Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerhard Schroeder

We want frank information about where the ammunition was used and with what consequences,

Todd Cartner

We knew where the ammunition was and were able to get the fire out before it spread to that area.

Paul Ashworth

This will no doubt give protectionists in Congress some ammunition as the mid term elections approach.

Christien Meindertsma

I followed this one pig with number '05049,' all the way up until the end and to what products it's made of. And in these years, I met all kinds people like, for instance, farmers and butchers, which seems logical. But I also met aluminum mold makers, ammunition producers and all kinds of people.

Nicolle Wallace

Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White House, I used to watch the beginning to see what they were talking about. If a political topic was on their radar, I used it as ammunition with the president or the White House staff.

Tom Brokaw

My mother and father, with my newborn brother and me in the backseat of the 1938 Ford sedan that would be our family car for the next decade, moved to that hastily constructed Army ammunition depot called Igloo, on the alkaline and sagebrush landscape of far southwestern South Dakota. I was three years old.

Mike Knezevich

Ridicule first, then shame and condescension are the weapons and ammunition - in the mental manipulation and psychological terrorism of the oppressed. Self-esteem, truth and fellowship among peers are their able defenses - in a counter-attack on the lies: of fear, inferiority and a mandatory deference - intended by the oppressors.

Roger Toussaint

What the MTA has decided to do is pour poison on the deal in order to provide ammunition to the opposition, in hopes of having the contract voted down. It seems as if a decision was made by the state to sink the contract.

Joseph Shatz

I expect yields to continue drifting higher. Anything that shows the jobs market is strong gives more ammunition to the Fed to keep raising rates.

Michel Patini

There would probably be less of a frenzy among the French public.

Maajid Nawaz

Societies should be judged by how they treat the weakest among them.

Donna Shalala

The possible slowdown of illicit drug use among young people is encouraging, even though rates of use remain unacceptably high. All of us, especially parents and teachers, need to redouble our efforts

Bob Hamilton

The perception of high school golf a number of years back was not the highest, that it wasn't that hard a sport. That has all changed as the game has grown - especially among young people. There is a lot more respect for the players and the sport. People now are aware of how difficult it is to be good at golf.

David Patterson

The perception among high school students and their parents is that the game is over, that all computing jobs are going overseas. It's an extraordinarily widely held misperception.

Mark Foster

The perception among C-suite executives that the global economy is getting stronger should be a hopeful indicator for global business. As optimism for the global economic climate improves, top executives are more apt to focus on improving their own businesses by spending for programs that might have been curtailed or postponed and by hiring new employees to carry out their growth plans.

Dwight Davis

The perception among a lot of customers is that nobody understands Microsoft products like Microsoft. Many of them want the security of that direct relationship with Microsoft.

Patrick Page

The point of 'Othello,' among other points, is that it is impossible to know another human being,

Gary Bauer

We are looking forward to a vibrant competition among politicians for these voters. No one owns them.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

God does not stop at rescuing us; the purpose of that rescue is to enjoy fellowship with us.

Thomas Edward Brown

It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.

Edmund Burke

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Albert Camus

I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints.

David Simon

To be told you've won a MacArthur fellowship is very flattering and gratifying personally.

James Browning

just liked it. I think we should do one of Fellowship of the Rings.

Sophie Hannah

I was working as a secretary in Manchester and thought I would always do that. Then I got this letter offering me a two-year fellowship where I could write; they would pay me a salary and give me a flat to live in. It was heaven.

Jennifer Garraway

To look around and realize that other people are grieving, it helps them cope. They learn how to network and fellowship with each other, and that helps them heal.

Chris Smith

We do this is in the spirit of Easter. There's a need for fellowship especially at a time like this.

Laila Ali

I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

Dorothy Young

She looked so beautiful. I was so moved. I intended to say a prayer, but I forgot.

Sarah Churchwell

'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice couldn't get enough of it.

Steven Patrick Morrissey

I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.

Gavin O'Connor

I always intended the title, 'WARRIOR,' to be about spiritual warfare and warrior lives outside of the cage.

Betty Wright

I only intended to be married one time. But marriages are made; they don't just happen. It takes two.

Barbara Jordan

I never intended to become a run-of-the-mill person.

Trey Parker

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what we intended is what everyone will see. The kid can act out. The kid's going to do what it wants to do.

Mike Jones

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

Terry Tamminen

Mandatory reporting is something we need to get started on as soon as possible. You can't make targets if you don't have anything to measure.

Christine Whitman

I don't think we'll get to the protocol without mandatory caps.

Dan Goossen

This was a mandatory fight. And this has to be mandated to do over again, because we've got to get a winner out of a mandatory fight.

Jim Smith

We're not opposed to being generator-ready. We're opposed to the mandatory installation of generators.

Steve Gross

We run rain or shine, they just make the rain tires mandatory on a day like today.

Denise Bottcher

The mandatory evacuation order was never reversed - quite the contrary.

Jon Coupal

As a matter of policy, we never like mandatory insurance.

Alain Prost

I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.

David Satcher

There is no health without mental health.

P. J. Harvey

The one thing we preach is mental toughness and we showed it tonight.

Roberto Torres

Where is your mental GPS taking you today? Is that where you want to go?

Kurt Vonnegut

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Tim Healy

We have to get a lot more physically and mentally tough. That's a concern.

Bryce Taylor

When it comes down to it, it seems like we are putting too much pressure on ourselves. As a shooter, you have to stay confident. It's all mental when it comes to our shooting.

Rod Wright

We're going to talk shutout this week. We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.

Rod Wright

We're going to talk shutout this week, ... We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.

Bob Ross

Most painters want recognition, especially by their peers.

Al Gore

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

Douglas Rushkoff

Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

Andre Agassi

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

John Milton

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.

Frank Ocean

It's cool to be recognised by your peers.

George Soros

The trouble with institutional investors is that their performance is usually measured relative to their peer group and not by an absolute yardstick. This makes them trend followers by definition.

Garry Wills

As a framer and defender of the Constitution [Madison] had no peer.

Jeremy Rifkin

In the 21st century, hundreds of millions-and eventually billions-of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

Horace

Ridicule is often employed with more power and success than severity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

Walter Savage Landor

Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.

bell hooks

Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis.

Brene Brown

Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.

Diane Watson

Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed.

Augusten Burroughs

There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody.

James Gray

I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera.

Albert Camus

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

Conrad Black

I don't have any shame.

Craig Thompson

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

Douglas Coupland

There is no shame in impulse.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Condoleezza Rice

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Loretta Napoleoni

Terrorism is actually a very expensive business.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have terrorism.

George W. Bush

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

George W. Bush

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

Charles Caleb Colton

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors

Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.

Charles Caleb Colton

Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

Alanis Morissette

I think everyone's hungry for the truth

Alan Watts

Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.

Alan Watts

Duality is always secretly unity.

Alan Arkin

Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.

Al Pacino

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Adolf Hitler

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

Abu Bakar Bashir

The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

Aldrich Ames

The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.