Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvia Hatchell

I don't know of any other league in the country that has that kind of parity.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

I don't know why some countries do not want to understand the fact that the Iranian people do not tolerate force.

Chone Figgins

I'd definitely take this every day. Seriously, I've just been working on making all my at-bats count this spring. Hopefully, I'll take that into the regular season.

Michael Ignatieff

I'd be wary of writing this country off. There are some scary and ugly things about it, but it remains a turbulently, explosively innovative place.

I credit Shores, it's a big win for them. Every school that plays us in the county comes after us. We're the measuring stick. If you can play with Vanguard, then you've got a good team.

Peter Sutherland

I come from a country with a long history of providing migrants to the rest of the world, which has now become a country of destination.

Lomana LuaLua

I come from a country that lives for football and I owe the people a debt of gratitude.

Bernie Worrell

I can go from one thing to another, like jazz to country western, from country western to Irish, from Irish to Operatic, and so on and so on.

I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.

I am cautiously optimistic the stellar growth in the first decade of commercialization will be surpassed in the second. The number of countries and farmers growing biotech crops is expected to grow, particularly in developing countries.

I am counting on the last 14 days, that is the decisive time when undecided voters make up their minds.

Rahul Dravid

I am looking forward to the series, it should be a good one. We had a very good tour of Pakistan last time and I enjoyed the country and enjoyed going there. Hope the same this time.

I am foreseeing good friendship between the two countries in the near future,

David Nelson

I am interested in the Douglas County Master Plan and how it is applied.

Benjamin Disraeli

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Ben Fountain

Somewhere along the way America became a giant mall with a country attached.

Ben E. King

In New York, I was excited about the music in New York because the only music that I was more or less involved with in the South was either country and western or hillbilly music as we used to call it when I was a kid and, ah, gospel. There was no, there was no in between. And when I got to New York all the other musics that's in the world just came into my head whether it was the classics, jazz, I never knew what jazz was about all, had heard anything about jazz.

Barry Eichengreen

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty. Whichever country precipitated it - Germany by threatening to abandon the euro, or Greece or Spain by actually doing so - would trigger economic chaos and incur its neighbours' wrath.

Carl von Clausewitz

By 'intelligence' we mean every sort of information about the enemy and his country - the basis, in short, of our own plans and operations.

Carl von Clausewitz

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.

Carice van Houten

I knew always that Holland gave away the most Jews of all the countries. We are not the heroes that are in the history books.

Candy Crowley

As someone who is in awe and grateful every day to be in a country where freedom of the press, free speech and free elections are a way of life, I am wowed, amazed and excited by the opportunity to moderate a 2012 presidential debate.

Camila Alves

Women inspire me. Women in the airports, around the country in different cities, destinations around the world, inspire me with the way they express their individuality. I love watching women and discovering all the ways each person uses a color, pattern, a style, even a lipstick color. Im a people watcher.

Cameron Sinclair

Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.

Cam Newton

Growing up in Atlanta, it brings a particular swagger about a person. There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is LA, obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.

Cameron Diaz

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.

Cameron Diaz

The first country that I went to outside of America was Japan and I was completely shocked - especially since I was 16 and over there by myself. I was like: "I don't get it; there's nothing in English!"

C. S. Lewis

I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!

C. S. Lewis

Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect.

C. S. Lewis

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them,and what came through them was longing. These things—the beauty, the memory of our own past—are good images of what we really desire; but if they are mistaken for the thing itself they turn into dumb idols,breaking the hearts of their worshippers. For they are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

C. S. Lewis

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.

C. S. Lewis

For they (art and music) are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never yet visited.

C. S. Lewis

I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in his most depraved wishes will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in 'the High Countries'.