Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pedro Pierluisi

After four centuries of Spanish rule, Puerto Rico was ceded to the United States in 1898. Residents were granted U.S. citizenship in 1917, and the federal government has allowed Puerto Rico to exercise authority over its local affairs in a manner similar to the 50 states.

John C. Calhoun

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

We do not want to interfere in the internal affairs of any other country but the situation in Nepal seems to be spinning out of control.

Both good and bad days should end with productivity. Your mood or affairs should never influence your work

Claude Chabrol

Every time I saw the Elf affair on television, I switched on the set because I found it incredibly funny. I thought that, if we could put that it in a film, it would give people watching it a certain amusement to see these people in their true ridiculousness.

Ian Paisley

Bertie Ahern, your writ does not run here in loyal Ulster. Any man that talks to Sinn Fein or the Dublin government about the internal affairs of Northern Ireland is a traitor.

Sonam Kapoor

My parents find me hilarious. They don't pull me up for anything because I'm a good daughter. I stay at home, don't party too much, people don't talk about my affairs or that I am unprofessional. In fact, people tell my parents that I'm so well-brought up. Yes, I tend to shoot my mouth off, but they don't pull me up for that.

Buck Henry

Basically it's the core story. About a guy having an affair with the mother of the girl he falls in love with.

Matt Leinart

With the combined team of CAA, Chuck, Leigh, and Air 7, I am confident that my business affairs are in the very best hands. This gives me the freedom to focus on becoming the best football player I can be.

When the doctor talked to us after that procedure, he said you need to go home and make sure your affairs are in order and enjoy what time you have left.

Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.

Barton Gellman

A national security letter cannot be used to authorize eavesdropping or to read the contents of e-mail. But it does permit investigators to trace revealing paths through the private affairs of a modern digital citizen.

Leslie Nielsen

With a blonde bombshell (Francis) in the picture, there could be no love affair between her and anybody who was not Caucasian. It would (have been) tough enough to even have her in the same room with a black man or a Chinese guy. Those things are all changed today.

We don't need an inspector general because of the OIR. If an internal affairs investigation is called for on any of these situations, OIR oversees that.

Robert Sherwood

We constantly go to professional conferences and Jesuit conferences and collaborate with other people in student affairs at other schools,

Jennifer Tilly

You get to a certain age, and you start to rethink your life and rethink your priorities, ... Traveling to exotic locales like Romania is not as appealing as it used to be. When I was younger, you would go on a set and you would have affairs and you'd drink and it was just like summer camp. When you get older, it's like, 'Uh, I'm in another hotel room, in another town I really don't want to be in.'

You get promoted for burning each other. You have to work internal affairs before you can be a captain. That should tell you something.

We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.

Simon Greenleaf

The importance of the facts testified, and their relations to the affairs of the soul, and the life to come, can make no difference in the principles or the mode of weighing the evidence.

Those who obtain the wealth of the Lord's Name move freely in the world; all their affairs are resolved.

Bill Cunningham

There have been a number of officers who have been questioned by our internal affairs investigators during the past few days. Obviously, we have concerns about not only an officer failing to do his job properly, but we also want to determine if any staff member aided and abetted who was responsible for this incident.

Eric Ripert

With scallops, it's where you get them. We get them live in the shell. I'm willing to share our connection with the White House. This could be the start of a beautiful love affair with the scallop.

John Conyers

Watergate involved a wholesale corruption of government, ... This matter involves the concealing of a private affair in which the majority of facts are already known.

Bill Cunningham

What was done with that information is a subject of our internal affairs investigation.

Erwin Chemerinsky

What brought down the Nixon administration wasn't the burglary itself, but the cover-up of it, ... wasn't that he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky but he lied about it.

Jim Lee

We've never really seen that strong of a level of support for gambling in the Southwestern part of the state. I don't think the city will have much of a love affair with gambling.

Joan Rivers

Dont talk to me about Valentines Day. At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

Anthony Marra

Ever since studying in Russia as a college student, I had been in a long-distance, one-sided love affair with Chechnya's remarkable history, culture and rugged natural beauty.

Leigh Steinberg

Early on last season, a love affair was struck between Ben and Pittsburgh. His blue-collar roots, his Midwest values meshed perfectly with that city.

Chris Rankin

During any critical incident like this-or any stressful event-officers can be placed on administrative assignments pending an outcome of the internal affairs investigation,

Hu Jintao

Even basic understanding about the history of Tibet will show that our differences with the Dalai Lama is not any difference about ethnic affairs or religion, ... It is not about human rights, but rather this difference is a political issue involving the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.