Famous Quotes & Sayings

We said we would give 48 hours for the ceasefire to be implemented on the ground. What we have seen is more violent incidents than before ... and the Palestinian Authority has done very little, if at all, to stop the fighting.

Jeff Bezos

We think this is a win, win, win for publishers, authors and customers.

Matthew Miller

We think there needs to be an up-or-down vote, and we think it ought to come sooner rather than later. There is a very real question if the administration has the authority to block this deal after it closes on Thursday. Even with this 45-day review, there is a legal question as to whether they could reverse their position, even if they wanted to.

Saddam Hussein

Why have you brought us here with force? Your authority gives you the right to try a defendant in absentia. Are you trying to overcome your own smallness?

John Jeremiah Sullivan

This to me is the secret comedy of all author interviews, down through the ages, even the good ones in the 'Paris Review' and places. They're all acting. It's like watching a person in a play.

Patrick Fitzgerald

We also note that it is our understanding that Mr. Libby testified that he was authorized to disclose information about the NIE to the press by his superiors.

Though I am the author of this system, one should know that I do nothing and I am eternal.

James Inhofe

Those who seek to criticize this legislation under the guise of environmental concerns have it backwards as the use of the authority is specifically to protect public health,

We are working around the clock with the Iraqi authorities and foreign missions to win the release of all the hostages.

Jeff Kinney

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener.

Javier Solana

We will continue to support the Palestinian Authority until the new government is formed and on that we are trying to find the necessary resources.

Arthur Phillips

When a character bears the same name as the author it's just an invitation to have some fun.

We would have no regulatory authority over anything other than native wildlife. This would throw our whole wildlife-integrity plan into chaos.

Carlos Gonzalez

We are sending the help wherever the U.S. authorities request us to.

Carlos Gonzalez

We are sending messages that we consider very important so that they can receive the help of authorities without any fear.

(We) await the response from U.S. authorities over the request to question all of those under investigation.

Trust in established institutions and figures of authority - CEOs, heads of state - is being supplanted by a personal web of trust that includes colleagues, friends and family.

Terry Pratchett

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?

Isaac Newton

Why there is one body in our System qualified to give light and heat to all the rest, I know no reason but because the Author of the System thought it convenient; and why there is but one body of this kind, I know no reason, but because one was sufficient to warm and enlighten all the rest.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood.

Isabel Gillies

Anita Shreve is an author I adore. I rip through her meaty books and get off on the robust romance immensely - especially if I am feeling less than robust in my real life.

Without those disclosures or your authority to make inquiry of grand jury members, we cannot go forward on that matter.

With book publishing, when I say Fulcrum, you might know that we publish books, but you would be hard-pressed to pick titles or authors from our list. It's tricky from the marketing side to think about building a brand, and we do so by picking authors and titles that we believe will be successful.

Joel Sternfeld

With a photograph, you are left with the same modes of interpretation as you are with a book. You ask: 'What do we know about the author and their background? What do I know about the subject?'

The question of whether or not Congress has the authority to federally recognize a Native Hawaiian governing entity is an issue that has yet to be ruled on by the courts,

Enrico Caruso

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

Isabel Allende

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have a place in posterity, while most women know that posterity is what happens when you no longer care. Women want to connect with others here and now; they couldn't care less about legacy!

Hillary Clinton

Remember, the IDF, the Israeli Defense Forces, have a working relationship with the Palestinian Authority security forces, which have been incredibly professional.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

We came down here for a learning type thing. But we hit the ball with authority at times and we made some hard outs.

Rudolph Giuliani

We only see the oppressive side of authority. Maybe it comes out of our history and our background. What we don't see is that freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do and how you do it.

Chris Edwards

While tax authorities have increased surveillance and regulation in a bid to stem the flow of investment capital and profits to low-tax jurisdictions, it's easier to shift money around than it used to be thanks to technology. Both legal avoidance and illegal evasion techniques have become more accessible.

Anthony DeCurtis

Who's going to do it? Who has the authority to kind of step into that role and speak for everybody?