Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mohammed Dahlan

We want to protect what we achieved at Camp David, we don't want to waste those discussions.

Jack O'Connell

The fact that more than half of our students have not yet achieved proficiency on the state's content standards, and that a wide achievement gap continues, shows how much work still needs to be done,

Jacques Rogge

There is no doubt that after the great success you have achieved in Athens last year during the Olympic Games, and with the preparations that you have now for the National Games, I would not be surprised if China would lead the medal count in 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Luis Ibarra

We set out to defend the proper rights of immigrants everywhere and we definitely achieved that. We will continue to fight for the cause to show the significance that this bill has on the people.

Carl Yankowski

The Palm team again delivered stellar results on multiple fronts: revenue, units shipped, profitability, and content and platform momentum. This is our third consecutive quarter of 100-percent-plus year-over-year revenue growth, and we achieved it in an environment of increased competition and continued component constraints.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I came from nothing and achieved humungous fame and fortune. But I worked hard. I had discipline and determination. I had that ice in me.

Abby Wambach

When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.

Agost Benard

The outlook could revert to stable if substantial and tangible progress is achieved in maintaining the official cease- fire.

Fred Taylor

Venus Express is equipped to peer beneath the thick clouds that encircle the planet and probe the mysteries of Venus with a precision never achieved before, and find out why Venus evolved so differently to Earth.

John Brain

We have named our team based on our pre-season friendlies and feel that it is a strong line up to take on Gloucester,

Stephen Holmes

We have moved to begin the process of revoking the probation based on the seriousness of the underlying crime that placed him on probation. It will be up to a judge to decide what sanctions should be imposed.

Rodney Hendrix

What the state gives us is based on what the federal grant amounts are.

Chris Foster

When you run for SORF, you have to pledge that you won't judge a club's virtue based on their application. Our guidelines are all about being objective.

Elmore Lockley

We want people to keep in touch with us if they're having problems. We can put people on the budget plan, or special payment method which is very individualized and based on a customer's individual situation.

James McCormack

We were always skeptical about how fast consumer recovery (would) be. It had been pretty slow. This year, we've revised our growth forecast for the Korean economy to 5 percent based on strong fourth-quarter numbers that we saw, particularly in consumption. The export sector still looks positive." ()

Agin Muhammad

We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn't hurt me. As far as I'm concerned, me personally, it's like it never happened.

Phil Brown

We've signed him on a monthly contract and it will be based on his fitness levels.

Brian Barnhart

We have revised our testing policy from earlier in the off-season based on the commitment from Honda to serve as the league's single-engine supplier. This testing format brings more efficiency to the teams, Honda and the league as we ready ourselves for the 2006 season, the league's first featuring its compacted schedule.

Joe Marsh

We have no illusions of grandeur here. It's the situation we want to be in. We want to have to go out there and have to earn every single shift. We'll have to do that in this building (the Kohl Center) for sure.

Samuel Palmisano

We have more work to do, but we are off to a good start this year, building on the momentum of 2005.

John M. Smith

We have some building to do. Building doesn't mean that we're looking at some poor seasons in the future. Building just means we need to build some individuals that don't have a lot of credentials at this point.

Anthony DeFazio

What these buildings have in common is that they are all 100 percent leased and occupied by financial institutions. The buyer wants high credit quality and a steady income stream from the leases.

Capt. McDonough

Whenever you have a large number of people in a building you want to make sure they can get out very quickly. So they need to know where the exits are and they need to know how to get to them.

Marv Levy

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

Al Williams

When you say science, people have a certain image of facilities. Science is not an old building from the 1950s not these days.

Alan Ackerman

We've seen natural gas and energy prices back down. There certainly is no indication that the inventories for oil or natural gas are building in any meaningful way. If OPEC should cut production, we're going to see a rise in oil prices.

Alan Ackerman

We've seen natural gas and energy prices back down, ... There certainly is no indication that the inventories for oil or natural gas are building in any meaningful way. If OPEC should cut production, we're going to see a rise in oil prices.

Tom McClintock

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

Kathleen Blanco

When your whole system, your whole civilized system goes down, this is pretty much what you get left with. We have no communications, no running water, no electricity, no real help.

Hoshyar Zebari

to protect the freedoms of the rest of the civilized world.

John Wesley Powell

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

Mahmoud Abbas

There is a requirement to ensure the withdrawal takes place in a civilized manner. We will be able to show the world we deserve independence and freedom.

Elton Gallegly

from a civilized world out to god-forsaken Kern County.

Mahmoud Abbas

This will be a prerequisite to ensure that the withdrawal will take place in a civilized manner, ... We'll be able to show the world that we deserve our independence and our freedom. We have no other choice.

John Galbraith

We are on the edge of a total end to civilized existenceon this planet, perhaps the end of life itself.

Elliott Abrams

The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive.

Jesse Helms

In subsequent years the groups you named had important roles in educating people about the real issues in Washington and Raleigh, and within the Democratic Party.

Alan Parker

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Nicolas Maduro

My message to France and Europe is that we will make sure Venezuela won't witness the rise of another Pinochet. And we will do it the democratic way.

Gunter Grass

Prose, poetry, and drawings stand side by side in a very democratic way in my work.

Karen Roberts

We're looking forward to having John Samples, a well-rounded candidate, represent the Democratic party in Precinct 4.

Robert Shaw

There is no point in pushing toward municipal or general elections in Nepal. First, there needs to be a democratic process.

Bernard Williams

Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm.

Lee Miringoff

She remains a controversial figure when she moves out from the Democratic primary sweepstakes.

Atharva Veda

My life is prosperous, fruitful and approved; I know that the Guru, the Supreme Lord God, is near me.

Nick Cave

It's possible to get through life without a religious structure, but I don't think that's a very fruitful way to live.

Robert Clarke

We should know if this will be fruitful in three months.

Jimmy Buffett

It's a jungle out there kiddies. Have a very fruitful day.

David Spurlock

It's especially fruitful for me to hear a different perspective. I've rarely met a man as open as Dave.

Gary Bartlett

It's a tremendous project. We're still getting in records and we're getting leads to some other things. Some are fruitful and some are not.

Buck Showalter

It's been a long road trip, and it hasn't been fruitful for us.

Sathya Baba

In order to lead a fruitful and meaningful life, render service to mankind, which will take you nearer to God.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Suzanne Fields

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Carol Moseley Braun

If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary.

C. S. Lewis

There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.

Rob Johnson

We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go.

Agnes Repplier

There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness.

Aaron Swartz

There is no justice in following unjust laws.

Aasif Mandvi

America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse.

Andrew Walpole

Vaughan is ruled out. He is going home.

John Milton

With thy long levelled rule of streaming light.

Ayumi Hamasaki

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

Jay Zygmunt

Sit around and wait. At least it's the same rules for everybody.

Robert Dudley

Let me be very clear: We have not made any such decision, and nothing yet has been ruled out,

Joe Sakic

With the new rules, we think we can do that.

Carlos Castillo

We're simply saying we need to stick to the rules that we've all outlined.

Daniel Pearl

now rule out the possibility that he has been killed by the kidnappers.

Jim Gallagher

give everyone a sense of equilibrium and ... of where the rule is going to wind up.

Agnes Smedley

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

Agnes Smedley

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Anna Kournikova

When I play, I feel like I'm in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?

Dmitry Medvedev

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

Dmitry Medvedev

Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions

Dianne Feinstein

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

Alan Parsons

In Russia we had to have special visas in our passports, and when we had to show our passports at the Kremlin gates, we realized that, Oh my God, we're actually playing in THE Kremlin!

Lucas Till

It was awesome and liberating to play a Russian spy.

Edward Snowden

One journalist said that everybody in Russia is miserable. Russia is a terrible place. And I'm going to end up miserable and I'm going to be a drunk and I'm never going to do anything. I don't drink. I've never been drunk in my life. And they talk about Russia like it's the worst place on earth. Russia's great.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are a number of steps that we can take to reinvigorate and rebuild the economic and the physical infrastructure of our country and then to rebuild us, frankly, on a spiritual level.

Carol Moseley Braun

I really think that's the key, part of the spiritual renewal that America needs to have, the notion that we really can have confidence in a better tomorrow.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge.

Carlos Castaneda

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no way to put a limit on what one may accomplish individually if the intent is an impeccable intent. Don Juan's teachings are not spiritual. I repeat this because the question has come to the surface over and over. The idea of spirituality doesn't fit with the iron discipline of a warrior. The most important thing for a shaman like don Juan is the idea of pragmatism.

Carlos Castaneda

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Carlos Castaneda

The most effective way to live is as a warrior. A warrior may worry and think before making any decision, but once he makes it, he goes his way, free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting him. That's the warrior's way.

Carlos Castaneda

The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

Carlos Castaneda

For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.

M. John Harrison

Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your present blessings

Alan Bishop

Everyone's a singer now, thanks to karaoke, for better and for much worse. But the live band is now becoming ancient history in Thailand, Cambodia, and Burma.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Perhaps it takes a purer faith to praise God for unrealized blessings than for those we once enjoyed or those we enjoy now.

Charlize Theron

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Charles Lamb

Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.

Bernie Siegel

Be grateful simply for being alive. When you are grateful for life, pure and simple, your life becomes one you can be grateful for. That may strike you as circular or even backward logic, but your attitude really does have an effect on how things work out. When you can't change your life any other way, you can still change your attitude. When you do, your life changes. You find more chances to love, and you will be surprised to see how much more love is returned to you.

Brian Andreas

There are things you do because they feel right and they may make no sense and they may make no money and it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other and to eat each other's cooking and say it was good.

Calvin Coolidge

Measured by the standards of men of their time, [the Pilgrims] were the humble of the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy destined to free mankind.

Bill Maher

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.