Als Quotes:

It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.

- Aaron Eckhart

topic: Feel Good, Actors, Als

Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. 'He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.'

- Abdelkader El Djezairi

topic: Opposites, May, Als

When al-Qaeda was on the run from Afghanistan crossing through Iran, some were arrested and they are imprisoned. Some of them are charged with some actions in Iran.

- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

source: "Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

topic: Running, Iran, Als, Al Qaeda, Crossings

Al and Tommy and I sharing the biggest laugh because it was predicted by everything we did in the first three or four records in my career. It was predicted in the grooves that we would be here sometime later on down the road.

- Al Jarreau

topic: Careers, Laughing, Als

The essence of knowledge is to know what obedience and worship are -Abu Hamid al

- Al-Ghazali

topic: Islamic, Essence, Als

Al is on the surface. And it's been a long way, but we're here.

- Alan Shepard

topic: Moon, Long, Als

To rid the world of Osama bin Laden, Anwar al-Awlaki and Moammar Qaddafi within six months: if Obama were a Republican, he'd be on Mount Rushmore by now.

- Andrew Sullivan

source: "Does Obama Deserve Credit for Killing Qaddafi?" by Adam Clark Estes, www.theatlantic.com. October 20, 2011.

topic: World, Mount Rushmore, Als

The one man more responsible for destroying the Democratic centrist revival, for throwing away the Clinton legacy, and for suicidally pitching his party to the populist left was Al Gore

- Andrew Sullivan

topic: Party, Men, Als

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)

- Antonio Machado

topic: Path, Hay, Als

I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.

- Arjun Rampal

topic: Actors, Als, Likes, Shelf Life

A foreign ideology cannot be introduced into Chechnya - were it through an Arab or al-Qaeda. Our experience is rich and long enough for us to be Muslims and know what jihad is.

- Aslan Maskhadov

topic: Vaccines, Long, Als, Chechnya, Al Qaeda

My first term I sang Al Green... in my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy .

- Barack Obama

topic: Green, Als, Firsts

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

- Barbara Olson

topic: Mistake, Als, Next, Mistakes Were Made

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

- Barbara Olson

topic: Believe, Law, Als, Oblivious

There's more evil in the charts than an Al-Qaeda suggestion box.

- Bill Bailey

source: "Bill Bailey: Part Troll". Documentary, Comedy, Music, 2004.

topic: Evil, Suggestions, Als, Suggestion Boxes

Al Gore clearly has the vision... it's a much better vision than that of George W. Bush.

- Bill Bradley

topic: Vision, Als

When caricaturist, Al Hirschfeld, did a drawing of a celebrity, it often looked more like the person than the person did. That's our goal in animation.

- Brad Bird

topic: Drawing, Goal, Als

Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.

- Brad Thor

topic: Als, Opinion, Protection, Al Qaeda, Geneva

Having the USDA design your food pyramid is like having Al Capone do your taxes.

- Caldwell Esselstyn

topic: Pyramids, Design, Als, Capone

We need a President who is not afraid of complexity, who believes in an open and tolerant society, and who knows that the world can be made new again - and that President is Al Gore.

- Caroline Kennedy

topic: Believe, President, Als

It is the beginning of the end. [Fr., C'est le commencement de al fin.]

- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

topic: Als, Ends, Fins

Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

- Charles Mingus

topic: Als, Taste, Jazz

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

- Charlie Watts

topic: Play, Able, Als

We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it.

- Colin Powell

topic: Country, Thinking, Als

John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle.

- Craig Kilborn

topic: President, Als, Found, Found Someone

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

- Dan Bartlett

topic: Thinking, May, Als, Bankruptcy

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

- Dan Quayle

topic: Als, Internet, Checks, Spell Check, Internet Users

I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.

- Dana Carvey

topic: Gay, Laughing, Als

I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

- Dane DeHaan

topic: Actors, Als, Three

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters.

- Daryl Hall

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

topic: Matter, Als, Green, Spinner

Capitalism in Russia has spawned far more Al Capones than Henry Fords.

- David Remnick

topic: Russia, Als, Capone

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

- Denis McDonough

topic: America, Als, Violence

I went to high school with Al Capone.

- Desi Arnaz

topic: School, High School, Als

Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived.

- Desi Arnaz

topic: Als, Entertainers

I have not seen Al Gore's movie.

- Dick Cheney

topic: Als, Global Warming

I watch 'Al Jazeera.' They have news that you can't find anywhere else. They do great documentaries, too.

- Dick Van Dyke

topic: Watches, News, Als

There have been linkages between the Iraqi government and al-Qaeda going back more or less a decade.

- Douglas J. Feith

topic: Government, Als, Linkages, Al Qaeda

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

- Edmund Spenser

topic: Bud, Might, Als

Despite recent media reports that have clouded, or even misrepresented, the facts, there is compelling evidence that al-Qaida and Iraq have been linked for more than a decade.

- Elizabeth Dole

topic: Media, Iraq, Als, Clouded

Mehr als das Leben lieb' ich meine Freiheit. More than life, I cherish freedom.

- Elsa Schiaparelli

topic: Als, Cherish

When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.

- Emerson Fittipaldi

source: Interview with Paul Schienberg, psychedonline.com. August 2, 2002.

topic: Sports, America, Als

It's hard for me to see how members of al Qaeda could be considered prisoners of war. I think they clearly do not fit within the prescriptions of the Geneva Convention.

- Eric Holder

topic: War, Thinking, Als, Geneva Convention, Prisoner Of War

Guantanamo is a chief recruiting tool for al-Qaida. It has put a wedge between the United States and at least some of its allies.

- Eric Holder

topic: Tools, Als, Allies, Guantanamo

I can tell you squat about Islamism. But I know a lot about Al Quaeda, and they need to burn in hell.

- Frank Miller

source: "Frank Miller: Proud To Be Ignorant" by Alyssa Rosenberg, thinkprogress.org. October 27, 2011.

topic: Needs, Als, Hell

But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Age, World, Als, Aliases, Goons

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Als, Appearance

Das immer gegenwärtige Zufallselement im künstlerischen Erzeugungsprozeß erfaßt die generative Graphik modellmäßig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren beteiligen sich an der Strukturierung der generierten Information, schaffen dabei unvorhersehbar Neues und erweisen sich dadurch als die zweite schöpferische Instanz neben dem Programmierer . . .

- Georg Nees

topic: Art, Information, Als

I grew up with Al Jarreau. We had a band together and worked these places for three years when neither one of us knew we could make a living doing music.

- George Duke

topic: Years, Together, Als

Syria is lucky to have Bashar al-Assad as her President.

- George Galloway

source: "George Galloway Is Gruesome, Not Gorgeous" by Christopher Hitchens, www.slate.com. September 13, 2005.

topic: President, Lucky, Als, Bashar Al Assad

Even if you only counted the votes that actually made it through the hoops in order to be cast, the president was really Al Gore.

- George Galloway

topic: Order, President, Als

One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.

- George Tenet

source: "At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA". Book by George Tenet and Bill Harlow (Chapter "They Want to Change History"), www.nbcnews.com. April 30, 2007.

topic: Clouds, Mushrooms, Als, Deepest Fear

We could never verify that there was any Iraqi authority, direction and control, complicity with al Qaeda for 9/11 or any operational act against America. Period.

- George Tenet

source: "George Tenet: At the center of the storm". "60 Minutes" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. April 25, 2007.

topic: America, Als, Authority, Complicity

USA have got a comprehensive strategy to not only chase down the Al Qaida, wherever it exists - but to make sure that countries that harbor terrorists are held to account.

- George W. Bush

topic: Country, Usa, Als

Terrorists have failed in what is arguably al Qaida's most important objective - to trigger revolutions.

- Gijs de Vries

topic: Important, Als, Revolution

Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)

- Gloria E. Anzaldúa

topic: Bridges, Hay, Als

Al: So what's your strategy? Ed: I told you, a fist in his face!

- Hiromu Arakawa

topic: Fists, Als, Faces

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

- Ibn Ata Allah

topic: Als, Way, Abstaining, Paraphrased

The National Education Association is the al-Qaida of education.

- Ilana Mercer

topic: Association, Als

Talabani and Al-Maliki want to keep their seats for ever. Talabani forgets that the side which brought him to power was the United States and it brought him by rigging the elections.

- Jalal Talabani

topic: United States, Want, Als

A country that armed Stalin to defeat Hitler can certainly work alongside enemies of al-Qaida to defeat al-Qaida.

- James Mattis

topic: Country, Enemy, Als

It is fair to say there are individuals in the United States who ascribe to al-Qaeda-type beliefs.

- Janet Napolitano

topic: Als, Immigration, United States

I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.

- Javier Bardem

source: "'I always fight directors'". Interview with Christopher Turner, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2008.

topic: Believe, Als, Said

As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

- Jay Leno

topic: Years, Groups, Als

Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

- Jeff Rich

topic: Als, Less Is More

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

- Jim Ramstad

topic: Support, Als, Terrorist, Al Qaeda, Penetrate

Al Qaeda is almost all in Pakistan, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons. And yet for every dollar we're spending in Pakistan, we're spending $30 in Afghanistan. Does that make strategic sense?

- Joe Biden

topic: Weapons, Als, Doe

There are extensive contacts between Saddam Hussein's government and al Qaeda.

- Joe Lieberman

topic: Government, Hussein, Als, Al Qaeda

Clearly the Secretary of Defense, my boss, would like nothing better than to get Osama bin Laden and to get... to ensure the complete defeat of al-Qaida, because we know that al-Qaida is planning operations against the United States even as we speak here.

- John Abizaid

source: Interview with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 4, 2004.

topic: Military, Boss, Als

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

- John Goodman

topic: Half, Als, Months

We dont want the Taliban to put down roots, or the al Qaeda to put down roots in Afghanistan that can facilitate Afghanistan becoming - once again - a launching pad for international terrorism.

- John R. Allen

topic: Roots, Want, Als, International Terrorism, Taliban

No, let the monarch's bags and others holdThe flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

- John Wolcot

source: "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

topic: Gold, Bags, Als, Monarchs

It has never demonstrated any desire to provide humane treatment to captured Americans. If anything, the murders of Nicholas Berg and Daniel Pearl declare al Qaeda's intentions to kill even innocent civilian prisoners.

- John Yoo

topic: Desire, Als, Pearls, Al Qaeda

If it were really the case that terrorists "hate us for our freedoms," we'd be getting more popular with Al Qaeda every month.

- Julian Sanchez

topic: Hate, Democracy, Als

The blame for the 9/11 attacks lays squarely and exclusively with the Al-Qaeda network.

- Kay Granger

topic: Als, Blame, Al Qaeda

Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel

- Kim Harrison

topic: Trying, Als

I sighed. "And what am I to you, Al?" "My maid," he said brightly. "Shall we do this?

- Kim Harrison

topic: Maids, Als, Said

Al was looking at me in disbelief. “Not your lover?” “No.” “But he is Rachel candy,” Al said, his confusion too honest to be faked.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Confusion, Als, Honest, Algaliarept

I smell pancakes," Al said as he jauntily smacked Pierce's hat back on the witch's head. "Did the runt make you breakfast?" Al said, leaning over the stove. "Quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet, eh?" he said, leering at Pierce, who was now rinsing out the percolator. "Is it working? I'd be curious to know. I'd buy her a cake or something.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Smell, Cake, Als, Runts, Algaliarept

The quickest way to a woman's crotch is through her gullet. Can I make you a cake?" Big Al to Pierce, then Rachel.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Cake, Als, Way

He's going to hurt you," Al said, looking at Pierce. "I can take care of you, teach you to survive. Be there for you, even if you do hate me." I shivered. "I don't want him," I said, and Al turned away, seeming smaller somehow.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Hurt, Hate, Als, Seeming, Want Him

No, you just keep crashing my life. Look—" I said, and Al grunted. "Here it comes," the demon muttered. "Listen. Listen to this, runt. She's going to have a list.

- Kim Harrison

topic: Looks, Als, Lists, Runts

As Al Franken has demonstrated, liberals give lousy talk radio.

- L. Neil Smith

topic: Giving, Radio, Als, Talk Radio

Sure, 'An Inconvenient Truth' was my first documentary. What a wonderful experience. I saw Al Gore doing his slideshow presentation, and had this nutty idea that we had to make a movie out of it.

- Lawrence Bender

topic: Ideas, Als, Saws, Inconvenient Truth, Wonderful Experience

There's no question that the main location of Al Qaida is in tribal areas of Pakistan.

- Leon Panetta

topic: Pakistan, Als, Location

Al Qaeda still remains a threat.

- Leon Panetta

topic: Als, Threat, Al Qaeda

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

topic: People, Als, Way

I don't know a lot of agents like Al Hack.

- Mark Rydell

topic: Agents, Als

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

- Max Cleland

topic: Politics, Als, Pakistan, Al Qaeda

How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?

- Method Man

topic: Gay, Als, Capone

The mission - the overall mission is to dismantle and defeat and disrupt al-Qaeda. But we have to make sure there's not a safe haven that returns in Afghanistan.

- Michael Mullen

topic: Safe Haven, Als, Return, Al Qaeda

I think these people [Al-Qaida, terrorists] need to be forcibly converted to Christianity ... It's the only thing that can probably turn them into human beings.

- Michael Savage

topic: Thinking, People, Als

Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially with the intention of supplication.

- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

topic: Als, Intention, Supplication, Reciting

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

topic: Lying, Military, Als

I blame Al-Jazeera. They are marketing for the Americans.

- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

topic: Military, Marketing, Als

If you vote for Al Smith, you're voting against Christ and you will all be damned.

- Mordecai Ham

topic: Scary, Voting, Als

Oh, Al, shut up! Stop criticizing me! First I'm criticized for being a prude and sounding like a social worker or something, then I'm criticized for looking like a cheap broad. How am I supposed to live? Under the water or something, coming up only to say 'I beg your pardon if I disturb you by coming up for air. I'll do my best to remain submerged.'

- Pamela Moore

topic: Air, Water, Als, Prudes, Social Worker

We need to defeat al Queda and other terrorist organizations.

- Paul Cellucci

topic: Organization, Als, Needs

If you don't understand what al Qaeda was trying to do on 9/11, if you don't have a sense of who Osama bin Laden is as a person, if you don't have a sense of what al Qaeda, the organization, was on 9/11, 9/11 appears to be more or less inexplicable.

- Peter Bergen

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Organization, Trying, Als

At one point people in al Qaeda were actually drawing monthly paychecks when they were based in Sudan.

- Peter Bergen

topic: Drawing, People, Als, Sudan

Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it.

- Peter Jennings

topic: Als, Firsts, Details

Al-Nahda is a movement; it is not just a small party.

- Rashid al-Ghannushi

topic: Party, Als, Movement

Al Gore adopted three utterly different personas in three national presidential debates.

- Rich Lowry

topic: Presidential, Three, Als, Presidential Debate

What could be better in al-Qaeda's mind than to have India and Pakistan going at each other? What more to further their aims?

- Richard Armitage

topic: Mind, Pakistan, Als, India And Pakistan

I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.

- Richard Schiff

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Mean, Actors, Als, Murphy

Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no.

- Robert Baer

source: "See No Evil (Part 2)" by Robert Baer, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2002.

topic: Als, Launching, Certain

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

- Robert Fisk

topic: Eerie, Soldier, Als, Bashar Al Assad

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East.

- Robert Foster Bennett

topic: Iraq, America, Als

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

- Robert Greenwald

topic: Politics, Als, Months

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor

- Robert Jordan

topic: Wheels, Als, Needed, Wheel Of Time

Rand al'Thor is a mule-headed, stone-willed fool of a...a...a man!

- Robert Jordan

topic: Men, Als, Fool

Sleep well and wake, Rand al'Thor.

- Robert Jordan

topic: Sleep, Als, Sleep Well

You know, if I were an - if I were a Taliban, I'd say, 'What did al-Qaida ever do for me except get me kicked out of Afghanistan?'

- Robert M. Gates

topic: Als, Afghanistan, Taliban

If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimension al diagrams.

- Robert Solow

topic: Two, Als, Dimensions, Factors Of Production, Three Dimensions

I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano.

- Robert Stack

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Als, Lucky, Arms, Capone

Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not E.N., but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone!

- Robert Stack

topic: Being Sad, Promise, Als, Capone, Eliot

I received a shot and broke my tooth. Unfortunately, we Italians only eat pasta al dente.

- Roberto Baggio

topic: Pasta, Als, Teeth

In the 2000 election, George W. Bush, who had shirked military service, succeeded in presenting himself as more reliable on national security than Al Gore.

- Samantha Power

topic: Military, Als, Election, Military Service

The attacks of 9/11 came out of Afghanistan. It was a failed state, a rogue nation. That's why al Qaeda was there in the first place.

- Sebastian Junger

topic: Als, Rogues, Firsts

Transformation al leaders don't start by denying the world around them. Instead, they describe a future they'd like to create instead.

- Seth Godin

topic: Leader, Als, World

The elimination of the barbaric terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is good news for the world.

- Spencer Bachus

topic: World, Als, News

Because ALS is underfunded, patients have had no option but to fade away and die. That is not OK.

- Steve Gleason

topic: Als, Patient

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

- Steve Gleason

source: "Atlanta Radio Hosts Fired After Mocking Steve Gleason, ALS During ‘Mayhem In the AM’ Show" By Chris Greenberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2013.

topic: Eye, People, Als

I have always been an advocate and was, in my last job at M&S, a supporter of the Al Gore dictum that a sustainable business can be a profitable business. We were the first sizeable company in the UK to prove that was the case.

- Stuart Rose

topic: Jobs, Als, Lasts, Profitable Business

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

- Stuart Rothenberg

source: "Strong kickoffs by Bush, Gore leave other hopefuls scrambling" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. June 20, 1999.

topic: Race, Als, Rooms, Rallying

Bashar al-Assad and those who still stand by him are now responsible for the deaths of more than 20,000 in Syria.

- Susan Rice

topic: Israel, Als, Responsible, Bashar Al Assad

Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot

- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

topic: Thinking, Als, Today

Zakhor. Al Tichkah. Remember. Never forget.

- Tatiana de Rosnay

source: FaceBook post by Tatiana de Rosnay from Jul 16, 2012

topic: Als, Remember, Never Forget

Toda idea, al fin y al cabo, es una idea demencial.

- Thomas Bernhard

topic: Ideas, Als, Fins, Cabo

Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.

- Thomas Friedman

topic: Als, Firsts, Terrorism

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

- Tom Bodett

topic: School, Writing, Als

Credible reporting indicates that Al Qaeda is moving forward with its plans to carry out a large-scale attack in the United States in an effort to disrupt our democratic process...

- Tom Ridge

topic: Moving, Effort, Als, Democratic Process, Credible

There are unquestionably links between al Qaida and Iraq.

- Tony Blair

topic: Iraq, Links, Als

I just didn't have no edge for baseball. Once special coach Tony Oliva and former Twins coach Al Newman told me what happened, I couldn't function.

- Torii Hunter

topic: Baseball, Special, Als

Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.

- Uwe Boll

topic: Nice, Als, Sides

Pride is what killed Al, and it is the flaw in every Dauntless heart. It is in mine.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Heart, Pride, Als, Tris Prior, Dauntless

Al walks in, and I don't even have to ask him to help me, he just walks over and strips bedding with me. i will have to scrub the frame later. Al carries the stack of sheets to the trash and together we walk toward the training room. "Ignore him," Al says. "He's an idiot, and if you don't get angry, he'll stop eventually.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Training, Together, Als, Bedding

I pause a second. He doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Looks, Use, Als, Christina

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

- Victor Davis Hanson

topic: Politics, Als, Looks, Hairstylist, Ted Kennedy

Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.

- Wadah Khanfar

topic: Als, Revolution, Tools

Al the povere peple tho pescoddes fetten; Benes and baken apples thei broghte in hir lappe, Chibolles and chervelles and ripe chiries manye, And profrede Piers this present to plese with Hunger.

- William Langland

source: c.1378 A description of the sin of Envy. Piers Plowman (B text), 'Passus 6,' l.291-4. (pescoddes = pea-pod, fetten = fetched, chibolles = springonions, chervelles = chervil, plese withHunger = please hunger with)

topic: Apples, Piers, Als

Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

- Yasmin Mogahed

topic: Generosity, Giving, Als, Stinginess

Would it be ironic if we had to go back to Iraq to rid it of the Al Quaeda that wasn't there before we got there to rid it of Al Queda?

- Gary Gulman

topic: Iraq, Ironic, Als

No. 1 music event in 1998? 'Weird Al gets LASIK to cure his myopia. At the same time, he grows out his hair and shaves his mustache, drastically changing his look.'

- Janet Varney

topic: Hair, Mustache, Als, Lasik, Weird Al

Worst thing about Al Smith dinner : it was another reminder of how far we are from the amity between opposing sides that is needed for effective governance.

- John I. Jenkins

source: Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

topic: Dinner, Als, Sides, Amity

You gotta realize that the whole fiasco of the environment, all this global warming hocus-pocus - which the only thing it's done is made Al Gore a multi-millionaire - but, what it's done is, it has been used as a way to curtail growth, to destroy the growth, exploration.

- Rafael Cruz

topic: Growth, Als, Way, Hocus Pocus

On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right.

- Robert Bryce

topic: Climate, Als, Agnostic

Al Davis treated me like son. That man helped me become the man I am today.

- Sebastian Janikowski

topic: Son, Men, Als

My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.

- Virgil Green

topic: Roles, Als, My Favorite, Scarface

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

- Bill O'Reilly

topic: Tools, Als, Chiefs

The liberals' present furor over the CIA's covert operations against al-Qaida suggests that they harbor a death wish not only for themselves but also for the whole country.

- Bob Tyrrell

topic: Country, Wish, Als, Death Wish, Covert

Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written countless times over the decade. Each iteration has proved to be ephemeral, as the moment has continually shown itself to have a deeper bench than we imagine.

- Bruce Hoffman

topic: Benches, Ephemeral, Als, Obituary

Al [Michaels] is inquisitive, knowledgeable, and incredibly well-prepared. I don't know what his IQ is, but it's probably only a couple of points lower than mine.

- Dan Dierdorf

topic: Couple, Als, Knowledgeable

Bin Laden was, though, a product of a monumental miscalculation by western security agencies. Throughout the 80s he was armed by the CIA and funded by the Saudis to wage jihad against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians.

- Robin Cook

source: "The struggle against terrorism cannot be won by military means" by Robin Cook, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2005.

topic: Agency, Occupation, Als, Miscalculations, Mujahideen

Das immer gegenwärtige Zufallselement im künstlerischen Erzeugungsprozeß erfaßt die generative Graphik modellmäßig durch den Einbau von Zufallsgeneratoren in die Programme. [. . .] Die Zufallsgeneratoren beteiligen sich an der Strukturierung der generierten Information, schaffen dabei unvorhersehbar Neues und erweisen sich dadurch als die zweite schöpferische Instanz neben dem Programmierer . . .

- Georg Nees

source: Georg Nees (1969). “Generative Computergraphik”

topic: Art, Information, Als, Programmes

I would show up at a party for Al Qaeda if you said there's going to be a dinner.

- Gilbert Gottfried

topic: Party, Dinner, Als

The dunyâ distracts and preoccupies the heart and body, but al-zuhd (asceticism, not giving importance to worldly things) gives rest to the heart and body. Verily, Allâh will ask us about the halâl things we enjoyed, so what about the harâm!

- Hasan of Basra

topic: Heart, Giving, Als, Worldly Things

We as Iraqis have suffered enormously as a result of al-Qaeda and its leader.

- Hoshyar Zebari

topic: Leader, Als, Results

I've long suspected that one of the reasons why human beings haven't yet figured out how to carry on a conversation with bottlenosed porpoises, African gray parrots, et al. in their own language is quite simply that we're terrified of what they might say to us - not least because it's entirely possible that they'd be right.

- John Michael Greer

topic: Long, Might, Als, Parrots, Porpoises

I am the Truth (Ana al-Ḥaqq).

- Mansur Al-Hallaj

topic: Als, Insight

You've got Bush and Gore headed to the Supreme Court. You've got George W. Bush's intelligence will be pitted against Al Gore's honesty. This is more like a case for small claims court.

- Jay Leno

topic: Honesty, Als, Claims

I don't want to say Gray Davis is on the run, but today he released an audiotape on the Al Jazeera network from his underground bunker somewhere in the Sacramento area.

- Jay Leno

topic: Running, Want, Als, Sacramento

Howard Dean was endorsed by Al Gore. Now, if Dean could get Gray Davis to campaign for him, that would put him over the top.

- Jay Leno

topic: Campaigns, Als, Dean

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them.

- Lewis Hamilton

source: Source: www.manforhimself.com

topic: Years, Ambassadors, Als

Die breite Masse einesVolkes?einer groÞen Lu« ge leichter zum Opfer f a« llt als einer kleinen. The broad mass of a nation?will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.

- Adolf Hitler

topic: Lying, Fall, Als

I believed in global warming after Al Gore's movie made money; the market had spoken.

- Stephen Colbert

topic: Als, Global Warming, Made

When I was first diagnosed with ALS, I was given two years to live. Now 45 years later, I am doing pretty well.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Years, Two, Als

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

- Stephen Hawking

topic: Regret, Als, Spirit, Disabled, Physically Disabled

Las personas con un alto nivel de tolerancia al aburrimiento tienen tiempo de sobra para pensar.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (1999). “Un saco de huesos”

topic: Bored, Als, Persona

It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Vision, Als, Prognosis

I am Al Gore, and I used to be the next president of the United States of America.

- Al Gore

source: "An Inconvenient Truth". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2006.

topic: America, President, Als, Inconvenient Truth

Every day is Thanksgiving for me, man. Yeah, I still have an audience, and they ask the local promoter, "When is Al coming back?"

- Al Jarreau

source: "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

topic: Men, Als, Yeah

I still think a reasonable question is, would we be better off with [Muamar] Gadhafi and Bashar al-Assad still in there and Mubarak still there and Saddam [Hussein] there than the crap we have got looking at us now?

- Chris Matthews

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Thinking, Hussein, Als, Mubarak, Assad

I`m closer to anybody who believes that we should lead not from behind, but from the front. Rand Paul is one step behind, leading from behind. So, yes, even [Barack] Obama is more aggressive. Obama believes you can kill Anwar al-Awlaki without getting a court order.

- Chris Matthews

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Believe, Order, Als

If you refuse to see Superman Returns this summer, what you're saying about yourself is: I heart Al Qaeda.

- Christian Finnegan

source: "Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins". TV Series, www.imdb.com.

topic: Summer, Heart, Als

My heart is bursting at the thought of Al-Mahdi coming to set up a universal government of peace.

- Louis Farrakhan

source: Source: www.finalcall.com

topic: Heart, Government, Als, Mahdi

The biologists have essentially been pushed aside. Al Gore's just an opportunist. The person who is really responsible for this overestimate of global warming is Jim Hansen. He consistently exaggerates all the dangers.

- Freeman Dyson

topic: Als, Global Warming, Opportunist, Overestimate

Putin is like Al Capone.

- Garry Kasparov

topic: Als, Putin, Capone

I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

- Cokie Roberts

topic: Children, Boys, Als, Gore, Little Boys

I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

- Jimmy Carr

topic: Class, May, Als

There clearly are contacts between al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented; there clearly is testimony that some of the contacts have been important contacts and that there's a relationship here

- Condoleezza Rice

topic: Iraq, Important, Als

Al Roker said I am 80 years 'young'; it's like saying Al Roker is 320 pounds 'thin'.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Years, Als, Pounds

Lat take a cat, and fostre him wel with milk, And tendre flesh, and make his couche of silk, And let him seen a mous go by the wal; Anon he weyveth milk, and flesh, and al, And every deyntee that is in that hous, Swich appetyt hath he to ete a mous.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Cat, Flesh, Als, Anon

Fo lo, the gentil kind of the lioun! For when a flye offendeth him or byteth, He with his tayl awey the flye smyteth Al esily, for, of his genterye, Him deyneth net to wreke him on a flye, As cloth a curre or elles another beste.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

topic: Kindness, Als, Kind

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

- Geoffrey Chaucer

source: 'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 293

topic: Gold, Als, Canterbury Tales

Al Gore invented the Internet.

- Joe Biden

source: Interview with Chris Wallace, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

topic: Als, Internet, Gore

I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter.

- Pope Francis

source: Pope Francis’ In-Flight Press Conference from Poland, www.catholicnewsagency.com. July 31, 2016.

topic: Thinking, Long, Als, Long Conversations

There's no connection between al-Qaeda and Iraq.

- George Clooney

topic: Iraq, Als, Connections, Al Qaeda

There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Imagination, Als, Taste

I would guess, I would surmise that some of the more spectacular bombings are done by al Qaeda suiciders.

- George W. Bush

source: News Conference, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2006.

topic: Done, Als, Al Qaeda

Denying Al Qaeda safe haven was the right decision.

- George W. Bush

source: Source: www.texasmonthly.com

topic: Safe Haven, Decision, Als

The US military has achieved a decisive blow against al-Qaeda with its commando action against Osama Bin Laden and his killing.

- Angela Merkel

topic: Military, Blow, Als, Commandos, Us Military

Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed.

- Rand Paul

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Running, Als, Al Qaeda

If only Al Sharpton were around, Lincoln would have known he was a victim of racism.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Racism, Racist, Als

Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.

- Annie Besant

topic: Believe, Islam, Als

Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however.

- Glenn Beck

source: "Debating Health Care and Rage on the Airwaves". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. July 24, 2009.

topic: Tactics, Als, Jew

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

- John Madden

topic: Oakland, Genius, Als

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

- John McCain

source: "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. March 7, 2008.

topic: Party, Als, Agents, American Politics

Unfortunately, Governor Bush is a Pat Robertson Republican who will lose to Al Gore.

- John McCain

source: "Forgive me, Bush asks Catholic voter" by Martin Kettle, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2000.

topic: Als, Republican, Governors

Iraq is now the central front in the war against al-Qaeda.

- John McCain

source: "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. September 16, 2007.

topic: War, Iraq, Als

Stategy in Iraq- defeat al-Qaeda; limit Iran's influence.

- John McCain

topic: Iran, Iraq, Als