Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Levy

We have not abandoned the SLA, ... Our gates are open.

Bruce Babbitt

We have no choice but to manage these forests to get the fuel loads down. We can't abandon this program. What we've got to do instead is to correct the mistakes,

Ed Rollins

What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.

Granth Sahib

The One, who holds all creatures in His Hands, is never separated from them; He is with them all. Abandon your clever devices, and grasp hold of His Support. In an instant, you shall be saved.

Colin Powell

We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,

Nicolas Maduro

The Venezuelan people will never abandon the ideals President Chavez gave us. Modestly, we contribute to ensure the stability of the region.

Hiram Rhodes Revels

I hold that establishing mixed schools will not harm the white race. I am their friend. I said in Mississippi, and I say here, and I say everywhere, that I would abandon the Republican party if it went into any measures of legislation really damaging to any portion of the white race, but it is not in the Republican party to do that.

Richard Dickson

We have a professional market going on right now. The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

Richard Dickson

We have a professional market going on right now, ... The individual has just abandoned it and you've got traders jerking it around. If you're playing in the market, what's your best way to make quick gains? Pick the higher volatility stocks. What are those? Tech stocks.

Sue Monk Kidd

My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

Tawni O'Dell

I'm a novelist - not an expert on coal mining. I'm not a politician with an agenda to push. I'm not a reporter presenting facts, and I'm not a sociologist documenting the last struggling remnants of blue-collar America. I'm simply an author who sets her books in coal country because it's where I come from, and it's what I know.

Munir Akram

The outcome of the summit was not all we had hoped for. The agenda became loaded as the process went along.

Roy Blunt

What we do here is more important than who we are. We have an agenda to move forward here.

Ken Clarke

We are going to make our case to our fellow MPs, argue on the agenda that I have set out before and see how many of them think that is a package they would like to put to the party and the country.

Dick Cheney

Our adversaries - our Democratic adversaries - like to be able to portray the Republican Party as a bunch of wingnuts - narrow based, always have some agenda that's not attractive to the public... That's easier for them, and more fun, than dealing with their own problems. And I think their problems are significant.

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Dave Brat

We want everybody to get rich. The Republican Party is often called unloving, uncaring, not generous, or whatever - that's a bunch of baloney. We're the party that believes in free markets.

Roe Jung

The panel couldn't find stem cells that match patients' DNA regarding the 2005 paper, and it believes that Hwang's team doesn't have scientific data to prove that (such stem cells) were made.

Roe Hye

The panel couldn't find stem cells that match patients' DNA . . . and it believes that Hwang's team doesn't have scientific data to prove that (such stem cells) were made.

Thomas Perez

President Obama believes that income inequality is one of the most pressing matters facing the nation. If we are going to be a country that provides ladders of opportunity and believes in a thriving middle class, then we have to raise the minimum wage.

Ted Cruz

Tonight, I want to say to every member of the democratic party, who believes in limited government, in personal opportunity and the united States constitution, and a safe and secure America, come home. To the Reagan Democrats, your party has left you. And the Republican party wants you, we welcome you back.

Charles Smulders

Vendors must find ways to persuade end-users to replace their PCs more frequently, ... Dataquest believes that the new generation of small form-factor PCs will be instrumental in making this happen.

Becky Hultberg

Ultimately the bill the governor puts forward is the one he believes is in the best interests of the state.

Mark Jenkins

This was a statement to the country that the Kenya Wildlife Service organization believes Meru is safe.

Mark Jenkins

This was a statement to the country that the Kenya Wildlife Service organisation believes Meru is safe.

Carlos Ghosn

The biggest enemy of management is indifference. It's when people don't give a damn

John Grisham

We want to raise all we can and then take the next two years to spend all of it, ... Hopefully then we'll be out of business and there'll be no more hurricanes.

Dennis Kavelman

We have seen a recovery in subscriber additions and business momentum since RIM settled the patent litigation.

Jochen Clausnitzer

We have no indication that business connections have gotten worse between German enterprises and their partners in the Middle East.

Amit Bhatia

We have never seen a sport as a business, and we have this great passion for football. QPR are not a trophy asset. If we had wanted a trophy asset, there were more glamorous clubs we could have bought.

Roman Romanenko

Whenever we went on a trip, picnic, or business trip, I was always with my dad, and I would just always be in contact with cosmonauts, and I thought it would be always normal to be with them.

Denise Barrett

We want residents to take the time and refresh the information, if it has changed. People's cell phone numbers tend to change or business phone numbers, and they may have changed jobs.

Martha Stewart

We want people to see what real business is really like,

Mark Gaines

We want our customers to think of energy efficiency as a critical business issue, and to look to The Gas Company for valuable solutions. We also invite any food service representatives to think of the Food Service Equipment Center as their one-stop resource for fine-tuning all of their kitchen operations.

Tom Rath

We've seen the enemy, and he is us. We have to get back to the basics. Let's talk about small government and reduced spending, and don't let the Democrats take those issues.

John Hume

The real duty now, if we want to have a totally peaceful and stable country, is for all true democrats to implement the will of the people.

Stewart Udall

I don't remember a big fight between the Republicans and Democrats in the Nixon administration or President Gerald Ford and so on.

Timothy Noah

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Lynn Westmoreland

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Mark Bubriski

The personality is stronger than the policies. These are issues that Democrats are talking about.

Ken Mehlman

I will always remember and we must all remember that Democrats are our political rivals, not our enemies, and they deserve our respect.

Timothy Noah

When Democrats lose, they're pathetic. When Republicans lose, they're bitter and mean.

Timothy Noah

Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.

Jim Daly

We want to reach out to those kids who are having a hard time, ... We encourage them to talk to someone, a teacher, counselor, principal, anyone.

Jordan Metzl

We were always encouraged to do whatever it was we wanted to do. There was never a goal that was too high or too crazy.

Steve Riley

We were trying to do something to encourage recycling without taking over and making it a town trash department. It's just kind of been there. It's been one of those things that doesn't seem to get a whole lot of attention.

Charlotte Bronte

The cool peace and dewy sweetness of the night filled me with a mood of hope: not hope on any definite point, but a general sense of encouragement and heart-ease.

Charles Dickens

I had no advice, no counsel, no encouragement, no consolation, no assistance, no support, of any kind, from anyone, that I can call to mind, as I hope to go to heaven!

Charles Spurgeon

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

Uzo Aduba

I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and supported, which helped steer me into the arts.

Diane Warren

I'm somebody who finds adversity is almost as good as encouragement. It's almost like, you close the door, and I'll find ten ways to kick it in and go around it or dig under it or something.

David Amram

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.

Carol Moseley Braun

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.

Carlos Fuentes

No government functions without the grease of corruption.

Carl Bernstein

The Congress is a dysfunctional institution; its broken. One of our three branches of government is broken.

Carl Bernstein

Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

Ahmad Chalabi

We want to see a national-unity government for the sake of stability,

Laura Bush

We have much more work to do, ... But the people who have been hurt by this storm . . . need to know that the government is going to be with you for the long haul.

Stephen Kinzer

What the United States wanted in Guatemala - and in Iran, where the C.I.A. also deposed a government in the early 1950s - was pro-American stability.

Abu Hassan

We want salaries. We want the government to live up to its responsibilities.

Aaron Sorkin

Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.

Allyce Najimy

Whenever there's money involved, they pick groups of people to test. The stakes are higher.

John Fernandez

We have so many (hate) groups throughout the country, ... One only needs to surf the Internet to learn about most of them.

Mike Brey

The problem with last year's group was they watched the selection show and had their hearts taken from them. And maybe more hurtful than that was they heard all the speculation for a day that they should have been in, as much as I told them, 'It's over, move on, we're in the NIT.' ... This group, there's no drama.

Tim Neale

When I find a combination that works, I keep them together. You reward effort, and one thing this group has never had is a lack of effort.

The Beatles

The production group told me he tried to leave the hospital twice because he'd never missed a show before,

Geoffrey Kors

Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.

David Shields

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

Chris Good

We want students to go on these trips. They are educational and valuable. For instance, one group is going to Venezuela, another to Mexico and another to help Hurricane Katrina victims in the south.

Janette Turner Hospital

There are all kinds of under-represented groups in the literary establishment.

Larry Ellison

We have no large acquisitions in mind right now.

William Reynolds

We have never seen this large number of people in such a short period of time.

Bob Bertini

We use larger size tomatoes in sandwiches and haven't been able to secure them with the quality and quantity that we would like.

Suzanne Fields

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

Anna Kendrick

When you have no money in New York, you're living in a shoebox, and it's freezing. When you have no money in L.A., you're living in a slightly larger shoebox, and you can go outside and feel okay about your life for a minute.

Kathy Deck

We know we have the largest properties in the sample and what we are missing is going to be very small.

Ann Davis

Ultimately this is a win-win for TSA in that we are going to be screening a subset of passengers at another location, thereby removing those individuals from a checkpoint line at a larger airport.

Julie Gerberding

The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,

Nicolas Roeg

You can't hide in life. We are all being watched by some larger vision.

Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Vince Farrell

We might get to the lower 8,000's before we get through with this.

Noreena Hertz

Most organisations do not actively seek out input from their lower echelons.

Mark Waggoner

We're going to move lower from here. It's not going to take months and months to get all these refineries back.

Dave Chitty

We'll be introducing chum salmon into the lower reaches - that's what was there historically.

Paul Chan

Lowering the marginal salaries tax rates is welcome and will go some way in relieving the pressure on the middle class.

Gary Jones

What's lower than writing a man a ticket for sleeping on the street? If he had somewhere else to go, don't you think he'd be there?

Michael Brown

We're doing everything we can to make sure it's safe to live and work in Lower Manhattan.

Warren Shouldice

Personally, it's devastating. The scores were a lot lower than I expected. It was mine for the taking up there. If I had stuck my second jump, I could be up there on the podium.

Ted Cruz

If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?

Ted Cruz

The people who suffer in the Obama economy have been young people, African Americans, Hispanics, single moms.

David A. Siegel

The combination of Obamacare and taxes would be a disaster.

Brit Hume

Insure the uninsured. Effect of Obamacare to date: Uninsure the insured,

Bob Beauprez

When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or not, constitutional or not, affordable or not, it didn't matter.

Bob Beauprez

After the Democrats shoved the 2700 pages of ObamaCare down our throats - and we did find out how expensive, controlling, and coercive the legislation was - a majority of Americans wanted the Supreme Court to toss it aside as unconstitutional.

Arlen Specter

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

Timothy Noah

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Tina Brown

It's almost as if Putin is brilliant, really - he's outfoxing Obama all the time.

Carol Moseley Braun

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

Carol Vorderman

Next year, I hope there will be even more parties, lots of holidays and just having a good time, really. Plus wing-walking, air shows and learning to fly, as they are all things I want to do. I won't be restricted by age.

Carol Vorderman

I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.

Carlos Delgado

I love what I do, but I've got a life out of here. I like to spend time on the computer. I like technology. I like music. I like movies. I like to go out and party. I like my cigars, but I don't drink, and I do like to keep a low profile.

C. S. Lewis

On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally.

Agnes Repplier

The party which is out sees nothing but graft and incapacity in the party which is in; and the party which is in sees nothing but greed and animosity in the party which is out.

Alan Shearer

I want to be around when Newcastle win a trophy because I want to see this place lift off. It will be one hell of a party for a long time.

Alan Shearer

If you want to have a great party at Wembley, don't invite the Germans.

Alan Johnson

We need people like me in the Labour party.

Jean Prewitt

If anything is going to get around a quota, it is those big projects. What is not going to make it in, is the smaller product.

Fred Jones

We're trying to keep it in smaller modules.

Billy Beane

Smaller markets teams, when you hit bottom, you hit with a thud.

George William Norris

There is not much danger of the smaller nations if the big nations will behave.

Lilly Singh

I think one of the most beautiful things about YouTube is that it makes the world a smaller place. You realize that we're all different, but we're all the same. And if you think about it, it's a beautiful concept.

Marc Galanter

The smaller the jury, the more variance you get just from the play of the numbers.

Daniel Craig

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.

Gopal Ahluwalia

It's not need; they have smaller families. It's lifestyle.

Russ Swartz

It's nothing that we're not used to all year. We're one of the smaller teams in the league.

Charlie Daniels

The United States of America took a giant step toward a totalitarian socialist government when the Supreme Court voted to uphold Obamacare, allowing the individual mandate for the government to force American citizens to buy health insurance whether they want to or not.

David Cross

That's what social media is, that's what Twitter is, that's what Facebook posts are. It's just really anti-intellectual.

Bruno Latour

Change the instruments and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them

Bryan Adams

I swear, I wanna be your underwear.

Jared Diamond

We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.

Bruce Braley

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Ben Rattray

I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.

Bill Nighy

If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.

Benjamin Tucker

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism

Greg Kampe

Wooten does what he wants to do when he wants to do it. He's pretty good.

Steve McClaren

There is no-one more than me wants to see Mick do well at Sunderland , and I want to see Sunderland do well,

Dave Shaw

She just wants to get on with her life.

Alexis Jennings

She wants to make something of herself, but she always wants a lot for her teammates.

Mike Baker

She wants the nest, she wants the husband, and she wants the young.

J. Taylor

She wants them back ... that's her life.

Jack Hughes

She wants the ball. She wants no one else there but her.

Mike Toussaint

She wants it bad, she wants to succeed.

Doug Phillips

She's a stickler. She's a perfectionist. She wants to do it right.