Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Lowery

make sure there's no abuse of citizens who want to exercise their right to vote.

Dr. Kovacik

Make sure there's a designated driver or get a cab. Never drink alone or on an empty stomach and don't drink to get drunk. People say that takes the fun out of drinking but that's the rule that psychiatrists and substance abuse programs use.

Falun Gong

Many of these stories are completely fabricated. ... There was no torture. Prison wardens are forbidden to physically abuse inmates.

Scott Ford

Scott's background and extensive knowledge of all forms of computer crime and abuse will be a great addition to our Midwest team. He is a highly- regarded member of the local business and forensic communities.

Deborah Pearlstein

Secretary Rumsfeld takes the extraordinary position in his brief that ordering torture was 'within the scope of his employment' as Secretary of Defense. Especially in light of recent finds that no one at senior levels has been held to account for gross acts of torture and abuse of detainees, this is a remarkable abdication of the responsibility of command.

James Rubin

Secretary Albright asked the State Department's senior human rights officer to undertake the mission to further develop the administration's understanding of the dimensions of the conflict in Kosovo and to emphasize U.S. support for proponents of democracy as well as victims of human rights abuse in the region.

Jeff Christian

One of the things about our game is that you have to prove yourself every day. The younger guys may give me a little respect because I've been there, but if you're terrible, they're going to abuse you.

Peyton Knight

One man's blight is another man's castle. Without proper restrictions and well-defined parameters, governments will exploit the blight loophole and continue to abuse eminent domain power.

Mickey Arthur

None of the team minds any form of abuse because it happens in any country...but we feel once it becomes a racist taunt then the boundaries are being overstepped.

Khalil Gibran

Life is indeed darkness save when there is urge, and all urge is blind save when there is knowledge, and all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love.

Don Henley

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.

Bible Bible

Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

Mexican Proverb

Love is blind - but not the neighbors

James Graham

Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.

Helen Rowland

Love, like a chicken salad a restaurant has, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Many people living in these neighborhoods suffer. But nothing can excuse such useless, such blind violence like we saw,

Mike Halpert

So it's definitely better than blind luck, but a long way from where we'd like to be.

Robert Brown

One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare,/ Stood stupefied, however he came there: / Thrust out past service from the devil's stud!

Marcy Kaptur

That level of trade deficit throttles real growth in our country and continues the unfortunate path of selling out America. We are not winning the global trade war, we are losing it badly.

Howard Dean

Sending delegates to the convention only continues to energize our party. Fight on in the caucuses; we are on the ballots,

Melissa Wagoner

Senator Kennedy has real environmental and economic concerns, and the federal government continues to lack a national policy and process to guide offshore alternative energy development.

W. Hull

Security continues to be a top priority for America's public transportation systems and transit systems will remain vigilant.

Ed Bryant

Miss Lewinsky continues to be, in her own way, an impressive witness.

David Quammen

One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.

Brian Reynolds

My gut tells me that spreads and yields are still too high to see a flood of deals. But if the market continues to improve, we will be at a point where a pickup in deals would be feasible.

Like I

My hope is that he continues to be a mystery and not become predictable.

Kathleen Taylor

Now with 68 luxury hotels and resorts in 31 countries and more than 20 properties in development, Four Seasons continues to strengthen its position for the present and future. Our strategy continues to focus on obtaining long-term management contracts with owners and investors who share our vision, and who are ready to invest in our future.

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.

Donald Rumsfeld

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

Michael Lehnert

Keep in mind that though the president has made that distinction, many of the detainees here are not forthcoming. Many have been interviewed as many as four times, each time giving a different name and different information.

Genderen Stort

There are around 180 detainees left in the prisons.

Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.

We got a lot of information from the detainees that eventually led us to bin Laden.

Bryan Whitman

We typically don't talk about the movement of detainees except when they are being transferred or released to another country. We don't typically talk about the transit for security reasons.

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.

Dick Marty

But it is possible that there were detainees that stayed 10, 15 or 30 days. We do not have the full picture.

Philip Ruddock

This morning ... some 70 to 80 detainees set fire to two recreational buildings, the dining room and an ablution block,

Kurt Barnard

Sears is now giving evidence that its new marketing strategy and new slogan work very effectively.

Pip Coburn

So far there's very little evidence of excess inventory and 1Q 04 expectations seem reasonable to us relative to historical norms.

Jack Straw

So far there is no evidence of any transfer of the virus to human beings.

P. J. O'Rourke

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

Alexandra Sanders

My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases.

Michael McGrath

No one was there to say anything for him. If we're just to take him at his word when all the evidence points to the contrary, that's not very much to go on.

John Sherman Cooper

Now, people have said that somebody told them that they saw somebody on the railroad bank or saw somebody going over the bank, but no one has ever been able to show any cartridges, any rifle, any pistol, no one has ever found anything other than the evidence about Oswald.

H. Hunt

I feel we have sufficient evidence to prosecute the case.

Nicholas Kristof

Sex and gender are such befuddling mysteries even for those of us who are in the mainstream that you'd think we'd be wary of being judgmental. Yet much of society clings to a view that gender is completely binary, when, in fact, there's overwhelming evidence of a continuum.

Alexandra Adornetto

Fine - I said huffily. - But I hope I'm at least allowed to fly around the corridors during lunch hour. Gabriel threw me a disapproving look. I waited for him to get my joke, but his eyes remained serious. I sighed. Much as I loved him, Gabriel could be totally lacking in any sense of humor.

Ben Pimlott

Like Diana, she had a twinkle in her eye and a lot of rapport with the public.

Erich Fromm

Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be...Close your eyes let your spirit start to soar, and you'll live as you've never lived before.

O. Singh

Let us remember our Lord and Master in contemplation, and keep a watchful eye on the Path.

Jim Cole

Love is all fun and games until someone loses an eye or gets pregnant

Kazi Shams

Love gives eyes to see what the eye without love can't see

John Donne

Send home my long strayed eyes to me, Which too long have dwelt on thee

Sharyn Stein

Senator Reid is focused on passing real, comprehensive reform. He feels we should keep our eye on that goal.

Danny White

Seder is a kicker we had our eyes on,

Robert Jenkins

It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert W. Welch, Jr.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Robert Toombs

Neither these statesmen nor their constituents sought in any way to use the Government for the interest of themselves or their section, or for the injury of a single member of the Confederacy.

Kurt Andersen

The mistrust of government that blossomed in the late '60s has become a chronic and in some ways pathological condition.

David Scott

Make no mistake about it, my friends - Republicans, the American people are never going to forget that it was you who shut down the government of the people.

Linda Tripp

Loyalty is to the government. I take this so seriously.

Hoshyar Zebari

left to the Kuwaiti government itself and its estimation about the situation in Iraq.

Tasnim Aslam

No one in the Pakistan government has made such a request that such maps be removed.

David Williams

No one in government is making hard choices,

Sanford Rubenstein

Let the message go out that in this country, when a police officer kills an innocent victim, he will be held accountable.

Tony Blair

Milosevic is responsible for the welfare of those people, ... When we go into Kosovo finally, he will be held responsible for what we find.

Kerry Carr

My expectations for the weekend were always held in check. I had never seen the team perform.

Alafair Burke

Now that I think about it, maybe my own literary exploration of the dark secrets held by families could be traced back to V.C. Andrews.

Doug Harvey

I always tell my wife, 'If you're ever looking for something to put on my gravestone, put down, 'He was an honest man, and he never held a grudge.'

Heidi Perlman

We want to make sure these kids aren't held up.

Ray Stevenson

One of the most profound things for me is that my character's name was held by somebody, ... It's not just made up.

Cy Alexander

I was real pleased how we held our composure, and I'm disappointed we couldn't come out with a win.

Craig Jones

She was in a position of trust as a public servant, so we held her to a higher standard than we normally would.

Elizabeth Bowen

writers do not find subjects: subjects find them. There is not so much a search as a state of open susceptibility.

Paul Mills

We are part of the United States now, but we don't want to be submerged and lost.

Barack Obama

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

Nguyen Van Thieu

But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?

David Hume

...interest is the barometer of the state...

Eden Sher

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Carol Moseley Braun

I was very productive as a senator for my state.

Madeleine Albright

I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.

Madeleine Albright

I loved being Secretary of State, that's probably evident to everyone who watched me.

Maj. Nester

More or less, residents just turned their neighborhood over to us.

Mike Anderson

Obviously. I have to turn it up a notch.

Joel Edgerton

To me, 'Warrior' was a real turning point - probably one of the greatest experiences I've ever had as an actor on set.

Dean Kamen

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away....

Ralph Soffredine

I can't see why you could ever turn this down.

Huston Street

Ginter and Elly, they turned it so quick. Off the bat, I thought they had no chance. That right there is the game. It's another run.

Sheldon Danziger

I was surprised. I thought things would have turned around by now.

Michael Fincke

I got to see some video of my daughter. She can turn over now, she's getting really big without me.

Beth Robertson

One of the things we know is that this is a worldwide trend. It's not just in the United States.

Allison Hooper

No one else (in the United States) is making it.

Strom Thurmond

New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States.

Dominique de Villepin

I grew up in the United States.

Abraham Lincoln

I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may.

H. Hunt

I don't know of it being in this county, but I do know it's in the western United States.

F. Lee Bailey

I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'

Ban Ki-moon

The United Nations is committed to ridding the world of anti-personnel landmines.

Barack Obama

I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

We write for those who get the musical jokes. But for those who don't, there is always something else going on. That's why we have such a widespread audience.

Glenn Wilson

This is a very real and widespread phenomenon,

Brian Lovejoy

It's going to be a soaking rain. It's going to be a widespread rain.

Russ Rader

I don't think their use is widespread enough yet to study.