Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miguel Syjuco

When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.

Mike Quigley

Before being elected to Congress, I oversaw the Cook County Hospital System as a Cook County Commissioner for 10 years.

Peter Bichsel

The problems of our country are very fast to recognize.

Germany is not like Ireland or Denmark. It is a country where the domestic market counts much more than the external market.

Pastor Maldonado

I'm used to having a lot of criticism. It's normal. It's normal when you come from South America, when you have a country pushing very hard in your back.

Park Geun-hye

I will revive the legend of the economic miracle, making the country a place where people have no worry about living and young people merrily go to work.

Paolo Bacigalupi

There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.

Marina Abramovic

When people ask me where I am from I never say, 'Serbia.' I always say, 'I come from a country that no longer exists.'

Masiela Lusha

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is comprised of these foreign traditions. If any one of these experiences are to be ignored, I wouldn't be the same.

Shane Smith

My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there.

Shreya Ghoshal

I listen to a wide range of music, from country to pop to alternative rock, as well as Indian music. You know, what excites me are new ideas. And with a lot of the international hits - from Lady Gaga to Rihanna and others - you'd find excellent production and groundbreaking ideas that lift the music to a greater realm.

Rush Limbaugh

We want everybody to succeed. You know why? We want the country to succeed, and for the country to succeed, its people - its individuals - must succeed.

This Spanish masterpiece was released the first year of our Festival, in 1973, but it has not been seen in this country until now. It will soon be out on DVD.

This sounds interesting. We need to explore new technologies to count fish.

The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by better and more intelligent service; and yet life is by no means easier, but indeed hard. The demands on time, whether real or imagined, have increased in a greater ratio than the supply of facilities for answering them, and as the earth provokingly continues to revolve on its axis just as rapidly as of old, the days are never long enough for all the duties which they bring.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

Each country its cost analysis is going to be different. So what we are you seeing in Syria, for example, is different than what's going on in Jordan. The maps are being rewritten.

Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.

I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.

I think this is really a defining moment for the Arab world. The problem is, it is all going to be about blood, sweat and tears. In certain countries it may be just sweat, and in some countries sweat and tears, and in some countries, as you can see, a lot of blood. I think initial instability is something that we are all extremely nervous of.

I personally believe that any country that has a nuclear program should conform to international regulations and should have international regulatory bodies that check to make sure that any nuclear program moves in the right direction.

There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country but across the Middle East: Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel' — or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood? Which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East — the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment — the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.

Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

When we try to push the envelope, there are certain sectors of society that say this is a Zionist plot to sort of destabilize our country, or this is an American agenda.

Lee Womack

To me it just seems like there's a lot of everything in New York. ... I know that when I've played there, I've always felt like, it isn't that people are necessarily looking for country music as just for good music.

To swing like Count Basie and have the impact of Mahalia Jackson.

What's exciting is that diesel will be on equal footing with gasoline in this country for the first time in a long time.

What is required immediately is the return of the boy. If this does not happen, the U.S. government will be responsible for the way in which relations between the two countries could worsen.

What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn't dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn't watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.

Mike Piazza

We got a great count on him, and then we jammed him. Maddux said at the end of the inning, 'That was awesome. You called the right pitch at the right time.' Nice to hear.

Bob Burns

We have 41 in the program, counting everyone. We're small. We're hoping to grow.

We can only count on Kato for a gold medal but there are many competitors who have medals within their reach.