Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Zarifi

Lots of Afghans are disappointed and cynical because they feel like people who perpetrated serious human rights abuses have been allowed back in the parliament.

Emma Bonino

Because of the regional context, because of where they come from, because of the complexity of the issue, without a strong commitment of the international community the Afghans know that they cannot do it themselves.

Sam Zarifi

Because of the international community's failure to provide sufficient security and financial assistance, Afghans are struggling against a resurgent Taliban movement, entrenched warlords, and severe poverty. Afghans have managed to progress despite these challenges, but they need real support, not just rhetoric.

Anand Gopal

When US-led forces toppled the Taliban government in November 2001, Afghans celebrated the downfall of a reviled and discredited regime.

Rory Stewart

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

Rory Stewart

The Taliban, broadly speaking, are Afghans - farmers, subsistence farmers. As I say, most of those people can't find the United States on the map. Al Qaeda, traditionally, are much more educated, middle-class people, often from Egypt, from Saudi Arabia, North Africa.

John Eisenhower

Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a United Nations operation.

Brad Thor

The Afghans I met were some of the nicest and most honorable people I've ever encountered. There is a code called 'Pashtunwali,' so if someone invites you into their village, every last man will fight to protect your life. I was impressed by that.

Donald Rumsfeld

We know that Afghans ... know how to fight.

George Robertson

Let the people of Yugoslavia be quite clear, ... The bombing can end at any time. It's in Milosevic's hands, and he knows our conditions, which are reasonable and sensible, and nothing less than full compliance will do.

Maria Ressa

Given the fact that the Marriott hotel bombing happened two days ago, all of Indonesia is looking to see what type of signal is being sent from here,

Richard Engel

On one level, bombing ISIS is easy. The U.S. knows where the group operates. There's no need for a ten-year hunt like the one for Osama bin Laden. The terror group has two capital cities: Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria. Al-Qaeda never had such an obvious home address.

Madeline Albright

If this fails because both parties say no, there will not be bombing of Serbia and we will try to figure out ways of trying to deal with both sides,

Stephen Jones

If this should turn out to be about John Doe No. 2, I think it is far from clear that the Oklahoma City bombing case has reached a conclusion in federal court.

George Galloway

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber.

Walter Kirn

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

Stuart Symington

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

Billy Graham

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Stephen Meyer

None of these people, including Scott, intended to gain a dishonest advantage.

Granth Sahib

No one offers the rice dishes at their last rites, and no one lights the lamps for them.

Sandra Lee

When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.'

Wu Yonggang

The price looks high but it's still a small dish for Citigroup.

Dave Ramsey

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

Lara Logan

I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.

Eric Schlosser

One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served.

David Burks

I wouldn't make every dish on my menu a science project, but it's way exciting. It's like going back to school, and I find it naturally appealing.

Eric Benet

I would be dishonest if I said I didn't feel a little concern,

Venus Williams

Life is good, ... I've been able to see the other side of life a little more, but I'm really eager to get back and I'm really eager to be traveling and doing my thing that I'm used to doing.

French Proverb

Lazy people are always eager to be doing something

Larry Horn

MPEG LA and patent holders are just as eager to see this standard succeed as everyone else. We just need to make sure that licensees pay their fair share.

Eric Brown

From what I've seen of the kids here at the gym today, you can tell that they're very eager to learn, they're hungry for the game and they enjoy playing basketball,

Jason McCartney

I don't think anything can prepare you for the emotion of Sunday, but I generally love the place and am eager to get back,

Frank Martinez

I feel good about this team. We're young and going through some growing pains, but we're eager to learn and get better.

OMI

I'm really looking forward to working with Meghan Trainor because that's in the pipeline, and I'm eager for it to really happen.

Bridget Regan

I'm really eager to go back and do some theater. I would love to do some more comedy as well because I think that's really the hardest thing to do; it's what I grew up doing, and I would love to go back and do that. I did a lot of theater growing up - musical theater.

Sylvia Hatchell

We have watched Riverside, and they are a very good motion offensive team. It's a young team that has a lot of eager players, so we know we have to be ready.

John C. Calhoun

Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism but where there is more passion than reason; and hence, in the nature of things, movements originating in it run down in a short time by their folly and extravagance.

Amos Oz

I know one or two things about fanaticism and death, and I reject them.

Amos Oz

But The Same Sea is set precisely in this Israel, which never makes it to the news headlines anywhere. It is a novel about everyday people far removed from fundamentalism, fanaticism nationalism, or militancy of any sort.

Cynthia Ozick

I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.

Fisher Ames

That can never be reasoned down which was not reasoned up.

Todd Clark

Leading indicators were stronger than expected. It may have rekindled fears of rate hikes.

Rudyard Kipling

Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears

Jonathan Brandis

I was so young I really didn't have any real fears or hesitations about the business. It's when I got older when I realized how much it all meant.

Peter Cardillo

If we get a strong number (Friday) it could rekindle fears of another Fed tightening and that will keep investors on the defensive.

Akitsugu Bando

Basically, fears about possible higher interest rates in the near future have not been erased.

Bill Rammell

I do not think those fears are justified.

Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether some of the fears of last year will be realized this year. There is strong reason to worry.

Kathleen Edwards

You're reluctant to give too much away when you're going to put it out there for other people. It's harder writing your truest fears and loves and guilts, because you're not sure when you're writing the right story.

Scott Eastwood

It's important to face your fears in life. Whatever they may be. Makes us grow. Blessed to be alive.

Claude Bernard

The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing,

Raymond Martin

I don't think nuclear war will get us, but germs will.

Florence Scovel Shinn

A harmonious person is never vibrating at the same rate as a germ.

Buzz Aldrin

When we get there, if we don't find any life on Mars, from that point on there will be life on Mars because we'll bring it there, whether it's germs and leftover urine bags, whatever it is.

Louis Pasteur

Bernard was right. The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything.

Kelly Rowland

I'm kind of a germ freak. When I get on a plane, I spray my seat and everything with Lysol Disinfectant Spray.

Sophie Swetchine

There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Harry Samit

That's pretty ominous and obviously suggests some sort of hijacking plan.

Condoleezza Rice

Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things.

Noam Chomsky

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Dominique de Villepin

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

To allow the construction of places of worship other than Islamic ones in Saudi Arabia, it would be like asking the Vatican to build a mosque inside of it.

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

As to women, the Islamic faith has given women rights that are equal to or more than the rights given them in the Old Testament and the Bible.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

Kiefer Sutherland

My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.

Lyndon Johnson

One of every 16 planes was shot down,

Lloyd Edgecombe

The planes were very old. I think the plane was overworked.

Michael Chang

I think when you first come out here, you're very sensitive to planes overhead.

Cillian Murphy

I don't know if anyone will ever sit beside me on a plane again.

Amanda Lindhout

Getting on a plane is hard for me, but I do it, because travel is vital to me.

Claudio Ranieri

In Italy the Coach is a paratrooper who jumps out of the plane but doesn't know if the parachute will open or not.

Kelly Holmes

Without planes I wouldn't be able to do what I do.

Charles Bickers

Deliveries will take place as soon as planes are completed.

Bart Bryant

Mentally, I was just ready to do it.

Gerhard Schroeder

My country, Germany, stands ready to support such a process.

David Kudla

More so, many of them who are about ready to go anyway, and they have the $35,000 sweetener on the deal.

Kerry Wood

When I can go out there and throw the way I want to throw and recover the way I want to recover, that's when we're ready to go. Until then, that's what we are waiting on.

Brian Bannister

I feel like I'm ready to go out there and pitch.

Vernon Davis

I feel like I'm ready. I'm ready to go out there right now.

Lindsay Davenport

I feel like I'm ready for the challenges.

Palle Pedersen

Growers need to be ready like they were in 2005.

Matt Baker

Getting butterflies I don't think is a nervousness that's unnatural, ... If you don't get butterflies in a game, I don't think you're excited, you're not ready to go.

Charles Spurgeon

God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return.

Eduard Shevardnadze

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

Rick Perry

I can't say in strong enough terms that those who evacuated that they should not return at this time,

David Nicholls

She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy

Mike Leach

On that play, we had a return on, ... I thought (Douglas) did a tremendous job.

Laurence D. Fink

When you look at dividend returns on equities versus bond yields, to me it's a pretty easy decision to be heavily in equities.

Peter Jackson

'The Return Of The King' has a conclusion.

Peter Sis

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

William Shakespeare

Ready to go but never to return.

Dave Peters

Of course, as soon as I say that, we'll get hit.

Greg Poehler

I feel like the longer I hold out - I feel like as soon I move to L.A., I just become one of a million.

Dr. Nabarro

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

Jim Loehr

She's going to come out when she's ready, probably sooner than later, and set the world on fire,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon us do what we do,

Phil Garner

I'd just as soon not watch them any more, they look pretty good.

Kristen Staab

To me, the sooner the better. At least with the trial it will all be over.

Gila Reinstein

We want them to feel very welcome and to be as acclimated as soon as possible.

Jon Daniels

We'd like to get him up here as soon as possible.

Philip Hammond

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country.

Erik Jensen

And then I was unemployed for a while.

Jason Read

Unemployed and dependent - is not as parasite.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I've never been unemployed. I've never been very fully employed either.

Walt Kelly

God is not dead-He is merely unemployed...

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.