Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Rogers

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Albert Schweitzer

The city of truth cannot be built on the swampy ground of skepticism.

Liu Xiaoming

Major cities around the world have spent more than a decade or two trying to solve this problem. Some big cities still face this problem.

Stephanie Stilson

Let's look at these 99 other places (honored) and see what kind of education they provide. What do cities that really excel in education do?

Rudi Giuliani

Let's now make this kind of a permanent condition for New York City, that New York City is one of the safest large cities in America, and let's keep it that way,

Thomas Heywood

Seven cities warred for Homer, being dead,/ Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head.

Chris Paulitz

Sen. Hutchison is very impressed with the progress the cities are making, but it is too early in the process to discuss an endgame.

Joseph Rykwert

Mixed use is what cities are all about. If you don't have mixed use, you don't have cities.

John Mulvihill

One of our goals was to talk to all the cities and see if we could convince everybody to do kind of a regional facility.

Cheech Marin

I guess what really made me a Dodgers fan from the beginning was that the team had Jackie Robinson, the first 'Negro' in the major leagues.

Pete Rose

The game of baseball is better when the Dodgers are playing well, just like when the Yankees are playing well, or the Cubs, the Phillies, the big-name teams.

Orlando Hernandez

I threw every pitch I have. The Dodgers are a good hitting team.

Greg Aiello

That statement has as much credibility as the idea of the Dodgers returning to Brooklyn.

Joe Torre

As a player, to me the Dodgers were the Yankees of the National League because... you either loved them or you hated them.

Dioner Navarro

It was quite a good experience, a once-in-a-lifetime chance, and I wanna thank the Dodgers for letting me be there. It's something I'll never forget.

Don Logan

If you're the Dodgers you've got to make sure that when your players are here they're going to be able to have the same competitive things new stadiums offer. Ours is less than that, but it's passable.

Vin Scully

The Dodgers are such a .500 team that if there was a way to split a three-game series, they'd find it.

Dan Woods

Measure 37 has not been a model for us. We're drafting something that will work for Washington.

Jon Gruden

Monte's been here and had his system in place for some time, ... It's a one-gap scheme, and they've been drafting players that fit it. We're trying to do that on offense.

Adam Vinatieri

Nugent's a little different -- he's a draft pick and I was a free agent. I felt like I had to go out and perform every single day and prove myself. You feel like you're always 20 minutes away from being fired.

Matt Smith

Getting drafted by these guys was a dream, and now being here is a dream. It's a great feeling.

Bernie Bickerstaff

We need a scorer. It doesn't need to be a shooter, but it's got to be a scorer. There's a lot of help out there. I'm comfortable with that. ... What we project as our needs, (the 2006 draft should be) strong at that.

Chris Gratton

When you come in as a high draft pick, you do have a lot of pressure put on you -- not necessarily thrust upon you by your own team, maybe outside sources that have expectations.

John Bradley

I was praying to God that he would pass me. I hate setting the pace for races. He went by me and it was like NASCAR. I just drafted off of him.

Jerry Jones

If we get out of the draft without an offensive lineman, I'll be very disappointed. Frankly, I like putting an offensive lineman in the mix every year because of how expensive it is to get them in free agency.

Keith Ballard

I'll always keep it. I'm very grateful they drafted me and it's something I'll always remember. But I've moved on from that and I don't think there's anything I need to prove to them.

Philippe Petit

I did a walk in 1973 illegally in the northern side of the Sydney Harbor Bridge.

Saddam Hussein

I don't harbor any hatred toward any of you,

Mike Ford

I suspect that the whale that approached thought he was a harbor seal splashing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Jamie Gorelick

We will have a cyber-equivalent of Pearl Harbor at some time, and we do not want to wait for that wake-up call.

Norm Stamper

We've had our harbor patrol officers out, and the

Stacy Schiff

You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day, and the water in the Alexandrian harbor is not really something you want to come into contact with.

Judy Estrin

We must not harbor the illusion of a killer application.

Jill Lepore

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Sandra Lee

You don't need Montreal steak seasoning on everything.

Brendan Taman

We have had discussions with Montreal about several possibilities, but nothing has transpired, ... We have open dialogue.

Michael Ignatieff

If we are a national institution, we must as a party reunite in rural and agricultural Canada. We can't be a national institution if we're only going for votes in Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax.

Francois Arnaud

I just go wherever work brings me. I share a house with friends in L.A., and I share a house with friends in Montreal when I'm there.

Mattias Norstrom

With the new rules, if you've got the puck with some speed, it's tough for the opposition to stop you.

Adam Weishaupt

Illuminate the opposition.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Opposition strengthens the manly will.

Gilles Duceppe

I went around Quebec saying the same thing I just said to you, and I see no opposition at all,

Brian Peterson

We've not run into very much opposition at all. Most people have been very supportive of the project.

Jacob Owiti

The opposition is very stiff but I am optimistic.

Pallam Raju

We are in a democracy, and I think for all issues, whatever matters that the opposition may have apprehension on, there is a forum, and it is called Parliament.

Frank Harris

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Yulia Tymoshenko

We view the Party of Regions as an opposition party.

Elbert Hubbard

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

Amanda Martin

If anything, we are going to see more and more things shielded from public view rather than fewer; that's been the trend.

Dick Bronson

If we're in trouble, this should tell us, and it should be done in a public way.

Robert Lopez

If they're here illegally, they shouldn't be accessing public services.

George Galloway

I care about public perception, yes. I don't care about my enemies' perception.

Tom Smothers

Our mother was so public - we always talked about her. But with her passing, all of a sudden we don't even want to talk about her.

Nicola Sturgeon

Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

Andrew Morton

They defined what was private and what was public and they would move it whenever they wished.

Keith Gilbertson

We never had to go to public lands.

Sam Sheppard

Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.

Charles Rangel

Enough is enough. This is how we get started in Vietnam.

Ed Bradley

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Dick Rutan

I flew in combat in Vietnam. I got shot at, I shot back, I got shot down. Compared to this flight, I felt a lot safer in combat.

Muqtada al Sadr

God willing, the occupation forces will be driven out as happened in Vietnam.

Jay Leno

Kerry is saying that Bush never showed up for his national guard duty ... and now Bush is on the attack. He's accusing John Kerry of ducking time in the national guard by hiding out in the jungles of Vietnam.

Noam Chomsky

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Joe Namath

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

Parker Stevenson

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam

Francis Ford Coppola

My film is not a movie; it's not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

Alexandra Paul

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your outlook on life.

Alexandra Fuller

You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.

Alexandra Fuller

The land itself, of course, was careless of its name. It still is. You can call it what you like, fight all the wars you want in its name. Change its name altogether if you like. The land is still unblinking under the African sky. It will absorb white man's blood and the blood of African men, it will absorb blood from slaughtered cattle and the blood from a woman's birthing with equal thirst. It doesn't care.

Ludwig von Mises

Whoever wishes peace among peoples must fight statism.

Ludwig von Mises

It is merely a metaphor to call competition competitive war, or simply, war. The function of battle is destruction; of competition, construction.

Ludwig von Mises

Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.

Ludwig von Mises

Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things.

Ludwig von Mises

Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

Ludwig von Mises

War is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror. Society has arisen out of the works of peace; the essence of society is peacemaking. Peace and not war is the father of all things. Only economic action has created the wealth around us; labor, not the profession of arms, brings happiness. Peace builds, war destroys.