Famous Quotes & Sayings

We learned about the agreement reached on Tuesday. Yes, some of us neighbors do feel like we were kind of sold out, and we have been left to fight this on our own.

Wen Jiabao

We launched the strategic security consultation mechanism, approved the supplementary agreement on the Sino-Russia eastern border, issued the China-Russia Joint Declaration on the World Order in the 21st Century, held a joint military exercise and witnessed fast growth of trade and economic ties.

We have conversations with Brunswick. They seem to be in agreement.

Bill Williams

One of the things that I have learned since trying to bring in an interesting story in under 28 pages is that we already agree on great chunks of typical superhero stories.

My general sensibility is most certainly comedic. But when I signed with my manager, he said, 'I think you could do dramatic stuff as well.' So, rather than making the choice to do it, I sort of agreed and deferred. By no means does it feel close to home, but I was willing to explore it.

The real question, which will be answered in the next couple of months, is whether the combatants in this phase of the Iraqi warthe Sunnis vs. the Shiites, mainlyare ready to agree on a framework.

There are many of us who cannot but feel dismal about the future of various cultures. Often it is hard not to agree that we are becoming culinary nitwits, dependent upon fast foods and mass kitchens and megavitamins for our basically rotten nourishment.

There are many, many instances where we've found that the cities that agreed to eminent domain use not only destroyed local businesses but the tax revenue that the local government had hoped to generate did not come to pass.

Frank Gaffney

). Dozens of nations have agreed to join in monitoring and, if necessary, intercepting and boarding ships on the high seas in the event they are suspected of engaging in one or both of these threatening activities.

Denis Leary

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Even though I don't agree with either Sarah Palin or Michele Bachmann on virtually anything, I do think the unique scrutiny - because of their gender and highlighting the potential conflict between them is a product of the media's desire for juicy storylines. I think it's inappropriate.

Alan Alda

I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.

David Henry Hwang

With theatre, we all agree to suspend our disbelief about so many things, but not about race. It's totally OK to have one actor playing five roles - people are willing to believe that. But they won't believe it if there's a black or an Asian kid who has white parents. What does that say about us?

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.

Howard Dean

There's not one person in this crowd who's gonna agree with everything I say. Not one.

Dave Pietramala

With Princeton playing one week earlier we agreed to play one week earlier. I thought this was a great game for us to play before Princeton.

With playoffs coming up, we decided that this was the best decision. I think everyone was in agreement.

Without this agreement, (the NHL) can really take any player it wants at any time without any compensation.

Without the free-trade agreement, these results would not have been possible,

With breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy, we have the opposite, ... We have lack of agreement, lack of uniformity, lack of consistency. That tells me that if hormone therapy has an effect on breast cancer, it has to be a small (one). If it were a major effect, a large effect, we would have agreement.

The problem is that instead of having one way to calculate corporate earnings that everybody understands, we have two or three methods. And the one that most people use, there is virtually no agreement at all about what it means.

So on May 1, 1987, at Gary's invitation, I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

Bruce Wilkinson

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

Barry Levinson

It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree.

Brendan Myers

The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

We have signed an agreement with the regional authorities that the stake will be sold at a public auction.

Hashim Thaci

We have signed an agreement to bring peace to Kosovo. We hope that the force of the international community will make Yugoslavia sign. We say: the violence must stop.

Dan Glickman

This settlement culminates a four-year investigation, ... The plea agreement not only serves as punishment to the offenders, it also offers the opportunity to repay farmers who were financially damaged by these criminal acts.

Chris Kelly

This was an expected procedural vote by the pilots union leadership and in no way impacts our operations or our preference to reach a consensual agreement in time to save the company.

There is no retreat on the fixed timetable of the declaration of the state. It will be declared at the fixed time, which is September 13, God willing, regardless of those who agree or disagree,

There is no reason to suppose that the state of the claimants' marriage would be regarded to have any relevance to the majority of the sponsorship agreements relied on by the defendant since they spring from David Beckham's prowess as a footballer,

The party here that is trying to renege on their agreement is the county. Where's its obligation to support the cluster?