Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya MacGuineas

The fact that the overall effect of reconciliation taken together was to enlarge rather than reduce the deficit undermines the credibility of anyone claiming that this was a deficit-reduction package.

Martin Jacques

The fact that hardly anyone is ever prepared to admit to racist behaviour is perhaps a sort of strength: it speaks to the fact that racism is socially inadmissible.

The factors cited by card issuers are very broad. It appears that anyone - not just people in financial difficulties - could be subjected to a much higher rate for very insignificant reasons.

Gary Johnson

The expectations will be high and hopefully they can come true, but that's asking an awful lot. If anyone can do it, it's Dennis.

We'll take the best team we can down there but we won't take anyone who could re-injure himself.

We'll show the customer in three dimension what we do and they'll be able to see it. We bend over backwards and I don't let anyone walk out of that door unhappy.

What I don't like is anyone causing fragmentation within the party. Anyone who does that, I'm not behind.

Lisa Randall

What I do is very theoretical. It won't necessarily have implications for anything anyone is doing tomorrow, yet you know that there's a sense of progress in science, and as we understand more, it just turns out that, somehow, the world evolves with us.

Hans Blix

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well.

In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

Russia does not have a modern economy: it's a petro-power. The only thing it sells that the world wants to buy is oil and natural gas. When was the last time anyone bought a Russian computer? A Russian car? A Russian cell phone? Russia is so dependent on high energy prices that if oil falls below $100 a barrel, the Kremlin can't meet payroll.

Kay Redfield Jamison

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

Fernando Alonso

I was lucky that I was not fighting with anyone so I took the race quite easy. But for us, second place is good. The target for the last six or seven races was to be on the podium.

Steve Schmidt

Kerry's statements to Dubuque voters make it clear that he will say anything to anyone at any time if he thinks it will help him score political points,

Knowing these people, most of them are hunters, trappers, farmers, they're not going to wait on FEMA or anyone else. They're going to do what they need to do. They're used to primitive conditions.

Adrienne Clarkson

Knowing better than anyone my own shortcomings, I undertake this task with humility and ask you all, as Canadians, to help me.

Rick Riordan

Kids ask me questions. You'd think after doing this for four years, I would have heard every single question anyone could think of to ask, but no, every time, they surprise me, they ask me something I never thought of before.

Garrett Gomez

I wouldn't say I thought I had the race won. It was all in the way he was going to respond to me when we turned for home. Once we headed to about the three-eighths pole, he seemed to start to come back to me a little bit more than I liked. And I said, 'I'm going to go now.' I thought I went fast enough that as long as I had him going I wouldn't give anyone a chance to even get close to him.

Mark Shapiro

I wouldn't say I'm surprised by Cliff's development, but I am a little surprised by the pace of it. He's an extremely competitive guy. He's made a ton of adjustments since last season, but I don't think anyone could have anticipated (that he'd get this good, this fast).

James Montgomery

I would urge you not to speak to anyone except law enforcement or your attorney.

I would urge anyone who has information about this individual or about the robbery to contact us and prevent this individual from striking again.

Josh Freeman

Jack knows more about our project on a hole-by-hole basis than anyone in our organization.

I would say to anyone on their own for the first time to take what you learned from home and apply it to your life now. It will help you in the long run here.

Dito Montiel

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

Jonathan Evison

I write as a matter of need - seven books and God knows how many short stories before anyone published me.

Kenny, in a lot of ways, didn't think it was fair that he got to go on to college just because he could play football better than anyone else.

(Ken) is the best team owner that anyone could ever have. He has a level head and a very calming influence that keeps us all grounded.

Kansas ran more effectively than anyone else in the country last year. It's a style that creates better opportunities for our big people. Of course, if all you needed were a perimeter game ... it's see you in San Antonio .

Joe told me he'd have been mad if it had been anyone but me.

John Ford made it possible for anyone who worked with him to actually be the person. Of all the films I've made, this one was the most satisfactory as far as the film went.

Juan loved to fly and Juan loved to teach flying. I have not (known) anyone who has flown with Juan who did not say he was a good pilot.

Pauline Hanson

I talk about... the privileges Aboriginals enjoy over other Australians. I have done research on benefits available only to Aboriginals and challenge anyone to tell me how Aboriginals are disadvantaged when they can obtain 3 and 5% housing loans denied to non-Aboriginals.

Eric Johnson

I think it's a great opportunity for anyone who's dreaming of, is in the process of building or has already built a home. This is a great opportunity for them to learn from the experts. If you want to take a little bit of this lifestyle home, there's all kinds of furniture and accessories here to make any room be your own little lodge.