Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elliot Ackerman

In media coverage of the war, Afghans are often characterized as corrupt and deceitful. There has certainly been plenty of corruption and deceit in this conflict, but why? What inspires these behaviors? In 'Green on Blue,' I wanted to render a world that is often overlooked: that of the average Afghans who are helping America wage its war.

Sam Zarifi

Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.

Emma Bonino

Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves.

Sam Zarifi

Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.

John R. Allen

We're pursuing a strategic partnership with Afghanistan on the case of the United States and Afghanistan where we're going to push toward a future. It is the future that the Afghans desire with the United States. It is a future that the Afghans desire with the international community and we desire that as well.

Tom Koenigs

This will require programs that ensure the participation of Afghans in the development of the country, while meeting the needs of vulnerable groups and poor regions.

P. J. O'Rourke

The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.

Anand Gopal

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Rory Stewart

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

David Ferrell

We want to provide the kids with an opportunity to play against the state's best. It gives the kids a chance to get better and it gives them a chance to get seen by some of the college coaches.

Angelo Forte

We want to prepare our team mentally and physically against the best teams in Ohio. This is an important week. The Stellar gives us the opportunity to play some top teams.

Joe Sakic

We want to play well against Vancouver. We want to make sure we try and get a good win and have a good game there. We'll see how it plays out.

Jeff House

We have to have all five players on the court and be aware of where she is. She can get shots in a variety of ways, and everybody has to be aware of her presence. The biggest thing we need to do against her is get to her before she has the basketball. If you prevent her from getting the basketball you can get under her skin and limit her production.

Jon Jansen

We have to go out and prove we can do it against teams that we should have success against. We need to prove that we're a good team, and we haven't done that yet.

Tom Peterson

We have to go on the road against No. 2 (Cal Irvine) but first is tomorrow night. We have to make sure we're playing better each night. That's who will come out on top, who's playing better at the end.

Scott Johnson

We have to go back on to that drawing board and come up with something different next weekend against France.

Andy Nieto

We have to get those guys to go out with the same type of confidence they had against Cal.

Matt Cavanaugh

We have to get the turnovers under control. But it is more than just Tyler -- our receivers have to work back to some balls, our line has to protect a little better. But if we can cut down on turnovers against Nebraska we will have a chance. There are a lot of nuances about the college game that I have to learn as well. It's only two games so it is too early to press the panic button just yet.

Tony Lesiak

We have revised our target price from $27 US to $28.50 US to reflect significantly higher synergy and exploration potential at Red Lake despite the higher purchase price.

Carlton Cuse

I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

Ted Baker

We are pleased to report strong first-half results despite a tough UK retail environment,

Trey Songz

My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed enough to be able to share my music with the world, and what that has done for me. Despite all of that, I always want people to listen to my music and be able to relate to it as well as to me.

Carol Ross

She has played very well this season, despite being the primary focus of each team we play. She plays so hard each and every game and is an inspiration for her teammates.

Paul Walsh

Since the start of the new financial year the key drivers of performance have remained unchanged, ... In premium drinks, top line growth ... has been maintained despite some weakening of economic conditions.

Chris Paulson

She really showed me a lot of guts and got after it despite the weather.

Rowen Tupuivao

Mentally hanging in there despite all the mistakes, that was the key for us. We could have folded, but we didn't go to sleep. We tried to make something happen.

Alafair Burke

Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

Agnes Repplier

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Joel Diemond

The real history of the U.N. lies in the perceived failure of the League of Nations.

Susan B. Anthony

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Tom Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Lisa Alexander

We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

Valentino Castellani

We have resolved all the financial problems. The venues are pretty much all ready,

Neil MacKinnon

There is a whiff of stagflation here that will be disconcerting for financial investors.

Brady Corbet

Pretty much any time in my career where I worked on television it was usually because of some financial woes or something.

Mark Peters

We did last week reject a $3 million offer for (the Begg-trained three-year-old) Written Tycoon, so to say that we, or even I, are in any financial trouble is presumptuous to say the least.

Alan Greenspan

If prices go down, we will have problems - problems in the sense of spillover to other areas, Greenspan said. While he hasn't seen such spreading yet, I expect to.

Mike Hansen

We are prepared to take a look at our financial situation this spring.

Nader Agha

We are prepared to make the offer, but we need some more financial information.

Van Honeycutt

We are pleased with our financial performance for the third quarter during a challenging and turbulent period for IT service providers.

Roger Toussaint

We have no progress to report, and that is not good.

Charles Edison

Our society cannot progress while our constitution stands still.

Charles de Gaulle

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.

Jan Balkenende

There is all the more reason to say 'Yes' so that some progress can be recorded with the constitutional treaty,

Richard G. Scott

You are making better progress than you realize.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

We also have the option of scanning in an image from outside the computer... a photo, or a sketch done with traditional tools; and we can then paint, manipulate, process, change, and further develop the image within the computer, watching our progress on the monitor.

Bruno Rossi

In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.

Alan Perlis

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

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.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

John McCarthy

Inside of many liberals is a fascist struggling to get out.

James Harrison

We're still struggling to find out how they come up with that number.

Scott Kazmir

I didn't have all my control. I was struggling down in the zone.

Jeri Morin

We've got to get better at serving, because we are really struggling with that right now.

Patrick Halsted

We're struggling with what we do with these things.

Sharon Alexander

We're struggling to survive, ... We can't go down after 59 years.

Jeff Kasko

We're struggling to get there. But we're still hopeful.

Bryant Young

We're struggling to get back to where we were years ago. It's a cycle.

Joseph Smith

We're struggling a little with that right now. We just need to keep working hard.

Donald Judd

I haven't sufficient interest in objects or anything I can see around me to do what Oldenburg does.

Greek proverb

A tomb now suffices him (Alexander) for whom the whole world was not sufficient

Judith Rodin

It’s necessary but not sufficient to learn and then work. You must learn from the work and learn while you work.

Philip Hammond

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.