Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Bonnefous

Letters sent to the syndicate from what purported to be a group of patriotic activists had spelled out a clear intention to target the children and family of sailors.

Mark Allison

Many of these activists are defending human rights. The authorities must ensure that they are able to continue with their peaceful activities without fear of arbitrary detention, harassment or other human rights violations.

George Takei

So I've been a political activist all my life and I think in a large measure it's because of the internment that we experienced 50 years ago.

Ron Wyden

My intention to vote for Judge Roberts tomorrow should in no way be construed as a weather vane for how I might vote on the next nominee, ... In the past I have not hesitated to vote against several of the president's nominees to the Courts of Appeal when they carried the ideological and activist baggage that I believe would be disruptive to our society.

Nicola Sturgeon

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

Tom Morello

Music is not some stuffy college lecture, ... On a good day, Rage Against the Machine is not able to just rock you like a hurricane, but also to fuel the engine with indignation and the band's activist convictions.

Roberto Clemente

My father was the 87th Latino to be in the major leagues, but he was the first one ... to be able to speak up and become an activist against prejudice, not only in baseball but also in society, and that took a lot to be able to do that.

John Sununu

Naturally, there exist concerns about what activist courts might do to undermine these rights and the Defense of Marriage Act, ... But it is premature to amend the Constitution based upon a hypothetical scenario.

John Trudell

From activist stage, I just spoke and said whatever I had to say. When the writing started, I would just read it. Then I had the interest into going into musical aspects. When that happened in '86, I liked the result of work we did in the studio.

Avi Zelba

Several suspects were arrested after they tried to cut through the border fence in an effort to enter the Gaza Strip.

Steven Shapiro

So long as the civilian courts are open and functioning, American citizens arrested in the United States are entitled to due process protections provided by a traditional criminal trial,

Cynthia McKinney

Mr. Secretary, if the nursing home owners are arrested for negligent homicide, why shouldn't you also be arrested for negligent homicide?

Carolyn Beck

No one is being arrested for being a little bit tipsy.

Liu Zhengrong

No one in China has been arrested simply because he or she said something on the Internet.

Schalk Bornman

One was found in hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck. The other two were arrested in Alexandra. Two firearms were recovered.

Cynthia Harris

My daughter Rakehsa has never been arrested and never been in trouble with the law,

Mariela Carrion

My family is outraged because this person hasn't been arrested and is on paid vacation. No one ever deserves to be treated like that.

Larry Walters

Now we've found out the city arrested her under an unconstitutional ordinance.

Malcolm Gladwell

Mainstream American society finds it easiest to be tolerant when the outsider chooses to minimize the differences that separate him from the majority. The country club opens its doors to Jews. The university welcomes African-Americans. Heterosexuals extend the privilege of marriage to the gay community.

Prince Charles

If only because he chooses to spend time with her rather than getting up to things he shouldn't.

Nancy Parrott

If a patron chooses to purchase tickets through a third party, they do so at their own risk.

Peter Kelly

I felt having one person, one vote would be all-inclusive, but if this is what they decided, it is the executive that chooses the process,

Mary Wollstonecraft

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Rick Perlstein

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Jeffrey Kluger

You do not want to talk to me on the phone. How do I know? Because I don't want to talk to you on the phone. Nothing personal, I just can't stand the thing. I find it intrusive and somehow presumptuous. It sounds off insolently whenever it chooses and expects me to drop whatever I'm doing and, well, engage. With others!

Henry Giroux

America's addiction to violence is partly evident in the heroes it chooses to glorify.

James McIntyre

The decision to declare a disaster rests solely with the president. The reasons he chooses are his and his alone.

Sandra Sanchez

Many people think that they just simply are not following the steps. There are no legal channels.

Madeleine M. Kunin

Many businesses oppose any government mandates, even if they are already following them.

John Emerson

Only 50 of the 220 possible panels would have resulted in the same ranking of the skaters following the short program.

Chad Lindberg

My advice for upcoming actors is to never give up. If it's in you, keep following your dream no matter what. Perseverence is the key.

Hu Jintao

More and more Americans are following with interest China's progress and development. Understanding leads to trust. I hope this will help you gain a better understanding of China.

James Fenton

No poet is required to write in stanzas, or indeed in regular forms at all. Coleridge's 'Dejection: An Ode' has a rhyme scheme and sequence of long and short lines that goes without regular pattern, following the mood and whim of the poet. Such a form is known as an irregular ode.

Anita McLane

Obviously it's a big game because of the rivalry and the region title on the line. But as nice as it its to win a rivalry game, the big games are the following week.

Carl Lackey

We had been following him for over two years. He was doing a lot of damage.

Viktor Yushchenko

Freedom and truth are returning to Ukraine following today's decision.

Alfred Adler

Let yourself be guided in your pedagogic interventions especially by the observations you have made on the results of your former interventions.

Robert Taggart

Mr. Rizzo contended that he had given some $61,000 worth of jewelry and other gifts to his former girlfriend and that he wanted to compensated.

H. Hunt

Get referrals from your former clients, and even join their organizations so that those members can be your clients.

Charles Greene

Former workers are most at risk for asbestos exposure.

John Fortier

Former members are only a percentage of lobbyists.

Pierre Blayau

I have a lot of respect for the former player, for what he did for the club.

Greg Allen

Since I got here, one of our goals has been to reach out to our former players. Having them come back and support our team means a lot to me and our program.

Brad McClellan

She's a former Longhorn, and I'm one of her sons. Sign for my mom.

Karen Doering

I don't always think that it is appropriate to give someone three chances. It's offensive; Jen is offended, and I think many of the former players are offended.

Kristin Cast

I've gained fans, fame, fortune, but I don't feel different. Am I supposed to?

Linda Howard

She grew three inches (to 5foot-7) and gained 30 pounds.

Sarah Robinson

I have gained back much more than what I lost in Katrina.

Kim Il-sung

I don't know what can be gained from it.

Natalie Morales

One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here. A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Tony Stewart

We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here, ... A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.

Anna Louise Strong

I have very little hope that any permission can be gained for your organization. However, I shall place it in a special folder with similar applications and raise the question from time to time with such people here as may have authority.

Alexander Groschke

The pressure for consolidation is unavoidable and has gained new momentum.

Eldridge Cleaver

In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.

Geoffrey Fieger

I can tell you what the results will be if he represents himself. He will go to jail and starve.

Edwin Ortiz

I was going to be in jail the rest of my life, so I might as well try something to get out.

David Suzuki

We can no longer tolerate what's going on in Ottawa and Edmonton. What I would challenge you to do is to put a lot of effort into trying to see whether there's a legal way of throwing our so-called leaders into jail because what they're doing is a criminal act.

Chen Guangcheng

I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one.

Charles Manson

I'm in jail because people wanna keep me in jail. It ain't got nothing to do with the law.

Charles Manson

I am not in jail. There is no jail.

Chelsea Handler

Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.

Bernhard Goetz

Jail is much easier on people who have nothing.

Diane Keaton

Len said, 'I'll give you a tour if you promise to join the L.A. Conservancy,'

Atal Vajpayee

many proposals for verification, of which joint patrolling is one.

Darin Strauss

My first book is about twins who are attached: two people who are joined and can't escape each other.

Richard Adams

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

Michelle Ryan

I was shy and really into my school work and my drama. Then I joined 'EastEnders' at 16, and it was work, work, work. You become very isolated. I rarely went out and so didn't get to meet anyone.

Jamie Rodriguez

I feel good. It was a joint effort.

Bill Campbell

Since she joined us, we haven't lost a match. She really makes a difference.

Greg Boyle

I have never seen a hopeful person join a gang.

Vint Cerf

When I first joined Google in October of 2005, I was warned that I shouldn't be offended if people were doing their e-mails while a meeting was going on.

Gerhard Schroeder

Military options can not help. We have experienced it,

Peggy Noonan

More was needed in terms of sending a US military presence into New Orleans.

Denis Healey

Many of us in the West have come to feel that the development of technology in the military and economic fields has produced a single world in which the central problems, both military and economic, are going to require co-operation rather than continued confrontation and competition.

Denis Hayes

Politicians had always viewed environmental issues as narrow things of no great political consequence. Sort of NIMBY issues. A big part of the reason was that the groups that cared about wilderness didn't talk with the groups that were trying to stop freeways from cutting through inner cities, and neither of them talked to the folks who wanted to stop the military from dumping Agent Orange on Vietnam.

Dilma Rousseff

Any comparison between the military dictatorship and democracy can only come from those who does not value the Brazilian democracy.

Edgar Mitchell

I've talked with people of stature-of military and government credentials and position-and heard their stories, and their desire to tell their stories openly to the public. And that got my attention very, very rapidly.... The first hand experiences of these credible witnesses that, now in advanced years are anxious to tell their story, we can't deny that, and the evidence points to the fact that Roswell was a real incident, and that indeed an alien craft did crash, and that material was recovered from that crash site.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

Eileen collins

Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.'

Ehud Barak

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

Wayne Smith

Seats and papers have come to the surface.

Rick Santorum

One piece of paper ... doesn't tell me a whole lot,

Martin Straka

I can't say it in the paper what I told him.

Dirk Benedict

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

Anthony Pratt

When we sell paper in Asia, we sell them things such as their corrugator rolls as well as paper.

Brian Harper

On paper we have it all ? speed, power, defense, solid pitching. We should have a pretty solid team.

Lleyton Hewitt

On paper it should have been the final,

Sarah Silverman

I'm always writing; I'm always jotting things down on paper or making notes in my iPhone. Then I'll make myself sit down and kind of shape it up, but there's really no other way to practice other than onstage.

Maria Fernandez

She starts by making her own paper from pulp.

Jim Calhoun

Like Hubie, and sometimes like Jim, I can be rather lengthy.

Rudi Giuliani

made it a rule ... rather than the exception.

Abigail Perkins

Mohamed stated he would rather kill only Americans.

Motto

One should be of service rather than be conspicuous.

Japanese Proverb

One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger

Adam Linkenauger

No other place I'd rather do it than at Virginia Tech.

LeCharles Bentley

I would rather sit out a season than play for the Saints again.

Justin Kirk

I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.

Suzanne Farrell

So I think it is rather strange that I got into ballet, something that I hadn't seen.

Paul Register

Many times you have witnesses who are reluctant to come forward.

Mark Howard

He was reluctant to integrate. And he wasn't alone.

James Greenwood

Reluctant witnesses will not keep us from getting at the truth.

Dean Darling

We don't want them (veterans) unaware or reluctant to seek out services for which they are entitled.

John Negroponte

I've been very reluctant to get into numbers.

Ian Baker

We were very reluctant to make the move, but we had no choice.

NeNe Leakes

I was kind of reluctant to sing on the 'Housewives' because there are so many 'Housewives' that are singing that can't really sing. I didn't want to get out there and sing and not be taken seriously.

Eve Ensler

At first women were reluctant to talk. They were a little shy, but once they got going, you couldn't stop them.

Cindy Winstead

At first I was very reluctant and for about three weeks I was unable to sleep.

Steve Turley

More compensation won't make any of us serve any harder, so in terms of the taxpayer getting more for their dollar, it just won't make a difference.

Steve Carter

If they can serve it from Sallisaw, and show they can serve it well, that's OK. But I would like to see a station there at some point, once it makes sense.

Robert Grosseteste

And if strangers come to supper they shall be served with more according as they have need.

Phil Klay

I'm not anti-war. I served in a war, and I served proudly. But just or not, necessary or not, war is the industrial-scale slaughter of other humans.

Guru Singh

Those who do not serve the True Guru, come and go regretting.

Eric Lewis

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

Kim Cattrall

If I didn't work in television or film, if I didn't have the right look, I never took it personally. Because there was always the theatre. I'm not a nihilist, I'm an optimist. And that has served me well in this profession.

Andy Roddick

Had I rolled through that one 6-3, served it out, who knows?

David Ferrer

His serve is lethal, ... When it's on, it's really tough to contest.

Robert Osborne

I think there's something about traveling in airplanes all the time that's not the healthiest thing in the world for you.

Albert Schweitzer

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

Jerry Costello

Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.

Jack Rio

So it was a valuable time for us.

Scott Ellis

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Anwar Robinson

One Moment in Time because I think it describes me as a person and how I felt about being on the show.

Rick DiPietro

Obviously, you're going to have jitters the first time you play in this event, but at the end of the day, it's still the same game.

Phil Lesh

Of course, in the band, we all interpreted in our own way simultaneously, so this time I'm just going to do it all by myself and see what comes out.

Denise Bottcher

No one got confirmation that she was napping. There was no time for napping.