Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ali Abdullah Saleh

Regarding Syria, we already call for dialogue between Syria and all parties concerned, in order to avoid any kind of escalation in the region which may expose the whole area to chaos.

Jonathan Gilbert

Reinventing the wheel is sometimes the right thing, when the result is the radial tire.

Elliot Paul

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Patience - a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Michael Isikoff

Some of the best stories that I've gotten, that others have written about this administration, about the previous administration, you have to rely on anonymous sources.

Mort Kondracke

Research is what it's going to take to cure all these diseases.

Robert Scheer

I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.

Jon Carroll

I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.

Stephen Smith

Parks are in the middle of neighborhoods. Otherwise there's not much option to put in a communication site.

Natalie Jones

Part of it was turnovers and our communication in not talking to each other.

Danny Marshall

Steve and I are good teammates because we communicate well with each other. Our driving style is very similar and our lap times tend to be alike. We recognize this is a 24-hour race, not a 24-minute race, and it's important to make sure you're around at the finish.

Matt Baker

Some of them were communication problems. We had a lot of holdings. I haven't seen exactly what they all were, but there were too many to win a football game.

David Kennedy

Our views on Syria are well known. A communication was made from our side to the Indian government early December conveying our objections to the oil deal.

David Aebischer

Our communication is better, ... Everyone knows where they have to be.

Devorah Goldburg

Right now, shelter, meals, water and mental health counseling are things people are in need of. But we're not always hearing exactly what the needs are, because we've had spotty communication with our people on the ground.

John Toshack

Maybe if there's a communication breakdown, it's between the Blackburn medics and their manager,

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

Michael Vaughan

Spin's going to play a big part, but we've come up with a formula to tackle India's slow wickets.

Joseph Jackson

some form of normalcy with all the madness going on.

Tadahito Iguchi

Our pitching staff is not in good form recently, so we need to provide support with good offense and fielding.

Jim Navolio

Our statement is strong on the non-proliferation of gambling. Is this going to make it through the legislature in the form presented? That's highly unlikely.

Bruce Condon

Our formula is simple. We don't have additives.

Kurt Barnard

plays itself out on Main Street U.S.A. in the form of muted retail sales.

Paul Perry

I'm hoping this turns out to be a very strong form race.

Jeff Johnson

We'll also have it set up with all the necessary forms to submit your film online, and generally have the Web page be a better way for people to get information about the festival.

Paul Holmes

It is a style of broadcasting that has been missing from the New Zealand television landscape for a number of years. The longer length interview format will give me the opportunity to find out what makes the guests tick.

Jay Farrar

but at this point it seems kind of inevitable or unstoppable.

David Rakoff

I have let half-decades elapse between books because books have to be writte and writing is awful, but if you are the type of person who makes things, there is no profit in worrying about how or why or when the next project will come into being beyond simply acknowledging that it is inevitable that it will be very soon.

Hugh Johnson

I think the market has managed the inevitable profit-taking very well, but there's still a lot of skepticism out there,

Robin Eames

If these protests aren't halted soon, it is inevitable that someone will be killed,

Alice McDermott

Loss is inevitable - you have to be blind or naive to think otherwise.

Rick Yancey

I've loved sci-fi and speculative fiction since I was a kid. It was inevitable I'd try my hand at it at some point.

Jorge Chabat

With all the money and power of the drug cartels, it was inevitable the AFI would become corrupted.

Kevin Connors

People will move to the (Mac-Intel) products at the same rate they move over to the new systems. It will take some time for the transition to happen, but it's inevitable that it will.

Takenori Ugari

Looking at the situation of Japanese mobile phone handset makers, we thought that it was inevitable to tie-up with a major player in the world which produces some 50 million to 60 million handsets a year.

Anthony Marra

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors.

Myles Munroe

We live in a disposable, 'cast-off and throw-away' society that has largely lost any real sense of permanence. Ours is a world of expiration dates, limited shelf life, and planned obsolescence. Nothing is absolute.

Bruce Schneier

When people are scared, they need something done that will make them feel safe, even if it doesn't truly make them safer. Politicians naturally want to do something in response to crisis, even if that something doesn't make any sense. But unfortunately for politicians, the security measures that work are largely invisible.

Najib Razak

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy.

Evan Spiegel

What Snapchat said was if we try to model conversations as they occur, they're largely ephemeral. We may try to write down and save the really special moments, but by and large, we just try to let everything go. We remember it, but we don't try to save it.

Michael Griffin

We are largely deferring utilization (of the station) and we are paring logistics (flights) to the bone.

Brian O'Driscoll

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.

Robert Sikellis

There have been tremendous measures put in place, largely because these Olympics are going to be very vulnerable for a variety of reasons.

Riley Wallace

The plane to Boise had some kind of mechanical problem; we were actually on the plane before they sent us back. And then we just sat and waited and there was no other way to get us to Boise, so they sent us to Seattle and put us up for the night.

Philipp Meyer

I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.

Mark Frauenfelder

My problem with mechanical pencils is that I break the lead tips constantly.

Christian Silk

It was a tough day for us because of mechanical problems.

Elliot Mintz

Janet is merely one of a number of witnesses and there is no allegation whatsoever that Janet has violated any law.

John Webster

We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.

Lord Salisbury

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Charles Hodge

Our first remark on this subject is that the ministry is an office, and not merely a work.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet.

bell hooks

Blacks who lack a proper killing rage are merely victims.

Marianne Williamson

'Accepting the Christ' is merely a shift in self-perception.

Frank Sinatra

To think that spring had depended/On merely this, a look, a kiss/To think that something so splendid/Could slip away in one little daybreak . . . .

Dada Vaswani

What humanity needs today is not merely philosophy or theology, but a message or reassurance.

Sherry Scarberry

Someone has to be there with him 24/7, whether it be me or Robbie.

Scott McCallum

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not.

Tom Woods

I don't know whether 3-3 would do for us, I don't know if 4-2 would do. But I know 6-0 would do.

Susumu Tonegawa

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Deirdre O'Kane

I can't function if I don't have tea. I don't know whether it's psychological or a real necessity, but I just need it.

James Wallace

From our standpoint, we're being very reasonable. It's up to (RIM) whether they want to be shutdown.

Steve Lambert

I would say that by the end of the month, we will know whether it can work.

Mary Pierce

I think it is possible. Whether it happens, I don't know.

Nick Cave

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.