Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Baker Kline

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

Natasha Trethewey

When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

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.

Susannah Grant

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

Sergei Lavrov

Attempts to put pressure on Russia and to compel it to abandon its values, truth and justice have no prospects whatsoever.

Tyler Oakley

A lot of YouTubers get that mainstream celebrity, they get these big deals, maybe a book deal or a TV deal or whatever it is they aspired to do, and they kind of abandon ship on what got them to that point.

Clayton Christensen

When an entrant competitor attacks the low end of any market, the rational reaction of the incumbent firms is to abandon rather than defend it - because the low end is the least profitable of their possible investments.

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.

Brian Koslow

Never make negative comments or spread rumors about anyone. It depreciates their reputation and yours.

Curtis Jackson

Since I did the SK Project and I partner with the United Nations World Food Program, I got a lot of different feedback from people online. Through social networks and through the Twitter. I read the comments and see 'em saying, 'People hungry here, Fif.'

Phyllis Schlafly

The most frequent complaint I hear from college students is that professors inject their leftist political comments into their courses even when they have nothing to do with the subject.

Alan Knight

While we received comments from major CSR and SRI groups--for whom this is an important issue--we did not receive comments from any of the organizations focused on shareholder activism. Of course the standard is being published as an exposure draft, so we are still looking for comments and will be piloting it to seek feedback over the next 12 or more months.

Walter Winnitzki

You have Taiwan Semi saying that future orders look weak and that's indicative of a lot of companies. You just had Sun Microsystems return to profitability, but then take it back for the next quarter. All these comments show that any tech recovery is probably pushed back until 2003.

Billy Knight

We'll wait until the experts can tell us, but there's no comments about any speculating at all that I'm going to do,

Lee Hamilton

We had a marvelous meeting with the president, ... The president's comments were very candid, very forthcoming and he was interested in what we had to say.

Julie Zawisza

We will review the public comments as soon as practicable and, taking those comments into account, decide how to proceed.

Randy Beaulaurier

We've gotten lots of good comments about the copper roof.

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.

Vladimir Putin

It is necessary to suppress any extremist actions, on all sides, regardless of their origin.

Najib Razak

We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

We are not racists or extremists in the Front National. We are people who love our country.

Cass Sunstein

Because those who hold conspiracy theories typically suffer from a crippled epistemology, in accordance with which it is rational to hold such theories, the best response consists in cognitive infiltration of extremist groups. Various policy dilemmas, such as the question whether it is better for government to rebut conspiracy theories or to ignore them, are explored in this light.

Marjane Satrapi

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Cheryl Sabel

The anti-choice forces are political extremists and religious fundamentalists, who are looking to make women subservient, powerless and unequal.

R. Inge

The government of Afghanistan should prove that they are protectors of freedom by releasing Abdul Rahman and protecting him from extremist elements.

Abdallah II of Jordan

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

Ben Johnson

The opening salvo of Commander-in-Chief is a guilt trip for all those Americans who thought an unelected (and then-unelectable) feminist extremist should refrain from imposing her will upon the nation.

Bill Bradley

We are not going to turn our eyes away from what is happening in Grozny tonight,

Charles McAfee

When you see it and it breathes and you see young people and their parents and their eyes aglow, that's what really makes me proud.

Willie Ponder

Was it out of line? ... In our coach's eyes, yeah. In their coach's eyes, probably not.

Ryan Kolb

We actually played some of the toughest teams in the state and I think we opened the eyes of some of the higher-seeded teams.

Randy Houser

One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.

Raoul Dufy

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Ray Winstone

The thing about villains is most people play them with the shifty eyes and all that, whereas I play them as good guys. 'Cos everyone thinks they're a goodie, don't they?

James Blake

Well, probably, keeping my eyes on the road, making sure I get here all right,

Rick DiPietro

We were going to give him a ticker-tape parade when he showed up, ... but I couldn't keep my eyes open.

William Christopher

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

Billy Graham

I haven't written my own epitaph, and I'm not sure I should. Whatever it is, I hope it will be simple, and that it will point people not to me, but to the One I served.

Colin O'Donoghue

When I was younger, I was hopefully going to do animation and special effects.

Jack Straw

The overall result is less than we hoped but more than we expected.

Annie Leibovitz

What has stayed true all the way through my work is my composition, I hope, and my sense of color.

Brandon Jay McLaren

I get recognized for 'The Killing' all the time. People yell out, 'I hope you didn't kill her!' They yell that out in the street.

NeNe Leakes

I hope to stay on 'Glee,' I hope to still be a 'Housewife' and I hope to do 'The New Normal.' I just want to do it all! Why not? I'm only going to be young for a little while longer.

Nik Wallenda

I hope what I do and what I just did inspires people around the world to reach for the skies.

Frank Lampard

I have made lots of mistakes on and off the pitch, and you can only learn from them. If I can get that across, then hopefully I am doing something right.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Eugene Ionesco

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

David Sanborn

But I never had any illusions at that time that it was going to be how I was going to make a living. I thought, well, I'll make a solo record, and it'll be fun.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

Fran Wallis

I'm not having any illusions that it will be a piece of cake.

Nicholas Burns

We want the Iranians to negotiate, whether it's with the EU-3 or Russia or any other country, on a serious basis.

John Reid

The position that has been taken by the Iranians is so extreme,

Stephen Kinzer

Iranians launched their constitutional revolution in 1906 and established their parliament soon afterward.

Michael Ledeen

The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

Ian Bremmer

The Iranians can ramp this up or back as they're pressed. And thus far, they have shown every inclination to do precisely that.

David Thurtell

The Iranians are taking this right down to the wire.

Donald Rumsfeld

The Iranian regime is today the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The world does not want, and must work together to prevent, a nuclear Iran.

Javad Vaeidi

The Iranian nation is united on one thing. Iranians don't tolerate humiliation and threats.

Alexandre Kervinio

People know the Iranian situation will stay in the market for quite some time.

Djimon Hounsou

Africa is my continent. It is where I opened my eyes.

Damien Rice

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.

Randy Martin

We plan to be open by summer 2006.

I. Stone

We opened May 2, and by the third week in June, we were selling out, ... Wicked.

Peggy Laskowski

We opened it up to the community, and it went pretty well. It was a lot of fun.

E. Hicks

We opened in probably the worst way you can open a school.

Arthur Hiller

Originally the film opened with Ryan in the doctor's office, being told his wife is dying. Then we see him walking the streets, and the story is told in flashback.

Stephen Frears

When I go and teach, it sort of opens me up in some way. And when you're open, you're more receptive.

Mike Birbiglia

When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag.

Nina Easton

Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.

Dick Cheney

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,

Bob Dole

At least she's the president of something, which is more than I can say.

Howard Dean

We know that the president wasn't truthful with us when he sent us to Iraq,

Elaine Sanchez

Typically, the president is on a very tight schedule.

Donald Powell

Today the president is requesting another $1.5 billion.

John Kasich

We aren't going to do this alone, ... We're going to go out there and tell the president 'look, the ball's in the president's hands.'

Donald Rumsfeld

The president has not suggested that that is going to be needed,

Charles Ruff

The president has always urged everyone to tell the truth,