Famous Quotes & Sayings

Xue Donghua

We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Claudia Vercellotti

When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias.

B.J. Ryan

When you score a lot of runs ? and we scored a lot of runs early in the year ? that makes up for a lot of things. It allowed everybody who was going out there to pitch to relax. Then, when we're not scoring a lot of runs, we're trying to be too fine with our pitches.

Jim Boyle

When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 markets, they can formalize deals that have been discussed, ... Even with these gains, there's still some room for these stocks to run. For a number of months, investors weren't sure if regulators were going to come to a decision in June.

Ben Hatfield

We were trying to get them good information and in the process of being cautious, we allowed the jubilation to go on longer than it should have.

Peter Katz

We've seen what happens to other cities like Detroit, where public housing is allowed to run down to the point where the most (expeditious) thing to do is to implode the building and start from scratch.

Jaime Stewart

We have had a few key errors that have allowed the other teams to score runs. We have only been outside for four games (before last Wednesday) ... so I have to believe that with more time playing on a dirt field that we will fine-tune the defense and we will eliminate those errors.

Tim Hayes

The fact that New Zealand is a natural resource-based economy, and not a service-oriented economy, has allowed the market to benefit from rising world commodity prices and also has insulated it from the global economy.

David Leavy

We have seen continued fighting and reports of atrocities. It only underscores the brutality of the Milosevic regime and his blatant disregard for human life, and the necessity for NATO's strong response to his repression.

Charles Studd

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

Vojislav Kostunica

We are talking about political fraud and blatant stealing of votes. This is an offer which must be rejected.

Carl Tobias

She has tried as hard and she can to get this difficult case right, and then she is confronted with a blatant violation of the rules. She has been careful and cautious, but probably is thinking about some kind of sanction.

Mary Harron

She was very much of the period, ... A lot of people played it too sexy, in a very modern way. And I think Gretchen had a very instinctive understanding of the sexiness of a very different time. You have to go back before Playboy, before the outright, blatant sexiness to something more hidden, teasing, more of the nice girl. Naughty but nice.

Richard Stiennon

I was really shocked at how blatant they were in discussing what they did and were going to do. They knew exactly what they were doing.

Mathias Kiwanuka

I was shocked at how blatant it was. I had done nothing to him. ... I don't buy that he got overexcited.

Rob Scuderi

Obviously, I was just going for the puck first. I can't say I was surprised with the call. I haven't seen the replay, whether it was a blatant trip or not. But either way, I cost my team the game, so it's kind of tough to take.

Beth Grant

I love 'Child's Play 2!' I love Don Mancini. That movie has a great theme: You better listen to children. That's why I wanted to do it. I was scared to do a horror movie - a blatant studio horror movie - but I liked the script, and I thought that was such an important theme because I don't think adults listen to children enough.

Phil Zepeda

We have never seen an outpouring of support like this in our existence. It's just tremendous, and the outpouring of support just continues to come.

Rodell Mollineau

The fact is that per-capita income in Iowa continues to grow.

Parris Glendening

The fact is, if water consumption continues at the current rate, there is only a 35-day supply in these reservoirs.

Michael Carty

There are a lot of good things happening right now, but the market continues to focus on Iraq, interest rates, the presidential election, and particularly right now, the high-profile earnings misses.

Aaron Swartz

Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.

Claes Fornell

The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.

Elon Musk

I'm trying to construct a world that maximises the probability that SpaceX continues its mission without me.

Kara Swisher

The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.

Stephen Baker

The powerful collaboration of industry leaders HP and AMD continues to yield successful results, as demonstrated by the HP Special Edition L2000 Notebook PC. With its rich feature set and distinctive branding, this notebook has proven to be extremely popular throughout the North American retail market.

Ted Cruz

The Senate Majority Leader has the unilateral ability to stand up and say, 'If you defy Congress, if you defy the Constitution, if you defy the American people, none of your nominees will be confirmed.'

Jack Rodman

When I look out of my window at all those construction sites, I see a sea of nonperforming loans looming large on the horizon. The numbers defy logic.

Susanna Clarke

She doesn't do the things heroines are supposed to. Which is rather Jane Austen's point - Fanny is her subversive heroine. She is gentle and self-doubting and utterly feminine; and given the right circumstances, she would defy an army.

Madhav Nepal

People will defy the curfew order, and we will organize the program as planned.

Ron Lynam

Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did.

Dana Reeve

I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds.

Carl Honore

Whether it's mending a failing company, fighting corruption, tackling disease, or rebuilding a marriage, the hardest problems defy just-add-water remedies. Indeed, slapping on a Band-Aid when surgery is needed usually just makes things worse.

Minendra Rijal

We will defy the ban. What the government has done is wrong.

N. K. Jemisin

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

Sergei Krikalev

We want to say thank you, all of you. We are waiting for this flight for very long years, more than two years already.

Abby Wambach

I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.

Chris Colfer

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator

Scot Shields

We're happy to be on that flight last night. It's just something that's part of what we have to do.

Jane Byrne

The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Even if you're not enjoying the flight, it's futile to threaten to get out and walk.

Phil Gee

There is no plan to reduce flights out of Pittsburgh. We are pretty pleased with what we have now.

Kate Christensen

Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.

Punky Moore

What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want to put people in those areas, and it reduces the number of flights we have to make to get a good picture of what's happening.

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.

Darren Shan

You stole from a member of the undead

Eric Swalwell

One of my goals here in Congress, being the youngest member of the California delegation, is to really try and get the institution to upgrade the way it communicates with its constituents.

Nong Duc Manh

All countries, big or small, strong or weak, are equal members of the United Nations.

Jacques Santini

We have had them (Greece) observed by a member of our technical staff,

Brian Molko

Stef is officially the sexiest member of Placebo

Jay Dillon

The primary consideration was to protect the student himself, and protect the students around him, as well as the staff members that were there.

Steve Smith

University officials and tribe members are working together on the appeal. We were heartened by (Tuesday's) news, and we think it's the right decision. Frankly, we wonder if (the NCAA) ever read some of the original documentation we filed in the first place.

Ted Dever

When UTC took over there were 900 employees. Now there's 500 union members and soon it will be down to 350.

Joy Harjo

I am a member of the Muskogee people. I'm a poet, a musician, a dreamer of sorts, a questioner. Like everyone else, I'm looking for answers of some sort or the other.

Charles Elachi

Now we have a permanent scientific presence on another planet.

Albert Carlson

Obviously, some temporary stuff would have been pulled out, but anything permanent would have stayed, and we would have benefited from that.

Mark Rey

The quickest way to provide permanent protection is through the development of state-specific rules, not by resuscitating the 2001 rule,

Charles Elachi

We really do have a permanent presence around that planet.

James Connaughton

We are doing what we said we would do. We are on track. Stay tuned for the planning and construction of the more permanent barrier.

Michael Rubner

Our coatings have the potential to provide the first permanent solution to the fogging problem,

Dalai Lama

Nothing is permanent.

Irvin Lippman

The staircase will remain as a permanent work of art.

Charles Jones

It's like a permanent campaign. You need to sell yourself on each policy.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Your economic and social development is linked to the kind of regime you have.

Elliott Abrams

The Assad regime is quite reliant on oil exports.

bell hooks

Every terrorist regime in the world uses isolation to break people's spirits.

Brian Billick

The observation of this team being soft is conjecture. I know our training regimen has been sound.

Donald Rumsfeld

The remnants of the regime are going to school on us,

David Bloom

What everyone is worried about is the whole regime will disappear.

River Phoenix

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

Tony Blair

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

Sergei Lavrov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Mario Pescante

Penal sanctions are O.K. for those that peddle ... For athletes, sporting sanctions are much more severe.

Jochen Clausnitzer

Sanctions weld together the state and the population.

Ahmad Khatami

They threaten us. Their threats and sanctions have made us independent.

Bob Williams

I'm not sure any sanctions would have any effect.

Ralph Nader

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Byron Katie

There is no security for those who seek it outside of themselves.

Bruce Schneier

A colleague once told me that the world was full of bad security systems designed by people who read Applied Cryptography

Bruce Schneier

People often represent the weakest link in the security chain and are chronically responsible for the failure of security systems.

Arlen Specter

Effective security measures do not come cheap.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Benjamin Franklin

People willing to trade their freedom for temporary security deserve neither and will lose both.

Atifete Jahjaga

The security of the woman is the security of society.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Charles W. Chesnutt

There's time enough, but none to spare.

Charles de Lint

In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.

Charles Dickens

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Charles Caleb Colton

Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.

Charles Caleb Colton

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.

Ban Ki-moon

Violence against women continues to persist as one of the most heinous, systematic and prevalent human rights abuses in the world. It is a threat to all women, and an obstacle to all our efforts for development, peace, and gender equality in all societies. Violence against women is always a violation of human rights; it is always a crime; and it is always unacceptable. Let us take this issue with the deadly seriousness that it deserves.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Fred Eckhard

We know that the violations can be controlled.

Jose Pertierra

If they are set free, it would be a violation of international laws.

Kevin Murphy

Respondent's violations are willful, continuing, and egregious and warrant a substantial penalty.

Andrea Dworkin

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

Hillary Clinton

What was once justified as sanctioned by God is now properly reviled as an unconscionable violation of human rights.