Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them

Meaghan Rath

When I was younger, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I told a lot of lies in school. I told my friends once that I was playing John Travolta's daughter in a movie. I also told people that I had this romantic affair with Jonathan Taylor Thomas over a summer.

When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must have been having an affair with his married ex-boyfriend.

Our goal with the buses is to bring the world of public affairs to communities nationwide.

Our clients are increasingly facing public affairs and regulatory challenges and they expect us to provide seamless and expert support. GPC's track record now enables us to deliver better results than any other firm in Canada.

Our client-focused culture will remain the same, ... We're a close member of many of our clients' teams. They count on us for ideas, solutions and creative approaches to their marketing communications and corporate affairs challenges. We believe supporting our employees' growth and professional development is critical to our clients' success.

Noam Chomsky

Over the years, there have been a series of concepts developed to justify the use of force in international affairs for a long period. It was possible to justify it on the pretext, which usually turned out to have very little substance, that the U.S. was defending itself against the communist menace. By the 1980s, that was wearing pretty thin.

Miriam Makeba

Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But the land was too rich and too good. The powerful and greedy invaders saw this at once.

Our game reports are not for public dissemination and particularly not for politicians who may be using this whole disjointed affair to seemingly garner votes.

Winston Churchill

It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another.

E. B. White

It is an honor to have Tom Daschle join our Board. We will benefit tremendously from Tom's insight and experience with economic issues, international affairs and other issues. He will be an asset to our Board as we continue to grow our real estate services franchise on a global basis.

Arun Jaitley

It is bad enough that the Minister who represents India in world affairs is implicated in a murky international scandal. What compounds the offence is that he continues to remain External Affairs Minister with your full backing.

Gordon Smith

I support the decision to bring CIDA more closely to the overall foreign affairs portfolio.

People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

John Pilger

Staff have been attacked by US marines, doctors have been shot, emergency medicines blocked. Children have been murdered in front of their families. Now imagine the same state of affairs imposed on the London hospitals that received the victims of the bombing.

that by overcoming dictatorship that the Iraqi people will have hope to live in peace and freedom and direct their own affairs as soon as possible.

My message is let transit workers decide and determine their own fate. Don't get involved in the business and affairs of our union. If you make a deal, stick to it.

I wonder if all the disclosures about Kennedy's tawdry nature in the White House -- about his affairs -- has something to do with it, ... I think that the comparisons being drawn between Clinton and Kennedy do not look favorably on either of them, and I think people may have lost some of their respect for Kennedy.

John Cusack

I think good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. You don't actually consummate it, but you get to pretend, imagine what it would be like.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.

Donald Rumsfeld

managing their affairs as people responsible for weapons of that power.

Gary Kemp

It has been a terrible affair for ourselves and our families and one that I'm sure was obviously going to destroy any hope of us making music again.

It has been a love affair because you could see at the end of the tunnel that this was going to be really good for the franchise and good for Kansas City. We were all motivated to get to the right area and fortunately it worked out well.

Roger Bannister

It has been a life-long pursuit for me, ... Running is an affair of youth. It helps you through adolescence and, for me of course, at a certain point it opened doors. I met people, and traveled. Of course it can make life more exciting and fulfilling.

Jack Brooks

I think that there was a substantial shadow government trying to run foreign affairs for the United States.

Recovery work at the crash site will resume upon the arrival of a mortuary affairs team.

Our representative was at a meeting with the ministry of foreign affairs and nothing was mentioned.

Our representative was at a meeting at 2 p.m. (12:00 p.m. British time) with the ministry of foreign affairs and nothing was mentioned.

Ginger McCain

Paul was very good about the whole affair and said that if Inca Trail adapts to Liverpool and goes and does it, he could go very close. If he does, the credit's his, not ours.

Marilyn Monroe

Wouldn't it be nice to be like men, just getting notches in your belt, having affairs with the most atttractive men . . . and not getting emotionally involved.

Alexander Lukashenko

You know what pressure is put on Belarus, ranging from open blackmail to attempted interference in our internal affairs from the West, and from small provocations to threat of extremist rallies from the opposition.

Marquis de Lafayette

The affairs of America I shall ever look upon as my first business whilst I am in Europe. Any confidence from the king and ministers, any popularity I may have among my own countrymen, any means in my power, shall be, to the best of my skill, and till the end of my life, exerted in behalf of an interest I have so much at heart.