Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Aman Mojadidi

Maybe to feel like an Afghan I needed to be born and raised in the States, and maybe I needed to live in Afghanistan for nearly a decade to feel like an American. Both worlds shaped me, but neither one of them completely correspond to the picture I have of myself.

John Abizaid

Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and Taliban remnants are.

Jason Kamiya

One of the main vulnerabilities of the Afghan Army is their logistics system,

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.

Azita Ghanizada

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

Tasnim Aslam

Today we called the Afghan ambassador and lodged a strong protest.

Sergei Lavrov

We provide transit facilities, we cooperate in equipping the Afghan army and security forces with arms and helicopters, we cooperate in training officers for law enforcement agencies.

Robert Kazinsky

Being a 'hunk' is going to do great things for my love life, and I'll get a lot more offers. But I'll certainly never see myself as one.

Roger von Oech

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Mallory Ortberg

It certainly was unusual growing up with two fairly well-known pastors as my parents.

Drew Goddard

Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.

David Eisenberg

Like a detective, Melinda traced this fibril-forming property down to a little peptide. Nobody expected that 1 percent of the protein could have the essence of the whole protein and could form fibrils on its own; I certainly didn't expect that. There were only seven amino acids in that fragment. Rebecca later found the peptide could be cut to only four amino acids and form fibrils.

Drew DiPippo

Making the tournament has certainly been our focus. We have a tough road to get there, but it's our focus and goal and we're going to keep plugging towards it.

Tim Deal

Macs still present a price premium on the consumer side. That will always be an issue to many consumers. However, for those where technology and differentiation by innovation is the key purchasing factor, this certainly does remove that obstacle.

Keith Gumbinger

Leveraging yourself out at a time when (home) prices are very high certainly could set you up for difficult times.

David Pierce

Let's see... how old am I? I'm definitely in my 50s... and I've certainly always been in my 50s. I could be older than that... but I'm not willing to face that.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Jason Smith

Let's go help these people. We're not doing forced evacuations. We're helping those who want help.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable

Richard Armitage

looks to me like somehow the multinational force didn't stay on top of this.

Joerg Kraemer

Many market participants are hoping for the FDP to take on the role of a pacemaker, a force that pushes for reforms, Merkel wouldn't be able to push through her reform program.

George Lucas

Man your ships and may the force be with you.

John Monroe

Seagate is the most formidable force in the hard-disk-drive industry. This just makes them a more formidable force.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Denis Diderot

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Vincent Jackson

Man, hopefully I'll be playing me, on offense, working with the offense,

Shawn Chacon

Man, he is in a zone. You hope he stays that way for a long time.

Don Daniels

Let's look for a year like last year and hope it doesn't happen. That's all we can do.

Johnny Damon

Let's hope so. We've still got to play well.

Andy Robinson

Lewis is distraught and disappointed and we hope it can all be sorted out.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis. I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Boris Said

Lowe's is my nemesis, ... I didn't qualify for the Memorial Day race there, but we have tested at the track since and hopefully it will be a different scenario this time around. After today, I just can't wait to get back on those ovals.

Tony Bush

lot of lives to be lifted up, lot of hope to be restored.

Wade Duty

Louisiana is undergoing a moment of revision and hopefully reconstruction, and by Friday, we will know what the shape of things will be.

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.

Marvin Hamlisch

learned about listening to yourself. You know the punch line but it has to seem as if you're going to find it.

Mark Walter

One of the things I've learned is that baseball is something that happens over time.

John Connell

Obviously, we're playing a high-quality team. It's not something you can practice for. We learned a lot today.

Rachel Platten

Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

Twyla Tharp

I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens. I learned my craft from these guys.

Gordon Johnson

I feel like I'm in my 50s and I've learned to pace myself.

Kirby Smart

I feel like I learned more this year than I ever have any year I've been coaching.

Marie Underwood

I was speechless when I learned of the award.

David Beatson

I would do it again. I learned a lot about myself, and I would do it again. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

Debbie Pace

Madison never incorporated and didn't get its own government. We don't want to get lost in the shuffle.

Bruce Jones

Many of our people have lost their homes.

Frank Oz

Mmm. Lost a planet, Master Obi-Wan has. How embarrassing. How embarrassing.

Meg Mallon

My first Solheim was when we lost at Dalmahoy (in Scotland) in 1992,

Habibul Bashar

Obviously we will try to win the match...no matter we have lost the first two matches.

Richard Duncan

No one realized how devastating this was going to be, ... Many of these people have lost everything.

Derrick Max

One way or another, everyone's lost sight of why we're here.

Neil LeBlanc

Obviously that day we lost some delegates, but we have also got more from other areas. We've moved on from there because we have to stay focused.

Dean Barker

Obviously it's very disappointing to have lost that race but we can take a lot of positives out of it still,

Mohammad Khan

Seven police were killed on the spot and two are missing,

Wallace Anderson

When I left, policemen were in uniform. Policemen were patrolling the streets.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession.

Eliot Ness

Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

David DeFazio

She didn't want to make any statements (to police). Nothing was voluntary.

Michael Sata

I have got my very own cadres in uniform (police).

Lord Salisbury

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Bob Harris

We rely on police to keep their prisoners secure.

Danilo Magampo

We are required to turn up at the police headquarters before our 2 to 10 p.m. shift for instructions.

Chris Graves

Obviously, we're disappointed, but we've got to keep working. It's always tough to go on the road, but we'll be prepared. That's all you can do.

Dennis Prager

Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.

Richard Shelby

I can tell you that at the end of the day, we're going to have to make some tough decisions.

Michael Spencer

From one to nine, they're all tough outs.

Ernie Goss

If we'd had a typical winter, it would have been a little tough for the retailers.

Sherlyn Lattimer

She was a tenacious, tough and strong-willed woman.

Ann Richards

She's always going to take on whatever is the toughest challenge.

Jeff Long

To us, Bo was just this lovable, great, hard-nosed tough coach,

Fred Couples

Tough day, long day. Teed off at 7 p.m. (6:45, actually). I don't think I've ever done that before.