All Quotes

My obligation as president, and what I promise the country, is that the courts will be able to do their job free of all pressure.
‐‐ Ricardo Lagos

My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

My obligation is to the owners of Barclays, my shareholders. They hired me. People who criticise compensation for individuals in isolation at, say, BarCap, individuals who don't work in the U.K. and are competing with U.S., German or Asian banks, they should look at all these factors.
‐‐ Bob Diamond

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
‐‐ Kenzaburo Oe

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
‐‐ George Washington

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.
‐‐ James Dobson

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

My observations are not bread crumbs. They do not dissolve. They are on record, on film printed in books, and found on the Internet. I am happy to share them. For this I was born.
‐‐ Bill Cosby

My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
‐‐ Jack Adams

My obsession is plastic packaging. It makes me sick, all the waste. Everything about it disappoints me.
‐‐ Theo James

My obsession is to make women beautiful. When you create with that in mind, things can't go out of fashion.
‐‐ Azzedine Alaia

My obsession is to provide food and jobs to people in Tarlac. The province is primarily an agricultural province; food security tops the priority.
‐‐ Benigno Aquino III

My obsession with accumulation, which at times has taken on the whisper of a psychic illness - as anyone who has experienced the ode to the Collyer brothers that is my 'Vogue' office will concur - began in infancy.
‐‐ Hamish Bowles

My obsession with eating out partly comes from having spent 10 long years at English boarding schools in the 1980s, where food was pretty low on the list.
‐‐ Ben Elliot

My obsession with James Franco borders on the unhealthy.
‐‐ Max von Essen

My obsession with outer space is my way of being different. I make astronaut music. It takes an astronaut so long to get to space - that's how long it takes to catch up on my music.
‐‐ Nayvadius Cash

My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.
‐‐ John Barton

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.
‐‐ Natasha Trethewey

My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
‐‐ Joan Rivers

My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.
‐‐ Michael J. Massimino

My off-the-field heroes, the people who gave me the values to live by and who inspired me with their hard work and unselfish dedication to their family, were my mom, Catherine, and my dad, William.
‐‐ Allan Ray

My office doubles as a karaoke den for the neighborhood. There are strobe lights and Rock Band plastic guitars, a disco ball and a fog machine and some other things. I have a really long work day, and you might find me doing karaoke by myself late at night.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

My office has a view of low-cost housing, old East German prefabricated apartment buildings. It isn't an attractive view, but it's very helpful, because it reminds me to ask myself, whenever there is a decision to be made, whether the people who live there can afford our decisions.
‐‐ Sigmar Gabriel

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of individual rights. I've been on record for years in law journals and books as championing the rights of the individual against the oppressive power of the state.
‐‐ Jim Garrison

My office has no walls. You can't be removed from your team to be successful. You have to be respectful of others.
‐‐ Mickey Drexler

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure.
‐‐ Doug Aitken

My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.
‐‐ Lapo Elkann

My office in New York is overflowing with all kinds of cookbooks, and in New Orleans we have a huge culinary library. So yeah, I guess I'm a little bit obsessed.
‐‐ Emeril Lagasse

My office is at Yankee stadium. Yes, dreams do come true.
‐‐ Derek Jeter

My office is committed to tearing down unlawful barriers to voting to ensure that all eligible voters are able to freely cast a ballot.
‐‐ Eric Schneiderman

My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.
‐‐ Tony Blair

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
‐‐ Debbie Macomber

My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
‐‐ Joshua Chamberlain

My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe.
‐‐ Lauren Willig

My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
‐‐ Dan Hill

My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
‐‐ Sam Yagan

My old boyfriend, Warren Beatty, used to say I was a late developer,' she reflects. 'He was right. It took me 50 years to find motherhood and unconditional love.'
‐‐ Diane Keaton

My old coach used to say that if you were in it for the match, if you were in it for the trophies, you were in it for the wrong reasons.
‐‐ John Irving

My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.
‐‐ Clint Eastwood

My old English buddy, John Rackham, wrote and told me what made science fiction different from all other kinds of literature - science fiction is written according to the science fiction method.
‐‐ Frederik Pohl

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.
‐‐ Scott Adams

My old man, he's done it very differently from me. He had years of honing his craft and years of doing all that stuff before he even had to worry about 'Game of Thrones.' So he's absolutely established himself as an actor without the fear of having to have a personality as well.
‐‐ Frank Dillane

My old man is a man of few words.
‐‐ Scott Eastwood

My old man never used to cook, so we lived on takeaway. The others were always jealous.
‐‐ Sonny Bill Williams

My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
‐‐ Sam Shepard

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.
‐‐ Dimebag Darrell

My old manager of the Irish National Theatre said 'Don't worry about being a star, just worry about being a working actor. Just keep working.' I think that's really good advice.
‐‐ Colm Meaney

My old modus operandi was, if you're going to have a grilled cheese and bacon sandwich, don't have one, have two. If you're going to have vanilla wafers, you have the whole box.
‐‐ Al Roker