We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
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We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU We have a leader - Benjamin Netanyahu.
DANNY NAVEH This depends on how Israeli Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu acts because it is known that the pr...
YASSER ARAFAT If Mr. Netanyahu is looking for a pretext to stop the negotiations and undermine the process, he wil...
ABDEL RAHMAN We would not have felt that [negotiations] had reached a roadblock. We were certainly at a point whe...
JOE BANNER Benjamin Netanyahu has made the official policy of the Israeli government the two-state solution, at...
MICHAEL OREN Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has denounced negotiation with Iran as a 'historic m...
STEPHEN KINZER This is not saying that the QO will not at one point still be accepted. We'll just wait and see wher...
JAY MCKEE Weve talked in general about spin-offs and updating it - we dont have specific plans at this point. ...
BURT FEINTUCH All three of us knew at some point we wanted to start our own business at some point. We all appreci...
JEFFREY MCCORMACK Those negotiations are at a very sensitive point right now.
JOE STANHOPE The market recovered from the big drops induced by both Sharon's stroke and the resignation of Benja...
AVI WEINREB We would prefer our students not consume alcohol at any point - obviously that's something that's a ...
CRAIG TURNER As a result of negotiations over the weekend, yesterday and even today, we are at a point now that w...
HIRAM MONSERRATE Do I trust Yasser Arafat? Of course not. Why should I? Why should anyone trust a politician, whether...
IAN LUSTICK The point is that we are not at a place yet where we can say one way or the other.
FATHER THOMAS Everybody knows at that point he's all business. We've just got to make it where he's not doing that...
MARCUS GINYARD We want to point out that the bill is one thing and the free trade negotiations are something else.
MANUEL CHIRIBOGA Benjamin Hardlysee decided to point it out to me.
DAVID GAY It is when we can still our own mind and control our own emotions that we master our true selves. At...
KAREMA MCGHEE It [a pun] is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
CHARLES LAMB We are not talking about Netanyahu II,
YOSSI BEILIN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a po...
THOMAS MERTON [Netanyahu reaffirmed his stance Monday.] It is not true that we are lifting the closure, ... We are...
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they point...
IAIN M. BANKS We need to see a point of view that comes from South America, not from Europe or the United States. ...
ARAM AHARONIAN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... We hope the negotiations can be continued. A cutoff at this moment is not an option.
BERNARD BOT Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Negotiations are not our intention, negotiation is a method.
MAHMUD ZAHAR Now standing in one corner of a boxing ring with a .22 caliber Colt automatic pistol, shooting a bul...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. I...
SHARON SALZBERG We always want more, he thought, we always take our past successes for granted and assume they but p...
IAIN M. BANKS He got mad and pistol-whipped him with a .357 handgun. He hit him with the butt of the gun on the fo...
JACOB WILHOITE It is not appropriate to say: 'We are doing this our own way',
LOUISE ARBOUR It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
ALFRED JARRY Mr. Netanyahu and Mr. Arafat are at cross-purposes here. Mr. Netanyahu wants to tell his people that...
CHEMI SHALEV The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every game is a big game. We control our own destiny at this point ... we are going to keep playing ...
GARY TAYLOR I hope that in some way our release will lead to further negotiations for peace,
CHRISTOPHER STONE It is our conduct, our patriotism and belief in our American way of life, our courage that will win ...
PRESCOTT BUSH We are ready to sit at the negotiations table with all political parties. Our main goal is to ensure...
RINAT AKHMETOV We can live our own lives in a way that does not bring reproach on the principles we claim to suppor...
JESSE HELMS We don't have any rights of any kind. It's unlikely that we would do it anyway at this point with th...
GEOFF PETRIE Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should b...
DALAI LAMA A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feath...
CHARLES LAMB People are not looking at the facts. We have no aspirations to have our own branch in our stores. We...
JANE THOMPSON The (BA) proposal as presented to the T&G today is both unfair and unacceptable and does not represe...
BRENDAN GOLD At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny....
ROH MOO-HYUN We haven't received any indication of any changes for Delta fights at this point. We don't comment o...
CAROLYN FENNELL Growing up, we were almost strangers. Six years is a big difference. You live in the same house. You...
BRIAN MCKEEVER In the process of negotiations, we reached a point where we need to bring closure to something. In m...
CITY MANAGER DOUG SELBY We encourage our fans to root responsibly and conduct themselves appropriately at all games, not jus...
AMY TRASK Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM We made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of o...
PETER JACKSON Perhaps we can get to the point where we can outsource our own personal experiences entirely into a ...
SEBASTIAN THRUN The first point was we wanted power to determine our own destiny in our own black community. And wha...
BOBBY SEALE That seems to be the Kingsport way anymore. We stay at home and make our own fun Kingsport's go...
CHARLIE LARGE Look, all I've told people is we have multiple offers. Beyond that it's really difficult to gauge th...
DAREK BRAUNECKER Belief and doubt are living attitudes, and involve conduct on our part. Our only way, for example, o...
WILLIAM JAMES Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. ...
JAMES THURBER We control our own destiny. Our guard play has been disappointing all along. At some point we need t...
DOROTHY GATERS To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a go...
GEORGE WASHINGTON When a guy banks in a 3, that's a huge momentum swing. I think we knew things weren't going to go ou...
TIM O'SHEA Decisions just look different with women at the table. We still have a long way to go. The most powe...
BEV PERDUE Doing this AOL deal is on the way, but not enough, to enhancing shareholder value at Time Warner, .....
CARL ICAHN We need to speak to the Greens and the F.D.P. in the next few days. What we need is the largest poss...
DIETER ALTHAUS We went to court about this and won. But that's not the point. They wanted to see the bits of paper ...
ROWLAND HILL At some point we had to change. [This win] is our turning point.
DAMIEN SINGLETON We treat our 3PLs the same way we do our own staff; that has a lot to do with our success.
ALEX SPINOS Here is the point about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are no...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in...
HAROLD WILSON We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join ...
LEON CUBILLAS Our greatest fear as individuals & as a church should not be of failure, but of suceeding at thi...
FRANCIS CHAN We want to win basketball games, and not let our egos get in the way. Everybody on this team has, at...
GARY PAYTON We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON We don't feel we can undertake the restoration or preservation of the asset on our own. It belongs t...
DAVID WATSON In a way life begins to feel better once we realize that our sins do not own us and our fear can not...
BRIELL ADAMS The fiscal and economic landscape is not at this point equivalent to what it was in 2001 and '02. An...
DONALD FEHR I think that the unblocking of the European and American positions remains a central point of the fa...
PASCAL LAMY The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long a...
JOHN STUART MILL The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long a...
JOHN STUART MILL we dont walk through our legs,we walk through our minds
RAHUL JAISWAL Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise ab...
OLIVER TAMBO People live for eating,but
I eat for survive
OM BENIWAL Michelle and I ... were planning, at some point, to adopt and have our own kids. We were not bound b...
JOE BOWMAN We believe this is an effective and appropriate way to conduct this study.
MARIANN CAPRINO We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands i...
SAMANTHA HARVEY We meet every day with people and organizations on many issues. We expect to be measured not by the ...
JOE LAYMON Terrorists need no excuse to attack us here. They've shown that for decades and decades. We shou...
TOM COTTON I think preparing food and feeding people brings nourishment not only to our bodies but to our spiri...
SHAUNA NIEQUIST Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The amendments mean pursuing Jewish settlements and not resuming the negotiations from the point whe...
SAEB EREKAT If you find out that people that once were in your life are evil you dont take matters into your own...
GARY F EVANS... Unilateral preemption should not in any way be the model for how we conduct international relations.
MOHAMED ELBARADEI We have witnessed the most educated, successful, and monied professionals in the country put their c...
PREET BHARARA Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I think women have a hard time not apologizing their way into negotiations. We tend to back in to th...
MIKA BRZEZINSKI If we dont error then how are we gonna know what needs to be repaired.If we dont get angry then how ...
MICHAEL STRONG
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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
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