Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariel Sharon

The one who is responsible for that is only one man and that is Arafat who pre-planned it, orchestrated it ... It did not start on my visit day, it started about 10 days earlier. They already had casualties then.

Charles Schumer

Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Colin Powell

We didn't deal with Yasser Arafat when we were putting the road map together, and so his comments don't mean a whole lot to me.

Ehud Barak

Since Arafat has wasted much of this time in dragging his feet ... we have very serious doubts about the seriousness of his intentions to reach an arrangement,

Colin Powell

Mr. Arafat has not been playing a helpful role, ... And if he wanted to play a helpful role, he would be supporting Prime Minister Abbas, not frustrating his efforts.

Dore Gold

Unless the green light is turned into a red light, unless there's a clear message (from) Mr. Arafat to stop terrorism, there can't be any peace process.

Daniel Taub

One of the factors here is what role Yasser Arafat will play. From some of the statements that he has been making immediately, he doesn't seem to be trying to move the Bethlehem situation to a smooth and quiet resolution. Unfortunately he seems to be trying to use it as another excuse to inflame international passions, and I think that Yasser Arafat could be playing a more constructive role in trying to bring this impasse to an end.

James Rubin

Frankly, we want to talk with Chairman Arafat about that schedule and what is possible, and thus take stock for us in trying to assess how realistic it is to make that schedule that's been laid out.

Ehud Barak

If a single crack will appear, Arafat will enter into it and crack the whole system,

Kamisese Mara

I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then.

Jerrold Nadler

The other thing that I wanted to say -- and that I will say at this point, even though the chairman is not going to listen,

Kevin Yoder

To go from chairman of the House Appropriations Committee in the Kansas Legislature to one of 50 on the Appropriations Committee and one of 435 in the whole House, it is more difficult to directly impact policy here.

The Edge

Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

Natalie Massenet

I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.

Ahmed Tugod

So far there's nothing new. We heard from the AU chairman the same proposals we'd heard before from the AU mediation team. It was very disappointing.

Gary Weiss

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.

Evan Osnos

Political prodigies are rare in a nation that grooms top leaders through decades of Communist Party road-testing and pageantry. And because Chairman Mao's cult of personality led the country into extremism, the Party spent the next three decades engineering its politicians to be as indistinguishable as possible.

Harry Redknapp

I am hoping we still have a chance of getting him. The chairman is working on it and that's all you can ask.

John Otto

When the songs pop out, that's like the climax of us building.

Naomi Hasegawa

We may have reached a selling climax when we hit 2%, and now some are starting to look for reasons to buy.

Rich Brennan

I was concerned that might've been a climax and we were on our way down. Maybe the kids weren't ready for this game.

Ehud Barak

I think I can say, your Holiness, that your coming here today ... is a climax of this historic journey of healing,

John Kessel

The conventional Aristotelian plot proceeds by means of a protagonist, an antagonist, and a series of events comprising a rising action, climax and denouement.

Andrew Sinclair

It's the climax emotionally as well as vocally. Lucia doesn't just snap. We see this propensity to madness developing throughout the opera.

Alan Ackerman

Some sense a climax lies ahead, and others think we're getting close to the bottom,

John Sutherland

Take for example the ending to Jane Eyre -- 'MadwyfSetsFyr2Haus.' (Mad wife sets fire to house.) Was ever a climax better compressed?

Herman Andrews

It was so awesome. The work that we've put in during the season and out of season was great. When it comes to a climax like that, it makes it all worthwhile. You reflect back to when they weren't in shape and not doing the little things. When you see it all come together at the state meet, it is very rewarding.

David Brenner

We have no doubt that Hillary Clinton will raise $50 million-plus, if she hasn't already,

Timothy Noah

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress.

Jon Jansen

We know Clinton is a great back, ... and I think we've got a pretty good offensive line. So putting those things together, I think we can expect big things from him this year.

Chris Christie

Hillary Clinton said there was no marked classified information on her server. The FBI Director said that's untrue.She said that she did not email any classified information. The FBI Director says that's untrue.

Chris Christie

It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now.

Chris Christie

Next in Iran, Hillary Clinton launched the negotiations that brought about the worst nuclear deal in history.

Chris Christie

In Nigeria, Hillary Clinton amazingly fought for two years to keep an Al-Qaeda affiliate off the terrorist watch list.

Chris Christie

This type of discourse in the campaign is just unwarranted. But it was started by Ms.[Hillary] Clinton. Ms. Clinton has started the idea of calling Donald Trump those types of names [bigot].

Chris Christie

The fact is that [Hillary Clinton] has been the person who started this type of conversation in the campaign. She should be ashamed of herself.

Shirley Sippel

To Zeal, an honest handshake was worth everything. If Zeal told you something and he shook on it with you, it was a deal.

Jibril Rajoub

There will be a handshake at some point, and that's about it.

Randy Bachman

I never get tired of performing to people who want to hear me. Hell, that's my handshake to the world. I'm doing just what I've wanted to do since that day I was 15 and heard Lenny Breau play the guitar.

Joe Glenn

A person's word and a man's handshake ought to mean something. Maybe you're better for not having them in the long run because they not men of their word. We want people who are loyal, stand-up people and men of their word.

Tommy Docherty

They offered me a handshake of ?10,000 to settle amicably. I told them that they would have to be a lot more amicable than that.

Dore Gold

Right now, Israelis want a security process rather than a peace process.

Steve Landes

When Salah was arrested, it was a very public event. It would not have been smart for Israeli officials to subject Salah to the torture he is claiming.

Jibril Rajoub

This shows how serious the Israelis are about security,

Kim Howells

We all want to see Israelis and Palestinians living side by side in peace and security.

E. O. Wilson

There have been quite a lot of developments since 1998 -- one of the most important has been the examination by an Israeli botanist of pollen taken from the cloth,

Nabil Amr

we are ready to take over all the territories from which the Israelis will withdraw.

Zubin Mehta

Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.

Ismail Haniyeh

Our people will not ... kneel before such Israeli measures.

Paul Spiegel

That will be between the Vatican and the Israeli government,

Charles M. Schulz

Big sisters are the crabgrass in the lawn of life.

Keith Foster

It's for people who are tired of the lawn mower.

Ray Gardner

On a year like this, we have enough snow to ski until June, but it's a matter of interests. My theory is, when the lawn mowers come out, it's over.

Bodhidharma

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Marianne Williamson

When I went to college in the 1970s, the Women's Liberation movement was all the buzz.

Abdullah Ocalan

Our movement is the liberation movement of the Turkish people,

Abdullah Ocalan

A society can never be free without women’s liberation

Atharva Veda

Contemplating and meditating on the 'real-self' accelerates this process of self-development and makes liberation possible.

Granth Sahib

They perform all sorts of rituals, but they do not obtain liberation through them. They wander around the countryside, and in love with duality, they are ruined.

Pico Iyer

As soon as I'm on the road, I see, often palpably, that I know nothing at all, which is always a great liberation.

Ian Smith

The legislation is so draconian it even surpasses Ian Smith's own legislation during the liberation struggle.

Susan Faludi

Women are enslaved by their own liberation.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Brian Mulroney

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Marwan Kanafani

We have been pushed to this situation by the positions of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Winston Smith

We said a prayer for the incoming prime minister and his government.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Moshe Sharett

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

Moshe Dayan

There is no more Palestine. Finished.

Richard G. Scott

A sense of humor is an escape valve for the pressures of life.

Travis Bradberry

Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm.

Frank Chumbley

We are going to have to find out who is going to step up when the pressure is on. We are going to have to find that out real early.

Jan de Bont

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.

Jamie Redknapp

There is pressure every day as a footballer.

Chris Carter

There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Chris Bosh

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Ben Broussard

We've already got a ton of pressure going out there. We can't start worrying about that we have to win this and we have to win that. We just had to go out there and try to get a run.

Greg Hill

We started putting pressure on them and rotating the ball.

Abhisit Vejjajiva

We have no problem with the prime minister's offer.

Ehud Olmert

Every prime minister ... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.

Stephen Glover

Where is our prime minister? All that can be said is that he is out there somewhere.

Benjamin Franklin

I am in the prime of senility.

Brian Mulroney

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

Sonia Gandhi

I don't disown our responsibility and my responsibility as Prime Minister,

Doris Williams

Women can do a lot of things when they have to, and she was a prime example.

Chang-Rae Lee

I often think that the prime directive for me as a teacher of writing is akin to that for a physician, which is this: do no harm.

Tsutomu Takebe

It is a private visit and I would like to respect the Prime Minister's visit to the shrine,

Brent Scowcroft

The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11.

Chris Chocola

Legislation passed in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 enhanced our intelligence capabilities and strengthened our national defense, but until now our nation's immigration policies have not adapted to the needs of a post-September 11th world.

Jane D. Hull

We emerged from the events of September 11 more steadfast in our beliefs, more courageous in our actions and more determined to protect our values than ever before.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There are so many great moments in Yankee Stadium. There is nothing better or no better place better to compete when you are good and the Yankees are good and you are playing a big series in September in Yankee Stadium, four game series, there is no greater excitement anywhere than the Yankee Stadium.

Bob Taft

Whether we knew many who died on September 11 or personally knew none, we all lost something on that day. Innocence. Security. A trust that our homeland would always be safe.

David Cooper

Since September 11 we have been continually challenged.

Barbara Olson

What do I tell the pilots to do?

Dick Cheney

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

Bill Gerstenmaier

We probably won't make the September 22 window.