Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mahmoud Abbas

We have one authority and one law and everyone has the responsibility to follow that law and that authority.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.

Peter Simonson

Let me be real clear. We support coach McKay in practicing his religion privately. In fact, we defend his right to do that. It is only where he uses his authority as coach to promote his religious beliefs that we have a problem.

Bhagavad Gita

Let the scripture be your authority in determining what should be done and what should not be done. You should perform your duty following the scriptural injunction.

Michael Ancram

Shared sovereignty doesn't work, because sovereignty depends on being able to exercise authority,

Francis Bacon

Severity breedeth fear, but roughness breedeth hate. Even reproofs from authority ought to be grave and not taunting.

John Ashcroft

missed the opportunity last night to rebuild his moral authority and regain his credibility.

Linda Blair

Modern parents want a warm and loving relationship with their children, and to be a source of encouragement, comfort and support. We want to be friends without children, not remote or frightening authority figures as our own parents may have been.

Terry Abbott

Mr. Rios used taxpayer-funded school equipment to copy and distribute to children an offensive statement. The principal exercised his authority to remove Mr. Rios as junior varsity baseball coach, and it certainly was an appropriate decision.

John Barth

Mainly it's the public documents of the defendants that will prove the case.

Gunnar Knapp

My job is to try to document what some of those effects have been and there are many, many sides to the story.

Chuck D.

My lawyer simply filed the document in an effort to get our lien involved in the existing Walbridge foreclosure process.

Bob Murphy

On Jan. 19, I submitted a letter with four documents from employees indicating they wish to seek recognition.

Ernestine Fobbs

Given that employers have no legal obligation to thoroughly investigate whether documents presented to them by new employees are valid or not, they often have a de facto defense.

David Richards

Neal wanted to preserve the records of the working class. And he also wanted to document the struggles of those people.

John Cornyn

only reinforces the fact that the archives' efforts to be thorough in the production of documents are unprecedented.

Emmett Brown

One of the most troubling pieces of evidence (submitted by WRMA) was that 53.6 inches was at great odds with the documented information.

Yuriy Yekhanurov

I have already issued instructions that the necessary documents be prepared, and on Wednesday (March 22) we will resume negotiations.

Richard P. Feynman

Investigating the forces that hold the nuclear particles together was a long task.

Jason Smith

Let's go help these people. We're not doing forced evacuations. We're helping those who want help.

Mahatma Gandhi

Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable

Richard Armitage

looks to me like somehow the multinational force didn't stay on top of this.

Joerg Kraemer

Many market participants are hoping for the FDP to take on the role of a pacemaker, a force that pushes for reforms, Merkel wouldn't be able to push through her reform program.

George Lucas

Man your ships and may the force be with you.

John Monroe

Seagate is the most formidable force in the hard-disk-drive industry. This just makes them a more formidable force.

Yosef Lapid

Security forces must respond with strength to the terrible attack.

Denis Diderot

Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

Robert Toombs

The principles and policy of these Presidents were marked by the most enlarged and comprehensive statesmanship, promoting the highest interests of the Republic.

Richard Garnett

Liberal justices like Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg think as highly of him as someone like Clarence Thomas. I think that's a testament to the respect he enjoys.

Chris Healy

Lieberman has high marks on Iraq but he is still very much a liberal and we are Republicans.

Bob Mulholland

Look who has the highest percentage. Neither of them.

Ellen Tolley

Looks like last-minute shoppers lived up to their high expectations.

John Christiansen

Last year we had an accelerated program, so this year, to take an accelerated program to a higher level, it's safe to say that because of 318A.

Tom Davies

Last year, the winds were around 25 to 26 knots out of the north. This year, it was even higher winds, but out of the south.

Charles Greene

less respect for high standard and more interest in high enrollment.

Vince Cable

Many voters still...associate us with high taxes and big spending.

Eduardo Chillida

What comes from oneself is nearly from no one. There is only me as a link.

Charles Dickens

I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.

David Mitchell

There's a link between bigotry and bad spelling.

Edward Snowden

Something we have to remember is that everything about the internet is interconnected. All of our systems are not just common to us because of the network links between them, but because of the software packages, because of the hardware devices that comprise it. The same router that's deployed in the United States is deployed in China.

C. S. Lewis

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.

Eben Alexander

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

Charles Darwin

The several difficulties here discussed, namely our not finding in the successive formations infinitely numerous transitional links between the many species which now exist or have existed; the sudden manner in which whole groups of species appear in our European formations; the almost entire absence, as at present known, of fossiliferous formations beneath the Silurian strata, are all undoubtedly of the gravest nature.

Edward Young

Distinguisht Link in Being's endless Chain! Midway from Nothing to the Deity!

Arthur Conan Doyle

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Tom Matthews

Meghan is obviously in a game, but has a big smile on her face.

R. Ingram

Obviously we're going to investigate these as suspected arsons.

Sandy Hoddinott

Obviously we're going to be trying to do it again. They're running well.

Laura Wood

Obviously we're a little disappointed but satisfied that we did prove he was there for an unlawful purpose and did try to tamper with evidence.

Robbie Nichols

Obviously we need to make some changes, so we'll see what this week brings.

Michael Kohs

Obviously we know they can shoot and wanted to take away the outside shot and not let Baskin get going.

Dawn Ostroff

Obviously we'd like to see one thing new on the schedule, and there could be two.

Quin Snyder

Obviously we'd like to be winning, but we're not right now. We've got to keep working; there's some things we can do.

Bill Wright

Obviously we were very suspicious of his connections with Cadiz.

John Davis

Look what he's done for our community, for the sports program alone. He's a coach. Try and top him. You're not going to top him,

Donna Ferber

One of the things I try to do with this program is to normalize their experiences. One of the things women often tell me about the workshops is that they feel heard.

Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is our business.

Robert Gottlieb

When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.

Henry Spencer

One of the headaches of high-tech test programmes is having to debug the test arrangements before you can start debugging the things you're trying to test.

Rolando Gonzalez

If we don't have the members, our program will not be as strong.

Chris Whittle

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Joy Austin

The question every day is whether the program that we're providing is unique and reaching residents.

Atom Egoyan

The programme has ended, something has finished, and he has a sense of something having finished its course, and then all of a sudden he turns away and this other thing has just finished its course, this other person.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.

Ed O'Brien

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.

Carl Jung

I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.

Arthur Schnitzler

The principal task of friendship is to foster one`s friends` illusions.

Arne Jacobsen

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

Chinua Achebe

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Edward Hirsch

As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.