Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Robertson

Our meeting today sends a clear signal that we remain determined to bring peace and stability to the entire Balkans region.

Ursula Plassnik

Our goal is the western Balkans' membership of the EU. Stability in the Balkans is part of our own security.

Harold Pinter

It is indeed, ... But to get the oil from the Caspian Sea into the hands of the West you can't use buckets. You need pipelines and those pipelines have to be installed and protected. The oil reserves in the Caspian Sea are vast. The pipelines mean that security in the Balkans is of concrete economic and strategic importance.

Zoran Djindjic

I think the first priority in the Balkans is to remove Milosevic. The first priority is not to rethink or to change the constitution. We can resolve all of these problems after removing Milosevic from power.

Lord Robertson

I also said that we wanted to learn the lesson of the Balkans to win not the just the military campaign about Kosovo, but to win the peace as well.

Misha Glenny

My father, a Russian translator, wanted to distinguish me by calling me Misha, the Russian diminutive of his name, Michael. My name and work as a writer specialising in the Balkans has created a myth that I have Slavic connections, but actually I am British.

Kevin Jackson

leadership experience using these type of communications tools in his past experiences in state and federal government and as a community commander at both the city of West Point, N.Y. and overseas in the Kosovo theater in the Balkans where he provided support to several countries.

Ismail Kadare

Guidebooks used to write the name of my city in two ways: Gjirokaster in Albanian, and Argyrokastron for foreigners. The classical-sounding name somehow gave it better credentials, because people in the Balkans famously exaggerate and often call their villages cities.

Franjo Tudjman

Let's make a deal with the Serbs. Neither history nor emotion in the Balkans will permit multinationalism. We have to give up on the illusion of the last eight years... Dayton isn't working. Nobody - except diplomats and petty officials - believes in a sovereign Bosnia and the Dayton accords.

Bill Richardson

Our critical security systems are operational. All our Energy Department nuclear materials are secure, ... Some of the high explosives are kept in concrete bunkers surrounded by earth and we don't see any problem.

Aubin Goporo

That's a tough one. It's difficult for me to give a concrete answer. We've had so many lineups and people getting hurt.

Fayssal Mekdad

It is not a credible report, ... too much politics and less concrete actions.

Dennis Davis

I think (impact fees) have been overshadowed by the increase in concrete and steel. It seems to have settled down.

Ralph Klein

I didn't get the result that I had anticipated, but I am going to meet with my staff and my caucus, of course, and members of the party, and determine what I am going to do. I will have something concrete for you next week, mid-week.

Bill Warren

I'd been doing what everyone else was -- concrete multiplexes -- and shoot, it worked. But I'd managed the old Miller downtown in the days when the movie was a total kind of experience.

Bulat Abilov

I am disappointed a little because there was no concrete thing.

Rasim Ljajic

I am convinced this will lift all doubt from us that we are hiding something from The Hague. This was the most concrete step we could take.

Capt. Boney

From every indication we have from interviews, he intended to hit the concrete barrier.

Ryohei Muramatsu

Reflecting the improvement of economic fundamentals in Japan, inflows into Japanese assets, equities in particular, are likely to grow stronger.

Anthony Chan

Recent trends in this index strongly suggest that the largely anticipated path towards economic recovery has in all likelihood already begun,

Michael Malone

Recently, when yields move down, the market has moved up. Investors are looking to the fact generally that economic growth worldwide is robust right now, so you're seeing a lot of these multinationals that participate in that doing quite well.

Anthony Chan

Real new home sale prices and existing-home sale prices have been rising very sharply. When that starts to give way and we don't have the equity market picking up where housing left off, that's another reason the economic expansion will be gradual.

Ignacio Bunye

President Arroyo has not only taken the barbs without flinching but has stuck to her economic plan with steadfastness.

Tom Richards

Part of the point here in GRE and economic development is a forever job ... it takes staying power and ... Michael helped to teach us that, quite frankly,

Keith McKeown

Part of our mandate in Florida is to encourage economic development, and this would be an opportunity for some economic development and jobs.

Edward Zander

Our nation's wireless needs are too often governed by outdated regulations that hinder economic progress and innovation.

Bob Straus

Some investors are waiting for economic confirmation so they can purchase tech stocks, but by the time you get the confirmation, you've already missed out on most of the rally.

Alan Foreman

Parliament would be doing a Pontius Pilate to wash their hands of the issue this week.

Kyle Deines

Stay back, stay tall, throw your hands at it and try to take it to right field.

Michael Brown

Some of these kids think this is a game. They somehow got their hands on a weapon. They think they are playing Pac-Man or something and shooting at people.

Sergio Ramos

Our season is on the line. It's in our hands and we'll only win if we leave it all on the field. We all know that a loss would be a disaster.

Swami Ramdas

Place yourself as an instrument in the hands of God, who does his own work in his own way.

Jonathan Bass

Pilate's Bowl. He said they had washed their hands of responsibility for racial justice in Birmingham.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The wind in the grain is the caress to the spouse; it is the hand of peace stroking her hair.

Becca Fitzpatrick

First,” he said, coming behind me and placing his hands on the counter, just outside of mine, “choose your tomato.” He dipped his head so his mouth was at my ear. His breath was warm, tickling my skin. “Good. Now pick up the knife.” “Does the chef always stand this close?” I asked, not sure if I liked or feared the flutter his closeness caused inside me. “When he’s revealing culinary secrets, yes.

Craig Colten

Rebuilding here means so much more than walls and roofs and levees.

Scott Norton

Reasonable' probably doesn't mean if you were out a whole semester you make up a whole semester.

Akinobu Okada

Our rally was a little late, but things are by no means over.

Cheri Cihak

Parents who understand the risks recognize that it is important to keep teens from riding with other teens, even if it means playing 'chauffer' for one more year.

Steve Sparks

Patrick's a little embarrassed by the signs. But it shows what his being at UK has meant to our community.

John Street

People have to go vote. Polls don't mean a thing,

Lisa Busch

State means everything to this team. As seniors, it means so much more for us.

Barack Obama

Some of that means that in your public statements, ... you end up trafficking in public platitudes more than you'd want to do at home.

Marcus Giles

That'd be cool, ... and it'd mean one of us is going to the World Series.

David Dreman

Stay in the stock market, in the oil sector.

Carl Pope

We can reduce the effect of future disruptions by reducing our dependence on oil, not putting up more rigs and drilling our special places. The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Carl Pope

We thank those Senators, both Republican and Democrat, who stood firm against tremendous pressure from the Bush administration, pro-drilling members of Congress and their allies in the oil industry. They recognize that the budget is an inappropriate place to decide controversial national policy matters like America's energy policy. We urge all members of Congress to remain steadfast in their belief that the vast, unspoiled wilderness of America?s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is more than a line item in the Federal Budget.

Carl Pope

The fact is, we cannot drill our way to oil independence.

Michael Foster

I think more people need to be doing it. There's a lot of oil that's going to waste pretty much.

David Briggs

I think the oil prices (being) off helps.

Ben Holmes

If any sector is working right now, it's oil and gas.

Scott Davis

I wish there were just a big pool of oil all around the world, and we could just tap into it. It doesn't work that way.

Chris Perkins

What most people need to understand is that oil is not going to be around forever, and we need to start thinking ahead. The sun is going to be here for as long as we are.

Pete Domenici

Would we say the (oil) reserves in Texas are irrelevant? ... I don't think so.

Bob Gainey

We'll have to look to our reserves for help.

Randy Jepson

Our season was a real struggle all year long. Nothing went our way all year, but this weekend we didn't give up.

Keri Nichols

We've talked all season about free-throw shooting. We talk about shooting with confidence.

C. S. Lewis

This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal.

C. S. Lewis

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

Carl Sagan

I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas ...

Antoine Rivarol

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

Zack Greinke

I was about 20 times smarter before this season started than I am now.

Bill Vaughan

Deep in the sea are riches beyond compare, But if you seek safety, it is on the shore.

David Dellucci

That was the worst part of the season that stands out.

Jim Keller

It does give them a sense of security.

John Gadd

He didn't want welfare. He didn't want Social Security.

George Tenet

If one side does something, and the other side does something within the span of a security meeting, we can say we are into Tenet.

Lawrence Lindsey

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

Alberto Gonzales

Security is a concern, ... It is a priority.

Neil Callaway

We'd like to have one of them, yeah. You'd always like to have more security and more depth.

Hamid-Reza Asefi

We are not worried by the Security Council, but it is the wrong method.

John Hayes

We have always escorted our programs. We've always had security staff on our programs.

Alice Cooper

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

David Smith

I think the wise and strategic thing to do is to have a two-track policy,

David Strow

That was the attraction. It was a tremendously strategic location.

David Satcher

We have to be more strategic in the distribution,

Navtej Sarna

The visit is significant in view of the strategic partnership between the two countries.

Matt Rosoff

I don't really see anything new from a strategic standpoint.

John McDonough

Rubbermaid and Newell are a terrific strategic fit,

Stephen Kinzer

The long-term strategic goals of Iran and the long-term strategic goals of Turkey are close to the long-term strategic goals of the United States.

Gore Vidal

Remember, I'm West Point, where I was born. My father went there.

Bill Cowher

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Bertrand Russell

If the West can claim superiority in anything, it is . . . in science and scientific technique.

Mariella Frostrup

Fridays are always movie night at our flat in Kensington, West London.

Charles Comiskey

I was perfectly satisfied with the West Side of Chicago when I was in knickerbockers. I hope it was with me.

Ayn Rand

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Jesper Parnevik

One swing, and everything clicked, I'll be very disappointed if I don't win on the West Coast.

Edward Norton

Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not.

Bruce Campbell

Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die.