Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alain Robert

I see myself as a climber and an activist.

Elizardo Sanchez

We have to get used to this because it seems that human rights activists and dissidents are not well liked by governments, especially those that maintain their nation's human rights in the appalling situation that Cuba does.

Noreena Hertz

My mother was really involved with the Refusenik campaign with Soviet Union Jews. They would come and stay at our house, some of them, after they managed to get out of the Soviet Union at the time. There were things that were Jewish-related happening in my house quite consistently, but it was much more from a kind of activist standpoint.

Jim Gibbons

Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath no man, that he lay down his life for his friend,"" but in this case a country.

K. A. Applegate

We know about the socially complex lives of elephants: how they communicate, how they bond, how they even seem to grieve. We have ethologists in the field and activists on the ground to thank for that knowledge.

Keshia Knight Pulliam

I think Mr. Cosby has always been very much an activist and a big proponent of African-American pride. That's how 'The Cosby Show' came about. I think in his older years, he has gotten a lot more direct and vocal about it. But I think he only wants the best for all of us.

Eula Biss

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.

Jim Dyke

Some activists will only see another opportunity to push government as parent, but parents make the best decisions about what is appropriate for their family to watch and have the tools to enforce those decisions.

Judy Dufault

She is an unsung hero. She's a community activist and a hard worker in the club.

Mathew Staver

We are pleased the court ruled that a Vermont civil union has no legal validity in Virginia. Unless the federal Constitution is amended to protect traditional marriage, same-sex marriage advocates will continue using the courts to force their agenda on the rest of the country.

Ivica Dacic

We believe that there are more important things on the nation's agenda than the elections, but if the opposition wants that, so be it. We are ready.

Joost Hiltermann

There are clerics who are very moderate and who understand what the current situation demands, and there are clerics who have political agendas and who marshal forces for their own gain. Those are the dangerous ones.

Benazir Bhutto

Whatever my aims and agendas were, I never asked for power.

Nia Long

He just was being four. He just was being a child. He wasn't interested in what my agenda was. He wanted to do what he wanted to do and it started because he saw the lights on in Toys R Us.

Newt Gingrich

Unless the commission has a dramatically different agenda and a dramatically different approach than the same tired, old, big-government liberalism, it'll be like the commissions we've had for 30 years.

John Boehner

When there's no agenda and no real message what happens is you can't really have a message. You can put lipstick on a pig all you day long but it's still a pig, ... This Week.

Tim Laatsch

We're going back to the table with the understanding that the top agenda item that we're going to be dealing with is going to be the whole issue of contracting out.

Sarah Leonard

Make no mistake the status quo in Sacramento is corporate control and the governor's agenda is not only to maintain corporate control but increase the grip of corporate special interests.

Jeff Koons

There are certain artworks that I respond to, artists that I respond to. It's an intellectual reaction but it's also a biological reaction. And the excitement that the work can generate - how it makes you feel about not only your intellectual possibilities but your physical possibilities in this world. How it feels to be alive!

Martin Seligman

The dirty little secret of both clinical psychology and biological psychiatry is that they have completely given up on the notion of cure.

Barton Gellman

U.S. surveillance of Pakistan extends far beyond its nuclear program. There are several references in the black budget to expanding U.S. scrutiny of chemical and biological laboratories.

Michael Mueller

We're gearing up for Planning (Commission) now, ... We're doing a traffic study, a noise study and a biological study.

John Sununu

When we're talking about technology that involves weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, there has to be an element of preemption.

Selman Waksman

The first true antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our department in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was soon crystallized, and its chemical and biological properties were established.

Eric Kandel

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

Jane Pauley

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.

Richard Bonnie

When the law makes the offense simply a biological fact, of simply having a certain chemical in one's body, that steps over a line in the law that has been traditionally accepted.

Maajid Nawaz

I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.

Mohsin Hamid

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Lyle Kessler

I was born in Philadelphia, and I've tried to escape that city all my life. I end up writing plays that force me back to Philadelphia, at least psychologically if not physically.

Marisa Miller

I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.

Nicolas Maduro

Venezuelans have a long history. So we are able to listen to each other, to talk to each other. From here were born the liberators of the region, and they said before and after that process we have a culture of political action. We are not in despair. That's the image broadcast to abroad.

Ai Weiwei

I wouldn’t say I’ve become more radical: I was born radical.

Charlie Bell

When he finished last season, he came on like gangbusters once we got to know him and once he got the feel of varsity football, ... He was showing us all summer what we've got, offensively and defensively, so there's no surprise to us. Josh is just born with talent and skill, but to his credit, he works extremely hard to maximize it.

Chantal Kreviazuk

Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.

Michael Franzese

The personal consumption component can make the Fed a little uneasy because people are still spending astronomical amounts of money.

Hayne Ellis

We're six months out so there are a lot of exciting things going on. Everybody has their own components and it's all going to come together very quickly.

Claudia Reid

What's not understandable is how important or unimportant the various components are.

Chris Naughton

Through evolution its key components continue to get smaller and more efficient.

Linda Ulrey

We're quite honestly in the very early stages, It is a very important component of our overall integration.

Don Gher

With Wal-Mart, the online component is a step that they have been taking gradually, but it is not a full-on 'this is what we do for a living' business. With Amazon, this is what they do for a living.

Frank Holmes

There are many components here that are driving gold, and they sort of rotate around. It's not linear.

Twyla Tharp

Counterpoint is a component that gives real energy, and it is about optimism.

Keith Haring

Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature.

Charles Spurgeon

To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.

Marvin Miller

We want to trap them to determine how many there are.

Cherry Loney

The people who need to know have been contacted. We did an investigation. It has been determined some people needed to be notified. We identified who they are.

Lisa Abron

Unlucky 13. I don't know how they're going to determine it. I hate to be in this type of position. I've always been able to determine how it's going to be. Now we have to sit here. It's making me uneasy. I don't like to be in this position.

Henry Samueli

I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.

John Threadgill

We also say that their initial testing was flawed, that they didn't have the right personnel involved in the medical testing, didn't do the right test to determine if this risk was apparent, and it's something that they should have known.

Ann Strother

We want it. In the Stanford game last year, I was horrible, and I think we all played pretty bad. That is something we are determined not to let happen again, and I think we are good enough when we are focused not to let it happen again.

Charles Sanders Peirce

I define a Sign as anything which is so determined by something else, called its Object, and so determines an effect upon a person, which effect I call its Interpretant, that the latter is thereby mediately determined by the former.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

Realism implicated that imperialism and imperialist conquests or prestige can be pursued as part of the animus dominandi, the desire to dominate, which is the social force that determines political activity.

Edgar Degas

I don't admit that a woman draws that well!

Bernard Pivot

All the English speakers, or almost all, have difficulties with the gender of words.

bell hooks

Patriarchy has no gender.

Eleanor Smeal

I have been studying women's political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

Susan Griffin

Gender is a way to hide from the simple truth we all tell: 'Hey, I'm here, I have a body.'

Theresa Iuliucci

Mental preparation is key. I don't think it's a gender thing. It is a lot of pressure for these kids to be out there. If you put yourself in that situation as an adult, it's a lot of pressure. Kids think about 'What if I miss?' That's hard.

Ross Liscum

None of us looked at it as a gender thing.

Barbara Bush

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

Caitlyn Jenner

Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.

Binyavanga Wainaina

I, Binyavanga Wainaina, quite honestly swear I have known I am a homosexual since I was five.

Abby Wambach

I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.

Doug Stanhope

I couldn't possibly explain why the common person would be against something like that. It's all rooted in sexual hang-ups. The whole institution of marriage itself really has no place in a progressive society. I don't know why anyone would want to get married heterosexually, so why they'd be against homosexual marriage is flummoxing. I only use that word when I'm talking to someone from the British press.

Alveda King

In the 21st Century, the anti-traditional marriage community is in league with the anti-life community, and together with the NAACP and other sympathizers, they are seeking a world where homosexual marriage and abortion will supposedly set the captives free.

E. O. Wilson

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

Amber Rose

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Larry Brumley

I think they were trying to be sensitive. Obviously, Baylor is a Baptist-affiliated institution, and Baptists as a denomination have been pretty outspoken on the record about the denomination's views about the homosexual lifestyle.

Abner Louima

They said it was a homosexual thing. The cover-up started there.

Jeanette Winterson

A homosexual is further away from a woman than a rhinoceros.

Dana Martell

We want to show that even though someone may be different on the outside, they still understand how you feel. Maybe the same thing makes you smile or is your reason for waking up.

Andrew Wallace

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.

Richard Money

We still need a point, maybe two, to be sure of being in the top four.

Ed Gillespie

We are seeing at the Republican National Committee a phenomenon that is worth noting this week; maybe today, maybe tomorrow, maybe Wednesday, we will have a million first time donors since the president took office.

Al Bagnoli

We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, which is never easy. Maybe our expectations were not what they should have been. I think he had a productive year, even though it was somewhat inconsistent to Mike Mitchell and Gavin Hoffman.

Kendall Mills

We are getting better with each game. Maybe we are peaking at the right time.

Bill Miller

We're going to have to put 12 of them out there, ... maybe some snipers, too.

Mike Shula

We know we're in for a tough one, maybe the toughest one all year.

Mike Davis

We know D.J. is out indefinitely and maybe out for the season.

Sibel Edmonds

When you think of al-Qaeda, you are not thinking of al-Qaeda in terms of one particular country, or one particular organization.

Robert Mueller

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

Samuel L. Jackson

She has been in here several times before but that particular day I don't remember her.

Jill Soloway

So many features at Sundance seemed to be powered more on the director's need to be a director than any particular story.

Frank Quattrone

I don't follow any particular periodical anymore. I use Twitter as my customized news feed.

Nathaniel Philbrick

'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.

Warren Littlefield

The writers and actors on 'Friends' were notoriously particular about what made it onto the air.

Aaron Patzer

Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

Bennie Thompson

Today's terrorists do not share a particular ethnic, educational or socioeconomic background.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Charles Dickens

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

Charles Dickens

My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.

Charles Dickens

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

Charles Dickens

Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.

Charles Dickens

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.

Charles Dickens

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Charles Soule

Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?