Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dinaw Mengestu

The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

Durado Brooks

The fact is, African Americans have not benefited equally from the improvements that are making a difference.

Amr Moussa

The real European-African partnership should be based on promoting development and liberating the African continent from its debts, which have been preventing economic progress and depriving Africa of its equitable share in the global economy,

Paul Kagame

There is no doubt that both regional states and Africa in whole will gain toward peace and stability in Burundi,

Thomas P.M. Barnett

An Obama administration truly looking to break with the molds of the past would stop treating Africa as an obligation and start treating it as globalization's next great opportunity, understanding that Chinese - along with Indians and Arab sovereign wealth funds - are natural partners in this process.

Aasif Mandvi

I think I would like to see more roles for South Asian performers that are more inclusive and part of the American Diaspora, the American tapestry, perhaps the way that African American and Hispanic roles have developed.

Toyin Odutola

My identity is not based on performance; it's based on something that's pre-determined by someone else, and I don't even understand what that is because I'm an African who came to America.

Todrick Hall

Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African American kids or any other gay kids or any other kids that just feel weird or uncomfortable and have their own issues and don't know how to express themselves. I want to be like a beacon for those kids now.

Tshepo Peege

We are going to isolate countries where these safety issues are a concern. The stigma that Africa carries leads people to fly non-African airlines and thereby deprive our airlines of opportunities to grow and expand.

Rosa DeLauro

We want to put pressure on the big oil companies and place an attack on excess profits and we also are going to have to keep a close eye on any price gouging

Mark Kimmitt

We have said for the last couple of weeks that we have seen the enemy starting to attack soft targets, Iraqi targets, rather than military targets, ... He is attempting to intimidate the people of Iraq. He will not succeed.

Hassan Nasrallah

We have no presence in Iraq, but certainly if the American troops come and attack Lebanon, without question, we will fight them.

Bob Garcia

We have never had bites, attacks and injuries as we have seen with any breed like we've had with pit bulls.

Geno Auriemma

Whenever we have to walk the ball up and try to attack teams in their half court, it?s not easy for us, because we don?t have a huge inside presence. So I?m constantly urging us to run.

Geno Auriemma

Whenever we have to walk the ball up and attack teams in the half court, it's not easy for us, because we don't have the huge inside presence that can make teams collapse. I'm constantly urging us to run.

Cleve Ryan

Whenever we are pushing the ball, one of our first options is to take the shot inside if we can. Then we will look outside and keep looking to attack back inside.

Stuart Appleby

When you saw him attack the course, well, we all wanted to be like the Shark.

Darwin Hofer

When your perimeter shots aren't falling, you've got to attack the basket. We wanted to try to pound the ball inside.

Megan Schwab

Whenever we get those opportunities (to score), we want to capitalize on those situations.

Gary Thayer

We've seen, over the past seven months or so, orders stabilize or improve slightly, compared to a big decline last year. Orders are rising relative to inventories, and that's a positive sign for capital spending.

Bill Gross

The fact is that GE is a conglomerate financed by a money machine -- its subsidiary GE Capital -- but, unlike Berkshire Hathaway, its foundation is vulnerable because its survival depends upon the confidence of outside investors,

Don Rahn

The real indicator to me is what do you have coming up in the next five years in your capital plan.

Adam Cole

There is a limit to the negative effect on the yen of the capital outflows that have been driving it down for the last two months.

Sanjay Kumar

Finance is critical. If sufficient investment is made in infrastructure and venture capital is made available, there will be a big improvement in the situation.

Tom Hunter

In 1998 I invested in the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at Strathclyde Uni and subsequently put more capital into enterprise education to try and help change the culture.

Thomas Woods

Public protests against globalization - protests that occur by and large in the prosperous West - denounce free trade and the mobility of capital as instruments of exploitation and oppression.

Jose Ferreira

Venture capital today is clustered in just a few locations - Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, and D.C. It's far from efficiently distributed and accessible.

Chris Knight

Given that they haven't said off the record or on the record that they are going to clarify this, leaving it unclear will and already has had a chilling effect on employees' interactions with the public.

Louis Thompson

We have great concern that there will be at least a temporary chilling effect on the flow of voluntary information to the investment community until companies see how this rule is enforced,

Bill Hader

To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.

Vivica A. Fox

I love chilling in a cute sweatsuit and wedge sandals or sneakers.

Bipasha Basu

For me chilling out is when I can stay at home, order food from outside and watch a film with my friends. Listening to music and watching films are my idea of perfect relaxation.

Dan Moore

He testified about murdering his mother without any emotion at all, it was just chilling really,

Ed Zwick

What the movie is most deeply about -- it's about our own latent possibilities of repression, stereotyping and prejudice, ... To see Americans rounded up in the streets, to see Americans put into stadiums, to see people held without habeas corpus -- to have their rights violated in such a way is such a chilling and just terrifying thing to see -- that is what one takes away, I believe, from this film.

Jeb Bush

grotesque and chilling disrespect for the sanctity of life has never been more apparent.

Rico Thunder

I think the important thing is real chilling for free speech. After all, this is just a parade. But if you're involved in anti-recruitment or anti-war or any group doing anything important in town that you know you're secure from police invading your private homes.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Valentino Castellani

We have resolved all the financial problems. The venues are pretty much all ready,

Neil MacKinnon

There is a whiff of stagflation here that will be disconcerting for financial investors.

Brady Corbet

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Ron Pollack

What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans.

Suzanne Fields

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Jane Siberry

Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.

John Adams

We're not going to put someone in a position where it's going to be harmful of their performance this weekend, but at the same time the team will represent itself proudly.

Kurt Vonnegut

If you can do no good, at least do no harm.

Arianna Huffington

We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?

Tim Ruskell

We're going to take it slow and see how Ken goes. There's still more testing. We would never want to do anything that would harm him as we go forward.

Samuel Johnson

Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

Christina Gallach

Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.

Charles Dudley Warner

The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all.

Chief Joseph

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

William Shakespeare

You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser.

Mary Foley

Worship here is very joyful. Our reputation is that of a very friendly, welcoming community.

Ariel Pink

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

Desiderius Erasmus

Concealed talent brings no reputation.

Blaise Pascal

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Ben Jonson

He that is respectless in his courses oft sells his reputation at cheap market.

Elizabeth Arden

Repetition makes reputation.

Charles Dickens

The Northern onslaught upon slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal its desire for economic control of the Southern states.

Brad Paisley

I can't see this world unless I go/ outside my southern comfort zone.

Brad Pitt

I'm most comfortable with the Southern dialects, really. It's easy, for example, for me to do Irish because we've got Irish heritage where I come from.

Jamie Foxx

I'm a southern gentleman.

Fred Coan

We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

Bill Hicks

Been on what I call my Flying Saucer Tour--appearing in small Southern towns--in front of handfuls of hillbillies.

Charles Kuralt

A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12.

Samantha Bingham

Many, many of them are from southern Louisiana.

Belle Boyd

The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.