Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liu Jianchao

Relevant agreements are in the process of being signed one by one, with some of them still under negotiation.

James Gleick

Patent battles have become a strong catalyst for mergers, reducing competition in various domains. The largest corporations, with gigantic patent portfolios, routinely enter into cross-licensing agreements with their largest competitors.

Sergei Lavrov

Such issues must be solved by realizing appropriate agreements fit with all concerning parties. It may take more time, effort and diplomatic skills, any issue may need a long time to reveal the truth about it.

Bob McAdoo

Overall, these new agreements and settlements have enabled United to reduce its non-fuel cost per available seat mile (cost per available seat mile ex-fuel) by approximately 22% during the three years while in bankruptcy.

Richard Boucher

It is important to us to be able to keep working with the parties and try to do what we can diplomatically to calm the situation, get back to implementation of the agreements of the cease-fire.

Fay Vincent

I think he (Selig) is probably better able to get support among owners, ... But they're trying to roll back 25 years of labor agreements in one round. I was telling them the best you can do is incremental improvement -Ê it's going to take a long time to straighten out this. They didn't want to hear that.

Ariel Sharon

I am aware that peace requires painful compromises. Any agreements will be based on security,

Lanny Davis

But for peaceful purposes and when agreements can be worked out and when understandings can be had then what we are talking about is economic development opportunities, peaceful and useful opportunities... Then I think we are on the same page.

David Bonior

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade... They don't have any compliance or enforcement.

Bob Schindler

People like Terry, who was disabled, and the elderly, are being victimized, brutally victimized. They're dying and no one knows about it.

Mike Farrell

It is an ugly, brutal development, ... a good and smart and decent professional.

Bruno Heller

I think it was a brutal time filled with people who were strangely sophisticated and uncivilized. Over the years movies tended to take a Victorian gentleman's view of this world ù all marbleized sets and men. But Caesar was a great warrior and writer and a war criminal, by our definition. ...There was a dichotomy between sophistication and viciousness that was specifically Roman.

Gabrielle Richards

I think this will be really big for our confidence after those brutal losses. This is a quality school in a quality league.

Edward Olmos

It is brutal - brutal - when you see what happened to them, ... You simply go, 'Wait a minute - this was not shown to anyone?'

David Naude

I don't interpret this as a sign of recovery in activity. Rather, the increase in unemployment of the last six to eight months has been too brutal and exaggerated not to generate this type of correction.

Christopher Cox

He is, of course, a brutal thug, ... Late Edition.

Stephen Hall

This was one of the most brutal and heinous crimes committed in the county, ... I do, frankly, feel sorry for your family.

Tangee Overly

I can't lie and say that I'm sorry that this conclusion happened because I'm not. Dan was very brutally murdered.

Jay McIntosh

Our research shows that the Indian population tends to spend more and save less versus Chinese consumers who save up to 40 percent of their income.

John Lehman

Our recommendations are not a Chinese menu, ... They are a whole system. If all of the important elements are not adopted, it makes it very difficult for the others to succeed.

Brian Kemp

Part of why we were able to get this deal done was because they really want American families traveling in China. They're infatuated with American culture. And with the Olympics being held in Beijing, the Chinese tourism officials need to show that they're open for business.

Eric Schmidt

Our No 1 goal here by far is to serve Chinese users, who want useful information on the Internet.

Jiang Zemin

steadily expand its opening-up program in terms of commodity and service trade, and create a level playing field for a fair and transparent competition between Chinese and overseas enterprises.

Gil Perry

Our target is low-to-medium volume while Chinese manufacturers are interested in high-volume products.

Mark White

People who listen to the music for the music and are adventurous in their playing tend to dig it, those who have a narrower perspective don't.

Bubba Thornton

We'll also have the Chinese and a team from either Jamaica or the Bahamas. This meet ranks with a lot of meets in Europe. What better place to take a test?

Ralph Cossa

I think there's some understanding that if we back off for now, the Chinese will make some movement on currency.

Dennis Hastert

Some have said that we should not have this debate. I disagree,

Jeff Burton

Our sport, for one reason or another -- and we could debate for hours about why -- is not as diverse as it needs to be. I don't think it's from a lack of trying.

Tony Blair

Robin was an outstanding, extraordinary talent - brilliant, incisive in debate, of incredible skill and persuasive power,

Laura Bullock

It is a time to gather information. It is not the time to debate anything.

Tim Johnson

The American people in general won this debate.

Ann Richards

I was really pleased ... we were all really nervous going into this debate and I thought that John Kerry knocked it out of the ballpark,

Paul Lopez

It gives the debate a megaphone, it gives the march a megaphone.

Luis Macas

I think we are getting stronger. We've opened the debate on these (free-trade) subjects, and the indigenous movement is showing its power again.

Michael R. Bloomberg

I think two debates are fine for this cycle.

Jalal Talabani

stand with the Iraqi people as they move forward with the Democratic process.

Thomas Mann

I think was Harry Truman who said, 'If you want to live like a Republican, vote Democratic,' ... The idea that somehow a Democratic majority is harmful for the economy strikes me as fanciful. It's financial fiction.

Tony Leon

I think voters are repulsed by the floor-crossers who took away their democratic mandate and this is an opportunity to make it right.

Nkosana Sibuyi

It is our firm view that the declaration of this day as a public holiday will enable voters to exercise their democratic right to vote as enshrined in our Constitution.

Pierre Pettigrew

It is important to realize that the process of democratic development will not end on election day.

Tessa Hafen

It is not a coincidence. Sen. Reid is the Democratic leader and a senior member of the Appropriations Committee, which puts him in a key position to help Nevada.

Jesse Jackson

I watched all of the Democratic convention. I then stayed up and watched it all again. Enjoyed it just as much the second time.

Sean Smith

I think he can win and will win the Democratic nomination. As a campaign, that is 100 percent of our focus.

Lee Miringoff

It could turn into a Democratic year in New York, which might then have an impact on down-ballot races for Congress.

Mark Hogan

Our new guys are going to have to hit well, because we're full of new guys.

Michelle Theall

Our mission is to inspire and inform women to live life to the fullest through outdoor adventures.

Dan Brooks

People meant a lot to her. She always wanted to touch people. Maria was just full of life. She had a lot of heart.

Audrey MacLean

Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.

Paul Horsnell

Some of these refineries will not be back to full operation, perhaps well into next year.

Tim McGillivray

Some of our schools are more full than others, so you can't always place them at their neighborhood school.

Alex Smith

Our school system needs a fully funded gifted program.

Peter Schnorr

Our goal is to get a full day -- 10 hours -- of active, pen-down writing.

Richard Clarke

Our goal is by the third week in October to open the full 20.9 miles of road for travel.

Michael Carter

Recount or no recount, there's going to be a government without a strong mandate or much flexibility.

Sitaram Yechury

Parliament has to urgently and immediately take up the issue. It is up to the government to see how they do it. Parliament will have to enact the law. Eventually, even it (ordinance) will have to come to parliament.

Samir Acharya

Suddenly, the government of India has taken a very keen interest in these far-flung islands.

Kathleen Blanco

State government must work leaner but smarter than ever before,

Roger Launius

Our position would be that it is, and always has been, government property.

Takeo Hiranuma

Our task is to make sure the government does not submit the bill.

Barry Goldwater

Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.

B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. F. Skinner

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Billy Graham

part poet, part preacher, a singer of the human spirit.

Margot Robbie

People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.

Dan Shechtman

Sustainable development requires human ingenuity. People are the most important resource.

Mark Twain

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Bhagavad Gita

Success in work comes quickly in this human world.

Jim Leach

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Kamila Hyat

Our view is that if surveillance has happened, it is undemocratic. This is a violation of human rights.

Tony Perkins

Rep. Foxx is to be commended for supporting public policy that values human life, protects our religious liberties, and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family.

Jimmy Schaeffler

Piracy has taken a hit, but it's always going to be a problem. It's human nature to find ways around paying.

O. Henry

Our point here is that what we don't want is for people to walk away and say, well, those are yesterday's issues and they have been or will be addressed.

Pradeep Maharaj

Some of the issues they raised are new but many of them have been raised before.

Barry McGuigan

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Bill Crawford

Regardless of what is being discussed . . . the issue is never more important than the quality of the interaction.

Cecil Taylor

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Cecelia Ahern

What seems tragic now won't even be an issue in a few years time.

Carl Sagan

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

Art Alexakis

I've always cared about the world. That's never been an issue. But with learning how to smile, it's been learning how to feel comfortable within my own skin, and to feel accepted, and to feel empowered, and to feel worthy.

John Greenwood

I think there's no understanding whatsoever of what the safety issues are.

Paul Rees

It was pretty shocking. Somewhere between pitiful and pantomime.

Thurston Moore

Recording tends to restrict too much experimentation, 'cause when you're making a record it's a part of you, for that time it's your whole fabric.

George Burns

Our record doesn't show it, but we are getting better.

Jim Peters

Overall, 2006 will probably come in somewhere between the record sales of 2005 and the very strong sales of 2004.

Wayne Perry

Really, my record is my program's record. That's kind of how I look at it.

Barry Mann

One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers.

Billy Corgan

Most great records really start with the drums.

Bert McCracken

We are the outcasts, we are the ones that are different, we are the ones that never got along with anyone else, we are the ones that went back to our rooms and put on our headphones and listened to those records that made us happy

Bill Bryson

Most of what has lived on Earth has left behind no record at all.

Jeff Corey

I think they have a much better team then their record indicates.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction

B. R. Ambedkar

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Bill Shuster

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

Bhagat Singh

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

C. S. Lewis

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

C. S. Lewis

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

C. S. Lewis

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

C. S. Lewis

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

C. S. Lewis

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Jack Balkin

Rights are most secure when they are supported by legislative enactment,

Babatunde Osotimehin

Sexual and reproductive health and rights are universal human rights!They are an indivisible part of the broader human rights and development equation. Their particular power resides in the fact that they deal with the most intimate aspects of our identities as individuals and enable human dignity, which is dependent on control of our bodies, desires and aspirations.

B. R. Ambedkar

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

Bill Delahunt

If we're going to preach about democracy we're going to have to make difficult decisions. We're not going to sell our values out for basing rights, particularly when (Defense) Secretary (Donald) Rumsfeld himself noted that there were options to the base in Uzbekistan

Bianca Jagger

George W. Bush and his administration embarked on a full-scale assault on civil liberties, human rights and the rule of law, walking away from his international obligations, tearing up international treaties, protocols and UN conventions.

Bianca Jagger

I am not just a celebrity, I'm a human-rights advocate for the last 20 years.

Bianca Jagger

There is so much each one of us can do to make a difference. We are at a dangerous juncture in the history of mankind. ... We need to defend our principles and values, human rights, civil liberties and the rule of international law. If we don't our world will further descend into a state of chaos.

Bertha von Suttner

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

Carl Sagan

The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others.

Bob Marley

Rise and take your stance once again

Eddie Huang

BaoHaus is idiosyncratic, creative, and artistic. My restaurant doesn't look like a Taiwanese restaurant.

Annette Lu

Taiwan is democratic.

Jason Wu

The Taiwanese are big on tea. I think it's nice to slow down a bit. It's very much a custom.

Steve Johnson

Democratic, market-oriented Taiwan is a thorn in its side.

Jeremy Lin

The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.

George W. Bush

I simply said that I would do everything to help Taiwan to defend itself.

Hu Jintao

We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

Joseph Domenech

It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.

William Benet

One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.

Clint Eastwood

I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime.

Jane McGonigal

We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence.

Rand Paul

I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked.

Preity Zinta

I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own.

Maurice Cheeks

We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that.

Bill Guerin

(When) you have a year like I've been having, you just want to contribute. I don't think I'm there yet, but I'm working toward it.

William Massey

We are working toward being an energy-independent facility.

Bergen Evans

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.

Scott Lewis

I didn't give my trust to my guys,

Chris Duhon

If only we had an answer. Trust me, we don't know.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Jack McConnell

I don't trust him. He has wandering eyes!" ()

John Hill

I'd trust her with my wife and with my life,

Tim Duncan

I got a lot of (grief) for that, too. Trust me, I'm getting my share.

Charles R. Swindoll

We can't solve modern problems by going back in time. Retreating to the safety of the familiar is an understandable response, but God has called us to a life of faith. And faith requires us to face the unknown while trusting Him completely.

Charles Spurgeon

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

John Kelly

I feel like I've been raped. Someone's violated my home.

Jeff Denham

I don't know that you have the votes here today.

Al Sharpton

Mr. President, read our lips. Our votes are not for sale.

Jerry Bell

We're overwhelmed by it. It was more votes than we expected.

Charles Kennedy

Fair votes - fundamentally - are about the rights and the interests of the people.

Dick Gephardt

one of the most important votes we will take in this Congress.

Sam Craig

Once it's in play (a nomination), you want to try to go out there and get as many votes as you can.

Al Scates

They're very solid. They had a lot of first-place votes this week. We know they are for real.

Jim Mowen

You have to go where the votes are at.

Pete Wilson

We'll have to see who has the votes if it comes to that.