Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Liam Fox

It was wrong for the European Union's foreign affairs spokesman Javier Solana to rule out the use of force. It is wrong for Britain's Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, to echo him.

Robert Clark

These awards demonstrate how effective Behind The News has been at communicating complex news and current affairs to kids, both at home and internationally.

Chuck D.

The state only recognizes the state lottery, horse racing and its authorized off-track betting sites, the casinos and any charitable gambling event that is authorized by the state Office of Consumer Affairs or controlled by the Legislature.

The state does not create veterans, the country does, and so the debt that is owed to our veterans and families is not a state debt, it is a national debt. So everywhere possible where a veteran is in a nursing home or a boarding home that is a care setting, we should first look to the Department of Veteran Affairs rather than the state to incur the costs.

James Reston

The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our job in this age, as I see it, is not to serve as cheerleaders for our side in the present world struggle but to help the largest possible number of people to see the realities of the changing and convulsive world in which American policy must operate.

The team vigorously participated in international rescue tasks and gave quick response and made remarkable achievements in the rescue work, fully illustrating China's important role in international humanitarian affairs and further demonstrated that China is a responsible country in the international society.

The suspension was issued following a letter of request from the Minister of Home Affairs dated Sept. 6.

E. P. Thompson

Games between Coventry and Belfast are always close affairs and this was no exception.

Walter Kirn

Good short-story collections, like good record albums, are almost always hit-and-miss affairs - successful if they include three or four great tracks, wildly successful if they have five. And that's as it should be.

The news report is mischievous and false. The External Affairs Minister was fully involved in the decision-making process.

The office of web services will now become part of the office of university communications, and safety and security and the parsonage will become part of the Student Affairs portfolio,

It is really a gap between the communicated state of affairs and reality. The public mood is much better than one would think it would be in the current situation.

Jaswant Singh

It is saddening to note that for the first time in the history of the country the Minister for External Affairs has been asked to step down.

It's a sad state of affairs when you raise victims' rights to the same level as the constitutional rights of the accused.

It signifies that the management of cadres and personnel affairs in China has entered a new stage,

Doug Wilson

That's old-time hockey, ... I've played in plenty of those against Doug Wilson, Chicago-Minnesota ? 7-6, last shot wins. It's something I have to get used to as a coach. I've never been behind the bench for wide-open affairs like that. But, obviously, the entertainment value is there for fans.

That's not the policy or the way we operate public affairs at NASA. We support and make sure we are all about full and open communications.

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.

J. William Fulbright

In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest.

Frank Sinatra

If I had as many love affairs as you have given me credit for, I'd now be speaking to you from a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me

By comparison, this is much like an internal affairs (IA) division within a local police department.

Alexis de Tocqueville

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs then their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society

He told him that he serves with Sen. Akaka on the Veterans Affairs Committee, and he has seen firsthand how hard he works for our nation's veterans and for the people of Hawaii.

The last three years I thought we deserved a higher seed. It's not unexpected with the state of affairs in that type of meeting.

Benjamin Franklin

The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

The Mainland Affairs Council currently has not received any formal applications and so I can't respond to hypothetical questions.

Noam Chomsky

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.