Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Kirby

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

Seiji Maehara

The people are questioning if the DPJ is really serious about taking the helm of government. (I'll) first gather the party's opinions together and let important issues be argued out in the Diet. That's my fighting stance.

Andrew Walsh

The outlook statement talks of continued weakness in recruitment markets which management argue -- more persuasively than other peers -- is cyclical rather than structural given a softer public sector in late 2005.

Victoria Moran

In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

Victoria Osteen

It's hard to argue with someone that won't argue with you.

Ric Flair

First of all, Vince McMahon doesn't argue - he tells you!

Ray Comfort

Few would argue that Richard Dawkins is the world's most famous atheist, especially now that his friend and rival for the title, Christopher Hitchens, has now gone to meet his Maker.

Richard Whately

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Dale T. Mortensen

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons.

William Wirt

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Dan Ravicher

The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.

David Kay

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

Fatou Bensouda

We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

John Hopkins

What we have shown here is the vast majority of those cases are preventable,

Mike Birbiglia

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Linda Boyd

We did the march in 1995 and it was wonderful, but we see that our people are still in the same position we were in 10 years ago - and in some cases worse off. So while a march is important, we'd like to see a movement.

Hashemi Rafsanjani

We don't have a mandate to discuss the nuclear issue with the Americans ... but if the talks on Iraq go in the right direction, there might be a possibility for that issue. There have been many cases where big and wide-ranging decisions had small beginnings.

Bob Beamon

When you can't read or write at 14 or 15, in most cases you're headed for trouble, and trouble was finding me.

Evan G. Galbraith

The State Department desperately needs to be vigorously harnessed. It has too big a role to play in the formulation of foreign policy, and foreign policy is too important to be left up to foreign service officers.

Judie Brown

The police department was handed this on a silver platter and did nothing. That's how I feel.

Nicolas Roeg

Marketing is such a key issue; in fact, the marketing department is often involved in the approval of scripts now.

Trudie Styler

We plan to sell honey and olive oil, launching in (London department store) Harrods in August.

Ed Royce

The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all elements of national power should be utilized to influence other countries.

Dana Rohrabacher

Our State Department is often wrong and timid.

Lisa Ray

We have talked to the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and they said supplies are not a problem in Georgia at this time,

Joe Haldeman

When I first started working at MIT, back in the '80s, our writing department had a joint cocktail party with the Harvard writing department. It was kind of oil-and-water.

John Davis

We need information from the department heads as soon as possible. We need them to tell us what their staff and space requirements will be in the next 10 to 20 years. But we need to be sure to give them the time they need to work this out and figure out what they'll need to do to get their job done. Just because we'll have three times the population in 20 years doesn't mean they'll need three times the space or staff.

Willard Boyle

We lived in Northern Quebec, and the nearest school was thirty miles away, so my mother took on the task of home schooling me. She spoke to some friends, received some instructions from the provincial school board, and found some interesting books that perhaps I might find useful.

Viswanathan Anand

I was reasonably interested in mathematics in school. Typically what happens is... when you start playing chess, it takes up a lot of your attention. But about 10 years ago, I found that the Internet is very good to start learning about a lot of subjects.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

David Byrne

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

Ben Carson

Here's a nation, one of the founding pillars was freedom of speech and freedom of expression. And yet, we have imposed upon people restrictions on what they can say, on what they can think. And the media is the largest proponent of this, crucifying people who say things really quite innocently.

John Daly

The people around me ... were hoping, of course, that the 'something' would be practicing golf. No such luck. What I found was gambling.

Nate Ruess

I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Carly Fiorina

Our founders never intended us to have a professional political class.

Pat Conroy

Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Constance Marie

I just remember all those days in the unemployment line, stressed out over when my next job was coming.

Clotilde Hesme

People are affected by what they see, hear. This is what matters to me the most because then our job as actors is justified.

Evangeline Lilly

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Ben Carson

There is no job more important than parenting. This I believe.

Beeban Kidron

When I was 13, I had a weekend job at the Photographers Gallery Bookshop in London.

Fareed Zakaria

My friends all say I'm going to be Secretary of State. But I don't see how that would be much different from the job I have now.

Brooke Shields

We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.

Carly Fiorina

You know, the truth is this: it is a leader's job to challenge the status quo. And when you do, you make enemies.

Don Cornelius

When I have a job to do, time means nothing. I lose patience with people who work on a clock.

Edward Lazarus

This is a situation where, from the very moment the justices start back up in October, they're going to be very divided,

Stephen Hess

The most important thing in the long run in the United States was the appointment of two new justices to the Supreme Court.

Ken Cooper

The police officer starts to look more and more like a monster.

Henry Bunsow

The Patent Office has said these patents are invalid. The patents at this point, if there was the new lawsuit, would not be enforceable.

Carl Rusnok

We don't have an office there. That's part of the problem, but we're not saying that we wouldn't respond.

David A. Adler

In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.

Patricia Schroeder

The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.

Scott Bauer

We'll operate in Raleigh through the loan-production office for now.

Laura Bush

You know, they probably are altered, and they probably are forgeries, and I think that's terrible, really. That's actually one of the risks you take when you run for public office or when you're in the public eye.

Ludwig von Mises

Lenin's ideal was to build a nation's production effort according to the model of the post office.

William Donaldson

Those offices have not been sitting on their hands.

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.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

Heather Wilson

New Mexico is one of the top energy-producing states in the nation.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Henry Bonilla

We may not be able to control the Supreme Court... but we can control the money.

Henry Ford

Experience is the thing of supreme value".

Hillary Clinton

I want a Supreme Court that will stick with Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose, and I want a Supreme Court that will stick with marriage equality.

Christine Pelosi

With Citizens United, the Supreme Court's declaration that corporations are people, the whims of one can silence the voices of millions.

Bill Cowher

For us to come in here and do what we did, it took a supreme effort.

Russ Feingold

should disqualify you from being on the Supreme Court.

Elizabeth Gilbert

God is an experience of supreme love.

Rand Paul

Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Judy Dickson

We (send) them all over the United States.

Giulio Tremonti

We have been united in government, and we will be even more so in opposition.

Noam Chomsky

In the United States, we can do almost anything we want. It's not like Egypt, where you're going to get murdered by the security forces.

Denis McDonough

The bottom line is this. When it comes to preventing violent extremism and terrorism in the United States, Muslim Americans are not part of the problem, you're part of the solution.

Sofia Vergara

I left Colombia because Univision brought me to the United States.

Nikita Khrushchev

The thought sometimes -- the unpleasant thought sometimes creeps up on me here as to whether perhaps Khrushchev was not invited here to enable you to sort of rub him in your sauce and to show the might and the strength of the United States so as to make him sort of ... so as to make him shaky at the knees. If that is so, then if I came -- if it took me about 12 hours to get here, I guess it'll just -- it'll take no more than about 10½ hours to fly back.

Nikita Khrushchev

We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within.

Stewart Butterfield

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

David Crystal

It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.

Catherine Hardwicke

Before 'Twilight' was greenlit, I had four projects at four studios. I worked super-hard on all of them, but 'Twilight' was greenlit first.

Steven Blum

You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.

H. Jon Benjamin

I've never worked for a show or was on a show where I didn't have a lot of control creatively, but then again, I haven't worked on a lot of shows.

Art McMaster

We had hundreds of volunteers, and the thing worked like clockwork.

Mitch Ashmore

We have not executed well all year on things like that. We made them make a play, and it just worked out well.

Zachary Gordon

Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

Hayden Schlossberg

If you think that something worked and your directing partner doesn't think so, then maybe you have to re-think what you were doing.