Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yehuda Berg

If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

Billy Graham

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Kevin Quinn

The police response was excellent and the bomb squad was here in 12 minutes. It was an unfortunate situation but it ran smoothly. The students were very mature and excellent in terms of their cooperation.

Bharati Mukherjee

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

Alice Walker

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Nancy Pelosi

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

Albert Einstein

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Tim O'Brien

When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

George Galloway

The only moral question with suicide bombing is who the target is. And in that sense, the suicide bomber is no different from the stealth bomber or the cruise missile. If it is targeted at civilian people, then it is morally wrong, whether done by Bush, Blair, or a suicide bomber.

Walter Kirn

If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

Today, children are watching more and more television, and are bombarded over and over with images and content that have the potential to dramatically influence their behavior.

Robert D. Kaplan

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

The defendant must have figured out Ressam planned to bomb something in the United States.

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Silvan Shalom

The question is not if they are going to hold that bomb in 2009 or 2010 or 2011, the question is when they will have the full knowledge,

Tougher sentences being dished out are clearly making spammers feel the heat. However, spam is clearly not a thing of the past. E-mail users worldwide are still being bombarded by unsolicited messages, and, two years on, Gates' famous prediction now looks extraordinarily optimistic.

Peter Singer

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

Stuart Symington

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

We relied on runners and ambulance crews passing on information as they dropped patients off. When the last telephone call you receive said eight bombs have gone off, it sounded like Armageddon.

Alex D. Linz

We shouldn't carpet bomb Afghanistan. If we wanted to hinder them we could take out strategic sites like weapons manufacturing and bridges.

We should make no mistake. The president has used his constitutional power to release convicted terrorists, despite the opposition of federal law enforcement officials, despite objections from the law enforcement community and despite the pleas of the victims and families of the dead -- killed in their wave of bomb attacks.

Stephen Hawking

We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.

With the bomb sweeps, we decided it might be counterproductive. People might try to save money by skipping (them).

Steve Erickson

Two subsequent incidents of import established CNN: the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, which CNN was the only network to cover as it happened, and the 1991 Gulf War, which CNN chronicled round the clock from a proximity as irresistible as it was alarming, bomb blasts and gunfire lighting up TV screens from coast to coast.

Cynthia McKinney

The United States has far more to offer the world than our bombs and missiles and our military technology.

Geez, all that money we waste on space exploration; just think how many bombs that would buy!

Gareth Gates

I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!

Bhagat Singh

Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

We have to be pleased with his play. He got bombarded and he stood in.

Duncan Hunter

There are always going to be insurgents in Iraq ... and there's always going to be bombs going off. That's the nature of that neighborhood, ... The key is: Can this military defend its civil government and be accountable and responsible to it? I think they're going to hold.

There are a lot of trailers that look like a bomb went off.

When you fly a jet out of Cannon, within a few minutes you're over the bombing range. Most places, you have to use half your gas to get there, you can do one or two bombing runs, then fly home because you're out of gas.

Boris Yeltsin

You have to be more careful in a world filled with all types of weapons, some of which are in the hands of terrorists. All of this is very dangerous. You can't threaten like that, that you'll send in planes and bombs -- no!