Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Johnson

Letting it spiral out of control is a public-relations nightmare. They should have done damage control. For an administration known for its rapid responses and e-mails, this one looks like they were tone deaf.

Joel Walton

Lewis was a team effort. It takes everybody doing their part on defense. You've got to make pretty good defensive plays and it allows us to go in and control play from start to finish.

Ben Bernanke

Low marginal tax rates are supportive of economic growth. I would submit that we would want to look very hard at government spending - make sure it's controlled - before we raise taxes, which, in turn, would have negative impacts on the economy.

Julie Roberts

Leadally, we won the game in two areas. We controlled the speed of the game. Panmure like to play it very fast but we worked hard to settle that down and we won it in the goal circle.

Cathy Nelson

Lebanon controlled the match, was putting us on our heels. We couldn't stop them.

Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

Pink Floyd

Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

John Myers

Security has to be obvious and send a no-nonsense message that this is a controlled zone that is under surveillance. You want people to know that it's not an easy target.

Sathya Baba

Mind is the overall instrument which controls and directs the senses.

Peter Schuyler

All around the world one heard or read that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda.

Antonella Notari

We were able to tour the premises, and we were able to speak to Mr. Saddam Hussein in private without any witnesses present.

Barton Gellman

The defection of Hussein Kamel was a turning point in the U.N.-imposed disarmament of Iraq in the 1990s.

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.

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.

Brent Scowcroft

It is beyond dispute that Saddam Hussein is a menace.

Mohamed ElBaradei

the opaque nature of that Saddam Hussein regime.

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.

Sam Richards

Back when Saddam Hussein was in power, the Americans didn't care about his crimes. When he was gassing the Kurds and gassing Iran, they didn't care about it. When oil was at stake, somehow, suddenly, things mattered.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.

Albert Schweitzer

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Albert Schweitzer

Example is leadership.

Albert Schweitzer

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

Bill Cunningham

leaders in other boroughs did. State party leaders did.

Justin Gray

Leadership is what it's all about. It's got to come from somewhere.

John Maxwell

Leadership is more ? if not much more ? influence, rather than position.

Arun Sarin

Leadership is experiential... it's really a trained art.

Mark Fischer

Let's plan for it. Don't wait. We have to step up as leaders.

James Yee

West Point has the reputation for producing leaders, and it produces patriotic men and women who want to serve the country, ... And it produced me.

Andrew Barrett

What you're seeing is these old leaders, which don't have much more downside, come back in favor.

J. J. Johnson

I think (the leaders) are there. It's whether or not they know how to do that yet is what we've got to find. I'm not sure they know who they are yet, so we'll see.

Jim Zoltowski

We look for our seniors to be leaders.

Marcus Eng

We are looking for people who can become role models and leaders. We want people who are teachable.

Kip Janvrin

Steven is our top thrower. He did well and started his year off well. He's one of our leaders.

Amy Powell

Erin is one of our most vocal leaders, even though she's actually a pretty quiet girl.

Wendy Vasquez

Don't look at the people of any particular organization as the leaders. Look at yourself as the leaders.

E. O. Wilson

Let's not make this a black-and-white issue. It's just a name change.

Granth Sahib

Serving the Guru, the Name is obtained, and one remains absorbed in the True Lord.

Eric Antebi

So long as he wears the name tags.

Louise Mensch

Menshn is a play on the word mention, and in the U.S. that's how it'll be perceived. Like Tumblr or Flickr. People in the U.K. thought that I'd named it after myself.

Judy Carter

My first recollection is of a nurse telling somebody would you please get this woman a bed. The name is Carter, C-A-R-T-E-R, yes, just like the president.

Steve Farhood

One out of 15 was able to give me the name of one of the heavyweight champions. So that tells you a lot not only about the state of the heavyweight division, but also about the state of boxing.

Elizabeth McCracken

New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.

Charles Spurgeon

If you simply take the name of Christ upon you and call yourself His servant, yet do not obey Him, but follow your own whim, or your own hereditary prejudice, or the custom of some erroneous church-you are no servant of Christ. If you really are a servant of Christ, your first duty is to obey Him.

Dennis Prager

More people have done good in the name of God than any other way

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Kevin Mitnick

A log-in simulator is a program to trick some unknowing user into providing their user name and password.

Albert Schweitzer

When we observe contemporary society one thing strikes us. We debate but make no progress. Why? Because as peoples we do not yet trust each other.

Albert Schweitzer

The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions.

Bubba Tyer

Luckily, there were no problems with his shoulder at all.

Gia Coppola

Making a movie is a lot of problem solving.

Mark Richt

Leonard has got a very strong upside. He's a mismatch problem for a lot of people.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Alan Culpepper

Look, we have that problem solved, because there are only three of them in the Olympics. We got 187 of them out of the way for you.

David DeFazio

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

David DeFazio

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

Sgt. Devine

She said she had no idea which town she in. Fortunately we were able to provide this type of intervention before a catastrophe occurred.

Andrew Krepinevich

If they're not ready to provide security, there could be a regression.

Gary Bartlett

If they provide some information, they may not have to come.

Andy Brandt

If we can go out and provide a spark for our team, then we feel like we're doing on our job.

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.

Arthur Smith

Theatricals can be irritating, but will provide a better night out than mobile phone salespeople.

Abdullah Gul

We are ready to provide every sort of help,

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

John Hope

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

James Boswell

I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

Samuel Smiles

The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once.

Brian Koslow

One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.

Brian Koslow

During a negotiation, it would be wise not to take anything personally. If you leave personalities out of it, you will be able to see opportunities more objectively.

Josefa Iloilo

I will, from this day strive to forge togetherness out of our differences.

Robert Frank

I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality.

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Ayad Allawi

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

Joe Biden

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

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.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Mike Anderson

Obviously. I have to turn it up a notch.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ralph Soffredine

I can't see why you could ever turn this down.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Michael Fincke

I got to see some video of my daughter. She can turn over now, she's getting really big without me.

Howard Dean

Mr. President, where are the weapons that you told us about?

Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Cher

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.