Famous Quotes & Sayings

Allan Slater

When these people are released - and I believe they will be - they will be dumped onto the streets of Baghdad and the only place they will have to go is back to our apartment. We have to have someone there.

Scott Ritter

There are people in Baghdad pursuing the initiative that I started, and I want to give them every chance of success. I don't want to provide any distractions.

Rich Lowry

The senior officer who met with reporters in Baghdad said there had been 21 car bombings in the capital in May, and 126 in the past 80 days. All last year, he said, there were only about 25 car bombings in Baghdad.

Conan O'Brien

Yesterday, the Pentagon warned U.S. reporters that they should get out of Baghdad as soon as possible because the U.S. could attack at any time. Then the Pentagon added, 'Whatever you do, don't tell Geraldo.'

Jalal Talabani

No country, including the US, would dare stop Baghdad from approaching Tehran since Iraq is an independent state,

Isabella Bird

If one's memories of Baghdad women were only of those to be seen in the streets, they would be of leathery, wrinkled faces, prematurely old, figures which have lost all shape, and henna-stained hands crinkled and deformed by toil.

Chuck Hagel

You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.

Amy Grant

We did a show in San Antonio that was really amazing. The military helped us do a satellite to Baghdad where during intermission we had eight families seated in the front row and one by one they were able to communicate with their loved ones using the cameras to see each other. It was so emotional and nobody moved even though it was the intermission.

Dexter Filkins

The American surge of combat forces into Baghdad that was ordered by President Bush worked. And there was a calm, a relative calm that descended on the country kind of late 2008. That pretty much held until the last American combat soldiers left at the end of 2011.

Charles Dickens

He did each single thing as if he did nothing else.

Charles Stanley

Each of us will eventually give away all our earthly possessions. How we choose to do so, however, is a reflection of our commitment to the kingdom of God.

Al Sharpton

It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.

Al Sharpton

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

Tim Sanders

We want them to have that local commitment to the community, and that's a big part of our request for proposals. We're not looking for Wells Fargo out of San Francisco.

Frank Hadden

We want to try and pinch some of their ball. Nathan has a long term commitment to playing for Scotland.

Chris Alexander

I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

Chinua Achebe

There is something about important stories that is not just the message, but also the way that message is conveyed, the arrangement of the words, the felicity of the language. So it's really a balance between your commitment, whether it's political or economic or whatever, and your craft as an artist.

David Mixner

Treating HIV/AIDS is a lifelong commitment that demands strict adherence to drug protocols, consistent care, and a trusting relationship with health care providers.

Robert Fisk

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Tariq Aziz

Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people.

Lawrence Eagles

Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.

Mohamed ElBaradei

We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow.

Zalmay Khalilzad

The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together.

George H. W. Bush

positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace.

Jalal Talabani

Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves,

Muqtada Sadr

We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility... to keep Iraq's unity and safety.

Mark Kimmitt

I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,

Charles Caleb Colton

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Charles Caleb Colton

The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Alan Watts

Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.

Al Alvarez

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.

Chris Chocola

Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.

Darren Shan

You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

Dave Chappelle

Money is the fuel for choices. Money gives me choices, so it's not nothing, it's something," he continued. "But it's not the end all, be all. There are other things in my life that I did not purchase with money that are very valuable.

Dave Chappelle

There's not too many people that don't think I'm crazy, for walking away from so much money," he said. "I'm at a restaurant with my wife, it's a nice restaurant, we're eating dinner. I look across the room, I say, "You see this guy over here, across the room? He has $100 million." And we're eating the same entree. So, OK, fine, I don't have $50 million or whatever it was, but say I have $10 million in the bank. The difference in lifestyle is miniscule.

Sam Brandon

I thought he showed he was ready,'' Walls said.

John B. Keane

There were no ceilings. The walls were collapsed.

Geoffrey Chaucer

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.