Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Kevin Quinn

The police response was excellent and the bomb squad was here in 12 minutes. It was an unfortunate situation but it ran smoothly. The students were very mature and excellent in terms of their cooperation.

Bharati Mukherjee

I never have my CNN off, it's on the whole day. I don't want to be out of range of television. I'm constantly bombarded by information - Somalia one second, Haiti the next - I need that constant pounding. I couldn't write without television. I need to have the world in my room.

Alice Walker

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?

Peter Singer

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats.

Stuart Symington

It all went back to problems we had talked about before, you know, such as the British not believing in formation bombing and not believing in daytime bombing.

Nancy Pelosi

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

Gareth Davis

We relied on runners and ambulance crews passing on information as they dropped patients off. When the last telephone call you receive said eight bombs have gone off, it sounded like Armageddon.

Annie Jacobsen

Back in the 1950s, there was a top-secret program code-named SUNTAN being conducted at a top-secret facility called Skunk Works. Its objective? To develop a liquid-hydrogen-powered spy plane. Because liquid hydrogen is incredibly volatile, early experiments were conducted inside a bomb shelter with eight-foot-thick walls.

Gretchen Rubin

During my study of happiness, I noticed something that surprised me: I often learn more from one person's highly idiosyncratic experiences than I do from sources that detail universal principles or cite up-to-date studies.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have no evidence at all that the allegation you cited is correct, ... I am sure it is not.

John Bridgeland

In fact, these kids cite too much freedom, which surprised us. They get to high school and all of a sudden under state law they're permitted to drop out, many of the kids know that. They want more order and rules and expectations.

Frank Michel

The justification cited was increased costs of services and supplies. We don't have any written documentation.

Ian Shepherdson

This hugely strong report will doubtless be cited as evidence that the housing market is not slowing. However, the extremely warm January weather surely distorted these data, just as it boosted retail sales and depressed industrial production.

Kgalema Motlanthe

If there are activists in Cosas and they do poorly academically, then they would be cited as examples as to why others should not be in Cosas.

Gregory Melich

Management cited a narrower assortment of handsets, ramp up of expertise on the activation process, and fewer-than-expected promotions as reasons for the softness.

Jack Kevorkian

You can cite me for contempt, Your Honor. I don't care.

Jerry Fisher

You can cite facts from now until tomorrow on either side of the argument. It's all irrelevant.

Norman Schwarzkopf

When I fish, I stop thinking about anything else. But truth be told, if you want to declare victories, I can tell you the fish have won a lot more than I have. It's interesting that something with a brain the size of a fish's can outsmart us humans, who think we are el supremo.

Mo Ibrahim

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

Bradley Chicho

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear.

Preston Sturges

If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?

Lloyd Grove

tried to declare the proceedings off the record.

Grover Norquist

We laugh at liberals who declare that their favorite spending programs should be exempt because the spending is for a noble cause.

Lyndon Johnson

Unfortunately, many Americans live on the outskirts of hope, some because of their poverty, and some because of their color, and all too many because of both. This administration declares unconditional war on poverty in America.

Guy Hohenhaus

We're looking for an exit, at what point in time do we declare this over.

Reuven Rivlin

We have no say in anything. What will we do if the Palestinians declare a state? How can we even stop them?

Jan Egeland

We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped.

Nancy Gibbs

There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

Louis R. Chenevert

We produce motor drive electronics; we produce cargo systems for large narrow-body and wide-body airplanes and, more importantly, the emergency escape chute that goes on these planes.

Jim Sullivan

We have had every type of emergency you can imagine,

Mike Kearney

We have an emergency plan. We are prepared to use pump and haul.

Genie White

We can't handle an emergency if we don't have the equipment.

Melissa Fleming

We'll request immediate clarification. We have an emergency system in place if something happened.

Eric Fehrnstrom

We have the money, we have the housing and we have the emergency personnel. We stand by and are ready to assist.

Robby Rodriguez

Three people were taken at emergency traffic for internal injuries, and one was taken at normal traffic.

Edward Snowden

The United States Government has placed me on no-fly lists.

Elaine Stritch

What I want to understand is what I am talking about on the stage. What I don't want to understand is what the government is talking about when the government tells me about taxes.

Vicente Fox

The pension issue is a priority for my government and also a priority for our economy,

Bruce Jackson

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.

Chris Matthews

We supported the contras. We're not against all opposition to government, or all paramilitary operations.

John C. Calhoun

The danger in our system is that the general government, which represents the interests of the whole, may encroach on the states, which represent the peculiar and local interests, or that the latter may encroach on the former.

Chester Bowles

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

Ernestine Rose

In the laws of the land, she has no rights; in government she has no voice. And in spite of another principle recognized in this Republic, namely, that 'taxation without representation is tyranny,' she is taxed without being represented.

Esther Rolle

I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the character, I won't do it because I couldn't do it justice.

Penelope Cruz

There are roles I have said no to, but for different reasons. And, I never talk about those because I feel it's disrespectful to say, 'Oh, I said no to this project or that other project.' I'd rather talk about the ones that I said yes to and the reasons why.

Lisa Unger

I write for the same reason I read: to find out what's going to happen.

Samuel Butler

It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

Elaine Lyttleton

There is is no reason why someone should not be registered.

Calvin Coolidge

A display of reason rather than a threat of force should be the determining factor in the intercourse among nations.

Jon Jovi

We can be the world's AFL team, for sure. There's no reason we couldn't be.

Todd Clark

The problem, ... is there is no reason to stay long in to the weekend.

Jack Rio

We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.