All Quotes

As the country now turns a new leaf, our ambition is to give hope to each and every Afghan.
‐‐ Hamid Karzai

As the craft re-entered earth's atmosphere, it was coming in so fast, it heated up the surrounding atoms and molecules, and they became positively and negatively charged, and highly reactive, and began luminescing all around us.
‐‐ Helen Sharman

As the criminal, sinful war in Iraq enters its third year, the president goes to Europe to heal the wounds between the United States and its former allies, on his own terms of course.
‐‐ Andrew Greeley

As the crisis in Syria grows and the humanitarian tragedy becomes more clear, I appreciated Prime Minister Netanyahu's perspective on the changes and volatility in the region.
‐‐ Rob Portman

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.
‐‐ Barbara Lee

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.
‐‐ Kerry Healey

As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.
‐‐ Grace Meng

As the daughter of two teachers with first-class degrees, I'd always seen myself as a duffer by comparison.
‐‐ Mary Quant

As the days went on, I didn't mind the games. In fact, I looked forward to them. That was the easiest part of all. I couldn't wait to get to the ballpark I'd be the first one there and I was willing to do anything. I think that's why the veterans liked me.
‐‐ Al Kaline

As the director of a film, as the story teller, you have to keep your voice alive.
‐‐ Mira Nair

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive.
‐‐ Sarah Caldwell

As the director, you cannot control what people do after hours or in their trailers or on break. Why would you want to? But you can't.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

As the director, you have it in your mind how you want the part done, how you want someone to do it, and so sometimes you just say, 'Why don't I do it myself?' So for a little role, I'll just do it.
‐‐ Jonathan Krisel

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.
‐‐ Helen Keller

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.
‐‐ James Gleick

As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
‐‐ Barry Commoner

As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

As the economy goes south, petty theft begins. And then grand theft. And then muggings.
‐‐ John McAfee

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.
‐‐ Cliff Stearns

As the editor-in-chief of the do-it-yourself magazine 'Make,' I've met scores of dedicated makers. They come from all walks of life - rich, poor, young, old, male, female, religious, atheist, liberal, conservative.
‐‐ Mark Frauenfelder

As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
‐‐ B. Carroll Reece

As the ego cogito, subjectivity is the consciousness that represents something, relates this representation back to itself, and so gathers with itself.
‐‐ Martin Heidegger

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in reference to the inhumanity of people. There were questions that I did not know how to ask but could, in my young, unsophisticated way, articulate a series of answers.
‐‐ John Henrik Clarke

As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn't yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.
‐‐ Amber Frey

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.
‐‐ Simon Newcomb

As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
‐‐ Barry Sternlicht

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
‐‐ Pope John Paul II

As the fashion carousel spins ever faster, the concern is that, while the stream of newness never runs out, there's going to be a good deal more crash and burn among designers in the future.
‐‐ Suzy Menkes

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.
‐‐ Jesus Christ

As the father of six children, I know very well the challenges technology poses to our families.
‐‐ Mike Fitzpatrick

As the final weeks of my schooling draw to a close and exams loom, I find myself reflecting on the past six years of my secondary education only to realise that many questions are still unanswered. How have I been shaped by my learning experiences? What skills have I developed that are valuable and transferable in the workplace?
‐‐ Alexandra Adornetto

As the financial experts all over the world use machines to unwind Gordian knots of financial arrangements so complex that only machines can make - 'derive' - and trade them, we have to wonder: Are we living in a bad sci-fi movie? Is the Matrix made of credit default swaps?
‐‐ Richard Dooling

As the first Hispanic female governor in history, little girls often come up to me in the grocery store or the mall. They look and point, and when they get the courage, they ask 'Are you Susana?' and they run up and give me a hug.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

As the first Member of Congress from western Washington to serve on the House Agriculture Committee in over 50 years, I am proud to represent the needs of our agriculture community.
‐‐ Rick Larsen

As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory, and have a remarkably enduring tendency not to foresee problems that, in hindsight, seem obvious.
‐‐ Adam Hochschild

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
‐‐ Douglas Horton

As the founder and former chief executive of two publicly traded companies, I have had a great deal of exposure to how debt markets work.
‐‐ John Delaney

As the founder of your company, you must be in love with your brand and inspired by your brand's mission if you have any hope of getting press for your product.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
‐‐ Sydney Smith

As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
‐‐ Dale T. Mortensen

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.
‐‐ John Thorn

As the game gets bigger for the fans it gets bigger for the players.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.
‐‐ Greg Walden

As the generalization goes about the art industry, people can be really challenging and thought-provoking in their thinking and questioning the status quo, and it's really important that the status quo can be questioned and that there are people doing that.
‐‐ Lily Cole

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
‐‐ Eric Hobsbawm

As the gospels present it to us, the mission of Jesus of Nazareth is about the way in which the community of God's people - historically, the Jewish people who had first received the law and the covenant - is being re-created in relation to Jesus himself.
‐‐ Rowan Williams

As the governor of the state of Arizona, I took an oath to uphold the laws and to protect the people of Arizona. And I'm going to be relentless in it. I'm going to do what is right.
‐‐ Jan Brewer

As the governor of this state, I obviously see the issue quite differently.
‐‐ Gray Davis

As the graying of the country continues its march forward, many retirees are now relocating to dense urban centers for the cultural and social opportunities, access to public transportation, and the ability to shop nearby for food and household needs without depending unduly on others.
‐‐ Chuck Norris

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.
‐‐ Gary Hamel