Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrei Popov

Our position as regards the restrictions imposed by the European Union remains unchanged -- these sanctions are unsubstantiated, deliberate and useless.

Gilbert Ryle

Such in outline is the official theory. I shall often speak of it, with deliberate abusiveness, as 'the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine'.

Juan Enriquez

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

When people see me knitting, I tell them I'm a knitter. Not the sort of knitter they may have run into before, but a passionate, constant, deliberate knitter. I knit everyday, all the time, everywhere I go.

Timothy Noah

If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations that Iraq conducted a deliberate campaign to eradicate the Kurdish population, there's always the word of the Iraqis themselves.

William Stone

Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.

Joanna Scott

When we really start searching for the truth in stories, we can find it everywhere, not just in sincere confessions but in the deliberate lies and imagined possibilities, the magic and fantasy, and all the other unreal elements that go into the concoction of identity.

Robert Grant

The demands of modern living are so exacting that men and women everywhere must exercise deliberate selection to live wisely

Rick Lynch

We have a very deliberate process on how we work with those detainees,

Thomas Koerfgen

Results have been much better. The market seems to be recovering. We're optimistic for the long run for European stocks.

David Byrne

required an immediate response from the European Union.

Jim Ratcliffe

I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.

Gordon Brown

The American and European positions have got to move. It is about making new proposals on agriculture.

Raul Gonzalez

It isn't true that there is an offer from Chelsea. There isn't even an offer from any other European team.

Gerhard Schroeder

It is likely that the European partners and also others will work towards a second decision, and I also think that is sensible,

Dick Marty

It is highly unlikely that European governments, or at least their intelligence services, were unaware.

Brian Tempest

It is just a modest acquisition. It is part of our overall European strategy.

Grant McCasland

Like most Europeans do, he shoots those 15-footers all the time. He stays after practice and keeps shooting it. Seemed all that practice after games paid off.

Steve Alford

Jeff Horner has imposed his will on this tournament.

Adrienne Shelly

Theater represents to me this phenomenon in juxtaposition to real life, where there are all these imposed guidelines.

William Cowper

Mortals, whose pleasures are their only care,/ First wish to be imposed on, and then are.

Frederick M. Vinson

There is a vast difference - a constitutional difference-between restrictions imposed by the state which prohibit the intellectual commingling of students, and the refusal of individuals to commingle where the state presents no such bar.

Walid Jumblatt

There was a president imposed by Syria. Our battle... is to have a Lebanese president that we elect.

Vladimir Putin

The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

Rep. Harper

What should the tax policy be for the state of Utah in conjunction with sales tax? Sales tax is a state tax and it should be imposed and managed by the state.

Roger Toussaint

We're not talking about a new strike. We're saying that we want a negotiated settlement, not one imposed through arbitration.

Michael Jackson

I respect the obligation of confidentiality imposed on all of the parties to the 1993 proceedings,

Clare Short

Reckless with our government;reckless with his own future, position and place in history.

Gholam Elham

Our position is very clear. We will not back down.

Javier Solana

Our position is that the (Iran) dossier should be referred to the council.

Lee Pelekoudas

Our position is that a 19-year-old shouldn't be put in a position to have to pitch. We feel we've got a pretty solid case.

Michael Burke

Our position is clear. The IFC can go someplace else,

Lori Rogers

Spring is just around the corner, so I think you'll see a lot of seasonal positions start up.

Rita Leckie

Some of the principals in the corporation are the same people. We took the position that it was the same company.

David MacGregor

Overall, (Maytag's) competitive position right now is pretty weak.

Andre Miller

I think they know we'll be around every game. We've been in this position before. If we come out with a better tempo at the start of the game, we'll have a better chance.

Brandon Banks

At this time, we are corroborating witness statements in regards to suspect description.

Kenneth Edmonds

In regards to the play, I'll just keep watching it and go out on the road every now and then to see how it's going and to tweak it to make it better.

Sergei Lavrov

With regards to the expansion of NATO, I see it as a mistake, even a provocation in a way.

Dennis Hastert

Back in 1935, there were 42 workers for every retiree. Today, in regards to Social Security, we only have 3 workers for every retiree.

Mike Lynch

Our visibility is improving, but at the same time still remains low,

Marty Schottenheimer

I don't know. That remains to be seen.

Stephane Deo

Here, we also have a very volatile indicator. The trend remains downward. I don't think that has changed.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There remains an experience of incomparable value.

Vidya Balan

A painter once told me that I'm like the Khajuraho, which you see once but which remains with you forever. I thought that was exquisite.

Nicolas Roeg

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Carlos Ghosn

In a difficult and uncertain environment, Renault remains on track to meet its 2012 objective.

Sanjeev Bhaskar

My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus.

Azzedine Alaia

'Vogue' remains while its fashion editors come and go.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Sanctions and boycotts would be tied to serious political dialogue.

Sergei Lavrov

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Sergei Lavrov

We have no desire to continue a sanctions war, trading blows.

Mario Pescante

Penal sanctions are O.K. for those that peddle ... For athletes, sporting sanctions are much more severe.

Ahmad Khatami

They threaten us. Their threats and sanctions have made us independent.

Bob Williams

I'm not sure any sanctions would have any effect.

Jochen Clausnitzer

Sanctions weld together the state and the population.

Ralph Nader

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

Bill Shorten

My preference is that employees pay their union dues, but what I also get is that I'd rather someone be in the union than not in the union.

Bill Shorten

To the best of my knowledge, when I became national secretary and, indeed, Victorian secretary, the - my predecessors in the union had detected wrong activities, activities which arent in the best traditions of the AWU or, indeed, trade unionism.

Tony Blair

I think the union has come out of this strengthened, not weakened,

Michael Havens

That was just something that, to us, was a union breaker.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Lech Walesa

I represent the concept that pluralism is essential, union pluralism. I made an oath about this.

Aleister Crowley

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Alexander Haig

More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.

James Nesbitt

When you're brought up in a Unionist culture, you can't help but feel Unionist.