Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Cook

We want to stop the breaches in the cease-fire and we want to avoid the potential of future atrocities,

Cesare Pavese

We do not free ourselves from something by avoiding it, but only by living though it.

James Baker

The only reason why I negotiated with these guys was simply because they didn't try to avoid the issue, they got hold of us right way, ... They clearly didn't understand when they went out of bounds the risk that was involved to other people. I think in looking backward, they understand they put other people at risk with their behavior and this was a way to settle this thing.

Susan Reeves

The potential changes to the (net-profits) bill must be considered carefully to avoid upsetting the balance contained within the bill.

J. Giertz

The performance of the index suggests that Illinois avoided the slowdown of the national economy that occurred in the last quarter of 2005.

John Whiting

Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic.

Roy Jackson

We've always been able to avoid publicity. We don't even have our name on the front of our building.

John Lazarchic

We've always avoided it because of the huge human workload.

Judy Cameron

We've all been told at one point in our lives that we should avoid late-night snacks as they will lead to weight gain. In reality, however, this belief is not based in fact. We conducted a review of previous data on the topic and found no real evidence that this was true.

Richard McGrath

We want to set the right example and send the right message. Even though this money is coming from contributions, we still think it's very important to be cost-efficient and responsible with expenses.

Luke Pasqualino

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

Michael Strahan

The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.

M. Night Shyamalan

I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

Michael Farr

The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.

James Awad

The positive today is that oil is coming down, the negative is that the housing numbers are worse than expected.

Mark Potok

The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward. And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.

Terry Borr

The pleasant surprise was how our defensive line played. One question I had coming out of preseason practice was how we would play defensively.

Carly Rager

We are seeing a lot of the taffeta coming back with side pleats and drapes.

Elliott Carter

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

Luo Gan

We must think of ways to diffuse contradictions in society,

Bill Chandler

Generally speaking, the Latino population mushroomed here following NAFTA and the fact that some of the poultry industry employers saw an opportunity to recruit Latino workers to diffuse the effect of African-American workers and their efforts to organize unions,

Cesare Beccaria

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally.

Alan Schlesinger

If the race goes four ways with the Green Party, we should be able to diffuse Liberman?s strength. We could gain Democrats? support for us.

Byron Katie

Everything happens for me, not to me.

Bryan Ferry

I can never predict what's going to happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Dorothy Allison

Where story comes from, I don't know. I know that I become obsessed with something. An idea, an image, a person, the way a person talks. And then something starts happening that I can't explain, and it has a lot to do with language.

Julien Dray

When youths take to the street, you don't know what can happen ....

Mariel Hemingway

I've known for years that you're supposed to be present. I know that thinking about what's happened or thinking about what I want is not going to get me anywhere, but until I quit doing it I'm not present.

Delos Smith

When you take a look at what's happened in the last month, you see the same kind of pace?right on down the line. It shows a nice, steady moderate pace, which is what you want.

Holly Holm

It doesn't matter what odds are on paper or what's happened before. It matters what happens that moment.

Jon Gruden

We're not going to sit here and try to justify what happened two or three years ago and what happened last year,

Andrea Dean

We have never had an incident like this. We are going to review our policies and our protocol.

E. L. Konigsburg

Characters are so important to a story that they actually decide where the story is going. When I write, I know my characters. I know how things are going to end, and I know some important incidents along the way.

Ken Trump

When I looked at the incidents this year, it jumped right out.

Ben Carson

We have the purveyors of hatred who take every single incident between people of two races and try to make a race war out of it and drive wedges into people. And this does not need to be done.

Dave Bristow

We don't know if the two incidents are related, but it could be that the suspects were working with the two men who were arrested.

Lajos Egri

No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.

Matt Bryden

Because of the reduced U.N. presence on the border, any incident could be interpreted as a provocation.

LaNedra Carroll

I'd like to think it was an isolated incident because we've put the word out repeatedly.

Monte Mitchell

We've responded to nine incidents seven in the past two weeks.

John Steinbeck

Lord, how the day passes! It is like a life, so quickly when we don't watch it, and so slowly if we do.

Michelle Davis

She's very contemplative and thinks through situations thoroughly, but can think ... very quickly as well.

Sunil Mittal

You can choose to be very profitable very quickly if you don't want to grow.

Armando Iannucci

I briefly thought of becoming a priest but quickly saw that would be ridiculous.

Tony Mowbray

I am surprised by how quickly he has come back,

Andrew Maynard

But the research into the risks isn't being done as efficiently or quickly as it should.

Nicole Draper

The day they were born, they immediately started having complications and quickly went downhill.

Katie Brown

He cantered quickly and was just very quick.

Mike Shanahan

We try to get everything done as quickly as possible. We have to be ready for March.

Frank Verrastro

Most of these supply situations are fraught with some kind of peril.

Levance Fields

We've been in situations like the one we had (Sunday). Down the stretch, they made more plays.

Lakhdar Brahimi

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

Imtiaz Ali

If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.

Warren Ellis

I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.

Liz Vassey

Don't paint a nasty picture of your exes. We'll justifiably wonder what made you stay in those heinous situations in the first place.

Cully Donovan

We worked a lot on situations like that this year. They responded well.

Ann Plato

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.

David Lynch

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

Jason Swearingen

We started out sluggish. It took us a while to get in our groove.

Lindsey Vonn

Vail's a very important place for me. Everyone kind of took me in and accepted me in that town, and they still have to this day. I wouldn't be a downhill skier if I hadn't been there.

Nate Gallick

When we got to our feet, I wanted to make something happen, so I took a chance. It worked out for me.

Eric Norris

Unfortunately, it took us this long to do this.

Frank Haith

When they took the lead, we showed some toughness.

Trinny Woodall

I think I just took a while to know myself. I went on a journey to find out. I was a bit wild.

James E. Faust

Our Redeemer took upon Himself all the sins, pains, infirmities, and sicknesses of all who have ever lived and will ever live.

Barbara Green

She never complained about being sick. She took it all in stride.

Jalal Farzaneh

Mohammad and I took a tour of the devastation.