Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Baker Kline

Many people, for many reasons, feel rootless - but orphans and abandoned or abused children have particular cause.

Rick Perlstein

Again and again as president, Reagan let it slip that he concurred with fundamentalists' belief that the world would end in a fiery Armageddon. This did not hurt him politically. The kind of people offended by such talk had already largely abandoned the Republican Party.

John Battelle

When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole - it creates an engaging experience. We don't dip in and out of an episode of 'Game of Thrones,' after all - we take it in as a whole. Why have we abandoned this concept when it comes to publications, simply because they exist online?

Luke Rhinehart

When I was a young man, barely 18, I discovered Jesus Christ as my personal saviour, and for six months I told my mother she was damned to hell. That wasn't much fun. I abandoned it.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

There was something so immensely redemptive and exciting for me to imagine that my unknown father was not just a man who had abandoned me but a noble man of adventure who had no choice.

Sue Kelly

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

Marilynne Robinson

A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.

Michael Morgan

We were staying in an abandoned hotel with no water, no lights, no food and kids, ... There were all kinds of dead stuff floating in the water. The water was black, stinking and greasy.

Charlie Smith

Well, we found a bunch of abandoned buildings and we are actually going to go ahead and try to retrieve some of these Ak-47s assault rifles that they have been using to shoot at helicopters and some of the people trying to get back into the city to get it back up and running.

Wendelin Van Draanen

What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think.

Virginia Postrel

People without children do have the freedom to do things that caring parents with dependent kids can't - to work long hours, to travel frequently, to relocate, and to do all these things on short notice if necessary. In return, they can achieve positions that devoted parents can't.

Bill Gates

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

Yehuda Berg

The whole point of all of this - why we are here, why the world is here, and why we have the political system and leaders that we do - is to achieve change. This is the purpose of life.

Chris Bohjalian

My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every day I do try to write 800-1,200 words. I don't always achieve it, and the reality is that a lot of the words I write will end up on the cutting-room floor.

David Beckham

I've played under some of the biggest and best managers and achieved almost everything in football. Of course it hurts when people question it, but I've come to the end of my career and can look back and say I've achieved everything with every club that I've played for.

Robert Rubin

The overarching point of the president's economic strategy going forward in the 1999 budget is clear: under no circumstances should we take any steps that will undo the fiscal discipline that we have worked so hard to achieve and has been so central to our strong economy of the last five years.

Bruce Buck

The overall loss increase is, in the main, down to some exceptional items that were necessary in order to help us achieve our strategic business aim of break even by 2009-10. In simple terms, we have taken some pain now for long-term gain. He appreciates that this is a long-term strategy and he supports where we are and where we are going.

M. Wolfe

The outstanding result achieved by MANN-FILTER for services and product quality reaffirms our strategy of offering top-quality products and providing outstanding service to our original equipment manufacturer and aftermarket customers. Our customers can be assured that they can continue to expect world-class products and services in the future.

Monique Bond

The police needs the community and the community needs the police.

Steven Englander

The police force isn't big enough to enforce that sort of thing. This is where community expectation and standard will have to hold sway.

Tony Smith

The PBSO is eager to ensure the level of service your community expects, at a more cost effective savings than you currently have,

Christine Pelosi

Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.

Alice Walker

I think many people in my community had very different kinds of mothers: they had mothers who acquiesced in the system of male and white-supremacist domination, and my mother never did. She just could not do it. It just wasn't in her.

Erwin McManus

We are constantly learning and growing and changing. We are really an experiment. We are endeavoring to discover if a community of faith can exist purely for the good of others.

Councilman Banks

When are you going to start work? It seems like it's taking a long time. The community needs to know.

Kirk Davis

When an immigrant is unable to read the language, they miss opportunities in the community.

Michael Chertoff

We have made a lot of progress in the first year of Community Shield.

Brittany Curran

Playing Chelsea on 'The Suite Life of Zack and Cody' really helped with my over-the-top comedy.

Dean Geyer

I think my time on 'Australian Idol' really helped train my voice for a lot of genres.

Cilla Black

I helped make the Sixties swing, and I'm very proud of that.

Christopher Dodd

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

Alice Walker

Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.

Greg Goodwin

We played with what we had. The kids really stepped up and played tough. It will only help us in the tournament.

George Rinehart

We played a practice round in the wind yesterday. I think that helped us a lot. We knew where we could hit and where we couldn't hit it.

Paul Wayne

We play a pretty competitive league and non-league schedule which helps prepare us for the tournament.

Theo James

I want diversity in what I do, as that's what helps you in the long term. It's more fulfilling, and you'll have a longer shelf life as an actor.

Chuck Feeney

I was with a special services unit in the Korean war, and when I got out, the biggest thing I got was a GI scholarship.

Michael Perlis

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.

Edward Luck

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

Ari Fleischer

The greatest threat to the security of the people of North Korea comes from the government of North Korea.

Bill Maher

The president had a press conference about this this week and he said that the U.S. has no plans to attack North Korea. And then he added, 'Like having no plan ever stopped me before.'. He has something even more deadly in store for them - we're going to bring them democracy.

Charles Krauthammer

After the Soviet collapse, Marxism is a relic, a pathetic anachronism reduced to its last redoubts: North Korea, Cuba, and the English departments of the more expensive American universities.

Henry A. Kissinger

Create the impression of endless willingness to compromise and you almost invite deadlines. That's the challenge we now have in North Korea and have had in North Korea for 10 years. In this sense, diplomacy and foreign policy and other elements of political activity have to be closely linked and have to be understood by the negotiators

John Bruton

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

John Bolton

North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.

Vladimir Putin

Back in the mid-18th century, in 1745-1747, Ossetia was the first to become part of the Russian Empire. At that time, it was a united entity; North and South Ossetia were one state.

Sarah Hall

I married an American. He was from the Pacific Northwest but went to law school in the South, so I was living in Virginia and North Carolina.

Howard Schnellenberger

What you want to do is run the carpetbaggers up north empty-handed.

Ali Babacan

Northern Iraq has become, economically, a natural extension of Turkey.

Brent Frank

We have always welcomed opportunities to partner with other jurisdictions and other organizations to have a presence in other parts of the Commonwealth. We would never turn down the opportunity to talk about how we can partner with somebody to have a presence in any jurisdiction from Southwest all the way to Northern Virginia.

Horst Keller

We can see there is a swirl here that is similar to the one we know from the north pole.

Menachem Begin

There must be some security arrangement in the south of Lebanon so northern Israel is not threatened anymore.

Steve Conroy

We didn't see the type of wind or rain that was pelting the northern part of the state.

Ken Mayland

We are not there yet. I think anything north of 83 percent, we could see price pressures.

Dick Cheney

[Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

Alan Sugar

If there was a market in mass-produced portable nuclear weapons, we'd market them, too.

Benjamin Netanyahu

The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and unwanted change in the world forever. This prospect should compel all of us to act to prevent such a catastrophe.

Ban Ki-moon

Nuclear disarmament is the only sane path to a safer world.

Charles Bass

U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.

Todd Simmons

We have never had a problem with the nuclear reactor and it has been here for 38 years.

Andy White

In a carbon-constrained world ... nuclear plants have got to be in that mix.

Martin Rees

Nuclear weapons can be dismantled, but they cannot be uninvented.

Bill Walker

Those are the kind of programs we would like to see subsidies shifted into.

Caroline Brown

In the programs we've run before, I would say that more than 75% of the participants have NOT truly been in this at-risk category.

Christopher Hill

Our view is that stopping their programs is simply something they have to do.

Fred Siget

Some of the programs I wrote there are still running maintenance free.

Robert H. Connelly

The programs were more about 'reallocating sales' than stimulating demand.

Jack Toney

The programs are coupled together by their funding.

Chris Mitchell

There is a lot of support for youth programs here.

Susan Hayward

It's for the public, it's year round, and it's also for the schools because we're going to re-establish our school programs and all our outreach programs.

Lillian Koller

As he went throughout the state, he saw so many of our new TANF programs and he was impressed.

Clint Eastwood

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice.

Leah Busque

I had the idea for TaskRabbit one night when my husband and I were getting ready for dinner.

Pat Smith

When the township of Edgewater is ready for our ferries, we'll be there.

Bill Ford

We're not going to be ready until January,

Bridget Grall

We are going in there ready to play whatever team is there.

Mike Jaskie

We have a lot of work to do to get ready for November.

Brent Faurote

We have two left, and they have to be ready to go tomorrow.

Mary, Crown Princess of Denmark

The world is so different for a child, waking in the mornings, wide-eyed and ready to take it all in.

Matt Cohen

Yeah we're there, we're ready to go. We did a whole training, a whole cycle, just to get to this point.

Faith Hunter

There are lots of antagonists in the 'Jane Yellowrock' series, but one stands out as uber-evil to me, and that is Lucas DeAllyon.

Luke Benward

If you don't stand up to your fears, have bravery, loyalty, and you don't have friends, you'll never win. You'll never feel better about yourself.

Iris Apfel

I get very involved with my things, and they are not standard equipment.

Lele Pons

To be a successful Viner, you have to find your own style and be consistent. That will help you stand out from the rest.

Lee Whitnum

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Robert Frost

Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.

Robert Frost

Time and tide wait for no man, but always stand still for a woman of thirty

Darrin Horn

We never could get that stand or stops that we needed. Even when we did get a few, we couldn't throw it in the ocean.

Joanne Wuensch

You know where you stand with him. Nothing is candy-coated.

Samuel Butler

Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.

Dianne Feinstein

When the gunman realizes that nobody else is armed, he will lay down his weapons and turn himself in ... that's just human nature.

Walter Benjamin

We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.

Bertie Ahern

We must look to the day when loyalist weapons are removed from the equation,

Greg Hellhake

We have a lot of different weapons out here.

Calista Flockhart

The way the world underestimates me will be my greatest weapon.

Earl Butz

Food is a tool. It is a weapon in the U.S. negotiating kit

Arthur C. Clarke

The dinosaurs disappeared because they could not adapt to their changing environment. We shall disappear if we cannot adapt to an environment that now contains spaceships, computers — and thermonuclear weapons.

Paul Davis

We've got enough guys, enough weapons to play around that and we just have to do it.