Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Miner

We have no bats and no arms that will overpower teams, so we need to play smart baseball and not make any mistakes on defense.

James Foley

The fact of the matter is they pledged to lay down their arms when President Aristide resigned, and so we are holding them to their pledge,

Ellen Stofan

As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.

Joshua Foer

The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up.

Ronald Reagan

We did not condone and do not condone the shipment of arms

Steve Shaw

We want to thank Larry Torres of T&D Machine Products in Carson City. They're the leading supplier of rocker arms for nearly everyone in racing.

Ronald Reagan

The poet called Miss Liberty's torch 'the lamp beside the golden door.' Well, that was the entrance to America, and it still is. And now you really know why we're here tonight. The glistening hope of that lamp is still ours. Every promise, every opportunity, is still golden in this land. And through that golden door our children can walk into tomorrow with the knowledge that no one can be denied the promise that is America. Her heart is full; her torch is still golden, her future bright. She has arms big enough to comfort and strong enough to support, for the strength in her arms is the strength of her people. She will carry on in the '80s unafraid, unashamed, and unsurpassed. In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

Kareem Evans

We are at Armstrong Middle School, and we are actually trying to get into Bowman Middle School.

Craig Turner

We have no issue with adults who have authority over their own children.

Joe Condit

We have no authority or intention to condemn property on the south side of the street. We have received some calls from people wanting to sell us property on the south side, but we told them we're not interested.

Steve Lantsberger

We have never, ever used that authority, ever. We have never run out and taken someone's property ever, that's just not the way we do business here.

Jeff Matteson

Whenever you have a concern about a group of kids, you have to get those with authority together to discuss it.

Charles de Gaulle

I grew up to always respect authority and respect those in charge.

Dominic Candeloro

The procedure is that the committee makes its recommendation to the City Council and, of course, the City Council has the final authority on this.

Sam Altman

There is a long history of founders returning to companies and doing great things. Founders are able to set the vision for their companies with an authority no one else can.

Sharon Salzberg

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrender to an authority figure, and the result is losing self-respect and losing our own sense of what is true. And I don't think of faith in those terms at all.

Ted Cruz

We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.

Dewi Anwar

The problem with Papua is: who has the legitimacy to negotiate on behalf of Papuans with the government?

Louis MacNeice

The poet is primarily a spokesman, making statements or incantations on behalf of himself or others - usually for both, for it is difficult to speak for oneself without speaking for others or to speak for others without speaking for oneself.

Tasia Scolinos

We are pleased with the jury's ruling in this important case. Our efforts on behalf of the victims of 9/11 will continue as we pursue the next phase of this trial.

Phil Smith

We believe that the Senate should carefully review this appointment to ensure that this nominee will be the kind of watchdog on behalf of American coal miners that they need.

Lawrence Eagleburger

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies.

John Stokes

worked diligently and tirelessly and obtained over $750,000 in compensation for and on behalf of (Questa).

Don Aaron

Mr. Overton filed a civil lawsuit on behalf of the family. He is zealously representing them as their advocate. I think it's best that I don't engage in a debate with him over the lawsuit.

Everett Dirksen

Mr. President, economy is an old-fashioned thing. It savors of horse and buggy days. I am only too glad, however, to say a few words in behalf of economy, for in economy, in frugality, and in the thrift of our Government I think we shall ultimately find ourselves and our salvation.

Chris Grayling

The Prime Minister needs to have proper security. But I'm not at all persuaded that hiring luxury yachts on behalf of the security services to travel with the Prime Minister while he is on a luxury cruise is a good use of taxpayers' money,

Dave Wannstedt

We have no room literally to spare. Every game, every day is critical to us.

Willie Williams

We have multiple critical injuries and multiple serious injuries and some minor injuries,

Thomas Galvin

Whenever the department suffers a fatal fire, we take a constructive, critical look at the event.

Mark Foley

We've seen how (terrorists) have used our state to assemble, so it's really critical we have the voice of Floridians represented,

Jim Walton

There is critical mass with high-speed Internet connections, so video is a good user experience. And that means there can be critical mass for advertisers.

Sherwood Smith

When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.

Stewart Udall

Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.

Ellen Stofan

Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science.

Eric Liu

True fans of the Constitution, like true fans of the national pastime, acknowledge the critical role of human judgment in making tough calls. We don't expect flawless interpretation. We expect good faith. We demand honesty.

Joanne Mariner

There is no doubt that the United States held and tortured detainees. The only doubt is whether these detainees were being held on European soil.

Donald Rumsfeld

We have had three or four or five different stories from the same detainees in any number of instances.

Irene Khan

You don't know what will make it your turn to be detained next and if you are in detention you don't know what it will take to get released.

Made Pastika

So far the detained terrorists do not know them.

Jose Serrano

Nobody knows how many people are being detained now. Nobody knows if we are targeting an ethnic community,

Ricardo Lagos

I am sorry that the detectives detained me but were not on time to detain Jose Carrasco, ... Otherwise Carrasco would still be alive.

Amanda Vanstone

Fourteen were detained and will be escorted to Baxter Immigration Detention Facility while arrangements are made for their departure,

Patrick Corbett

Trust me you don't want to be detained in Saudi Arabia.

Michael Lehnert

We still have three individuals who are hard-core. While they are eating, they are fasting. All detainees are drinking. All detainees have eaten meals.

Carol Moseley Braun

There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests.

C. S. Lewis

You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy.

C. S. Lewis

Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary.

C. S. Lewis

Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.

Agnes de Mille

Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.

Charlotte Bronte

I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends!

Charles de Lint

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

Charles Dickens

Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.