Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronald Reagan

A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

Edward Kennedy

A democratic party, a part of a democratic West, does not, should not and cannot have private armies and cannot be involved in criminality and violence, ... and this is, I think as the sisters have pointed out, the golden opportunity for them to indicate once and for all and finally that they are going to separate themselves from that type of support.

A fanatical finish. That was the shot in the arm that we could actually go for '57.

The older guys, with 25 to 30 years' experience, these guys really are at risk more than the newer generation, which preaches glasses and gloves. The older generation didn't have that. They worked a bad accident, they had their arms full of blood, hands full of blood, and afterward they lit up a cigarette and talked about the call.

After I tightened that up, my dead arm went away. Hopefully, I'll recognize that sooner the next time it happens.

Brad Ausmus

The most important thing is that he can use his right arm again. I know he's going to get this surgery to remove the bone spurs. You never know what can happen. You hope after the surgery, a month later, his range of motion is better, he's feeling great and who knows, maybe he can play again. But at this point, it's a quality of life issue. Not a career issue.

Jim Nelson

The most important thing for us right now is to get a game in. I usually like to play a game or two before we go down there to see who can get some guys out. Now we'll have to go a little deeper in our pitching staff to find out what kind of arms we have.

A customer inside called 9-1-1 at 2 this morning. This individual reported that two armed men had forced their way into the tavern, ordered everyone to lie down on the ground and proceeded to take money out of everyone's wallet.

some solutions to ensure clearer accountability between the executive and the administrative arms of government.

Something in the Army changed him ... he came home as an adult.

Some people have a rocket arm and some people can run real fast. I'd rather just learn where I can exploit the other team, where they're lacking.

Miguel Olivo

Somebody would stand out there with his arms raised and say, 'Go!' ... And we'd take off. I'd win one, he'd win one. It was always close.

Some people might get their payments weekly, and sometimes the check-cashing places really do charge an arm and a leg, and so this is less.

Curtis Sliwa

Some people have this stereotype in their mind that you have to be the son or daughter of Bruce Lee, physically fit, trim and able to fight off an army of uzi-toting, dope-sucking, psychopathic killing machines. That is not the prerequisite.

Andrew Niccol

Some people think 'Lord of War' is a political film, ... I think it's a truthful film, and the truth is political. The U.S. is by far the biggest exporter of arms in the world. It was true during the Clinton administration, and it's true during the Bush administration. It's bipartisan.

Robert Shaw

So the Proclamation of Emancipation, has come at last, or rather its forerunner. I suppose you are all very much excited about it. For my part, I can't see what practical good it can do now. Wherever our army has been there remain no slaves, and the Proclamation will not free them where we don't go.

So the king of the north shall come, and cast up a mount, and take the most fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall not withstand, neither his chosen people, neither shall there be any strength to withstand.

Alfonso Cuaron

Space fascinated me because I'm from the generation that saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon live on TV. I was 7 at the time. Also, 'Lost in Space' was one of my favorite shows on TV back then.

Sometimes I have to compromise my views, but I never compromise on issues like the death penalty and the arm trade laws, despite what the readers or letters may say.

On Dec. 27, I kept saying I was waiting for my hug from Dale for my birthday. The therapist picked up his arm and put it around my neck. ... It's heartbreaking. You live through the sadness, the numbness, the grieving. You live through the not knowing and constantly wondering. We want Dale back the way Dale was.

One day we showed up and somebody had too much fun. They (hung) on her arms and took them; $2,000 later, she'll be back. I'm going to try and bring her back when we move.

Now it's more a foundation to the community arm of the club. We're now using the dinner to support things in the community.

Walid Jumblatt

Nowadays it has become more risky. They have listening devices stronger than the Lebanese Army. They have infiltrated everything.

Clint Hurdle

The more arms we have and the more experience we have just makes us stronger.

Laura Bush

The Mongolian armed forces are serving the cause of freedom and the United States forces are proud to serve beside such fearless warriors, ... Now because of the courage of Mongolian and coalition forces, the people of Iraq know this feeling as well.

During the early hours of this morning, six armed men went into the house of a Democratic Republic of Congo national. They demanded diamonds, ransacked the house and, after finding nothing, poured boiling water over the 47-year-old woman and assaulted her 26-year-old son.

Deby has a very small army on whose loyalty he cannot count, so the edge he has is the French.

Harry Blackmun

Dear Chief: I had a feeling that at the very close of today's Conference we may have fitted Matthew Arnold's closing lines in 'Dover Beach' wherein he refers to those 'Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight / Where ignorant armies clash by night.'

Dean graduated from California two years ago and went into the Army, ... He's overseas now, and some of my other friends also have joined the military. My mother also got me interested by showing me pictures on the Internet of our soldiers and the conditions in which they are living in the Middle East. Their homes, in many cases, are in ditches and in the sand. I also learned that they really are in need of some of the basic day-to-day items most of us might take for granted, so I thought that would be the most useful thing to pursue.

Days can't be cruel while the guitar is bleeding upon my arms

Chuck Darby

Coach is a straightforward guy. If you're not paying attention to detail, that burns him up. But he'll also be the first to throw his arm around you. He's a fun guy to be around.

They reached that point without army occupancy and it is important that they accomplished it themselves because the Iranians can say they did something great and did it on their own to future generations. It gives the country dignity.

Judith Rodin

There's a lot of work being done through the innovation arm of the World Bank, at the World Bank Institute. There's a lot of work that we at the Rockefeller Foundation are doing and funding towards that end, and increasingly, the U.S. government is getting engaged.