Roberto Clemente once said: "Anytime you have an opportunity to make things better and you don't, then you are wasting your time on Earth."

VOA: special.2010.04.11

"There's a lot of sketching that goes on,and a lot of times I don't know where things are going to fit in the texture.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

"We have to start doing things that are going to make a difference to change this behavior, because I really don't want to hear about four thousand more kids dying next year."

VOA: special.2010.07.01

Mama said the Forrest partwas to remind me that sometimes we alldo things that, well, that just don't make no sense.

VOA: standard.other

Right now,they just don't believe. And if they get some palpable signs of some improvement, I think things can turn very quickly,"

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

And,that is what our leadership should be saying, 'Don't you have better things to do,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"But,we are also deeply concerned about the things we don't know."

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"I think that you're going to see some significant additional sanctions imposed by the international community, assuming that the Iranians don't change course and agree to do the things they signed up to do at the beginning of October,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.12

"There was a recent story about wanting to, on Valentine's Day, raid people having romantic candlelit dinners, Muslim couples having romantic candlelit,I mean, what business of it is theirs and really don't they have better things to do?

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

"We don't want to be rebels and betray our families, but we do want to leave home and do interesting and challenging things that maybe our families don't understand because they are still stuck in the old world a little bit.'" In the novel,Gabi faces another dilemma.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"I don't think anything there was a surprise. What the assessment says is basically, things are catastrophically bad in Afghanistan, which is,I'd say, objectively true, but that things are not unsalvageable, that we can turn this around as long as we stay dedicated to the appropriate strategy and fully resource that strategy.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19