Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Jay McLaren

When I wrapped 'Falling Skies,' I took a trip to the Caribbean to visit my grandma, which is great. I was out there for two weeks in Grenada. Then after that, I went to Poland for two and a half weeks to go watch some of the European soccer championships.

Elliott Abrams

The war on drugs is not being won, and it continues to threaten stability and democracy not only in the Andes but throughout the Caribbean as well, where tiny police and military forces are outclassed by the sophisticated equipment in the hands of traffickers passing through the region on the way to their market in this country.

Robert Miller

To become single market ready, Jamaica passed the Foreign Nationals and Commonwealth Citizens (Amendment) Act, which removed the work permit requirement for Commonwealth nationals and the Caribbean Court of Justice (Original Jurisdiction) Act, in 2005.

Steven Thompson

One of our concerns about playing in the southern Caribbean is the quality of the playing surface. However, I have played at that stadium before and at that time the surface was exceptional. At the end of the day our focus has to be on what we do between the white lines on game day.

Said Musa

Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories.

Charles Rangel

Many of the undocumented immigrants from the Caribbean islands have been living, working and making vital contributions to our country for many years.

Tom Greene

There are, perhaps, two separate current lines, or a small temperature change of a half-degree. And we're still getting debris out of the Caribbean from the hurricanes.

Steve Loucks

There are more ships floating around the Caribbean than any other place in the world.

Rich Campbell

With all the guest amenities, innovations, and groundbreaking facilities on this spectacular ship, it's easy to see why Royal Caribbean named her Freedom. Our guests will have the freedom to choose a vacation that fits their own individual taste and style. And that is what an Atlantis vacation is all about.

Zubin Mehta

Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.

Tim Pawlenty

The people and the mindset that killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens on September 11 2001, would have killed not 3,000, but 300,000 if they could have or 3 million or 30 million. We need to do everything we can within our value systems and legal structures to make sure that doesn't happen.

John C. Calhoun

There is no direct and immediate connection between the individual citizens of a state and the general government. The relation between them is through the state. The Union is a union of states as communities and not a union of individuals.

Nick Clegg

Liberal Democrats in government will not follow the last Labour government by sounding the retreat on the protection of civil liberties in the United Kingdom. It continues to be essential that our civil liberties are safeguarded, and that the state is not given the powers to snoop on its citizens at will.

Corrine Brown

This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

Paul Robeson

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

Victor Ponta

Using cold facts and figures, leaders throughout the West must become more transparent with their citizens in explaining their decisions and their choices in global markets.

David Blunkett

Strengthening our identity is one way of reinforcing people's confidence and sense of citizenship and well-being.

Vitruvius

I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible.

Nancy Grace

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

Steve Kniley

We presume if someone comes in with the winning ticket they've signed, we presumed they've won, and unless we get a court order to the contrary, we don't get involved.

Virginia Henley

I did a great deal of research to write 'The Irish Duke.' Since all the people in this Lords of the Realm series are real historical characters, everything had to be authentic. I researched Woburn Abbey, where my heroine lived, and everything about Barons Court in Ireland, which was the ancestral home of Abercorn.

Lemuel K. Washburn

The foolish and cruel notion that a wife is to obey her husband has sent more women to the grave than to the courts for a divorce.

Praveen Khandelwal

We had a positive interaction with Joshi for around 45 minutes and he said that any formula to stop sealing has to be within the court directive.

Elizabeth Gillies

If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.

Suzi Babos

We didn't play the way we wanted. We had the momentum going on Friday so it was really frustrating. And it seemed to be the same problem on the other courts that lost.

Chris Heagarty

The only big races that all North Carolinians will have to judge will be our court races. And they should be interesting.

John Jones

We set a good foundation early with conditioning and weights, and we're still on it. Every drill I don't tell them it's conditioning, but all our drills are geared toward running up and down that court as fast as you can.

Des Browne

Nuclear weapons are infinitely less important in our foreign policy than they were in the days of the Cold War. I don't think we need nuclear weapons any longer.

Vladimir Potanin

For me, my father was, and still is, a symbol of qualified persons in the Ministry of Foreign Trade under Soviet conditions.

Dave Reichert

While port security remains one of our single greatest vulnerabilities, it makes little sense to give operational control of our ports to a foreign nation without first doing proper investigations.

Rick Kobe

We don't have a lot of foreign kids, but the ones we do have are pretty good.

Mario Andretti

Foreign players is what makes golf so popular now.

Samantha Power

History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.

Menachem Begin

You annex foreign land, not your own country.

Pico Iyer

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

Richard Engel

For many foreign fighters, the jihad in Iraq and Syria is a commuter war.

Diane Abbott

My family were from Jamaica.

Bob Marley

In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty

Laurie R. King

I slept in the bedroom used by Sabine Baring-Goulds wife when I was researching The Moor, and later the Jamaica Inn on Bodmin Moor.

Lauryn Hill

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

Edward Seaga

For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that — situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy — Jamaica has no reason to be poor,

Tessanne Chin

Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.

Michael Lee-Chin

Doing business in Jamaica is not easy, but it is rewarding.

Michael Franti

When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.

Nas

Jamaican music can be aggressive, soulful, smooth and exciting all at once - just like hip-hop. At the same time, there's nothing like Jamaica in the United States. Jamaica is its own thing.

Richard Burton

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

Samuel Butler

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Donald Glover

A lot of the rap shows I saw as a kid were boring, but if you went to a Rage show or a Justice show, the kids were losing their minds.

Walter Benjamin

The death penalty is used in such a blatantly racist way in the United States. There is no way that can be defended under any kind of definition of justice by anybody.

Ron Gidwitz

We have turned the 'Land of Lincoln' into the land of jackpot-justice.

William Shakespeare

Time is the justice that examines all offenders.

Ludwig von Mises

What those people who ask for equality have in mind is always an increase in their own power to consume.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

Mario Zawadzki

The political situation here doesn't help, but worldwide markets are falling.

Rob Enderle

The overseas market isn't saturated like the U.S..

Chris Walker

The overall market is down a tad anyway,

Michael Carty

The path of least resistance for this market is up right now.

Alan Ackerman

What you've got now is world markets whipsawing. It's a letdown, not a meltdown.

Greg Hill

What you've got here, essentially, is a very high-powered marketing operation--meaning Microsoft--versus Linux.

Carlos Ghosn

We are not particularly optimistic about the U.S. market in the next six months and next year.

Peter Hillyard

We are not going to plunge to $500 or $400. The market is going to stay within a price range of $540 and $650.

Charles Alexander

We did spot an opportunity in property at a time when the market was neglecting the sector.

Dick Lee

This is a big weekend to try to get qualified for nationals for people all over the country.

Jim Calhoun

We did what we could with the schedule put before us. We passed every test.

Keith Coogan

I started out as Keith Mitchell. I had done probably about ten years of television work under that name. Then my grandfather passed away in 1984. I wanted to honor him and his name.

Craig Patrick

We didn't sense that there was any problems with the shoulder. He passed the physical.

Anthony Coley

We have to make sure it works. A victory for us is to make sure that savings are passed on to the consumer.

Steve Rodriguez

We let them self-destruct. They had a lot of passed balls, a lot of walks. They kind of folded on us.

John Bunyan

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

Jermaine Jackson

Do you know, Michael, he was - he touched the hearts of many people around the world. That's important. That's why the world cried when he passed because they understood him.

Kofi Annan

Let me say that the U.N. resolution, the recent one which was passed on Syria, does not threaten sanctions,

Ken Lewis

I wish we had passed the school bonds.

Mick Johnson

We need the permit on the sign, it's law.

Scott Haywood

It does not have anything in it to permit us to supplement, modify or amend.

Ivor Novello

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people.

Mike Murdock

The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.

RL Brown

I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.

Mitch Kapor

I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.

Patricia Miller

Because of the new regulations, our permit for doing this work expires at the end of the year.

Marion Bartoli

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

Brian Collins

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.

Kenny Williams

We'll never let A.J. get on top of the world. Never. Not one single day.

Chris Rix

We anticipated a lot more single coverage, but we didn't get it as often as we wanted to,

Charlotte Bronte

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Cesare Pavese

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Beyonce Knowles

That's why I called it Dangerously In Love. It's basically all of the steps in a relationship from when you first meet a guy to realizing you're interested to dancing with him the first night to thinking that you're in love to realizing that you're now a little open to making love to breaking up to having to love yourself after the breakup. All of that. A celebration of love.

Deepak Chopra

There is a restless kind of consumer shopping for partners, as if the "right one" can be found by totting up a potential mate's pluses and minuses until the number of pluses matches some mythical standards.

Edward Gibbon

The first of earthly blessings, independence.

Edward Gibbon

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

William Quigley

I never wanted to be someone who's asking someone to put my work in their gallery. I wanted to be asked.

Walead Beshty

My works look to how images are produced, but specially based upon how the material reacts.

Zubin Mehta

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

Wynton Marsalis

I generally work right up to when I have to do something - I'm always doing a lot.

Don Shula

You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

David Byrne

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

Colonel Sanders

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Brooke Burke

I've always done ab work, even when I was pregnant.

Dennis Christopher

Work has been my lover - I've shied away from any commitments.