Famous Quotes & Sayings

John F. Kerry

Foreign policy is effectively the assertion of many individual countries intersecting on the global marketplace. And you have to figure out how to get your interest served in a way that meets the interests and needs of these other folks.

Jennifer Grant

Can't blame men for wanting him. And wouldn't be surprised if Dad even mildly flirted back. Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.

Matt Gallagher

There is a lot of evidence to back up the assertion that war fiction takes time. Many all-time classics of the genre, from Erich Maria Remarque's 'All Quiet on the Western Front' to Joseph Heller's 'Catch-22' to Tim O'Brien's 'The Things They Carried,' took over a decade to pen.

William Williams

The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression. Thus it is social, the poem is a social instrument.

Jon Nadler

We stand by the assertion that a quarter percent better fed funds rate will NOT make the critical difference to medium-term and/or long-term gold investors.

bell hooks

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movies do not just mirror the culture of any given time; they also create it.

George Dennison Prentice

A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is, in world affairs, a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly

Rajeev Sharma

Japan's decision to build more intense relationship with India as reflected by two countries assertion to upgrade their strategic dialogue is indicative of newer realignment of forces in Asia.

Uday Kotak

There is socialism in the family that conflicts with meritocracy. And that bothered me.

Tina Turner

I've never bothered about my color. I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love. Maybe. I don't have a problem with being black in a white country or being with my people.

Larry Beinfest

We're concerned. He's a tough guy, but obviously it's bothered him.

Kate Bush

We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.

Eddie Campbell

I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.

Kate Thompson

I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.

Teddy Sheringham

Jurgen loved London because he could get lost here. He said that it was the first time he could do that in eight years. No one knew him or bothered him. It is great for a person to be able to get lost.

Geno Auriemma

She's very good under pressure. She's not bothered by it. I knew she was going to make those free throws.

E. Hurley

The positive things are very shallow; the positive things would be things like: Getting any restaurant reservation you like! Getting to the front of the line! Being given free things! So what? The traveling is monstrous because you get bothered all the time. The hell of going on holiday when you're famous! You can't go anywhere! It's just no fun!

Jim Pringle

Last year was particularly mild. This year is closer to normal snowfall. I wouldn't be overly concerned with the late spring snowmelt causing flooding.

Lucy Powell

Fossil fuels, including oil, are running out and supplies are getting harder to find. If we do nothing, prices will continue to rise and our reliance on oil will come to an abrupt and tumultuous end, causing global economic and social turmoil.

Jeb Bush

There is deep concern about this storm causing more flooding in New Orleans,

Sathya Baba

Meat and alcoholic drinks take a heavy toll on man's health, causing many a disease in him.

Frank Keating

severely compromised, causing undue hardship on livestock owners.

John Humphrys

So he was let out, went to Houston and started causing problems there.

O. J. Simpson

So, it may be that SARS is causing a slightly different or a slightly less severe form of illness at this point.

Wanda Jackson

So, it happened pretty fast, but, it is causing a lot of stir, which thrills me that people still remember the songs.

James Thompson

Unprecedented natural gas prices are causing the price increase.

Tom Izzo

Whenever you lose a few games, especially when you have a pretty good team, you're concerned about how fast things can slide.

Tom Selleck

I never try to pander to an audience, and I'm really not concerned with my image. I'm far more interested in stretching my abilities as an actor.

Jim Calhoun

We're going backwards. I'm real concerned about that. We've been taking all kinds of time at it, and we're getting worse at it.

Michael Roth

We're looking at several things. We're concerned with the retaining wall, its stability from a water quality perspective, and their drainage controls, which are insufficient.

Colin Devine

We're concerned (the charges) will overshadow what was a very strong quarter.

Eduardo Sanchez

We're concerned that with the increased travel during the holidays, the flu situation could worsen.

Jim Bishop

We're concerned that the same priority won't be given to long-term development as resources are siphoned to support shorter-term diplomatic or military objectives.

Bob McKee

We're concerned that there's no easy answer, but you can't fix the problem simply by giving more away. When you tax one person less, as a consequence you have to tax somebody more.

Matt Snorton

We?re concerned that there?s a lot of hidden back roads that are hard to get to.

Kierston Wareing

I get a lot of single mum roles - 'It's a Free World' turned out well, so people thought, 'She can be a single mum, Kierston can do that. Or live in a council house - she can do that.'

Bill Cole

One of the things the council would not like to do is increase taxes. In fact, if there's any possible way, they'd like to see a decrease.

Richard Butler

My duty is to report what has happened to the Security Council and the United Nations. I'm going to New York to do that.

Paul Volcker

must be broadly shared, starting, we believe, with member states and the Security Council itself.

Bob Blayney

More often than not, the council members would be at odds with things the mayor was pushing.

Martin Eggleston

Mr. Walker sent his resume unsolicited to every council member.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Maybe we're better off with him sitting in New York at the U.N. than with him having an important post either in the State Department or in the National Security Council in the White House, actually shaping American policy.

Melissa Fleming

We are awaiting the green light from the U.N. Security Council to tell us what are the next steps,

Jayantha Dhanapala

We are all satisfied at the progress that has been made, and our report will be before the (U.N.) Security Council very shortly.

Arnold Palmer

I enjoy the press. I understand their business.

Charles Comiskey

There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.

Kevin Costner

What are we blaming? Is this Vietnam? We made a movie, it didn't make much money. I'm gonna be really happy if somebody watches it in 10 years' time and really enjoys it.

Kierston Wareing

I love all the premieres and everything that goes with it, but my favourite part is being on set and to go to work and enjoy your job. Not many people can say that in life.

John F. Kerry

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

Granth Sahib

When the Husband does not enjoy His bride, then her youth passes away in vain.

Kylie Minogue

I am really not looking further than my next trip. I'm enjoying being in the moment.

Taron Egerton

If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

John Ridley

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

David Walliams

It's important when you're married not to forget those things you used to do when you were trying to get her to marry you. You can't send flowers and buy gifts then, when you're married, say, 'Right, get my tea on'. That doesn't go down well. So you've got to keep that level of interest going.

David Brock

During the '90s the flow of misinformation was established.

Beau Bridges

I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

Arthur Ransome

I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life on business and golf and gardening and motoring and marriage, and had in this way postponed his initiation (to fly fishing) far too long.

Seth

If you do not have a loving concern for the environment... it will no longer sustain you - you will not be worthy of it. You will not be destroying the planet, you see. You will not be destroying the birds, or the flowers, or the grain, or the animals... they will be destroying you.

Derek Jarman

One of the joys our technological civilization has lost is the excitement with which seasonal flowers and fruits were welcomed; the first daffodil, strawberry or cherry are now things of the past, along with their precious moment of arrival. Even the tangerine -- now a satsuma or clementine -- appears de-pipped months before Christmas.

Denzel Washington

In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.

Denise Levertov

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

Denise Levertov

You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.

Kenneth R. Miller

All too often, the word 'religion' has become identified with those promoting a frankly anti-scientific view of nature and of our place in the natural world.

Minnie Driver

Minnie is my nickname. Amelia's my real name. I'd love to be an Amelia, but frankly then I think I should be a German woman with a horned hat.

Diane Swonk

We're more productive than we were in the 90s and frankly we didn't start hitting wage pressures in the 90s until about a 4-3/4 percent unemployment rate.

George Russell

Nothing is going to happen very fast, and frankly shouldn't.

Susanne Daniels

But, frankly we are a long ways from there.

Michael Scheuer

Frankly when I resigned in November, there wasn't anyone.

Mark Wright

Frankly I think this is one of the smarter funds Oppenheimer has developed.

Chris Moller

Frankly it does not sit very comfortably with us because we are raising this issue for the very valid reasons we have outlined.

Debbie Tower

Frankly if it saves one life, it's worth it.

Dian Fossey

It was their individuality combined with the shyness of their behavior that remained the most captivating impression of this first encounter with the greatest of the great apes.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of individuality.

Alexis de Tocqueville

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

Jim Balsillie

lends itself to an individual in a corporation or a small group.

Arthur Koestler

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

Bertrand Russell

Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale

Busy Philipps

Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.

Boris Vian

Les masses ont tort et les individus toujours raison. The masses are wrong; individuals are always right.

Khaya Ngqula

She is a talented individual and we wish her well in her new ventures.

David Icke

I don't edit information, I follow it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Some information I just keep to myself.

Dee Hock

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Charles K. Kao

When information is infinite, individual pieces of information are worth nothing.

Martin Tobias

When I look at the next 10 years, the path to the information superhighway is pretty well laid out, but the path is not laid out in energy.

Terry J. Lundgren

I read so much data. There's so much information that comes my way. And there's got to be a way for me to delegate more.

Kevin Mitnick

A lot of individuals out there carry a lot of proprietary information on their mobile devices, and they're not protected. It's a very target-rich environment.

Ronnie Milsap

I was up playing violin at seven and translating that information to play guitar, piano at eight.

Major Owens

Those involved in the program are interested in how to use photography, videos, the Internet, film, and anything related to communications and transmission of information in the most up-to-date modern ways.

Jillian Michaels

Lazy doesn't exist. Lazy is a symptom of something else. The person who can't get up off their butt is just a person who's depressed. It's usually a pervasive lack of self-worth, or a feeling of helplessness.

Andrea Bocelli

People wonder if there is a relationship between my lack of sight and the way I sing. But there's no connection.

Gideon Gono

One can never be prepared enough for anything. We always want to react late. We have become a nation of pointing fingers, a nation of perpetual moaners and a nation that lacks initiatives,

Sathya Baba

One without power does not mean lack of physical or mental strength.

Bruce Bochy

One thing we are lacking is power, ... It would be big if we could get him going.

Mikulas Dzurinda

Silence reigns. We do not have information. We lack information, especially from the presiding country.

Tony Stewart

We're ready. I don't feel like we're lacking anything or waiting on anything.

George Pipas

With these levels of inventories, we probably need to replenish inventories to a level that will support a - for lack of a better term - 'normal' level of sales,

Mark Shapiro

We lack upper-level, left-handed relief depth. (Heredia) could be a Major League alternative for us this year.

Maggie Gallagher

But the real truth is that it never occurred to me,

Patrick Michaels

Had this occurred in mid-June to mid-August, it would be much more serious than it is now.

Jennifer Robinson

Our investigations showed that while in past years there were questionable things that occurred ... this is not wide-spread,

Julia Glass

Over time, it's occurred to me that my protagonists all originate in some aspect of myself that I find myself questioning or feeling uncomfortable about.

Dorothy Hamill

I never really liked my short hair; it never occurred to me that people would want it.

Amy Bloom

I do have a sister. I have never written much about sisters before. I am very close to my sister, but, maybe, because we are very close, it never occurred to me to write about her.

Matthew Alexy

It probably occurred a while ago. I don't think it has had a big impact.

Dr. Fauci

It is unclear whether the mutation occurred in the person or whether it occurred in the chicken.

Al Johnson

There were 39 fatalities in 2005, which was a slight reduction from the 41 fatalities that occurred in 2004 and a 40 percent reduction from 1998's 65 fatalities.

David Horowitz

If you have to invoke a distant past to justify a present grievance, the case for the grievance is already undermined.

David Hume

It is still open for me, as well as you, to regulate my behavior, by my experience of past events.

David Hume

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

David Hume

The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.

David Hume

...virtue is attended by more peace of mind than vice, and meets with a more favourable reception from the world. I am sensible, that, according to the past experience of mankind, friendship is the chief joy of human life and moderation the only source of tranquillity and happiness.

David Hume

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

David Hume

To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of ideas, and endows them with particular qualities, according to their particular situations and relations. This instinct, 'tis true, arises from past observation and experience; but can anyone give the ultimate reason, why past experience and observation produces such an effect, any more than why nature alone should produce it?

David Hume

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

David Hume

When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.