Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide

Alan Greenspan

It has been my experience that competency in mathematics, both in numerical manipulations and in understanding its conceptual foundations, enhances a person's ability to handle the more ambiguous and qualitative relationships that dominate our day-to-day financial decision-making

Al Pacino

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

John Bolton

We want to thank the secretary-general for his personal and very prompt decision to waive privileges and immunities, ... This is now a serious law enforcement matter and we will have no further comment.

Javier Solana

We want to take a decision that is part of a solution, not part of a problem, and therefore it has to be well explained and understood by everybody.

Mark Shapiro

We want to set the roster as early as we can. This year, the decisions are so few.

Chris Cleave

Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.

Chris Colfer

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

David Allen

There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.

Christiane Amanpour

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.

Dirk Kempthorne

On a per capita basis, we have more troops deployed than any other state in the union,

Greg Schulz

Short term, I see some initial and point solutions being deployed in conjunction with other solutions and the opportunity for integration services and support.

Bob Griffin

We are kicking it off next week and the plan is have it deployed by fall.

Linda Jackson

No homes were burned. Yesterday all the resources were deployed to protect those communities, but by today they were able to move some of the resources to other areas.

Rick Lehner

More will be deployed in 2006 and 2007.

Salvation Army

We've taken nearly all of our resources out of ... Florida and are sending them to be deployed from Mobile,

Gary Bauer

It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to renounce the most fundamental American values, which, after all, are also universal values.

Lisa Guerrero

It is good for the public to come and see. I don't think a lot of people realize that there are local soldiers who are deployed in Iraq.

William Empson

. . . life involves maintaining oneself between contradictions that can't be solved by analysis.

Tom Hodgkinson

If your work is done on the phone, then surely you can set up some kind of wireless system. If your work involves reading or writing reports, then this too could be done outside.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.

Dennis C. Blair

As I've said many times and publicly, a war between China and Taiwan that involves the United States is a lose-lose-lose.

Trip Adler

Entrepreneurship is about tackling big problems - often non-obvious problems - that will have a meaningful impact on the world, and this usually involves solving these problems in counterintuitive ways.

Steve Hartman

He understands that because he's a Muslim and this involves terrorism a lot people presume he's guilty.

Anthony Fauci

It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.

H. Hart

There is only one way to retaliate, and that involves shooting yourself in the foot.

Darrin Zeer

Travel involves a lot of waiting. I thought, 'Wow, what a perfect time to do a pose or take a breath. Yoga is so portable.

Domonique Foxworth

We've all seen it over and over again, those kinds of plays. It's just Champ. That's what he does.

Jean Kelly

We have no idea yet how long it's going to take to get rid of it. We're working on all kinds of different ways to get rid of debris, but we won't know if any of them are valid until we see what we've got to get rid of.

Katori Hall

I think being an actor makes me a better writer and vice versa. I know the kinds of roles I would kill to play, and I try to create them for others.

John Moynihan

With these kinds of horses, you just dont know, ... Shes just one we really, really wanted.

Duke Ellington

There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter.

Source Unknown

There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

Lane Kirkland

There are two kinds of people in the labor movement: women and people who like women,

R. Inge

There are two kinds of fools: One says, ''This is old therefore it is good.'' The other one says, ''This is new therefore it is better.''

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, andthose who did and never thought.

Al Sharpton

Somebody had to bring the truth to the doorstep of this president.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

When I talk about the assets, that was at the beginning of the talks. I was president then. I'm not president now. When I said it, this would be a sign of goodwill to begin the talks.

Chris Christie

Never be easy for any president to deal with any Congress. But republicans got to work together. We got to get things done.

Chris Christie

When the president of the United States says he's going to do something, he needs to do it. That makes not only our adversaries more emboldened. It makes our allies more nervous.

Chris Christie

He [Doanald Trump] had no business being president of the United States.

Chris Christie

The president needs to be a force that is trusted in the world.

Chris Christie

We didn't disqualify Hillary Clinton to be President of the United States the facts of her life and career disqualify her.

David Mitchell

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

David Kay

Fortunately, President Kennedy and Robert Kennedy disagreed with the estimate and chose a course of action less ambitious and aggressive than recommended by their advisers.

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

John M. Smith

Soldiers train here in their specialty, and then go on to their assignments someplace else.

Emily Robison

I think soldiers are not just one homogenous group, just like Americans aren't. They all have different feelings about the war.

Gerhard Schroeder

to stand by our soldiers in this hour.

Veronica Saffo

Those are the same vests our soldiers are being issued.

Jan Schakowsky

all of our soldiers still don't have up-armored Humvees.

Mark Kimmitt

another day for the soldiers of the coalition.

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.

Jaswant Singh

These soldiers were tortured and subjected to torture repeatedly,

Alan Rickman

Actors are actually very supportive of each other.

Dan Murphy

We want to support the PGA and its members.

Chris Copeland

To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...

Chris Colfer

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

David Suzuki

We now have access to so much information that we can find support for any prejudice or opinion.

Bryan Burrough

American writers, at least those of us who are fortunate enough to support ourselves in the field, are by and large a lucky lot.

Bryan Stevenson

Many states can no longer afford to support public education, public benefits, public services without doing something about the exorbitant costs that mass incarceration have created.

Camille Paglia

Not a shred of evidence supports the existence of matriarchy anywhere in the world at any time. [...] The matriarchy hypothesis, revived by American feminism, continues to flourish outside the university

Carl Levin

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Charlaine Harris

Episcopalians are pretty thin on the ground in the central United States.

Charles Rangel

The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

Matt Cookson

We're not discriminating. Whatever variety we get in.

Jennifer Smith

There is just such a variety of things to see and do here.

Jorge Camejo

Obviously, for a variety of reasons, we would like to see it finished.

Nick Larson

We wear a lot of different hats. That's the interesting part of being with the sheriff's department. We get a variety of things to do.

Tom Johnson

Our (guests) aren't just speakers; they're a variety of things.

Randall Kennedy

The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.

Joe Perring

We are going to have a real wide variety of residential opportunities for folks.

David Liu

This is a breakthrough year because of the variety of deals.

Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

Leos Carax

I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular.

Rick Rudesill

Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.

Pierce Brosnan

Whether they made the right choice, who knows?

Karen Burk

Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.

Shannon Cross

Whether or not they do it is still in question.

John Podhoretz

Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say.

Gary Ballough

Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.

Leonard Mlodinow

Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world.

Matt Mullenweg

Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not.