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.

Robert Osborne

I went to California at a perfect time... when many of those people that I had admired so much in films were not working that much. They had free time on their hands to talk to... me, and they liked me because I knew so much about them.

Malcolm McDowell

I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.

Sophia Collier

My grandmother was quite an intrepid woman, ... She was somebody I admired a great deal, who took an interest in me and encouraged me to be all I could be and get out in the world.

Stephanie Herseth

My grandmother had great influence on me. She was secretary of state in the 1970's, and that's when I was born. She showed me the importance of public service, and she was admired by people regardless of their political party.

Tessa Thompson

I grew up as a kid looking at artists like David Bowie and Prince; I really admired them.

Tom Stoppard

I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where every line is written with a sharpness and economy that is frankly artificial.

Alan Meltzer

For years we have admired Don's expertise and presence in the community. We are excited to have him join our team.

Emile Cioran

If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned - a saint or a corpse.

Percy Sutton

I was so sorry to hear about the setting sun of that great American John H. Johnson. He was an icon to me. He was a leader who developed communications between all categories of Black people. I knew him well and admired him deeply, and I will pray for his soul.

Roy Johnson

Magic brought AIDS out of the closet and put it on the kitchen table.

Ken Johnson

So many diseases that were once virtual death sentences, including AIDS and cancer, are now often chronic diseases.

Kofi Annan

Men can make a particular difference -- by being more caring, by taking fewer risks and by facing the issue of AIDS head-on.

Helene Gayle

One in four African-American and one in six Latino men who have AIDS -- and contracted it through having sex with other men -- actually consider themselves as heterosexual.

Linda Gentile

One woman from the Congo talked about children running wild in the bush, outcast because their parents died of AIDS. She tries to persuade them to take food from her hands...and then, as she goes walking into the bush, she sees these shallow graves where children bury children. She takes them back to her home to give them a proper burial...These are AIDS orphans, children raising children with no values, no direction. What will become of them?

Andrew White

Now that new compliance regulations require companies to report any incident involving any missing or misused client information, each week it seems there is yet another remarkable story of a corporate system being hacked or devices being stolen. Our solution aids the prevention of data leaks resulting from the 'data everywhere' problem found with numerous mobile devices today and helps organizations remain in compliance.

T'Keyah Crystal Keymah

I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.

Jason Statham

I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.

Laura Bush

She's interested in the policy surrounding AIDS and what we can do in our country and in other countries around the world to really stop AIDS.

Charles Wicks

Magma's always coming up in Sour Creek dome and going through the system. But maybe there are pulses when more comes up. That may be what causes the surface to rise.

Venkaiah Naidu

Leaking information to media causes damage not only to the concerned individual but also to the party.

Kofi Annan

Mr. de Soto's contacts with regional leaders, while not as complete as would have been desirable, nevertheless confirmed my concern that the new situation which had emerged following the developments of May, compounding as it does the longstanding causes of friction between India and Pakistan, may have serious implications for peace and security in the region and beyond,

Leah Whigham

More research is needed to find out if Ad-37 causes obesity in humans. One study was inconclusive, because only a handful of people showed evidence of infection with Ad-37 - not enough people to draw any conclusions.

Charles Buckley

Monitoring is something I have been pursing for years. The noise from the planes causes you stop in the middle of conversations.

Damien Woody

When your defense scores two touchdowns and causes four turnovers and you still lose, that's bad. That's real bad. We couldn't do (anything) on offense. That might have been the worse offense I've ever seen ever.

Edgar Allan Poe

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Tom Ellis

I feel like I'm giving back to society a little bit. There's a lot of causes out there, and 99% of them are for people. There is very little out there for the animals.

Hadi Supeno

One of the causes of the disaster is deforestation by thieves, but we don't know who they are.

Steve Gulley

My favorite musician of all time is James Taylor. He is just the consummate musician.

Don Leach

When you're running a business, the worst thing that can happen is four different people expressing their views, which may make it difficult to consummate the deal.

Bruce White

We are pleased to expand on our existing relationship with RLJ, who we have come to respect as consummate professionals, and look forward to continued growth as we work together to enhance the value of this high-quality portfolio.

Rodney Harrison

He's a consummate pro, ... I think I see him more than my wife.

John Schuerholz

He's a consummate professional and a man of very high character. When you have a man around like that, that's going to do nothing but help everybody else who is around him. He's had a very positive impact on the Braves' organization and this team.

Wayne Gretzky

His records speak for themselves. He's a consummate professional.

Johnny Miller

He was a consummate pro in the way he handled himself. I just loved him.

Cory Sullivan

He is the leader on the team and a consummate professional. All the young guys watch him. He is a great guy to mirror.

Rod Carew

Harmon Killebrew was a gem. I can never thank him enough for all I learned from him. He was a consummate professional who treated everyone from the brashest of rookies to the groundskeepers to the ushers in the stadium with the utmost of respect.

Paul Gibson

Like him or not, John Parks has prevailed at every turn.

Stanley Collender

Lyndon Johnson in his prime would have trouble getting it through.

Dick Cheney

Senator John McCain put it best: it is a lie to say that the president lied to the American people,

John Heywood

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

John Heywood

One swallow maketh not a summer. John Heywood The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546)

Skip Bertman

No one has called me. But I think this shows what people think about John as a coach.

Brooks Boyer

Obviously, I'm disappointed because I'd love to keep John and Ed together.

Brian Gray

When I made it down to work the state tournament, I think John was tickled just as much as dad.

John Edward

We need a president who will keep you safe. John Kerry will do that,

Kristin Cast

I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.

Albert Schweitzer

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Sathya Baba

Life is, Loving - Listening - Lifting - Learning - Living

Kevin Jones

Let this be a learning lesson. Let?s pick up the pieces. Hopefully, other teens will not make the same mistake.

Robin Wright

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

David Bass

Learning is like weightlifting. No burn, no learn.

Boris Vallejo

Learning and getting better with each portrait is what I strive for,

Eric Kandel

Nerve cells communicate with one another at specialized points called synapses. And these synapses are plastic - they can be modified by learning.

John Burns

My 90-year-old mother has used a similar voting system in Austin, Texas, and she hasn't had a problem in learning how to vote with it.

Lynn Williams

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Jon Voight

When I'm near a native community, I visit it. If I hear there's a spiritual person in the neighborhood, I'll seek them out.

Dave Barry

Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a long series of mutually beneficial, breached agreements that enabled the two cultures to coexist peacefully for stretches of twenty and sometimes even thirty days, after which it was usually necessary to negotiate new agreements that would be even more mutual and beneficial, until eventually the Native Americans were able to perceive the vast mutual benefits of living in rock-strewn sectors of South Dakota.

Casey Miller

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

Beau Bridges

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

Dennis Banks

What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility to Indian people. That there are treaties; that textbooks in every school in America have a responsibility to tell the truth. An awareness reached across America that if Native American people had to resort to arms at Wounded Knee, there must really be something wrong. And Americans realized that native people are still here, that they have a moral standing, a legal standing. From that, our own people began to sense the pride.

Chief Seattle

Every part of the earth is sacred to my people.

Chief Seattle

Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us.

Chief Seattle

All things are bound together. All things connect.

Aaron Paul

I'm obsessed with concerts.

Ze Frank

I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.

David Winters

Weyerhaeuser is a bigger, more complicated company. They're tackling some very tough things, but some of these things you can't resolve overnight, even though Wall Street is obsessed with the short term.

Cameron Russell

I always wanted to become president! When I was a kid, I was obsessed with politics.

Augusten Burroughs

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Courteney Cox

I'm not going to deny it. I'm a neat person, there's no question. But I don't become obsessed with it.

Amanda Peet

I'd love to work with Joan Cusack again - I'm obsessed with Joan Cusack.

Amy Acker

Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

Aaron Paul

I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.

Dale Groutage

Sen. (Craig) Thomas has had at least 17 years to promote that technology.

Charles Pickering

Mississippi, in trying to promote racial harmony, is on the right track at the right station doing the right thing.

Todd Rundgren

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

Patricia Edwards

If they promote this correctly, it could be huge.

Neil Kinnock

I'd like to be remembered as somebody who tried to promote justice.

Lydia Lenker

Those are agricultural products. We do promote Tennessee products.

Karine Vanasse

When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.

Casper Dien

When I do a film I go out and promote it.

Bob Ray

I went out and really promoted it (the tournament) this year. It's our third year and we got everything together in our heads.

Casey Kasem

Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars.

Jane Soepardi

This second round will take a week ... but on this second day we have already received reports (of) reaching around 70 percent. We are optimistic.

Gareth Williams

Up until now it's been a psychological battle, but that doesn't preclude them reaching an out-of-court settlement.

Leo Veness

In life, there are those who are reaching upward, and those who are reaching outward.

Mallory Factor

He's reaching out to all of us. He may not be winning converts, but he's making gains.

Arvind Parmar

Reaching the quarterfinals of an important tournament like this is fantastic.

Chris Reid

It's like reaching back in time. This vase survived the years and made its way home.

Jason Kenney

It's going to impinge on underlying profitability ... profitability is reaching a peak.

Marina Tsvetaeva

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone?

Albert Schweitzer

The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act dauntlessly together in discharging the responsibility that we feel. It keeps us watching together for opportunities to bring some sort of help to animals in recompense for the great misery that men inflict upon them, and thus for a moment we escape from the incomprehensible horror of existence.

Rick Howard

No one showed leadership, responsibility or accountability for us on the floor.

Jackie Chan

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Dick Van Dyke

In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

Dick Van Dyke

I never had a lot of drive, but because I had family responsibilities, I had a lot of tenacity - the tenacity of a drowning man.

Dick Van Dyke

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

Diane Lane

There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.

Dennis Weaver

Changing mass consciousness is an individual responsibility.

Dennis Prager

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

Denis Waitley

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Joseph Kahn

potentially interesting, if true, but not something really worthy of a story in itself.

Alice Hoffman

You are only worthy of what you prove yourself to be.

Mark Edwards

We're doing what we can. We think it's a worthy cause.

Angelo Sorce

We're really working to make this a show worthy of the audience's time.

Mary Balogh

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.

Rainer Maria Rilke

What happens most deeply inside you is worthy of your whole love.

John Green

YOU are valuable and rare and worthy of love.

Horace

Nor let a god come in, unless the difficulty be worthy of such an intervention. [Lat., Nec deus intersit nisi dignus vindice nodus.]