extraordinary; it is in accord with what we who believe at all believe to be the uniform law of life--that death does not touch it. The witnesses to the resurrection of Christ were unprejudiced, unexpectant, incredulous, and their honesty is not doubted even by skeptical criticism.

C. S. Lewis

The proper good of a creature is to surrender itself to its Creator—to enact intellectually, volitionally, and emotionally, that relationship which is given in the mere fact of its being a creature. When it does so, it is good and happy.

Brett Hall

We have no interest in helping him (Coleman) be a martyr. He has demonstrated a lack of understanding of the facts in the past and probably misunderstands what this administration has accomplished in hiring minorities and women in the state work force.

Ken Cohen

There is a lot being said, but if you take a look at facts and fundamentals, we are doing what we can.

Saul Alinsky

It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

Susan B. Anthony

The fact is, women are in chains, and their servitude is all the more debasing because they do not realize it.

Michael Bennett

Wait just a minute. They didn't keep us out of the end zone. I was tackled in the end zone for a safety in the fourth quarter. Get your facts straight, or get a job working for the New York Times .

David Graeber

[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Globalization is a fact of economic life

Charles Spurgeon

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

Donald Rumsfeld

We're not going to rule out anything, but we don't have any plans at the present time to use U.S. forces in that way,

Kathleen Sebelius

I know how tough it is to stand up to powerful forces that prey on consumers.

Eric Long

When you put yourself in the position to have to come back like that it forces your hand. You have to make every play and you can't make a mistake. But the story of this game was told in the first four minutes.

Georgie Fame

When I was a kid,if you were lucky, you listened to that music on Radio Luxembourg or the American Forces Network.

Patty Schnyder

She puts huge pressure on me. She is so present on the court. She really forces you back. It's tough to get the rallies going and move her around.

Darcie Vincent

Megan was more patient in the second half. When she forces shots, it's not good for us. She's a great scorer but we need her to be patient.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Robert Mundell

Monetary discipline forces fiscal discipline on the politicians as well.

Kathryn Erbe

I forgot how scary plays are. The audience is so much a part of the night - I know that a lot of it is trying to shut that out and just do your own thing.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

Bill Cosby

The people who got into office forgot about the people.

Larry Brown

We started playing a little fast. We missed a lot of really good shots and I thought we got a little tight. We forgot time and score.

Judd Gregg

Well, she didn't run after me, ... She just told me I forgot one of the sheets.

Moises Rodrigues

We are all immigrants. Some people have forgotten that.

Edith Wharton

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.

D. W. Griffith

Movies are written in sand: applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

Elizabeth Bibesco

What we buy belongs to us only when the price is forgotten.

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.

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.

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.

Douglas Feith

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Gary Johnson

I just think everything we do has an unintended consequence. We take out Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and Iraq was the check against Iran.

Renee Zellweger

Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'

Peter Schuyler

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

John Hewson

Hussein has a strategy. I'm sure he'll implement that strategy, and it would be to our detriment. We're embarking on an exercise about which we know nothing.

Abba Eban

One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.

Abba Eban

Israel is not an aviary.

Abba Eban

Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.' Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession.

Abba Eban

If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13 with 26 abstentions.

Charles Spurgeon

The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.

Brent Scowcroft

Yes, Israel's our ally. But, are the Palestinians our enemy? No, they are not.

Francois Gere

We are not at the point where we would use the measures Israel does, but we understand them better.

Al Sharpton

I am in hell already. I am in Israel.

Al Pacino

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Aries Spears

Eddie Murphy was the Michael Jordan of comedy. He had a full range of abilities.

Marwan Muasher

Obviously this is something Jordan is not used to,

Sheryl Swoopes

Jordan told me, 'Mom, I love watching you play. You're going to be MVP.' This is for him.

Ernest Ross

Jordan made tremendous contributions with his scores and his leadership, ... I am very proud he made All American last season, we really miss him this year.

Fred Hartsfield

Jordan is very quick, strong and he loves playing the game. When you turn the lights on, he is ready to play.

Andy Reid

Jordan is playing well right now, and you better wrap him up because he is very strong.

Ben Howland

Jordan is a perfectionist, so everything that doesn't go right he wears on his sleeve.

Monica Lewinsky

I think I told her that, you know, at various times, the president and Mr. Jordan had told me I have to lie. That wasn't true.

Sean Dockery

He shot 13 shots today and scored 40? (Michael) Jordan didn't even do that.

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico is a mosaic of different realities and beauties.

Eduardo Galeano

I am grateful to journalism for waking me up to the realities of the world.

Kim Anderson

There are some rougher realities about being a writer in Montana,

Donald Rumsfeld

does not reflect the strategic realities of today.

Mark Lawrenson

Cucumber reminds me of my mother making me eat sprouts.

Kathryn Schulz

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Deb Caletti

Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

CeeLo Green

My first rap name was Ralo. Because my first name is Carlos. I likened myself to what Busta Rhymes was doing when he first came out. And what Onyx did when they first came out - they reminded me of me.

Rabih Alameddine

No one needs to be reminded of racism in soccer: the xenophobia, the nativism and, yes, nationalism.

Jamal Boykin

We're all from very different placesLondon, Lithuania, L.A.and all wanted stuff to remind us of home.

Ted Koppel

Why? Because those are desperately important issues, and you need to keep reminding the public,

Pat Riley

This trip reminds me of when I started. You've got to get after it.

Daniel Cohen

This trial will do one thing: It will serve to remind the world what really happened.

David Korten

When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people. What we are experiencing might best be described as a case of money colonizing life. To accept this absurd distortion of human institutions and purpose should be considered nothing less than an act of collective, suicidal insanity.

David Graeber

We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.

Byron Katie

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

Edward Said

Captain Ahab was a man possessed with an obsessional drive to pursue the white whale which had harmed him - which had torn his leg out - to the ends of the Earth, no matter what happened. In the final scene of the novel, Captain Ahab is being borne out to sea, wrapped around the white whale with the rope of his own harpoon and going obviously to his death. It was a scene of almost suicidal finality.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I guess I realize that I don't want to die. I don't want to live either, but-there really isn't anything in-between. Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst. But since the tendency toward inertia means that it's easier for me to stay alive than die, I guess that's how it's going to be, so I guess I should try to be happy.

ASAP Rocky

I'm not glorifying it at all, I'm just basically telling you that sometimes I have suicidal thoughts. And maybe I should seek help, or maybe it's not that deep.

Arthur Hugh Clough

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Edward Abbey

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is a clumsy experiment to make; for it involves the destruction of the very consciousness which puts the question and awaits the answer.

Agnes Varda

When I started my first film, there were three women directors in France. Their films were OK, but I was different. It's like when you start to jump and you put the pole very high - you have to jump very high. I thought, I have to use cinema as a language.

Adam Ferrara

When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the Universe: mine, yours, and God's.

Jane Austen

But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies — about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are — all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. — It is a regular thing

Jamie Redknapp

Gareth Bale literally has three lungs

Alain Prost

In 1980 I finished three or four times in seventh place.

Chris Copeland

The three-ball is an easy shot if you're uncontested, but when they know you can shoot, it's a lot harder to get off.

Chiang Kai-shek

There are three essential factors in all human activity: spirit, materials, and action.

Bill Wright

The other three have really made strides. They're consistently getting better.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

Larenz Tate

'Scarface,' I remember going to see that with my father. We didn't know what to expect; we did not know what to expect. I was a kid, and my father took me, and we didn't leave. It was so disturbing, but we loved it.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.

Gary Gambardella

She was a fortune-teller, and she took this woman for a fortune.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.

Marianne Williamson

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

Albert Schweitzer

Every person I have known who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

H. Hunt

We are now well and truly in the post-Maui era.

Barbara Green

Those who complained truly feel that they are discriminated against, they truly feel that way.

Carrie Fisher

I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.

Craig Bruce

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Chris Hemsworth

I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Byron Katie

We fear only what we haven’t understood.

Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.

Carl Jung

Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.

Arthur Helps

We are frequently understood the least by those who have known us the longest.

Jessica Sanchez

On 'Idol,' I understood that everyone wanted to hear my vocals, so I stuck with the ballads.

Nigel Hamilton

I've never really understood the term 'Post-Impressionism' as more than a label for Cezanne, Gauguin and van Gogh.

Stephen Covey

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Mary Wilson

We have always understood that visibility is viability.

Charles Darwin

Music was known and understood before words were spoken.

Tracey Emin

I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.

Tom Sharpe

We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot.

Ruth Miller

Wait until you see what we have planned.

Elle King

I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19.

June Carter Cash

We always had Packards, until the war, when they stopped making them; then we had a Cadillac.

John McCarthy

Never abandon a theory that explains something until you have a theory that explains more.

Jonah Lomu

Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it.

Hector Tobar

Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so.

Ellen Roberts

Until we investigate and find out what happened, I don't want him to go back to Mexico.

Tobias Menzies

Do I think the West End relies too heavily on star names? Yes, I do, and it can result in miscasting and sub-standard stuff. Not always, but occasionally.

Djimon Hounsou

I always hope for the better for the continent and what I know comes from Africa. Living in the West we feel like we're so removed from the continent that we can somewhat shut off.

Eckhart Tolle

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.

Jana Kramer

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

Charles Marion Russell

The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her.

Ariel Sharon

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state.

Clyde Edgerton

Because I was born in the South, I’m a Southerner. If I had been born in the North, the West or the Central Plains, I would be just a human being.