Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Rubin

I think that will make clear for all to see that the Kosovo Albanians have made the courageous decision to choose peace even while their people are being attacked and killed on the ground today.

Boris Tadic

Serbia does not want at all to arrange political relations among ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,

Action Bronson

I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.

Mark Almond

While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side.

Javier Solana

I would like to thank the Western diplomats, especially Mr Solana and Mr Robertson, because their contribution truly benefits humanity and us Albanians as well because we are part of the great European family.

James Foley

We would urge Kosovar Albanians (in the United States), and indeed all Americans, to direct their efforts towards humanitarian relief.

George Robertson

The military objective was and remains to disrupt Serb violence and to weaken the military machine that has been the instrument of the genocidal attacks on the ethnic Albanians in Kosovo,

Jamie Shea

In fact, some refugees have even reported that Kosovar Albanians have been forced to dig these mass graves and put the bodies in.

Jamie Shea

I don't think many Kosovar Albanians will shed a tear if that prison is not being used because many of them have suffered very badly from their detention there.

Foreign Ministry

Recent new information suggests that terrorists may be planning attacks to occur before the end of 2005.

John Parker

Organizations are vulnerable to IT attacks because security patches are issued too frequently for businesses to safely test and deploy throughout the organization in a timely fashion.

Radhia Achouri

Overall, there have been at least 10 serious attacks on humanitarian workers in the past 30 days - for the purpose of looting - particularly in West Darfur. The situation in South Darfur is not better.

Cecile Richards

Planned Parenthood will fight these attacks in courts, in the state houses, at the ballot boxes to ensure that women with their doctors and families continue to be able to make personal health care decisions without government interference.

Farrah Fawcett

Redmond attacks me when I try to prevent him from leaving or when he threatens to jump off the balcony. He's always threatening to leap.

Paul Williams

I ... will not let the attacks put me off. As far as I am concerned, it is just a normal day at work.

Lynsey Addario

I think there were times when I first started out, when I was covering Iraq - I was basically living there in 2003 and 2004 - that car bombs and attacks became so the norm that it was weird for me to leave and realize that no one else actually cared about what was going on there.

Tessa Jowell

Just as the following day (after London's win) more than 50 families were robbed of the people that they loved in the terrorist attacks on London, so too was London robbed of its continuing celebration,

Nelson Mandela

It is, however, well known that the main national liberation organizations in this country have consistently followed a policy of non-violence. They have conducted themselves peaceably at all times, regardless of government attacks and persecutions u

Connie Allen

People may not expect a lot from her because she's not flashy, but she is flashy when it comes to seeing passing lanes and finding her teammates. We have to get in her face and disrupt what she's seeing.

Jimmy Barnes

It isn't just the patient who often needs assistance, families are disrupted in many cases, and this house is part of the healing process for the whole unit.

Jackie Stewart

It is my fervent hope you will give Damon Hill unanimous support to lead the club. I hope this will include the minority of members who have historically undermined and disrupted the democratically elected board.

David Rehr

Haley did a great job offensively and Emily had a great game defensively. She did a lot of things to disrupt Lee's offense.

Barry Diller

I can't imagine that there'll be any disruption of any kind, in any area, on any level or in any particular. It just simply seems to me actually impossible.

John Ashcroft

from investigation and prosecution to disruption and prevention.

Alan Curbishley

Kevin has had a disruptive time with injuries in recent times, and it will do him a world of good to get a month of first-team football. Hopefully he will come back to us nice and sharp.

Stephanie Gamble

I felt our kids played with a lot more energy than they had in a while. The press worked better than it has all year and disrupted their offense.

Brad Hopkins

He's a disruptive force. But it's one of those things where you go into it knowing. You expect a challenge, and you have to be up for it.

Mark Almond

Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself -- it lies in a strategic valley,

Christopher Haiman

We observed quite striking differences. This suggests there are racial and ethnic differences in the smoking-related risk of lung cancer.

Fred Schmidt

I'd like to say it's German and they sing German songs on their porch, but it's not true, ... You see ethnic neighborhoods go downhill. This one went uphill.

Fisher DeBerry

has a zero-tolerance policy for any racial or ethnic discrimination or discrimination of any kind.

Humam Hammoudi

guarantees freedoms and equalizes between everyone, women and men and different ethnic groups and respects the ideologies of this nation and the religion of this society.

John Thorne

From imported professionals it should have been a short step to hiring men of varying ethnic and racial backgrounds, and it was.

Cliff Curtis

I take the responsibility of playing another ethnicity very, very seriously, and I promise myself and those people that I will represent them with as much dignity and integrity as I can muster.

Isaiah Stanback

I'm always wanting to learn new things. That's why I majored in American ethnic studies.

James Carville

If we think about it, in terms of racial and ethnic strife or things, if we don't forgive, we'll just stay the same. If we don't forgive people, we can never make any progress.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

People have said I'm a puppet, an instrument of my grandfather, but I think they quickly realised that I'm my own person, that I have autonomy in my actions. I think they rapidly realised I could look after myself.

Ike Turner

Piano's really my instrument ,and that's what they'll see when I get to Tokyo this time. They never saw me play the piano.

David Norman

Just about anything that could be wrong with the instrument is probably wrong.

Mark Rechtin

He could pretty much pick up a musical instrument and play.

John Clarke

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns

Jerry Hunt

I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me.

Jason Falkner

I love building a song up from nothing and jumping from one instrument to another.

Paul Rosenthal

I thought, 'A serious instrument has to be made of wood, varnished, treated.'

Billie Joe Armstrong

Attack your instruments. Don't let them attack you.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Some mathematicians didn't even perceive of the possibility of a picture being helpful. To the contrary, I went into an orgy of looking at pictures by the hundreds; the machines became a little bit better.

Bill Fleming

I was always mechanical. In 1978, I started out doing machine work. Now I'm back to my roots.

Quincy Jones

I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the machine; the machine works for you.'

Larry Harris

His teams win. He's really the machine that makes us go.

Steve Ruggiero

For the slot machine manufacturers, Pennsylvania is a no-brainer.

Shawn Levy

If it was going to be unique, if you're going to make a robot movie in 2011... it had to be different, and it had to be about more than its machines and more than its action.

Charles Babbage

Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.

Charles Babbage

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

Charles Petzold

I started out with machine code and assembly language.

Helen Johnson

Our outlook for military tent sales this year and next remains unchanged until we have orders in hand,

Barry McCaffrey

At the end of the day...if your army won't fight, it's because they don't trust their incompetent, corrupt generals, they don't trust each other. This is an enduring civil war between the Shia, the Sunni, and the Kurds. So I don't think we've got any options and we'd be ill-advised to start bombing where we really can't sort out the combatants or understand where the civilian population is.

B. H. Liddell Hart

For if we merely take what obviously appears the line of least resistance, its obviousness will appeal to the opponent also; and this line may no longer be that of least resistance. In studying the physical aspect, we must never lose sight of the psychological, and only when both are combined is the strategy truly an indirect approach, calculated to dislocate the opponent's balance.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The nearer the cutting off point lies to the main force of the enemy, the more immediate the effect; whereas the closer to the strategic base it takes place, the greater the effect.

B. H. Liddell Hart

[The] aim is not so much to seek battle as to seek a strategic situation so advantageous that if it does not of itself produce the decision, its continuation by a battle is sure to achieve this. In other words, dislocation is the aim of strategy.

B. H. Liddell Hart

In the case of a state that is seeking not conquest but the maintenance of its security, the aim is fulfilled if the threat is removed - if the enemy is led to abandon his purpose.

B. H. Liddell Hart

No man can exactly calculate the capacity of human genius and stupidity, nor the incapacity of will.

B. H. Liddell Hart

The more usual reason for adopting a strategy of limited aim is that of awaiting a change in the balance of force ... The essential condition of such a strategy is that the drain on him should be disproportionately greater than on oneself.

B. H. Liddell Hart

While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.

Evan Bayh

Our objective is not to oppose the president; it's to do what's right for America.

George Jackson

Our objective is a permanent transformation of the city. We've got a long way to go, but I think we've turned an important corner.

Jim Johnson

Our objective was to put an end to what we view as infringement of our package designs.

Rob Dyson

Our objective is to win the (ALMS) championship. It's the way we take each race and the way we run the team.

David Trimble

Our principal objective is ... to see the administration re-formed but re-formed on a sound basis.

Steve Holeman

Our staff objective for the spring is always to prepare for the fall. We wanted to work with the team in different systems and with a variety of players in different positions - a lot of experimenting. That being the objective, I think we had a successful spring.

Carlos Mesa

It is a resignation that has one objective and that objective is to let the Bolivian people know that this is genuine,

Todd Rundgren

If I have an opportunity to do something safe or something challenging, I'll often choose the latter. Sometimes, the objective is to submerge my viewpoint with the artist.

James Baker

There are no uniform, objective standards here. It's all subjective,

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.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Violence doesn't equal strength.

Bhagat Singh

In times of great necessity, violence is indispensable.

Alana Stewart

All the violence in videos and movies, you can't tell me that that wouldn't influence a disturbed person.

Benito Mussolini

There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral.

Caprice Bourret

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.

Cesar Chavez

In some cases non-violence requires more militancy than violence.

Abdurrahman Wahid

I do not like violence.

Abraham Lincoln

Violence begins where knowledge ends.

Dick Van Dyke

A lot of violence, a lot of gore in it, and I just didn't want to do that kind of thing.