Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joanna Gonzalez

We want to provide food, water, shelter and medical supplies to everyone. No one should be afraid to accept our offers to provide safety.

Martin McGuinness

We have not accepted the document as a basis for negotiation, and we intend going to the talks to oppose the document.

Stephen Harper

We have no alternative but to accept the checks; they're part of our system.

Alpha Konare

We have never known an Ivory Coast hostile to foreigners. We refuse to accept that image. This is not the Ivory Coast that we know.

Geoff Hoon

We want Saddam to accept the will of the international community,

Nick Russo

We want people to understand this deadline is for new disaster applications. If they have already applied, their cases will continue to be processed. New applications will not be accepted after the March 11, 2006, deadline.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.

Charles Spurgeon

A sermon wept over is more acceptable with God than one gloried over.

Emilio Butragueno

We have received two bids from England, one of which has been accepted already. The other will be discussed by the directors today,

Xue Donghua

We have not been able to contact her. The U.S. Embassy and the Red Cross are not allowed to visit her. We have no idea if she is in good health.

Vladimir Ryzhkov

We have no doubt that the elections in Belarus were not free. There are some 7,000 polling stations in Belarus, but representatives of opposition candidates were allowed to be election commission members at only three stations, which prevented them from monitoring the vote.

Claudia Vercellotti

When you see a priest on trial for murder who is allowed to wear his priest garb, we think he creates an undue bias.

B.J. Ryan

When you score a lot of runs ? and we scored a lot of runs early in the year ? that makes up for a lot of things. It allowed everybody who was going out there to pitch to relax. Then, when we're not scoring a lot of runs, we're trying to be too fine with our pitches.

Jim Boyle

When FCC starting gun goes off on Monday and indeed (joint ownership) is allowed in the top 100 markets, they can formalize deals that have been discussed, ... Even with these gains, there's still some room for these stocks to run. For a number of months, investors weren't sure if regulators were going to come to a decision in June.

Ben Hatfield

We were trying to get them good information and in the process of being cautious, we allowed the jubilation to go on longer than it should have.

Peter Katz

We've seen what happens to other cities like Detroit, where public housing is allowed to run down to the point where the most (expeditious) thing to do is to implode the building and start from scratch.

Jaime Stewart

We have had a few key errors that have allowed the other teams to score runs. We have only been outside for four games (before last Wednesday) ... so I have to believe that with more time playing on a dirt field that we will fine-tune the defense and we will eliminate those errors.

Tim Hayes

The fact that New Zealand is a natural resource-based economy, and not a service-oriented economy, has allowed the market to benefit from rising world commodity prices and also has insulated it from the global economy.

Peter King

We want to provide very significant tax incentives for businesses to locate there, incentives for housing, and attempt to minimize as much of the red tape as possible by creating one central clearing house for government programs,

Kenneth Frazier

We have said from the beginning that we do not intend to roll over in these cases when people bring insubstantial cases to court in an attempt to collect money improperly from Merck,

Dan Senor

We have no group that's claimed responsibility. It could be any number of groups attempting to operate inside Iraq.

Piero Fassino

We have never proposed a tax increase. This lie about tax hikes is a desperate attempt by Berlusconi to rake in some votes...

Gladys Bettis

What the Rams did to him was wrong. It isn't that they traded him. But they put the word out that he was a bad guy in an attempt to justify the trade. But it took people in Pittsburgh about five minutes to realize it was untrue. But Jerome was miserable over what happened in St. Louis, until he had a chance to get out there and prove the Rams wrong.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Richard Thompson

We were attempting to restore the culture of Britain for the British, ... But the English, in particular, aren't comfortable with their own culture. To be taken seriously, it has to come from somewhere else. So we remained a cult band.

Bill Daly

The fact that only one of the six proposals actually contemplated a salary cap exposes the union for its true motivation - to do everything necessary to precipitate a fight in an attempt to preserve the status quo.

John Williams

The fact of the matter is (Brazil's) currency had to fall. The whole (Brazilian) economy and interest rates were being held hostage to the currency. You had to keep interest rates high, and therefore hammer the economy in an attempt to hold the currency up.

Ron Reier

The fact is, this building is posted, and they did not belong here. This was trespassing, entering a building that is not very safe. There's quite likely going to be charges.

Selman Waksman

Streptomycin belongs to a group of compounds, known as antibiotics, which are produced by microorganisms and which possess the property of inhibiting the growth and even of destroying other microorganisms.

Talib Kweli

I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.

Tom Mann

The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world. It is your privilege to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you.

Teresita Sy-Coson

Sometimes, of course, I could not belong to the boys club, but that's OK. There are always ways to do what I wanted to do. It doesn't really matter so much to me.

Eric Burdon

There are some songs that don't belong to The Animals that I refuse to give in to and not do. I enjoy singing other people's songs, you know. That's why they're written in the first place.

Eric Hill

I consider myself very fortunate indeed to have created a character which has captured the imagination and enthusiasm of so many children worldwide. They are my family, and Spot belongs to them all.

Erik Hassle

I'm a real genre jumper, but all good music belongs to the same family. I love Dave Sitek, a producer I've been working with a lot since I moved to L.A. He will change the game.

Karen Maitland

I'd love to own Newstead, partly because it belonged to Lord Byron, but also to try to uncover what dark secrets really lie beneath.

Pierre Berbizier

We want to play with the same rights of the other team, we cannot play with a handicap.

Ron Gettelfinger

We have said consistently that General Motors cannot shrink itself to prosperity. In fact, shrinking General Motors only exacerbates its problems.

David Murangari

Whenever there is a power cut, the whole shift is distorted and time is lost. Time cannot be reversed.

Joe Nickel

When you say, 'I don't know,' you cannot then draw a conclusion. That's faulty logic.

Danial Shapiro

When your mortality is threatened, it gets your priorities in order. I think, 'It's just modern dance.' I cannot get so worked up. It's important to me, I love doing it, but for God's sake, it's just modern dance.

Tom Segev

We were always told we cannot use them, we cannot publish them because it would help Holocaust deniers. Now suddenly these papers are being released to fight the Holocaust deniers.

James Morris

We have put financial systems in place to help ensure people do not starve if donations are not immediately forthcoming. But these internal loans cannot be repeated if the international community does not step in to replenish funds.

Atal Vajpayee

We have proved that India is neither a proliferation threat nor an exporter of sensitive nuclear or missile technology. This cannot be said to be true of all parties to the NPT,

Brigham Young

We have a work to do just as important in its sphere as the Savior's work was in its sphere. Our fathers cannot be made perfect without us; we cannot be made perfect without them. They have done their work and now sleep. We are now called upon to do ours; which is to be the greatest work man ever performed on the earth.

Mirwaiz Umar

We have no conditions from our side and they (New Delhi) have no conditions this time.

David Williams

The extreme conditions of a long underwater mission are similar to those of space, ... This mission presents aquanauts and physicians with an unprecedented opportunity to test state-of-the-art remote medical techniques in real-time and real-life situations. Someday, these techniques could be used in long-duration, manned space flights.

Dominic Bryant

The fact MEW did not fully correct the large Q2 increase supports our view that conditions in the housing market are improving and that this will, at some point, lead to increased household consumption.

Jim Thompson

We used to have to run somebody down there and do a manual test of the water. Now we can instantly see what the conditions are from the office while we're working on other things.

Thomas Mallon

I like writing dialog but don't think I'd be much good at a screenplay. I once had to write a treatment for a novel of mine - a condition of its being optioned by a movie producer - and I turned out something pretty lackluster. So my inclination would be to stay out of the way of an experienced screenwriter.

Peter Gatti

Ultimately a lot of this will be determined by what the market conditions are.

Steve Desimone

This was a team effort. These were definitely some of the harshest conditions (we faced this year).

Emily Martin

The condition of sleep is profoundly contradictory. It is a precious good... but it is a good like none other, because to obtain it, one must seemingly give up the imperative to have it.

Eric Bristow

In 1987 I got dartitis, a psychological condition which means you can't let your darts go properly. For a time, I wondered what the hell I was going to do if I didn't recover. But I remained positive and, thankfully, got over it. It occurred during the Swedish Open when I found I couldn't let the darts go.

Stephen Fleming

We have players who are playing well and can cover up for him. If he is dropped, it would be for tactical reason and not form.

Scott Johnson

We have retained Gavin Henson as cover for a number of positions in the backs.

George Lois

When I did 'Esquire,' I did a lot of celebrity covers, but the celebrity cover was Hubert Humphrey as a dummy, sitting on Lyndon Johnson's lap and aping his feelings about the war. I did celebrity covers that made a difference in what was going on in American culture.

Kent Anderson

When I moved here I had a two bedroom, simple, 900 square feet, and rent was eight to nine hundred. For that same size unit it's now $1,500 per month. You take a $10-an-hour worker, pretty much all of their wages for the year would only cover rent.

Matisyahu

When I'm meditating on an idea, I try to let the idea completely saturate me to the point where I feel like I'm covering myself in it or totally immersing myself in it, so that everywhere I'm looking, everywhere I'm going, it's through the lens of that idea. And that's sort of what I do with the music - I try to lose myself in it.

Thomas Bulfinch

Shields were generally made of wood, covered with leather, or some similar substance. To secure them, in some sort, from being cut through by the sword, they were surrounded with a hoop of metal.

Toni Collette

We were just covered in dirt the whole time. It was so hot - and that was in winter. I can not imagine what it's like in summer and how the people who actually live out there survive.

Thomas North

Without saying word to anybody, cover thy face.

Tawni O'Dell

It turned out I really didn't like journalism. I wanted to make up stories, not cover real events.

Rick Barnes

We want him to want the ball. He's going to have to demand it. ... The worst thing he can do is be passive this time of year.

Charlotte Bronte

Unheard-of combinations of circumstances demand unheard-of rules.

John Hofland

We've seen demand go up here and nationwide. We think the market's there to supply more fuel.

Subir Raha

We have received this demand and we are shocked.

Andrew Shipley

The fact that public works spending is about to slow shouldn't raise concern. It's only if private demand is not recovering, and there are signs that private demand is recovering.

Claudia Rapkoch

The fact is Bozeman is growing. There is a lot of demand on our service as a result, and we have a responsibility to meet the demands of our customers.

Terry Carroll

There is a lot of demand for power in the marketplace right now.

Kate Capshaw

There is a lot of demand for a 4, and no doubt a 5, 6, 7 and 8. I think George would just make as many as Harrison and Steven would like.

Yuli Tamir

There is no doubt that our demand for the Finance Ministry is a legitimate one and part of our world view.

Katharine Weymouth

Moderate to conservative Democrat. But I'm not going to impose my views on the editorial page.

Robert Mankoff

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New Yorker', we retain a lot of incongruity, tapping the playful part of the mind - Monty Python-type stuff. We also try to use humor as a vehicle for communicating ideas. Not editorial comment, but observation.

James Salter

My first book was published without any editorial advice. Nobody said, 'You might do this or that,' or 'Why don't we see more of this.' I merely took the book and published it.

Garth Nix

I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.

Jim Costa

We have for too long put vast oil and natural gas reserves off limits to exploration and production, as The Washington Post editorial stated this week.

Lionel Barber

There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.

James Carville

He's got to show these right wingers that he's got a backbone, you know. It's why the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching you. Show 'em that you're tough.

James Carville

He's got to show the right-wingers that he's got backbone. Go ahead, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is watching. Show them you're tough.

M. Thompson

There is a distinction between something that has gone through an editorial process as opposed to something put up by someone that has been through none of those processes,

Carol Moseley Braun

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Carlos Castaneda

The third point of reference is freedom of perception; it is intent; it is spirit; the somersault of thought into the miraculous; the act of reaching beyond our boundaries and touching the inconceivable.

Emmeline Pankhurst

We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half

Johnny Thomas

We have to find some strong safeties and free safeties.

Beth Young

We were trying to get to the free throw line at the end of the (second) half. We couldn't get there.

Jerry Sloan

We were totally intimidated by the guy to start with because he had such free roam. We never got a hand in his face. He's a terrific player.

Thomas Paine

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Alan K. Simpson

There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberty, only a long staircase where each step down must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders.

Alan Kay

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

Carlos Mesa

I have reached a limit in my work.

Charles Stanley

We must never limit God's ability to turn even the worst, most vile experience in our lives into something productive, beneficial and positive.

David D. Burns

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

I still find it hard to push my own limits. I know where my limits are and that I always have to push myself.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Edward Said

You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit

Jane Fonda

We've got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

We are not defined by our limits, but by our potential,

Carl Jung

Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness

Janis Joplin

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

Chris Colfer

I'm really not good blackmail material.

John Grisham

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

Danny Walker

Until there's a research question, the material is preserved better in the cave.

Kenneth Fisher

I can find only one bull market, in 1935, that didn't have some material indigestion within its first 12 months.

Bob Newhart

You never know when you'll come upon something and it's going to be fodder for new material.

Edward Abbey

The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

Richard Palmer

But they have to be encapsulated to be useful in real-world applications. In the past, encapsulation spoiled the very material properties we're after.

Don Brownlee

But the study of these materials will go on for decades.

Jess Glynne

I have so much hair, so straightening takes a long time. I mean, if I look at photos of myself with straight hair, it's hilarious. I look like a different person.

Craig Fraser

Those photos would make you turn white to look at them,

Becky G

Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.

Norman Reedus

I'm always taking pictures and travelling with a camera and have so many photos that I've done a book.

Megan Smith

For those of you who are underrepresented in technology, know that you've always been here. Look in photos and see yourself reflecting back.

Mary-Kate Olsen

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Mark Edwards

That's a little weird to me. Why would you be taking photos if nothing happened? Were they being taken to set up a defense?

Rebekah Brooks

The days of foot-in-the-door harassment and snatched photos are gone.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

Harvey Johnson

Mrs. Knox will be produced at the proper time.

Del Harris

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.

Richard Hatch

It's rare to get a really truly wonderfully written, acted and produced sci-fi show, period.

John H. Reagan

The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

John Gregg

Ultimately there could be two providers in Portsmouth, ... one step at a time.

Charles Spurgeon

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

Megan Crandall

When you turn it on, it will recognize that that vehicle turned it on - date, time, everything. It essentially provides accountability.

Martin Seligman

I strongly disapprove of torture and have never and would never provide assistance in its process.

Paul LaViolette

We're going to run some new plays, and we think they're going to provide us some more momentum.

David DeFazio

Many of the statements (appeared) to have been provided to her.

John Barnett

We're being called on to provide services we don't have,

Tom Casey

If this provides them with a justification to release Jill, that would be wonderful, but we are not sure it will. We just want her released by any means.

Paul O'Grady

I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.

Irving Penn

The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

Mike Edwards

We've dodged a bullet. It's not as severe as it has been in the past.

Herb Sendek

I think it was really a severe injury,

Brian Bannister

It's not torn. It's not anything severe. It's really just tight right now. If it was more severe I'd probably be sitting down.

Mo Ibrahim

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

John Lichtblau

This is a severe but temporary situation. Repairs can be done.

Brian Billick

It's always more severe than it sounds. We'll have to see on the toe.

Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

C. S. Lewis

But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman.

Charles Dickens

Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.

Sandra Cisneros

One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times.

Brent Spiner

Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception.

Bret Easton Ellis

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story.

Diane Setterfield

Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories.

Diane Setterfield

A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.

Diane Setterfield

A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.