Famous Quotes & Sayings

T. E. Lawrence

Rebellions can be made by 2 percent actively in the striking force and 98 percent passively sympathetic.

Michael Moskow

Participants in the markets are working actively to figure out alternative distribution routes and alternative transportation systems to move their products,

Mark Mershon

Park actively lobbied UN officials to establish the program, while extracting millions of dollars from profiteering Iraqi officials for his efforts.

Al DiGuido

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Charles Hazlewood

People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.

Steve Lowry

People have petitioned to come into Yorktown, and we are actively working with citizens to make that happen.

Gary Bettman

People make too much out of the term drop-dead date. But, at some point, as a practical matter, it's clear that there isn't enough time left. Whether or not it's Friday night or Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon, if we aren't actively engaged in drafting documents this weekend, I don't see how we can have a season.

Paul Tagliabue

Our focus has been on doing the right thing in terms of the Saints games, and we will be very actively involved with respect to the future. But that will be at a future date.

Paul Grogan

Our cost structure is actively causing people to leave and making it difficult to recruit people.

Neil Armstrong

I was the strange creature that kidnapped Bock from his homeland and brought him to this strange new and still changing planet. I can't help feeling that I owe him an apology or at least an explanation.

Seiji Maehara

I'd like to offer an apology from my heart to party members throughout the country for causing so much trouble.

Rand Hoch

I believe this memorandum is the best we are going to get from Tom Lynch. While the Council had hoped for a public apology at the upcoming School board meeting, it doesn't appear that will happen. It is time to put this matter behind us, and hope for the best.

Sabiha Khan

KFI needs to distance itself from Mr. Handel's unbelievable insensitivity by issuing a formal apology and a reprimand.

Nigel Roberts

I wrote to the company asking for an apology and claiming damages under Regulation 30 of the privacy regulations.

Eric Munson

Josh has no idea what he took from us. Today, I still have not heard any apology from him.

Mr Howard

I think the apology is more than sufficient.

Robert Passikoff

Her particular brand of hubris, not withstanding her apology and contrition, well, you had to understand that everybody would be watching. There is great risk in putting her back in front of so many people.

Alex Rodriguez

I already heard what he had to say, he apologized. The apology has been accepted. We've move on from there. Ozzie and I have always been friendly. It's not really that big of a deal.

Ron Phipps

Price is always pivotal. If a house is under priced, people sometimes assume that there is something wrong with it.

Susan Moores

Paternity is assumed when a child is born in a marriage. That's not the case in children born to a couple who are unmarried or to a mother who is unsure of the child's paternity.

Tom Lantos

Our neighbor Canada has 2,200 troops serving in Afghanistan. Canada has also assumed responsibility for the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar, which was originally established by our own military.

William Daley

Our legal team has concluded the ballot was unlawful, ... I assume that this is an issue that will end up in dispute.

Mark Mellman

People look at two oil men in the White House, and gasoline prices through the roof, and they likely assume that the president and the vice president are on the side of oil companies, not on the side of ordinary people.

Jennifer Davis

People just assume that the bookstore orders the books and has all the control and we don't. I have the control over how many I order, but I don't have control over what's picked for a class.

Chemi Shalev

Successive American administrations have declared peace in the Middle East is an American strategic interest, and one assumes that for an American strategic interest, Americans pay.

Sophia Amoruso

Success is a scary concept because it assumes something kind of final. In the grand scheme of life, I don't think there is some ultimate success.

Marcus Williams

Some people assumed I would go from 12 to 20, that is what I was hearing.

Brian Spencer

Our plan is to set up a house and give a family a place to stay that may have no extended family or no place to go. We wanted to give them a place to stay for three or four months or until they could go home or find another place to go.

Gary Bardini

Our goal is to try and maintain the river levels and keep flows at a regulated level. It takes a lot of planning and coordination for an extended period of time.

Ralph A. Cram

Republicanism rapidly extended itself to all the governments of western Europe, but it could not maintain itself in its primal integrity.

Adrian Moss

I went into the Tournament thinking that each game could be my last, but these guys have extended my career.

Tawnya Gurney

It filled a need in the community. It's a nice option between being at home and Extended Care. There are a lot of people who have that need.

Bert Hochfeld

I think the stock had been very extended in terms of valuation, in any event, so I think it was very vulnerable to something like this, ... I think that the valuation of the shares at several hundred times revenues was so extreme that it didn't take much.

Deborah Eisenberg

I find I often just fall into a stone-like sleep, right in the middle of the day, just sort of clonk. I can't work for extended periods when I'm beginning something. But if I'm at the end of something, I can work on for hours and hours and hours.

Johnny Damon

I feel good about things. Worst-case scenario here, we would've only been one game up, so three's all right. We wish we could've extended it, but Randy Johnson pitched a great game, as did Tim Wakefield.

Jack Baker

Joseph Sibley was one of the premier historical figures of the oil region and his influence extended worldwide.

Michael Chapman

Some kind of historical use for the tribe would be ideal, but we don't have the resources, ... We'd probably want the property with the main building, but that'll be very competitive.

Diana Gabaldon

Some people are just mad about the historical aspects; they feel as though they're living in a different time or they're learning something,

Romesh Gunesekera

We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.

Luis Restrepo

It is a very important thing that the historical structure of the BCB has been demobilized.

Bertrand Russell

All the important human advances that we know of since historical times began have been due to individuals of whom the majority faced virulent public opposition.

Laurent Fabius

I think really this time it's a historical moment,

Lynn Coady

I still find the idea of a research-heavy or historical novel daunting. That's something I've had in mind for a while: like, would you research for a year and then start writing? I sit down, and I just don't know how to write it.

Ed Harris

I don't have the luxury of the firsthand historical knowledge that you have. You'll probably find the same thing with the board.

Kelly McBride

Journalists' notes are incredibly useful for historical perspectives.

Robin Munro

We know that many workers are walking around being owed a year or two years' wages. It is not uncommon at all.

Matt Hasselbeck

It's a pep rally, right? Those people were there from, like, 4:30 in the morning, so I feel like I owed them something.

Thabo Mbeki

Our political relations can only go from strength to strength,

Ghazi Hamad

We need more talks to settle differences in the political agenda.

Javier Solana

I want to underline that the political process is back on track ... the cease-fire is back on track.

Manouchehr Mottaki

It is a political declaration and it is unjust.

Chris Tarry

I think there is will, political and governmental, for a deal. And its about time.

Bill Vaughan

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Bertrand Russell

Almost all education has a political motive.

Bertrand Russell

Undoubtedly the desire for food has been and still is one of the main causes of political events.

Asa Hutchinson

I think (Oklahoma) has made it a political issue.

Joe Hession

He just wasn't interested. He waited for his teammates and practiced his putting. He's always trying to get better.

Kim Clijsters

I don't think I've even practiced in these conditions. It was so tough out there today.

Kevin Cosgrove

He was a little sluggish to start out with. It showed that he hadn't practiced for awhile.

Confucius

He does not preach what he practices till he has practiced what he preaches.

Gil Haskell

We've been watching him for two weeks. We've watched all the film we can watch. We've practiced a lot. We'll be fine. We'll just see how it goes.

Matt Light

We practiced all week in this, ... and, let me tell you, it got old quick.

Orlando Pace

I probably could have practiced today, but it was more precautionary.

Allan Ray

I've practiced two times already and the practices were great. My vision is back 100 percent, and I'm ready to get back out there and just play.

James Fleming

It was relieving when we got the decision. But I had practiced like I was going to wrestle. I didn't slow down or anything.

Joel Edgerton

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

Dan Butler

Our responsibility as artists is to challenge ourselves.

Phil Klay

Responsibility and accountability is a big part of being in the military.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Bede Griffiths

Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.

Billy Corgan

We need to get back to a level of social responsibility that we haven't seen for a long time.

Bill Crawford

When we take no responsibility for any aspect of our past, we limit our ability to respond in the present and the future.

Bill Crawford

You never want to tie your responsibility to another's irresponsibility.

Bill Cosby

I think you need to make responsibility something that's not just a word.

M. Wolfe

States can do as little or as much as they want.

Steve Lyle

Other states have called us, and are taking a look at it.

Kate Saunders

It is not unprecedented that the two will be in the United States at the same time.

Donna Brazile

I'm not about waiting anymore. All the states, especially the states that have been ignored, all the constituencies and communities that have been ignored, have a part in this process.

Shyam Saran

This was not something that the United States wanted,

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Sammy Sosa

I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Robert Redford

I never had a problem with my face on screen. I thought it is what it is, and I was turned off by actors and actresses that tried to keep themselves young.

Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

Aaron Swartz

Most people, it seems, stretch the truth to make themselves seem more impressive. I, it seems, stretch the truth to make myself look worse.

Stephen Covey

Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.

Friedrich Schiller

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

Bill Cosby

We've got too many young girls, who don't know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

Buck Showalter

These things have a way of working themselves out over a 162-game season.

Robert MacIntosh

They wanted to give themselves some flexibility, which they didn't have with that language.

Rob Babcock

But those things usually work themselves out during training camp.

Laura Gunn

We know there are more victims out there.

Johnny Jessop

They're just as much victims as we are.

Jennifer Garraway

We have to do something for the victims and that's why we do this program.

Rep. Schultheis

You don't want to make two victims from the same crime.