Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kofi Annan

such a system could run counter to efforts to halt proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Our strategy of investing in Morrison Homes in the US, has helped partially to counter the impact of more difficult trading in the UK.

Jim Murphy

Most recruiters, I know are probably trying to do the right thing. The problem is that recruiters today are under incredible pressure to make their goals. This is what we try to counteract in high schools.

Japan increasingly needs a weaker yen to counter falling foreign demand and increased competitive pressures.

Bobby Knight

That's been our problem and when it happens to us we have not been able to counter it, and tonight we did. They did things we have not been getting done.

Bruce Hoffman

It is not to say we are completely defenseless, because the Israelis have shown you can counter suicide bombings. But shouldn't have unrealistic expectations that you can prevent all attacks,

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Maajid Nawaz

I have founded Khudi, in Pakistan, a youth movement which tries to counter extremist ideology through healthy discussion and debate.

Hartley always has a strong zone defense. They are one of the few high-school teams that plays zone defense well. The key is to figure out how to counter their zone.

If one thing's not working, you can go to another thing. The defense has to honor the motion. We kind of wait to see what they do with our motion, and if they jumping over on that side, we can come back the other way with a counter play.

I would think it was unlikely they would counter offer.

Jake played awesome. We saw that Livermore was rolling to our motion and we quickly went to counter with Jake and he ran it really well.

Tom Cruise

I take no pleasure in having to be here today, but it is the last recourse to counter the vicious lies that have been printed about me and my family,

I think it's counter to the mission of the public schools to run the (home-school) programs.

It implies there is room for a counter offer.

Sean Flynn

I was aggressive, but he knew how to counter me. I didn't know what to do.

We may have another couple of days, or a week left of this counter trend move, but it's within the framework of an intermediate trend downward.

He was highly underrated as an offensive coach. We had an offense to counter any defense.

Tom Kenny

We're selling far more online than over the counter in recent years. Overheads for online selling are far cheaper, not nearly as much as operating from a shop.

Wolfman Jack

I don't want people mistreating me. I found out when you're vulnerable and your heart's open, then people step on you. You're really stupid for letting that happen. And the only way to counteract that is to be like Wolfman Jack. Because if you do nice, kind things for people, then how are they going to mess you over?

Nicholas Johnson

Taxing poor families runs counter to decades of effort to help people lift themselves out of poverty through work.

In a way, Strandbeests have turned into migration animals, and the step counter gives them an idea of where they are. While counting their steps, they know more or less where they are between Kijkduin and Scheveningen.

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.

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

We've got to counter the idea in people's heads that we're still under water. We've got 800 restaurants open and we're ready for business.

Abraham Verghese

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers.

There are a lot of worries circulating around about deflation, ... What the Fed is doing is saying we don't need to worry. If deflation happens, they will counter aggressively, and they have the tools to do so.

The reason we pulled the holiday issue from stores is because we just launched a new perfume called NOW and we had to make space on the counter for the product.

We kept standing in the middle of the ring taking punches and by the eighth or ninth round, we were still standing. We started throwing counter punches. I am extremely proud of the way we competed.

We think the forum is being hijacked by the private sector and we're here to counteract that.

We put them under pressure but they were able to counter better than other teams we've played.

Geno Auriemma

With Brittany, you're not quite sure what level she's at. She hasn't been able to practice much since the Big East tournament. It took a little toll on her. But even if she can play in a limited role, at least we have someone in the lane who can counteract some of the teams we can play. But how much, I don't know.

Joe Johnson

We've been having letdowns in the fourth quarter. They made a little run, but we managed to come back and counteract it with our own run. I thought we played big in the fourth quarter.