Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Stross

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers can carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.

Alan Alda

I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!

Al Pacino

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

You can be straight as a gun barrel theologically, and as empty as one spiritually.

Chris Christie

I was 32 years old, and I've changed my mind. And the biggest reason that I changed my mind was my seven years as a federal prosecutor. What I learned in those seven years was that we were spending too much time talking about gun laws against law- abiding citizens and not nearly enough time talking about enforcing the gun laws strongly against criminals.

Dianne Feinstein

So there will be a bill. We've been working on it now for a year.

Dianne Feinstein

If I could have banned them all...I would have!

Dianne Feinstein

Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.

Dianne Feinstein

The National Guard fulfills the militia mentioned in the Second amendment. Citizens no longer need to protect the states or themselves.

Blaise Pascal

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

Dick Costolo

Once in a rare while, somebody comes along who doesn't just raise the bar, they create an entirely new standard of measurement.

David Morgan

We have satisfied ourselves that appropriate safety and security measures will be in place.

William Shakespeare

The sense of death is most in apprehension.

Moshe Sharett

I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us.

Jeff Corbett

We've taken every measure possible to make sure that everything is random and fair.

Kevin Shelley

I'm insisting, quite unapologetically, on the need to have these appropriate security measures in place to protect the voters, which is my principal charge.

Greg Zenerovitz

We had been preparing to open up with them so we could measure where we were at.

Kelly Redmond

There is a standard for measuring snow that you can't measure it more often than every six hours. Because the more often you measure it, the more you get.

Al Goldman

What has been going on is a very sharp reaction to a slowing economy.

Colin Lee

Jody is very, very disappointed with his reaction

Kate Warne

I think in Toronto we're seeing reaction to the Lucent pre-announcement with Nortel, which is down,

Rob Blake

He's been great. He's a reaction goalie and he's been on since Day 1 through the whole season. He's a reason their team is up so high.

Martin Wright

He was just standing there -- there was no reaction from him,

Patton Oswalt

I remember, when 9/11 went down, my reaction was, 'Well, I've had it with humanity.' But I was wrong.

Andrew Smith

Our reaction is there is nothing unexpected here.

Craig Counsell

My reaction was, what's next? How are we going to make it better?

Lance Briggs

My reaction was I was just relieved. I don't have to think about it anymore.

Charles Caleb Colton

They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

Alan Watts

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

Alan Greenspan

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

Chris Christie

We need a president who is going to understand what actionable intelligence looks like and act on it. And we need a president and a cabinet who understands that the first and most important priority of the president of the United States is to protect the safety and security of Americans.

Chris Alexander

We Canadians need to go beyond what any previous government has done in terms of our diplomatic network, our support for companies to export, trade and invest beyond North America, and our contribution to the safety of the international system, through defence, development, international organizations, and so forth.

Dianne Feinstein

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

David Shore

Shorten the runway and you have fewer takeoffs and landings, shorten the runway and you enhance safety and reduce the noise, ... It also reduces the justification for the buyout as it is now being proposed.

Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.