Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rene Preval

We want the will of the Haiti people to be respected.

Barbara Boxer

You know, I wish the world well. I want Iraq to have democracy and the Haitians to have democracy. I want the people of Afghanistan to thrive. Lord knows, we spend enough money there to help them. What about people at home? Isn't that our first responsibility?

Ben Fountain

Eruptions of talent continue to happen in Haiti, in spite of everything.

Edwidge Danticat

The Attorney General made another astonishing claim, that there were Pakistani terrorists possibly coming on these boats from Haiti. No one has ever seen a Pakistani coming on a boat from Haiti yet.

Colin Powell

has the interest of the Haitian people at heart.

Meta Golding

I think it's really important for Haitians living abroad to go back and help with the development and infrastructure, especially because there are so many international people there.

Rene Preval

If they publish the results as they are now, we will oppose them, the Haitian people will also oppose them, and there will be protests.

Eva DeHart

Our promise to Don is to do our utmost to keep For Haiti With Love rolling in his honor.

Robert Maguire

Everything in Haiti is broken, and everything needs fixing.

Charles Baudelaire

Etre un homme utile m'a paru toujours quelque chose de bien hideux. To be useful has always seemed to me quite hideous.

Deborah Moggach

Whining writers are a hideous sight; we should really shut up, because we are lucky if we can cobble together a living from all of this.

Colin Angle

We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.

Ludovico Ariosto

Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.

Noam Chomsky

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the U.N. vetoed several resolutions right away, calling for an end to the fighting and so on, and that was a hideous invasion.

Charles Palliser

I'm quite intrigued by the notion of a book that is completely self-contained but related to another book. I've coined a rather hideous word for it - a paraquel.

Rachel Perry

I didn't think I was hideous or anything.

Mike Sellers

They weren't winning. They was just another team in the league. Now, they're the bomb. I can't take nothing away from them. But back then, they were nothing. And they had those hideous uniforms, too.

Steve Bruce

The kick in the teeth was the hideous mistake we made in conceding that first goal.

Antonis Samaras

There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

Bobby Jindal

Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.

Abraham Lincoln

Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.

Denis Healey

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time.

David Horsey

It is really no surprise that, in a media world that has been so compromised by an invasion of political partisans and inarticulate airheads with communications degrees, a fake journalist can seem more trustworthy than the real thing.

Anna Sui

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands.

Aldo Leopold

Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow. Invasions can be arrested or modified in a manner to keep an area usable either for recreation, science or for wildlife, but the creation of new wilderness in the full sense of the word is impossible. It follows, then, that any wilderness program is a rearguard action, through which retreats are reduced to a minimum.

Lynsey Addario

I had first visited Kurdistan in 2003 before the invasion of Iraq, camping out in Erbil and Sulaimaniya while waiting for Saddam Hussein's fall.

Donald Rumsfeld

I didn't advocate invasion...I wasn't asked.

Carlos Santana

My memoir is completely not a rock 'n' roll wife's memoir,

Deborah Copaken Kogan

I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC salary.

Oprah Winfrey

It's a gut-wrenching memoir that is so raw and so real.

Jen Lancaster

I'm very detail oriented. I think that's why people enjoy my memoirs - because I tend to remember everything.

Matt Gallagher

I wanted to be a writer, but I kind of wanted to be a fiction writer someday, like 20 - 25 years down the line. I never thought I'd write a nonfiction memoir about Iraq.

Russell Banks

Much more than memoir; it's history.