Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leon Brittan

We remain ready to cooperate with the U.S. (officials) in accelerating a (WTO) panel provided that they make clear that they are abandoning the unilateral route and respect the rules and procedures of the WTO,

Mary Harron

When we couldn't find the right person, we decided to abandon preconceptions and look at people we hadn't thought of. She came in and her very first audition was so wonderful, so magical. She had this sweetness and innocence, but also something sexy and a little dark.

Loretta Young

When we came to do the take, I did it my way. I played it with all the emotional abandon I possessed and loved every second of my performance.

Mitchell Reiss

What Libya did was make a strategic determination that it would have a better future-a more secure, a more prosperous future-if it abandoned its weapons of mass destruction.

Kenneth Billingsley

With the loss of the company's A- rating imminent, we believe shareholders and customers alike will abandon the company, regardless of what steps management takes the preserve shareholder value.

Jonathan Faull

We reiterate the Commission's support for the European candidate for this post. There is no suggestion that the Commission or anybody else is abandoning its support, in fact... there is unanimous support for the European candidate.

China Mieville

Ever since I was two, I've loved octopuses, monsters, abandoned buildings.

Granth Sahib

The One, who holds all creatures in His Hands, is never separated from them; He is with them all. Abandon your clever devices, and grasp hold of His Support. In an instant, you shall be saved.

Colin Powell

We stand ready to help, but that help can only come when North Korea has abandoned its programs to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, something that the international community thought it had done years ago,

Richard Boucher

We've always opposed unilateral attempts to try to decide these issues. And that position hasn't changed.

Gernot Erler

Yes, attempts of this sort are being made.

Tim Manning

We want to take every possible step to crack down on fraudulent attempts to get a driver's license in New Mexico.

Paul Mason

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

Mark Slonaker

We are proud of Will's efforts in the classroom and we are glad to see that he is being recognized for his accomplishments. We hope this will bode well for him as he attempts to repeat as a first team Academic All-America selection.

Donald Borut

We believe that provisions in the proposed legislation regarding reformulated gasoline are back-door attempts at invalidating state laws banning the use of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a known carcinogen.

David Rehr

With today's enactment of the budget reconciliation bill and its digital television provisions, we have crossed an important threshold. NAB is pleased that Congress adopted many pro-consumer DTV measures in the legislation, and we're encouraged that the bill thwarted cable industry attempts to degrade the quality of HDTV pictures to consumers.

Ken Goldberg

Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.

Maurice Cheeks

We want him to get offensive opportunities - no question. I think that he can get more opportunities in running the floor, getting early post up which he did. Tonight was a little unusual where he had more than a number of attempts at dunking the basketball going to the rim so I think that's a little bit unusual.

Richard Orr

We've always said we had the most compelling numbers.

Henry Hyde

We respect and appreciate the bipartisan agreement established by this Senate, ... We intend to use the time we have been provided to present a compelling case on the serious charges pending against the President.

Peter Adderton

When we began this company, partnering with MTV Networks was our No. 1 goal, not only because of their unrivaled understanding of today's young adults, but also because we share the same goal of delivering the most original and compelling content across the rapidly evolving wireless space.

Michael Dell

We believe we're doing so to a much greater degree than anyone else in our industry, and it is already a compelling difference in winning and retaining customers of all types.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Jon Miller

We're honored to provide exclusive network television coverage again this year for the most unique and compelling big-wave surfing contest in the world.

Jason Hall

The powerful Superman Returns property will be rightfully brought to gamers with a strong creative vision supported by compelling new technology so they can experience The Man of Steel(TM)'s superpowers firsthand,

Tom Austin

The potential advantages of Office 12 sound interesting, although they're hardly earthshaking. Are these the kind of changes that are going to compel companies to rush out and immediately upgrade? We don't think so.

Wade Henderson

We applaud the five judiciary members who voted their conscience and took a principled position in opposition to the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States. However, we are profoundly disappointed that the committee, as a whole, ignored compelling evidence against his nomination.

Hamish Brewer

We remain confident in the prospects for earnings expansion in 2006 and will discuss this in more detail during our normally scheduled earnings call on Jan. 23.

Chris Liddell

We remain confident in our growth prospects and have an exciting product line-up, which includes major releases like Xbox 360, SQL Server 2005, Office 12 and Windows Vista.

Charles Scott

We remain confident about the Group's future prospects and are committed to returning value to shareholders.

Mark Rowen

We believe we're moving ever closer to the light at the end of the valuation tunnel on eBay. We find it interesting and amusing to note that as investors' risk/reward ratio had dramatically improved, the market has become increasingly jittery about the future prospects for eBay.

Michael Boldin

With the leading economic indicators posting three consecutive sharp increases, the U.S. economy does not seem to be ready to settle down much from the fast pace of growth it experienced in 1998. Over the past six months, the index has increased 1.2 percent, which is far above its historical average and the prospects for growth in income and employment are very bright.

David Hong

The positive impact of an FTA is tremendous, ... Prospects for the Philippine Economy.

John Clare

We are pleased with the progress of our international operations, whilst we remain cautious about prospects in the UK, where we have experienced the slowdown in consumer expenditure.

Glen Sather

We are looking to develop the next generation of great Rangers players, ... Our goal is to continue to improve as the season moves along and to continue to develop the many great young prospects we have now.

Alan Davis

There are certainly some solid growth prospects for Microsoft but it's not going to be the glory days again.

Bryan Whitman

We're going to move the resources that we think can be helpful to the scene as rapidly as possible. Efforts are being led by the Russian government and it (U.S. assistance) is something that they have asked for.

Thomas Pickering

We believe we have developed a relationship with Russia that can sustain controversy, differences and difficulties, however sharp they may become,

Jeffrey Sachs

We're going to have to forgive a great deal of the Soviet era debt. There's no question about that. Let's face up to that. We're going to have to put in money if Russia is really going to consolidate a democracy.

Margarita Simonyan

We're going to do international news and are trying to do a Russian angle on them, trying to show what impact international affairs have on Russia and we will also try to show interesting things about Russia, what is happening here, documentaries, interesting people and places, something that might be new to our audience.

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.

Chris Christie

I'll tell what reckless is. What reckless is is calling [Bashar] Assad a reformer. What reckless is allowing Russia to come into Crimea and Ukraine. What reckless is is inviting Russia into Syria to team with Iran. That is reckless. And the reckless people are the folks in the White House right now. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the reckless people.

Charles C. Mann

In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s expanding Russia, bigger than Songhay in the Sahel or powerful Great Zimbabwe in the West Africa tablelands, bigger than the cresting Ottoman Empire, bigger than the Triple Alliance (as the Aztec empire is more precisely known), bigger by far than any European state, the Inka dominion extended over a staggering thirty-two degrees of latitude—as if a single power held sway from St. Petersburg to Cairo.

Chaim Potok

In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.

Bill McKibben

Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest ever recorded on planet Earth. Arctic sea ice is near all-time record lows. Record floods from Pakistan to Queensland to the Mississippi basin; record drought from the steppes of Russia to the plains of Texas...This is what climate change looks like in its early stages.

Fred Matua

We're going to take what they're saying and just go with it. We believe that we're the best. They believe that they're the best. What we say over here is, 'The fourth shall set us free. The truth will be told.' Let's go play.

Jeb Bush

We're going to prosecute now that the law has been changed, ... We're going to prosecute a case worker who, for whatever reason, as an investigator did not tell the truth and put the child potentially in harm's way by that action.

Wayne Stroupe

We're going to go where the truth takes us.

Michael Leunig

What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift.

Hugo Chavez

What a great truth and how good it is that in Mar del Plata President Kirchner has come to say it to millions: the Washington consensus is broken; we are looking for a new model,

Walt Whitman

What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires -- how many aspirations after goodness and truth -- how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

Chris Crutcher

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

Jean Marais

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Jim Butler

What happens now is that the reckoning begins. Two decades of concealing the truth and lying are coming to an end.