Months Quotes - Page 28

• It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

  Robert Greenwald

  Politics, Als, Afghanistan

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• We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening-a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here.

  William Schaffner

  Past, Ebola, Two

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• How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!

  Edwin Way Teale

  Time, Spring, Knowledge

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

  Winston Churchill

  War, World, Shorthand

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• Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.

  Natalie

  Years, Giving, Worry

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• Each month there are numerous incidents where visitors are abducted by criminal groups - just long enough to withdraw the maximum amount of money from an ATM account.

  Mark Hall

  Long, Each Month, Criminals

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• You win the Oscar, you get to go into just about anybody's office for a month. I had a lot of meetings.

  Chris Wedge

  Winning, Office, Oscars

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Sometimes that's a year, sometimes it's 18 months, where all I'm doing is taking notes. I'm reconstructing the story from the back to the front so that I know where the front is.

  John Irving

  Years, Stories, Sometimes

  "Wrestling Life Into Fable". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2005.

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• Thanks to the euro, our pockets will soon hold solid evidence of a European identity. We need to build on this, and make the euro more than a currency and Europe more than a territory... In the next six months, we will talk a lot about political union, and rightly so. Political union is inseparable from economic union. Stronger growth and Euorpean integration are related issues. In both areas we will take concrete steps forward.

  Laurent Fabius

  Europe, Issues, Political

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• But, as all scientists know, there is a time lag of 12 to 18 months between the time a manuscript is submitted and the time it is published in a scientific journal.

  Paul Harvey

  Dark, Age, Lag

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• Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

  Jimmy Wales

  Views, People, Wikipedia

  "Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Gives $500,000 to Wikipedia" by Georg Szalai, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 21, 2011.

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• So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.

  Corrine Brown

  Florida, Jim Crow Laws, Two

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• We sit in a room for months trying to think of funny things.

  David Walliams

  Thinking, Funny Things, Trying

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My knee is as strong as it was before, if not stronger, and it's a matter of getting my leg strong. I lost six years of strength in about six month's time, so it's going to take another year or two to get that leg back up to full strength, but I'm good to go so far.

  Picabo Street

  Strong, Years, Two

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• Within a week, or a month, Saddam could give his WMD to al-Qaeda.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Wmd, Iraq, Giving

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• We expected, I expected to find actual usable, chemical or biological weapons after we entered Iraq. But I have to accept, as the months have passed, it seems increasingly clear that at the time of invasion, Saddam did not have stockpiles of chemical or biological weapons ready to deploy.

  Tony Blair

  Iraq, Invasion, Weapons

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• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• Today, we are tabling a motion seeking the support of the House for the Government's decision to renew our military mission against ISIL for up to an additional 12 months. Our objectives remain the same: we intend to continue to degrade the capabilities of ISIL, that is, to degrade its ability to engage in military movements of scale, to operate bases in the open, to expand its presence in the region, and to propagate attacks outside the region.

  Stephen Harper

  Military, Government, Iraq

  Stephen Harper's Speech On Expanded ISIL Mission at the House of Commons, www.huffingtonpost.ca. March 24, 2015.

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• I am saddened by the release by a national media outlet of my opponent's involvement in pornography. I strongly condemn the release of this information. Our campaign was aware of this information several months ago, and made a very determined decision to not use or disperse this information in any way, shape,or form.

  Matt Shea

  Inspiring, Media, Decision

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• So that between the Cape of St. Maria and Japan we were four months and twenty-two days; at which time there were no more than six besides myself that could stand upon his feet.

  William Adams

  Japan, Two, Gnarly

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• Government is saying to the average citizen every January 1: 'For the next five months you'll be working for us, for goals we shall determine. Is that clear? After May 5 you may look after your own needs and ambitions, but report back to us next January. Now move along.' ... If nearly half of what you make is spent by someone else, that means that half your work time is spent working for someone else. Call me a radical, but I think that comes dangerously close to being a form of indentured servitude.

  Dick Armey

  Moving, Ambition, Mean

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• We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova Scotia, where my two brothers have homes; and we'll go back there this summer.

  Robert MacNeil

  Summer, Brother, Home

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• It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes.

  John F. Kennedy

  Children, Home, School

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.465, Best Books on

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• Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.

  Colin Fletcher

  Real, Book, Home

  Colin Fletcher, Clem L. Rawlins (2002). “The Complete Walker IV”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.

  Florenz Ziegfeld

  Girl, Character, Training

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