Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Robertson

Many of these targets are indeed the brains behind the brutality going on in Kosovo today, part of the apparatus that is driving this ethnic genocide that is going on inside this part of former Yugoslavia,

Michael Johns

Seventy years ago this November, Vladimir Lenin created the modern totalitarian state, transforming simpler forms of tyranny into history's most sophisticated apparatus of rule by terror.

Manouchehr Mottaki

If we reach the point where the existing international apparatus do not meet the the Iranian nation's right, the Islamic Republic's policies might come under re-examination.

Lyor Cohen

I think it would be bad for culture and the art if artists and people who develop the apparatus to support those artists don't get paid.

John Rawls

To employ the coercive apparatus of the state in order to maintain manifestly unjust institutions is itself a form of illegitimate force that men in due course have a right to resist.

Rand Paul

I think the key to getting rid of illegal immigration, no matter where its coming from, is that you need to have a good legal apparatus for immigration.

Thomas Piketty

What I'm pushing for is an economic discipline that will be closer to other social sciences; in particular, we should be more pragmatic about the methods that we are using instead of pretending that we have our own scientific apparatus with very sophisticated mathematic models that distinguish us from sociologists and historians.

Elliott Stonecipher

I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray. The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knockout punch.

Elliott Stonecipher

I think the most polite term that you can use is disarray ... The party apparatus seems to have taken a knockdown, if not a knock out punch.

Mike Patton

Let's just say we're closer musical friends now. A lot of these people are strangers to me. They were out of sight but very much in mind.

Magnus Scheving

'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.

Lori Lucas

Many workers who are closer to retirement can be tempted to consume rather than save.

Joe Hudak

Settle entered in a really tough spot. Closer is a tough job; you're either the hero or the goat, no in-between. He did a good job in that situation.

Alan Lacy

Sears has had a very different problem from Kmart, ... Our service and products are as good as our competitors but they're not where our customers are. This now gives us the opportunity to grow off-mall locations closer to the customer.

Michael Hitchcock

So it's sand in the hour glass now. And the closer it gets, the better it is for us.

Giancarlo Fisichella

Maybe we are not as quick as McLaren still, but I definitely think we can be closer than in recent races.

Mary Pope Osborne

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

Robby Albarado

My filly ran her eyeballs out. This was a tough beat. I don't think I could have gotten any closer of a finish than that. It was a great horse race.

Andrea Seigel

Louis CK knows that just because a joke is using space as a resource instead of something to be crammed like a hamper, this doesn't mean a story isn't happening.

Matthew Sweet

More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs).

Sarah Palin

New terms used like, 'overseas contingency operation' instead of the word 'war' - that reflects a worldview that is out of touch with the enemy that we face. We can't spin our way out of this threat.

Vitor Meira

I was telling (team co-owner) John Barnes that patience pays here. That's what we did the whole race. We were racing smart instead of aggressive. It paid off for us.

Rocco Buttiglione

If instead one talks about the United States, there's a turning point. You know where you can find it? In a film called Pretty Woman.

Terry Egan

So instead of PowerPoint you have presentation software and instead of Microsoft Word you have word processing software.

Elaine Elliott

She's pretty much had her way. You're always talking about containing, not stopping a player like that. It would be a victory to keep (Langhorne) from getting 20 instead of 30.

Bill Clinton

If they had been in office instead of me, we would have had peace in the Middle East.

Marvin Demoff

If they want to sign someone else instead of Larry and release him, he'll end up playing somewhere else. Players have only so many options.

John Gresham Machen

Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.

Roger Warren

Through various different methods they've managed to squeeze residential construction.

Bela Karolyi

What is a better way to prove that your methods work than by winning? I have proved that my methods work.

Dick Morris

The old rules and the old methods of winning are gone.

Cheryl Tiegs

We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro and it didn't work. It didn't stick. It didn't - didn't produce a baby at all.

Robert Sterling

In the off-line world, people use different payment methods in different circumstances,

Naomi Campbell

I feel very responsible for young models of colour. They come to me and tell me they're not getting jobs, and I do what I can to speak up for them.

Vernor Vinge

It is a point where our old models must be discarded and a new reality rules.

Paul Marciano

When models started getting skinnier in the nineties and were becoming sick-looking, I didn't get it! I think that's sending a totally wrong message.

Sophie Monk

You know all those models who say, 'I was so tall and lanky and everyone picked on me at school' - I was not that girl. I hear that and I'm like, 'Oh, you poor thing!'

Jessica White

There's so many misconceptions about me and my personality. People think I'm not a nice person, you know, or maybe a diva; not just about me, but the misconceptions of other models as well, or supermodels.

Thierry Mugler

I want my models to be bigger, stronger and taller than common mortals. I need superwomen and supermen.

Louis Navellier

Our system is dynamic, always shifting gears. What I do is I build models to beat the market.

Donella Meadows

Models can easily become so complex that they are impenetrable, unexaminable, and virtually unalterable.

Andie MacDowell

I think role models exist, but they usually don't get the light because people like scandal.

Sun Yuxi

The United States must take a more cooperative and pragmatic attitude, it must take responsibility, and it must apologize.

Kevin Barry

I think journalism is useful training for a writer in the way it takes the preciousness out of the pragmatic side of the craft.

Gloria Swanson

I am a very pragmatic person.

Olivia Hussey

When I was a little girl, I used to walk around with a towel on my head, pretending I was a nun. And then one day my mother said, 'Why don't you just become an actress, and then you can pretend you're a nun.'

Barbara Kingsolver

I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.

Andrew Lincoln

I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Martin Freeman

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

Orson Scott Card

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

Anders Holm

Back in college, I remember shooting stupid videos with my friends. It would be us going around town in capes pretending we were superheroes.

Abraham Foxman

This is not a documentary, and nobody's pretending it is.

Julian Barnes

Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.

Julian Barnes

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

Pat Fitterer

When they were sophomores they were pushing the seniors.

Cheryl Lynn

I was upset with Delbert, because there he was going again and pushing me out in front, without asking me.

Rudy Murillo

We're really pushing this year to get the youth involved.

Bob Lachky

We're really pushing this hard, and we're starting to see some momentum.

Ned Yost

We were getting short out there. You can't keep pushing it.

Abel Ferrara

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

Camille Paglia

My argument has always been that nature has a master plan pushing every species toward procreation and that it is our right and even obligation as rational human beings to defy nature's fascism. Nature herself is a mass murderer, making casual, cruel experiments and condemning 10,000 to die so that one more fit will live and thrive.

Billie Joe Armstrong

I'm a songwriter-I'm obligated to keep pushing myself.

Jon Runyan

Just pushing and shoving. That's the way I always play.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

David Greene

We need independent scientific breakthroughs in each of these three areas.

Ray Comfort

Creation is absolute, 100 percent scientific proof that there was a Creator.

Louise Lippincott

When someone is doing scientific illustrations, that person is an artist.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,

Wayne Murdy

There has never been a scientific study showing that we have polluted the bay.

Edward Abbey

Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

Robert Lanza

Without any scientific data, one has to be very, very skeptical.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

Jon Johansen

Basically, if I have no intention of using a service then I won't bother reverse-engineering it.

George Wald

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one.

Ban Ki-moon

We are using resources as if we had two planets, not one. There can be no 'plan B' because there is no 'planet B.'

Aerin Lauder

I think every woman should be using a foundation, whether it's liquid or compact.

Tom Jenkinson

This current round of gigs, I'm just doing it using pure electronics.

Lucy Liu

When you work with chains or any kind of weapons, or just when you're using hand-to-hand combat, you are going to get hurt.

Alan Chambers

One of the many evils this world has to offer is the sin of homosexuality. Satan, the enemy is using people to further his agenda to destroy the Kingdom of God and as many souls as he can.

Bernard Meltzer

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Nathan Thompson

I think using this lumber makes it very unique.