Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Thayer

We were anticipating that we could see a little bit of an improvement in October because the rebuilding after the hurricanes appears to have started and energy prices have stabilized, but it appears that it will take a little longer for consumers to feel better about things.

Mark Rosenker

We've seen fatigue. We don't know why that fatigue appeared. That is what we're trying to determine. This crack appears to extend through a majority of the spar at the location of the separation.

Anthony DiClemente

The reality is that Blockbuster has burned through $267 million in cash through the end of the second quarter and it appears that they are still burning cash to date.

Pat Cash

We usually belt out AC/DC and Bryan Adams numbers. Now, playing the guitar appears more fun ... tennis demands commitment of an entire year on the tour.

Mike Hill

We know at this point that it did come from inside the house. It appears to be his father's handgun that was secured in an office that his father has in that house.

Stephen Chick

Walgreen appears to be gaining share from weaker chains, while 2006 should see benefits from the higher-profit generic transition cycle and potential Medicare traffic.

Elliott Abrams

When a deeply sympathetic American president asks for concessions and compromises and appears able to cajole some from the Palestinians, which was the Clinton/Rabin and Bush/Sharon combination, Israel must respond.

Emily Martin

Clearly, products for women are not as well scrutinized as products for men. It appears they never tested the implants in breast tissue and that they received decades of complaints from women. It's the kind of stuff that makes you want to scream!

Charles de Secondat

People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Kevin Keating

We want to provoke heat and debate and a closer look at the man and leader in full, not just the leader who has been raised to secular sainthood.

George Glynos

We have seen a recovery in the gold price and commodity currencies have consolidated slightly off their lows, which bodes well for rand resilience. The rand could trade closer to 6.20/22/US$.

Joe Chandler

We have no specific information about what number of job cuts would be at BellSouth. That's going to be determined after the close of the merger.

Tony Blair

We have never come this far before. We've never been this close to a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland,

Edwin P. Whipple

Whenever you find humor, you find pathos close by his side

Anthony Johnson

Whenever we're playing teams that don't have good records, we play well for three quarters, but we don't close them out down the stretch.

Phil Long

When your goals seem too difficult to reach..... move the posts closer

Dave Auday

When your goalie is hot and you keep it close anything can happen.

Neil Craig

We were trying to be too precise, too perfect. Close finals football is not about perfection.

Claron McFadden

When you see a singer on stage who is 100% committed to the personality, character and temperament of the role being sung, it's truly awesome and very powerful.

Dennis McDonald

When you say you are going to do something, you get it done. I committed myself to filling them all. I didn't quite make it.

Connie Miller

When you're with this many wonderful, committed people, it just keeps you going,

Kami Roeder

We have six wins and that's a lot better than what we had last year. These are great kids and they've committed themselves to be better.

Al Sharpton

But resist we much. We must, and we will much- about that- be committed.

Chris Daly

The performances of the different offices are on opposite ends of the spectrum. In Fresno County we have what seems to be a near abdication of their responsibilities, whereas in Alameda County we see an office committed to protecting all residents in the county.

G. H. Hardy

We are praying we don't have an earthquake, ... This is money we've committed to sewer, street and other projects to meet the future needs of our city.

Dane Moody

We've all committed ourselves to having a good team, and we have a lot of individual talent. I think one-on-one, individually, we're better than any team in the country.

Joey Lott

We started slow out of the gate last week, and had some turnovers early. We also committed a lot of penalties and we know we can't do that this week. I've told our guys that Bowman is good enough as it is, and we don't need to help them by playing sloppy.

Don Clark

We've shown a person that's been virtually all over this country and in foreign countries with no residence, no real permanency any place .... just an unidentified person moving around, unnoticed.

Bruce Cox

The fact of the matter is all countries are going to have to wake up to the fact that this is destroying marine habitats.

Douglas Booth

When I do my own wardrobe, I try to wear a designer from each of the countries I'm visiting: Tom Ford for New York, Hugo Boss for Germany, Burberry for England.

Audrey Tautou

When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.

Jordan Horoschak

The production increase is more than what traders were expecting. We are going to see some more output in non-OPEC countries such as Mexico and Norway, and the second quarter is typically a period of seasonal slower demand, so those all those factors will play into an easing in oil prices.

Vladimir Putin

In many countries today, moral and ethical norms are being reconsidered; national traditions, differences in nation and culture are being erased.

Vladimir Putin

There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.

Ellen Stofan

You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy.

Louise Nurding

New Zealand was one of the most beautiful countries to drive through for the scenery and the vast scale of the place.

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.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

We did not treat the Americans badly. They left Iran in a relaxed mood. The embassy was active here after the revolution. We didn't have any problem with them. They started it.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

Passing a tough resolution or threatening Iran will not bring about the desired outcome.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

Chris Christie

When we empower Iran, then get ready for more unrest and more murder and more violence in the Middle East.

John Reid

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Fadel Gheit

Until and unless the stalemate with Iran is resolved one way or the other, I think we're going to see prices higher.

Argus Hamilton

President Obama hosted lawmakers Thursday saying he wanted bipartisan input on health care reform. Nobody's mind was changed. At the summit's end he threatened to go with the nuclear option, showing he's tougher on Republicans than he is on Iran.

Bahman Ghobadi

Im free - but Im also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.

Bill Maher

Newt Gingrich...is absolutely for bombing Iran and for lowering gas prices. And I've just to say, you can't be for both. They are diametrically opposed.

Carol Moseley Braun

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Oskar Lafontaine

We are not a sovereign country; as long as the US can operate from here, we are a participant in the Iraq war.

Jared Diamond

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Argus Hamilton

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Erin Morgenstern

I don't have any particular rituals, I sometimes like to write in longhand when I'm searching for ideas but I do the vast majority by typing, I can't always keep up with my thoughts longhand. I'm not a coffee shop writer because I feel obliged to order more coffee and then I end up over-caffeinated.

Chick Hearn

You can't please everybody all the time, but you can please a majority.

Bertolt Brecht

With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Benjamin Tucker

The right of the majority is absolute.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The majority is never right, unless it includes me.

Dennis Prager

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Robert A. Heinlein

Was there ever a time when the majority was right? Notebooks of Lazarus Long, Robert A

Zalmay Khalilzad

Since no single party will have a majority there will be a need for a very broad-based coalition.

Ben Horowitz

For example, the vast majority of security break-ins occur as a result of problems with known fixes. With an automated system, you can keep up to date.

Charles Dickens

It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves

Charles Caleb Colton

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

Sergio Perez

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

Dave Barry

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

C. Wright Mills

Prestige is the shadow of money and power. Where these are, there it is. Like the national market for soap or automobiles and the enlarged arena of federal power, the national cash-in area for prestige has grown, slowly being consolidated into a truly national system.

Bryan Singer

What we call evil doesn't necessarily deserve any kind of respect or understanding, by any means; it just deserves an acknowledgement of its complexity so we can better understand it - so we can help prevent it.

Cary Grant

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Carole King

I think Madonna has a great deal of intelligence and capability. I have a lot of respect for her. She's taken her career and maximized it with intelligence and creativity.

Callie Khouri

I want to make something that's respectful and respected. And I think you can make something for women that is respected on television.

Joe Biden

One thing is clear: These weapons must be must be dislodged from Saddam, or Saddam must be dislodged from power,

Ayad Allawi

Today we are better off, you are better off, the world is better off without Saddam Hussein,

H. Hart

Saddam is in box. We can tighten that box, and we don't need to go to war,

Joseph Cirincione

They saw Saddam as a threat that had to be removed.

C. S. Lewis

Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.

Bram Stoker

How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men--even if there are monsters in it.

David Quammen

Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come.

Cesare Pavese

Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose.

Eric Maskin

Through meteorology, we know essentially how hurricanes form, even though we can't say where the next storm will arise.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.

Louis MacNeice

I do not envy any animal, though I envy many of their capacities.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!