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We're not going to be penny-wise and pound-foolish here, we intend to invest. – Chief Executive Randall Stephenson	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
So I think the rhetoric, I hated to do it, sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but we had no choice. – President Trump	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
If people believed in $70 a barrel plus for the next 18 months, they would be foolish to be underweight now. – Bill Costello	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Namely, do they have an open mind to the fact he could be telling the truth and Comey may be lying? if they have an open mind to that, this is something we'd consider. If they don't, then given all the irregularities of this investigation, we would be foolish to have him be interviewed. – Rudy Giuliani	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
NAFTA has been a good deal, i hope we do not do something foolish in terms of trade policy. – Dick Cheney	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is just too big and too obvious ... that the benefits are huge and the world is dependent on it in a major way for its progress, that two intelligent countries (would) do something extremely foolish, we both may do things that are mildly foolish from time to time. There is some give and take. – Warren Buffett	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is not about regime change … This is not about trying to turn the tide of the conflict in Syria, there is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack. – British Foreign Secretary	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
There is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack, if and when such a thing were to happen, then clearly with allies we would study what the options were. – British Foreign Secretary	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
I do not believe The President would take such a foolish action. – Orrin Hatch	Found on CNN 6 years ago
The reality that this foolish stunt was dreamed up, planned, and executed by Pedro Ruiz, and the defendant wrongfully and tragically relied on Pedro Ruiz assurances that the stunt was safe. – Norman County Attorney James Brue	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We are all there to get the point across that we are speaking out against this foolish notion that Juggalos are a gang, we plan on staying within our march route and we could really not give a damn what the other groups on the National Mall are doing that day. As Patrick Swayze said in ‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘This is my dance space. This is your dance space.’. – An FBI agent	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
The foolish say you are a fool when you seek help, but the wiser say you are wise. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 6 years ago
Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.” – Vincent Van Gogh	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish. – Timothy Zahn	added by anonymous 6 years ago
We'd be foolish to deny that China has a problem with terrorists, but I think the Communist Party is exaggerating the threat of radical Islam and they are turning up the heat in assimilating the Uyghurs into the Chinese nation state. – James Leibold	Found on CNN 7 years ago
Right now, The US has a physician shortage, and it will be foolish if we have people capable of addressing this crisis and we choose to drive them away. – Greg Siskind	Found on CNN 7 years ago
I tell anyone who is traveling out of the country on any sort of leisure (or business) trip to purchase travel insurance, i was really convinced by the EMS folks who transported me from Panama to Florida. After talking with them and realizing how often they evacuated folks out of unexpected situations, I realized it was pretty foolish to travel all these years without travel insurance. – Brian Major	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
The government’s continued allocation of resources and controls with the intent of trying to prevent the adult use of marijuana has been counterproductive and an indefensible limitation of people’s right to control their own lives, the Obama administration has had the chance to correct a foolish and counterproductive policy. Now it’s up to the Congress and the next administration. – California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
In hind sight, what I was doing was incredibly foolish. – Sean Stewart	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
He ended up betraying his son, as he was weak and foolish and selfish. – Mark Gombiner	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
A House Divided Understand what is at stake in the decision we make for or against Jesus Christ. To serve God’s true and eternal King is to enter the way to everlasting life. Through faith in Christ, we will enter paradise. But to reject the kingship of Christ is to fall under the judgment of God. If we go our own way in life—if we insist on having the upper hand over other people, refusing to give up our foolish and selfish pleasures, always breaking God’s commandments and never submitting to his will for our lives—then we will never enter the kingdom of God. Unless we repent, we will be lost forever. – PHILIP GRAHAM RYKEN	added by meteorstorm 7 years ago
We're going ahead in the industries where we're strong, where we've got a strong entrance ticket, we'd be foolish if we didn't use those links. – Chief Executive Yoshihiko Shimizu	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I would close up our borders, we are lax and we are foolish. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are lax and we are foolish. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

We're not going to be penny-wise and pound-foolish here, we intend to invest.

– Chief Executive Randall Stephenson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

So I think the rhetoric, I hated to do it, sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but we had no choice.

– President Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

If people believed in $70 a barrel plus for the next 18 months, they would be foolish to be underweight now.

– Bill Costello

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Namely, do they have an open mind to the fact he could be telling the truth and Comey may be lying? if they have an open mind to that, this is something we'd consider. If they don't, then given all the irregularities of this investigation, we would be foolish to have him be interviewed.

– Rudy Giuliani

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

NAFTA has been a good deal, i hope we do not do something foolish in terms of trade policy.

– Dick Cheney

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is just too big and too obvious ... that the benefits are huge and the world is dependent on it in a major way for its progress, that two intelligent countries (would) do something extremely foolish, we both may do things that are mildly foolish from time to time. There is some give and take.

– Warren Buffett

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is not about regime change … This is not about trying to turn the tide of the conflict in Syria, there is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack.

– British Foreign Secretary

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

There is no proposal on the table at the moment for further attacks because so far thank heavens the Assad regime have not been so foolish as to launch another chemical weapons attack, if and when such a thing were to happen, then clearly with allies we would study what the options were.

– British Foreign Secretary

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I do not believe The President would take such a foolish action.

– Orrin Hatch

Found on CNN
6 years ago

The reality that this foolish stunt was dreamed up, planned, and executed by Pedro Ruiz, and the defendant wrongfully and tragically relied on Pedro Ruiz assurances that the stunt was safe.

– Norman County Attorney James Brue

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

We are all there to get the point across that we are speaking out against this foolish notion that Juggalos are a gang, we plan on staying within our march route and we could really not give a damn what the other groups on the National Mall are doing that day. As Patrick Swayze said in ‘Dirty Dancing,’ ‘This is my dance space. This is your dance space.’.

– An FBI agent

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The foolish say you are a fool when you seek help, but the wiser say you are wise.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
6 years ago

Many people seem to think it foolish, even superstitious, to believe that the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter it is sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say, ‘What do I care if there is a summer; its warmth is no help to me now.’ Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

– Vincent Van Gogh

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish.

– Timothy Zahn

added by anonymous
6 years ago

We'd be foolish to deny that China has a problem with terrorists, but I think the Communist Party is exaggerating the threat of radical Islam and they are turning up the heat in assimilating the Uyghurs into the Chinese nation state.

– James Leibold

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Right now, The US has a physician shortage, and it will be foolish if we have people capable of addressing this crisis and we choose to drive them away.

– Greg Siskind

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I tell anyone who is traveling out of the country on any sort of leisure (or business) trip to purchase travel insurance, i was really convinced by the EMS folks who transported me from Panama to Florida. After talking with them and realizing how often they evacuated folks out of unexpected situations, I realized it was pretty foolish to travel all these years without travel insurance.

– Brian Major

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The government’s continued allocation of resources and controls with the intent of trying to prevent the adult use of marijuana has been counterproductive and an indefensible limitation of people’s right to control their own lives, the Obama administration has had the chance to correct a foolish and counterproductive policy. Now it’s up to the Congress and the next administration.

– California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

In hind sight, what I was doing was incredibly foolish.

– Sean Stewart

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

He ended up betraying his son, as he was weak and foolish and selfish.

– Mark Gombiner

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

A House Divided Understand what is at stake in the decision we make for or against Jesus Christ. To serve God’s true and eternal King is to enter the way to everlasting life. Through faith in Christ, we will enter paradise. But to reject the kingship of Christ is to fall under the judgment of God. If we go our own way in life—if we insist on having the upper hand over other people, refusing to give up our foolish and selfish pleasures, always breaking God’s commandments and never submitting to his will for our lives—then we will never enter the kingdom of God. Unless we repent, we will be lost forever.

– PHILIP GRAHAM RYKEN

added by meteorstorm
7 years ago

We're going ahead in the industries where we're strong, where we've got a strong entrance ticket, we'd be foolish if we didn't use those links.

– Chief Executive Yoshihiko Shimizu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I would close up our borders, we are lax and we are foolish.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are lax and we are foolish.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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