Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Gray

Regardless of whether a major hurricane makes landfall this year, it is inevitable that we will see hurricane-spawned destruction in coming years on a scale many, many times greater than we have in the past.

John Stroger

Refugees are those people coming from foreign countries.

Phil Flynn

Refineries are squeezing out every gallon of gasoline possible, and they?re doing a good job of it. The problem is, it?s coming at the expense of the other products like heating oil.

Source Unknown

Reincarnation: People coming back to life at quitting time.

Joe Vaverchak

Previously I don?t think we won two doubles matches in any of our matches. So, today was a little stepping stone with that, especially with the one team coming back from a set down.

Liza Kelly

Oregon does a lot of traveling, so they make a big deal about coming back east and they also have a number of eastern teams come out and play them. They actually had Hopkins come out and play them in Hawaii and all the girls were like, 'We wanna go to Hawaii.' But they definitely still get a lot of good opponents out there, so it's very similar.

Bobby Moresco

Paul and I tried to write from a place that was real and honest. Maybe the issue of race isn't the same as it was, but it's still here. We tried to dig into the soul and find the place where it was coming from.

Shari Walling

Patrick didn't let the bronchitis he is coming off of slow him down. He's a very tough competitor and he made sure we scored the points we needed to win the meet.

Joan Heller

Patients coming out panic stricken are spreading the contamination. They're gonna run. They're scared and hurt and want to get away.

Kathleen Hohl

Regardless of the number of men we ordain to the priesthood each year, that number does not keep pace with the number of priests who retire from the ministry. As a result of fewer priests, the need for well-trained lay ministers is even more important.

Graeme Edge

(Rehearsal's) mostly to get the sound and lights up and knock a few cobwebs off.

Jon Peck

Our report can only reflect the numbers provided to the state. There are larger communities that reported fewer than some smaller communities.

Karen Hoem

Our overall goal this year was to make the playoffs. It's been a few years since we've been there.

Chris Shaw

Our question mark is in the back. We lost a few and our goalie. We are young in the back, but talented,

Ken Goldstein

Part of the real story here is that, through July, producers were still getting more output, with fewer labor hours put in. Productivity in the third quarter is probably going to be stronger than in the second quarter, confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not that bad.

Markus Persson

PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.

Brad Radke

Our offense is much improved. We had a few guys who had down years last year. They'll help out more.

Chris Liddell

Our market share remains broadly where it was in the last few quarters, ... It's a monetization issue, and that is something we're going to have to reverse in the future.

Connie Mack

received specific assurances from the president of the United States that force would not be used in the middle of the night. Clearly, that pledge was broken.

Pat Cleland

Patrick's steadily improved all year. He keeps getting better. He was a force inside.

Dror Etkes

Our message to the government is that if you won't take responsibility to uphold the law, we will force you to do so.

Allison Davis

Our motivation was to just keep pressing and force turnovers. Our starters picked it up in the second half and considering we played without one of starters, it forced us to rely more on our backcourt.

Nazmul Hoque

Such a sudden notice to the dealers has forced them to stop selling of the fuel to the customers.

Mircea Geoana

surprised with the deployment of security forces ... without consultation of the international community.

Scott Taylor

Our press saved us and forced a lot of turnovers.

Jeff Arntson

Our plan was to punch it inside to Katie (Daly), take away the high post and force CMR to play half court. Our girls did a great job. They hung in there.

Jim Waters

Our security forces did their job and prevented something from happening that was much worse,

Sirio Maccioni

Paris is great. I stay at the Ritz Paris - I'm good friends with the Director, Frank Klein, and the owner. I lived there 3 years; I was the only foreigner working at Maxim's. They only took French, which was a mistake.

Stephen Kinzer

Some major American publishing houses still seek work by foreign writers.

John Linder

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

Stephen Decatur

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong

Stephen Kinzer

Many Americans, and many more people around the world, have been outraged by what they see as President George W. Bush's radical reordering of American foreign policy.

Hilary Clinton

I will be working with Senator Menendez to introduce legislation that will prohibit the sale of ports to foreign governments.

Minoru Morita

Koizumi's victory means Japan will now, more than ever, take orders from the United States in its foreign policy -- including keeping troops on in Iraq.

Bill Vaughan

Abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends.

Jeff Gundy

Like most American or foreign players, he understands about half of what I say.

Elton Adams

Other ropers get real heavy when they get wet.

Andrew Mack

We no longer have huge wars with huge armies, major engagements, heavy conventional weapons.

Daniel Blumenthal

I think the smart money would say we're going to have another heavy season of West Nile virus this summer because of the wet spring, (which means) a lot of mosquitoes,

Howard Davidowitz

I think there will be heavy promotions over the holidays because retailers have not been meeting their sales plans.

Phil Noblitt

That's a very heavy part of who we are.

Jason Alexander

I was heavy as a kid. I mean, I kind of got it together for a while there in my 20s and early 30s.

Shameik Moore

I have a lot of friends who are in love the '90s. Girls, boys. '90s music? That's Tupac. That's Biggie. That's TLC. That's Aaliyah. I still listen to Aaliyah. I still listen to Tupac and Biggie. There's people who are really heavy on that culture.

Chris Evans

I have a pretty fast metabolism, so I don't really have to worry about getting pudgy. What I try to do when I'm working out is taking in a lot of heavy protein - clean chicken, clean meats.

Bill Clinton

I have apologized to the American people for what I did wrong, and most Americans think I paid a pretty heavy price.

Kyle Brown

That would have been meant a lot. Seven hundred and one yards, that's a lot. That's something special. Just think if we don't make some of the mistakes that we did.

Turkish Proverb

Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.

Kevin Kwan

I go to Shenzhen, China, and am taken to a vast luxury spa with a hundred leather recliners and a hundred accompanying plasma screen televisions bolted to the ceiling.

Bob Gumbita

He's back, and he looks a hundred percent.

Dennis Flynn

We talked about this a hundred times ... how do you stop a V-bed?

Jonathan Joseph

We totally and one hundred percent sign off on 'the semiconductor sector is recovering' theory, ... There were a lot of analysts saying they were going to reduce the range. Midpoint is a victory.

Mark Jensen

We've registered several hundred players in just a month and a half. We're quite pleased with the results of the soft launch.

Kimberly Nelson

One hundred percent will still be reported under the change. All we lose is some of the details.

Joe Horn

One hundred and 55 percent, definitely, ... Unless something ungodly happens.

Peter Johnson

Price increases there are at a more modest level which looks much more sustainable,

Osama Hamdy

Our research shows that people may have a better outcome losing weight if they increase their intake of lean protein.

Ralf Berchtold

Our strategy is to have more and more people striking on the street each day to increase the pressure on the employers.

Sandra Gordon

Our Sunday masses have increased and we have new enrollment at our masses. I think our parish is going strong with 50 percent of its members back.

Adams Oshiomhole

Our traditional method of striking has not resolved the problem of price increases and other socio-political problems in Nigeria.

Nicholas Garganas

Risks that could strengthen inflationary pressures have increased after the interest-rate increase in December.

Hans Trousil

We not talking about any major increases here.

Kelvin Goertzen

We never really see an increase in the number of officers because of the recruitment issue.

Will Power

I think they're trying to strike the right balance. They're trying to increase market penetration and reduce churn by bundling (broadband) with traditional local voice and long distance.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

I didn't want to live in an Islamic society because I knew I wasn't going to be a first-class citizen, and I knew I was not going to be able to keep doing what I was doing as an actress.

Mohamed ElBaradei

You in the West have been sold the idea that the only options in the Arab world are between authoritarian regimes and Islamic jihadists. That's obviously bogus.

Noam Chomsky

I don't think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Richard Clarke

He seems to have been reduced to being a commentator on Islamic news.

Azar Nafisi

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

Azar Nafisi

For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy.

Azar Nafisi

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

Azar Nafisi

I would like to say how much I resent people who say of the Islamic Republic that this is our culture - as if women like to be stoned to death, or as if they like to be married at the age of nine.

Azar Nafisi

After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

David Martin

Our study was performed on patients with moderate to severe fibromyalgia. It's my speculation that if acupuncture works for these patients with recalcitrant fibromyalgia -- where previous treatments had not provided satisfactory relief -- it would likely work for many of the millions of fibromyalgia patients.

Stephen Gallagher

Reduced liquidity in the markets is likely to result in a wider swap spread.

Mark Collins

I think this particular time, it's more likely we'll be successful.

Ben Halliburton

I think we are likely to remain in a trading range for some time.

Lawrence DiRita

It is likely we will get down to the baseline after the election,

Sen. Nass

It is likely to not be successful when we come back in January. This is a promise that may not be kept.

Scott Provancher

It is likely that we will not get all the way to our end of the season.

Gennaro Castaldo

I think come the weekend it is quite likely that retailers will be sold out and will be waiting for the next allocation.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Fiona Shaw

I mainly have a nice time in my life.

Sergio Garcia

I think it's been a solid season, but I wouldn't say it's been extraordinary mainly because I haven't putted well,

Sanyo President

We have high-end range refrigerators which are mainly meant for the urban areas.

Miuccia Prada

Lengths are mainly around the knee, but, in the evening, it is really short. So it's mixed up in that way.

Sylvia Hatchell

She's a winner. She took that shot mainly because she's a winner.

Martin Chalfie

Mainly I study the sense of touch and what the molecules are that transduce touch. And I use mutants in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to look at that problem.

Willie Nelson

Mainly because I'd already been paid on it . . . and paid pretty good.

Viswanathan Anand

I personally prefer long-distance walking, but we are talking about pre-tournament preparation. During a tournament I make do with walking, mainly to concentrate before a game.

Bobby Short

I was very young at the time, and I mainly appreciated their vocal qualities, even though I was already living as they did - as black performers in a white world.

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.

Richard Engel

To be slapped with a shoe is a dirty insult in the Muslim world.

Brian Kilmeade

Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslim.

Olivier Roy

This is what Muslims want - to be treated the same as other faiths.

Maajid Nawaz

I really didn't grow up religious, and I didn't grow up acknowledging my Muslim identity. For me, I was a British Pakistani.

Daniel Yankelovich

Americans are broadly uneasy about the quality of our relations with the rest of the world, especially Muslim nations,

Chuck Hagel

This is not how you win the people of the world over to our side, especially the Muslim world.

Wissam Nasr

This is a teachable moment. When you see Muslims praying, it's not a terrorist act. It's not a prelude to terror.

Otto Schily

The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

Stephen Colbert

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

Gene Upshaw

Our number has to start with a six.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Such a structure would also raise a number of problems: first of all, which Timorese to pay compensation to? It would open a can of worms in terms of who was really a victim and who was not.

Scott Morris

Surprisingly, there are actually a number of useful resources already working on Linux.

Brendan Wilders

Overall, my putative numbers will come down just slightly.

Tony Batista

I'm here, that's what I can say. I know for sure the numbers are going to come. You just have to wait, but I know at the end of the season the numbers are going to be there.

Barry McCaffrey

So at the end of the day, our number 1 goal, our top priority, is to motivate American youngsters to reject the abuse of illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol. All three of them are illegal behaviors.

Barry McGuire

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

B. F. Skinner

If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

Dirk Benedict

LIFE: My favorite occupation.

Alberto Manguel

Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible.

Adam Savage

We cleared all traces of our occupation out of M6 and moved to M7, and it's been quite smooth over there. We chose a place all the way at the end of an industrial park.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Research is not a systematic occupation but an intuitive artistic vocation.

Confucius

Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. .

David Lee Roth

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

David Riesman

Today the future occupation of all moppets is to be skilled consumers.

Ben Stein

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

Bernard Cornwell

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Edgar Mitchell

I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.

George Magliano

We think the Scion is a phenomenon unto itself.

Drake Johnstone

This tracking stock phenomenon doesn't make sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they went down to $0.

Jack Fultz

Running is a new social phenomenon in our country.

Steve Bonney

A phenomenon has happened. We've tapped into the trucker network.

Ted Smith

This convergence phenomenon is very real, and it's getting more real.

Craig Fugate

You're in a phenomenon ... it's sort of like a hurricane, you're not going to stop it with what the (existing) resources are.

Bill Gates

The live phenomenon is not just about Microsoft. It's partners, it's competitors...the whole space is being transformed.

Jonathan Sacks

Islamophobia is a complex phenomenon.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction

B. R. Ambedkar

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Bill Shuster

We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards.

Bhagat Singh

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

C. S. Lewis

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

C. S. Lewis

I gave up Christianity at about 14. Came back to it when getting on for 30. Not an emotional conversion; almost purely philosophical. I didn't want to. I'm not in the least a religious type. I want to be let alone, to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed to be just the opposite, I had to give in.

C. S. Lewis

Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly.

C. S. Lewis

Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

C. S. Lewis

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Marina and the Diamonds

Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Dan Anderson

It got a terrific response here at Wesley,

Mark Cuban

Johnson's response then: ??I don't know, I don't know.

Greg Stone

I'm shocked. I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Barbara Smith

I'd like to see the developers' response to the neighborhood's concerns.

Scott Baker

It can be more than that. It's not unusual for all of the staff to work on responses

Jim Angell

I think their response has been very measured.

Greg Stone

I don't understand why the response wasn't instantaneous.

Paul Goldblatt

This was not a response to any one incident.

Robert Greene

I will say it's been a while since we've been this healthy,

Shane Valdez

I think that's the first time since I've been here that we had everyone qualify.

Charles Djou

I think he sincerely wants recycling. Can't we do this right?

Kenny Thomas

I'm starting. Since no one has told me, I'm starting.

Asaf Shariv

I don't know about anything since then that is new.

Dale Scott

He'd been disgruntled since the sixth inning, so it was time for him to go.

Stieg Larsson

I started to write in 2001. I wrote the books for the fun of it. It was an old idea I had had since the nineties.

Ned Colletti

I take nothing for granted. I know the value of finances, I know the value of people. I've had to be street-smart since I was a little kid,

Ken Slater

Burlington will be a big challenge, to see where we're at. It (Friday's game) will be something that will tell us what kind of a team we have and if we've made improvements since Christmas.

Lord Robertson

Globalisation will make our societies more creative and prosperous, but also more vulnerable.

Isabel Allende

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

Bill Engvall

There's a group in California that wants to make suicide a capital offense punishable by death. That's like punishing someone for being on a hunger strike by sending them to bed with no supper.

Carl Sagan

Many statements about God are confidently made by theologians on grounds that today at least sound specious. Thomas Aquinas claimed to prove that God cannot make another God, or commit suicide, or make a man without a soul, or even make a triangle whose interior angles do not equal 180 degrees. But Bolyai and Lobachevsky were able to accomplish this last feat (on a curved surface) in the nineteenth century, and they were not even approximately gods.

Aron Ralston

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help

Bill Vaughan

What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide

Bertrand Russell

America remained a land of promise for lovers of freedom. Even Byron, at a moment when he was disgusted with Napoleon for not committing suicide, wrote an eloquent stanza in praise of Washington.

Bertrand Russell

In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more.

Charles Clarke

I wish we didn't have the problem. I wish we didn't have suicide bombers at all. I wish I could go like that and they're gone,

Charles J. Shields

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

Charles A. Beard

Killing time is not murder, it is suicide.

Alberto Fujimori

The investor knows quite well that we don't have anymore the widespread terrorism here in Peru.

Condoleezza Rice

We're not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don't negotiate about terrorism. It's is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn't anything to negotiate.

Dan Brown

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

Bruce Schneier

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have terrorism.

Gijs de Vries

We remain vulnerable.There is no such thing as 100 percent security against terrorism.

George W. Bush

Our nation was horrified, but it's not going to be terrorized.

George W. Bush

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.

King Abdullah

worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.

Michael Hayden

The use of these techniques against these terrorists made us safer. It really did work.

Deepak Chopra

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Dasha Zhukova

I think it's fascinating that clothes can drastically transform someone's mood or the way they feel about their appearance.

Condoleezza Rice

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

Donald Fagen

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

David Platt

The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.

Confucius

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

David Cameron

It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

Brennan Manning

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

Karl Marx

All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.

Bill Crawford

Sometimes our ability to accept what we can't change is tied to our willingness to change what we can.

Bryan Winkler

I don't have a lot of hair, but I'm willing to do that.

Loui Antonucci

I don't know that we're willing to do that tonight.

Ben Jonson

I have a humour, / I would not willingly be gulled.

David Jones

He's disappointed, but he understands that's what you have to do. He's willing to go in and work a little harder.

Steve Kroft

I think you've got be willing as an interviewer to ask the dumb question every now and then.

Loretta Lynch

It's the choices that you make and the things that you're willing to accept and not accept that define who you are.

Scott Carson

wanted more than we were willing to give.

Cornel West

Be willing to learn, because none of us know the truth