Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joschka Fischer

Loyalty to allies is an important and central issue in German foreign policy but reason must always take priority,

Duke Cox

No one but the energy industry and its allies stand by it now.

Klaus Fuchs

At this time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Germany and Russia to fight each other to death.

Klaus Fuchs

At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.

John Tkacik

China's ambitious weapons modernization and reforms in military doctrine are aimed at promoting vast increases in its comprehensive national power, ... a wake-up call to the administration, to Congress, to the Taiwan government and to our friends and allies in the Asia-Pacific region that . . . China stands poised to assert itself as the pre-eminent power in the Asia-Pacific region.

James Inhofe

I'd much prefer to have a lot of allies out there, both in the Middle East and in Western Europe, ... Late Edition.

Timothy Murphy

We must continue to ensure law enforcement has the necessary tools to combat terrorism here at home. We must also work with our allies and provide our military with the weapons and protective gear they need to defeat terrorism abroad.

Dave Reichert

We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Sarah Palin

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

Michael Leunig

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Chris Bailey

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Trevor Hohns

(Lee's) had a pretty hectic season, he's played nearly every game for Australia and he's done exceptionally well for us. He's bowled fast all the time so, once again, he's another one of those players that we're really going to have to manage a little bit, possibly a little bit better, in the future.

Jane King

Many overseas tourists discover New Zealand on their way to Australia and wish they had budgeted more time for it, ... New Zealanders are a friendly, relaxed people. They welcome visitors and enjoy sharing the country's beauty and lifestyle.

Steve Lewis

Scott is desperate to stay in Wales and he desperately wants to coach the Wales team. He is trying to do everything he can with his family issues back in Australia to enable him to do that.

Gordon Tietjens

Seven out of 10 overall -- a couple of defensive deficiencies to let Australia through early. Once we got hold of it we played well, but we need to get the ball more.

Amiruddin Saud

Moved by our nationalist sentiments, we decided to call a boycott of all Australian commodities.

Michael Healy

MPU was a great platform for emotional drama and Australian stories.

Peter Reid

Mother Nature has been kind to us. Australia could be the world leader within the next couple of years given the geological anomalies present in South Australia,

Liu Zhengrong

Major U.S. companies do this and it is regarded as normal. So why should China not be entitled to do so?

Evan Osnos

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

Jamie Smith

Secretary Albright was in China with government officials and people in the private sector to help them better understand DP World's interests in China.

Sha Zukang

So it is in that connection I can tell you China will not sit on one hand.

Herbert Lau

Momentum in the two China telecom stocks is slowing because all the good news is in the price now, ... In the near term they will follow the trend in the telecom sector, where there is still some weakness.

Daniel Basse

Much of the run-up this year has to do with a smaller-than-expected crop in China due to excessive rains.

John Snow

Moving to a truly flexible exchange rate requires a lot of preparatory steps. China is seriously engaged in taking these preparatory steps,

Fernando Alonso

McLaren have the pressure to be perfect until China (the season's finale), and if they are not, we will be there to punish them.

Alex Wong

Net interest margins in Hong Kong remain under pressure and Standard Chartered Bank's performance here in 2005 would likely not be as strong as in China and elsewhere in the Asia-Pacific where it has expanded aggressively.

Mike Gill

Like I always say, defense wins games. Today once we settled down, we made a lot of big plays.

Randy Rutledge

Luke's execution from the point, and his defense on Fischer was big. Luke has grown a lot this season.

Henry Bibby

Making a nice run doesn't mean anything. We didn't come out with any urgency, we didn't have any intensity and we didn't play any defense early on.

Kit Bond

Let me be clear: The National Guard is being fully active, not only in the work they are doing overseas but in their homeland defense activities.

Marcus Johnson

Lots of time we'd come down and make one call, then the defense would be something we didn't expect and we'd have to make another call. It gets tough but we just need to get better at it.

Jerry Moore

Last year was a struggle in a lot of ways, ... Defense really hurt us last year. We're used to some pretty tough defenses, and that wasn't the case.

Raheem Brock

Last year, the defense was young and inexperienced and the linebackers moved around in different positions. Everybody's used to playing where they're at and we're communicating well.

Dennis Fowler

Last year Terryville played us tight in two one-goal games. Their defense was just as tough today,

Lonnie Lawrence

Last year's game greatly motivated us. We knew our offense was good enough to win. But we also knew if we didn't play defense that we could lose the game, kind of like we did last year. We picked up the defense, picked up the intensity and took the win.

Gary Cooper

Lower prices are likely to stimulate increased demand, but to what degree is unknown.

Gene Sperling

Many of the members of the faculty who oppose him have never fully appreciated the degree that he is someone who is very open to criticism, to reconsidering his positions, to frank discussion.

Markus Persson

'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

Joan Ganz Cooney

My degree was in education, but the idea of being a teacher lost out to being a reporter. I worked at a newspaper for a while, then went to New York and worked in PR at RCA and NBC, and at 'The United States Steel Hour,' a drama series.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Leslie Miller

Obviously there was some degree of disappointment, especially with Venezuela and our counterparts a like,

Timothy Noah

The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.

Diane Neal

My older sister has all her degrees in theater, and I couldnt stand the theater geeks!

Ted Leland

I can't imagine taking another job in sports, ... I have no interest in professional athletics. Pacific happens to be a place I have two degrees from and I think I can help.

Robert Teeter

We ought not to be looking for something spectacular but rather develop a plan in conjunction with the White House to work our way out of this problem over the next six weeks.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Jason Varitek

Like every year, the personality of the team takes hold over time. It's something you develop as the season goes along. You don't have a personality that is set going into the year, because every year there's a different mix.

Chris Davis

Luke's favorite practice is the one where they didn't have Abby here because he got to take a leadership role. It was fun because they got to lead one another and develop teaching skills as well.

Michael Griffin

Let me be clear. The primary objective for the next several years is to develop a new vehicle for lower orbit and beyond, following the orderly retirement of the space shuttle.

Mark Twain

Love is a madness; if thwarted it develops fast.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall. This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Paul Kurtz

Last year we were fairly tall, ... This year we are going to focus in on our passing and will try to develop our setters.

Tony Blair

Libya has declared its intention to dismantle its weapons of mass destruction and to limit the range of Libyan missiles to no greater than 300 kilometers, ... that this process will be transparent and verifiable.

Joan Anderson

Most women I know have, in the service of some greater good, let their very lives wilt on the vine. We've dulled our personal lives while propping up everyone else's, and we're no longer able to even imagine having any sort of adventure, romance, meaning or purpose for ourselves.

Lynsey Addario

My job is to take the pictures, communicate a message, to bring those images to the greater public through whatever publication I'm working for. My job is really to be a messenger, and that's what I've been doing.

Paul Giamatti

I can't imagine a greater honor than being acknowledged by my peers.

Samuel Coleridge

Only the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Jim Webb

I was raised with the notion that there is no greater honor than to find a way to serve your country.

Mark Twain

I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't.

George Robertson

I have heard the news and greatly welcome it. I hope it will lead to greater stability for the people of Iraq.

Bob Uecker

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

Monica Cruz

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

Liu Jianchao

I do not think that progress of the talks needs to be measured by the signing of a document.

Robert Green Ingersoll

No writer must be measured by a word or paragraph. He is to be measured by his work - by the tendency, not of one line, but by the tendency of all.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Xu Shiquan

Personally I think the mainland's reaction this time has been very measured and moderate.

Source Unknown

Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Armondo Cima

I think we are getting more used to each other. From that point of view we are making measured progress in that area.

Ed Loyd

I think overall there has been a very measured reaction to the announcement.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

Needless to say, there is no opportunity to interrogate or learn anything from a suspect who is vaporized by a missile launched by a keystroke executed thousands of miles away.

Caspar Weinberger

Even an inaccurate missile is quite a deterrent.

Richard Shelby

There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.

Tasnim Aslam

There is no response from the US on our protest lodged after the missile attack.

Richard Myers

This is one of the things that we have seen over time, that in the no-fly zones there will be surface-to-air missiles moved in, moved around and moved out,

Richard Lobb

So far, we've not seen any impact, but we're reviewing our options to see what we need to do to keep it that way.

Kim Moore

I feel like there's still some options open.

Fabio Capello

We had other options but Vieira was the one I wanted,

Rand Paul

I've repeatedly voted for sanctions against Iran. And I think all options should be on the table to prevent them from having nuclear weapons.

Group Inc

We don't have many other options left. This is it,

Frans Houten

There are various M&A options we will explore.

Matt Rogers

Right now my options are pretty open. Just trying to get out there and play well these first three games.

David Foster

Look at all of your options through your employer.

Orrin Hatch

It is important that I keep working on all options to protect our state,

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Akira Suzuki

Our case, we used the organometallic compounds. Additionally, we need one important element, that is base. Without base, the acidic coupling reaction using organoboron compounds cannot proceed nicely. So, that is very important point in our cross-coupling reaction.

Brad Kullman

We haven't had anything to proceed on yet.

Li Yizhong

With the proceeds from the A share issue, we will be able to fine-tune the integration of the company's upstream and downstream operations.

Rick Jandreau

Unless we get an injunction, we can proceed with the timber sale process.

David Sykes

He has spoken about several opportunities and I am not sure what he will proceed with.

John Kyl

We recognize to proceed would ... result in a vote that would not be successful.

Steve Serbati

We're not tearing down the old bridge, so traffic will proceed as usual.

Peter Stuyvesant

It is my intention to proceed slowly with our trenches.

Sherrod Brown

We must have a timetable for withdrawal of U.S. forces - or at the very least a plan for it - something the administration has incredulously failed to do for over two years.

Rosa DeLauro

What we should be is on the people's timetable and not on a congressional timetable.

Andrew Friedman

With hamstrings, it's tough. We don't want to put a timetable on it.

Ashton Eaton

My goal in Korea is to win. There's no timetable when to set the American record.

Tom Wright

There really is no timetable for us to do that.

Bob Gainey

It'll probably be a day or two before we know the timetable for him.