Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Stiglitz

The question is whether it'll be a stable country, will it be a country in which a diversity of views, open transparency, women's rights are recognized. The likelihood of that remains very low.

The proposition we have lived by in this country is that you can give information as long as it's truthful to consumers.

Robert Nelson

The only country where you see any positive movement within domestic consumption is Brazil, where you really do have a variety of coffees to make blends with.

To turn a negative into a positive we need to have a symbiotic relationship with the county commission.

Traditionally, they're strong. They're going to trap and counter us to death.

Douglas Alexander

Traditionally, diplomacy was done in an environment of information scarcity. Ambassadors would send back telegrams to foreign ministries, comfortable in the knowledge that their views of a country would be the only source of information the minister would see.

Michael Brown

This story's not about me. This story's about the worst disaster of the history of our country that stretched every government to its limit, and now we have to help these victims. That's all I've wanted to do.

This storm, if it stays on its current track, timing and pace, it should hit Onslow County at high tide and during an astronomically high-tide cycle,

Mike Singletary

You lose a guy that you count on every week a blue-collar guy. You never have to worry about, 'I wonder whether Jeff knows the play.' He knows it, probably better than you do.

You look at the size of Fairfield County and Greenwich and Stamford, they have been very robust markets for job growth.

Janet Parshall

Today we ask, 'How can a country with such a horrific record of human rights abuses, religious persecution, nuclear proliferation and espionage be deemed normal by any freedom-loving country such as the United States?'

Today, we are a nuclear country and we are ready to negotiate with other countries to remove their concerns.

Stewart Udall

Lady Bird Johnson did more than plant flowers in public places. She served the country superbly by planting environmental values in the minds of the nation's leaders and citizens.

Roger Waters

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

Rush Limbaugh

I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Mark McKinnon

What strikes me when I leave Washington is the extent to which there's a huge disconnect between Washington and the rest of the country. The rest of the country is not hyper partisan.

Mario Andretti

You should never get away from where the real foundation of Formula One has been, which is Europe. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the expansion to countries like Asia, China, Malaysia.

George Jones

I loved Roy Acuff with all my heart, and I never dreamed I'd be able to meet him or see him onstage, or especially become good friends with him. For all this to happen, it's hard to explain what a dream this is when you love something as much as I love traditional country music.

George Miller

Did you know - and studies prove this - that 98 percent of all the Visine in this country runs down the side of people's faces?

Geoffrey Fisher

Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.

Geoffrey Fisher

This country and the Commonwealth last Tuesday were not far from the Kingdom of Heaven.

Greg Boyle

Gangs are bastions of conditional love, and one of the ways to counteract it is to offer community, which will always trump gang, and that's what happens at Homeboy Industries.

Sarah McLachlan

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.

Sandra Cisneros

I think that Mexican-American kids live in a global world. It's not even bi-, it's multi-. You know, for those of us who grew up with different countries on our block, different nationalities, you know, we moved into multiple worlds.

Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.

Wael Ghonim

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it wasn't easy. And, you know, you don't end dictatorship one day and next day you have fully fledged democracy.

Wyndham Lewis

In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of 'freedom', like a bastard brother of reform.

Walter Salles

I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.

Walter Salles

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

You don't know what the country is ready for unless you're pushing that envelope, and I was told that I couldn't develop 'Will and Grace'.

Virat Kohli

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.

Avicii

For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.

Alexis Arguello

I'm doing it, I took responsibility in my country and I've done it with my bare hands.