Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Davis

Having a journalistic presence in a place like the Congo is about more than merely the daily story; it's about Congolese officials knowing there is daily scrutiny of their actions. Now you have corrupt officials, and they feel no eyes on their backs.

Brian Urquhart

No one on the Congo side had been given any experience whatsoever in how to run a country, ... There were (only) 17 people with university degrees in the whole Congo in those days.

Louis Michel

The peace process in the Congo is my priority,

Alex Morrison

I would hate to see operations in the Congo held hostage to Sierra Leone but I really think that's the way it's got to be. At one point we've got to decide to get it right and we've got to be professional.

Hassan Shehata

Congo is not easy by any means. From now on, all the matches should be treated like cup (finals) and we have to take every game one at a time. ... We do not underrate Congo. We have seen them play.

Richard Holbrooke

The Security Council has taken a critical step toward helping Congo and the region come to the peace that it so desperately needs,

Noam Chomsky

The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years.

Sylvia Schenk

Sports is a big economic area. And just like in other sectors of society, sports is vulnerable to corruption. It's not a holy realm.

Josh Lerner

Our standards-setting process risks being corrupted by having people filing for, and getting, any patents they want. That poses a real danger to the effectiveness of innovation.

John Fisher

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: Youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

Anna Hadingham

Our goal is to get our school to stop investing money in a corrupt government that is participating in genocide.

Melanie Sloan

Republican culture of corruption. There are so many corrupt members of Congress. By no means are all of the problems gone.

Harry Wu

That will prop up the corrupted regime. We are rewarding and we are encouraging the government for what they did over the past 20 years.

Nong Manh

It is not that there is more corruption than before, it is that they are being uncovered and we need to punish them.

W. S. Gilbert

I think once it's corrupted, it's corrupted and you need to throw it out.

John Alexander

I think the state of this country worsens every day, ... It's full of garbage, there's a lot of crime and a lot of corruption in the government and police. It's all upside down ? everything.

Randy Perry

Our numbers are growing daily as to who is opposing it.

Nick Meyer

Our mentality is just to keep going. We're working hard day in and day out. Everybody has got that mentality to just be doing these things on a daily basis.

Craig Harris

Our banners were torn to shreds. I felt it was important to remember tradition. I wanted us to be reminded of the program's past on a daily basis.

Unknown

Remember the love you feel today. Look back on it daily and measure how much it has grown.

Welsh Proverb

Man's mind is a watch that needs winding daily

Piers Morgan

We now know that one of the footman at the palace was a Daily Mirror journalist,

Gary Young

We not only look at individual students, we also look at daily objectives.

Diane Johnson

I will miss being involved in the daily happening of young people and having the opportunity to see them mature.

Katrina Szish

Jennifer Aniston looks great wearing jeans and a T-shirt and it's really a daily way of dressing that people can incorporate into their real lives.

Kari Williams

Starting out, they had puffy eyes. I didn't know if they could see the basket.

Dan Gorbett

Over 25 years I've never gotten over seeing the tears and heartbreak in kids' eyes when you lose. Unless you win a state championship, you will have kids that have been crushed. You never get over it.

John Donne

Pictures in our eyes to get / Was all our propagation.

Christina Rossetti

I might show facts as plain as day: but, since your eyes are blind, you'd say, ''Where? What?'' and turn away.

Jillian Robbins

I was just watching their eyes, and they were looking at who they were about to pass to. So I said, 'I've got to get this. I've got to leave it all on the floor.' My teammates had my back, so I went for it, and it worked out.

Kirk Hoza

I think the time away let him see the big picture. The technical part which way do the hips face, where do your eyes go that's where there is a little rust. But the spring is where you can shake the rust off.

Joe DiMaggio

It is an interesting coincidence. I guess I am following in his footsteps, ... 'Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you?' I'll tell people my name and they don't get it.

Matt Stout

Jay and Joe are my eyes out on the course. They help me see everything.

Chris Duffy

That's what he should do -- open some eyes and show that he can play. We're real good friends and competitive, too, at the same time.

David Belle

Parkour is really a practice of getting to know yourself, what you're able to do, what are your limits. As you train, you start knowing what you can do.

Pat Ryan

Part of the whole problem is knowing who to talk to to get something done, ... We were looking for someone to tell our story.

Beck

It's hard to make music knowing that it's not going to be received by the listener in the way that it should be.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The truth is scary, but knowing nothing is crippling.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Any happiness, no matter how brief, seemed better than the long, simmering torture of waking up day after day, knowing I could never have him.

Becca Fitzpatrick

The problem with human attraction is not knowing if it will be returned.

Bill Condon

First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

Bill Crawford

Our success and happiness depends not on simply knowing where we stand, but in where we are wanting to go.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Marianne Williamson

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Jesus Dureza

Our panel of 22 officials are here for the meeting. I think we are on the right track.

Ann Coulter

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Dave Freudenthal

The safest course for public officials is simply to throw all of the money in a sack.

Mark Spitz

The officials I was with, I don't know if they were unaware, but they didn't say anything to me. The whole thing turned into what did I see and what did I know.

Tom LaBonge

I don't like to see public officials attacked,

Javier Sambrano

Our presence has really been more about monitoring the students for safety than anything else.

Karen Scott

I'm here for him. My presence for him is all that matters.

Courtney Sims

I was just trying to be aggressive, and I just wanted to be a presence out there.

Paul Steidler

Law's very prominent presence in the Vatican this week is reopening a lot of old wounds,

Courtney Sims

I was trying to be more of a presence on defense. I wanted to be more active.

Mary Carillo

His presence shows how much respect he has for her, and he's so deferential.

Gary Waters

He may be the strongest presence in the league. The thing he's doing consistently is rebounding.

Carl Risch

She ran tough, really made her presence felt.

Tagg Romney

You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.