Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Anderson

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.'

Sean MacBride

Churches, by the very reason of their structures, are monolithic and do not adapt easily. But in many cases, they, too, have allowed themselves to become allied or even part of an unjust establishment or system.

R. W. Apple, Jr.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

Richard Holbrooke

I think Americans understand that in Afghanistan, unlike in Iraq and Vietnam, we are fighting an enemy allied with the people who attacked us on 9/11.

Andy Goode

I am really pleased to have sorted everything out. I have spent the vast majority of my career at Leicester, my family are happy and settled and we have made a lot of friends here. Allied to that, we have an excellent young team here and there is a lot of potential to win some silverware in the next few years.

Shigeru Yoshida

Moreover, article 14 empowers Allied Nations, which have suffered no damage from the war, to seize Japanese private property in their countries.

John Dryden

Great wits are sure to madness near allied - And thin partitions do their bounds divide

Ike Skelton

The number of attacks on the American and allied forces is at the highest level since the insurgency began despite the increase of America combat operations and the introduction of some 40 new Iraq security forces and battalions.

Antony Beevor

The majority of soldiers and officers of the Soviet Army and the allied armies treated the local population humanely.

John Irving

I wasn't afraid of anything until I had a kid. Then I was terrified because immediately I could imagine a hundred ways in which I could not protect him.

William Faulkner

Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.

David Ricardo

Whether a bank lent one million, ten million, or a hundred millions, they would not permanently alter the market rate of interest; they would alter only the value of the money they issued.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

YEAR, n. A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.

Isla Fisher

Women one hundred percent support each other in the movie industry.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

Mark Jensen

We've registered several hundred players in just a month and a half. We're quite pleased with the results of the soft launch.

Shirley Franklin

Nobody's ever been in this situation, at least not in a hundred years. So I think he's performed incredibly,

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Carol Moseley Braun

If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

Samuel L. Jackson

People go to movies on Saturday to get away from the war in Iraq and taxes and election news and pedophiles online and just go and have some fun. I like doing movies that are fun.

Brent Scowcroft

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.

Brent Scowcroft

Saddam's ouster will not necessarily lead to the same result, since Iraq lacks democratic traditions. Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

Brent Scowcroft

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.

David Kay

In my judgment, based on the work that has been done to this point of the Iraq Survey Group, and in fact, that I reported to you in October, Iraq was in clear violation of the terms of U.N.Resolution 1441.

Oskar Lafontaine

We are not a sovereign country; as long as the US can operate from here, we are a participant in the Iraq war.

Jared Diamond

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Argus Hamilton

CIA Director George Tenet briefed a Senate panel ... about the current situation in Iraq. He described how cash was being stolen and women were being assaulted with impunity. Senators love to attend these continuing education seminars.

Edgar Allan Poe

The goodness of the true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability.

Earl Nightingale

Our rewards in life will always be in direct ratio to our service.

Ben Bernanke

Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Robert Friedman

You know what is going to happen. There won't be a shortage, we'll have our clinics, then we'll have a shortage. Then we'll start rationing the vaccine, and we'll end up wasting some of it at the end of the season.

Dave Stidham

We have more staff than we need. Our administration has said that. Our teacher-to-student ratio is down to about 13½ to 1.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

Donald Berwick

The decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision will be whether we ration care with our eyes open.

Menachem Begin

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Kenny Brown

We'll probably have to ration it all out to him.

Robert Friedman

You know what is going to happen. There won't be a shortage, we'll have our clinics, then we'll have a shortage. Then we'll start rationing the vaccine, and we'll end up wasting some of it at the end of the season.

Harsha Bhogle

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

David Novak

Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

Brigitte Boisselier

I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

James Rubin

By any rational calculation, Milosevic comes out of this much, much weaker.

Michael Foreman

I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Janis Karpinski

I had 16 other prisons that I needed to pay attention to, and we did. And I had 3,400 soldiers who were depending on me to take care of them, and I did.

Chris Bohjalian

He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing.

Chiang Kai-shek

We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words.

Kurt Vonnegut

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm an amalgamation of what I've needed to be. Part scholar, part rebel, part nobleman, part Mistborn, and part soldier. Sometimes I don't even know myself. I had a devil of a time getting all those pieces to work together. And, just when I'm starting to get it figured out, the world up and ends on me.

Jane Fonda

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Gordon Strachan

Twenty years. They've crept up on us. They've gone, just like that.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Carol Moseley Braun

We have gone into a war, an unelected president sending us into a war that the Congress frankly had no right, I believe, to authorize.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.

Carol Vorderman

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen lost in the Second World War. It beggars belief that there has not been some recognition for what they gave until now.

Carlos Castaneda

There's no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.

Carlos Castaneda

... a warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.

Carlos Castaneda

Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior, or any man for that matter, cannot possibly wish he were somewhere else; a warrior because he lives by challenge, an ordinary man because he doesn't know where his death is going to find him.

Carlos Castaneda

...the spirit reveals itself to everyone with the same intensity and consistency, but only warriors are consistently attuned to such revelations.

Carlos Castaneda

If you were a warrior, you would know that the worst thing one can do is confront human beings directly.