Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Harkaway

I am the world's most appalling martial artist. I am so bad. I've studied jujitsu, kickboxing, t'ai chi. Once, I was sparring with someone, made a mistake, and managed to knock them down. I was so shocked that I dropped to my knees to see if they were all right, and then they knocked me out cold. From the floor.

Joel Berg

Mr. Mayor, precisely because city anti-hunger programs are so inadequate, large numbers of New Yorkers, including an appalling number of children, do go hungry.

Amanda Sandford

It is appalling the way they deliberately set out to mislead smokers about the toxins in tobacco smoke knowing full well these machine measurements do not reflect how people smoke and therefore how much carbon monoxide and other toxins they are inhaling. We need a major overhaul of the system for measuring toxins in tobacco smoke.

Bram Fischer

Unless this whole intolerable system is changed radically and rapidly, disaster must follow and appalling bloodshed and civil war become inevitable.

Katherine Mansfield

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.

Karen Maitland

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

Herman Gorter

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.

Arthur Smith

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree.

Zac Goldsmith

Some of the world's most appalling abuses have been justified by religion because it is possible for people to find vindication in their scriptures for any of their prejudices.

Shimon Peres

We were at the point where all of us could have lost control of the situation, and the bloodshed reached an unbelievable proportion. ... we pray for a day without funerals.

Paul Harris

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.

Patrick Chappatte

Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.

Osama Laden

We call all humanitarians and those who carry peace to the world to intervene to stop the repeated bloodshed in the western parts of Iraq, ... And we say to the American occupiers to get out and leave Iraq to the Iraqis.

David Berkowitz

Sudden death and bloodshed appealed to me.

Chandrika Kumaratunga

There is no individual on this Earth more determined than I am to end this country's wretched and mindless bloodshed and destruction.

Chidchai Vanasathidya

Foreign countries should trust us, because we have preserved democratic rule without any bloodshed in a time of crisis and chaos.

Edward Caraballo

They said there would be a lot of bloodshed and I would be one of the first to go.

Krishna Sitaula

There has been so much bloodshed and yet he does not even express any sympathy for the thousands of people who have died since he started his authoritarian rule.

Catherine Fisher

Nothing has changed, or will change. So we must change it.

Cary Sherman

There will be no breakout. When we changed for the single, we never specified what the breakout for sales to streams were.

Ludovico Ariosto

Such fire was not by water to be drowned, nor he his nature changed by changing ground.

Eddie Irvine

The people who don't know me only see me through sound bites, and everything's changed around. Things I've said are changed to suit the magazine or newspaper concerned. The people who know me have a very different view, I would say.

Tammy Cox

We stopped at the edge of town, changed our clothes, and took the decorations off the car.

Theresa Adams

We started out in a 2-3, which wasn't a very good defense ... because they can shoot the 3, and two of them can drive to the goal. So we changed it to a 3-2 and it worked much better.

Faye White

We started off well in the second leg and got a goal, which is what we needed. We can't complain about the first part of the game but it all changed when they got a penalty,

Leos Carax

I changed my name when I was 13. I don't know why but it made sense at the time. I wanted another identity. I wanted to reinvent myself.

Lauren Worsham

My brother sings. My brother is a singer-songwriter. His name is Parker Ainsworth. He changed his last name to his middle name.

Charles de Gaulle

At the root of our civilization, there is the freedom of each person of thought, of belief, of opinion, of work, of leisure.

Charles Caleb Colton

A semi-civilized state of society, equally removed from the extremes of barbarity and of refinement, seems to be that particular meridian under which all the reciprocities and gratuities of hospitality do most readily flourish and abound. For it so happens that the ease, the luxury, and the abundance of the highest state of civilization, are as productive of selfishness, as the difficulties, the privations, and the sterilities of he lowest.

Alan Bennett

I saw someone peeing in Jermym Street the other day. I thought, is this the end of civilization as we know it? Or is it simply someone peeing in Jermyn Street?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

John Wilson

We want to send a very strong message ... this is not what we expect out of civilized society, ... We're going to make an example of somebody.

David Mitchell

Freedom!- is the fatuous jingle of our civilization, but only those deprived of it have the barest inkling re: what the stuff actually is.

David Graeber

It's a difficult business, creating a new, alternative civilization.

David Suzuki

More than any other time in history, the 1990s will be a turning point for human civilization.

Niki de St. Phalle

The world has been experiencing a whole pattern of auto-destruction, whether in environmental disasters like Chernobyl or health disasters like AIDS.

Benjamin E. Mays

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Jan Egeland

We have seen 2004 and 2005 as the years of disaster,

T. J. Miller

I try to be an ethical, moral person and a nice person, and I like to have that reflected in my comedy. I'm not a mean comedian, and I don't think that my comedy is mean. I think that for the most part, it's more focused on the diversity that we all handle and try to provide a distraction from the disaster of modern living.

Matthew Broderick

When I was little I used to see Godzilla all the time on TV, ... I just remember him knocking things over, which was fine with me. I loved monster movies and disaster movies, and this was a good combination.

Gene Hall

We're sitting on top of what very well could be an economic disaster. A lot of praying for a good soaking rain is all that can be done.

Andy Kopplin

What this information shows, I think, is this was the most expensive natural disaster in American history.

Tommy Thompson

Weyauwega is a microcosm of how to handle a disaster. This was an example of an emergency situation that would have been a disaster save for the fact we moved quickly and, I believe, correctly.

Thomas Graham

We were in a 16-acre disaster zone that went for 10 or 12 blocks,

Charles Spurgeon

Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.

Alan Parker

If you'd been where I'd been... if you'd seen the things I'd seen!... you... you'd be me... Or someone following me around...

Frank Lesh

We want to see whether or not the following months follow on up out of here after September gets out of the way. We could be looking at the highs right now.

Blaine Taylor

We've all had fun following George Mason. But we've got a lot of other good teams in our league.

Robert Straus

We still think there's at least 10 percent upside in tech. The sector's had a tremendous run, so it's not surprising that it's taking a rest. There will be follow through. When that follow through will take place is anybody's guess.

Robert Straus

We still think there's at least 10 percent upside in tech, ... The sector's had a tremendous run, so it's not surprising that it's taking a rest. There will be follow through. When that follow through will take place is anybody's guess.

Mark Barrowcliffe

A dog doesn't care if you're tired or it's raining. It wants to go out - and if it doesn't go out, it's going to be mournfully following you around the house for the whole evening.

Nick Woodman

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

Daniel Handler

Blinded following the Blindfolded

Jill Soloway

I'm a naturally open person - some might say radically open.

Jonathan Ive

It's difficult to do something radically new, unless you are at the heart of a company.

Bill Belichick

There is no new system in place. I don't know what you're talking about.

Kevin Potter

We feel that the system will get the word out when it's needed.

David Hayes

There is a weakness in the system somewhere,

Ashley Montagu

The family unit is the institution for the systematic production of mental illness.

Jim DeMint

I think they'll make this a competitive thing that will get the system better and better by the week,

Paul Otellini

I think you'll see very aggressively priced systems out there.

Lance Lyttle

We've got to have just one system . . . it's a no-brainer.

Mike Claffey

Fortunately, the weather did end up cooperating, and it's all systems go.

Bert DuMars

Some of our systems are 20, 30, 40 years old. We need to modernize them, and it's not cheap.

Ken Hitchcock

We're not going to put him in unless he's 100 percent.

Jacques Rogge

Unless something unforeseen happens, they are going to make it if they keep up this pace.

Dan Robinson

unless something is in our refinery in a week or so, we're starved.

Brad Coker

Unless it's over 50 percent, I'm always skeptical. It could pass. It could fail. You can't really make a call.

Murray Walker

Unless I'm very much mistaken... I am very much mistaken.

Estelle

I will never say I am committed to somebody unless I'm serious about that person.

Simon Schama

Jews have never, ever, ever wished to be separate, unless they were forced to be.

Rod Thorn

Unless we get very fortunate, ... we are not going to be a championship contender.

Robert Farmer

Unless they shrunk up over the years, he must not have been a real big fellow,

Charlie Chaplin

This is a story of a period between two World Wars — an interim in which insanity cut loose. Liberty took a nose dive, and humanity was kicked around somewhat.

Charlie Chaplin

I hope we shall abolish war and settle all differences at the conference table I hope we shall abolish all hydrogen and atom bombs before they abolish us first.

Charles Sumner

War is a positive, precise and specific evil, of gigantic proportions ...making within the sphere of its influence all true grandeur impossible.

Charles Sumner

Can there be in our age any peace that is not honorable, any war that is not dishonorable?

Charles Sumner

The highest greatness, surviving time and stone, is that which proceeds from the soul of man. Monarchs and cabinets, generals and admirals, with the pomp of court and the circumstance of war, in the lapse of time disappear from sight; but the pioneers of truth, though poor and lowly, especially those whose example elevates human nature, and teaches the rights of man, so that "a government of the people, by the people, for the people, may not perish from the earth;" such a harbinger can never be forgotten, and their renown spreads co-extensive with the cause they served so well.

Charles Sumner

Whether the Union stands or falls, I believe the profession of arms will henceforth be more desirable and more respected than it has been hitherto.

Charles Dudley Warner

How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man?

Charles de Gaulle

Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!

Charles de Gaulle

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.