Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Johnson

Germany's Angela Merkel exudes an atmosphere of elderly exhaustion and pooped-out pessimism. Britain's David Cameron, though by nature exuberant, feels he has to look and sound glum. And France's leader, Francois Hollande, seems determined to drive every successful businessman out of the country.

Marissa Chovanec

Yeah, and I will continue to watch them play on TV. Their abilities and their leadership will be missed, and it's not that you can say they will be replaceable, because they won't be. Sam was that way, and Angela is like that candle. They light it for the younger players to learn from for years to come.

Rutina Wesley

For me, I have this tough exterior and these Angela Bassett arms, and people think, 'Oh, my God, Rutina's tough.'

Henry Giroux

What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

Henry Giroux

Angela Davis's legacy as a freedom fighter made her an enemy of the state under the increasingly neoliberal regimes of Nixon, Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover because she understood that the struggle for freedom was not only a struggle for political and individual rights but also for economic rights.

Greg Wall

We started the game out very well and, ironically enough, perhaps too well. We connected on a corner kick with Angela Lira striking for the early goal in just the third minute.

Keke Palmer

When I was a kid, people people would always say, 'Oh you look like Chilli from TLC.' It wasn't until I did 'Akeelah and the Bee' that people started saying I looked like Angela Bassett, but before then it was Chilli.

Matthew Crenson

The great thing about Baltimore is it becomes something you can form a long-term attachment to. When students go to France, for example, they go for a month, at most a year. But when you do a project in a local neighborhood, you can really make connections with and keep in touch with the people who live there. You can get deeply involved, as I think Angela did.

Peter Mueller

A grand coalition will only happen with a Chancellor Angela Merkel, not part-time, but the entire four-year-period,

Gareth Williams

The overall distribution looks heavily biased towards governments and academia.

Noah Feldman

For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office.

Tim Wise

There are lots of research, of course, saying that a vast majority of us have been exposed to racial biases and stereotypes and, to some extent, we've internalized them, because that's so ubiquitous. That's why I'm so bored with the conversation about who's a racist and who's not.

Lewis B. Smedes

Any lazy or biased fool can have opinions; making judgments is the hard work of responsible and compassionate people.

Dan Morris

We are convinced that it's come to this because the South Florida Management District and for that matter the Corps have shown a consistent bias and unfairness for decades.

Paul Di Filippo

More than we sleep, play, or make love, we work. Yet despite - or perhaps because of - this dominant daily grind, much of our literature is biased toward other pursuits.

James Comey

Those of us in law enforcement must redouble our efforts to resist bias and prejudice. We must better understand the people we serve and protect - by trying to know, deep in our gut, what it feels like to be a law-abiding young black man walking on the street and encountering law enforcement. We must understand how that young man may see us.

Dylan Walsh

We've made so much headway with storytelling - mostly on cable, let's be honest - but also on the networks and, you know, I think it's about time that the leads are women. I'm not a woman, so I'm a bit biased - I wouldn't mind if a few roles were left over for men.

Ben Horowitz

I think that business book reporting, it's all Jim Collins, it's the story of victory; it's success bias over and over again.

Franz Muentefering

We are going into this debate with the political claim to implement as much as possible of our manifesto and to ensure that Gerhard Schroeder remains the chancellor of Germany.

Patrick Stewart

We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.

Dawn Staley

We made it dramatic. But that's why Coach (Van) Chancellor and Coach (Bill) Laimbeer made the moves. They knew it wasn't going to be easy. They had the foresight to look at who they were going to be playing the last 10 games.

George Osborne

What this country needs is a Chancellor with his mind on the job not on inheriting the Prime Minister's crown.

Joschka Fischer

You want to be chancellor but you don't have a cool head,

Herb Vincent

We decided to wait and see what the storm does for now. The chancellor is weighing the issues about school on Monday.

Gerhard Schroeder

You can be sure that I will handle with responsibility the things that made you a German chancellor whom people will remember fondly,

Claus Leggewie

Merkel will be a Christian-Democratic chancellor in a Social Democratic government.

Eva Moskowitz

Chancellor Klein is the most responsive person in government I've ever dealt with. Within minutes he responds, at all hours in the night and early in the morning or late at night.

Pete Hegseth

With the winding down of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States now has an opportunity to implement real defense reforms without having a serious impact on immediate battlefield needs.

Lord Robertson

And, perhaps most importantly, regional conflicts will again and again confront us with a cruel choice between costly engagement and costly indifference.

Michael Arrington

Sometimes I have so many financial conflicts of interest that I can't even keep them straight.

Li Fan

In poor areas, there are a lot of conflicts between the government and the farmers.

Maria Ressa

All conflicts are local and can be dealt with domestically. Wrong. Because what we?re seeing is that when you?re talking about conflicts involving Muslim issues, there are no local conflicts.

William Butler Yeats

Of conflicts with others we make retorica, of conflicts with ourselves poetry

Jonathan Proctor

We hope to save wolves by preventing conflicts in the first place. Who could disagree with that?

John Fund

Regardless of whether or not the vetting process was complete, it represented impossible conflicts of interest,

George William Russell

By intensity of hatred, nations create in themselves the character that they imagine in their enemies. Hence it comes that all passionate conflicts result in an interchange of characteristics. We might say with truth, those who hate open a door by which their enemies enter and make their own the secret places of the heart.

Warren Giles

I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.

Bashar al-Assad

Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.

Neelie Kroes

We are not out of the game. We are following what's going on.

Jeff Bower

We had another good day today. Especially following the off day Thursday, I thought we responded well.

Norman Schwarzkopf

There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.

Biz Stone

I think when people twitter 20 or 30 times per day, that's too much. They are boxing everyone else out, and people stop following them because they need a break.

Wayne Huizenga

You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.

Charlotte Ross

What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?

Robin S. Sharma

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

Chris Squire

I wouldn't object to working with any former member of Yes, really.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The unformed is not worse than the over-formed. The former is nothing; the latter is mere appearance. Real form presupposes real life.

Rollie Massimino

We have a lot of friends. It's been a great run. . . . I've got about 15 or 16 of my former players tonight.

Remi Oyo

The prerogative of the return of former President Taylor remains that of the Liberian people and government.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

Kerry Healey

I don't think it's really good once you've lost an election to sit around, watch your former opponent, and swipe at them.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Laith Kubba

We have a policy to go after Iraqi funds whether they were abused by members of the former government or spent by international bodies.

Ivan Golde

There is a potential suspect, but it's not a former client.

Bob Gibbs

We plan on having a meeting next week with the appropriate people. The problems with the project should be ended.

Ashley Key

We actually had a team meeting at one point (during that stretch). We talked about what we needed to do as a team to get it together. After that team meeting, we got back on the same page and went from there.

Ken Hitchcock

There are times during the season when you have to review. It was very, very productive. We don't have those type of meetings very often, but when we feel like our team isn't playing well, we do.

Benazir Bhutto

Today's meeting was one of the first steps to our return.

Buck Showalter

You know how there's talk every year about the winter meetings and then people come away disappointed because not much happened? I think this is going to be the year to make all of those people happy.

William Poole

Unlike the situation a year ago...at this point I very much go meeting by meeting by meeting.

Jacques Rogge

Well done and thank you. You have succeeded brilliantly in meeting your challenge. These were truly magnificent Games.

Gary Parker

Those kind of things, it takes obviously some meeting of the minds. There are considerations they have. There are considerations we have.

Niklas Zennstroem

We had meetings with a lot of companies. We met with News Corp, yes.

Persis Khambatta

If I send out positive messages, it will set a chain of healthy thought processes.

Tom Rath

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Michael Lynch

We have worked with Bode for several years now and know the type of person he is. Yes, he has been provocative, but we also recognize that he's revolutionized his sport and has energized the Turin Games, which is a positive for all of us who are vested in their success.

Rutina Wesley

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

Henry Blodget

Thus, we regard the ruling as an incremental positive for the stock.

Henrik Lundqvist

As a goalie, you must stay positive. And if you do make a mistake, well, those things happen when you play my position.

Lance Bass

We're working on that. We should know this week. I'm a positive person so I always think positively.

Richard Mitchell

We're working on a positive leaflet to give to adults, but nothing grim.

William Shakespeare

What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief.

Madhup Tiwari

When we questioned him about his whereabouts he was unable to give any satisfactory answer.

William Allan

Those are all questions we are going to be talking about with the commission.

Joe Gaylord

We can still stabilize the situation and make it right, but there's no question that this is a rough patch.

Jan Caldwell

We have the same questions about that as well.

Harry Reid

We know the questions that must be asked, ... Now we need answers.

Julie Martineau

We will screen questions for relevancy for the position.

John Whitehead

We will rebuild. It is now not a question of whether, but a question of how,

Kevin Lowery

We're well-known for our safety record. When it comes to safety, there is no question when it comes to our company.

Doug Wilson

We are in the race, there's no question about that.

Armstrong Williams

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Stephen Greene

For sure, Washington is going to be rowdier.

David Remnick

Washington as a Surveyor. We should have been clearer.

Seth Greenberg

Deron Washington is a wonderful kid. What he did was wrong and I can't condone it.

Robert Jordan

I tore all the ligaments around my collarbone. I don't know if I will be able to play (against Washington State).

Mike Easley

We're considering everything right now, ... The most important thing is to see is what Washington does.

Michael Bennet

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Susan Brooks

Remarkably, there are leaders in Washington who don't understand why it's so important for us to have a budget.