Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Stone

God did not create us to abandon us.

Jalal Talabani

I don't think that Kurds will abandon their aim of establishing an independent Kurdish state.

I guarantee you that it would cost many times more to abandon the city than to rebuild it.

Lindsey Graham

I'm willing to abandon the need for tariffs if the Chinese embark on real (currency) reform. We're not there yet.

I'm telling you Gingrich made the difference in the game. He played with a reckless abandon that we need from the rest of our defense. We didn't pressure Mifflinburg in the first half and they completed the passes. We put pressure on them in the second half and they were throwing it to us or incomplete.

Henry Hyde

I'm hopeful, and we aren't going to abandon this at all,

Richard Preston

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil.

High-end financial, IT, creative and strategic jobs are strong and growing in numbers here. Companies that abandoned the city 30 years ago are coming back and revitalizing and rebuilding the city and its neighborhoods, bringing top talent back into the city and, in turn, bringing more companies back.

Canada is abandoning its 40- to 50-year traditional diplomatic approach in how to deal with the dangers of nuclear weapons.

Nigel Farage

Cameron has abandoned a large policy area, he's vacated ground on tax and immigration.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

But when the swan departs, you shall remain behind, like an abandoned woman.

Lajos Kossuth

But the Hungarian nation, although taken by surprise, unarmed and unprepared, did not abandon its future prospects in any agony of despair.

John Doolittle

Bush is our man. We don't have an alternative. I am not going to abandon him over this, but it is a real disappointment.

The result of this round of talks will depend on whether or not North Korea can actually commit itself to a strategic decision to abandon all of its nuclear arms and nuclear programs,

At the end of the day, what my folks did to try to rescue these folks was nothing short of 100 percent heroic. The idea that the owners abandoned these folks is absolutely not true.

Jim Rash

'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.

Corporate customers want and are demanding that their vendors abandon divisive rhetoric and useless posturing and get on with the business of working together constructively,

Eliot Spitzer

Warner Music has illegally provided radio stations with financial benefits to obtain airplay and boost the chart position of its songs, ... abandon the industry-wide practice of providing radio stations and their employees with financial incentives and promotional items in exchange for airplay.

Today's ruling does nothing that affects the validity or infringement of the patents in suit. By admitting to the infringement in their Supreme Court petition, eBay abandoned any pretense of innocence.

We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local programming that caters to the country's different communities rather than abandoning its public service mandate by getting foreign news and entertainment shows to fill the gaps in its service.

We are still holding hope that we will bring Natasha home. I hope we can, but I truly think my calling is bigger - speaking for all the abandoned children of Romania.

We are going to be here to help you when you are ready to go. In the near term, we are not going to be abandoning you, so I don't want you to be concerned about that.

We feel no isolation. But, having said that, I want to emphasise in particular that we do not want to go to extremes and abandon the European and American directions in our foreign economic cooperation.

Marian Keyes

When I was growing up, I despised Irishness. I felt our music, our television and our books were just poor imitations of what came out of Britain and America. I was all set to abandon it entirely.

John McCain

What is good for my country is good for my party, ... Should my party abandon this principle, the American people will abandon us.

We cannot have a situation where the DPRK pretends to abandon its nuclear programs and we pretend to believe them,

We've had to abandon as there has been no significant improvement.

Marshall Allman

To me, 'Blue Like Jazz' is a quintessential American story. So many people are just like Don - raised Christian and go off to college only to abandon their beliefs in order to fit in or be accepted.

There is no sign of an immediate pass through of energy to core prices, but consumers spent with abandon considering their lack of confidence in the continued health of the economy. That is likely to bolster the Fed's fear of future inflation and reinvigorate their will to raise rates.

These animals did not ask to be born, abandoned or put to sleep, then thrown into the garbage.

Martin Rees

It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But abandoning the shuttle, and committing to new launch vehicles and propulsion systems, is actually a prerequisite for a vibrant manned programme.

Chris Eyre

The Sheraton Hotel took very good care of us. I feel like I owe my life to the Sheraton Hotel, I do, ... My airline pulled out on me, but out there, hotels pulled out and abandoned their guests. Hotels all around us... I would much rather have had my airline pull out on me than my hotel.