Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fidel Castro

The rude provocations that have been undertaken from its Interests Office in Havana does not, and could not, have any other goal.

Andy Garcia

In the '40s and '50s, Havana was the Paris of the Caribbean. Everyone was always well-dressed.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

Dick Dadey

We feel that the interests of New Yorkers are always better served when there are well-spaced and well-informed debates.

Dave Fouch

She councils me just to see how lucky I am to have two sons who share the same interests I do.

Jim Newberry

Many of the interests the students have are similar to the interests of the community.

Mario Cuomo

Scott Stringer has a record of standing up to special interests and getting results for the people of Manhattan. I know a real reformer when I see one and Scott Stringer is the real deal.

Clint Eastwood

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Zeng Qinghong

The prosperity of ASEAN accords with the interests of China,

Steve Johnson

Basically, it's the tourist trade that interests China,

Max Mathurin

Now that the president has been elected, the political interests at stake during the legislative vote are huge.

Madeline Albright

NATO'S fundamental purpose -- safeguarding the ideals, interests and territory of its members -- is unchanging,

Charles Caleb Colton

The only kind office performed for us by our friends of which we never complain is our funeral; and the only thing which we most want, happens to be the only thing we never purchase--our coffin.

Charles Dickens

... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me.

Alan Greenspan

Anyone willing to do what is required to become president of the United States is thereby barred from taking that office. I'm only half joking

David Morrissey

My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.

David Morrissey

I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library.

David Greenberg

People should make distinctions between the office of the presidency and the person who occupies it. You can respect the office even as you lose respect for the individual.

Dave Barry

Another important rule of affair-having: Never be discreet at the office.

William Shakespeare

Wolves and bears, they say, casting their savagery aside, have done like offices of pity.

Niki Tsongas

There are wives who are very involved with their husbands' offices and really take their responsibility seriously in terms of issues and things like that. I was never very comfortable with being part of that.

Catherine Crier

Any time you have an individual who is very confident in their abilities to persuade, there can be a rude awakening under cross-examination.

Bear Grylls

I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

Edgar Friedenberg

Canadians are more polite when they are being rude than Americans are when they are being friendly.

Ben Jonson

Folly often goes beyond her bounds, but impudence knows none.

Amy Poehler

Our ego is a monster that loves to sit at the head of the table, and I have learned that my ego is just as rude and loud and hungry as everyone else's. It doesn't matter how much you get; you are left wanting more.

Bryant H. McGill

No one is more insufferable than he who lacks basic courtesy.

Bryant H. McGill

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

Barack Obama

The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody.

Brother Lawrence

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.