Famous Quotes & Sayings

Prince Abdullah

Our armed forces will, under no circumstances, step even one foot into Iraqi territory,

Edward Kennedy

Our armed forces are serving ably in Iraq under enormously difficult circumstances, and the policy of our government must be worthy of their sacrifice. Unfortunately, it is not, and the American people know it.

Marie Okabe

repeatedly urged all actors in conflict situations around the world -- governments, local authorities and armed forces -- to protect the right of all citizens to reliable information and the right of journalists to provide it without fearing for their security.

Louise Arbour

It is a tragedy for the people of Nepal that full-scale armed conflict may now resume.

Philip Hammond

It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.

Dan Birmingham

Jeff will be entering the ring armed with a secret weapon we've developed 'Arsenic and Old Lacy!' a combination of the old and the new Lacy, that will put Joe out of his misery very quickly. Trust me, Jeff will be no shrinking violet in this fight. He's going to break Joe's heart early in the fight.

Dan Birmingham

Jeff will be entering the ring armed with a secret weapon we've developed -- 'Arsenic and Old Lacy!' -- a combination of the old and the new Lacy, that will put Joe out of his misery very quickly. Trust me, Jeff will be no shrinking violet in this fight. He's going to break Joe's heart early in the fight.

John Reid

The armed forces of both India and the UK pride themselves on excellence, and the increase in the number of joint exercises and training opportunities between the two countries will only serve to strengthen that relationship further,

Pranab Mukherjee

The armed forces are professional, apolitical, and secular and the most disciplined force the country has today... We would not like to include (the armed forces) in such a type of survey, (but) in the case of other departments and ministries such a study will continue.

Jeremy Reichert

Our main focus for the next two weeks will be preparing for the division (matches). This will determine the seeding for zone and is crucial to our success.

Christopher Shays

Our waterways are crucial to the economy in our region, so we need to take every step to keep them secure,

Matt Raymond

Roads are not only crucial in fighting forest fires but also in promoting forest health.

Jerry Narron

LaRue's play is one that nobody talks about. That was the big play in a crucial part of the game.

James So

The 13,500 level is the next crucial support level but I don't think we'll see the HSI falling that far today.

Jeff Haile

That was crucial for us and that was a crucial shot for them to miss. It's a hustle play, a heady play. She knew what was on the line, she had to hustle to get back and she did.

Annika Sorenstam

That was a pretty crucial eagle. And the momentum definitely turned there.

Jill McCorkle

I think too many people edit themselves way too soon. There's plenty of time to edit, and it is a crucial part of it all, too.

Rep. Flores

I think that what we saw from last hurricane season is that increasingly, having gas is as important and as crucial as having electricity and running water.

Robbie Bach

Price cuts come when you see a need in the marketplace, ... We saw a lot of momentum during the holiday at good prices.

Michael A. Stackpole

Paying a royalty to someone for prepping an ebook is akin to paying the kid who cuts your grass a percentage of the purchase price when you sell your house. It makes no sense.

Jose Andres Puerta

Steakhouses serve these big steaks. The first piece is hot, and the last piece is cold. The way I like to eat is to try three or four cuts of meat. People should actually be eating less meat, and the meat they eat should be special.

Jim Green

Some of the cuts will have to be jobs.

John Challenger

Overall, job cuts are down from last year and significantly lower than the record numbers we saw in 2002 and 2001, but there are still some worrisome trends,

Jeff Laing

Our backdoor cuts helped, but what I was really pleased with was our points in the paint.

Bill Cowher

That was really one of the tougher cuts that we've made.

Becky Lucidi

I was pretty much playing paycheck to paycheck. So instead of playing to win, I was playing to make cuts and earn checks, and you can't play like that.

Bill Clinton

I think it's very important that Americans understand... tax cuts are always popular, but about half of these tax cuts since 2001 have gone to people in my income group, the top 1 percent. I've gotten four tax cuts. They're responsible for this big structural deficit, and they're not going away, the deficits aren't.

Gary Murphy

Part of the premium is due to its exposure to the military and defence industries.

Nate Clements

Our goal as a defence is to go out there and dominate. I think we did that.

Kim Beazley

I was defence minister for a few years,

Sellapan Ramanathan

Well, you have a defence attache here, that's a step forward. Your Defence Minister has been here, our defence people have exchanges with you. So friendly relations at the military level are already in existence.

Norman Schwarzkopf

The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.

Franz Beckenbauer

The defence has to get used to playing with the goalkeeper. Jurgen is shying away from making a decision.

Franz Beckenbauer

The defence has to get used to playing with the goalkeeper.

Agatha Christie

There is no question of defence. I have always acted in accordance with the dictates of my conscience. I have nothing with which to reproach myself.

Bob Ainsworth

I am extremely honoured to be the Defence Secretary, and I would not do the job if I did not think that I could make a useful contribution in the role.

Patrick Murphy

Some guys don't think it's time to question our government, but the fact is I love my country, ... We need to have an exit strategy now.

Jake Brace

Response to syndication of our exit facility is yet another validation of the substantial and sustainable improvements made during our restructuring.

Jim Jeffords

It is important each side has the opportunity to express itself, ... But we need to exit one way or the other.

Alan Schlesinger

I was with the president initially. His exit strategy is weak.

Tom Lehman

I was within 100 yards of the exit and there was this huge, loud explosion right next to me. I turned around and looked and the windows were all intact. When I got to the airport, I hopped out and looked and, sure enough, there was a nice little round hole.

April Masini

Having an exit strategy can be a social saver.... The key is keeping your little white lie plausible.

Matthew Wilkins

I don't think we will be seeing Hector Ruiz exit stage left imminently.

Sheila Garrard

I get the feeling they may have regretted that exit and they've probably been looking for a good reason to get back in with an eye on sector consolidation.

Akbar Ahmed

He has left a tiny exit route, which is good because in the international arena, he is seen as very much a black-and-white kind of figure, with no grays.

Mircea Geoana

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

Jim Waters

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

Donald Rumsfeld

Our goal is to get large numbers of international forces from lots of countries, including those two,

Mark McClain

Our goal is not to strike, but we will retain all legal self-help options if management forces our hand.

Deborah Copaken Kogan

Photography forces one out into the world, interacting with people and the environment. It flexes all those right brain, spatially-adept muscles.

Pranab Mukherjee

It is not withdrawal but redeployment of forces from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeast as the violence level has come down.

Ron Kaminski

It forces one to step back a bit.

Sergei Ivanov

there are sufficient forces in the region to stop such attacks.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I'm an impatient person in many respects. I like to put myself in uncomfortable situations. It forces me to deliver.

Jeff Johnson

We'll also have it set up with all the necessary forms to submit your film online, and generally have the Web page be a better way for people to get information about the festival.

Mary Bailey

I went through working in many mediums before settling on wood. I like it as a medium. It is non-toxic, versatile in the forms you can get, and has a nice tactile quality.

Chris Coleman

I am glad he has tied his future to us, he forms an important part of my plans.

Harold Pinter

I think it's enough for me. I've found other forms now.

Jim Angell

Historically, a La Nina that forms in spring has a tendency for most of Illinois to be dry.

Fidel Castro

Neo-liberalism and globalization and the way they are being implemented today are tantamount to new and sophisticated forms of plundering,

Richard King

More people are exposed to movies than to most other forms of art.

Chuck Palahniuk

The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.

Wole Soyinka

Books and all forms of writing have always been objects of terror to those who seek to suppress the truth.

C. S. Lewis

The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

Carrie Chapman Catt

The woman suffrage movement in the United States was a movement of the spirit of the Revolution which was striving to hold the nation to the ideals which won independence.

Becky Huckaby

Just because we had Independence in the market, we didn't stop looking for (another) low-fare carrier.

Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

Jon Oringer

I think that initial independence is very important; that's what being an entrepreneur is all about.

Boris Kodjoe

I think that women need men and that men need women and we need each other and that independence and meeting somebody is not mutually exclusive.

Rory Bremner

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

Karen Morgan

We won't get independence this time, but we are on our way.

Ayn Rand

The genius must have his freedom and his independence.

David Whitehead

It essentially puts our little town on the map.

Mack Strong

He comes out to compete. He comes out and puts up MVP numbers.

Larry Coker

This puts us right where we want to be ? things will get real interesting.

Jim Stone

This puts them on the same side of the table as you,

Francis Bradley

There are those who understand everything till one puts it into words

Phil Rizzuto

Well, that kind of puts the damper on even a Yankee win!

Kofi Annan

Usually, because society's inequalities puts them at risk -- unjust, unconscionable risk.

Kim Jones

Put her back out there any other day and she puts it in two.

Lori Reynerson

Always wear condoms. Having sex with someone you don't have a relationship with puts you at risk for some very serious problems.

Jason Young

That stretch made it so we didn't feel so rushed in the third quarter.

Lionel Messi

I rushed to get back before it was time.

Mack Brown

We didn't want to be stubborn, ... We rushed for 145. We'll take that.

Steve Wilson

A thank-you to all of you who rushed to Kersey and valiantly searched for Sam,

S. Walker

they were rushed to get their performances in.

Alan Cumming

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

David Bowie

I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.

Alex Ferguson

But there is always that unpredictability about a derby match and that's what it was today.

Alex Salmond

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Annie Lennox

The poetic side of me is Scottish.

Douglas Alexander

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Ciaran Hinds

I'm looking forward to locking swords with Douglas Henshall and working against the stunning backdrop of Shetland. I came to Scotland a lot in the 70s and 80s in various theatre productions and of course to film Hallam Foe but this is the furthest I've ever been.

Anne Boyd

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Ambrose Bierce

KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland.

Michelle Gomez

I feel so Scottish when I go abroad, and I'm so proud of it, but for me, it's not a political statement - I just happen to be Scottish.

Gordon Strachan

I've got more important things to think about. I've got a yogurt to finish by today, the expiry date is today.

Denis Law

It was one of those goals that's invariably a goal.

Robert Louis Stevenson

To become what we are capable of becoming is the only end in life.

Paul Gallagher

I'm in the facial-hair phase of my career.

Alexander McQueen

I feel more Scottish than Norman.

Andy Murray

I am Scottish. I am also British.

Michael Scott

I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations.

Jeanette MacDonald

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

Ron Redmond

There are tens of thousands in there who are probably going hungry,

Jake Shulaw

He's doing a lot more wrestling now. But sometimes it comes back because he's drilled in thousands and thousands of times.

Don Miguel Ruiz

For thousands of years, there have been lies about being gay or not being gay. If you know they're lies, you're free.

Eddie Compass

thousands of people, who want to voluntarily evacuate at this time.

Mark Schultz

Wrestling will be around forever. It's been around thousands of years. It's going to be around till the end of time.

Kay Nehm

There will be thousands of dead. You will all think of me.

Nancy Astor

My vigor, vitality and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from.

Walter Salles

The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.

David Whyte

The price of our vitality is the sum of all our fears

David Hilbert

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Charles Bukowski

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesnt have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.

Al Jardine

I like to be surrounded by harmonies and fullness and richness and vitality

Nicolas Sarkozy

We are all hoping that he will recover his legendary vitality as quickly as possible, ... Chi-rac! Chi-rac!

Nicole Krauss

I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I'd spent being only partly alive, and how easily I'd accepted a lesser life.