Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

We are pressing ahead with our contingency planning and we hope to be ready to work with the African Union as we move forward to the implementation of the anticipated decision by the (UN) Security Council that we push ahead with the transition.

Rande Gerber

There are some great opportunities, including selling the land. If that happens, George and I will invest in something else in Las Vegas ... and George will donate his profits to the African Debt Relief Project.

Martin Jacques

Where the costs of entry are minimal, there is a wide avenue of opportunity for those with little or nothing, which is why football is just about the most democratic sport of all: African and Brazilian footballers compete on a level playing field with their rich white European counterparts.

Nnedi Okorafor

'Who Fears Death' addresses the push and pull in African culture that powerful women face when their culture has certain duties and beliefs that can stifle them.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

There is no way that we know what is going on between the African American and the Asian American. We don't understand what an Indigenous American is. We don't understand what a Latino American is

Eddie Murphy

Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.

Hafeez Khawaja

WD's steady growth in the MENA region encouraged us to further expand our operations in this region. We will enter new, untapped regional markets, and at the same time strengthen operations in existing ones. At the centre of WD's expansion strategy are the rapidly evolving and promising African markets, such as Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Nigeria and Kenya. The former three have high IT literacy levels.

Cassandra Wilson

Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

Donald Borut

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

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.

Esperanza Spalding

My earliest attempts at writing were when I was seven. I would sit at the piano and transcribe the songs I heard on the radio. I'd change little things in the music and write different lyrics.

It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Gernot Erler

Yes, attempts of this sort are being made.

Til Schweiger

We haven't done action movies in Germany. We had some attempts in the '90s, but they failed.

Charles de Gaulle

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.

Charles Dickens

Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.

Charles Sturt

If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country.

Charles Spurgeon

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Alan Watts

Everything is perpetually becoming new.

Alan Watts

When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.

I take heart in the statements made not just by the IRA leadership but by the president of Sinn Fein in repeatedly condemning criminality and saying it has no part for the future Republicans.

MoliFre

One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.

Moliere

One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others

Greg Smith

This is a valid public purpose. We're condemning this so residents have a grocery store within a reasonable distance of their homes.

Franklin Graham

I'm not condemning people. God's going to do that. I just want to be honest with people. I just want to tell them the truth. ... People don't want to know what I have to say. They want to know what God has to say.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements which are the most widely diffused have small atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

Certain characteristic properties of elements can be foretold from their atomic weights.

Dmitri Mendeleev

The elements, if arranged according to their atomic weights, exhibit an apparent periodicity of properties.

Dianne Wiest

I'm more aware of time. The element of time.

Christopher Bailey

There are some elements over there that I feel once there is light and activity...they will go away.

Anton Corbijn

There are some elements of digital photography that I don't really like, such as the fact that you see the results immediately.

Lydia Leonard

Television's so quick, and there's so many other fun elements to it, but you don't get such good scripts and the time to really make much more three dimensional characters.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Denise Levertov

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

Charles W. Pickering

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures.

Charles Edward Merriam

It is denied that any limit can be set to governmental activity.

Charles Edison

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Charles Edison

My goal was to make New Jersey's state government a model for all other states to emulate, hopefully thereby to stem, or at least slow down, the flow of power to the federal government.

Charles de Gaulle

These people really aim very badly.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Norman Finkelstein

I am opposed to any state with an ethnic character, not only to Israel.

Rory Bremner

It's no wonder the Tory Party opposed identity cards, since so many of them struggle to find an identity at all.

John Roberts

Yes, I was in an administration that was opposed to quotas, ... Opposition to quotas is not the same thing as opposition to affirmative action.

Sitaram Yechury

Our party's position is clear. We are opposed to FDI in retail sector.

Jean-Pierre Leaud

My mother was an actress in comedies. My father wrote scenarios. They were not opposed to my being an actor. I really didn't know what it meant, but I wanted to be one anyway.

Michael Town

I think if enough people tell him they oppose it, he will listen.

Kate Winslet

I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.

Kate Winslet

I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.

Liu Jianchao

China's position on nonproliferation is clear. We resolutely oppose any proliferation.

Willie Randolph

He has the tendency to overthrow the ball. I'm sure tonight it was no different.

Brigitte Bardot

If we don't get an answer, we will, strengthened by the support we receive, try to overthrow the government.

Little rogues easily become great ones.

Kyrsten Sinema

You should never take military intervention off the table. When you do so, you give an out to a rogue nation or rogue actors.

Douglas William Jerrold

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Alexander Pope

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles.

Larry Hawkins

We've got some rogue rescuers working out there who are not part of the coordinated effort.

Jean de La Fontaine

Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.

Jessamyn West

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Homer

One rogue leads another.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Rogue regimes never respond to anything less than hardball.

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Alan Dershowitz

It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.

Susan B. Anthony

Better lose me than lose a state.

Antonio Gramsci

Every State is a dictatorship.

Antonin Scalia

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is "established by the State".

Bill Ayers

When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Brian Herbert

Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.

Tony Blair

I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened,

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Michael Havens

That was just something that, to us, was a union breaker.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

Chris Chocola

Madam Speaker, before being elected to Congress, I ran a manufacturing business that did a significant percentage of our sales outside the United States.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable.

Hillary Clinton

There is no part of the world that is irrelevant to the United States anymore.

Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

Bruce Springsteen

You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses.

Bianca Jagger

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Aaron Spelling

But, I don't know, the violence, I can't even talk about. We don't do a lot of violent shows. When I started in television, breaking a pencil was a violent act.

Vladimir Putin

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Jasmine Guy

Anything that is non-violent is OK with me.

Donald Ray Pollock

I would like to write a book that wasn't so violent and weird, but I just don't think I can do that with my talent. I don't think it would come off.

Daniel Craig

I guess you could say I've been in my share of violent movies.

Adrienne Rich

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

Jose Maldonado

You'd think if he was a violent offender, they wouldn't let him be out.

Don Wilson

He's not a violent person, you know? That's not him.

Hannah More

Anger is a violent act, envy a constant habit - no one can be always angry, but he may be always envious ...