Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Hurd

It was essentially for self defence that we went to war in Afghanistan and would go to war in Iraq.

Brian O'Driscoll

You can't rely on your defence to win a World Cup.

John Avery

We're talking about twenty-something years of professional ball. You have seen every defence you can possibly see. Every type of athlete, every type of blitz, every type of coverage. You've seen everything.

Bob Ainsworth

I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.

Bob Ainsworth

I have always had a keen interest in defence and military history and read more on this subject than anything else.

Bob Ainsworth

Defence must be more adaptable, able to respond quickly to the changes in the security environment and the character of conflict.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.

Sellapan Ramanathan

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

Nate Clements

Our goal as a defence is to go out there and dominate. I think we did that.

Brandy King

They were documenting them as exchanges instead of purchases.

Zhang Ning

Even though I played three games, I don't feel tired, ... There were not a lot of exchanges on the points.

Hu Jintao

Firstly, the two sides should maintain high-level visits and improve the friendly exchanges between the governments, parliaments and parties to further consolidate the political foundation for the China-Zimbabwe ties,

Taizo Nishimuro

We will set up a mechanism that exchanges (nationwide) can use. (Through) this, we would like to increase Japan's international competitiveness.

Charlotte Bronte

The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him

Michael Moskowitz

The reality is that the Internet is not friendly to mobile devices. But over time, the Internet will bend.

Doug Henderson

There is a stigma that we are not friendly to minorities. When we go out to recruit, that image is there.

David Cross

I know Dave [Attel] and we're friendly, and I have nothing but respect for him.

Olof Mellberg

We did nothing well today. It's another friendly in which we don't reach our normal level. Hopefully, we can pull ourselves together and step up our game when it really matters.

Chord Overstreet

I love John Stamos. John's a really friendly, cool dude.

China Mieville

I'm a very friendly socialist.

Marge Kennedy

Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

Eckhart Tolle

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

Carol Moseley Braun

It's hard to be the first. It's almost as if I'm subject to a different level of inspection.

Tom Robinson

We have never operated outside permit levels at the plant.

Gordon Ramsay

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

Steve Belardi

We used to send all footwear? men's, women's and kid's?all together on a pallet. It was a big hassle at the store level because a lot of it would go to the back room. They were touching every carton. It was crazy.

Ian Hamilton

The process sets wage levels for the country.

Andrew Jones

We're just trying to get people back on a professional level of things.

Garry South

We know how much we're going to have to spend. This is a (spending) level we think we can sustain.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

As a DJ I am never 100 percent in charge of the sound. The sound levels are controlled by someone at the sound board of the venue.

Dexter Scott King

Veganism has given me a higher level of awareness and spirituality, primary because the energy associated with eating has shifted to other areas. If you’re violent to yourself by putting [harmful] things into your body that violate its spirit, it will be difficult not to perpetuate that [violence] onto someone else.

Brian Clough

Resignations are for Prime Ministers and those caught with their trousers down, not for me.

Ron Krumer

The Prime Minister is still in a serious but stable condition.

Mr Howard

I don't for a moment think that the Prime Minister can stop it by the wave of a wand,

Brian Mulroney

You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none.

Marwan Kanafani

We have been pushed to this situation by the positions of Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Winston Smith

We said a prayer for the incoming prime minister and his government.

Bel Powley

I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.

Tom Paulin

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Charles de Gaulle

I respect only those who resist me, but I cannot tolerate them.

Andy North

We have had a long-standing relationship with UPS. That's not going to change.

Barry Hyman

The P&G story is a lot more significant than just its relationship to P&G.

Richard G. Scott

The key to successful missionary work is a close relationship between the missionaries and the members. Creating an environment in working with members that will bring more into the Church.

Tracy McMillan

The thing is, relationships never work out... until they do. You learn a lot from relationships that don't work out.

Brian Weiss

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Diane von Furstenberg

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

David Sedaris

Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.

David Thewlis

I'd had a relationship with a French girl, a Japanese girl, an American girl, a Filippina and she was there all the time - a Lancashire girl. I thought: 'It's a Lancashire girl I was looking for. Why didn't I realize it?